sagacity and boldness the Emperor of France has retorted the challenge in the most prompt and decisive manner. Communi- cations, it would appear, have been despatched from...

by Mr. Disraeli to Sir John Pakington's naval measures, is not borne out by the Navy Estimates. The grand total of the naval vote is 9,813,181/. ; a net increase of 961,8101....

Loan STANLEY'S proposal for an Indian loan has been received with equal satisfaction in the House and out of doors, accom- panied as*it has been by an explanation of Indian...

has been to tell the Islanders very plainly that they will not be allowed to have their way about annexation. Mr. Gladstone has followed up this by presenting to the Assembly a...

Menem OF Loans. Monday, February 14. The Right of Search ; Question by Lord Wodehouse. Tuesday, February 15. Shippin g interest; Lord Stanley of Alderley's Question - Cuban...

of the Indian mutiny. The Begum of Oude has given up the game, has crossed the Terrai, and entered Nepaul ; she may become a Nepaulese difficulty. Some of her partisans, headed...

THE QUEEN and the Prince Consort left Windsor Castle on Monday, and arrived at Buckingham Palace for the season. The next day the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge and the...

The members of the Ballot Society dined together on Wednesday at the Albion Tavern. Mr. Henry Berkeley of course presided, and was supported by eleven Members of Parliament....

From his place in the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Disraeli gave notice that on the 28th instant he will ask leave to introduce a Bill to amend the law relating to the...

The nomination for the vacant seat at Enniskillen took place on Thurs- day, when the following gentlemen were proposed and seconded—Mr. Paul Dane, the Honourable John Lowry...

The Greenwich election, to supply a member for the seat lately occur pied by Mr. Townsend, began on Monday with the nomination. Alder- man Salomons was proposed by Dr. Purvis...

raltra.—The meeting of a conference to deliberate on the double election of Colonel Comm is said to be fixed for the beginning of March. "All the Powers," we are told, have...

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has appointed the Reverend Henry White, Curate of St. James's, Dover, to be Incumbent of the Savoy Church in the Strand. We understand...

them to re- press the contradictory comments in the journals on the Emperor's spe ech. "It is important that the journals should say to the population, for this is the thought...

with what looks like an advance of Opposition skirmishers. Thus, Mr. RixrEn gave notice that he should on Monday move that it would be expedient to consider the laws relating to...

8th Victoria,cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday the 16th day of Feb. 1858. lasts D &&&&&&& Notes issued .133,539,330 Government Debt E11,015,106 Other Securities...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. War rumours continue to pour in. It is said that Count Buol has issued a circular to the inferior states of Germany, stating that it would be convenient to...

remark. The total of the vote is 11,568,0001. against 11,577,0001. voted last year. The whole Imperial force will be 229,000 men; the Home and Colonial .Army being 122,000, the...

promised lec- ture on Certain Auditory enomena" was delivered at the Royal Institution last evening by Professor Tyndall, who pointed out the ad- vantages of binaural hearing in...

STATE OF TRADE. SOME of the newspapers speak of activity as prevailing just now in certain manufacturing districts. With a few exceptions, our adviccs are quite to the contrary...

few days. It is said that there will be a new Lord Chancellor, a new Minis- ter of War, and a new Colonial Secretary. Lord Kingsdovni or Sir Hugh Cairns are mentioned by the...

of the Bishop of London, who had revoked his license, was opened yesterday in the Archbishop's Court at Lambeth Palace. Dr. Phillimore, Mr. Bovill, and Mr. Coleridge appeared...

(From our own Correspondent.) We do not perceive much difference in grand ball toilets. Amongst the younger women puffed tulle reigns supreme, and this year, white is generally...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFrEaRoox. The English Funds have experienced but little fluctuation during the week, in spite of the several unfavourable rumours which have...

While Mr. Charles Kean in London has been gaining new applause by his admirable performance in M. Casimir Delavigne's play, Louis XI., his French predecessor, M. Ligier, has...

M. Dugue is well known in Paris as a consummate master of dra- matic effects. His theme may not be new, and there may be nothing very remarkable in the conduct of his action,...

The English opera company at Covent Garden are rehearsing an opera called Rip van Winkle, by Bristow, an American composer of trans- atlantic repute. This opera was performed by...

A new musical society in Paris, called the " Societe des Jeunes Art- istes," formed for the purpose of giving concerts of a high order, gave a performance, last week, of The...

seemed to entertain an indifference for his art almost amounting to aversion, has latterly re- covered his musical feeling. On Saturday evenings his doors are thrown open to his...

NEW PIANOFORTE. MUSIC. As the season advances, the publication of music increases in activity. The following are among the most remarkable new works, which have come under our...

LABOUR IN THE WEST INDIES. Walbrook Irottee,16th February 1859. Sin—No West Indian will oppose the inquiry you suggest, the results of which would not perhaps differ materially...

QUESTIONS FOR LORD STANLEY. Loan STANLEY'S speech on the Indian loan is so excellent, his fu- ture policy in the main so sound, that any questionable points in his presentment...

AT length we have the outline of the proposal which Mr. Glad- stone submitted to the Ionian Parliament. It is a reform which should satisfy all the reasonable wants of the...

WE have already shown the progress made in improving the machinery for attesting land titles and transferring land in Ire- land, the British West Indies, South Australia, and...

THE urgent want of harbours of refuge all round our coasts, as fatally demonstrated by the annual list of wrecks, has been prac- tically recognized by Parliament and the Crown....

THOSE who argue against the last regulation of the Post Office adopt the principle of making laws for exceptional eases. The most influential of the journals objects to the...

way to a repeal of the tax upon paper, because he is withheld by the state of the Finance. We are convinced that there must be Members of his Cabinet who can see a little...

MUCH can be done just now by a little well directed help. A "howling wilderness" of squalid streets, choked and filthy courts, alleys, and lanes, lies between Blackfriars Bridge...

THE SERPENT TURNED TO A ROD. A FORTNIGHT back we gave an account of a curious dinner is Ma- drid, given by certain Gacetilleros to the great capitalist states- man, Salamanca ;...

AMERICAN LITERATURE—ITS HISTORY.* WE have already mentioned Mr. Benjamin Moran's contributions towards a history of " American Literature " in Triibner's Guide : we now give a...

THIS treatise, greatly enlarged from a paper which originally ap- peared in the _Revue des deux itiondes, will scarcely extend the reputation of its distinguished author. It...

MR. OSBORN is an American clergyman and Professor of Natural Science in Roanoke College, Salem. In addition to the acquire- ments essential to his pursuits, he is a...

Another historian has passed away. The last arrivals from America record the death of Prescott, not like Hallam, on the extreme verge of human life, but in the full maturity of...

Parliament is beginning to tell somewhat upon the regular publishing trade. Except the Duke of Buckingham's " Memoirs of the Court of George the Fourth"—which, hewever, seems to...

seu- °ceded Dr. Kinkel in the Course of Art-Instruction Lectures last Mon- day. The subject was Greek pottery—a knowledge of whioh should be an inevitable necessity to every...

No higher duty has the critic than to herald desert, none pleasanter than to invite opportunity to merit, striving, hoping, and enduring to win attention to its identity and...

Mr. Scott writes a manly letter on the subject of his New Foreign Office at Westminster. The notable failure of our public buildings—the introduction of a style almost...

EXHIIIITION OF FEMALE ARTISTS. The third Exhibition of Female Artists is exceedingly creditable to the amount of talent and culture among British women. There are no doubt many...

twenty feet wider and 30 feet higher than York Minster: the nave is three feet wider and nearly forty feet higher than St. Paul's, Loudon. It will be the handsom- est...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 15. Bankruptcy Annulled.-TaoKas FRANCIS, Cross Road, Islington, plasterer. .Bankrupts. - WILLrem Tunis, Ketton, Rutland,...

On the 10th of February, at Ballinclea, near Dalkey, the Hon. Mrs. R. G. Talbot, of a son. On the 11th, at 1, Rameol h Cliff, Edinburgh, the Wife of Major the Hon. Wil- liam...

Court of St. James, was passing through Lucerne, on the way to his post, when an old tapestry, representing Joan of Arc at her entrance into Orleans, which was exhibited in a...

BRITISH FUND 8. (Closing Prices.) Satord. Monday. Tuesday. Walser. nuns. Priday. SperCenteonsols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities...