Arrnouou the Ministerial " crisis " were to turn out no crisis at all, (which may happen, if the Tories shun conflict on the 15th, and PEEL refuse to take up the gauntlet thrown...

business done is neither extensive nor profitable ; and the pres- sure upon the Money-market must prolong this unsatisfactory con- dition of mercantile affairs.

bullion in the Bank of England is very much reduced, and the ex- changes are unfavourable. The Bank is selling Exchequer Bills and heavy stock, for the purpose of contractinF...

of the Chamber of Deputies is not yet terminated. Our last ac- counts brought the record of baffled attempts to form a new Ministry down to Thursday night of last week. Then...

occupy the • apers ; but, generally, they possess only local interest. We have remarked that the number of persons charged with murder, stab- bing, and other crimes of violence,...

MAROTO in high fatour with Don CARLOS : he is very active, while VAN IIALaN, who commands the Queen's troops, is suspected of treachery in consequence of his supineness. A new...

The Lord Mayor gave the customary Easter dinner to the Queen's Ministers and the Corporation of London, on Monday, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion house. Among the guests,...

THE Queen seems to have passed a quiet Easter. Viscount Melbourne spent the early part of the week at Brocket Hall and Pansanger, and did not return to town till Thursday. On...

da- mages against a Mr. Hamilton to Mr. Pemberton, whose wife the for- mer had seduced. Mr. Pemberton is a solicitor of large praelice ; Mr. Hamilton was his articled clerk,...

Society, held on Wednesday, it was stated that 7,000 signatures had been at- tached to a petition for reforming the Corporation. It was also affirmed, in contradiction to the...

versation had reference chiefly to the had attendance of members, and the necessity of calling upon their constituents to require more dili- gence. The Birmingham Delegates have...

Assizes, sitting in Liverpool, returned a true bill against the Reverend Joseph Rayner Stephens, for a misdemeanour. What thenature of the misde- meanour with which he stands...

Another Chartist meeting at Devizes has produced another riot. It was held on Monday ; Messrs. Vincent, Roberts, and Carrier, being the persons chiefly employed in the affair....

to influence the chic- Lions in Stoke-upon-Trent by the erection of a number of houses, the proprietorship of which is to be invested in the present Tory Repre- sentatives, or...

Post- office is conducted, has on several occasions been animadverted upon, not only by the press, but the public generally. Nothing, however, seems calculated to cause the...

Lord Ebrington arrived in Dublin on Wednesday. A large assem- blage of every description of persons welcomed him. He rode on horseback from Kingstown to the Castle, bowing to...

Hastings on Wed- nesday, there is a vacancy, with a probable contest, for Ayrshire. At the last election, the numbers polled for Sir John Dunlop, the Liberal, were 1,559; for...

appointed to the Druid, forty-four gun frigate. — Morning Post. It is understood that Lord Johu Spencer Churchill will be appointed to the Druid, forty-four gun frigate. —...

for York, was recently expelled from the mess of the York circuit. Mr. Barkley has published a long letter in the newspapers, explaining that he was expelled because he insisted...

county meet- ing at Castlebar, assembled to petition against repeal of the Corn-laws. The farmers were outvoted by the townspeople ; and when the resolu- lution was put, such...

Sir Robert Peel, who has usually passed the Easter holydays at Drayton, remains in town. He has issued cards for a grand party on the 10th instant. The Earl of Derby is again...

Mr. O'Connell's twentieth grandchild was elected a member of the Society ; on which the Chairman, Mr. Ray, exclaimed, piously if not courteously, "God Almighty make him a better...

A meeting was held in the Waterloo Rooms, Edinburgh, on Mon- day, summoned by the Lord Provost, in compliance with the request of "a large body of his fellow citizens," for the...

Ernesta for the Opera season, was robbed of her writing-desk just as she was stepping into her carriage at Paris ; and it is said the contents were worth 3,000/. Madame Grisi...

Under this often-abused title, the daily papers have been teeming with extracts from the provincial journals, all having reference to the expected conflict of political parties...

from the press. There are, however, few papers professing to be Liberal 'who do not assume a more independent tone ; and it must be remarked, that many of these journals have...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The session of the French Chambers was opened on Thursday, by commission. In the Chamber of Peers, the Commissioners were the Duke uss MONTEBELLO, GIROD de and...

directs our attention TO the decline of mere Whig influence in that city. He notices, that when the Whigs called meetings for the Ballot and the Repeal of the Corn - laws, the...

Bank of England, from the 8th January 1839 to the 2d April 1839. LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £18,371,000 Securities £22,987,000 Deposits 8.tlOS,000 Bunions 7,073,000...

sheet, so as to • reach them wherever resident, tli0 INDEX to our Eleventh Volume-1838. The tints was chosen on the supposition that this would he a hiank '' week ; which it has...

5th, were made up last night. Compared with the year ending 5th April 1838, they exhibit an increase of 2,132,806?.; the total of 1838 being . 42,608,391/.—of 1839, 44,741,257/....

Commons, that their attendance onthe 15th instant is " indispensable ;" and that whoever holds language tending to produce the opinions that they may safely absent themselves, "...

the passages above cited show, the Morning Chronicle has con- tinued the series of papers commenced last week ; and which, as the Morning Post rightly conceives, were not...

hi 'POLICY OF THE RADICALS. Wii4N Lord JOHN RussELL gave notice of his motion for the 15th instant; he plainly intimated that the real question to be tried Iti00, not the...

STOCK LECITANOZ, FRIDAY AF FERMIN:M. ' Thelusiness of the week has been very uniroportant; but the fewIrcinsac- Cons that have occurred in the English Funds haVe been' at...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, April 1.-Royal Regiment of Artillery-The. Rev. G. B. Tuson RD. to be Chaplain, vice Henslowe, resigned. WAR•OFFICE . April 5.-Ist Life Guards -I. T. Clifton,...

Arrived - At Gravesend, April 1st. Vetting, Falconer, Dom the Cape ; and 5th Hop- kinson, Stevens, from China. Off Falmouth, 5th, Penyard Paik, Middleton, from Mauritius. At...

THE way in which a Liberal morning paper has lately spoken of the events passing before our eyes in France, and the difference it perceives between the difficulties of our...

As it appears from the House of Commons Notice-paper that the details of this Bill are to be discussed and settled in Committee on Wednesday next, it may be proper now to...

THE Morning Post informs us that the Queen is dissatisfied with the manner in which the musical part of the service is performed at her Chapel in St. James's, and that a Chapter...

OF a dozen different theatres now open, we contrived to visit half during the Easter week : our circuit included only those that lay be- tween Covent Garden and St. James's ;...

Tills long-delayed reply to matters, the evidence touching which should all have been ready before any charge vas made, is not very creditable to the cause or to the author. In...

STAWOA1111 LIT/MATURE, The Life of Edward Gibbon, Esq., with Selections from his Correspondence, sad Illustrations. By the Rev. H. H. Minna, Prebendary of St. Peters, Ike. Sze,...

FREQUENTLY of late we have had occasion to notice the appear- ance of reprints of standard works for the many : as a slight set off—a "pennyworth of bread to all this sack"—we...

THE subject of these Memoirs was born a Quaker ; educated in the Friends' School at Islington ; and gave such satisfaction by his "orderly conduct," that he was apprenticed to...

BOOKS. The Life of Edward Gibbon, .Esy., with Seleethms pun his Correspon- dence, and Illustrations. By tbe Rev. MB. 3.1irsiAN, Prebendary of St. Peter's, &c. Histo r i ca l...

THE first picture engraved for the members of the Art Union of London, is the clever one by WILLIAM SIMSON, a young artist of greit talent, representing a Canialdolese Monk...

PICTURE-BUYING FOR THE PEOPLE. INTELLIGENCE of the purchase by Government, for the National Gal- lery, of Mr. BECHFORD'S famous little RAFFAELLE, the Saint Catherine, which he...

Ms. PARRIS has made a very effective picture of the gorgeous spectacle of the Coronation of Queen VICTORIA in Westminster Abbey, viewed in the light of a court pageant: it has...