Mn. Wierrsam's motion on the subject of Kars assumed an importance not originally contemplated. The capitulation ap- peared to be the weak point in the conduct of the war ; it...

papers which ac- company it, had been in great part anticipated by information that had oozed out, and by the unauthorized though not entirely inaccurate version of the treaty,...

WEEK. Hones or LOs128. Monday, April 28. Marriage Law ; Lord Brougham's Bill read a first time—The Treaty of Peace laid on the table—Austrian Occupation of Italy; Lord...

The papers and protocols arising out of the negotiations at the Paris Congress have been laid before Parliament. They consist of the treaty of - peace, the ratifications of...

BUSINESS and pleasure throng closely upon each other's heels in the re- cords of the Court newsman. On Monday, the Queen held a Privy Coun- cil, at Buckingham Palace ; when the...

Peace was proclaimed on l'uesday, with the customary formalities. Although there had been but short notice, very considerable crowds gathered in the streets, and accumulated in...

Dr. Cullen caused a pastoral of the usual length to be read from all the altars in Dublin on Sunday. The avowed object of the pastoral was to commemorate the peace ; but a very...

A preliminary meeting of influential gentlemen was held on Tuesday in the Religious Institution Rooms, Glasgow, to consider the propriety of forming an Adult Reformatory...

Peace was formally proclaimed in the great provincial towns on Wed- nesday. At Southampton, the Corporation sword, which was unsheathed when war was declared, was returned to...

three o'clock, for the last time, and exchanged ratifications. There were present, for Aus- tria, N. de Hubner ; for France, Count Walewski and Baron Bour- queney ; for Great...

GENERAL THANZSGIVING.—Two proclamations were issued simulta- neously with the " proclamation of peace" ; one enjoining a day of thanksgiving in England, the other in Scotland,...

On the 11th April, at St. Croix, West ludiee, the Wife of Francis Bodes Newton, Esq., of a son. On the 26th, in Eaton Terrace, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Townshend...

and integrity of the Ottoman empire, was last night pre- sented by Ministers to both Houses of Parliament. Stripped of the merely formal preamble and declaratory clause, the...

the Gulf of Riga was reopened on the 26th ultimo, when the Swedish screw-steamer the Halt arrived at Riga with a cargo of salt. Eighty other vessels were in sight." A...

SATURDAY. Several interesting questions were asked last night in the House of Commons. Lord Joan MAN:sees wished to know whether, under the treaty of Paris, Russia has or not a...

daily papers, we have heard that the Governorship of Victoria, which lately went begging, has been offered to the Marquis of Chandos, and not refused. The Russian Minister...

bickering debate on the mismanagement of the war and its inglorious termination, —the objections proceeding from Aldermen Sidney and Copeland,-- agreed " unanimously " that an...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The heaviness in the English Funds at the close of last week upon the prospect of a New Loan was succeeded on Monday by a further depression...

is "ever fair and ever young," yet, being no longer young, it cannot be denied that she still has much of the power which belongs to youth and beauty. She has done what neither...

by a farce entitled the Yankee Housekeeper, which in itself is utterly , worthless, but which introduces to the public a genial representative of New England manners in the...

most classical materials. There were Mozart's symphony in G minor and Beethoven's Pastorale the overtures were Sphor's Jessonda and Cherubini's Anacreon. Madame Viardot sang an...

A new work, composed by M. Halevy and written by MM. Jules Bar- bier and Michel Cane, has been produced at the Opera Comique, with the title Valentine d'Aubigny. The heroine,...

All the promises respecting the Winter's Tale were amply fulfilled at the Princess's Theatre on Monday last ; when, in the presence of Royal- ty, the great dramatic "sight"...

Scene succeeds scene fast under the hand of Mr. Burford; whose ex- hibition has all the energy of youth joined to the "established" respect- ability of age. The new picture...

Mr. Whiteside's Motion—" That, while this House feels it to be its duty to express its admiration of the gallantry of the Turkish soldiery, and of the devotion of the British...

PARTY POLITICS. ' LORD Pamsrox has told the Liberal Members assembled round him, that the Government could not go on without their coopera- tion ; and a journal which appears...

Jr we suffered ourselves to judge entirely from present a ppearance, the Conference at Paris has been successful, not only in securing the terms of a peace reasonably favourable...

AT the sitting of the 8th April, Count Walewski endeavoured to constitute the Paris Conference an Alliance against the Press. There is no exaggeration in this statement, and it...

BANQUETS like that given by the Lord Mayor to the Law Amend- ment Society have become a political and social power in the coun- try. They are the opportunities for making the...

Tinny the model official may say that his right hand knoweth not what his left hand doth ; for there is a kind of official igno- rance which seems to preclude ministers of state...

April 29.—Cava1ry-6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—F. C. Shells, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Holdforth, who r e tires. 6th Dragoons—Cornet W. Hall has been permitted to...

[From the Official Return.] Ten Weeks of 1846 , A9. Week of 1856. Zymotic Diseases 210.2 .... 194 Dropsy, Cancer, and other Diseases of uncertain or variable seat 44.2 40...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Arm, • 29. Partnerships Dissolved.—Carter and Heighington, Woburn—Owen and Co. St. Diary Axe, and Southampton, ship-brokers—A. and A. Wells, Dorking,...

921 921 91 919 31 2101 226 5 dis. Thurs. Friday• BR IT ISH F UN D S (Closing Prices.) Sahara. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. 3 per Cent Consols Date for Account a per Cents...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Joszen Ctrs- TON, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London ; and Published by the...

FROUDE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. * THE portion of the history of England which Mr. Fronde has chosen for reconsideration and restatement has been treated by writers who represent...

MAY 3, 1856.

Archer Butler lived himself to publish the results of his studies in ancient philosophy, it may be safely asserted that a very different work from the one which Professor...

some sketches of English manners and society ; last year he gave an account in The Wa- bash of his expedition to the United States in search of a series of family estates ; in...

this volume of travel and its results is the Pyrennees from the Bay of Biscay to the Gulf of Lyons, and some parts of France and Spain adjacent to the mountain-range. The...

A. GOOD portion, of these volumes might have been omitted with advantage,—such as florid descriptions of scenery, 'resuraes from Jewish, classicaL, mediceval, or modern history,...

THE two oldest of the greater reviews, the Edinburgh and the Quarterly, are rather of average than extraordinary merit. The papers are mostly well we enough chosen- in point of...

THREI books of value or attraction are on our table. The continuation of the Buckingham Papers, under the title of "Memoirs of the Regency," begins with the intrigues which...

The terms of comparison between the Old and the New Galleries of our Water-colour School are more than commonly unequal this year. The Old Society has got up a capital...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. Yesterday, the doors of the Royal Academy opened for the private view, and displayed a gathering of works which, on the first rapid in- spection,...

HENRY THE Ensirrn.—It is certain that if he had died before the divorce was mooted, Henry VILE. like that Roman Emperor said by Tacitus to have been " consensu onmiumlignua...

The sale of Mr. Rogers's copious and choice collection of works of art and vertu commenced at Christie's on Monday, with the Egyptian anti- quities; and is to last twelve days,...

FOR THE MONTH AND THREE MONTHS ENDED 31eT MARCH 1856 AND 1856. Month ended March 31, EXPonve. 1850. 1865. Declared value of British- £ Manufactures, &e 9,448,570 7,311,303 Of...