Loan ABERDEEN has this week explained, in the House of Lords, the speech of last week, which created so great dissatisfaction ; and by a more clear development of his meaning,...

has en- tered Wallachia, as Lord John Russell stated in the House of Commons on Thursday, for the purpose of occupying and guarding the Principalities, if they be vacated by the...

caprice of journalism; they reflect movements which are going forward in " distinguished " circles, and represent something which, for want of a better word, we must call...

PRINCIPAL BIISINESS OF THE WEER. HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday. June 26. Lord Aberdeen's Explanation—Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill ; report received—Public Statues ; Sir William...

Tax QUEEN and Prince Albert have passed a pleasant week, with drives, plays and sights, and a little business. They have visited the Princess's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera,...

At a Court of Common Hall, held on Saturday, Mr. Alderman Mugge- ridge and Mr. Crossley were chosen Sheriffs, Sir John Key Chamberlain, and Mr. Ledger and Mr. Jardine,...

The Oxford Commemoration festival has been celebrated this week with all its customary incidents,—" Show Sunday," when everybody solemnly parades the Broad Walk ; the boat...

Billault the new Minister of the Interior was sworn in on Sunday. It is remarked that M. Billault was the chief opponent of M. Guizot during the last years of the reign of Louis...

The report of the Select Committee of Privileges appointed to inquire into the "calumnious reflections on the Irish Members," contained in the Times "article" of the 6th...

voting the Educational Estimates in Committee of Supply. Lord JOHN Russxm, moved that a sum of 263,000/. be voted for educational purposes in Eng- land. There is a balance from...

SATURDAY. The Gazette of last night publishes despatches, with enclosures re- ceived from Sir Charles Napier, giying an account of the proceedings of Admiral Plumridge in the...

On the 224 June, at Blelack House, Aberdeenshire, the Lady Cochrane, of a &wider. On the 234, at Clarendon Park, Lady Hervey Bathurst, of a daughter. On the 23d, at. Mitcham...

It would be quite impossible for us to snake room for the vast collateral confrere-ray opened by Mr. Oliver Bradshaw, which traverses a bound- less field of the past as well as...

of Can- terbury was yesterday prorogued by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the 20th July. The intention of Prince Albert to attend the meeting of the Cambridge Arcbteological...

Having devoted himself to the drama of the Boulevard du Temple,- in spite of the continued assaults of legitimists, original talentites, An- glicans, and that noble army of...

THE COMMONS. MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES-Resumed; Monday, July 3. YOUTHFUL OFFENDF.RS BILL-Committee; Monday, July 3. (Lord PALsizusrow.) REGISTRATION or , Brains, &c....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRSDAY AFTERNOON. The extent of the late rise in Government Securities offering a tempting Opportunity to realize, several parcels of Stock have changed hands...

this week. In regard to the first, it is worthy of note that Mr. Ella has brought Vieuxtemps to England for the express and sole purpose of per- forming at this concert and the...

favour and success. The concert of Monday last was attended by an audience lite- rally overflowing, for many people found it barely possible to get within the doors. The music,...

THE PREMIER'S EXPLANATION. The impulse which urged Lord Aberdeen to neutralize the warmth and boldness of Lord Lyndhurst's admirable speech last week with an unseasonable...

at the Royal Italian Opera; and the reunion of Lablache, Grisi, and Mario, must have reminded many people present of the great enjoyment and hearty laughs this opera used to...

The Irishman's definition of a posthumous work, as a work which a man writes after he is dead, turns out to be less absurd than appears at first sight. A piece by the late M....

turned into a very neat English piece by Mr. Palgrave Simpson, and produced at the Olympic, with the appropriate title Heads and Tails. The chief character is that of a...

than the title. The title is Waiting for an Omnibus, in the Lowther Arcade, on a Baimy our criticism is that the piece is trash.

LORD Perinawrox's intimation that he relinquishes his Police Bill US deference to the prejudices of local opponents, but that he does not admit their objection, and reserves to...

TO.ERE must be something more than mere technical obscurity in such eases as that of De Bode, when the Government of Great Britain systematically repels a claim supported by the...

ffe. GLADSTONE has undergone much labour and mortification in carrying through the House of Commons a bill which, with all its faults, may be the instrument of rendering the...

WoNnirarur. is the telegraphic despatch in its celerity, and eke in its power of iteration. It tells us almost on the instant what is said in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or Trieste ;...

Gray's Inn, 30th June 1854. Sin—The recent atrocity of cutting up a live infant during one hour and three-quarters, may open the eyes ot the public as to the system on which...

_Forfar, 10th June 1854. SIR—On the 27th ultimo I addressed a letter to you on the subject of the malady called "overwork of the brain." That letter was necessarily in-...

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. Sin—I beg to correct some of the errors in A Physician's letter inserted in your last number. In the first place, the principal medical officer...

lionsTnTa contemporary "regrets that a weekly paper should have expressed the utmost suspicion of the late Spanish decrees," which the morning paper regards as "highly...

Sra—The last number of the Spectator contains a paper entitled "The Natural Allies of England," in which you comment on Lord Ellenborough's each advocating the complete...

THE INDIAN ARMY. WA11,0F7ICK, 20ni JUNE 1851. THE BREVET. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned officers of the East India Company's forces to take rank...

Tuesday, June 27. FaurrrEatrurrs DISSOLVED.-Jones and Co. Oldbury, Worcestershire, iron-manu- facturers-Haynes and Wells, Kempsey, Worcestershire, plumbers-Bloor and Sons,...

BRITISH FUND $ per Cent Consols S. (Closing Saluted. Manday.,Turaday.,Trednrs. Prices.) Thum Friday. shut — — — -- Ditto for Account 94 exd 949 94 94 931 931 3 per Cents...

Amami"' June 24.-Corps of Royal Marines.-Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieuts.-J. C. Crauford ; J. C. IL Colomb ; N. H. Price ; S. J. Bicoli; J. U. Sad- her; J. Small; H. L. T....

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Senses CLOT eon, No. 10, Crane Court, lathe Parish of St. Dunstrues in the West, in the City of London; and Published by t h e...

PINLAY ' s HISTORY oF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE. * In this volume Mr. Finlay brings to a close his long and elaborate narrative of Greek and Byzantine story from the subjection of...

JULY 1, 1854.

"THE difficulty of comprehending and appreciating the system of Plotinus," says the writer of the article "Plotinus" in Dr. Smith's invaluable Dictionary, "is greatly increased,...

This picture of social manners and public feeling or opinion in Germany, from about the termination of the Seven-Years War to the expulsion of the French in 1814, is a very...

the fair writer of Clara Mori- son, herself an emigrant, the effect of her work is to depict, and very powerfully, the difficulties to which an unprotected young woman is...

Trqz.ds on the Shores of the Baltic. Extended to Moscow. By S. S. Hill. ; , •,., „ ,• • History of the American _Revolution. By George.Bancroft, Correspond- ing Member of the....

THE I; IVERSAL ENUIRITION AT. RARIS. Rather move than a month age; we referred-to-the part which Govern- thentia.called to take in'organizing the contributions of England to...

intelligent, wars diminish in brutality. The art of slaying is reduced to a kind of chess game, in which those pos- sessing the best weapons and the best powers of calculation...

Sculpture appears as if it would not be neglected by the Australians in the expenditure of their nuggets upon public works. Some time ago we heard of a statue of the Queen to be...

The first report of the Department of Science and Art, from which we gleaned a few particulars immediately on its appearance, is full of various matter—statistical, tentative,...

A return estimates the number of chargeable letters delivered in the United Kingdom in the year 1853 at 410,817,489; being 30,000,000 more than the deliveries of 1852, and...

[From the Official Return.] Ten Weeks 0(1814 'as. Week 0(1614. Eymotic Diseases 2,070 .... 301 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, 404 .... 53...