THE Ministerial position is becoming a question alternating in interest with the Budget. Not that Mr. Disraeli and the Tory' Opposition have improved their ground—quite the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF Loans. Monday, Feb. 16. Judicial Statistics ; Lord Brougham's Bill read a first time-The Sheepshanks Collection; Lord Monteagle's...

Mr. Loans Rine moved for leave to bring in a bill "to make the franchise in counties in England and Wales the same as that in boroughs, by giving the right of voting to all...

Sir 7oine PAKINGTON, in moving for leave to bring in a bill "to promote education in cities and towns," described the bill as purposely drawn so as not to contravene the...

Lord Moisreacim, in moving for copies of the correspondence between the Government and Mr. Sheepshanks in reference to his gift of pictures to the nation, stated some facts to...

The LORD CHANCELLOR stated on Tuesday, that he should next week lay seven bills on the table, forming a complete consolidation of Criminal Offences. Lord BROUGHAM asked what...

On the motion of Lord PALmsaurroN, a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the operation of the act 17th and 18th Victoria, chap. 102, entitled "An act to consolidate...

Captain SCOBELL moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the administration of the Navy. His complaint, supported by copious statistics, was, that while...

The Marquis of CLAN - arc...Lam brought the question of the government of Ind;a before the House of Lords on Thursday. Ire inveighed against the "double government " ; the mode...

The Earl of DERBY has given notice that he will move the following resolutions on Tuesday , . "That this House has heard with deep regret of the interruption of amicable...

Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE put a question to Lord Palmerston respecting the papers on the Neapolitan question presented to Parliament ; and also asked, at what period and on what...

Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD moved the following resolution, on Monday. "That James Sadleir, Esq., a Member of this House ' having been charged with divers frauds and fraudulent...

THE QUEKK held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Count Lavradio had audience. Count Vitzthum, the Saxon Minister, and General Almonte, the Mexican Minister, had...

The importers and dealers in tea feel aggrieved by the proposed retention of the war-duty on tea, "contrary to the act of Parliament in 1855." They met at the London Tavern on...

The West Kent election terminated on Thursday. There were two candidates. Lord Holmesdale proposed and Sir Brook Bridges seconded Sir Walter Riddell ; Mr. Norman proposed and...

Mr. Monsell was reelected for the County of Limerick on Wednesday, without opposition. In the course of his speech after the election, Monad ll made some remarks on the system...

PHIL—The Legislative sesflion of 1857 was opened on Monday, by the Emperor, with a speech to the Senators and Deputies who waited on him in the Mall of the Marshals at the...

The Trade and Navigation Accounts for the month and year ended 81st December have been published this week. Our exports last year exceeded by upwards of eighteen millions those...

SATURDAY. The discussion on the Budget began last night, in accordance with previous arrangements. On the motion for going into Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. DISRAELI moved...

Monday, February 23. Ways and Means-Adjourned Debate on Mr. Disraeli's Amendment. Second reading of Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill. Sir Emma: PERRY-To present a...

Broca Exercauca, FRIDAY Arrasztocar. Applications for money at the Bank and in the discount-market have been less numerous this week. The withdrawal of gold for the Continent...

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 80h Victoria, cap. 82, for the week ending on Saturday, the 14th day of Feb. 1807. 15501 DEPARTXXXV. Notes issued 424,054,270...

The meeting of the London and North-Western Railway Company was held yesterday. The proposal of the Directors to lay down a third line of rails from Bletchley to Willesden met...

Granted the very doubtful hypothesis that the London _public takes especial delight in five acts of blank verse, one would think that an author, before he began to prepare the...

THE merit of the Budget is that it is simple and unpretending, avowedly provisional, and suited to a transition state. We have concluded the Russian war ; we have still some...

IN our Postscript last week we stated the intention of forming a new department under the Master of the Rolls, in connexion with the Record Office, for the publication of...

Ix certainly is a fact derogatory to the high pretensions of the metropolis of the British empire, that its mode of transit should be in a condition absolutely imperfect, and...

THE ease of Mrs. Allsop has been explained. By some peculiarity of management, it had been suffered to take the shape of a reproach to the Court. The importunities of the widow...

order in the eight " Consolidation " Bills presented by the Lord Chancellor, are of themselves the sufficient proofs of the disorder of the conceptions of their framers. Each...

SALE OF NA.TIONAL PICTURES. 16th February 1857. Sin—On Saturday the 14th, thirty-seven pictures, "not required for the National Gallery," consisting of a portion of the Kruger...

SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S CAMPAIGN IN THE BALTIC!' AFTER Admiral Napier's speeches at taverns, public meetings, aid in Parliament, together with his own lucubrations and there of...

a traveller extends over many years, and embraces "earth's wide extremes " ; ranging from thh North Cape of Norway to New Zealand, with wanderings in Nev South Wales, visits to...

this work Sir John Forbes gives the profession and the public the result of fifty years' experience in the medical art; arriving at the conclusion that there is nothing like...

of Margaret Maitland belong to the class whose attraction arises from a delineation truthfully minute, and a perfect consistency between the matter and the style. To sustain...

Boors. A Pilgrimage into Dauphine; comprising a Visit tothe Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse ; with Anecdotes, Incidents, and Sketches from twenty Departnients of France. By...

The Bombay Almanack and Book of Direction, for 1857.-This ample Indian volume contains an immense amount of useful information ; some Imperial-as the Royal Family, the Ministry,...

On the 14th January, at the Lodge, Kandy, the Wife of Sir William Carpenter Rowe, Chief Justice of Ceylon, of a son. On the 8t1. February, at Knocklofty House, Clonmel, the...

On the 30th November ' at Rangoon, Mary, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Reed, of H.M.'s Eighty-fourth Regiment. On the 31st January, at Cairo, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Wm....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 17. IVea DrEARTKENT, Pall Mall, Feb. 17.-Boyai Regiment of Artillery-Lieut.Gen. T. Dyneley, C.B. to be Col.-Commandant, vice Walker,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 17. Partnerships Dissolved.-T. and J. Hanson, Keighley, York, farmers-Tillotson, Sheffield, and Marshall, New York, merchants-H. and S....

Preston—llazeldine and Matte, Lent Street, Southwark, and elsewhere, coach-contractors—Proctor and Driver, Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Lancashire,...