SIR ROBERT PEEL has not allowed Ministers to take their misfortunes so quietly as they were disposed to do : they were willing enough to pass over their last defeat in silence,...

stronger than those who evoked it intended. Thus, the Tory objection to the eight-shilling duty, that it could not be permanent, is already substantiated ; for the most...

THE SEQUEL OF THE BUDGET: WANT OF CONFIDENCE. Early on Monday evening, in the House of Commons, Sir ROBERT PEEL gave notice, that on Thursday he should move a resolution to the...

A grand entertainment was given on Monday to the Bishops and clergy, at the Mansionhouse, by the Mayor and Aldermen, on the an- niversary of the Society for the Propagation of...

A TRIP to Claremont and the departure of the Dutchess of Kent for the Continent have varied the Court routine. The Queen and Prince, who left town for Claremont on Saturday,...

Public meetings to petition for repeal of the Corn-laws have been held at Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, in several of the wards and districts of Nottingham, in two wards of...

The Queen's birthday was celebrated in Dublin by a review and sham fight in the Plicenix Park, in the presence of the Lord-Lieutenant, It is generally reported that the...

A flood of electioneering gossip is poured into all the newspapers, in anticipation of the approaching dissolution ; but the statements hitherto have been confined chiefly to...

• The General Assembly of the Church met at Edinburgh on the 20th; Lord Belhaven presiding as the Queen's Commissioner. The proceed- ings in the earlier days of the session...

The papers said, some time back, that Sir Henry Pottinger, the new Plenipotentiary to China, had gone by the last overland mail : it is now said that he will go by the next...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The adjourned debate on Sir Robert Peel's resolution was resumed by Mr. hirtztEs ; who saw no power that the Ministry had but that of thwarting the measures of...

been unable to use, because they were not properly autheutituted. Though our limited space, and the many claims upon it, bind us to brevity. all Election information with which...

Epsom Races commenced on Tuesday. The attendance on that day seems to have been unaffected by political excitement in the Metro- polis. The weather was fine, and the plates were...

a meeting of Liberal electors, to the number of 10,000 or 12,000, on Tuesday, at which letters of resignation from Sir William Molesworth and Mr. Baines - were read ; and after...

Herald today— "On Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies empowered the Minister of Finance to inscribe upon the great book of the Public Debt, and to negotiate with pub- licity and...

Castle. Viscount Melbourne bad an audience of the Queen today ; and then attended a Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office. All the Ministers were present.

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AVTERN00/1: The principal feature in the business of the week has been the settlement of the Consul Account, on Tuesday ; but as the speculative...

public meetings in support of the Ministerial agitation. In the Metropolis, the inhabitants of the borough of Lambeth as- sembled. Some Chartists put forward their amendment ;...

extended over a large space in the surrounding country, and was even more violent at a distance. In the Forest of Berkshire, huge hailstones fell amidst terrific thunder and...

over- whelming majority, petitions to both Houses of Parliament against the Ministerial propositions respecting the Corn-laws and Colonial timber. A meeting of the South Essex...

ON Thursday last, Professor TAYLOR concluded the first series of a course of lectures on the School of German Music, at the Royal Insti- tution. Of the earlier progress of the...

PARLIAMENT AND PREROGATIVE. Si R ROBERT PEEL'S want-of-confidence motion, with the possibility of a majority in its favour, has raised the question, whether Minis- ters must...

The Henry Wellesley, Castle. from London to Van Diemen's Land, is ashore near Calais. uith n'ue feet water in her bold—cargo discharging, much damaged. Arrived—Off Plymouth, May...

WHATEVER may be thought of the theory of dissolving, there seems very little doubt about the fact of an approaching dissolution. Whether PEEL succeed in driving RUSSELL from the...

THE performance of Monday last at Exeter Hall was one of the most interesting musical events of the present season. We had often re- commended the Society to exhibit the...

WE have already discussed one constitutional point, upon the old idea of the constitution. What the new Whig notions of the constitution are, may be gleaned from an article in...

CLASSICAL Aacipsoucox, An Account of Discoveries in Lycia; being a Journal kept during a Second Excur- sion in Asia Minor, by Charles Fellows. 1840 Murray. POLITICAL HISTORY,...

well sustained throughout, though it is dependent rather upon incident than character ; the scenes are wrought up with dramatic power ; and the dialogue is forcible, nay even...

Tan little volume contains the military autobiography of a private soldier, who inlisted in the Army of Reserve on the breaking out of the war in 1803, and volunteered into the...

Tots volume is based upon the author's Grammar of Entomology, a little work which was published several years since, and, though the edition was soon exhausted, never reprinted....

Tuesday, May 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Willey and Green, Jermyn Street, tailors—Mitchell and Goldie, Robert Street, Limehouse. carpenters—Brooke and Bishop. Bath....

BIRTHS. On the 28th inst., at her residence, Hill Street. the Viscouutess DUNCAN, of a son and heir. On the 26th inst.. at Usher's Island, Dublin. the Lady of Sir GASPARD LE...

CURRENT. BRITISH (Closing Tuesday. Prices.) Widnes. Thurs. Friday. FU Saturday -- N OS. lfunday. Spar Cent. Consols 90 90 901 90 891 90 Ditto for Account 891 90 901 904 904...