SLOWLY the country is assuming a little more the aspect of poll-. heal life; a few elections, and the preparations for one of more importance, have contributed to increase the...

THE QUERN received as visitors at the Castle, on Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Malakhoff and the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury. Soon after the arrival of the party her...

The Governors of Dulwich College, of whom Lord Stanley is o ne , em , pointed to carry out the recent act of Parliament in connexion the with, have determined to open the...

MR. BRIGHT AT BDIMINGIIAM. The townspeople of Birmingham, summoned by the Mayor, met Mr. Bright in the Town-hall, at seven o'clock on Wednesday evening; every Part of the...

One of the most numerous political meetings held in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, since the Reform Bill lora, took place in the Lecture-room, Nelson Street; Mr. William Cook in the...

The opening of the Warminster Athenaeum, an institution to promote literature and science, was inaugurated on Thursday with a public meet- ing in the lecture room ; the Marquis...

A great meeting of the friends of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts took place in St. George's Hall, Bradford, on Friday last week. At least 4000...

Lard John Russell assisted, on Friday afternoon, at the inauguration of an additional wing for the Manchester Ragged and Industrial Schools, at Ardwick Green. The building in...

The Army Clothing Commissioners have commenced their inquiry at Woolwich, General Peel having desired that the investigation should "take a wider range, and embrace the...

DISTRESS OF THE - MONTROSE SHIPOWNERS. At Montrose, on Wednesday last week, an influential body of ship- owners met Mr. Baxter, the Member for the burgh, in the council-room,...

Mr. Edward Litton, Senior Master of the Court of Chancery, Mr. Retry Daley, and Mr. Wilmot Seton, of the Treasury-office, London, have arrived in Dublin, as Commissioners...

We have reason to believe that the Proclamation which was to ae_ nounce the assumption ot the Government of India by the Queenss - a s drawn up and despatched from this country...

c frattrz ank 13nringal.—Early in the week they reported from Paris that the dispute with Portugal had been satisfactorily settled—on the basis that is of an absolute concession...

SATURDAY. A public dinner was given at Birmingham yesterday to Mr. John Bright. Mr. Muntz (brother of the late Member) was in the chair. , Among the gentlemen present were J....

London should not be overlooked by any one who would estimate the theatrical Full. leetions of the English public in the middle of the nineteenth century. Indeed, while the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. After the usual weekly meeting yesterday, the Directors of the Bank of England separated without deciding upon making any alteration in the...

FRANCE AND PORTUGAL. E ns wex is rapidly taking an attitude in international affairs w hich is far too grave for any discussion, except;that serious and deliberative sort which...

THE heartiness and vehemence, which Mr. Bright throws into his speeches, are very refreshing in this day of simpering unanimity, and mincing discourse. English society, private...

IT seems to be proved by the present relations between the Ca ra _ bridge University Commissioners and the Colleges which they ar e attempting to reform, that the actual...

NOTWITHSTANDING the comparatively negative disposition of the country in political affairs, it is not at all difficult to collect and interpret the evidence of its true feeling....

IT used to be a reproach of the Whigs that they plaoed every- thing in commission. They had commissions to manage the Poor law,—commissions to manage our health,—to perform...

AN Australian Colonist has proposed to assist the great operations of nature in rather an interesting process. He has invited the Times, nobility, gentry, and public in general...

JUVENILE CRIME. SIR—In a former letter, while calling attention to the fact that our re- formatory labours make it a matter of pure justice, to provide education for the...

examination made into the accounts of Mirza-Agha-Khan, ex-Sadragan (Prime Minis- ter,) who, with his two sons, is still in custody, has revealed facts which are almost...

GENERAL THOMPSON'S LETTERS TO ]IIS CONSTITUENTS.. THESE Letters of a Representative to his Constituents are a striking example of the tendency of the age ; which is beyond all...

of Murray's Handbooks arises from a variety of circumstances, liberality, judgment, and method being the chief A Ifandbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine' including an...

EDITED BY C. D. L. * THE poetical garden is never without its variety of blossoms, though many of them are but scrubby plants. Each season brings forth its early spring violets...

The movement among the publishers continues. Messrs. Longmans have produced the first volume of Mr. Crowe's "History of France " ; a work by an able man, who has been familiar...

On the 16th September, near Beers, Lieutenant George Malcolm Shaw, 3d Bom- bay Light Cavalry, second son of A. N. Shaw, Esq., from sunstroke, during the pursuit of the rebels...

On the 11th May, at Dharwar, Lieut. Thomas Ernst Britten, 28th Regt. N.I., eldest son of Thomas Britten, Esq., late of Grose End Road, St. John's Wood, to Mary, daughter of T....

On the 10th October, at London, Canada West, the Hon. Mrs. Maurice Portman, of a son. On the 21st, in Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, Lady Sitwell, of a daughter. On the...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OCTOBER 26. WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, October 26.-Caealry-Royal Regiment of Hone Guards -D. H. R. Wingfield, Gent, to be Cornet, by purcliesc, vice...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 26. Bankruptcies Annullcd.-Wn.was SLUM', Liverpool, ironmonger - Many and GEORGE GOWLAND, Liverpool, chronometer-makers. Bankrupts.-EnwAnn Huars...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Sinfurd. Menfley. Tuesday. Wedess Hors. Trades, 981 1 14 981 9P1 981 :1 9S1 981 98 981 9ii 97 97i 97 971 971 971 97 97 971 971 97 -- If ---...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER. 26. ADMIRALTY, October 25.-With reference to the promotions which appeared in the " London Gazette" of the 21st September, 1858, the following...