Loan PALMERSTON has summoned his faithful adherents to stand by him at the opening of Parliament on the 3d of February ; and his great ally the Times foreshadows the story of...

THE QUEEN has entertained several distinguished guests this week at Windsor Castle. There was a second theatrical entertainment on Thursday; the plays selected being "Our Wife,...

The Property and Income-tax Association held a meeting in Exeter Hall on Wednesday ; Mr. Alderman Wire in the chair. It was intended to be a field-day manifestation of public...

Some prophets have honour in their own country.. The memory of the late Mr. Brotherton is to be preserved by the erection of a statue in Peel Park. At a meeting on Saturday...

At a meeting of the electors of Dumfriesshire, held at Dumfries last week, it was unanimously resolved that Lord Henry Scott, the second son of the Duke of Buceleuch, at present...

Mr. George Henry Moore, one of the Members for Mayo, was feasted by his constituents at Castlebar, last week. Archbishop M‘Halo was present, but he yielded the honour of...

t f rantr.—Feruk Khan, the Persian Ambassador, arrived in Paris on Sunday. He is a man of about forty years of age, very tall and plump, with a dark complexion, and very black...

Lord Palmerston has addressed the customary intimation to his supporters, that Parliament will open on Tuesday the 3d of February ; and has expressed his earnest hope that they...

SATURDAY. A deputation from the Property and Income-tax Association waited onthe Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence, yesterday at one o'clock. Major Reed...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The demand for money in the discount - market and; at the Bank has been moderate all the week, and loans have been effected with much greeter...

Let no one venture to say inconsiderately that any form or expression of human thought is entirely obsolete, merely because it is not found in its accustomed place. When "Uncle...

II Trovatore has been translated into French, and is now played as Le Trourere at the Imperial Opera. The anniversary , of Moliere's birthday, which fell on the 15th instant,...

A SESSION WITHOUT PARTY. THE House of Commons this session, is to emulate and excel that "happy family" with Commons, we are all familiar in its zoological cage. Law Amendment...

THE " Persian question" is not one that can be easily disposed of either by the offhand stroke of a diplomatic pen or a speech at a public meeting; it is much too knotty and,...

ONE of the subjects for the coming session is the Bank Charter Act of 1844; its continuance simplieiter, its repeal, or its continuance with modifications. All parties are...

A mnr, "to be brought in by Sir John Pakington and Mr. Cobden" ! The simple collocation of the names upon the back of a bill is an event that marks one of the most extraordinary...

Ma. FRFEMAN ' in the letter which will be found among our correspondence this week, draws attention to an important subject at an opportune time. He complains that the...

A smesknow has been created in the trading world by a decision affecting the validity of securities representing goods, such as dock-warrants, delivery-orders, bills of...

TEEB.E is one amendment of the law which needs not wait for °edification, consolidation, or change of principle. It is simply to purge our statute-book and practice of direct...

CA.LITMNY sometimes confers a benefit upon the world by the truth it draws forth. It has lately fastened upon strange subjects of scandal—the aged poet Beranger and the Empress...

.Lanrumney, Cardiff, January 131h, 1867. Sin — I shall be much obliged if you can find space for a few remarks on the new system of examinations for degrees which has been...

Athens, 29th December 1856. Your observations " on the root of our foreign troubles" have awakened me from a long lethargy with reference to Greek politics. There is so much...

Liverpool, 13tIt January 1857. This question is now before the Legislature; a puzzle to officials and non-officials, and a subject of much misunderstanding and...

of the Income-tax would do so to rather more purpose if they showed. themselves quite up to all the facts of the case. As it is, they are sometimes liable to a very short...

On the 12th August, at Nelson, New Zealand, the Wife of Edwin Hare Dash wood, Esq., of a son. On the 9th January, at the Hotel de Lille at d'Albion, Paris, the Wife of Captain...

On the 18th November, at Kandy, Ceylon, Captain David Stewart, Ceylon Bide Regiment, to Isabella, second daughter of Major-General John Fraser. On the 6th December, at Colombo...

On the 26th December, at Clifton, near Bristol, Brigadier-General nacres Pitcherbert Evans, of Sixteenth Regiment, (Grenadiers,) H.E.I.C.S. Brevet-Colonel in the Army, and late...

PROM THE LONDON GA2ETTE, TANLARY 23. WAR-DEPARTMENT, Pall Mall, Jan, 23.-Royal Artillery - The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants-E. W. Sandys, A. May, J. M....

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, 7AN17ARY 20. Partnerships Dissoleed. - Gregory and Co. Birchin Lane, and elsewhere, merchants; as far as regards D. Chinery-Cutler and Son, Birmingham,...

BACON'S WORKS, EDITED Dr SPEDDING, ELLIS, AND HEATH. * IT has long been generally known that a new edition of Lord Bacon's writings was in course of preparation under the joint...

theory of biography. The "life" of a man without'a letter, or an anecdote, or some contemporary portrait of him with living traits distinctly marked, is not a life at all. We...

or the historical events with which they have been connected, "the still vex'cl Bermoothes " have had their full share of attention. If Shakspere did not, as the " Field-Officer...

BOOKS. The most remarkable publication of the week is a volume comprising the various labours of Lord Overstone on metallic and paper money ; collected, if we rightly read the...

BORE'S WANDERING JEW.* Every one to whom the name of Gustave Dore is yet new will hail in these designs the advent of an extraordinary artist. To many, however, he is already...

This sightly volume consists of the two-years' numbers of a penny monthly broad-sheet edited by a gentleman, in hours of leisure, and with a view not to profit, but to...

have nothing now to prevent us from again turning our attention to the revision of our institutions, so that, if we should again be called upon to put forth our strength, war...