THE foreign policy of the Whig Government has supplied the principal topics of discussion this week in both Houses of Parlia- ment. First, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, in a...

beginning of last month suffered a severe defeat from the Circassians, and had been compelled to embark on board their transports in the Black Sea. New York papers to the 2d of...

Sultan and MEHEMET ALL The Porte is marching large bodies of troops to the frontiers of Syria : and it is said that Russia has offered the Sultan powerful assistance, which Lord...

recording. The French journals have this week been singularly barren even of rumours having any reference to the affairs of their own country or Spain.

statements of the determination of the Legislatures of Bar- badoes, St. Vincent, Montserrat, St. Lucia, Tortola, St. Kitt's, Nevis, and Dominica, to emancipate the whole Negro...

IRISH CORPORATION REFORM. la the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. BF.RNAL brought up the report of the Committee of the whole House on the Irish Muni- cipal Bill. On the...

Land-offices to take specie only in payment for lands, and to which is attributed in no slight degree the derange- ment of the American currency, has been repealed by Congress....

At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Thursdays Mr. Powell inquired whether the Lord Mayor had received a card for the Coronation ? Sir John Cowan replied, that He...

Tors has been a busy week at Court. On Monday evening, the Queen gave a grand state ball at the New Palace. The dancing commenced at half- past ten ; her Majesty having Prince...

recover the amount of a bill alleged to be due from the Honourable George Nor- ton to Emmett and Co., livery-stable-keepers, for carriages and horses supplied to Mrs. Norton,...

and M. Gerard De Melcy, husband of Madame Grisi. The Morning Post of Monday supplied a long and grandiose account of the whole affair : from which we learn, that Lord...

rALAcE TO Tin:: WF:,T DATE OF WESTMINSTER AIMIEV ON TILE DAY OF IIER MAJ FYI Y's CORONATION." Trumpeters. A Squadron of Life Guards. Catriagcs of the Fo..rign Resident...

into the circumstances attending the explosion on board of the Victoria steam ship. Air. Clarkson appeared as counsel for the Hull Steam-packet Company. Several witnesses were...

being no evidence to fix upon him the guilt of the 'murder of Eliza Grimwosch The letter signed " John Walter Cavendish," was characterized by the Magistrates as a malicious...

two Assistants. Mouuted Band of a Regiment of I lousehold Brigade. Detachment of Life Guards. Carriages of the Branches of the Royal Family, with their respective Escorts— The...

Mounted Band on a Regiment of the I lousehold Brigade. The Queen's Itargemaster. The Queen's Fortymight Watermen. 1117, It htAJESTYS CARRIAGES, Each drawn by Six Horses. Two...

The accounts from the manufacturing districts mention a partial im- provement in trade. At Leeds there is a pretty good demand for wool and woollen cloths, but at Bradford and...

Peerage, by the title of Marquis of Normanby. Lord Lismore will, we understand, be raised to the English Peer- age. The creations are likely, we believe, to be very few ; the...

amount had been sent in preparation for the fall trade, yet they were not at all to the extent anticipated on this side the water. It was noted, that ac- cording to the advices...

Mr. O'Connell, it is given out in Ministerial circles, was offered the Rolls or the Chief Baronship, but declined to accept either up- poitotment. Sergeant Woulfe will be the...

Arrived—At Gravesend. June 22e1. Theresa, Young, from Bengal ; and Fairy Queen, Cousins, from Ceylon. Off Margate, 22d, Repulse, Price; and Duke of littecleuch. Martin. from...

The majority against Mr.. Johnston (in Linlithgowshire) after two days' poll was 120. He fought the battle well ; and if he has not suc- ceeded, it is because he contended with...

On the 19111 inst., in Grosvenor Square. the Countess of CARNARVON, of a son. At Colebrook, Fermanagh. Lady ARABELLA BROOKE, of a 5011. On the 21st inst., its Grosvenor Square,...

SATURDAY. The proceedings in Parliament last night were of a very miscella- neous character. Many subjects were introduced and disposed of; but produced no discussion of much...

3. Regent Srplare, 19th June 1839. SIR—In the very flattering notice of my late Gresham Lectures, which appeared in your paper of last week, you remark—" To what ex- tent the...

Garden Theatre, appeared last night in a new character, highly creditable to his attainments in the literature of his profession. He delivered, in the Theatre of the London...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. hate varied between 95 and 951, and Reduced Three per Cents. between 931 and 94. tions hate been so trilling as not to afford scope for any...

THE OPPOSITION TO THE NEW ZEALAND BILL. MINISTERS, with their allies, Tory and Missionary, have sue- ceeded, for the present, in defeating the project of colonizing New Zealand...

IT would not be surprising if the question of renewing the Bank of Ireland charter were put off to another session. Mr. SPRING Rice is much perplexed in this matter ; not,...

Ix his speech against the New Zealand Bill, Lord HOWiCK boasted of the encouragement given to emigration by the present Government. Mr. %Vann had stated that more had been done...

THE propensity of the public mind to gorge itself with the strong and rancid food supplied by " dreadful murders," " melancholy suicides;' and the other literature of Newgate...

.4 IT0110111' and alumni from no condition the • • 0> Worth makes the man, want of it the re';low."—Potr. Tax duel between Lord LONDONDERRY''S heir and Madame GRISt'S husband...

as they always do and always will, to hear the opera of Figaro ; which was given on this occasion for the benefit of M. LAPORTE. Without being very vividly impressed with this...

WE have never had a more wearisome arid thankless office than to report on the Philharmonic Concerts of the present season—never to witness more apathy and indifference on the...

AVE have great pleasure in again meeting Mr. HOGARTH in the field of musical history and criticism ; a field which, in this country, has been very partially explored and...

Memoirs of the Musical Drama. By George Ilogarth, Author or "Musical History, Biography, and Criticism." In 2 vols. Beattey. BIOGRAPHY, Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of...

with great brilliancy at Cologne, on Whitsunday and the following days, under the direction of Mendelsohn•Bartholdy. The Emperor of Russia, before leaving Berlin, distributed...

THESE Memoirs are the very romance of autobiography : they are amusing from the startling variety of incident; interesting from the light thrown upon the fate of the Duc ROW of...

THE larger of these publications forms the first of a trio of Eng- lish dramatists—S HAKSPEARS, BEN JoNsoN, and BEAtnaoxr and FLETCHER, which Mr. MoxoN is preparing for popular...

THE best scholars are not always the best teachers; and the con- struction of an elementary work of real merit, however inferior an achievement when compared with original...

cimo to a portly quarto, in massive binding of sober green and gold. This is reversing the usual order. Welcome to this splen- did luxury of literature in its new shape—looking...

and its vicinity. It contains the usual local information needed by visitors, with catalogues of the geological and botanical specimens found hi the neighbourhood.

Sixtieth Rifles, is the journal of a tour, which most probably would not have been kept at all had the trip been made thirty years ago, or at any rate would have remained in...

a prize from some literary society ; with which honour the writer might have rested satisfied. His work is rather a hash made up from a variety of authors, than a whole...

very novel, and somewhat too general in its directions to be of much practical utility, this book offers some excellent suggestions on a most important subject—the education of...

by FREDERIC W. Vaux, Esq. The author of this volume passed some time in rambling through parts of the Pyreneean range, visiting one or two of its watering-places, and finishing...

THIS is a laborious, learned, and curious work, but on a subject very liable to misconception if it falls into unguarded hands. The purpose of BAUER was to investigate with...

gory, the Pilgrim's Progress, with notes by BERNARD BARTON, a life of the author by JOSIAH CONDER, and plates by H. Mat- mut, seems familiar to us, but not perhaps in its...

THE present tendency of publication is rather in favour of' solid subjects than light literature, if we may judge by the nature of the works before us. Independent of those...