IN the few simple facts which belong to the Queen's visit to Bir- mingham is conveyed a whole volume of our national history. Aston Hall, the last residence of Charles I., from...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. NOVO or LORDS. Monday. June 14. Royal Assent to the Franchise Prisons Bill, Non-Parochial Registers Bill, Stamp Duties on Passports Bill—The...

The " state of the Thames" now calls forth brief complaints in Parlia- ment, speeches in the Court of Sewers, and letters in the Times. The stench is sickening and the miasma it...

Tits QUEEN and Prince Consort, attended by Mr. Secretary Walpole, left Buckingham Palace on Monday, on a visit to Stoneleigh Abbey, Bir- mingham, and Warwick Castle. They...

The Queen and the Prince Consort quitted Buckingham Palace on Monday for Stoneleigh Abbey, the magnificent abode of Lord Leigh, with the view of proceeding thence on Tuesday to...

The Orange journals of Ireland continue to show extreme dissatisfac- tion at the Derby Government for their peculiar policy of conciliation ; remarking with asperity that Mr....

PIMP. —The articles in the Times on the subject of the active military and naval preparations of Fiance, have drawn from the Moniteur the following statement- " About three...

The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of Man- ning the Navy are the Right Honourable Charles Philip, Earl of Hard- wicke, Richard Plantagenet Grenville...

SATURDAY. The principal topic of general interest discussed last night in the House of Commons was our relations with the United States. The dis- cussion arose upon the motion...

The Merchant of Venice, revived at the Princess's Theatre on Saturday last, may fairly be regarded as Mr. Charles Kean's masterpiece. He has carried out his principle of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTER:NOON. Until today the English Stock Market had not varied 1 per cent from the opening quotations of Monday. The transactions of the week have again...

1211s June 1858. Stn—Allow me through the medium of your columns to draw the atten- tion of the Commissioners appointed by her Majesty to investigate the va- rious plans that...

Saturday will - be the night of her last appearance this season. She has been recalled to her post at the Imperial Theatre ofVienna, and has been unable to obtain a prolongation...

CAPTAIN VIVIAN'S MOTION. Belfast, 11Ih June 1858. Scat—The importance of the question raised by Captain Vivian'e motion can hardly be overrated. The single objection to the...

Selby Parsonage. In—Both you and your correspondent "M." seem to write on supposition, that when a deanery falls vacant, the word and question ought to be—" Here is a good...

ITS LEADERS, AS INDICATED BY RECENT VOTES. List of Metnbers of Liberal Party generally, who have voted AGAINST the bulk of the Party on some one or more of the questions...

INDIA AND PARLIAMENT. Tin drama of India legislation is approaching the fifth act, but se strangely equivocal are its incidents that it remains still doubtful whether, when the...

Timm are some aspects of our foreign policy in Europe which illustrate forcibly the transitional condition of English policy generally. Just as in home affairs we are partly...

Wires difficulties arise between the United States and any Euro- pean power, the first inquiry to be made by those who would understand the matter is—" How is it about State...

Two cases have newly drawn attention to a subject upon which considerable light has been thrown lately,—what we may call the morals and logic of evidence. We refer to both...

IF Ministers perceive their duty, Monday's debate in the House of Lords, on the administration of the Militia, ought to be ex- ceedingly useful. The defects of the present...

THE REVEREND HENRY CHRISTMAS'S PREACHERS AND PREACHING. Ix strictness the subject of this volume is sermons ; that is, how to plan, compose, and preach them with the greatest...

to General Cass, suggesting a method by which a satisfactorrarrangement could be made With Great Britain for inquiring into the nationality of suspicious vessels. He recommended...

conqueror of Undo has led to the publication of the historical romance, which he composed some twenty years ago, on the life of Harold and of "William the Conqueror." It was...

as to a further search for Sir John Franklin's expe- dition will be determined by the nature of men's minds. That there exists the slightest chance of finding one of the crew...

On the 6th June, at Siillport, Isle of Cumbrae, N.B., the Hon. Janet Sempill; in her 90th year. On the 7th, at Burton Rectory, Mary Catherine, relict of the late Rev. John...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE JUNE 15. Wan OFFICE, Pall Mall, June 15.—Caratry—Ito;a1 Regt. of Horse Guards— Cornet F. G. A. Fuller to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Williams,...

On the 1st June, in Sloane Street, Viscountess Bury, of a son. On the 13th, at the Rectory, North Kilworth, the Wife of the Rev. Charles Bel- grave, of a daughter. On the 14th,...

On the 6th May, at Nuwara Ellja, Ceylon, Major G. A. Milman, B.A., youngest son of the late Sir W. Milman, Bart., to Frances Edith Chapman, second daughter of the Bishop of...

BOOKS. 27e Oxonian in Thelemarlcen ; or Notes of Travel in South-Western Norway in the Summers of 1856 and 1857. With Glances at the Legendary Lore of that district. By the...

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PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 15. Bankruptcy Annulled.-Jszon 'aux nig JON0E, Mark Lane, merchant. Bankrupts.-ROBERT CUMBERLAND, Addle Street, fancy-goods-manufacturer- CILUttrs...