THE principal and larger portion of Sir Charles Napier's fleet, which started on Saturday for the Baltic, has no doubt by this time nearly performed the first stage of its...

are such as tell upon the relative position of the different states, particularly in regard to Russia and Turkey. Prussia has been sending special envoys to the Courts of Paris...

bates, chiefly on foreign politics raised by malcontents, or of real business pressed forward in many instances with little debate or none. Lord Derby's angry and inculpatory...

questionable connexion with election practices was Mr. Stoner, recently made Judge at Melbourne ; but in consequence of the state- ments this week, of facts previously unknown...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. Horan OP LORD% Monday. March 13. Russian Confidential Communications; Lord Derby's Questions—Civil Service; Lord Alonteagle's Motion—Scotch...

QUEEN Vic-tome, accompanied by Prince Albert and the children, went to Spithead in the Fairy on Saturday, and personally bade adieu to the first division of the Baltic fleet...

The death of Mr. Justice Talfourd, while charging the Grand Jury at Stafford, on Monday, has been one of the gravest incidents of the week, and has awakened a corresponding...

Certain merchants and bankers of the City of London, at the head of whom stands Lord Mayor Sidney, have signed a petition praying that tes- tamentary jurisdiction shall not be...

The cholera has made its appearance at Glasgow. On Saturday there were reported 31 cases, on Sunday 30 more. The Sanitary Committee held a meeting on Sunday night, and resolved...

The cholera has appeared at Kanturk. From the 21st February to the 9th March there were 30 cases in the workhouse and 12 in the town. Nor is it a wonder. In the spot where it...

FRANCE.—The French expedition to the East is assembling at Toulon and Algiers. General Canrobert, the second in command, and General Bosquet, left Paris on Monday, for...

The first division of the Baltic fleet, under Sir Charles Napier, left Portsmouth on Saturday last, with lovely weather, and proceeded towards its destination. Early in the...

The Committee on Irish Corruption continues to sit. Mr. Lucas has been again examined. He would not name any persons unless every member of the Committee waived his right that...

oasts back a defiance; asks Lord Derby whether he remembers the transactions in which he and Lord Malmesbury thought fit to engage "with Russia, Austria, and Prussia, at the...

flaxtritnkr. A great deal of business was transacted or discussed in Parliament last night In the House of Commons, Lord .Tons Russian moved for leave to bring in a bill "to...

Although Easter approaches, and managers might therefore be sup- posed to pause with their novelties for a while, the theatrical soil has rarely been more productive than just...

Souse. of Commons. LEG/8LATIVE DEPARTMENT. Ministerial. ThIe By whom introduced. Stage arrived at. Oxford University Bill .. Lord John Russell Read a first time....

foreign intelligence likely to influence prices, the Eng- lish Funds have exhibited great steadiness this week. Up to Wednesday afternoon, Consols had only ranged between 91#...

The musical occurrence of the week has been the performance of Elijah at St. Martin's Hall, under the direction of Mr. Hullah. The at- traction of this oratorio—second only to...

It is founded on the well-known little French piece called Monsieur Jaques, of which the slight substance is spun out to an enormous and wearisome length. Excepting two or three...

UNFOUNDED NOTIONS ABOUT PEACE. IF anything could be considered more plain and obvious than others, it might have been the actual situation of this country in regard to the...

by Mr. J. M. Morton, has been produced. It is founded upon a French piece called Ern Homme entre Deux Airs, brought out at the Palais Royal in the course of last summer ; and...

an amusing little farce, of that kind in which two comic personages play off practical jokes on each other,—and which first became familiar in this country through one of the...

society and still remain as liable to purchase green spectacles as Moses Primrose, and in the very centre of the most knowing circles this everlasting simplicity may survive. In...

PERHAPS Death has not recently been busier than usual, but he has made his hand unusually visible, by cutting off those who stood conspicuous among us in many ways. Men who are...

ACCORDING to a current rumour, repeated with as much regret as amusement, a serious calamity has befallen one of our most leading statesmen : an incubus has fastened on him. It...

to the 31st of last December. In the half-year ending that day, 157 persons were killed and 258 wounded : 26 passengers were killed and 166 hurt from causes beyond their own...

A Taevor.Lee. in the Western part of Ireland reports that the Cel- tic race is rapidly disappearing from its own peculiar province. For miles and miles not a trace of...

HILL ' S TRAVELS IN SIBERIA. * MR. RILL has the love of locomotion very strong in him. He has been round the world, without any other object, apparently, than to see and be...

THE avowed object of Hugh Miller in this volume is didactic. By the story of his own life, he wishes to impress upon the working man how much he can do to educate himself, if he...

portion of this fiction are common enough. Family differences, pushed by pride and obstinacy to hostile aliena- tion—death and loss of property occurring at the nick of time as...

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. It is a pleasure to announce a gathering of pictures at the Portland Gallery which shows sonic decided degree of revival from the morbid stupor of the...

Boors& Travels in Siberia. By S. S. Hill, Esq. In two volumes. An Account of the life and Letters of Cicero : translated from the German of Bernard Rudolf Abeken. Edited by...

The Saracenie building which has for some considerable while been an object of curiosity and attraction to the passenger through Leicester Square, opened to private view on...

Lieut. G. H. A. Forbes to be Sec. Capt. vice Robertson, retired on half-pay; Sec. Lieut. C. G. John- son to be First Lieut. vice Forbes; First Lieut. C. Hunter to be Sec. Capt....

A new lot of pictures covers the much-suffering walls of the Pantheon Gallery : but this time it is a collection by no means destitute of interest, and comprising some works...

On the 8th March, at Bath, Lady Wade, of a daughter. On the 9th, at Stonehouse, Devon, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Errington, Fifty-first (K. 0.) Light Infantry, of a son. On...

BRITISH FUNDS Priem) Wants. &third. (Closing Monday.,Tuesday. II per Cent Consols all 91k 91k 911 Ditto for Account per CentsIteduced 51 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8...

Tuesday, March. 14. PARTNERSHIPS DissoLvEn.-Edge and Crosby, Salford, surgeons -Batton and Stott, Warrington, glass-manufacturers-Perkin and Hulme, Leek, Staffordshire,...