has been presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Queen. The memorialists contemplate the erection of six hundred new parishes, to be provided with endowed clergymen,...

" and some in Scotland," the Board of Health has presented to the Crown a report, embodying the suggestion of a plan for ex- tending to the country certain provisions of the...

is that alternate scratching and kissing of public men which is fre- quently witnessed when principles are made subservient to per- sonal aggrandizement. M. Leon Faucher is...

it by Taylor and other writers. A steady and alarm- ing increase of crime among lawless individuals has been met by an outburst of public disorder in Sacramento city. A young...

war of classes, and the New Year dawned with an angry horizon. An association had been organized for the express purpose of se- cunng the ascendancy to the " Emaneipist"...

THE present Easter recess has been singularly free from the wonted political agitation out-of-doors. Either all parties are sick of it, or ..hey are husbanding their strength...

No event of any interest has diversified the monotony of the Court chronicle. The Royal Family enjoy good health at Windsor. Prince Albert came to town on Tuesday, to preside...

It appeared from the terms of the regulations issued by the Exhibition Commissioners last week, that the ceremony of opening the building by the Queen would be a sort of...

Boston election has greatly elevated the Protectionists. Mr. Wire was first in the field; he has twice before. been a candidate to represent . the place, receiving much support...

The reports of the proceedings at the much-heralded Protectionist ban- quet in the Music Hall at Edinburgh, on Tuesday, does not greatly excite the distant reader, although he...

Mr. More O'Ferrall has been returned for Longford County. The numbers were—for O'Ferrall, 938; for Mr. Skater, as the nominee of his angry father, whose outrageous proceedings...

POBTIIOAL.—The latest advices from Lisbon, which extend to the 19th instant, make it almost certain that the military-political insurrection headed by the Marshal Duke of...

We believe wo are not revealing a state secret when we announce that her .Majesty has been pleased to issue a commission for the purpose of stbniitting some distinct estimates...

SATURDAY. A week peculiarly sterile of news closes with a day wholly barren of interesting matter in the journals. After so complete a rest as the Easter recess has given to...

Paseal , Duprat and M. Bare, relative to 'the street sate of 'journeils, were the first matters for consideration. M. Duprat proposed to remove all restrictions whatever; M....

whose jealousy on behalf of the good fame of his sometimes maligned country we respect, for a misuse of the word " - outrageous " in a description last week of the proceedings...

SATURDAY, Two o'Creen. No Change or business of importance has occurred in the English Stock Market; the closing prices are consequently the same as in the morning. In the -...

Easter, and mustering their strength for the campaign of the season. At Her Majesty's, on Tuesday, the basso par excellence, Lablache, dis- ported in the unparalleled...

several years, chiefly spent in America. He made his first appearance at the meeting of the Beethoven Quartet Society, on Thursday ; and delighted the audience as much as...

The festival of Easter is celebrated in various ways at the various theatres. Mr. Anderson of Drury Lane, having been, as we understand, a suc- cessful representative of Karl...

EXPLANATION OP THE DIVISIONS INDICATED IN THE PARALLEL COLUMNS BELOW. No. 1. Mr. Bazaars's Motion to reduce the amount of the Income-tax, with a view to the speediest practical...

THE CHANGE OF SEASON. Tire-recent stationary or pendulous swing in public affairs makes even . politicians dmeng-the holyday turn with zest to the more pro- gressive and lively...

WE are setting our houses in. order against the arrival of. the strangers—that is, literally and externally ; for we notice more than. the ordinary spring-tides in the flood...

Casensm has returned to town after-three years' absence, and is reintroduced to the public by the Times. Chartism, which ap- peared to have committed suicide in 1848, like an...

Cenrarte gayly-disposed young gentlemen are (tarrying on a corre- spondence in the Morning Post, suggested by ideas more natural than mature. They want the clubs of London to...

[CONTINUED PROM LAST woes.) 5. THE next concession, probably, will be that of control over their own Civil List to the Australian Colonies. What the Civil List means in a...

MR. Obunmy has let the cat out of the bagtheidentical old Tom that is such a well-known nuisance to the whole neighbourhood. He has disclosed a notorious secret on the subject...

A niAnNmeEacr project for the literary man, long the subject of conversation in certain circles, is made patent to the public this week, in a handsome fasciculus, programme of a...

Soara short time ago, we noticed the visit to this country of Mr. Dudley Field, who explained to our Law Reformers how the State of New York has abolished its Court of Chancery,...

PROSPECTS. AMONG the political projects of the day which teem in Paris, M. Guizot's for the restoration of the Monarchy commands respect because it emanates from M. Guizot,...

79 Pall Mall, 21st April 1851. Sin—In the Spectator of last Saturday, you illustrate your position as to " the irreconcilable theories " of the two great parties within the...

_London, 24th April.1851. Ma. Seneraron—The description. of the elegant experiment devised by M. Foucault to show the motion of the world does not appear to me to place its...

Seeing, then, that the proprietor, poverty-stricken by the change of times ; more especially under the prevailing &rite system-of grain-rents,- is' necessi- tated to keep up...

15 Grub Street, 22d April 1851. San—I wrotew letter to the editor of the Times, and he was so good as to pan t it in. large type. Since then, I have read your excellent...

DR. woanswonTR's MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.. rze life of: William Wordsworth was as uneventful as any life well can be : the Wakefield family's emigration from the blue bed...

cnisIs.* THESE volumes are chiefly useful as furnishing the reader with a connected view of the events that took place in the Austrian empire during and in consequence of the...

Mrs. Margaret Maitland has shifted the scene from Scottish to English ground, and changed the time from the present age to that of Charles the Second. Caleb Field is a story...

Boons. An Excursion to California over the Prairie, .Rocky.Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada. With a Stroll through the Diggings and Ranches of that 'country. By William...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. THE first Monday in May, and with it the opening of our great art-exhi- bition, is at hand. The works of the exhibitors have been sent in since...

Long and favourably as he has been known to the public, we 'have never met Mr. Burford to greater advantage than in his panoramic views of Jerusalem and Niagara, now exhibited...

On the 11th March, at Sholapore, Bombay. Presidency, the Wife of the .Rev. Dr. Goldstein, of a son, stillborn. On the 1st April, at Rome, the Wife of Captain IL 'Wale, late of...

Results of the Registrar-General's return of _mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last. Ten Weeks Week. of 1841.50. of 1851. Emetic Diseases Dropsy,...

Tuesday, April 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-J. and W. Dobson; Bradford, Yorkshire, spindle- makers-Cheetham and Novelli, Manchester, cotton-spinners-J. and W. Leigh,...

WAR-OFFICE, April 25.-3d Regt. Drag. Guards-Assist-Surg. R. M. Allen, from the 6th Foot, to be Assist-Surg. vice Sawyers, appointed to the 22d Foot. 12th Light Drags.-Lieut. C....

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer...