kr, a 1 the Alma. 1040, 1046, 1072, sliding, 1011 ; death of St. 576; march to Balaklava, 7e of Sebastopol, 1095,1119, 1173, 1194, 1280, 1309,1316, Ur at Balaktava, 1147, 1191,...

EXCEPT in the Baltic, the Russian question ostensibly remains nearly unaltered. The latest telegraphic advices received from EXCEPT in the Baltic, the Russian question...

whole most satisfactory. The revenue-returns for the year and quarter exhibit a remarkable firmness in the taxpaying power of the country. On the twelve months there is a total...

Tar . @erg and the Royal Family have partaken of the pleasures of the season as well as her Majesty's subjects. They witnessed the distri- bution of the New-Year's gifts on...

period which sta- tistical writers somewhat arbitrarily account two generations. Not since 1809 has the thermometer been BO low as it was on Tuesday last, when it stood ten...

Some time ago, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, forwarded through the British Ambassador at Paris an address to the Municipality of that city,...

The Members for Oxford City—Mr. Edward Cardwell and Mr. James Langston—dined with some of their constituents, -members of the "An- gent Druids," on Monday. There were about one...

- The authorities of Glasgow, -headed by the Lord Tbovost; formally - opened the Victoria Bridge on Monday. • Highteen 'years ego, on New- Year's Day, the GlasgortfBridgetavas...

The obituary contains a :record - of the death of - William Conyngham Plunket, Baron Plunket, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Lord Plunket played re , varied and...

Emperor and Empresi held a levee:at - the Tuileries on Sunday. , Standing 'nnder a rtoir riarropy,Llhey: received the Mialeties; the 'great military, naval, civil, and judicial...

The weather has been worthy of the season For iaurnber of years 'th e festivities of Christmas and the ICreW Yeal"hav'ernot been-kept to the exhil a ratin g accompaniment of...

Government to raise the number of seamen and marines for the current year to 53,500 - year, ands fintherMtdition to-'the 6000 men raised - Imam the orders of raised for *...

SATURDAY. The Ilfoniteur of yesterday contained a circular from M. Dtonyn de'' Lhuys to the diplomatic agents of France, on the Eastern question. "Tire affairs of the East,"...

When the,question "What are the Pantomimes i" has been duly projmsed and answered, the next question wilfBe,‘,‘•,What are they doing at the Lyceum ?" Nay, in many cases...

Governer of Trinidad will shortly - expire, has been offered the Governorship Of Madras. Lord Muria will, in all probability, be succeeded in Trinidad by Captain Charles Elliot,...

4ad been restored in the Turkish GOvernment ; and about eighty of the rebellious Softas had _been shipped off for Candle. "On. the oeeasion of the late disturbances the Suitrur...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. ,This week has been one of renewed uneasiness regarding the Turkish• question. The public, who had latterly been large buyers of the Englis...

all the distidvant ag es of a play:founded upon - a book, without any of the Com- pontating LadvantageS, 1 which have been felt on many occasions. 'Every play that has a novel...

There are few concerts in London durin g the Christmas holidays ; it bein g usual for our principal performers to spend this period in profes- sional visits to the provinces....

shunned: The story,- whieh . the ratifilfillS would cell- Lei Amour s chi :Diable, and which has • alreadY furnieherl' themes for an opera and a 'b a llet, has been modified...

de- prive Verdi Of the preeminence he has so long and-to our thinking-so unworthily held: ; The Carnival season at Milan has been, opened with a new opera, IT (Yonr.ito di...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, iy le Yeats and Qiuirters ended 5th January 1858 and 1854, showing thy acrease or Cluatoms Excise Twice Property...

PARLIAMENTARY STATISTICS. Tan Statistics published in our Supplement this week, interesting as they are for the light thrown by them on the broader cha- racteristics of our...

Nor for many:years has the meeting of Parliament been awaited with so much interest as it is now. The public is anxious to know what Ministers have been doing and are about to...

Tire true spirit of treating the strike in the North appears to us still to be missed by both sides ; and if we desired a proof that the masters do not perceive certain obvious...

the full force of the comparative survey of the finances of the empires of Europe, it ought to be extended beyond France and Russia; for the difficulties of France, are...

Jal - Ir.:: 6 .. 1 TAFT begin to be made when ie xpedition for the explo- ration o Northern Austral; to depart?' It is new di months since the expedition was proposed, and, as...

[FROM A CORRFSrowoRsr.] Another man of mark has passed from amongst us. Francis Place has de- parted from the world in which he was so long a stirring mover. Few men have done...

A. SICETCTIER'S TOUR ROUND THE WORLD. * Tars volume is an agreeable and informing book in itself, and somewhat singular in its circumstances. Without any apparent pursuit...

literary character, there is much minuteness and some unnecessary repetition in this volume. The views of the author as regards his propositions or suggestions occasionally...

than - crew; and I remain herd iiithilf - r.', nd It voluniesgeetAtrytorleitablIsh • against Sir James Brooke a - very a e n k ratlkitee rtineh tepay•forit.-' • ' ' : ' -...

years will rehienbir illenit i mp'ofiAlekender ;Somerville, as a "Scotch Grey," wOitali'lliWed,Tar iltritifigil§tpra'". tolhe editor." Notwithstan 4 7 inthe,glieNaiii i ;111441...

Booms. Scandinavian Adventures, during a Residence of upwards of Twenty Years. Representing Sporting Incidents, and Subjects of Natural History, and Devices for entrapping Wild...

THB PALACE AT SPDENMAM. The visitor to the Crystal Palace can now begin to form an idea of what the place will be when, complete in its construction and adornment— the last...

The Photographic Dxliihitien in NO' Bond Street is one of those sights, rare in number ' affording a pleasure which may fairlybe called intense and unmixed. „Ilit5bairaphy - ha...

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, C"I' s ° ' 40 0.444. 44i4V- the Boil. N\ - zri p c , * n 349,-..R109 4fiFijI0b . PEW . io5 - --Y , Nsisrk r teci.uo , / 1 1111 1- rm, It•.17.0 .o%.) at she 0--. ! ,..oloss14...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prier/ ) , Sallied. Monday. Tuesday. "ahem Thurs. Priddy. a per Mat Consols shut •-- -- -,-- - 21 ex d. Ditto for Account 93 (end. L t li 951 93 51 par...

County of Middlesex. Printer, at the office of Josarn CLAYTON, NO. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of Lon4on; and Published by the...

JANUARY 7, 1 ,S3 1. STATISTICS OF REPRESENTATIOA. Among Ow numerous sources from which these Tables have been compiled, the following mity,44;speeffied Thomas Birch and Sir...

31ST ‘ DEOgMBXM - 1853. With the number of Electors in each Constituency and the Population in each District. Bewdley 1 390 7,318 . Sir T. E. Winiungton, country gentleman....

E PEERAGE: ITS RELATIONS. IN ENGLAND. e subjoined analysis does not extend be- the Suns and Brothers of living Peerki eon (1 seat), Lord Norreys. S 05 5 Earl of Abingdon. alc2...

THE FRANCHISE. The Returns moved for by Sir Thomas Birch and Sir Benjamin Hall, and issued in the ses- sion of 1852, specify the more important quali- fications under which the...

SEATS PETITIONED AGAINST AND THE RESULTS. FIRST GENERAL ELECTION, 1833. [77w Reform Bill received the Royal Assent June 7, 1832; and Parliament was dissolved December 3. The...

The Earl of ABERDEEN, announcing the formation of his Ministry—" My Lords, whether by the extension of Education, or by the progress of Law Reform, I trust the social condition...