INDIAN legislation scarcely " drags its slow length along," but rather proceeds by periodic jerks, and this week it has received a twin impulse from the hands of Stanley and of...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS , OF Tilt w Bra. Rom es Loans. Monday, June 21. Government of India ; Lord Lansdovrne's Questioa—The Coolie Trade ; the Bishop of Oxford's Motion, Tuesday,...

THE QUEMN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Her Ma- jesty gave audience to M. Juan Alberdi, the Minister from the Argen- tine Confederation. Sir John Crampton had...

Lord Mayor Carden gave a banquet on Wednesday evening in honour of her Majesty's Ministers. But it was shorn of its glory. Indisposition kept away, not only that idol of the...

In consequence of some legal doubt, en church-rate was attempted to be levied last year at Kingston-on-Thames, but a voluntary subscription was made—it produced much more than...

it is understood that Mr. Inglis will vacate the post of Lord Advocate, and accept the high judicial office of Lord Justice Clerk. In this case it is supposed that Mr. Baillie,...

The exciting incident in Dublin this week—and nowhere else out of Ire- land—is the trial before the Commission Court of Colonel Browne and some sixteen studentsof Trinity...

The continued indisposition of Lord Derby has rendered it necessary . to hold the usual Cabinet Councils at his residence, instead of in Downing Street. The Oxford Middle-Class...

YrItUre.—The Emperor returned from Fontainebleau to St. Cloud on Sunday, but he did not, as on former occasions, pass through Paris. There is some not very authentic-looking...

effects of fever, taken in the discharge of his duty, Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Skynner, 11.M.'s 89th Regiment, youngest surviving son of the late Robert Skynoer, Esq., of...

On the 27th May, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Charles Steel, Esq., Captain 17th Lancers, eldest son of Major-General Sir Scudamore Winde Steel, K.C.B., to Anna Caroline, third...

On the 16th June, at Shrub's Hill, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, the Lady Margaret Lushington, of a daughter. On the 17th, in Eaton Place, the Wife of C. Darby Gliffith, Esq., M.P., of...

- - -- SATURDAY. The India Bill (No. 3) I ntsele some progress in Committee last night, at the evening sitting of the House of "Commons. Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to at once....

At Her Majesty's Theatre there has been a series of" last nights" of Mademoiselle Titiens in consequence of the supposed necessity for the fair prima donna's immediate departure...

Madame Ristori, since the commencement of her present engagement, has appeared (for the first time in London,) in two of Mademoiselle Ra- chel's characters, the Phedre of Racine...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arremmoir. With the exception of a daily purchase by the Government Broker of about 15,000/. in Reduced, there is nothing particular to report in the...

San—The calm thoughtfulness with which you discuss "topics of the day" contrasts favourably with the careless misrepresentations, and too often, I fear, deliberate unfairness of...

22d June 1858. Sin—Here is the only infallible receipt for catching Nana Sahib. Let the Government ask Mr. J. C. Wilson, of the Civil Service, now, I believe, Judge of...

FRENCH NAVAL ARMAMENTS. Southsea, 21st June 1858. Six—Is France arming her ships in the manner attributed to her ? or is she merely doing what we have done for the last six...

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT. IN many respects the discussion we the second reading of the India Bill No. 3, on Thursday night, served to define clearly the actual position taken up by...

"THE tax on paper is one of those taxes which, when a favour- able opportunity shall arise, we shall be glad to see erased from our fiscal system ' : that is the view taken by...

THE appointment of M. Delangle as Minister of the Interior, in the room of General Espinasse, has created scarcely less satis- faction in London than in Paris. It is regarded as...

the fever in Capel Court during the paroxysms of 1846 and 1847 marked the extreme of London speculation, pro- bably the state of the money market at present marks the exact...

Ckrr of evil cometh good : a case of cholera has already appeared in the metropolis, and. the House of Commons is alarmed, as well as disgusted, at the atmosphere amidst which...

WHEN Lord Hotham carried a resolution renewing the prohibi- tion on payment of Members for personal services, he might have Mcluded the prohibition upon a gratuitous use which...

RAWLINSON'S HER.ODOTI7S. * Tot oldest authors are in one sense the youngest ; their freshness never decays. The patriarchal history—Homer—Herodotus-- where can we find any other...

THE Reverend Frederick Metcalfe's two visits to Norway described in his present volumes are more circumscribed than his previous tours. Instead of embracing the length of the...

Cornwall appears before the world as a poetess, she is entitled. to expect a cordial welcome. In reality, however, Miss Procter's Legends and Lyrics deserve a welcome for their...

Bemis. Histo r y of of the Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington. From the French of M. ont, Captain on the Staff of the Bel gi an Army. With emendations - and additions. By the...

(Cbncluding Notice.) With more space at our disposal, we might enter somewhat at large into the grounds of the present depression of British sculpture, as an exordium to what...

Perhaps a more admirable topographic and military model has never been constructed than that which forms the last addition to the Museum of the United Service Institution. It is...

This slovenly-showy book of wood-cuts and letterpress will be repro- bated by all who do not desire to see the popularizing of art merged in its vulgarization. It is a false...

Anything from Lucknow is interesting at present—provided only it be genuine ; and the interest is doubled when, as in the instance before us, the record comes from "an actor in...

The view from the summit of Mount Righi is the midsummer picture at this exhibition; appropriately chosen for stimulating Swiss tourists, and indicating, though not...

it4t FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 1 o 5 . FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 1 o 5 WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, June 22.—Itifintry--100th Itegt . f jpoet,—Major-Gen. Visct. Melville,...

BRITISH FUNDS (Closing Prices.) Soloed. Monday. Tussday. Widnes. Thurs. Friday, 3 per Cent CODS0111 Ditto for Account 11 per cents Reduced New 9 per Cents Long Annuities...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 22. Bankruptcy Annulled. - 1TEERT FRANCIS NORTON, York Street, St. James's, Westminster, brush-seller. Boakropts.-PIIIMP ABRAHAM BARNES and Joint...