and country duties. The Easter holiday began on Tuesday evening, when both Houses set themselves free. One of the latest discussions was on the best mode of conducting business,...

THE northern half of Italy is now recognized as a kingdom under King Victor Emmanuel ; the consolidation has been ac- complished. The protests which have been lodged against it...

present some phenomena as instructive as they are striking. The revenue-returns for the year ending at the close of March pre- sent the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the vast...

frauds of trade. The system of uttering false marks and false labels has grown to a height which does not say much for mer- cantile and manufacturing morality. Reels of cotton,...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House OF LORDS. Saturday, March 31. Royal Assent to the Consolidated Fund (550,000/.) Bill, the Mutiny Bills, and the Endowed Schools...

tage of the absence of O'Donnell, with the best troops of the country in Africa, General Ortega, Captain-General of the Be- learic Isles, instigated, it is said, by Cabrera, has...

"A deputation from the Association for Suppressing the Practice of Falsely Marking or Labelling Goods for Sale, waited on Mr. Milner Gib- son, on Monday, and stated their case....

The people of Hartlepool have received an intimation from her Ma- jesty's Government, to the effect, that it is not probable the Reform Bill will include the Hartkpools in the...

THE QUEEN left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle on Monday, arriving there about half-past four o'clock. During the week, in com- pany with the Prince Consort, her Majesty...

PAM Ink .=The Emperor reviewed a large force of cavalry at Longchamps on Saturday, but a fall of rain spoiled the show, and obliged the Empress and Imperial Prince to remain in...

At Selkirk, on Saturday evening, it was resolved, at a public meeting of the working-classes, to petition Parliament in favour of the Reform Bill for Scotland. The meeting...

The emigration from Ireland to America is proceeding with consider- able activity. On Friday upwards of 300 passengers were embarked at Queenstown for New York. From the port of...

• The text of the Papal excommunication has been published in the morning papers. It is a long document, dated at St. Peter's, March 26, and is signed by the Pope. Opening with...

On the 30th ult., Dr. Odling delivered a lecture "On Acids and Salts," and after showing that the electro-chemical theory failed in many of its requirements, proceeded to...

Mr. Phillips of Skinner Street, Snow Hill, whose "gas bath-boiler" we noticed in the Spectator of the 22d of October 1859, has just intro- duced another adaptation of gas to...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. "Thursday 5th April. "The excitement created by the late events of the past week has been of short duration, and the irritation has made way for a more...

take his seat in the grand Par- liament as Member of Nice. His presence has at once caused a change in the feelings with regard to the loss of the maritime province ; already...

THE EASTER RECESS. Ir Ministers may look forward, as their friends say, with confi- dence towards the future, they may also look backward with sonic satisfaction on the past....

filled, the streets wore a Sunday air. A musical fete at the Crystal Palace attracted nearly 40,000 persons.

. person of Louis Veuillot, who did not, as I understand, experience a domiciliary visit, but was simply attended from the station at Marseilles to that of Paris by a very...

days the inhabitants of Savoy and Nice will vote by universal suffrage on the question of an- nexation to France. A letter from Naples in the Paris Prose describes a violent...

3,LOCX EXCHANGE, THERSDAY ArrsallooN. The demand for money, although less active in the Stock Exchange, has been undiminished at the Bank, leading to the belief, that the...

Jotter:Aram and public opinion have been in amaze at the elasticity of our revenue, and at the vast total which it has produced in the past year. Seventy-one millions,—with...

Iv is an old remark that years have their characteristics, as well as nations or individuals. There are years of dearth, and years of abundance ; years of war, and years of...

THE disturbance in monetary circles, which set in with the new year ' is rapidly subsiding. Order and regularity in business are such well known rules that it is refreshing...

Wis pride ourselves on our commercial greatness ; and we have reason to do so, when we look at the totals of the returns of the Board of Trade and the Revenue. No doubt such a...

of Shakspeare at 'Weymouth. I have seen the picture at the library referred to, and felt much interested in the same, having heard the Chandos portrait pronounced spurious. The...

VOLUNTEER RIFLEMEN. Bombay Presidency, 27th February, 1860. Bra—The question of the organization that may be best adapted to Volun- teer Riflemen generally, so that it may...

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. * TILE new story by the author of Adam Bede is full of power—a vague word to use but, as far as any one word can stamp a whole work of art, it is the only...

But—I observe that the Paris correspondent of the Times, in his letter of Tuesday, complacently takes the Sack and other French journals to task, for having published, as the...

of intellectual anarchy like our own, most reflective / men are agreed that a true mental unity can never be attained till free inquiry and free discussion are not only...

the entire success of Dr. Hanna's "at- tempt to popularize a portion of ecclesiastical history," that being, as he says, the purpose of the volume now before us. He has been...

REVISED AHD CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR. The remarks on Darwin's Theory of Species (sent to our office by the Archbishop . of Dublin), are reprinted, word for word, as they were...

The new number of the EDINBURGH REVIEW opens with a survey of the "Commercial Relations of England and France," in the first parse graph of which are these remarkable words,...

M. Octave Feuillet, well know - n as the author of dramatic " pro- verbes," has achieved a work of more than usual magnitude, called La Tentat ion. The plot is, however, but...

This year, the Easter list of novelties is far from numerous. At the Haymarket, there will be a fairy romance, called The _Pilgrim of Love; at the Princess's, an extravaganza,...

Mr. Anthony Trollope'a new novel, in three volumes which Messrs. Chapman and Hall have nearly ready for publication, is entitled "Castle Richmond," and treats of Ireland during...

"Passion Week,"—a week associated, in the mind of every Christian entitled to the name, with the most awful and affecting events belonging to the foundation of the faith which...

Bankrupts. — EDMUND UNDEnwoon, Soham, Cambridgeshire, grocer—Rona - EY GOLDIF, Oundle, draper—AV...LITE PAITIIFTM, Ironmonger Lane, linen agent—Wm- LrAm IIENnv Umlaut: and...

On the 22c1 of March, at 13, Eccleston Square, the Lady Elizabeth Cast, of a daughter. On the 28th, at St. Petroc Millar Rectory, prematurely, Lady Molesworth, of a daughter,...

BRITISH 3 per Cent Consoi Ditto for Account 3.per Cents Reduced New 2 per Cents Annuities 1880 A.nnuitles 1885 Rank Stock, Spec Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer...