firmed the Government in the possession of the confidence of the House, if that confidence were impaired by the attacks of his party opponents. The debate of the House of Lords...

Wales will visit that country at no distant date. This is. only a fair response to the known and long-tried loyalty of the British North American colonists. It is a solid...

emphatic " Yes " to the direct question—" Will you have Victor Emma- nuel to reign over yon ?" The minority, even in Tuscany, where the partisans of municipalism were supposed...

subject of Parliamentary Reform ; but nothing has happened to excite anything that can be called a general feeling or agitation. In the main, the meetings appear to obey an...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOOKE OF Loans, Monday, March 12. Administering of Poison Bill, committed —Medical Acts Amendment Bill read a second time. Tuesday, March 13....

THE QUEEN and Royal Family have been spending the week in the re- tirement of Osborne, and taking advantage of the fine weather in riding, driving, or walking. The Prince and...

Another and final special meeting of the Court of Common Council, for the purpose of considering the provisions of the Government bill for the better regulation of the...

,f f ft II h e Emperor and Empress, the Prince Napoleon, and the Princess Clothilde, were present at the first performance of Pierre de Nidicie, the new opera of Prince...

The death of Sir Robert Alexander Fergusson has created a vacancy in the representation of Londonderry. No candidate has yet been de- cided upon as his successor. Mr. Kerr,...

Mr. George Cubitt, of Denbies, near Dorking, has been elected Mem- ber for West Surrey, in the room of the late Mr. Henry Drummond. He is a Conservative but professes a dislike...

Major-General Lawrenson, formerly of the 17th Lancers, now command- Berlin advices state the views of Austria and the National German ing the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, will...

Bros S MCMANUS, MMUS ASTMS OON The demand for money has been considerably on the increase during the week, and the rates of discount have averaged about 4 per cent ; in the...

SATL'RDAY MORNING. The rumour ran last night that Sir George Lewis has resigned the office of Home Secretary ; disaffected, it is said, to the Budget. The story was credited...

Savoy was again raised by Mr. KLNGLAKE, who asked Lord John Russell whether he has any objection to lay on the table of the House his answer to Lord Bloom- flad's despatch of...

the French metropolis regarding the issues of Italian affairs. "Paris, Thursday Evening. "There remain but a few hours more to wait for the completed result of the votating in...

Y murdered on the 9th of February at Li The unfortunate gentleman left his hotel at three o'clock in the afternoon, to take a bath ; his friends were waiting for him to dine,...

Maestro Giorza, was produced at La Scala at Milan on the 10th instant, with com- plete success. The close of the second act is spoken of as being especially imaginative and...

affairs. It amounts to this, that the Pope "cannot" surrender the Ro- magna, and will not ; that as the revolution there has been brought about by foreign agency, so it could...

THE WEST INDIA QUESTION. III. A man who lives on the bounty of others is apt to feel aggrieved when the means of his patrons do not keep pace with the liberality of their...

29, Upper Brook Street, 13th March 1860. San—Allow me to call your attention to some inaccuracies in an article headed " What is a Libel," that appeared in your number of the...

ITALY AND THE OPPOSITION. THE debate on Tuesday night did service both to . Italy and her Majesty's Government, but it did a great disservice to the Oppo- sition. No one has...

SEVEN years ago, Mr. Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Ministry Of Lord Aberdeen, devised a Budget of magnifi- cent proportions, stretching, not only over the...

debate, Mr, Ellice implored the Minister of War to devise a comprehensive scheme for the whole Army, including that which is to be employed in India. Although this prayer has...

DIE discussion on the Reform Bill, to commence on Monday, will take place under favourable auspices. We are glad to note that the tone of public controversy on the question is...

WHEN the opponents of the purchase system open their lips, they are fiercely required to set forth authenticated instances of its injustice to individuals ; and if they bring...

TWELVE YEARS IN. CHINA. * MR SCANTH has produced an interesting and even noticeable book on a country, a clear nnderstanding of whose people and civilization has become of...

THE researches of recent years have added considerably to the unused stock of materials available for a biographer of the Eng- lish Princes of Wales, and Dr. Doran has dealt...

se nicher ? Who would think of lighting upon a new and interesting book, written with con- siderable literary ability, yet appearing under the discredited guise of one of those...

Mrs. Browning's POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS are rough and untunefnl., as if the singer bad grown hoarse with screaming Evviva! They begin —there are eight of them—with a preen in...

The most recent event at the Imperial opera is the production of a new composition by Prince Joseph Poniatowski, to which MM. de Saint Georges and E. Pacini have supplied the...

The two concluding volumes of Mr. Thomas Carlyle's "History of Friedrich the Second of Prussia, called Frederick the Great," have just been sent to press. They will be published...

When in the course of a dramatic work we learn that two young per- sons, who have been betrothed ,wIthent seeing each others faces, run away from home to avoid a matrimonial...

'STRANGE PURCHASE FOR THE NATIONAL GALLERY. WE have heard a report connected with the National Gallery in which we can scarcely put credence. It was rumoured some three years...

"Every influence that leads the mind and habits of man from mental indolence, from froward passion, from grovelling pursuits, lifts him into a purer and a healthier atmosphere,...

M. Toussaint has been repeating the experiments of M. Edmond Bec- querel and M. Niepee de St. Victor, in which coloured objects were pro- duced with all their natural tints upon...

The only note that we hear just now from our Italian Theatres is the "note of preparation." As we have already mentioned, her Majesty's Theatre is to be opened by Mr. E. T....

On fhe 9th instant, Professor Faraday delivered an interesting lecture on "On Lighthouses," and their illumination by means of the electric light. The simple idea of a...

Bankrup ' s.—Wmuars Emig, Pennyfields, Poplar, shipjoiner—Euxua WF.ISSE, Piccadilly, Milliner—SAMUEL STEVENSON, Leicester, dealer in yarns—JAMES HASELL, Bristol,...

On the 5th of January, at Government House, Hobart Town, Tasmania, the Wife of his Excellency Sir H. E. F. Young, C.B., of a daughter. Ou the 26th of February, at St. Mark ' s...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &Nerd. Monday. Tuesday. Widnes. PrWar. S per Cent Consols 941 041 941 941 941 Ditto for Account 94i 24¢ 941 95 9 1 11 all...