presenting at Court, Parliament have been most engaged with several branches of that hydra the Bribery question. One Mr. JOHN WREN was a witness before the Southampton Election...

THE arm of the assassin has again been raised against the Sovereign, in one of those wretched outbursts of morbid peculiarity that baffle satisfactory solution. Returning to...

of strange, wandering babble. The popular assembly at Paris has been affected with a rapid succession of symptoms. A few English fishermen, who bad been seized by the French...

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE QUEEN. While the House of Commons was debating the Income-tax Bill, on Monday, Sir James Graham entered the House with an anxious counte- nance,...

The Court of Aldermen assembled on Tuesday, on the summons of the Lord Mayor, to address the Queen on her escape from assassination. Every Alderman in town was present, and all...

A SECOND attempt on the life of the Queen filled the town, on Monday evening, with astonishment and indignation ; which augmented as the report spread from month to mouth. A...

The nomination of candidates took place at Ipswich on Thursday. The Conservative candidates were Lord Desart and Mr. Gladstone ; the Liberals, Mr. Gisborne, Mr. Moffatt, and Mr....

The General Assembly did not flinch from their bold course during the progress of the session. On Thursday last week, the Reverend Mr. Robertson of Ellon, the Reverend Charles...

The King of Prussia has conferred the Order of the Black Eagle on the Duke of Sussex ; and the Order of the Red Eagle of the first class on General Sir Hudson Lowe. Mr. Robert...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The House of Commons, last night, resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, to consider the duties on sugar; and the CHAN- CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER...

honour of knighthood on Mr. George Hayter, the Queen's Principal Painter in Ordinary, Mr. William Charles Ross, A.R.A., Mr. William Allan, President of the Royal Academy of...

dorff, reviewed the First and Second Regiments of Life Guards and the Eighth Hussars, at Wormwood Scrubs, this morning. The Queen and Prince arrived on the ground soon after...

Kent , are agreed to in all quarters. Yesterday, the East India House adopted addresses ; and every mail brings accounts of loyal meetings in the country-towns.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The books of the Three per Cent Consols closed on Wednesday, and those of the New Three-and-a-half per Cents on the following day. These...

to be introduced before the duty on its importation into France, at pre- sent 10 per cent, shall have been doubled. The alarm in Ireland at this practical warning is aggravated...

from India. It is bad enough, but hardly so bad as it looks. The position of the British at Ghuznee was a subject of anxiety two months ago : the garrison con- sisted of only...

half-past ten o'clock, Mr. Hennell, the Company's chemical operator, was preparing some detonating mercury for percussion-caps for the East India Company : a labourer who was...

THE QUEEN AND JOHN FRANCIS: PUNISHMENT OF ASSAULTS ON THE ROYAL PERSON. THE Queen's conduct before and since the recent outrage evinces that deliberate courage which is the...

Arrived—At Gravesend, June 1st, Maidstone. Wimble, from Bengal; and True Briton, Consitlt, from Madras; 2d, Foam. Greig, from China; and 4th. Sumatra, Dun- can, from Ceylon. At...

SIXTH CONCERT—MONDAY, MAY 30. Aar I. New MS. Descriptive Symphony (first time of performance in this country) Scene, Miss Basserro, •• Ah! parlate " (II S.terijiziod'ilbramo)...

IT is recorded that a judge, whose decisions were much admired, once confessed to his king, that he was in the habit of deter- mining difficult cases by throwing dice in his...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Six—As the writer of the paper referred to in the letter of ANTI-HOMEO- PATHY of last week, it is necessary that I should trespass upon your...

THERE has been but small temptation this week for people to exchange the delightful and health-giving breezes of the Parks and suburbs for the foul and heated atmosphere of the...

. POETRY. Poems. By Allied Tennyson. In two volumes. Moses. Vicriow, Sultuess; a Novel. By the Author of •• Hardness." In three volumes. Samacirrs and &ley. rouvrear....

WHETHER tried by itself or compared with its predecessor, Softness is a failure. Either the author was exhausted by his first produc- tion and he is now substituting words and a...

appears to be a protégé of Lord ASHLEY; and he made a tour through the Factory districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1841, to look into the factories, in- quire into the...

From May 27th to Jose 2d. Boons. The Factory System Illustrated; in a Series of Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Ashley, M.P., &e. By WILLIAM DODD, a Factory Father e l...

LAKE PRICE'S VIEWS IN VENICE. Mn. LAKE PRICE has recently returned from a sojourn at Venice, with a portfolio of sketches in water-colours, wherein the marble palaces and...

Tuesday, May SI. PARTNERSHIPS itessoLvzo. Clothier and Moody, Castle Street. Bloomsbury, coal dealers—Whitworth and Mac- farlane. Manchester, packers—Runcorn and Gregory....

THE object of this volume of lithographic sketches is to present the broad and characteristic features of " London as it is "; showing some of the great leading thoroughfares as...

BIRTH& On the 12th May, at Sorel, Lower Canada. the Lady of Aarnua E. Karoirov, Esq., Captain Sixty-eighth Light Infantry. of a daughter. On the 26th. at Felpham. near Bognor,...

OFFICE or ORDNANCE. May 27.—Corps of Royal Engineers—To be First Lieuts.— A. 0. Grattan, vice St. G. L. Lyster. dec.; Second Limit. M. Va 'amour, vice Lloyd ; Second Lieut. J....

BRITISH 3 per Cent. Consols ...... .. Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 34 per Cents. Reduced New 3* per Cents Long Annuities Bauk S:ock, 7 per cent. India Stock. 101...