Tux question - of India and her legislation has become entirely merged in the question of Ministers and their official proceedings. Last week we had copies of the extraordinary...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOusg or Loans. Monday, May 10. Lord Canning and the Government ; Con- versation—Customs Duties (No. 2) Bill read a third time and...

THE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer kissed hands on his appointment as Ambassador to Constantinople. • Mr. Buchanan took leave on...

It has been stated that at a meeting in the East India House on Wed- nesday, the Court of Directors adopted a resolution expressing confidence in Lord Canning. Mr. Layard has...

The Dublin Evening Mail, an honest Conservative journal, complains of the want of judgment shown by Lord Ellenborough and Mr. Disraeli, and regards them as the causes of the...

Lord Macaulay was on, Tuesday, inaugurated in the Town-hall of Cambridge, as Lord High Steward of the borough. Mr. Austin Maggs, an architect and builder residing at Hereford,...

'num.—The Legislative Body closed its sittings on Saturday. Its last feat was to vote by 180 to 45 the Paris Improvement Bill. The Body has passed 161 out of 165 bills...

Sir Henry Bulwer has been appointed to the post of Ambassador at Constantinople in succession to Lord Stratford de Itedcliffe. Sir Henry has served as a diplomatist for thirty...

SATURDAY. The first battle has been fought and won by Ministers : they have parried Lord Shaftesbury's resolutions in the House of Lords by means of " the previous question."...

THE PARLIAMENTARY IMBROGLIO—LORDS ELLFX- BOROUGH AND CANNING. TRULY England is draining the cup of legislative humiliation, anarchy, and confusion to the very dregs. The...

STOCK. EXCRANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The upward course of the English Funds has received a decided check from two equally disturbing causes ; first, the unsettled condition of...

THERE was a time when it was excusable for politicians and their newspapers to speak with less reprobation of negro-slavery in America than of the same institution elsewhere....

TIM House of Commons appears to think that it really will not do for the only practical achievement of the session to be the im- position of the penny stamp on bankers' cheques....

Loup ROBERT CECIL has brought forward, or rather recalled, a Buggestion to diminish the growing evil of private bill-making in the House of Commons. With regard to the...

IF anything were needed to prove the useful influence exercised by the Press, it could be furnished by the debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening on Lord Ebrington's...

THE DEBATE ON THE PRINCIPALITIES. Laurtemney, Cardt1,10th May 1858. Bra — I trust that I may still continue to enjoy, under the new manage- ment of the Spectator, the...

How is it to be accounted for, we wonder, that fine sentiment does not contribute more to good taste and sound judgment in its possessors—or shall we say professors ? Lord...

Belfast, 3d May 1858. Sin—Ireland owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Disraeli for completing the commercial union of the two islands, by the assimilation of the spirit-da- ties....

Eastern Counties, 23d April 1858. Sm—You would, I think, do a very acceptable service to the friends of India by recommending to the consideration of Parliament the...

On the 4th March, John Paget, eldest son of the lateRev. Henry Thomas Streeten, of Lydiard House, Wilts, and Vicar of Rodbotune Cheney, in the same county ;in his 24th year. He...

On the 6th May, at St. George's, Hanover Squw, the Rev. G. Crespigny Lamotte, Rector of Denton, Kent, and domestic chaplain to Lord Tenterden, to Caroline Jennetta, only...

On the 27th April, at Lynburn, near Bathe, N.B., the Wife of Captain the Hon. G. H. Douglas, R.N., of a son. On the 2d May, in Myddleton Square, the Wife of the Rev. Robert...

FORSTER'S HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS. * ALTHOUGH formally belonging to the class of review articles, these volumes have essentially more of the book characteristics than...

of Madame L. Davesies de Pontes' volumes is to give a hi s tory , of German poetry from the oldest poems that have been preserved, down to the productions of this generation,...

Dr. Warren was asked what would cure a severe at.. tack of rheumatism, he answered, six weeks. The joke was not bad, professionally speaking. Unfortunately the patient and his...

THE NATIONAL GALLERY: TILE LO3IBARDI AND BALM , PICTURES. The Lombardi and Baldi pictures bought at Florence, the most im- portant purchase ever made by the National Gallery,...

Books. In and Around Stamboul. By Mrs. Edmund Honiby. In two volumes. Essays by the late Geor g e Brimley, M.A., Librarian of Trinity College, Cam- bridge. Edited by William...

raDal THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 7. WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, May 7.—Royal Horse Guards—Caralry—Lieut. 0. L. C. Williams to be Capt. by purchase, vice Billington, who retires....

BRITISH FUNDS. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1883 Bank Stock, 11 per Cent India Stock, I04 per Cent...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 11. Bankruptcy Annalled. - JAILFS Enwss HUDSON JOLLIPFE, Bristol, chemist. Bankrupts. - HENRY WILLIAM Arruxsox and THOMAS Wrwsx Kmo, Sutherland...

the County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of James CIAI- Tex, 17, floured° Street, in the Precinct of Whitcfriars , in the City of London ; and published by the aforesaid...

MAY 15, 1858. A FEW WORDS TO LIBERAL SECEDERS. As the hundred gentlemen, who have attempted to form what may be called a Protestant sect of the Liberal party, have undertaken...

The week now terminating is utterly deficient in theatrical novelty. Probably the next production of importance will be a new comedy by Mr. Tom Taylor, already announced in the...

England is the country of Dioramas : whatever locality or event rouses the popular feeling is soon presented to the eye as well as the mind. A Diorama, painted by Mr. Marshall,...