their order. Throughout the storms of the Revolution, the des- potism of the Empire, and in the main even under the old regime, the bearing of the law courts of France was...

TRERE can be no more arguing on the assumption that Ministers are "in a minority" in the House of Commons. Thrice this week have they , voted with the majority, if the majority...

Patagonian missionaries to witness with something more than Admiration the heroism of Commander Gardiner and his companions—their devo- . tion, their patience, their faithful...

Howe or Lynam Monday, April 26. St. Albans Msfranchisement; Bill passed through Committee. - Tuesday, April 27. Chicory mixed with Coffee; Lord Derby's Repudiation of Sir...

THE Queen held a drawingroom, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday afternoon. The Princess Nassau was present. • The Queen and Prince Albert went on Monday to Claremont, to visit...

The harvest prospects are now described, from all quarters, sines the fall of geuial rain, as surpassing those of many years. A considerable sample of Irish beet-root sugar has...

Elections have taken place at Tavistock and Worcester. At Tavistock, Mr. Trelawny voluntarily resigned his seat, by accept- ing the Chiltern Hundreds ; announcing to the...

on Wednesday, Mr. Haywood, the surveyor, reported that he had considered afresh whether it were possible so to alter the gradients of the new street from Queen Street to St....

FrtexcE.—An article in the Public of Thursday advocates a new appeal to the people by the Chief of the State ; and notwithstanding the "com- municated "article against such a...

ENGLAND. AYLESBURY. Mr. J. Temple West, of Eaton Square, has offered himself. He is "attached to her Majesty's present Government." BERWICK.. Mr. Forster is now fairly in the...

Sir Stratford Canning, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary to the Ottoman Porte, has been raised to the Peerage, by the title of Viscount Stratford de...

BA Those who expected Bonnie " bold stroke" from Mr. Disraeli in finance something original and ad eaptandum, will have b disappointed by his Budget speech in the House of...

versed in military service, on the subject of national defences ; but it is too long and too late for insertion now. The chief part of the letter relates to the Swiss plan of...

advantages, solid and liquid, of a public dinner. This festival appears to be rather pre- mature : neither Parliament nor the public have as yet pronounced a full an d final...

Maddox Street, 26th April 1852. SIR—Allow me to say one word—the last I ever wish to say, about Mr. Walters. You will have seen that I requested Captain Weatherley to demand of...

If there is one thing more popular than another with an English theatrical audience, it is a sniff of country air across the foot - lights. And yet this must not be a modern...

Prussia, on the 28th of April, that he has annulled the articles of the Constitution pres cribing the organization of the First Chamber, and will reconstitute that house by...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FIUDAT APTERNOON. The English Stock Market has not presented a very buoyant appearance during the week, and Government Securities have upon the whole been...

Wednesday, Berlioz's "dramatic symphony," Borneo and Juliet, had another hearing. We cannot say that our second impressions differ materially from our first. The performance was...

known as an acting play, and is withal so closely followed in Rossini's opera, that in spite of the smartness of the dialogue, it conveys when performed now-a-days the...

are without their Homer, are not without their Sophocles. The tragic bard of the Marionettes, Mr. Hugo Vamp, sings of contumacious tenors, who will be ill whether they are so or...

by the Wagner war. The fair Joanna remains in Chancery ; and probably finds, as many have found before her, that getting into Chancery is no joke. At first, getting out seemed a...

la Halle marks a change of management in the New Strand Theatre; where serious drama, not light farce, is now to be the staple of attraction. The new principle has a negative...

MAJORITY FOR THE SECOND READING. Adderley, Chas. B. Colville, Chas. Robt. Herbert, H. A. Plowden, Wm. E.G. Anson, Visct. Conolly, Thomas Herbert, Rt. Hon. S. Portal, Melville...

FROGR - Ess OF PARTY DISSOLUTION. THE march of events confirms the view recently taken by us of the approach of a state of things in which government itself will be impossible...

THE French people, Mr. Sidney Herbert thinks, "are likely to re- sent the interference of a foreign press in matters which it is their own business to chastise, and which at...

THE proceedings at a meeting of the Church Education Society, held in Dublin lately, deserve notice as containing evidence of the influence of party instinct in clearing the...

ALTHOUGH but slightly discriminating, the present wine-duties, as we have before shown, limit both the quantity consumed and the choice : they have, however, found a defender in...

FORTUNE'S TEA DISTRICTS O' CHINA AND INDIA. * Mn. FORTUNE'S narrative contains a good deal of useful information as regards the tea-shrub and other Chinese plants, together...

THE Wagner case is hung up in Ckancery for another week ; but too much is before the public already for the advantage of any of the parties concerned. If Mr. Lumley is disclosed...

Gazer literary ability is the first characteristic of this philo- sophico-religions novel. The style is excellent—easy, animated, elegant, very scholarly yet very English. The...

Boom. China, during the War and since the Peace. By Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., late her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, &e. In two volumes. Life and Times of Francesco...

This is a melancholy spectacle. The National Institution had hitherto displayed a certain amount of endeavour which justified its existence as a separate body in art; this year...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. We are now in the full season of artistic luxuriance ; as our crowded columns bear witness. The Water-Colour Societies and the National In-...

There cannot be two opinions, we imagine, as to which of the Water- Colour Societies makes the best appearance this year. The elder body fur- nishes one of the most even and...

to be &Alt. vice Haviland, promoted to an Unattached Company, without purchase. 4th Drag. Guards—Lieut. J. M. Webb to be Capt. by purchase, vice Lane, who retiree; Cornet G. M....

Tuesday, April 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—Germaine and Co. Bristol, timber-merchants; as far as regards J. Mackay—Ritchie and Co. Liverpool, timber-merchants—Mackay and Co....

On the 20th April, at Catsfleld Rectory, Sussex, the Wife of the Be,. Burrell Hay- ley, of a daughter. On the 21st, at Harefleld House, near Uxbridge, the Wife of Captain...

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