THE Easter vacation has released the champions of Protection from their watch in Parliament ; and either they have been ne- glecting their self-assumed duties, or they have...

undertook, is still hampered with difficulties ; but the chief Minis- ter has taken one bold and decided step—he has sent Narvaez out of the way, exiled him. The manner in which...

"too good to be true," but certainly indicating a rapidity in the moral effect of Sir Robert Peel's commercial policy that outstrips all expectation. " The large mass of...

it undergoes no relaxation ; but, whether legislators discuss or make holyday, whether they propose palliatives or small coer- cions, that condition still keeps on, a terrible...

the session, comprise some points of considerable interest. Lord Cathcart, the Governor-General, began his first speech to the Provincial Legislature by announcing that his...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Saturday. The subjects which underwent discussion related to the City Prisons, and to the much-contested point of the Lord Mayor's claim to be...

some- what less pacific character than the intelligence preiriously re- ceived ; perhaps for no other reason than the fact that the turn for taking an active part had come round...

quiet ks in the morning and drives in the afternoon are of daily re- ace; • d with like regularity the children have their pony and walk- 'tereke On Tailifiesday forenoon, the...

Viscount Milton has been elected for Mahon, in the room of Mr. Chil- ders, who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. A movement was recently commenced in Bradford, emanating from the...

Mr. H. A. Browne, a member of the Irish bar, and the son of Colonel Browne, of Browne Hall, Galway, was tried last week for bigamy, at the Commission Court, Dublin. Mr. Browne...

At a meeting of the Town-Council of Edinburgh, on Tuesday, Mr. Goodsir was elected Professor of Anatomy to the University, by a majority of eleven over Dr. Handyside. The good...

UNITED STATES. —By the mail-steamer Hibernia, which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday afternoon, accounts from Washington have been re- ceived to the 30th March. At the departure...

The arrival in town of influential politicians, refreshed by the Easter re- cess, falls to be noted— On Thursday, Sir Robert Peel arrived from Drayton Manor; Sir James Graham...

last evening; and the arduous task of pushing forward the Irish " Assassination" Bill to its first reading was the immediate duty to be entered upon. Previously, however, to...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Once more the hand of the assassin has been pointed at the King of the French, and the aim was near being fatal; though no one was actually hurt. The following...

year ending the 6th of April 1846, was presented to the House of Commons last night, and exhibits a surplus of revenue over expenditure amounting to 2,380,6001. Bearing in mind...

THE Easter entertainments this year are not remarkable for novelty, ex- cept at the Haymarket, where Mr. Planchd, the inventor of the classical burlesque, having run the round...

the French Chamber of Deputies on the extraordinary grant for the navy was proceeding on Thursday. Letters from Italy state, that not only in Lombardy, but in Sardinia, Modena,...

STOCK EICEANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. _ The English Funds have declined, and were at one time 1 per cent below the closing price of last week; but as a rise ofLper cent has since...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 10th April, Lysander, Sangster, from Calcutta ; and Gowrie, Roallans, from the Cape ; 14th, Sophia, Saxon, fkom Calcutta ; and Montrose, Fergus- son, from...

at the New Inn, Bradford, on Saturday last; at which a resolution was unanimously adopted re questing Mr. Hardy not to resign his seat.—Bradford Observer.

ONE of the moat exquisite performances of the melodious and effective opera I Puritani that has ever been heard took place at the Italian Theatre on Tuesday; signalizing the...

OUR attention has been called to a paragraph, containing some severe strictures on the conduct of this Society, that appeared in the first edition of the Spectator last...

IN all educational institutions, and more particularly in new foundations, almost everything depends on the choice of teachers. The friends of education are too apt to neglect...

PALMERSTON IN PARIS. Oun " on dit " as to the movements of Lord Palmerston in Paris is borne out by events. The noble Ex-Secretary has secured the kind offices of Lord Brougham...

THE " wind-up," as it has been called, makes no very rapid progress. There are no symptoms of that precipitate haste to bring rash undertakings to a final close, that might have...

a house of cor- rection, and which they think will serve neither purpose ; but they pass from the special measure to general doctrine. " This Board consider that there can be...

Tun interest which the important branch of Law Amendment that relates to Conveyancing is now exciting in England, and the need for further explanations and repeated discussion,...

Morroareax aurnanrosur, Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain, from the commencement of the Twelfth Century to the close of the Reign of Queen Mary. Edited,...

THESE " Pedestrian Reminiscences" read very like the table discourses of middle-aged talkers that we sometimes fall in with, though the race is perhaps less numerous than of...

THIS posthumous volume of the distinguished wit contains nearly thirty sermons preached in London, to the City and the West end, and in various places on charitable occasions....

WERE this book now published for the first time, it would be a remark- able work. But, to appreciate the full extent of the author's powers , it must be kept in mind that the...

work of Destiny. We learn from the preface, that Mr. George Stephens was foredoomed to write tragedies. " To build up scenes and acts, developing character, and evolving, ab...

Front Apri11014 to April 16th. BOOKS. Pedestrian and other Reminiscences at Hems and Abroad; with Sketches of Country Life. By Sylvanus. Isle in Calsfornia• during a...

There is no hope for a plagiarist in these days. The number of books, which render a perusal of all impossible, even by a reviewer who lived without sleep and read incessantly...

Wes - orvrca, April 14th-3d Drag. Guards, G. Featherston, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thompson, promoted in 10th Light Drags. • Assist .- Burg . H. Mapleton, M.D. from...

Tuesday, April 14. PARTNEISHIM DISSOLVED. Bevan and Whitaker, Wigan, cotton-spinners—Crook and Co. Preston, cotton-manu- facturers—J. and J. Priestley, Tottington, Higher End,...

On the 8th April, at Saughton, Lady Aberdour, of a daughter. On the 8th, the Widow of the late Henry iltid Michell, D.C.L., of a daughter, still-born. On the 8th, at the Royal...

Notes issued £27,030,255 £41,145,739 E41,145,739 • lacluding Exchequer, Savings Banks,Commission ere of NationalDebt &Dividend Accounts: GRAIN, Mark Lane, April 17. s. 41:...