THE quiet " settling down" of Ministers in their places has been confirmed by an attack intended to shake them ; like an action at law which confirms a title that it professes...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF TEE WEER. Horse of Loans. Monday, March 15. The Irish Magistracy ; Lord Derby's Answer to Lord Londonderry—District Courts of Bankruptcy Abolition; Lord...

No. 1.—Earl Cowley to the Earl of Clarendon. (Received February 24.) Paris, Feb.23, 1858. My Lord—Count Walewski is very desirous that I should express to your Lord- ship his...

The Co ration of Dublin presented a complimentary address to the Earl of F i g ton at Dublin Castle onlionday. In his answer the Lord- Lieutenant said he belioved.the abolition...

Some further reelections have taken place. Mr. Mowbray, the Judge Advocate, has been returned for Durham; Lovaine, a Lord of the Admiralty, for North Northumberland ; ad Lord...

The Court of Aldermen have adopted a resolution ordering the Town- Clerk—" to make such inquiries as may be necessary to ascertain whether any member of this Court or of the...

MB QUEEN, the Prince Consort, and the rest of the family, returned to Buckingham Palace from Osborne on Tuesday afternoon. On Wed- nesday her Majesty held a levee at St. James's...

/an rf.—The report that M. Walewski is about to retire is a g ain renewed. It is also stated that M. de Persi g ny will resi g n, and the Duke de Grammont is spoken of as his...

About 160 Members of the House of Commons had a conference with the Earl of Derby and Mr. Disraeli on Tuesday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in...

the sun on Monday concur in representing the scientific men and the multitude as alike disappointed. The " weather," that British marplot, was unpropitious. In the morn- ing it...

SATURDAY. The sittings in both Houses of Parliament yesterday were of short duration, in neither House lasting much longer than two hours. The principal subject of conversation...

The reopening of Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday with the still popular Traviata attracted an audience that filled the house from the pit to the ceiling. With the present week...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions throughout the week in the market for English Se- curities have not been of any importance ; and although there has been a...

THE NATIONAL PARTY. EvEN this short experience of the renewed session has more than sufficed to reconcile ua to recent events. The course which we expected the representatives...

COUNT WALEWSKI assures us, through the usual official channels, that the intentions of the Emperor have been misapprehended; a sort of apologetic excuse is offered on his behalf...

Ix Mr. Disraeli's suggestion that we should eschew " unamiable language" with Naples, we have a key even to his French policy : one of his principles appears to be the personal...

to be supplied by the Leviathan steam-ship has been afforded by some recent circumstances which will give poignancy to the interest felt by the shareholders in that vessel....

SOLDIERING, considered as an occupation and as it is practised in time of peace, is tame, monotonous, wearisome. The occupa- tion of the soldier, qua soldier, is noefavourable...

IT would be almost worth while, if only " for the fun of the thing," to bring before Mr. Speaker the case of the challenge which is said to have been transmitted to Mr. Roebuck...

London. Sin — I observe from some remarks in your journal of the 13th instant, on the tour of the late Sir W. Sleeman in Oude, that you object to a proposal made by that...

OUR MARITIME DEFENCES. Sui—Had Mr. Disraeli alone announced the fact of our ability to man a Channel fleet in twenty-four hours, the fallacy might have been allowed to pass...

FROVDE'S HISTORY OF HENRY THE EIGHTH. * HAVING on the appearance of the first two volumes of this re- markable work fully expressed an opinion upon Mr. Froude's new view of the...

Mr. IturcirrNsori is known for his narrative of an Exploration up the Niger and sonic of its tributaries, in 1854. That narrative was published in the Traveller's Library ; and...

story . , though some may object to the conclusion. It possesses one of the first qualifi- cations of a novel in being readable—one gets along without being stopped or feeling a...

Boons. Recollections of the Last Four Popes, and of Rome in their Times. By H. E. Cardinal Wiseman. Letters from Spain in 1856 and 1857. By John Leycester Adolphus, M.A. The...

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. It would be incorrect to call the eleventh exhibition of this our youngest art-body a striking or a decidedly superior one, but we can vouch for its...

On the 10th March, Mrs. Mark Lemon, of a daughter. On the 11th, in Dublin, the Lady Killeen, of a daughter, stillborn. On the 11th, the Wife of Colonel Henry Cartwright, M.P.,...

On the 8th March, at Teignmouth, Sir John Haggerston, of Ellingharn, Northum- berland, Bart.; in his 60th year. On the 9th, at Auckland Castle, the Hon. Mrs. Longley, wife of...

Oe the 19th February, at the Cathedral Church of Spanish Town, Jamaica, Thomas Harrison Ridley, Esq., Member of the Legislative Council of Newfound- land, to Isabella Jane,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 16. Wan OFFICE, Pall Mall, March 16.—Caralry-6th Drag. Guards.—G. S. Marryatt, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, in succession to Lieut....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 16. Bankruptcy Annulled.-Anor BLNHIKTASLIAN, Manchester and Constantinople, merchant. Bankrupts.-Merrnsw EDWIN BISHOp and EDWARD SHEPPARD...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) finturd. Monday. Tuesday Waimea. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 961 96/ 981 960 941 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 19. ADMIRALTY, March 19.-Admiral of the White E. Hawker has been appointed to receive a pension of 1501. a year, as provided by her Majesty's...