and pro- tracted. During-the whole of January Sir Harry Smith remained 'standing on the defensive. His communication with the sea was ,kept open, and he had received...

cross-fire of two parties, with neither . of whom has ho naturally any quarrel. His tolerance of Slavery is fitted to conciliate the good-will of the Southern States ; his...

racter, have conferred an unenviable notoriety upon the South- western counties of England. The last Assizes at Lewes have laid bare the alarming extent to which a confederation...

THE business of the Parliamentary session gets on like a heavy old-fashioned waggon in a lane full of ruts. First there is a dead halt, with scrambling and straining of the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Holm OP Loans. Monday, March 10. Passengers Act Amendment Bill, read a second time—Arsenic ; Bill introduced by Lord Carlisle, and read a first...

THE Royal Family left Buckingham Palace, for the Isle of Wight, at ten on Saturday morning; arrived by the South-western Railway in Ports- mouth at noon ; and readied Osborne...

At a Wardmote held on Monday for the ward of Cornhill, Mr. Carter was elected Alderman of the ward, in the room of the late Sir John Pirie. -The Court of Common Council, at a...

The death of Sir Alexander Hood makes a vacancy in the representa- tion of West Somersetshire. Captain Hood, the son of the deceased Ba- ronet, is "mentioned" for the...

The Reverend Robert Eden, D.D. Oxon, lately elected to the Scotch Episcopal " see of Moray and Ross," vacant by the resignation of Dr. Low, was consecrated to his office by the...

The Seventy-fourth Highlanders, under orders for Gibraltar, are to embark for the Cape of Good Hope on board her Majesty's steam-ship Vulcan, now on her passage to Cork, as a...

Fnaxer..—The Government has been endeavouring to gain popularity with the masses by a contest with the majority of the Assembly in favour of the principle of universal suffrage....

Accounts from Dublin state that the Ministerial concessions to the Irish Roman Catholics, in the modification of the bill before the House of Com- mons, seem only to have made...

SATURDAY. Ministers are again in a mess, and the disclosure was volunteered by Lord J onar RUSSELL last night. Alarmed at Mr. Baillie's motion of cen- sure on the Ceylon...

prolonged through all this week till yesterday, and then abruptly terminated, by an offer from Mr. Stuart, one of the counsel of the defendants, to deposit-the fund in court....

us an in- vention intended to obviate one class of railway accidents. Within the last few weeks we have noted more than one accident on a railway from the breaking of a...

Russell, the Daily News says, despairingly—" We fear that the session is lost, even for the castigation of admitted abuses. At a meeting held by the Conservatives at Lord...

We have heard it whispered that her Majesty's servants, although not understood to act remarkably well together, design to appear in a concert, on an early day in April. The...

A member of the Wallack family, who has recently returned from America, has made a successful debdt in Othello at the Haymarket. On the credit side, he has a good face, figure,...

week. Made- moiselle Caroline Duprez has already arrived, and makes her appearance on the opening night, in the opera of _Lucia, which has been substituted for Gustave....

.illaze have called forth the following letter. "TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "Sir—Your opinions on art and literature are in general so well matured, and are of such...

The thirty-ninth season of the Philharmonic Society commenced on Monday last. The programme of the concert will give the musical reader a distinct idea of its merits in respect...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The books for the Dividends due in April have all closed ; and money business is suspended till the 6th of April, when they will all open for...

HOW TO SMOOTH THE WAY FOR A STANLEY MINISTRY. Lain STANLEY has fixed the day when the struggle between Free Trade and Protection must finally terminate. Next general elec- tion...

Tuesday, for the first time since their orchestra was conducted by Mr. Costa. Every one acquainted with Handel knows that in all his oratorios, ex- cept the two which are taken...

A. TAX on income, it must be admitted, has both recommenda- tions - and drawbacks. In a rich community it is highly productive of revenue at a low rate of assessment, and being...

Winn the Government, with caponlike assiduity, still broods over its single measure of comprehensive law reform, Lord Brougham, with gallic spirit, marches forth the proud...

Tun petition in which the London Dock Company have carried their case before the House of Commons is an impeachment against the Board of Customs such as few public departments...

Loan PALMERSTON is taking an active part in the Slavery question of the United States ; he has an unexceptionable case ; and his ad- mirers are anticipating new triumphs for his...

IN comparing the two plans before the public for improving the meat market, there are more elements for consideration than the simple merits of either plan. Government proposes...

MURDER is not always ferocious in its aspect. Among the models in the statuary shops, one of the moat common is a beautiful fe- male arm celebrated for the grace and gentleness...

Evmc if it had been possible after recent exposures todeny the annihilated by of coffee, the possibility would have been • ilated by the meeting at the London Tavern. There the...

A PAPER has been circulated this week in the University of Ox- ford, containing the " Case on the part of the University" in re- ference to the legality of the Royal Commission...

GILLIES'S MEMOIRS OP A LITERARY VETERAN . .. IN a former time Mr. B. P. Gillies would have been better known to the world than he is. As a poet, he had a nice perception of the...

WHIT to do with the Marble Arch ? was the great question of 1850 ; and genius, roaming through the Woods and Forests, hit upon the expedient of sending it to Cumberland Gate, at...

connexion with Arctic research and navigation ; but those who are familiar with the author upon the Whale Fishery and the Northern regions, who combines extensive knowledge with...

deceased author of this volume went to America during the oom- mercial depression of 1841, and remained there, " clutching with ea- gerness at every chance the least likely to...

Boats. Sketch of Mairwara : giving a brief Account of the Origin and Habits of the Mains ; their subjugation by a British force their' Civilization and conversion into an...

of Lieutenant-Colonel Wind.. ham, of a son. On the 6th, at Ardeas Glebe, the Lady Adam Loftus, of a son. On the Gth, at Clifton, Lady Isabella Grant, of a son. On the 8th, at...

THE HARMONIES OF COLOUR. The last of a series of lectures was delivered by Mr. Wornum at the School of Design on Friday the 7th ; the subject being "the Harmonies of Colour."...

WAR-OMCE, March 14.-1st Regt. of Drag. Guards-Lieut. H. Hamilton to be Capt. by purchase, vice Blathwayt, who retiree; Cornet G. J. Bridge, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice...

Tuesday, March 11. Psancensures DISSOLVED. — Garrood and Co. Fakenham, iron-founders—R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, printers—Hunt and Mellersh, Maid- stone,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Erica.) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. S per Cent Consols 964 561 96} 961 061 Ditto for Account 961 984 961 961 961 3 per Cents Reduced 97 1...

The nobility, subscribers, and the public, are respect- fully informed that this Theatre WILL OPEN on Ssreansr, 22d Idsacu 1851, when will be performed Dcrnizetti's cele- brated...