So far as the House of Commons is concerned, the Oaths Bill was settled on Monday night without any alteration. The whole discussion was of the kind that we had completely...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. Horn OF Lonna. Monday, June 15. The Princess Royal's Annuity Bill read a.third time and passed—Justice in India ; Lord Clanricarde's...

Tnn Queen and the Royal Family returned from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Her Majesty's youngest child was christened on Tuesday, in the chapel within...

An influential deputation, chiefly composed of Members of both Houses of Parliament, waited on Lord Palmerston on Wednesday, to lay before him certain statements respecting...

Tha charge of unhealthiness preferred against Netley as a site for a military hospital has called forth a strong expression of opinion from the medical gentlemen practising at...

The Lord-Lieutenant was present on Tuesday at the yearly examination of the teachers in training at the National Schools in Marlborough Street, Dublin. He gave his youthful...

fallf f.—There seems to be no cessation of the "electoral fever , " as the Si&le calls it, either in Paris or hi. the departments. It is trim that in Paris the Liberal party,...

The military ceremonial of distributing the Victoria Cross "for Valour" is announced for performance on Friday the 26th instant, not on the parade behind the Horse Guards, as...

Besides the Letter on the Indian Army which our readers will find in a subsequent page, a valuable one from a military officer of rank and experience has been received, and will...

SATURDAY. In the House of Peers last ni g ht, Lord RemsnALE raised an interestin g discussion by callin g the attention of their Lordships to the circumstances attendin g the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Securities opened firm on Monday—Consols 931 purchases supposed to have been made in anticie rate of discount, advanced to 931 1. A good...

A natural feeling for antique simplicity in the construction of a drama seems inherent in the Italian mind. Scarcely among the Greeks themselves do we find such a severe...

Pluralizing one of Moliere's most celebrated titles, MM. Dumanoir and Theodore Derriere have written a comedy entitled Les Bourgeois Gentilshoninies, in which the weakness...

This great Festival, which has drawn so many thousands of people to the Crystal Palace during the past week, must be regarded with reference to its objects and their success,...

with which he has to struggle in providing space for the ladies that attend the Queen's Drawingroom in St. James's Palace. That building was first made out of a hospital into a...

WHILE correcting an error into which we had inadvertently fallen, a correspondent, whose opportunities of information, acquired by long residence in India, have been first-rate,...

THE deputation which waited upon Lord Palinerston last week laid before him a plan for the final extinction of Negro slavery, which comprises three points,—the removal of the...

A PAPER in the Moniteur Universe', " Rapport a l'Empereur sur la situation generale de la Dotation do l'Armee," enables us to understand an important change which is going on in...

WE:ETHER it arises from the newness of many Members or the newness of the Speaker, certain it is that the House of Commons has developed an unusual degree of disorder. The other...

THE POOR-RITE. Belfast, 13th June 1857. SIR —In all that has been said on the subject of the equalization of the poor-rate, the general principle that ought to guide the...

.Lesketh How, Ambleside, 16th June 1857. Sut—Misappropriation seems to be very much the order of the day. We have the cry of "The right man in the right place !" another, and...

Spectator of Saturday I see a mistake which you might feel inclined to correct. Among other causes which have led to the bad spirit in the Indian Army, you mention that the...

I Adam Street, Adelphi, 17th .Tune 1857. Srn—It in rumoured that the Great Eastern is approaching the time of launching, and that her first voyage is to be to Portland, in...

BUCKLE'S II/STORY OF CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND. * Tins is a very remarkable book, notwithstanding many obvious faults. The author is probably too hastyin generalization and too...

and Denmark, is chiefly remarkable for the change of Scandinavian opinion respecting America whh the author has to report, and for his sketches of Swedish TM' in 'remoter...

Professor was written before "Jane Eyre" or " Shirley , " ; but, though intended for publication after the appearance of the latter, the writer was "dissuaded from her...

Boom. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece. By William More, of Caldwell.Volume V. Vacations in Ireland. By Charles Richard Weld. The Lives of...

THE BEITISH INSTITUTION OLD MASTERS. It was not to be expected that, in a year when the British possessors of pictures have taxed themselves with so much public spirit for the...

On the 8th Starch, at Cudalore, Presidency of Madras, the Lady of James Murray Grant, Esq., Seventy-fourth Native Infantry, of a daughter. On the 18th April, at Cudalore,...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 16. WAR Orrice, Pall Mall, June 16.-68th Regt. of Foot—Major-Gen. R. C. Hansel to be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir William L. Herries, C.B....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 16. Partnerships Dissolred.—Brooks and Ferrer, Hatiergham Eaves, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers—Potter, Veltmann, and Co. Manchester, and...

Partnerships Dissolved.-Petty and Sharpe, Swindon, drapers-Dalgliesh and Wallace, Liverpool, anchor-smiths-Pilkington and Co. Park Place, within Blackburn, and Cabin End, within...