Although on a diminished scale of interest, Maynooth has still been the largest topic , discussed by Parliament ; but even that was subsidiary to some curious historical...

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. In the House of Commons, on Monday, it was moved that the report 'of the Committee on the Maynooth grant be received; on which Mr. SHAR I - ILAN CRAWFORD...

of which the newsmongers try to make something. M. Guizot has been obliged to rusticate for a month, to repair his injured health. There is the ready interpretation put upon...

task of getting up a show of " popular excitement" against the measure ; but, thro ug h the smoke they raise, one sees suspicious glimpses of a gene.ral calm beyond. The world...

Tan principal event of the week has been the drawingroom which the Queen held at St. James's Palace yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in the usual state from...

A number of delegates from various religious congregations throughout the country, to protest against the increased grant for Maynooth, assembled at the Crown and Anchor Tavern...

The election of a Member for Leominster took place on Saturday. Mr. Ham- - mond Whalley, a Whig and an opponent of the Maynooth grant, had appeared at the eleventh boor in...

Lord Castlereagh has been appointed to the Lieutenancy of the County' of Demi, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Downshire. At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on...

Fnerrem.—The Monitetn- of Monday published a Royal ordinance appointing Count Duchatel (Minister of the Interior) to act as Foreign Secretary for Guizot; to whom leave of...

We are authorized to state, that at a meeting of several noblemen and gentle- men, members of the Church of England, held on Saturday last, it was resolved to take immediate...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 28th April, E. Buckham, Bewley ; and Jane, Rockland, from Launceston ; Forfarshire, Simons ; and Lysander, Sangster, from China; Ellen- borough, Close ;...

will certainly visit Ireland about the latter end of July; and subsequently proceed to Germany for a short period.—Morning Post The Morning Post states that the preliminaries...

Covent Garden Theatre has undergone a metamorphosis as striking as any change wrought on its stage by the wand of Harlequin. The sombre Done portico is become the entrance to an...

the Five per Cents in their bureaux; and 80 out of 130 present had declared themselves hostile to tho measure. This decides its fate for the present

Chambers on the preceding day. In the Deputies, while discussing an extraordinary credit of 443,000 francs for Oceania; the Minister of Marine stated that Government had had...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Parliament was occupied entirely by subjects of a religious or an ethical nature last night. We must narrate rather than report the proceedings in detail. In...

an imperfect-account of an accident, accompanied with great loss of life, at Yarmouth last night. " Mr. Nelson, the Clown belonging to Mr. Cook's Circus, now at Yarmouth, an-...

in New Zealand, dated the 5th December last, addressed to an intimate friend in London—hi one of the leading colonists at Wellington, and is known to us as trustworthy, both...

STOCX EXCHANGE. FlIDAY AMINO**. The English Government Securities were without any material change till to- day; when some speculative sales occurred, and Consols, which at the...

a five-act piece produced at the Princess's, entitled Infatuation. A Dutchess, married by Imperial command to one of Napoleon's creatures, is infatuated with a young German...

Theatre, are amusingly astounding. M. Phillippe beats Herr Dobler hollow. Dobler's masterpiece of legerdemain was bringing bouquets out of an empty hat; but M. Phillippe,...

he the absence of any musical novelty challenging notice at the Italian Opera, house, the return of Cerito has infused new life into the ballet: the genial sense of delight,...

" WIT works wonders" may be truly said of Douglas Jerrold's new co- medy, Time Works Wonders; for to the brilliant and racy dialogue its great success is attributable. Not that...

LEAVE has been given to bring in the Scotch University Bill : the expediency of abolishing religious tests in the case of Lay Professors has been recognized as a question open...

DO THE TIMES MAKE THE MAN ? A wrrrir writer of our day* maintains, that whenever the times need such and such a character, it is sure to arise. He believes that the right man...

EVERY revolving season brings with it to London flocks of depu- tations on private bills—the swallows of the Parliamentary summer. A happy race they are—envied alike by the...

William Molesworth's Committee established beyond dispute that our system of transportation made devils instead of reforming bad men. The range of transporta- tion was therefore...

THE reader of the Newgate Calendar cannot fail to be struck with the unchanging character of the Ordinary of Newgate. The language and opinions of all other classes of society...

PROJECTS for the establishment of a g reat European Council to exercise jurisdiction in national contr oversies, and thus prevent wars, are as old as the age of Henri Quatre....

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Everyone knows that Samuel Rogers is a poet; many think that lie is also a wit: but who ever said or thought that he was a prophet? Yet so it...

THE" Wolf qiiarrelling with the' Lamb that stood further down the stream, for dirtying the water, is no fable. The wolf is alive and merry in Caucasus at this day. Count...

BIOGRAPHY, Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who flourished in the Reign of George III. By Henry Lord Brougham, F.R.S., Member of the National Institute of France. and of...

UNDER NAPOLEON. Tun subjects of the third volume of M. Thiers's History chiefly re- late to peace or civil affairs; the exception being the campaign in Egypt under Abercrombie,...

THE idea of the Chronicles of Faddist is better than the execution. A very excellent and amusing work might be prodeced on the manners, characters, costumes, carriages,...

CAPTAIN GROVER is a friend of the late Colonel Stoddart, and of Dr. Wolff, whose return from his dangerous Bokhara expedition has just been matter of public gratulation. The...

Glances at Life in City and Suburb. By Cornelius Webbe, Author of "Posthumous Papers of a Person lately about Town," &c. [After ill health and other hinderances, Cornelius Webbe...

THIRD PHILHARMONIC CONCERT—MONDAY, APRIL !& Pair r. Sinfoula in D, (Op. 87.) Yowl. Beth. " Wie hit mir " l Heri. Staudigl. (11") Spahr. Air, " Bitider Thor I" BetehoVen....

THE OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. Thu is one of the least striking exhibitions of the Old Society of Water- colour Painters. There are some beautiful pictures, as well as many in-...

On the Slat April, at Cullen, County Louth, the Lady of William RathbOrne Stipple, Req., of a son and heir. On the 22t1, at Ga.:1 , illiam, Kilpatrick, the Lady of the Rev....

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, April 26.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-See. Capt. A. A. Shuttle= worth to be Capt. via, Trevor, retired on full pay ; First Lieut. G. C. rvele g h to be Sec....

Tuesday, April 29. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Humber and Sanders, King's Place, Commercial Road, auctioneers-aollard and Summers, Haverfordwest, surgeons-Mead and Lawrence,...

BRITISH I , 3 per Cent Consols .. ..... Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced ..... 3/ per Cents LongAnnuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent . India Stock, 10i Exchequer Bills, lid....