THE Popular House of Parliament has been engaged for three sittings this week in a contest of civil and religious liberty ; being challenged to the contest by the champions of...

House of Com- mons possesses several of those deadly memoranda; but there is one which it annually exposes—the scandal that attends the elec- tion of its own Members ; and this...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP TSB WEEK. Horse OF LORDS. Monday, Feb. 21. Six-mile Bridge ; Lord Cardigan's Ques- tion—Royal Assent, to the Transfer of Aids Bill, the Stamp-duties on...

com- motion going on; and some of the outward signs are portentous indeed. The outbreak at Milan is followed by assurances that it was nothing more than a paltry riot of a few...

story of a public meeting that was not held. In effusing his essay on the rela- tions of this country with France, last Friday evening, Mr. Disraeli received a circular which...

A meeting for the purpose of organizing a society to assist in carrying vote by ballot, was held at the London Tavern on Tuesday ; Mr. Henry Berkeley M.P. in the chair. Several...

THE Qinnis, who still remains at Buckingham Palace, has held two Courts, a Privy Council, and an investiture of the Order of the Bath, this week. At the Court and Privy...

of the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen took place on Saturday. Two candidates were named—the Earl of Carlisle, and Mr. Benjamin Disraeli : at the . mention of the...

The Clare Assizes were opened on Tuesday ; the principal trial of in- terest being that of the soldiers of the Thirty-first Regiment for the murder of several persons engaged in...

The military are - very active at Dover in repairing and improving parts of the fortifications ; and a new battery is in progress on the Western heights, which will command the...

FPANCE. — There is scarcely a fact of importance to communicate from France. During the week, the Council of State, which is a sort of secret committee, have been discussing the...

Admiral Prince Menschilcoff the Russian Minister of Marine, has let; St. Petersburg for Constantinople on a mission, the object of which is not known. He is accompanied by M....

It has not been in our power to insert any Letters these two weeks ; and the pressure upon our space, which usually attends the sitting of Parlia- ment, is likely to continue...

The House of Commons went into Committee of Supply, last night, on the Army Estimates, which were brought forward by Mx. SIDNEY HER- BERT. The House of Commons went into...

from Trieste. "The Burmese occupy the Aeng Pass with a large force. Pegu [the pro- vince?] has been again occupied by a large force of Burmese. They raised the siege [of the...

law. There is an "execution" in the house ; and in about a fortnight everything is to be brought to the hammer—scenery, properties, chandeliers, library of music—everything that...

The Theatre du Vaudeville stands pre6minent in the Parisian record of the past week, A musical comedy in five acts, written by MM. Bayard, de Leuven, and Arthur de Beauplan, and...

Thursday the Australian sailed from Plymouth, just before five in the morn- ing, and returned again into the Sound before six yesterday evening. She had reached sixty miles...

effort to get rid of inter- ' ments within its bounds ; a subject discussed at the Vestry meeting on Thursday. It has been proposed to lay out land for the reception of the dead...

The week just ended has been the reverse of fertile in theatrical inci- dents. A poor melodrame, of a very common school, has been produced at the Olympic, with the title Of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Funds have recovered from the depression of Saturday last, and on the average are firm ; Consols, which then closed at 991 1, have since...

a performance of The Messiah on Monday evening. Though on a smaller scale than the performances of the Sacred Harmonic Society, it was very good ; the band and chorus having...

LORD JOHN'S NEW POSITION. Tun new arrangement of the Ministry, by which Lord John Rus- sell relinquishes the seals of the Foreign Office to the Earl of Cla- rendon, but retains...

THERE are some things in which hasty settlement is *lost worse than no settlement at all, and complicated financial questions are of that kind. In the midst of party conflict,...

IF England is to support Protestant clients in foreign countries,— which she might do, quite consistently with her own opinions — it would be as well for her to understand fully...

SONE ancient Judges of this country who are still alive cling with great affection to transportation as a punishment. Lord St. Leo- nards thinks that transportation is "the best...

IT may be said with little stretch of language, that in many in- stances, the Members who sit in the English Parliament professedly to represent the people, are practically...

Ax incident has occurred in the Court of Sadder Adawlut in Bom- bay, which illustrates the total disregard paid to the official pro- mise, that no distinctions should be made on...

Drcowantrrrv, say the philosophers, is the essence of the ridiculous. So, when Lucius Junius Brutus or Hampden write to their local journals, and tearing passion and the Queen's...

MARIOTTI'S FBA DOLCINO.. TharrE, in a stanza of his Inferno, offers an obscure warning to one Dolcino touching a place of refuge, which was probably written before the...

founded on a series of lectures delivered before various Young Men's Societies, on the curiosities, interest, and uses of proverbs. It is a remarkable example of the manner in...

is by no means proportioned to its mate- rials. Count' de Castellane 'seised some ten years in Algeria, from 1842 to 1851. Ile has for his subjects several of the great opera-...

Tins fiction displays ability of a high kind, though probably rather adapted to the description of life, or to reflection upon its various conditions and trials, than to its...

Booxs. Ten Sermons of Religion. By Theodore Parker, Minister of the Twenty- eighth Congregational Church in Boston. The Second Burmese War : a Narrative of the Operations at...

THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERY. The time ahould be approaching when we are to hear something in detail of the plan and management proposed for the future college or museum of arts...

A new diorama by Mr. Marshall opened on Monday at No. 69 Regent's Quadrant, purporting to be "illustrative of Events in the Lives of Napoleon, Nelson, and Wellington." In fact,...

On the 8th December, at Bangalore, the Wife of S. Lawrence Cox, Esq., Surgeon, Madras Horse Artillery, of a son. On the 16th February, in Warwick Terrace, Belgrave Road, the...

WAR-OFFICE, Feb. 18.-lst Regt. Drag. Guards-J. Gunter, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase. 3d Drag. Guards-J, J. Corrigan, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchaee, vice Ford, who retires....

the Official Beturn.] Zymotie Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat, Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and...

Tuesday, Fe&ruary 22. PARTNERSHIPS DissoLvEn.-J. B. and J. Hallett, Bridport, butchers-Taylor and Mosley, Nottingham, accountants-P. E. and W. Coates, Stanton Court, Somerset-...

BRITISH FUND (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tssarday. 3 per Cent Commis Ditto for Account 991 99 el e 998 9 91 3 per Cents Reduced 1001 WO} 31 per Cents 1001 103...