THE four nights' debate on Lord Joust 111588ELI:8 resolutions against the Income-tax, which closed on Wednesday, formed a sort of summing-up of the dispute between "the two...

THE NEW FINANCE MEASURES. The debate on the resolution which Lord John Russell moved as an amendment on bringing up the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on Friday the...

At a Court of Common Council, on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor read a letter from Sir Robert Peel, addressed to him as "My dear Lord Mayor," informing him, that in consideration of...

THE Palaces have been in a bustle this week with ceremonies. The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, for the reception of addresses of congratulation. Most of...

Dr. Sanrin, the aged Bishop of Dromore, died on Saturday last, at Kingstown. Dromore is one of the suppressed sees, which will now be united with Down and Connor. A painful...

We understand that the Reverend Dr. Welsh is to be proposed as Moderator of the ensuing General Assembly.—Edinburgh Observer. The Edinburgh Observer recounts some intriguing...

made some real progress. The Conference at Birmingham, of Dele- gates from various parts of the country, sat throughout last week, and adopted a long string of resolutions,...

Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge visited the exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours yesterday. Sir Robert Peel, it is stated, has given instructions...

for Southamp- ton, is to contest with Mr. Mildmay the seat left vacant by Lord Bruce's succession to the Earldom of Elgin. The Cardigan Election Committee met today, and...

Lord Hardwicke. Prince Albert intends to preside at the approaching festival of the Literary Fund. The Duke of Sussex has been appointed by the Queen to be the Governor of...

the Governor, on the 2d January, after a short illness, in the 64th year of his age. The Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica, the Countess, and Com- modore Byng, recently...

Morning Herald, that Lord John Russell has lately joined a congregra- tion of the Scottish Church. He has only accompanied his lady (Lord Minto's daughter) to a church which she...

In the House of Lords, the Forged Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time, and passed ; Lord BROUGHAM adding a clause to protect wit- nesses from the penal consequences of...

Ellenborough's first acts, as Governor-General of India, was to restore an allowance to some Madras Sepoys, the withdrawal of which lately provoked them to mutiny, or something...

BIRTHS. On the f8th February, at Bombay, the Lady of Captain GEORGE ROWLEY, Second Bombay Light Cavalry, of a daughter. On the 29th March, at Rome, the Lady of ARTHUR H. Exam...

Post this morning publishes Sir Robert Peel's reply to the resolutions of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, thanking them for their support, and accepting it as the confirmation...

Captain Richard Anthony Reynolds to be restored to the Army ; and that he will be gazetted in a few days as a Captain of the Ninth Lancers ; a regiment now under orders for India.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The principal feature of the week in the English Stock Market has been the settlement of the Consol Account, which occurred yesterday. The...

The Beulah. Grieve, from Loudon. for Madras, is on shore off Dungeness. Arrived—At Portsmouth, 9th April, Mary Ann, Woodworth, bum Bengal. Off • Peuzance, 8th, Arab, Dalgarno,...

states that the honour of Knighthood has been conferred on Mr. William Drysdale, of Pittuchar in Fife ; Mr. James Campbell, Lord Provost of Glasgow ; Mr. Henry Thomas de la...

PETITIONS TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuts success which has on more than one occasion repaid the efforts of Mr. THOMAS Dumeoiette, might read a useful lesson to Members of...

Low) STANLEY, in his speech this week on the Income-tax, under- took to prove that landed property contributes to the exigencies of the state at least to the same amount as...

POPULAR prejudices strike all round them without regard to per- sons. Old bachelors and old maids are standing jokes by prescrip- tion; and if they attempt to get out of the...

BY way of testing the efficacy of the system of popular instruction in vocal music, now in action under the sanction of Government, the dif- ferent classes taught by Mr. Flummt...

OF the two great houses we have only this to say, that at Drury Lane a new five - act play, called Plighted Troth, is announced for Wednesday next ; and that a few days will...

TILE Times, in its researches into contemporary history, has dis- covered a tremendous plot, in which this country is engaged with- out knowing it ; a plot for the destruction...

week ap- peared together in the Gamester and the Lady of Lyons, for the first time in London. We were fain to avoid Dr. MooRE's doleful tragedy in town, with its pecuniary...

to have one's "portrait in little" limned by the sun in a few seconds; but now it is done instantaneously : a passing expression is transferred to a plate, and the "Cynthia of...

NEW LINE-ENGRAVINGS. IF the great length of time required to produce a highly-finished line- engraving be a drawback on the preference of this style, there is also this...

by Mr. WTLD of a very full and elaborate Map of Afghanistan, Cabut, the Punjab, Rajpootana, and the River Indies; on which the route of the British army may be traced from the...

Mums. GRAVES are now exhibiting a series of sketches in Afghan- istan, representing the country along the route of the army of the Indus, and the scenes both of our former...

Tuesday, April 12. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Galloway and Co. London, merchants ; as far as regards Tibaldi and E. Galloway- Tibaldi and Galloway, Alexandria, merchauls-Rowau...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. April 8.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Second Capt. E. C. Warde to be A djt. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, April 11.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Brevet.Major R. C. Molesworth...

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