Sid- ney Herbert intimated that an additional Secretary for Military Affairs will be furnished to that Miniater. Lord Ellenhorough has been the chief critic in the House of...

MINISTERS have postponed the second reading of the Reform Bill —in other words, withdrawn it for the session. We were too sanguine, it appears, in supposing, because a measure...

out of doors, and something has been undone. Lord Palmerston has received a numerous deputation in sequel to that suggestion which originated amongst "Friends in Council," and...

most prominent topic; and the Emperor of the French has made an important contribution to the historical notices of the subject, by his opening speech to the Senate and the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF LOans. Monday, Feb, 27. Courts of Common Law Amendment Bill ; Lord Chancellor's Statement; Bill read first time—County Courts Extension...

The Corporation of the City of London have sent in to the Royal Com- mission a report agreed to in Common Council, setting forth such altera- tions as they recommend in the...

Tan Qum: and the Royal Family witnessed the parade of the Firet Battalion of the Scots Fusiliers on Tuesday . morning, from the balcony ' of Buckingham Palace previously to...

London, where he has been urging Ministers to grant money for the establishment of a Scot- tish National Museum. The Scotsmen says that the Highland Society were about to send a...

the lantivelaction is-LrOrteseue, 91-6; Cantwell, fliffifla In the course of the speechmaking on the dead - ration-day, at Dundalk, 'Mr. Cantwell-boasted that he - would-unseat...

At a meeting of the electioneering committee of Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Bright in Manchester, on Monday,—Mr. George Wilson in the chair,—Mr. Bright made a speech against the...

Pc.—The Emperor opened the Legislative Session of 1851, in the Hall of the Marshals, on Thursday. In the first part of the speech he delivered on the occasion, he referred to...

Another body of Guards marched from London on Tuesday morning ; and the spectacle was still more remarkable than the starlight departure of the battalions last week. It...

Since Saturday there have been four Cabinet Councils : otie on Saturday, at the Foreign Office; a second—which sat for several hours— on Sunday, at Lord Clarendo'a ; a third and...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons; last night, Lord Sons: Ritessm, stated the reasons which have induced . the • Government to postpone the second reading of the Reform Bill„...

On the 5th February, at the Government House, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Lady of his Excellency Sir Gaspard Le Marchant, of a son. On tbe 18th, at Bath, the Wife of the Rev. F....

into, the allegedieerrliptiens of Irish Membera..A• He :complained of being unfairly ;pressed eliinied that he had madeany chergetlie had spoken on mere riuneatre'4.taral he...

ond4y, on an important subject—the copal:option of a liathoue,pfhrefoge at the mouth of the Tyne.. There is no suchlarbour from Hatlkte,Leith. That Part of our coast ia mainly...

minding the Channel Fleet, at dinner on Tuesday next. Lord Palmer- ston will take the chair.— Times. The following unintelligible telegraphic despatch has been received from...

Thurs- day, and took up his abode an the Pavillion Marsan ; Where the Emperor and Empress paid him a visit. The Gotha Gazette intipastes that the ob- ject of this journey is to...

SELECT COMMITTEE DEPARTMENT. Ministerial. Small Arms to consider the cheapest, most expeditious, and most efficient mode of providing Small Arms-for the public service. (Mr....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AIITERNOON. The fluctuations in Government Securities this week have been compara- tively trifling, and the speculative operations for a fall not...

We have received from the Department of Science and Art circulars showing the progress of the movement for indoctrinating the country with the elementary principles of drawing...

THE ARUNDEL SOCIETY. The fifth annual report of the Council of this Society, and the engrav- ings which accompany it, show a satisfactory state of things. The artist selected...

The production of Mr. Henry Leslie's new oratorio, Immanuel, has been expected for some time with considerable interest. The composer, though a young man and an amateur, is well...

story of Psyche, as told by Apuleius, has been engraved by M. Adolph Gnauth, and is in course of publication at Stuttgart. As a sample of his ware, the publisher, Id. Kohler,...

Madame Emile de Girardin has achieved great success at the Francais, by one of those brief embodiments of an idea which are so thoroughly ap- preciated by the better class of...

Some American genius having swelled out the neat little ghost-story of the Corsican Brothers into a dreary five-act play, deemed suitable for the talents of Mr. G. V. Brooke at...

NEUTRALS AND COMMERCE IN WAR. Loan Joint Russzu, has announced that Ministers have under consideration " the whole question relating to neutrals in war time," and will probably...

THERE has been a good deal of writing lately against the proposal made by the Commissioners under the Treasury for a reorganiza- tion of the Civil Service, explained in a...

IF it were possible to watch the progress of a movement so practi- cally important as University Reform with an interest dependent simply on the cleverness displayed by parties...

THE do gmatic ob j ection" a g aibit I any attempt at trade, manu- facture, facture, or Other industry, by Goterthnent, will not stand -either the ge neral application which is...

MnirsTeus have promised a measure on the subject of Public Edu- cation, and the public has expected one at their hands. We have ourselves, some time past, argued both for the...

The recent outburst about the corruptibility of Irish Members be- gan with the attack on two gentlemen who had joined the Govern- ment, and the gravamen of the attack was...

THE columns of a weekly journal are not infinitely elastic ; they do not permit either a frequent repetition of arguments on single points or an unlimited insertion of...

Jr is never too late to learn ; but we know no instance of a de- ferred question so remarkable as that raised by Mr. Napier on Wednesday in moving for a Royal Commission...

be opened in May, that is, as certainly as human calculation can make it. The huge arched palace of glass, containing the most wonderfully various specimens of art in all...

WAZ-OFFICE, Feb. 28.-Brevet-The undermentioned officers to be Brigadier- Generals while employed upon the Staff of the forces about proceeding upon a parti- cular service,...

ADIIIRALTT, Feb. 24.-Corps of Royal Marines-Capt. J. Buchanan to be Lieut.- Col. ; Capt. H. G. Mitford to be Lieut.-Col. vice Dawes, to retired loll-pay; First Lieut. E. T. T....

Tuesday, Fthruary 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Vincent and Fenton, City Road, silk-braid-manufac- turers-Powell and Popplewell, Castleford, Yorkshire, brewers-May and Godfrey,...

Friday, 91 1 911 81 3 921 319 51 237 Is BANK' OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Vittoria; cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday, the 26 th day or...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Jowl. Cratton, No. -15. Crane Court, in rise Parish of St. Mo - ntan% in the West, in the City of London ; and Published by the...

HOOKER'S HIMALAYAN JOURNALS. * ON looking at a map of India, the reader will see that the Hima- layan range drops in a South-easterly direction from its most Northerly point,...

npfiment, MARCH 4, 1854.

in his hopes of the French Republic, Mr. Bayle St. John appears to have set about reflecting upon the causes of its failure : and he finds it in the moral or rather immoral con-...

of Maude Talbot. There is some novelty in the story, or rather in the character of Maude, which may be said to produce and govern the leading in- cidents. The incidents...

"open flatter- ers and privy mockers ": the Postscript of Mr. Croker to his • Correspondence between the Right Honourable J. W. Croker and the Right Honourable Lord John...

Booss. The Mediterranean; a Memoir, Physical, Historical, and Nautical. By Rear-Admiral William Henry Smyth, K.S.F., one of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory; some...

Six — During the years (not now a few) in which I have read your paper, I have often had occasion to notice your candour in stating an opponent's position. I might almost say...

THE LAST DISGRACE OF OXFORD. Oxford, 24th February. Sin—The ruse of the Heads has succeeded, and our University , is forced . by the vote of today into a position antagonistic...

Sin—Deserving as the Reform Bill of 18,54 in its general features may be of the warm commendation that you have bestowed upon it, several of its parts are nevertheless, fairly...

22d February 1854. SIR—Your remarks upon the Government scheme of Parliamentary Re- form will have great effect in recommending it to the public, by pointing out the principles...