any external show of popular institutions. Eventhe sham representative assembly of the French President has run restive. It has presumed to criticize and amend his budget ; and,...

As the close of the session'approaches, the House of Commons despatches business with increased and increasing speed. This week, Poor-law Continuance, Patent-law Amendment,...

the whole of the public mind. The restlessly active cut out for - themselves work—half-business half-pleasure, or half-political half- personal—which has little concern with the...

their white-bait dinner on the very eve of a general election. Imagination pictures the Commoners among them proceeding straight from the festive board to the hustings, as the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Horse or Loans. Monday, June 21. Law of Marriage with a deceased Wife's Sister ; Petitions against—County Comte Further Extension Bill—The...

in one of those compromises by which the competing claims of os- tensibleleaders are sacrificed and a man of little note is brought t a r r rard as candidate in order to secure...

season at Rangoon; possibly for the purpose of trying experimentally how well their constitutions can resist the miasma of the marshes in that unhealthy season. Preparations are...

At a Common Hall of the Liverymen of London held on Thursday, Mr. John Carter, Alderman and clockmaker, and Mr. J. Hulbert, citizen and grocer, were elected to the office of...

THE Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday afternoon. His Highness Said Pacha, uncle of the Viceroy of Egypt, was introduced to an audience by the Earl of...

Just on the eve of the dissolution there is a flood of addresses ; some of which we have noted in the Provincial news. In this place we note only such main facts as appearances...

A smart shower of Government election-addresses has fallen since our lest publication. Mr. Disraeli, in a few lines issued to his constituency on Saturday, simply promised to do...

PRANCE.—The decision in the Contentious Section of the Council of State on the conflict raised about the competency of the Tribunal of the Seine to determine upon the validity...

It is expected that the House of Commons will have disposed of all in- dispensable business in the course of the present week, or at furthest on Monday ; that the House will...

The inauguration of Mr. Steell's equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in Edinburgh, on Friday last week, was a very grand affair. The cost of the statue was raised by...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons last night, the amendments made by the House of Lords to the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill were discussed. The chief alterations were...

On the 19th June, at Siddington Rectory, Gloucestershire, prematurely, the Wife of the Rev. Henry Bolland, of a son, still-born. On the 20th, at Shalford Vicarage, near...

from this country; so that the public must suspend till next season, at least, their curiosity as to her merits. It appears from the proceedings in the Vice-Chancellor's Court...

those of Mr. Herries and Mr. Christopher. They are as guarded and vague as those which have preceded them this week. Mr. Cobden's address to the West Riding is published this...

us liberty to add, if we like, "a Free kirk Elder, " but who withholds the guarantee of his name , ha s written to oomplain dour paragraph on the Edin- burgh election, which has...

This week the German company, who, whatever may be their treasury success, retain a sort of supremacy among the literary portion of play- goers, have fired off two of their...

Maid- stone. The Standard announces him not as a Protectionist, but as a sup- porter of Lord Derby.

yesterday, the Judges delivered their opinions in the Braintree Church-rate case of Gosling versus Veley. The opinions were equally balanced—For the "invalidity of the rate,"...

&roes ExcrieNeE, Flimsy ersanicoon. The English Funds advanced during the early part of the week, till an im- provement of f per cent upon our last prices had been realized. A...

July, and dissolved on Friday the 2d.—Sun.

" to drag into an elec- tioneering quarrel and condemn without fair consideration" the Oxford Re- port ; of which I have written (as I feel) most respectfully. My anxiety has...

THE OXFORD COMMISSION REPORT. NO. II. Oaklands, Dursley, 21st Ja me 1852. Sin—In my former letter I treated of the most important innovation which the Commissioners have...

Bra—Under the conviction that on questions turning upon the principles of political economy you regard the elucidation of scientific truth as para- mount to all personal and...

have pe- rilled his well-earned reputation as a political economist by writing on a subject which involves a knowledge of law, a , branch of study with which neither he himself...

NEW STARTING-POINT FOR CHURCH AND STATE EDUCATION. THE new Minute on Education has had somewhat of the antici- pated effect in restoring " harmony" within the circle of the...

Porrnur. alternatives generally consist of two extremes and a mean; of which either extreme is simple and easy to be defined, i the mean manifold and incapable of being...

Critranr of the journals are exulting over a return setting forth the comparative statistics of the Poor-law, showing a striking de- crease in the expenditure for out-door...

the City are again shirking the performance of public duties : nominated as Sheriffs, Mr. Grissell and Mr. Moore decline to serve, and are " excused." This refusal to serve in...

THEE " affair of honour " lately performed by two Members of Par- liament, and recited for the public edification by a candidate, has had the most blighting effect on the...

IF Sir John Pakington, student in the Art of Colonization, were to ask why it is that the machinery of emigration proves so weak for the duties cast upon it, he might be told...

MACKINNON'S ATLANTIC AND TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES.. MIK greater part of this - work is the narrative of a tour in America, embracing visits to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,...

THIS volume, by a son of the late Sir Robert Peel, contains a brief and unaffected account of its author's journey from Cairo to Labeyed, the capital of Kordofan. The journey...

KNOLLYS. * THE author of this journal accompanied the French army to the battle of Borodino, as an aide-de-camp to Marshal Berthier, the chief of the Staff. After the battle, he...

execution. The leading inei. dent is not very probable or pleasant, and in its essential feature not very new ; though it is managed with skill and a resemblance to life. The...

BOORS. Austria in 1848 49 : being a History of the late Political Movements in Vienna, Milan, Venice, and Prague ; with Details of the Campaigns of Lombardy and Novara ; a full...

WL11-01TICE, June 25.-34 Regt. Drag. Guards--Licut. E. H. Torten to be Capt. bypurchase, vice Whitby, who retires; Cornet J. Winterbottom (R.M.) to be Lieut by purchase, vice...

Tuesday, June 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - Thompson and Co. Mottram-in-Longdendale, cotton- spinners-Vincent and Stibbard, Leadenhall Street, wine-merchants-Fowles and Co....

Friday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 1001 exd 1001 shut — 1001 101 3 per Cents Reduced 103 1031 81 per Cents 6 Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8 per Cent 2221 shut —...