QUIETER than usual in its pageantry, the opening of the session of Parliament has been more animated politically. The Queen was prevented from attending, and the Speech was...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Noun OF Loans. Tuesday, Feb. 3. Opening of the Session ; Queen's Speech— Debate on the Address ; Lord Grey's Amendment negatived by 45 to 12....

AT a Privy Council, held at Windsor Castle on Monday, the Royal Speech for the meeting of Parliament was settled and approved by the Queen in Council. Her Majesty appointed the...

The Convocation of the Bishops and Clergy of the Province of Cantor. bury met on Wednesday, in the Jerusalem Chamber. In the Upper House, where the Archbishop of Canterbury...

The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of York met on Wednesday ; but met only to be dismissed. Canon Trevor handed in a paper—the contents of which are not...

Dr. Begg, Mr. Duncan M‘Laren, and other supporters of the new franchise-extension movement in Scotland, waited on the Lord-Advocate on Saturday, at his chambers in Edinburgh, to...

purf.—The Monikur has published a kind of manifesto of Imperial opinion on the future of the Danubian Principalities. The Government of the Emperor, desirous to secure the...

The arrangements connected with the organization of the War Office are now completed, and the offices of Cleric of the Ordnance, DeputySecretary-at-War, and Director-General of...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons last night, the CinliscesLoa of the ExenaQUER moved for the appointment of a Select Committee "to inquire into the operation of the Bank Act...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Large amounts of gold continue to be drawn from the Bank of England for exportation. The demand for money at the Bank and in the...

There is no special reason why we should follow the somewhat complicated details of a three-act piece produced at Drury Lane on Monday, with the title The Black Book. The old...

TEL FIRST NIGHT OF THE SESSION. No impeachment of the 'Minister was threatened on the first night of the session ; Lord Palmerston's replies sounded almost as pointed as any...

ONE subject upon which Mr. Gladstone touched in Tuesday's debate he ought not to leave with a passing remark. In alluding to the Ministerial announcement of a Select Committee...

Tin whole subject of secondary punishments is to be brought before Parliament ; and although the initiative is taken by those who may be suspected of favouring the renewal of...

THE great Law Courts have not yet done with Alicia Race. That little girl is as important to their concurrent jurisdiction as the Royal British Bank ; for as the bank is at once...

Tear another expedition will be sent to search for the remains of Sir John Franklin and his party, we have never doubted ; the only question is, whether it shall be sent at the...

THE President of the Board of Control declared in the House of Commons, on Wednesday last, that "he was anxious to see capital embarked in the development of tho resources of...

WILEN the Emperor of Austria proclaimed an amnesty, Milou illuminated ; and it was supposed from that glaring fact that there was something more in this amnesty than is usual...

Tars Crimean controversy seems to have become an annual. It burst forth like a torrent in the beginning of 1855, swept away a Government, and streamed off far into the summer....

WHEN any service is requited handsomely and munificently, we popularly say that the payment is " royal" ; but the phrase seems nicely to go out of use. The first household in...

THE NEW EASTERN WAR. London, 3c1 February 1857. Sin—After discussing various lines of policy connected with "The New Eastern War," your paper of 24th January concluded with...

Sin—At the commencement of a new session of Parliament, destined doubtless to produce the usual quantity of verbose and incoherent acts, it may not be i mmaterial to point out,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 6. WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, Feb. 6.—Caralry--2d Regt. of Life Guards—Comet and Sub-Liaut. H. W. Lee-Jortin has been permitted to retire from the...

FROM TI1E LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 3. Partnerships Diszolred. — Sehotield and Brothers, Bagslate, Lancashire, millwrights; as far as regards W. Schofield and J. Taylor—Wig,fall...

Partnerships Dissolved.-Lett and Carpenter, High Street, Lambeth, pottersPemberton and Co. Leeds, cloth-finishers ; as far as regards J. Siddall-Taylor and Holman, Herne Bay,...

WILLIAM /CAPIER'S LIFE OF CTIA.RLES NAMES NAPIER. * TFIE life of the Conqueror of Scinde was varied, eventful, incessantly active in mind and body, and made by that activity...

to the British public by his little book on the "Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England," and more lately and widely for his "Journey in the Seaboard Slave States."...

half, embracing the most obscure period, of the Christian Church Universal, is not to be compressed into a single volume, except at the price of sacrificing most of the...

in this volume rather too much of the air of a trade circular, and, as the author admits ' an appearance of egotism, caused by the continual introduction of his own experiments...

Boons. Edinburgh Essays, by Members of the University. 1806. Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir IV. Edward Parry, Ent., F.R.S., &e. late Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital. By his...

THE WATER-COLOUR TURNERS AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE. The progr CSSiVO display of the works left by Turner to the nation had hitherto extended to oil-pictures alone. On Saturday last a...

just in our estimate of other ages is not difficult—it is impossible. Even what is passing in , OUrsresenee we see but through a glass darkly. The mind as well as t h e e ad s...

In the year ending 31st March 1855 we raised by taxation 64,091,5711., while we spent 6,145,246/. beyond that total. In the following year, ending March 1856, the produce of...

On the whole, Railway property in this country seems to be in a decidedly improving state : while the construction of lines that have no prospect of paying, and of branches that...

The official Commerce and Navigation tables for the year 1856 issued by the Treasury Department of the United States illustrate forcibly the powerful way in which we are...

While most of the old Governments of Europe are fairly at their witsend trying to find out some new scheme for making a small income square with a large expenditure, the...