Trim - opening of the Session was awaited by the public impatiently, far less with the desire to witness the self-seeking :oonfiicts of party, than to obtain authentic...

has voted a large sum to be placed at the disposal of the President for the purchase of Cuba. It seems to be the fact, therefore, that notwithstanding the opposition of extreme...

for pease; our leading journal announces, as if on authority, that the Emperor Of the French has modified his plans for Italy to the extent of limiting his operations to the...

demand, and if necessary to enforce, due reparations for wrongs and indignities which British subjects have sustained at the hands of contending parties in Mexico. Her Majesty's...

OPENING OF rue SESSION. Queen Victoria opened the session of 1869 in person on Thursday. The weather was clear and cold. Crowds lined the route from Bucking- ham Palace to St....

overthrow of " Faustin the First, Emperor of Hayti." It will be remembered that Soulouque was originally elected President of Hayti, but that setting aside his oaths to maintain...

A special meeting of the Law Amendment Society was held on Satur- day, Sir James Stephen in the chair, to hear a paper read by Mr. Edwin Chadwick on the best mode of preparation...

The annual meeting of the Association for effecting the repeal of Taxes upon Knowledge, Mr. Milner Gibson in the chair, was held on Wednesday at Exeter Hall, There were present...

THE QUEtN returned from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace on 1Vednesday, and in the afternoon held a Privy Council there ; when the Sheriffs for the English and Welsh counties...

Queen Victoria opened the Wellington College on Saturday. This institution stands on a wild heath in Hampshire ' about three miles from Sandhurst, and commands an immense...

The dispute respecting the rebuilding of Trinity College Church, Edin- burgh, has advanced another stage. The old church was swept away by the North British railway. It was a...

THUM—Beyond the arrival of Prince Napoleon and his Sardinian Princess among those whom at Marseilles she called her "now fellow citizens," the intelligence from France...

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Lambert, gave his first banquet on Tuesday. He had deliberately "stayed away" from the Atlantic Tele- graph celebration because Cardinal Wiseman...

The appointment of Sir Henry Storks to the office now held by Mr. Gladstone, deprived the Secretary at War of a valuable Military Secre- tary. Major-General Peel has selected as...

SATURDAY. The promised pamphlet, bearing the signature of De la Guerroniere, the Emperor's literary man-at-arms,—a rescript not without internal in- dications of a master...

of the pro- vince of Canterbury were yesterday prorogued until Wednesday next. The Queen has appointed Sir John Young, late Lord High Com- missioner of the Ionian Islands, a...

Houses sat Iasi night— the Lords for half-an-hour, the Commons for two hours. In the Upper House the two notable things were the report of the Queen's Answer to the Address of...

Our present number is accompanied by a Supplement,—not large enough to enable us to print all the communications which we should like to pro- duce. Our readers will not...

of the buildings in Southwark, devoted to the purposes of " New Schools, Read- ing Rooms, Dormitories, Baths, and Washhouses," founded by the exer- tions of the Rector of Christ...

Srocx Eacastroz, FarnAr ArrannooN. The announcement on Monday of the New Austrian Loan for 6,000,000/., at 5 per cent per annum, at 80, caused the market for English Securities...

STATE OF TRADE. The " turn " of the month, which took place last Monday and Tues- day, with the warehouses of the city, in the dry goods trade, when it is the practice to date...

ceived this morning. The news from Lueknow is favourable. The rebels at large were decreasing in numbers. Men of rank were surren- dering to Lord Clyde, or returning to Lucknow....

(From our own Correspondent.) We are now in the midst of the carnival, and the sound of music resounds in the salons. Nothing is thought of but ball dresses. Gold and silver,...

and a private letter gives us a report. We should scarcely venture to meddle with anything so unpretending, but for the thoughts which were uttered there, remarkable alike in...

A drama, entitled Maurice de Saxe, has been produced at the Theatre du Cirque which our readers will be pleased to remember is not a Circus. The popular Marshal of France is, of...

Satanella with persevering constancy. Since they have opened this theatre they have given nothing else, nor is there any appearance of a change. Even had this opera been a...

The experiment at the Houses of Parliament by M. Szerehney for sili- eating the stone, so as to arrest the decay visibly spreading on the ex- ternal walls, is accepted by the...

in Aldersgate Street, on Tuesday. Professor Taylor of Gresham College, the Presi- dent of the Club, occupied the chair; and the company, about fifty in number, included several...

The acting of Mr. Charles Kean in the Louis XL of M. Casimir De- lavigne, which was revived on Wednesday, is as remarkable as ever. His elaboration of the malicious humours of...

Since our last notice on gentlemen's dress, but little change has taken p'acs ; there is, however, among well-dressed people a liking for light- coloured warm materials, such as...

The French comic opera troupe at the St. James's Theatre performed Herold's celebrated opera, is Pre aux Clercs, on Saturday last, and, as this is a work of sterling quality,...

out under the title of The Passage of the Beresina. Only think of the horrors of that fearful day being depicted by a series of pirouettes and entrechats, pas genie, pas de...

The Principles of Musical Analysis. By Seams Crams, M A This work forms a volume of the useful collection of treatises now in the course of publication at Edinburgh, under the...

new opera. It is called Ca Ballo di Maschera (a masked Ball), and the subject is the assas- sination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden. It will be produced at Rome, at the Theatre...

rated" (according to the fashion of the day) on Thursday by two musical performances; the one given by Mr. Mullah at St. Martin's Hall, and the other at Exeter Hall by the...

DAYLIGHT THROUGH THE THUNDER-CLOUDS. Taz opening night of the Session is calculated far more to cheer those who are anxious for peace, than those who are eager to see Italy...

WE see in the press signs that the just alarm about the na- tional Naval defences may run wild, and by becoming irrational defeat its own object. " Spend money—judiciously if...

Ministers is announced for an early day. Its authors, and those whom they have consulted, have kept the secret so well, that no description of the measure has oozed out. Various...

IT would be well if English people turned their eyes and thoughts more to their West Indian cousins. We are every day liable to be surprised by discussions like that which has...

the difference between re- productive investments and the reverse, the Austrian Finance Minister gives us a splendid example of destructive investment. He proposes to raise a...

UNDER this title we have -recently had a good deal of discussion in the columns of the morning press, chiefly in those of the Times. Sir John Trelawny opened the ball with a...

WE observe that a daily contemporary publishes a Declaration of Southern Independence, which purports to have been issued at New York, and which proposes a severance of the...

DtraiNo this session of Parliament we anticipate that very import- ant steps will be taken towards the removal of the greatest in- convenience that the metropolis presents. It...

and fit, and poetical illustration uncommon in the majoritEof week-day preachers, Dr. G. Kinkel lectured on Monday, at the South Kensington Museum, on Mohammedan art ;...

Messrs. Graves are preparing to popularize, by engraving, Sir Edwin Landseer's favourite picture of the Maid and the Magpie. Our readers may remember that charming illustration...

On the 15th of November, 1858, at Sarawak, (Borne,) the Wife of J. Brooke Brooke, Esq., of a son. On the 26th of January, at Aldershott, the Wife of Lieut.-CoL Lowry, forty-...

A BRITISH LEGION. 23d January 1859. Bin—I thank you for having inserted my letter on the Enlistment of Soldiers in your columns, for I consider the subject of great national...

of Lord liardinge which is now on its pedestal, and is much admired by both native and English inhabitants of the town. The monument to Sir Robert Peel by the subscribers at...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 21. Wen OFFICE, Pall-Mall, Jan. 21.—Ifernorandum—Lient. M. T. Crowder having obtained a First Class Certificate at the School of Musketry...

Burris"( FUNDS. (Closing Price .) Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 188.5 Hank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 21. Anionstrr, Jan. 19.-Corps of Royal Marines-First Lieut. and Adjt. J. Poore to be Capt. vice Coode, retired on full-pay ; Second Lieut. J....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 1. Bankrupts.-Wuisam Coos, sen. Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire, farmer- Wmusm ALLF.N, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, boot-maker-Tr-mass...

of Fredericks—Prederick the Great—Charles Augustus of Weimar and his Duchess —The Prince Regent of Prussia, his joy, and his extempore dancing—Augustus La...

WALPOLE'S REIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD.* Fox some reason or other the sections of Walpole's Historical Memoirs of the reign of George the Third have successively declined in...

Jr may be broadly said of these volumes, that the anecdotes and remarks on men and opinions are for the most part new ; while the descriptions of antiquities, and the literary,...

THIS work of Mr. Kinahan Cornwallis professes to narrate his ob- servations and adventures during two visits to Japan, and a call at the Washington group in the Pacific ; though...

The meeting of Parliament has not reduced the number of publica- tions, but it seems to have diminished their weight and mark, excepting Mr. Mill's treatise on "Liberty." Of the...

When mankind have pursued a particular course of conduct under varying circumstances of time, place and nationality, we may rest as- sured they have been guided by an...