A SEASON consecrated as the most solemn anniversary of that faith which teaches peace and good-will, rings with the sound of discord, if not of arms brought out for service. ....

Ma- drid, but in the West Indies. It has decreed final freedom, at five years' date, to its " Emancipados" or Negro apprentices, with a fixed term for the final freedom of other...

elections have kept up the ferment—have enabled the Riot Act to be read, and have recalled to memory the corruptions of our political system. Black- burn, with the...

Tuesday, the subject ofcCorpomtion reform was again resumed. No fewer than three resolu- tions were under•consideration ; but:after some discussion,—of which the prevailing...

Queen Victoria held a Court at Buckingham Palace on 'Saturday. Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister, presented an autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria. Soon...

The Manchester meeting arising out of the proposed renewal of the Indian " Charter;" which Mr. Barnes, the Mayor, convened last week, - was held on Tuesday ; and a very...

The President of the Queen's College at Galway has just issued his an- nual report. Since the opening of the College, there have been three session; attended by 130 students ;...

At a late meeting of the Edinburgh Town-Council, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Ritchie, to " remit " to the consideration of the Lord Provost's Committee, whether it...

FRANCE.—The Emperor reviewed, on Sunday, four regiments of infantry, one of artillery, and three of cavalry, preparatory to their leaving Paris. The review was held in the...

The Windsor Election Committee sat on Saturday last, to bring their in- quiry to a conclusion. They found that Lord Charles Wellesley was duly elected ; that neither the...

SATURDAY. Up to the present moment no decisive news has arrived from Constan tinople, although it is hourly expected. This is partly accounted for by the severe storms which...

memorial signed by sixty householders of Great Windmill Street, presented to the St. James's Vestry on Thursday, complaining of the "very great and increasing nuisance and...

Passion-week, as we Protestants persist in calling the week before Easter,—whereas this is Holy Week, and Passion-week is the week pre- ceding,—has been occupied here and...

STOCK EXCHANGE, THURSDAY ArramgooN. Great excitement prevailed in the English Stock Market on Monday. The news from Paris respecting the Turkish question, and its sensible...

of Lin- coln was performed on Thursday, in the Chapterhouse of Lincoln Cathedral.

The aristocracy of French playgoers—if we may use the expression— have been much delighted by the production of a new comedy in verse, and in the strict style, from the pen...

given notice of a motion for voting a dotation of 500,000 francs to the Empress. The Milan Gazette of the 20th confirms the report of the novel display of clemency on the part...

Cambencell, 16th March 1853. SIR —The Income-tax is just now a topic of sufficient interest and import- ance to excuse my troubling you with another short communication on...

THE FIRE AT WINDSOR CASTLE. 1 Adam Street, Adelphi, 22d March 1853. Sin--A portion of Windsor Castle has been unexpectedly burnt, and people ask why ? The question is not...

THE FIRST STUMBLE OF MINISTERS. THE painful scene in the House of Commons last Friday night has caused deep regret to some of the most sincere friends of the present Government...

THE events that are openly taking place in Turkey are of a kind to create more alarm than the covert assurances in this country can allay. That Turkey is approaching the very...

THE public discussion of the affairs of India, which is so earnestly claimed by the Indians themselves, and has been so anxiously de- precated by certain officials in London,...

ALTHOUGH the anticipations that the attractions for emigrants had reached their maximum at the close of last year, the reports from all parts of the country tend to show a...

THE Australian steam-vessel which has been so totally condemned by the force of its own performances had been duly examined by official surveyors, and yet the causes of its...

OFTEN and often we have heard the cry from the far West of Ireland, that the Protestants try to save souls by "souping" the population ; and whether the charge be true or false...

LATARD'S NINEVEH AND BABYLON.. THE archaeological matter of this volume is even richer than that of its predecessor in specific information relating to the history, arts, and...

frequently been the characteristic marks of controversial works in defence of Christian- ity, that the entire absence of these qualities from a work of this description deserves...

ALEXANDER Siarn's volume contains a poem in dialogue, which he entitles " A Life-Drama," some short miscellaneous poems, and a few sonnets. Most if not all of the volume has...

of an antediluvian age. The reader is carried to a period which, though much less than a cen- tury ago, is as old to many of this generation as the Elizabethan or feudal times....

Books. Thomas d Becket, and other Poems. By Patrick Scott. Tamerton Church-Tower, and other Poems. By Coventry Patmore. An Englishwoman's Experience in America. By Marianne...

MR. CURRIE'S LECTURE ON THE NATIONAL GALLERY.* WE are indebted for this lecture to a requisition made by the Northamp- ton Mechanics' Institute to Mr. Raikes Currie, one of the...

Lndgate Hill, tea-dealers; as far as regards J. Manduell— Manduell and Co. and Sidney and Manduell, Bristol, tea-dealers—Nobles and Hoare, Cornwall Road,...

[From the Official Return.] Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves,...

WAR-OFFICE, March 22.-7th Drag. Guards—Major-Gen. R. B. Gabriel, C.B. to be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. H. Murray, C.B. removed to the 14th Light Drags. 14th Light...

On the 7th August, at Essex House, Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, the Wife of Augustus Edward White, Esq., of a daughter. On the 18th March, in Gloucester Place, the Hon. Mrs....

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