' Y in the week the leading journal announced to those - whom it might concern that there was no Government, and that which was supposed to be such has since been so conducting...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. HAWSE OF LORDS. Monday, April 26. No business of importance. HAWSE OF LORDS. Monday, April 26. No business of importance. Tuesday, April 27....

A Court of Common Council was held on Monday to receive a report relative to proceedings in Parliament upon the London Corporation BM. The sitting was "secret." A deputation of...

Tax QUEEN departed from Aldershot on Saturday, after inspecting the troops, and arrived in Buckingham Palace in the evening. The Prime of Wales arrived about the same time from...

The annual show of the Royal Irish Agricultural Society on Wednes- day, gave the Earl of Eglinton an opportunity of making a speech in which he compared the state of Ireland now...

The Association for the Improvement and Extension of Scottish Universities have presented a memorial to Lord Derby setting forth the measures they think called for. They ask for...

The Liverpool Chamber oi Commerce has adopted a petition to the House of Commons on the subject of the government of India. Their scheme of government differs from that proposed...

Iraurr.—The Paris elections on Monday passed off very quietly. Little more than one-half of the electors on the register went to the poll. The contest in the third...

The Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, E.G., his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon- ourable Earl Grey, the Right Honourable...

BSTITEDIY. The discussion in the House of Commons last night on the Indian re-. solutions turned entirely on the question whether the present is the time for legislation....

The interest which attaches to the biography of a man like Ro- bert Stephen Rintoul does not arise from stirring adventure or startling transition. The times in which he lived...

STOCK EXCIWNE, FRIDAY ArITANOON. This has been a week of considerable animation in all departments of the Stook Exchange. On Monday business commenced heavily, but during the...

THERE are passages in the great epic of Homer which show the main movement of the drama and the progress of important battles in suspense, while the st r uggle between two...

THE L.A.TE M.R. RINT0l7L AND THE "SPECTATOR." We publish in another part of our columns an ample biography of the remarkable man, whose name has hitherto been identiflee with...

of England are changingfrom a field of intellectual and, moral effort, and party struggles, into a barren arena, where men without convictions wrangle over questions without...

Tan great public interests are forcing . their way notwithstand - ing the encrusted resistance of the privileged classes. For the moment, the weakness of the Government is...

OBSTINACY and incompetency are related qualities. This is true of Parliamentary assemblies and of individuals alike. But the House of Commons might plead a peculiar excuse for...

THE success of Mr. Locke King's motion amounts to a Parlia- mentary declaration that the system of promises has broken down. The plan of introducing measures "for the rejection...

No injury is done to humanity when a creature like Giovanni Lani is erased from the list. Any argument against capital punishment cannot rest upon personal claims on behalf of...

TIER ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. The private view of the Royal Academy, which took place yesterday, disclosed an unusually good exhibition. There is effort, discipline, emu-...

We expressed last week, in distinct terms, the points of weakness and sluggishness which canker our existing water-colour school in the bulk ; we therefore spare ourselves now...

On the Ilth March, killed, at Lucknow, while leading an assault, William Robert Moorsom, Captain 13th Light Infantry, Quartermaster-General of Division to Gene- rals Havelock...

The gallery of photographic-artistic portraits opened by Messrs. Dickinson of Bond Street last year is again before the public ; com- prising many of the former examples, with...

As our columns for the last few weeks have witnessed, this is the thick of the art-exhibition season. But the exhibitions which charge a shil- ling admittance are not by any...

On the 13th April, at the Episcopal Chapel, Muthil, Perthshire, Charles Green- hill, Esq. ' Captain Coldstienin Guards, only son of David Greenhill, Esq., late of the Hon. E. 1....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 27. WAR Orricz, Pall Mall, April 27.—Caralry—lOth Light Drags.—Lieut. J. 3. Wynniatt, from the 52d Foot, to be Lieut, paying the difference, vice...

On the 19th April, in Green Street, Grosvenor Square, the Hon. Mrs. William Napier, of a daughter. On the 22d, in Lower Seymour Street, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Smyth,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturi. Monday. Tussday. Weds**. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 97 97 971 971 971 Ditto for Account 97 971 971 971 971 9 71 97 3...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 27. Bankrupts.-IticitAnn EVANS senior, Napier Street, Great Dover Street, Newing- ton, veterinary surgeon-Join; THOMAS KEEL!., Howland Street,...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Josses Cass- aba, 17, Bouverie Street, In the Precinct of Whitettiars, Lo In the City of London; and Published by the afbresaid...

MAY 1, 1858. BOOKS. HOGG'S LIFE OF SHELLEY.. Tax outlines of Shelley's career are well known and the world has ample means to 1111 them up in part. known, in his book,t...

have combined to render the military actions and proceedings of Hannibal obscure and un- certain in their particulars. The passage by which in Napoleon's phrase he "forced" the...

is "the land of Ham" of this volume, intro- duced by a journey from Paris to Marseilles and a voyage to Alexandria in a French steamer. The "dau ghter of Japhet" is a young lady...

and elaborate archieological work, although relating to a place at once the monarch's and the Muses' seat," cannot be so attractive as many books that appeal more di- rectly to...

Browning is longo intervallo the head, and Bailey and Sidney Dobell the only members likely to remain distinguished ; though now and then a disciple may turn up, as in the case...

BOOKS. Poets and Poetry of Germany. Biographical and Critical Notices. By Madame L. Davesies de Pontes, Translator of "Egmont," &c. In two volumes. The Web of Life. By Allan...

Lesketh How,. An2bleside, 20th April 1858. Snt—In the number for this month of the "British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review," under the head of Medical Intelligence, the...

TILE NEW ZEALAND LAND FUND, Badley, 41iingdon, Berks, _April 22, 1858. Si—Permit me, through the medium of your paper, to correct an im- pression which might be created by Sir...

Notwithstanding the brightness of the new star that has risen in the Haymarket, it is time that it were viewed under some other aspect. It is time that Mademoiselle Titiens...

No dramatic novelty has been produced during the week. King Lear, at the Princess's, remains the principal theatrical attraction, and much as doctors differ in ordinary cases,...

Belfast, 22d April 1858. SIB—It appears that a part of the Council of India must be elective. I do not see the necessity : for I believe that the independence of the Council...