under- stand , them. It may be so ; nay, one is sometimes apt to question whether they understand themselves. The difficulty of understanding what they would really be at, is at...

THE Maynooth Bill found the House of Commons in employment for three nights of this week. The debate was on the whole lan- guid: so little interest was felt in the discussion on...

MAYNOOTII COLLEGE. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Sir ROBERT PEEL having moved the third reading of the Maynooth College Bill, Mr. EWART moved an amendment. He said that...

STATE ceremonial has been accessory to Irish politics this week. The QUO011 held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, to receive on the Throne an address from the...

A Privy Council was held on Saturday at the office of the Controller of the Exchequer, in Whitehall Yard; when a jury of members of the Goldsmiths Corn.. pany were empannelled...

The Roman Catholic Bishops met in Dublin on Wednesday, and took into con. sideration the Government bill for academical education. It is understood that they object to the bill,...

The Times has recently had some forcible articles on the condition of the pauper population of Scotland; showing the inadequateness of the present mode of relief by "voluntary...

We learn that the Committee for the formation of Public Parks and Play- grounds have purchased Enham Hall estate, at Harpurhey, the residence of bft. Jonathan Andrews, for a sum...

FittaecE.—The Chamber of Deputies have been occupied throughout the week with the details of the bill establishing the great Northern Railway of France; which proceeds...

Divers reports of Royal movements are current. The Times says, in prominent ce.—" A correspondent in St. Petersburg writes us, under date 30th ultimo, that his Royal Highness...

on Thurs- day, by a majority of 253 to 10. An article in the bill as adopted by the Chamber prohibits the negotiation of the receipts or promises of shares, and declares the...

Bourne, President of the Foreign Letter Office, sent out by Viscount Lowther to enter into a postal treaty with 31ehernet Ali, about ten months back, returns by the Oriental;...

had been ge- nerally favourable for taking off the crops. In Trinidad it was expected that the yield would be greater than in any year since Emancipation. In that island,...

bows under in a heavy gale.;

dramingroom at St. James's Palace on Tuesday next, to celebrate her birthday. This present Saturday is in fact the auspicious day; but it is only marked by family rejoicings, in...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Maynooth College Bill began its career in the House of Lords last night. On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, it was read a first time; and he fixed the...

St. Paul on Monday the 2d June, and has expressed her intention of being present on the occasion.

President Guerrier was dead, and General Perrot had been elected in his room. The Ex-President Hoard landed at Jacmel on the 21st April, with a handful of followers, bent upon...

inserted if possible, and other articles ty . a less temporary nature, are excluded for want of room.

SATVEDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have no change or business ofimportance to report either in the English or Foreign Funds; which are at yesterday s prices. The transactions in...

CONVEYANCE OF REAL PROPERTY. Tax deeds by which landed property is transferred are spun out to such an unwarrantable length, that laymen are tempted to suspect the motive for...

THIRD READESG--WEDNESDAY 21st MAY. for Downshire, and two for Stu:Mary—make the total of 658. against it, 186—majority, 133. The second reading was carried by a majority of...

perpetually in the docks for alterations. There is, in this maritime nation, with a popula- tion of sixteen millions exclusive of Ireland and Scotland, never a sufficient supply...

AaaivED—At Gravesend, 20th May, Dryden, Atkins, from the Cape ; and 21st, Gloriana, Webb, from Calcutta. In the Downs, 21st, Monarch, Robertson, from China ; and Madonna,...

PRAISE is a dangerous thing. It has made the Duke of New- castle who modestly thought himself only a political Jeremiah, now New- castle, himself a political Messiah : in the...

IF Lord Stanley retired to the House of Lords in search of a quiet life, it is to be feared he will meet with a disappointment. Lord Brougham has set his eye upon him as a...

THEY are cleansing St. Paul's of the soot and dust of many years. Washing won't serve the purpose : walls and pillars are scraped and holistoned ; the church gets a "dry scrub...

Tun editor of the Polynesian (a Sandwich Island newspaper) calls the late native Governor of Hawaii " a Conservative of the old school." The meaning of this is explained by the...

Biociasrer, Memoirs of Prince Charles Stuart, (Count of Albany,) commonly called the Young Pretender ; with Notices of the Rebellion in 1745. By Charles Louis Klose,, Esq. In...

he the early part of 1815, Mr. Tolfrey, then approaching his majority, became a slave to the tender passion ; but his papa disapproving of his flame, and having interest at a...

Astowo the bands of mercenaries who infested Europe for a consider- able period of the middle ages, a troop, or possibly a tribe, called the Al- mugavars, Amogavares, or...

MR. JAmEs's " Smuggler " is not one of your romantic and picturesque ruffians of the "Will Watch" school—who figure on the stage in Guernsey frocks with white kitties and black...

From May 16th to May 22d. BOOKS. .A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. Translated from the German of Dr. J. M. Lappenberg, For. F.S.A., Keeper of the Archives of...

THIRD NOTICE OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. LANDSCAPH AND SEA PIECES. IN going through this exhibition one hears people exclaim, "That's Turner! "—" That's Stanfield! "—and...

On the 15th May, at New Romney, the wife of Mr. John Daniels, of three fine boys, who, with the mother, are doing well. On the 16th, at Howbury Hall, Beds, Mrs. R. Henley Payne,...

Orries or Gansu:ice, May 16.-Royal RegL of Artillery-First Lieut. D. W. Paynter, to be Sec. Capt. vice Evelegh, retired on half-pay ; Sec. Lieut. H. S. Eliot to be First Lieut....

, Tuesday, May 20. PARTNEasinTs DissoLvED. Hickey and Agnew, Liverpool, bootmakers--Threlkeld and Edwards, King Street, Cheapside, acconntants-Nicol and Co. 1101nbay,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices-) I per Cent Consols ........... Ditto for Account . 3 per Cents Reduced ..... 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock,...