THE performances of Parliament have consisted of odds and ends,— motions which nobody would attend to earlier in the session, yet have escaped the doom of being deferred till "...

FRANCE IN BARBARY. In the House of Commons, on Monday, on the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. SHED, drew attention to the position of France in reference to...

a new and improved position ; and though the matter has not made BO much noise as if a factory or two had been burnt down, their new course, steadily pursued, may possibly lead,...

The Nelson Pillar Committee held a meeting on Saturday, to consider a communication received from the Government, in answer to a request from the Committee that Government would...

The Royal Agricultural Society have held their annual meeting this week, at Southampton : they had a show of agricultural implements and a cattle-show, a dinner of the Council,...

ME Queen has passed a very quiet week at Windsor. Preparations for what the newspapers call the "interesting event" multiply : Dr. Locock, Dr. Ferguson, Sir James Clarke, and...

Lord Heytesbury was expected to arrive in Dublin yesterday morn- ing. After some deliberation, the Lord Mayor and the Municipal au- thorities had determined to welcome their new...

to pay her Majesty a visit this autumn. It is now understood that his Majesty will embark at Treport, in the month of September, for this country. His Majesty will be...

A public meeting was held at Edinburgh, on Thursday week, to de- cide what the political creed of the future Members for the city should be ; those who called the meeting...

FRANCE.—In the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, the budget of receipts was voted, by 209 to 39 ; thus bringing the sessional labours of the assembly to a close. Two important...

Both Houses were hard at work with "business" last night. The House of Lords sat from five o'clock till nine. The Irish Party Pro- cessions Bill, a continuance bill, occasioned...

London School, yesterday, it was announced that Mr. Beaufoy had established a scholar- ship of 501. per annum for the encouragement of mathematical science.

of the new Governor-General of India- " Sir Henry Hardinge, who left Alexandria on the 25th of June, reached Cairo on the following day, and remained there to visit the lions...

stated by the Malta Times, on the authority of a letter from Colonel Shell : Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly were publicly executed in June 1842. Dr. Wolff was to set out...

Mr. Aglionby stated, that the inquiry into New Zealand affairs had been conducted by the Parliamentary Committee with the utmost fairness, and that the report would probably be...

state of Cuba es " terrine" ; the hatred entertained by the Whites against the slaves now extending to the free Black and the Coloured people: 1,470 persons were in prison ;...

papers from Rio de Janeiro to the 11th of June, and from Valparaiso to the 28th of April. There is nothing in the Brazil papers. The de facto Government of Peru, under Vivanca,...

the closing scenes of the Irish State trial, the Standard rescues Govern- ment from the sneer of the Morning Post for having fixed on the 25th of August as the last day of the...

THE FRENCH IN NORTH AFRICA. Ix is not easy to discover any reasonable grounds for attaching blame or suspicion to the French Government for its present posi- tion in North...

STOOK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AYTERNOON. The upward tendency of the British Securities at the close of last week, has been succeeded by a further improvement of 4 per cent; Consols...

be a very fortunate event for Ireland if a love of truth could be instilled into her leading men. Falsehood and anger are the two prime movers of ninety-nine-hundredths of the...

A NUMBER of lives have been lost by the breaking of a pier at Blackfriars Bridge. Though the pier was perhaps over-crowded, the number of persons was not greater than might be...

Tax imagination loves to dwell upon what is remote from daily life. Town ladies read about rustic beauties, and country milliners de- light in novels of the Silver-fork school....

August, is talked of far and wide—in Scotland it is the theme of incessant talk ; and far and wide will the pilgrims move towards the spot. The noble in rank as well as genius...

FANNY ELSSLER has at last vouchsafed to grant the prayers of her vo- taries, which means all true devotees of the ballet, by assuming a new incarnation—that of a peasant-girl...

Hamm Richard III. as Duke of Gloucester and King of England. By Caroline A. Halsted, Author of the " Life of Mar g aret Beaufort," Sec. In two volumes. Longman and Co....

Dn. Demons is a Wesleyan minister, and the President of Dicken- son College in the United States. He has travelled, with what particular object does not appear, over Great...

Jr this is not SAM SLICK himself under a new prgenomen, it is a very capital imitation. We do not mean that the resemblance is confined to the obvious and easily-imitated...

From July 19th to July 25th. BOOKS. Commerce of the Prairies; or the Journal of a Santa Fe Trader, during eight expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence...

THE CASE OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Ma. Hume's blundering attack upon the Royal Academy, in the House of Commons this week, covered himself with ridicule, and pointed a moral on the...

IT is gratifying to see a Minister of State and Members of Parliament presiding at the distribution of prizes to pupils of the Government School of Design, and to hear the...

ARRIVED.-At Gravesend, July 21st, Windsor, Furnell, from-Bengal; 22d, Herald, Cowbro; and 24th,_General Hewitt, Hart, from New South Wales; Fortitude, Buck- ham ; and Emerald...

Tuesday, July 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Clare and Co. Warrington, cotton-spinners-Foster and Co. John Street, Bedford. Row, attornies-Lund and Co. Keighley, manufacturers of...

BIRTHS. On the 18th July, at the Vicarage, Whaplode, Lincolnshire, the Wife of the Rev. T. TONSTALL SMITH, of a son. On the 18th, at the Vicarage. New Shoreham. Sussex, the...

WAR OFFICE, July 9.-Ifemoratidem-Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit. the 224 Regt. to aesume upon its regimental or second colour, and likewise upon its...

Thurs. Frktsl. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 34 per Cents Reduced New 34 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per cent. India Stock, 104...