adapt their professions to the tastes of constituencies. As need requires, they are Protectionists, Free-traders, Ultra-Pro- further Democratic concession; but they are all...

the great Liberal and Despotic parties which divide Europe, is clearly indicated by a correspondence of the three North-eastern Courts which has this week been brought to light....

IT is a low game our present Ministers play, but they play it with skill ; though perhaps they owe more than half their success to the half-hearted inertness of " the gentlemen...

is, that in them he may find the same laws and social customs with which he has been familiar in his native land. Settlements even of nu- merous bodies of emigrants in foreign...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Rows or Loans. Monday, April 19. Masters in Chancery Abolition Bin; intro- duced—Mutiny Bills, read a third time and passed. Tuesday, April 20....

TRH Royal Family, with their visiting relative Prince Leopold of Saxe- Coburg, returned from Windsor to London on Monday. The Queen held a Court, at Buckingham Palace, on...

The great Conservative guild of London, the Goldsmiths Company, entertained her Majesty's Ministers, at their hall, on Saturday evening ; and were in their turn delighted with a...

The-Solicitor-General has continued his electioneering campaign, and has made-more speeches, holding fast to all the statements of fact and principle already put forth by him....

The formal induction of Professor Blackie into the Greek 'chair in the University of Edinburgh took place on Tuesday. Professor Ferrier of St. Andrews, Dr. M'Cosh of Belfast,...

FRANcE.—The Imperial projects of the French Usurper have become the subject of correspondence and the basis of an expressly proposed understanding between the three Great...

It is said that Sir Arthur Brooke M.P. is shortly to be raised to the Peerage. The Irish divans have been holding a preliminary gathering at Belfast, to arrange for the coming...

The Commission of Inquiry into the University of Oxford has at len g th approached the termination of its labours, and we understand that th e completed report may be laid...

ARUNDEL. Mr. Strutt having betaken himself to Nottingham, Lord E. Howard comes forward to fill his place, at the general election. ASHBURTON. It is now said that there is "no...

• SATURDAY. The interest of the debate on the second reading of the Militia Bill in the House of Commons last night, was not of that particular character which was expected :...

by the Bromley, Cranbrook, Edenbridge, and Gravesend branches of the West Kent Protection Society, and copies thereof have been forwarded to his Lordship. —Morning Herald. The...

Vice-Chancellor Sir James Parker, yesterday, for an injunction to restrain Joanna Wagner from singing at the Royal Italian Operahouse in Covent Garden, or any other theatre ,...

Amid the heavy deposit of not very brilliant Easter pieces, which now overspreads the theatrical world, we may glance with pleasure at Mr. Mitchell's establishment ; where...

Garden, as a theatrical spectacle, it is one of the most gorgeous that we have ever seen ; and in this respect it fulfilled its original destination for the Parisian stage, as a...

STOCK ETCRANOR, FRIDAY APTRRNOON. The English Fends during the early part of the week exhibited a strong tendency to reaction, which continued for several days ; caused by...

Monday : an excellent concert, but calling for no particular remark, as it did not present a single novel feature ; the programme consisting of pieces, both instrumental and...

INDIAN AFFAIRS. THE languid debates to which motions for Committees on Indian affairs have given rise in both Houses of Parliament, are but too exactly typical of the general...

THE arguments by which Lord Derby justifies his freedom to re- voke the grant to Maynooth College proclaim the disingenuous. ness of his half-transparent reserves. He misstates...

TEE reasons which the Judges of the Court of Exchequer give for their decision in the case of "Miller versus Salomons M.P." do not so much settle the question involved, as keep...

DERBY has been digging, and has digged up a treasure that as- tounds himself. California and Australia, he cries, have asto- nished the world with their gold, " hitherto...

THREE weeks since, at Bodmin Assizes, William Hamlyn Pascoe, a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of twenty-nine years' standing, and practising at Cubert in Cornwall,...

THE PAPIST COMMISSION TO THE IRISH BRIGADE. Dublin, 20th April 1852. Sm.—Will you permit me to say a few words in confirmation of your courageous counsels in reference to the...

SLownv drifting down from the frozen seas of the North, to lose themselves in the waters towards the Equator, annually come vast herds of icy rocks; crags that would be immortal...

20th 4pril 1852. Sin—In your paper of the 10th 'ou notice the letter circulated by the heads of the new Department of Practical Art. Allow me to say a few words on the subject....

DAY'S FIVE YEARS' RESIDENCE IN THE WEST INDIES.. THE author of this work is a man of much shrewdness and some vigour of mind, with a good deal of worldly experience, and, ap-...

It is not a novel of manners ; for although persons of high society are introduced, they seem to be drawn from some abstract notions in the writer's mind rather than from actual...

fitness of these lectures for their immediate purpose diminishes their effect to the mature economist. That which is appropriate when addressed to Oxford tyroes, assumed to be...

Booze. A Journey to the Tea &miseries of , China, including Bung-le and the Bohea HUM; with a short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya...

ROYAL ACADEMY NEWS. Rumour is somewhat less busy than usual with the materiel and pro- babilities of the Royal Academy Exhibition : our readers are welcome to a week's...

At the meeting of the Society of Arts on Wednesday, Mr. M. Digby Wyatt delivered one of the series of Exhibition Lectures ; being " an attempt to define the principles which...

Sergt.-Major W. Smith, to be Quartermaster, vice J. Missett, who retires upon half-pay. 3d Drag. Guards —Lieut. A. R. Robinson has been permitted to retire from the service by...

On the 16th April, at South Willingham Rectory, LinctlInshire, the Wife of the Rev. Andrew Corbett, of twin sons. On the 16th:in Eaton Place West, Lady Elizabeth Russell, of a...

Tuesday, April 20. - PARTNERSHIPS DI590LVED.-Wilkinson and Son, Stockport, cotton-spinners- Halseys, East Budleigh, Devonshire, linen-drapers-Speechlv and Asling, Spalding,...

GRAIN, Mark Lane, April 23. BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation daring the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian 6 p. Ct. 801 Belgian 4} -...