ALTHOUGH the questions before Parliament this week have been of first-rate importance, their discussion has not been proportion- ately imposing: they have been the subjects of...

always involves disagreeable contingencies,--urith no great crying grievance to sting the people into anger, there is a wide extent of uneasiness, and perhaps aimless movement,...

NAVIGATION-LAWS. In the House of Commons, on Monday, when Lord Joni Rosetta moved the order of the day for going into Committee on the Navig a ti on . laws, petitions were...

generally is such as to beget increased uneasiness both in the friends of order and the friends of free institutions. In no place scarcely are matters proceeding satisfactorily....

The conviction and punishment of Mr. Mitchel in Dublin have given a pretext to various riotously-disposed persons, who are indiscriminately termed " Chartists " by the press,...

THE Queen held a drawingroom on Saturday last, in celebration of her birthday; at which the Royal Family, the Officers of State and Diplomatic body, and some sixteen hundred of...

The Physical-force Chartists of Lancashire, the West Riding of York- shire, Nottingham, and Warwickshire, have signalized the punishment of Mr. Mitchel in Dublin by riotous...

The Mitchel trial ended on Friday. That day's proceedings were of sufficient constitutional and dramatic intere.t to call for a somewhat full report in our columns. The...

num:E.—Paris has passed a week of uneasiness and alarm. The 150,000 workmen employed in the national workshops find the strength arising from organization; and are in almost...

PLANTING. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the present condition and prospects of the interests connected with and dependent on Sugar and Coffee Planting in her...

A selection of correspondence on the affairs of Spain. and more espe- cially relating to Sir Henry Bnlwer's dismissal from Madrid, has been laid before Parliament by Lord...

Friday evening. "The Irish Confederation have published an address signed by Smith O'Brien, declaring that the period is rapidly approaching when armed resistance to the...

SATURDAY. The House of Commons was occupied last night with the continued debate on Mr. Herries's resolution. The resolution was supported by Mr. HUDSON, Captain Halms, Sir...

in that capital The Committee of the National Assembly on M. Louis Blanc's easere- ported, yesterday, in favour of impeachment. It is said that a deputation from the...

now Se- cretary to her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon, to be her Ma jesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Confederation.—London Gazette.

night; but no serious consequences ensued. The Police authorities are informed that attempts of this annoying description are to be renewed every night next week, simultaneously...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions of the week have been of a very unimportant oharaoter; the fluctuation of Consols not having exceeded per cent, the closing...

This has been a busy week in the way of concerts. In the first place, there was the Philharmonic, on Monday; an excel- lent concert, which has met with unmingled approbation....

THE DUTY OF STATESMANSHIP TO EUROPE. WE watch in vain for an European policy—a master policy that shall arise out of the turmoil, and compose the troubled waters with the hand...

So little has the public been accustomed of late to mortality in the Royal Family, and the usages which accompany it, that the closing of the Theatres on Monday, on account of...

As gamesters with the dice-box, playing for life and death, so Government and Rebellion have by turns wielded the jury-box, rattling in it the twelve " good men and true," duly...

Oun Slave-trade policy is one of the most extraordinary instances of national caprice upon record. Indeed, the whole history of that traffic, commencing as it did in the...

TIM official publication of more correspondence on the subject of the dispute between Sir Henry Bulwer and the Spanish Govern- ment has occasioned a burst of indignant ridicule,...

Thayer.", A Pilgrimage to Rome t containing some Account of the High Ceremonies, the NO. nestle Institutions, the Religious Services, the Sacred Relics, the Miraculous MOP...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. On the 1st of April—fitting day—the Spectator exposed with inimitable force the manner in which the Talking-machine called into activity by the...

ganost in a time of such political dulness—in the absence of m eseral and genuine political agitation for specific objects—have- grievances so many, so practical, and so urgent,...

Ms. WILKINSON resided for seven years in South Australia, and has thrown the results of his own and some other experiences into the volume before ns. Like the generality of...

JOHN SOBIESKI and CHARLES EDWARD STUART, the authors of' these volumes, are already known by some researches into Highland history, and a work of fiction called Tales of the...

IN some points of view this novel is an improvement upon Mrs. Daniel's former fiction. The attention is not drawn off by a double story, and the graver incidents which cause the...

Booms. Sketches of the Last Naval War. Translated from the French of Ca E. Jurien de is Gravisre, by the Honourable Captain Plunkett, .N., Author of " The Past and Future of...

ROYAL ACADEMY: STORY PICTIIRES CONCLUDED. IT is when we escape altogether from history, and come to the pictures of genre or designs from pure fiction, that we find the...

On the 25th May, In Grosvenor Square, the lion. Mrs. Arthur Dnneombe, of a sou. On the 26th, at Whitechurch Rectory, near Edgware, the Lady of the Rev. B. T. Armstrong, of a...

Tuesday, Hay 80. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. &holes and Co. Manchester, bankers-Harlow and Beardsley, Nottingham, joiners- B. and W. James, Newport, builders-Nicholls and Sons,...

WAR-OFFICE, June 1.-15th Regt. of Light Drags.-E. Harnett, Gent. to be Comet by purchase, vice Bennett, promoted. 11th Regt. of Foot- Sergt.-Major D. Simpson to be Ensign,...

Assists:is-At Gravesend, 27th May, Duke of Portland, Cubitt, from Madras; 29th, Orator, Tayt, from Singapore; 30th, Maidstone, from Calcutta ; and let June, Fame, Baird ; and...

Notes issued 128,743,610 Government Debt ... £11.015,116 Other Securities 2.9+4 .900 Gold Coin and Bullion 11,338,612 Silver Bullion 1,404,998 £26,743,610...