us by large expectations which are but partially satisfied. The sim- ple prolongation of the siege is in itself something very like a failure. It is true that there may be...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL has returned to his place in Parliament. The Plenipotentiary is once more merged in the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Diplomatist in the Member for...

paper is in their hands that aa attempt was matle upon the life of the Emperor Napoleon the Third on Saturday last. There is nothing either to surprise or to perplex us in this...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEER. House OF Loans. Monday, April 30. Sardinian Commissariat; Lord Ellen- borough's Statement—Militia (Ireland) Bill read a third time and passed.....

Since the Duke of Cambridge, in preference to the late Lord 'Mayor, was elected _President of Christ's Hospital, there has been an increase of the tendency to reform. Last year,...

Tux Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday. At the Court, Don Francisco do Ribero, Minister from Peru, had his first audience. Mr. Henry...

FRANCB.—A daring but unsuccessful attempt was made last S aturday afternoon to assassinate the Emperor of the French. The Emperor an Empress are accustomed to take out-door...

Sheffield has anticipated the London Reformers with an "Administra- tive Reform Association"; adopting wholesale the resolutions to be proposed at the London Tavern today. The...

The Government have anticipated, at least in part, Sir Erskine Perry's wishes with regard to the Indian Army. The Gazette of Tuesday con- tained the following notification. "...

SATURDAY. The first telegraphic message direct from the Crimea Was supplied last night to the morning journals, introduced by a letter from the Minister of War. " War...

On the 21st April, at Springs. ood Park, prematurely, Lady Scott Douglas, of a slaughter, stillborn. On the 24th, at Cheltenham, Lady Hope, of a daughter. On the 27th, at...

moving the ad- journment of the House, took occasion to ask explanations of "the un- usual delay which has taken place in laying before the House the state papers relative to...

noon, must have satisfied its projectors, at least as far as numbers and hearty concurrence in its avowed objects may be taken as indications. At an early hour the room was...

Gavin, one of the Sanitary Commissioners at the camp ; caused by the accidental discharge of a pistol in his tent. He died on the 21st ultimo, at Balaklava. Few men of his...

of a peasant insurrection in the Ukraine. "Private letters from St. Petersburg," says the Daily lifews, "confirm the telegraphic announcement of the insurrection of the...

treated. They have many indulgences, and earn a good sum of money. But they dislike pump- ing water. On Thursday they refused to pump, and knocked down one of the wardens....

STOCK ETCH/110X, FRIDAT AlT/ILICOOX. The principal event this week, that has had although a temporary the most influence on the Funds, has been the attempted assassination of...

the whole, but chiefly noticeable on account of one circumstance. Of the two symphonies which invariably form the pieces de resistance at these concerts, one was by Mr. Lucas ;...

The tendency to migrate is still strong among members of the histrionic profession. Mr. Benjamin Webster and Madame Celeste appeared on Monday at Sadler's Wells, which is now...

Although the distinction between happiness and riches is as well esta- blished as the connexion between honesty and good policy, M. Ernest Serra calls mankind once more to the...

visit, it has only been twice repeated, the last time on Thursday. This beautiful work has never drawn at the Royal Italian Opera ; and it is not more fortunate now than it had...

of Au- gust next. The arrangements are already in active progress, and will be on a scale of magnitude equal to those of any former year. The per- formers, as hitherto, will be...

meeting his own immediate necessities, or for making auy.prOvision for his two youngest children, a son and a daughter." On the following morning, the public were informed that...

THE House of Commons appears to be realizing in part at least that division of labour which was anticipated some time ago, in supposing that it might relegate its debates to a...

TEE NEW OPPOSITION. A STAND-STILE if not a break-down in the Government, through the failure of the official departments, is a state of things at headquar- ters which first...

WE English, being a practical people, constitute practice our only school, and resolutely decline to prepare beforehand that of which we might foresee the necessity. There is,...

PEACE, say those who are particularly acquainted with that con- dition of public affairs, is a period of corruption. Old men who are familiar with the last war assure us that...

THE course of the Newspaper debate on Monday gave the Com- mons a hard knock against the rook of anonymous writing, which some Members spoke of as a grievance, and more than one...

BRIGADE OF GENTLEMEN CADETS. Florence, 2711s April 1855. Sra—The proposition for embodying as an armed military force men be- longing to the very dregs of the...

SIR—I have been waiting some time for a reply to my last letter in re- ference to the Railway Inroad on the War Office, but they who should answer are dumb. Since then we have...

24th April 1855. , Brit—The space which you allotted in your last number to the letter, of "E. A. F." on the subject of "Pence or War," and the ability with which it is written,...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY, The private view of the Great Exhibition of the year in Trafalgar Square took place yesterday. . The variation in the general impressions which the first...

A aeries of eighty water-colours by this German artist, chiefly from Venice, and almost wholly from Italy, with a few from Dalnaatia and elsewhere, were visited on Saturday last...

of the large dimensions of 13 feet by 9 each, were to be seen this week at the Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle Street. They represent "The Last Judgment," "The Great Day of His...

though partitioned into seven points, present a continuous coloured panoramic view, about a yard and a half in length. Coming from an officer who was present at the victory,...

If we deduct from the respectable average display which the Old Weise-Colour Society makes this year all that which is generic and an- nually reappearing, and restrict ourselves...

[From the Official Return.) Zymotie DIseaties Dtopsy, Cancer, and other diseasesof uncertain or variable seat Tubereulm Dis eases Diseases of the llrain, Spinal Marrow,...

Wax.orsacE, May 1.-5thlte5t. of Drag. Guai cis —11. E. White, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Hampton; promoted. 6th )rags.—Aseist.-Surg.. W. R. from the 19th Foot,...

Tuesday, May 1. PARTNERSEIES DissoLvED.-13,Awson and Co. Moorgate Street, merchants ; as far as regards W. Norton-Rawson and Co. Liverpool, merchants ; as far as regards W....

WOOL. Down A halt-bred Hogs per lb. 10d. to 04. Werner and Ewe 10 - 112 Leicester Nugget and Wether 0 - Il Skin Combing 10 - 0 Mexican 3 p. Ct. New York 5 Peruvian 41...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the °Mee of Joss's Ctsvros, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Pariah of St- Dun- stan's in the West, In the City of London; and Published ht the...

CONNOLLY'S HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS. * took a campaign as distinguished from a mere foray : the name of rose to the importance of an art, men competently skilled...

MAY 5, 1855.

ArrEn witnessing the reviews and festivities at Olmiitz on the meeting of the Emperors of Austria and Russia in the autumn of 1853, Mr. Paton made a descent of the Danube in a...

Ma. ROBERTSON'S tour in America derives some novelty from the nature of the author's pursuits, which are commercial, and from the practical nature of his mind. This peculiarity...

of the book, Admiral Sir Charles Richardson, entered the Navy in 1787, and died in 1850, in his eighty-second year : he had been so engaged in his professional duties, that for...

the conduct of his brethren, he used to threaten that he would leave behind him the whole art of physic written upon half a sheet of paper. Experiments by Mr. Lewes, with...

BOOKS. The Roman Empire of the West. Four Lectures delivered at the Phi- losophical Institution, Edinburgh, February 1855. By Richard Con- grave, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of...

[From the North British Review, May 1855.] "Our contest with France under Napoleon lasted, from first to last, twenty-two years—from 1793 to 1815; and though, during the greater...