Gazette on the same day that the prorogation took place. Whatever may have been in other respects its merits or demerits, the Parliament of 1847-1852 must be admitted to have...

THE Speech from the Throne, with which the business of the session of Parliament was formally wound up on Thursday, was of the approved stereotyped form. There was a touch of...

gation, though not as preparatory to a general election. The parting 'address of the President to his legislators is bland and conciliatory ; but M. Bonaparte is never so...

appear- ance of its being sharp. In a fourth part of the constituencies there is no contest, and in few of the rest do any earnest pre- parations appear to be made. The truth...

the fruits of the Durham Letter. By that characteristically cunning but rash stroke of policy, Lord John Russell " sowed the wind to reap the whirlwind." His successors in...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. Horn or Leans. Balurday, June 28. Bills forwarded a stage. Monday, June 28. Petition against the removal of Smithfield Market to Copen- hagen...

Tarn Queen stood sponsor to the Princess Gauromma, on her reception into the Christian Church by baptism from the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the private chapel of...

The Metropolitan constituencies are in full activity of preparation for electing Members to the new Parliament which the Q ueen has called. In London, it now seems that the...

A very large meeting of the freeholders and electors of South Northumberland was convened by the High Sheriff; and held on " the Seal," outside the town of Hexham, on Tuesday,...

The Edinburgh journals publish a correspondence between the Scottish Reformation Society and Mr. Macaulay. The Society requested to be in- formed whether Mr. Macaulay would vote...

Dr. Cullen was enthroned as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, at the beginning of the week, with great pomp. A procession of digni- taries in full canonicals bore over the...

The prorogation and dissolution of Parliament has not immediately thickened the plot of reelection. There is abundance of canvassing and of meeting-holding going on, but not...

A Royal proclamation " for dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another" appeared in a Gazette Extraordinary on Thursday evening. The late Parliament...

FRANCE.—Last week, M. Kervegnen applied, under the lettec, of "the Constitution," for the authorization of the Legislative Corps to publish at his own expense a speech made by...

mourning for the late Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, the Queen's uncle : the mourning to commence on Sunday the 4th instant, (tomorrow,) to change on Sunday the 11th, and to end on...

in which English enterprise plays a leading part, was inaugurated on Thurs- day. An English, Dutch, and Belgian company, has been formed to re- claim the land covered by the...

of the causes as well as the facts of the riot on Tuesday. The investiga- tion is attended by barristers, who appear for the prisoners on the one hand, and for the owners of the...

SATURDAY. The chief contents of the morning journals are reports of meetings, and other preceedings in commencement or anlicipation of the elections. The chief contents of the...

been arrested in a house in the Batignolles, manufacturing an "infernal machine " of fourteen musket-barrels. Ten other men had been arrested. "Rumours of a conflicting...

On the 16th June, at Paris, the Lady of Colonel B. S. Botch, (daughter of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence,) of a daughter. On the 25th, at Hinchley Wood, Ashbourn, the Hon. Mrs....

been reputed the first singer of his class in Italy, appeared on Thursday at Her Majesty's Theatre as Figaro in the Barbiere di Siviglia. His success was not com- mensurate to...

The German company have at length brought their labours to a close;. and, on the whole, their career has been most honourable. We are not among those who have gone into...

has now been engaged for a considerable time at the Haymarket Theatre, should be so little brought forward. In working out the details of those clever fine ladies who are the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FELDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have been heavy during the whole week ; the pressure of Stock upon the market having been greater than ordinary. Among the...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY STATUTES. Sin—" Z." says in his rejoinder to my letter—" He complains that I have not read page 2 of the Report, in which he says there is a statement that...

versus Wagner, which we mentioned last week, disposed solely of the matter of the injunction, and had no bearing whatever upon Mr. Lumley's - claim of compensation for the lose...

London, 23d June 1852. Sin—I have had, within the last few days, a circular placed in my hands, asking for subscriptions in aid of a cheap publication, named " The True Briton."...

concert presented only one novelty—a symphony by Ferdinand Hiller, a composer of considerable reputation in Germany, who has been in London for some months, and conducted the...

29th June 1852. Sin—At the passing of the Reform Bill, the Spectator distinguished itself by urging the necessity of attention being given by the electors to the special...

WHAT IS BEFORE THE NEXT PARLIAMENT. THE comparison which naturally suggests itself between the chiefs of two great states dismissing their national councils almost at the same...

let June 1852. Sra—I have just read an able though acrimonious article (in the North British Review for April) on the subject of Binocular Vision, in which the writer maintains...

" TRE comprehensive and beautiful prayers of the Church, and the calm and pure exposition of the gospel by her ministers, have no attraction for him," the labouring countryman...

to see a poor relation wasting a " blessed ap- petite" on mutton, for a schoolboy to see a led horse go by with an empty saddle, for a hunting squire" to see a Southerly wind...

Loan linThillaST, who has been to the Derby something like what Peel was to the Russell Cabinet, proclaimed his approbation of the excellent use made by Lord Derby of his four...

the verdict to the evidence in the Achilli case has been contested ; but certain conclusions are definite and pertinent, rough-hewn as they may be by the public. It is...

AoaiAL from fifty members of Convocation has been pre- sented to the Hebdomadal Board of Oxford, praying for the ap- pointment of a Delegacy to inquire and report " as to the...

STILES'S AUSTRIA IN 184 8-4 9.* THIS narrative is a well-digested amount of the different revolts that in 1848 and 1849 brought the Austrian empire to the verre of dissolution ;...

IT is with satisfaction that we note the continued accumulation of precedents establishing bona fide compensation as the rule in cases of breach of promise of marriage, where...

considerable repute in his own country, and of high though limited estimation here. Extensive popularity he is not perhaps likely to achieve, because his great merit lies rather...

This is a socio-didactic novel, where a particular family is chosen as the type of a class, and their characters, conduct, and fortunes are exhibited, less perhaps to adorn a...

BOOKS. Memoirs of the Bight Honourable Henry Lord Langdale. By Thomas Duffus Hardy. In two volumes. Magnetieal Investigations. By the Reverend William Scoresby, D.D., Fellow...

CONSTITUTION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS: REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE. Committee ordered 10th February 1852 ; nominated 12th February 1852. Mr. Mitchell, Mr....

THE ARUNDEL SOCIETY. Two new prints have been published by the Arundel Society,—" St. Lawrence before the Emperor Decius," from one of Fra Angelico's fresco series in the...

Tuesday, June 29. PARTNERSHIPS DissoLvED.-Matthews and Co. Lower Seymour Street, surgeons- Taylor and Williams, Manchester,joiners-Simpson and Gilbert, Walsall, booksellers -A....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing MOIL) Sarerd. Meadow. ressulay. rams. 27sere MANN shut — — — — 1003 exd I 1001 1003 1043 10 101 6 1 101 1013 101 101 4J 104 1011 101 1044 6 — 2243...