IF the present Government has constituted itself to some extent an agent for the late Government in carrying on the measures which Lord Palmerston's Cabinet left unsettled, it...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House or Loans. Monday. March 72. Royal Assent to the Havelock Annuity Bill, and East India Loan Bill—Law of Property ; Lord St. Leonards's Bill...

Mum state business has been transacted this week by the Queen. Her Majesty held a court on Monday. Baron Brunnow had audience, and delivered his credentials as Envoy...

A general Court of the East India Company was held on Wednesday ; Mr. Mangles in the chair. The Court unanimously agreed to a vote of thanks to Sir James Cosmo Melvill, the late...

The provincial towns furnish no news of public interest beyond that connected with the Assizes, now in progress, and such commonplace matter as accidents on railways. Polities...

The election for the University of Dublin has been in progress this week. From the result of three days' poll, beginning on Tuesday, it may be inferred that Mr. Lefroy will be...

irautt.—The long-reported resignation of Count de Persigny is now an accomplished fact. His resignation has been accepted, and Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff, has been...

The Queen has given orders for several appointments to the Order of the Bath. To be Knights Commander8—ColoneL3 Sydney John Cotton, William Rose Mansfield, and Thomas Seaton of...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons last night, Mr. DISRAELI introduced the bill proposed by the present Ministers for transferring the govern- ment of India from the East India...

As next week will be " Passion " or " Holy " week, accordingly as the designation is given by Anglican or Romanist, we now touch the border of the longest theatrical recess...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The market for English Securities has been exceedingly quiet all the week, with a continued absence of business ; from the opening on Monday...

Hall and St. Martin's Hall Oratorios, Mullah's Orchestral Con- certs, and those of Henry Leslie's Choir; but they have all lacked the in- terest of novelty, nothing having been...

THE PRINCIPLES OF INDIAN LEGISLATION. IT appears but too likely that the magnificent Indian empire, whose destinies and organization deserve the profoundest study of the...

IT is peculiarly characteristic of Asia and of India, that though the latter projects some twelve hundred miles into the ocean and exposes East and-West an immense seaboard, yet...

WHILE the commercial world, without any distinction of geo- graphical limits, may be said to be recovering, we observe a very remarkable and equally satisfactory tendency to...

The new and vexatious aggravation of the passport nuisance is only one of the many instances which prove that the Emperor Na- poleon and his Government are now engaged in...

NOTICING is more conspicuous on the surface of society than a great improvement in the materials of dress. A certain brilliancy and elegance are not limited, as they once were,...

TrEBE is one mode in which the Jew question could be settled summarily. If there exists a gentleman of Jewish birth and "persuasion," with as much disregard" de minirnis" as...

THE MARITIME DEFENCES. Portsmouth, 22d March. Sia—Agreeing as I do with much that your correspondent on the Maxi- time Defences has advanced, and allowing Out he has given a...

CARDINAL WISEMAN'S LAST POUR POPES. * THIS ample volume contains the reminiscences of Cardinal Wise- man at Rome during a residence of more than twenty years, at a period when...

of English poetry, being regarded as a great man by a particular class of literati, and scarcely known by name to the general public. The fact that he belonged to that school of...

with average ability, can always become distin- guished among his own persuasion. The test of a great preacher is the effect he-produces on minds not brought up in his peculiar...

expecta- tion as Mr. Charles Heade ; yet when one looks back upon his literary career the causes of his decline seem to be distinctly traceable. His first two novels exhibited a...

Booxs. Annals of Windsor : being a History of the Castle and Town ; with some Ac- count of Eton and Places Adjacent. By Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., and James Edward Davies,...

On the 11th March, at Whitley Abbey, Coventry, the Hon. Caroline Hood, w idow of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Whtler Hood ; in her 77th year. On the 16th, at Alexander Square,...

BRwwj620 FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 1 . 8ellsrd. Monday. Tsitsday Wedaes. 1171eirs. Friday, Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents - Long...

Oh the 1st December, at Auckland, Alexander, youngest son of the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., of Peniculk, to Edith, third daughter of Dr. A. Buchanan. On the 4th...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 23. - PankruPla- - EDwARD PoLE, Reading,7tea-dealer-Jonx FOUGE, Barking, Essex, sail-maker-Tnoma PHIPPS THOMAS, Crown Court, Threadneedle Street,...

On the 18th March, at Woolwich, the Wife of Colonel G. J. L. Buchanan; Royal Artillery, of a son. On the 19th, at Heatherton Park, near Taunton, the Wife of Hugh Edward Adair,...