which Ministers have cast upon the waters of public opinion expecting to have their bread returned to them after many days, is now fairly afloat : the agitation which the spell...

• THE debate on the Sugar-duties, protracted beyond all precedent, has been brought to a close ; and Ministers have been enabled to add- to the adverse majorities of 11 and 21...

THE BUDGET RESOLUTIONS. The adjourned debate in the House of Commons was continued on Monday. At the commencement of the proceedings, Mr. CEARLES WYNN hoped that the House...

There is a report that Sir Charles Napier will be opposed in Marylebone by another Liberal candidate, Mr. Gilbert Ainslie. There was a meeting of Sir Charles's friends of the...

THE event in the Court history of the week is the celebration, yester- day, of the Queen's birth-day. The morn was ushered in with the ringing of bells, and at one o'clock the...

We understand that, in case of a dissolution, Mr. Labouchere and Sir Joshua Walmsley will do the electors of Liverpool the honour of offering themselves as candidates to serve...

The correspondent of the Times announces two new candidates for the county of Galway—Mr. James Daly of Dunsandle, a Tory, and Sir John Burke of Marble Hill, a Roman Catholic and...

The anticipated dissolution of Parliament will cause less bustle in the North than we have usually experienced on such occasions. There will be no contest, we believe, in either...

We hear that the speeches of Lord John Russell, Mr. Labouchere, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Sugar-duties, have been printed in the shape of pamphlets, and large...

SATURDAY. There is not much news stirring today ; a few scraps of election gossip, and more Anti-Corn-law displays, being the chief of what the papers furnish. Mr. Masterman...

Bethnal Green, yesterday, adopted a petition in favour of the Budget resolutions; and passed a censure on Dr. Lushington for opposing Mi- nisters in the Sugar-duties debate. A...

BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., in Welbeck Street, the Wife of T. W. C. MASTER, EMI., M.P., for Cirencester, of a son and heir. On the 16111 inst., at Blackheath, the Hon. Mrs....

as hurrying over the fag-end of the votes on the extraordinary credits, in haste to close the session of the Parliament : a quorum can scarcely be kept together. Madrid...

Since the foregoing paragraphs were in type, a great many more items of electioneering intelligence have come to our hands. We must dismiss them briefly. The Standard of this...

Windsor Castle. The Court will return to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next.—Standard. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office this afternoon : all the Ministers were...

The Globe, on Thursday, intimated that Lord John Russell was to make an explanation of the course which Ministers had in view : this evening it construes the laconic words which...

proposals ; and the Chamber of Commerce of that town, for a general revision of the Customs duties.

the landowners and farmers of South Lincolnshire, in the Town-hall of Sleaford ; by the East Essex Agricultural Association, at Colchester ; and in the Town - hall of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Public Funds have not fluctuated materially ; the variation in any et them not having exceeded 4 per cent. There was a considerable demand...

Arrived—At Gravesend, May 19th. Guess. Macey, from Singapore ; and Mercury, Giles, from Van Dicruen's Land; list. Warrior, Beckett, from Ceylon; Lascar, Mackie, from Singapore;...

OPPOSITION MAJORITY FOIL LORD SANDON'S A Acton& Sir T. Bruges, Wm. H. Dnucombe, lion. W. A'Court. Captaiu Buck, Lewis \V. Duncombe, Hon. A. Adare, Lord Buller, Sir J....

THE PRINCIPLE ON WHICH SIR ROBERT PEEL TAKES OFFICE : A SLIDING SCALE OF DUTY ON IMPORTED CORN. THE most striking circumstance about the lengthy debate on Lord BANDON'S...

THERE was something sublime in the Spartan brevity of the Minis- terial announcements on Thursday evening. Lord JOHN RussELL simply told on what day he would bring forward his...

THE period of exertion, as we predicted, is past, and the materials that come to hand will be thrown together in order to form the remaining Philharmonic Concerts of the season....

THE London world, as usual in May, seems athirst for music ; though the fever scarcely rages with its accustomed and uninterrupted inten- sity. The morning fits are less...

THE public curiosity to see Mr. CHARLES KEAN and Miss ELLEN i TREE acting together in Macbeth was not so great as to draw a full audience to the Haymarket on Monday, though...

GEOGRAPHY AND THEOLOGY. The Nestorians; or the Lost Tribes; containing Evidence of their Identity, an Ac- count of their Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies; together with...

The Marriage Mart is the market title of this work. Its true designation is that which doubtless the author bestowed upon it, Society in India : and a very correct description...

THIS work originated in a job of editing. " I undertook," says Mr. CAMPBELL, " to write the Life of Petrarch more from accident than original design. It was known that the...

THE present edition of this popular book is almost a new work. The arrangement of the matter has been entirely recast, and "whatever appeared not directly to the purpose has...

WE have received a gentlemanly letter from a friend of Mr MAC- LEAN in reference to the brief remarks we made upon him last week in the notice of Mr. BLANCHARD'S Life of L. E....

From May 6th to May 20th. • BOOKS. The Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. By LAMAR BLANCHARD. In two vols. Sketches of China ; partly during an inland journey of four...

WAR.OFFICF, May 18.-5th Regt. of Drag. Guards—Assist.-Sorg. W. J. Power, from the 51st Foot. to be A-sist.-Surg. vice Carnegy, who resigns. 7th, Light Drags.—W. Ricardo. Gaut....

, Tuesday, May 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Coyle) . and Co. St. Petersburg. merchants ; as far as regards A. Moberley—Birley and Sous, Kirkham. flax-spinuers; as far as...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.)1 Alabama (Sterling) 5 p. Ct. , - , Ditto (Deferred) 5 p. Ct. 9 Arkansas (1863) 6 - - Ditto 6 -...