for exportin g articles contraband of war to certain places friendly or beyond the scope of Russian operations; the second g rantin g an extension of indul g ence to forei g n...

combination of pressures within and without, "above , below, around." The thou g htless Court, hitherto lost in g ayety and sensualism, appears to been rendered red g rave by...

Mansionhouse, was enabled to re g ale his g uests on Easter Mon- day with that dainty which would perhaps be re g arded as the most desirable novelty of the season—a viva voce...

THY principal event in the pro g ress of the war is the conclusion and publication of the convention between the Governments of France and En g land. Enveloped in a cloud of...

at this moment is not less characteristic. While two leading sena- tors are threatening to fight a duel over a semi-Ministerial pro- position to suspend the Missouri Compromise...

Tna QUEEN held a Privy Council on Saturday, at Windsor Castle. Mr. Henry Unwin Addington was sworn of the Privy Council, and took his seat at the Board. Proclamations were...

The Lord Mayor's banquet at the Mansionhouse on Easter Monday was distinguished by a speech from Sir Hamilton Seymour. Among the other guests were Lord and Lady John Russell,...

Mr. Urquhart called a meeting at Manchester for Wednesday, at the Stock Exchange, to explain to the people of Manchester how that the present war was entered into in "...

Cambridge and Lord Raglan have greatly occupied the Paris journals. Every day brought something new. Driven about in Imperial carriages, our countrymen seem to have received the...

The High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh was occupied three days last week in the trial of William Smith, a surgeon of Birkton St. Fergus, in the North of Aberdeenshire,...

Intelligence reached London on Monday, that the paddle-wheel squad- ron under Admiral Plumridge had captured the first prizes—five Russian merchant-vessels laden with...

The Gazette of Tuesday contained a "Notification" by the General Board of Health, on the subject of the cholera. It is dated Whitehall, April 17, and bears the signature of Mr....

The Supplementary Gazette of April 14th contains two proclamations; the first commands that the 26th of April shall be observed throughout England and Ireland as a day of...

SATURDAY. At a late hour yesterday, the monied world in the City received Mx. Gladstone's project for meeting his immediate or proximate pecuniary wants with a loan, of a...

the regulations, approved by the Emperor Napoleon, for the Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1855. The Queen in Council has appointed the Reverend Edward Penrose Arnold, M.A.,...

Channel, between the Owers and Beachy Head, by the revenue steam- cruiser Argus, Commander Grandy, and carried into Portsmouth last night. The rumour of her coming went before...

The Liverpool Local Marine Board have inquired into the competency of Captain Noble, the master of the unfortunate ship Tayleur, to continue in such a command. Their opinion is,...

Britain and France ; but the ipsissima verba add nothing to the information al- ready before the public. It has been officially announced at Vienna, that the Austro-Prussian...

27. (Lord JOHN Era- AMENDMENT—That the Bill be committed to a Select Committee. (Mr. HET- WOOD.) CONVENTUAL AND Motu/Inc Insrmaroxs—Adjourned debate on Nomination of...

on the applica- tion of Sir Frederick Thesiger, Lord Campbell granted a rule to show cause At the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, on the applica- tion of Sir...

STOCK EXCHANOR, FRIDAY Arnanoox. The intelligence this week regarding the Eastern question has been of secondary importance, and Government Securities have been influenced...

doing what the Royal Italian Opera, when first established, professed the in- tention of doing—placing an entertainment hitherto exclusively enjoyed by the richer classes...

amount of novelty ; though,. generally speaking, the novelties are less abundant, and less characteristic of a holiday, than at the Easters of old days. Mr. Buekstone's Voyage...

Pending the absence of the great opera stars, Grisi, Cruvelli, Mario, and Lablache, whose rising is expected with the month of May, the Covent Garden managers have given...

now supplying a desideratum in choral music. Hitherto we have had the chorus-singing of the oratorio and of the opera ; the one grand but ponderous, the other theatrical and...

a series of French Plays, under the management of M. Lafont.

The time is approaching rapidly when that gigantic undertaking, the mausoleum of old and repertory of new arts, whose figurative name of " Crystal Palace " has by habit and...

THE OXFORD REFORM BILL IN COM1fITTRE. AMONG the many serious evils which have been entailed by the backwardness of the governing bodies in our Universities to check corruptions...

This diorama, ned next door to the Polytechnic, is announced as " painted by Mr. . E. Friend " ; though, after deducting, as the pro- spectus further tells us to do, for the...

A serruntra against the " slowness " of Ministers in expediting our forces and their equipments, begins to grow so loud and to as- sume such articulate expression as to merit...

ONE of the plausible charges against Ministers has been, that the series of documents which regulate the treatment of neutrals and commerce during the present war exhibits all...

with the coxcombry of pipe-clay, we must deal with facts as we find them, and not force discontent upon the soldier by giving him an ugly costume. The dress should be suited to...

A CORRESPONDENT of the Times suggests a new force. Deferring to diversity of opinion as to the policy of embodying the Militia and calling labourers from the works of industry,...

THE DISSENTERS, THE 'UNIVERSITY, AND THE COLLEGES. NO. IL Oxford, April 1854. I ventured last week briefly to indicate the plan which appeared to me likely best to obviate the...

London, Apra 1854. Sut—Mr . Goulburn has protested against the extension to Cambridge of that clause in the Oxford University Reform Bill which provides that, in the disposal...

Corby Cattle, 1911s April 1854. Sin—It may not have escaped your acute observation, that at the solemn moment of the declaration of war, the House of Commons was engaged, not...

Sin—Allow me to call your attention to a fact which seems to me to re- quire some consideration. In order to meet the exigencies of the war, the Chancellor of the Exche- quer...

Temple, 10th April 1854. Sue—I do not intend to consider whether the war t being incurred for the benefit of posterity as well as of this generation, it is justifiable to meet...

London, 19th April 1854. SIR —For some time past no allusion has been made in Parliament to the system of Decimal Coinage, for which commercial and scientific men ex- pressed...

Bayswater, 20th April. Sui—The 26th of April has been fixed on for beseeching the Almighty Ged to afford assistance to British arms in the war upon which we have en- tered. I...

TURNERELLI'S KAZAN. * THE interest which these volumes possess is owing to present cir- cumstances stimulating attention to anything which has a rela, tion to Russia. Kazan,...

a series of sketches and isolated adventures, rather than of a fiction, this volume exhibits the career of an Indian sur- geon, from his student days at Edinburgh till his...

Mon of us are acquainted with common heartburn, and its crudity, eructation, or acidity, arising from a fit of indigestion, • On the Severer Forma of Heartburn and...

description and develop- ment of character, that character must possess great strength as well as singularity in itself, or be involved in events of some depth as well as...

BOOM Treasures of Art in Great Britain : being an Account of the chief Col- lections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS., &c. By Dr. Waagen, Director of the...

On the 13th April, at Edwinsford, Carmarthenshire, Lady Drummond, of a daugh- ter. On the 14th, at Spring Hall, Suffolk, the Wife of Commander Tyssen, of a son. On the 14th,...

WAR-OFFICE, April 18.-32d Regt. of Foot—Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Cotton, G.C.B from the 98th Foot, to be Col. vice LieuL-Gen. Sir R. Armstrong, K.C.B. deceased.. 68th...

BRITISH FUND S. &Hurd. (Closing Monday. Priem.) Trardoga. Wed.,. Shun. 'Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 871 871 55 88 88 871 Ditto for Account 871 871 8,1 871 871 3 per Cents...

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