chiefly remarkable for two things. A report had been set in mo- tion, that John Bright and Thomas Milner Gibson have so offended their constituents by the course they have...

Caffraria at the end of February. The theatre of warlike operations is ex- tending. A. portion at least of the Hottentot population on the Eastern frontier of the colony are in...

AN easy, indolent, piektooth fashion of doing business, or rather Of leaving it undone, has been brought to perfection in the British Parliament. Our Legislature has been...

full operation. M. Lion Wencher iippears Ao be the 'acting maw. nager. His enemies are widerstond in be concentrbted upon the removal of obstacles to the /reelection of...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOusit OPIARDS. Monday, April 14. Church Building Act, read a second time— Railroads in the South of Ireland—Government of British Guiana; Lord...

The Court of Common Council have agreed, almost unanimously, to petition Parliament against the Government Bill for removing Smithfield, and for leave to be heard by counsel...

THE Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at Buckingham Palace, on Monday. Mr. William Page Wood was knighted on being made Soli- citor-Gene4 and Mr. George James Turner was...

At a very large meeting of the Manchester Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association, on Wednesday, Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Bright appeared before their constituents with...

Faxtres.—We have already stated, in our last number, the composition of the new Ministry, and the result of M. de Sainte-Beuve's attempt to upset it on its first appearance ;...

It was announced early in the week that Mr. More CY Ferrell had been returned without opposition for Longford County ; but this was prema- ture. At the day of nomination another...

The office of rice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, va- cant by the promotion of Mr. Page Wood, will, we have reason to believe, be oonferred on Mr. Heaffiam of...

the head of "The Better Supply of Water for the Metropolis," the Daily News of this morn- ing expresses a belief, that the bill which Government will introduce on. the 29th...

SATURDAY. There are now two candidates for the representation of Boston. Mr. Alderman Wire is opposed, on Protectionist principles, by Mr. Freshfield, the late solicitor to the...

the Mansion- house, of "the literati and scientific men of this country and the Conti- nent " , also of the Foreign Commissioners, and "those contributors who may receive marks...

and Lord Cranbourn, have arrived at the Hotel Maurice. Naples correspondence communicates the death of the Italian patriot Ge- neral Florestano Pepe. "He was relieved from...

STOCK. EXCHANGE, THURSDAY Arrmumex. A check has been given to the upward movement of the English Funds. The last mail from the United States brought intelligence of a decline...

brought forward Haydn's Passione. Of this celebrated work it is related that it was written "to order." A priest of Cadiz having conceived the idea of a series of instrumental...

Easter, as usual, brings with it a number of pieces indicative of holy- day-time. At the Princess's a tale from Washington's Irving's Alham- bra forms the subject of the...

A STER 1851 IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. Is. there is one period of the revolving year at which more than any other the sense of a common benefit from a common source ought to...

has been supplied by it . profusion of other entertainments, chiefly concerts. There have been concerts at the Lyceum, Sadler's Wells, the Marylebone, and the Survey; all of...

THE Colonial debate of last week suggests some reflections, which, however indifferent the inhabitants of this country may be to them, it is desirable to circulate in parts of...

GREY has intimated the intention of Government to bring in a bill, on Tuesday the 29th instant, for the better supply of water to the Metropolis. In proceeding to consider what...

to open the Exposition in Hyde Park on Thursday week, in person, but not in the presence of the public ! The first part of the announcement redoubled the pleased expect- ancy,...

Lows NAPOL1ON has returned to the practice of appointing a Ministry composed of Deputies elected to the National Parliament; he has reappointed the same set of men who were...

MEN will submit to sacrifices for the sake of a principle, but they grudge the sacrifice when the very persons who ask it violate the principle they plead. "The Window-tax seems...

THE earth does move notwithstanding," whispered Galileo, leav- ing the dungeon of the Inquisition : by which he meant his friends to understand, that if the earth did move, the...

Mav-iser used to be a holyday for all classes in days gone by; more recently it was appropriated to the chimney-sweepers ; but since "the abolition of climbing-boys," the...

Mn. LEAD is a landscape-painter, who appears to have been making a long and studious pilgrimage in search of the beautiful, and in regions beyond the usual field of artists. In...

suzrwEnn's HISTORY OF THE CIMECH OP ROUE. THE received supremacy of the Pope as the successor of Peter in the bishopric of Rome, by enlightened Remoulds, is perhaps the most...

laid in-Germany, during the stormy times of the Thirty Years War, when the armies of Gustavus,Wal- lenstein, Tilly, and others, devastated the country armed with • Catherine...

Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, D.C.L. By Chris- topher 'Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster. In two volumes. Essays and _Marginalia. By Hartley Coleridge....

EXHIBITION OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. THE private view of the second annual exhibition of this society in its new lease of life and name took place last Saturday; and...

Mr. Beard, with the aid of his artist M. Mansion, has effected a valu- able improvement in daguerreotype portraits, by combining with the photographic process a sort of enamel...

Wsn-orriex, April 15.-37th Foot—Major-Gen. W. Smelt, C.B. from 82d Foot, to be Col vice Gen. the Hon. Sir A. Duff, dec. 50th Foot—Major-Gem W. F. B. Lob. tus to be Col. vice...

a daughter On the 6th April, at Duloe Rectory, Cornwall, the Wife of the Revs Paul Bush, of aeon. On the 9th, at.Denbury Parsonage, Devon, the Wife of the Rev. J. It. Bogus,,...

BRITISH FUNDS. S per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 81 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8 per Cent Huila Stock, 104 per Cent Exchequer Bills, lid. per...

Tuesday, April 15. Patergeasinrs DissoLven.-Wilkinson and Corner, Whitby, Yorkshire, mercers- Harbin and Ward, Clement's Inn, attomies-Richardson and Co. Whitehaven, coach-...