THE Sugar-duties have been the foremost topic this week, and have had two grand, though not adjourned, debates in the House of Commons ; - both elicited by amendments on the...

through the Chamber of Deputies by a decent ma- jority. The Soult-Guizot Cabinet therefore has a new lease of office for the session. Switzerland continues agitated, but as yet...

SUGAR-DUTIES. On the motion for going into Committee of Ways and Means, on Mon- day, Mr. MILNER Grreore moved, as an amendment, "that no arrangement of the Sugar-duties will be...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the despatch of business. Mr. Knill, Common Councilman for the Ward of Billingsgate appeared before the Court, and complained, as a...

THE Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, for the recep- tion of the Grand Dutchess Stephanie of Baden. ( I ) Her Royal Highness was ac- companied by Count...

FRANCE.—The debate on the Secret-service-money Bill, granting 1,000,000 francs to the /ffims' ter of the Interior for completing the secret-service expenses for 1845, began in...

The Honourable William Bingham Baring, the new Paymaster of the Forces, - was reelected Member for Thetford, on Monday, without opposition. Mr. W. Deedes, of Sandling Park,...

At Clonmel, on Friday, Mr. Richard Albert Fitzgerald, of Muckridge House, Youghal, was elected Member for Tipperary, in the Repeal interest. There was no opposition. At the...

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto his Royal Highness...

adjourned today. Mr. Wakley had obtained a note from the Home Office, saying that Sir 'James Gra- ham had "no olvection to the Governor, of the New Prison producing Hecker." But...

"Jubilate' ap- pear in the scheme of the Sacred Harmonic Society's next concert; which takes place on Wednesday the 5th March.

to believe that an , American officer of rank was recently permitted to go through our arsenals, and examine our guns and munitions of war, and make himself perfectly acquainted...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. Personalities and trivialities stopped the way of public business in the House of Commons last night; amusing enough, but growing tiresome, and...

petition against the pro- posed plan of Sugar-duties, and praying for an uniform duty of 14s. on sugar the produce of British possessions, was unanimously adopted; to be...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The purchases made last-week by the Chancery Broker are understood to have been for the purpose of investing the deposits which, under the...

TO TUB EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—A few months ago, at Vevey, the writer of this had an opportunity of copy- ing the inscriptions on some of the monuments of the Judges of...

WEARIED with five-act failures, surfeited with incessant adaptations from the French, and attracted by the promise of a pleasant English comedy in three acts, written by a...

Lemaitre, is a very different personage from any of the English Don Ciesars: it is a complete and consistent caracter, conceived as a whole, and presented in its different...

as sprightly in comedy as she is energetic in tragedy. Her performance of Rosalind, in As You Like It, is delightful for its freshness and natural vivacity. The male costume...

is popular at Sadler's Wells; where it has been produced in splendid style, Phelps play- ing Glo'ster. This only proves that Shakspere knew more of his art than the...

of an odd, farce o French origin, produced at the Adelphi this week ; which Wright's odd way of going through some very odd adventures renders amusing enough for a laughable...

Saturday ; the production of a new grand opera by a new composer, and a new ballet on a great scale, requiring longer rehearsal than ordinary. We have glanced at the libretto of...

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. THE House of Representatives have declared in favour of annex- ing Texas and organizing a territorial government in Oregon ; and they have...

is in our brother's eye, let us not neglect a considerable speck in our own. By what right do we authoritatively interpose to regulate under penal laws the conduct of...

SYDNEY SMITH was almost the only . , certainly by far the best representative of the Steele and Swift class in the nineteenth century. The class we mean is composed of men of...

A SHORT time before the meeting of Parliament, the Directors of the New Zealand Company applied to the Colonial Minister to learn what steps Government had taken or intended to...

are birth, marriage, and death : he comes into the world and goes out of it—and in the interim either marries or fails to get married. On these three points hre concentrated all...

MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE, The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Rom 1702 to 1712. Edited by General the Bight Honourable Sir George Murray. Volumes...

were in opposition at the birth of Prince Puckler Muskau. Nature designed him for a superior penny-a-liner, and gave him all the qualities of the race—their fluency, their...

Tam is the best of Mr. Smith's fictions that we have seen • his imitation of " Boa " perhaps excelling his prototype in the delination of ex- ternal objects, and the exhibition...

DANDO'S QUARTET CONCERTS. THE third concert at Crosby Hall, on Monday, presented varied features, of musical interest, and supported attention at once by new composition,...

From February llst to Pbbruary 27t4. BOOKS. The Letterrand Dispatches ebtVolas Churchill,first Duke of Marlborough, from 1702 to 1712. Edited by General the Hight Honourable...

THE performance on Wednesday commenced with a noise called by courtesy a Grand Quintuor (?) in D minor, the work of M. Schaffner of Bordeaux; for the printing and dissemination...

WAR-Orwcz, FEB. 25.-7th Drag. Guards-Major G. Simmons, from half-pay Unat- tached, to be Major, vice T. Le Merchant, who exchanges ; Capt. J. C. H. Gibsone to be Major, by...

On the 224 February, at Kllmore, near Monaghan, the Lady of Captain Herbert. &bombers, R.N., of a son. On the 22d, at Windlestone, Durham, Lady Eden, of a daughter. On the...

Aanyrim.-At Gravesend, 25th Feb. Earl of Liverpool, Wilson, from China ; Co- lombo, Thompson, from Calcutta; and Belle Creole, Purchase, from Mauritius; 26th, R. Small,...

YAITNER3/11P8 rossor.vzo. R. and J. Frith, Birstal, Yorkshire-Parker and Houghton, Birmingham, builders- Hammill and Thompson, Liverpool, merchants-Rollet and Newmarch,...

BRITISH I'IfNDS. (Closing Prleea) I per Cent Coaols 3 per Cents Reduced ... ...... - .. . • • Ditto for Account 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock,...