THE great annual exposition of our financial state, the Budget, has been presented to Parliament ; comprising also some little reduc- tion of taxation, and the foretaste of an...

escapade on his part. After the resolution passed by the House of Commons last week, declaring his statements false and calum- nious, Mr. FERRAND addressed a letter to Mr. H000,...

THE BUDGET. On Monday, the House of Commons having resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, the CHANCELLOR of the Excauquen made his financial statement. Be began...

BucarNonaw PALACE has lost its Royal guests ; but King Leopold, before his departure, paid another visit to Claremont. Accompanied by his Queen, and by his illustrious hostess...

Immediately after the adjournment of the Court, the Court of Com- mon Council was held. A Committee reported on the state of the law proceedings in the dispute between...

The election of a Member for Horsham, in the room of Mr. Scarlett, took place at that borough, on Wednesday. The only candidate was Mr. Robert Henry Hurst, of Horsham Park ; who...

The Queen's tenancy of Osborne House, in the Isle of Wight, com- menced on the 1st instant. It is expected that the Royal Family will pay a ten-days visit to the place early...

In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, the arguments for a new trial of Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers were continued on Friday and Saturday. It was agreed that four...

FRANCE.—The political news from Paris is not of great moment this week. On Friday, the Deputies adopted the principle of the Prisons Bill. A curious Parliamentary scene...

Ellen- borough— " We have reason to believe that Sir Henry Hardinge will be nominated to the office of Governor-General of India ; and that this appointment will take place with...

the suite, left Buckingham Palace this afternoon, for Claremont ; where the Court is expected to remain till Wednesday next. It is announced by the Queen Dowager's medical...

SATURDAY NIG HT, Another long debate on the principle of the Factory Bill was raised in the House of Commons last night. The arguments were very simi- lar to those already...

ARRIVED — At Gravesend, 30th April, Glenmore, Barnett, from Batavia ; and trial Monat, from ('eylon. Off Rye, 25th. Christian Huggins, Butler, from Batavia. At Ply- mouth. 29th,...

Fitzgibbon addressed the Court on the part of the traversers. He spoke sitting, as Ire suffered from a sprain in the ankle, the consequence of a fall from his horse. According...

Company, w ith a very large volume of Appendices, consisting of classified cor- respondence with the Colonial Office and other documents, reached us only last night,—too late...

of a new Ministry- " Mavrocordato, President and Minister of Finances; Triconpis, Foreign Affairs and Public Instruction, &c. ; General Rhodius, War ; Colonel Andreas Londos,...

the author of Vathek and other works, and formerly proprietor of Foot- hill Abbey. He was horn on the 29th September 1760. In his twenty- third year he married Lady Margaret...

the arrival of the regular over-land mail from the East— Marseilles, la May, eight o'clock p.m. " By the arrival of the Great Liverpool at Malta, we have received news from...

killed her child in attempting to drown herself with it, has been commuted to imprisonment in Milbank Penitentiary. Augustus Dalmas surrendered himself to the Police, at the D...

Siufonia in E flat. No. 10 Romaine., " Ciel Pictoso," Signor Sxzvx, from the Italian Opera, Paris, (Meet, di St. Bonifazio) First Movement of Concerto iu B minor, Violin,...

Bute to he High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The Gazette mentions the appointment of Commander Charles Fitz- gerald, R N., to he Governor of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer produced a favourable effect upon the prices of the Government Securities; and on...

POWERS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. THE Duke of 'WELLncorow pronounces a decided opinion on the conduct of the India Directors in recalling Lord ELLENBO. EoucH. This the public...

these young musicians took place at the Princess's Concert-room on Friday week, and consisted chiefly of their own com- positions. The performance opened with a new Quintet MS....

COLONEL SIDTHORP is subject to very bold flights of fancy, but never did he soar so daringly as when be imagined an angel ap- pearing as Chancellor of the Exchequer. An angel in...

Ir posterity judge of the present age by its newspapers, they will form a rare opinion of it. Every newspaper consists of two branches—the news, and the argumentative...

IN a country so heavily taxed as ours, Ministers should strive to acquire the art of making each tax fall as conveniently and harm- lessly as possible. Direct taxes are the most...

BIOGRAPHY. The Lire of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell. By Cap- • fain Jesse, Unattached. Author of " Notes of a Half-pay iu Search of Health." , &c. lu...

QUATRE. THE range of these volumes is something more than the fine-spoken titlepage indicates. Instead of "Barn and the Pyrenees, or a Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri...

Tun novel is about the best of Mrs. BRAY'S fictions ; because it happens to be thrown into the form .that best coincides with her own powers, which more incline to the essayist...

From April 26th to May 2d. Boons. The Life of George Brummell, Esg., commonly called Beau Brummell. By Captain JESSE, Unattached, Author of " Notes of a Half-pay in Search of...

OLD SOCIETY OF WATER- COLOUR PAINTERS. OF all the annual exhibitions this is the most agreeable and satisfactory. Possessing perhaps less of mere novelty and variety than any...

Anthems for the Coronation of King George IL, composed in the year 1727, by GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL. THIS first publication of the Handel Society, produced under the im- mediate...

WAR-OFFICE, Apart 30th.-Brevet : Commissions to bear date 30th April 1844.-To be Lieut.-Colonels in the Army-Major T. Ryan. 50th Foot ; Major E. W. Bray, 39th Foot; Major G. L....

BIRTHS. On the 25th April, at Castle House, Taunton, the Lady of EDWARD F. DANVERS, Esq.. of Bombay, of a sun. On the 25th. at the Manor House, Hallaton, Leicestershire, the...

Tuesday, April 30. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Ivey and Ileuwood, Carnelford, Cornwall, drapers-Blundell and Co. colonr-mana- facturers-Saville and Harruway, lessees of the...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wanes Mars. FM,' S per Cent. Consols ........ 991 991 991 991 Ditto for Account 991 991 99* 991'...