has acted 'with pretty uniform tact. His prudence, however, has rather excited' astonishment than won confidence : persons ac- quainted with his antecedents have wondered,...

za. REMARKABLE scene of petty finesse was witnessed in the -House of Commons when Mr. Hume proceeded to nominate his Income-tax Committee. The Protectionists, who enabled Mr....

makes progress. The respectable Conservatives flatly refuse to walk through Coventry with them. This week Mr. Pusey has responded to the threat of an opposition to his return...

School Society are more remarkable for the light they throw on the state of Church politics than for any influence they are likely to ex- ercise over the progress anational...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House OF LORDS. Monday, June 2. Chancery Reform; Conversation raised by Lord Lyndhurst—Registration of Assurances Bill, postponed till the first...

15th of May, "met for despatch of business" on the 30th. The only business transacted was the appointment of a committee of seven to examine and report on the minutes and...

a tour and officiating at railway inaugurations. Like Louis Na- poleon's excursion, too, that of President Fillmore has been de facto a movement in the Presidential canvass. To...

At a special meeting of the Common Council, on Wednesday, the Court adopted, with loud cheers, the report of a committee on the prepa- ration for the proposed feast to...

Tuns has been a week of gayety with the Court. The Queen's thirty-second birthday, instead of the natal 24th of May, was celebrated on Saturday the 31st, by a drawingroom. On...

Two candidates have been named to fill the seat for Bath, vacated by Lord Ashley's succession to the Shaftesbury Peerage. Major Brathwayte was invited by the Conservatives, but...

Mr. Hallewell was returned without opposition on Friday last week to represent the borough of Newry, in room of the late Viscount Newry and Morne. Mr. Hallewell adheres...

FRANCE.—The President of the Republic has seized the opportunity afforded by a provincial inauguration to make an attack on the Assembly, which has suddenly diverted attention...

Australia, decided on Monday, by a majority of 11 votes to 5, in favour of the route to Australia by the Cape, as the most desirable for the transport of the mails Mr. Frederick...

SATURDAY. Most of yesternight in the House of Commons was spent in Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Four more amendments on the second clause were disposed of. The...

The races at Ascot Heath were not so unsurpassedly brilliant as those at Epsom Downs this year. On Tuesday, the first day, her Majesty's presence drew a great attendance of "...

the style of concert-giving is much changed from what it was a few years ago. The great morning concerts, which used to be the favourite fashionable lounges, have almost...

fourteen out of the fifteen members of the Committee on the propositions for revising the Constitution. Through the " abstinence" of the Legiti- mist party, the ultra Opposition...

them as terrible as those that have lately shocked the public. A short train, which left Brighton fur Lewes at five minutes past twelve yesterday, ran off the line at about two...

done into English, and produced at the Princess's Theatre, under the title of The Duke's Wager. The tone of the original play, it will be remembered, is produced by an infusion...

This week Mademoiselle Rachel has returned to us, in all her calm glory, reminding us—what we might otherwise be tempted to forget— that the concentration of every great tragic...

Her Majes- ty's Theatre, we gather that the critics have halted between an effort at ecstatic admiration, and a feeling that all has not been quite satisfactory. We suppose the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has been steady, with but little fluctuation ; neither has the business been important : the variation in the price...

A. TATE OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. 0= colony of the Cape of Good Hope was obtained by conquest, in 1806 ; and therefore, although, at the final cession by Holland in 1814, the...

UrrivEns/a, suffrage exists for all, if not in all : we are all of us, at one day or other, called to a better place ; and with that draft from our world our institutions are...

IF stir without progress is the characteristic of the time, most un- questionably the very day we are now breathing in is the centre and climax of that restless stagnation, that...

DISTASTEFUL to the public as the correspondence on the Tamworth tumult has been, the construction of motives on either side has probably been liberal and correct. It is true...

A REPORT of proceedings in the County Court on Monday raises an important question. The prosecutor was Captain Acherley, a gentleman rather too familiar to the public already...

AT the annual dinner of the Royal Geographical Society of Lon- don, last week, Sir Roderiok Murchison proposed as a toast, " The practical geography of Britain, and the speedy...

the promise of a title of honour, and in the last cam- paign did supply the troops; receiving divers military and coin- missariat tributes of praise for the manner in -which he...

Dr former papers we have marked the leading- features of the Exhibition , industrial and artistic and, observing the proprieties of international c o urtesy, have given...

THE NEW FOBEST BILL. 2d Jane 1851. Sri—The inquiries of the Committee of the House of Commons into the man ag ement of the New Forest most satisfactorily proved the following...

PALGRAVR'S HISTORY OF NORMANDY. * IN an introductory preface, Sir Francis Palgrave not only gives an account of his theory of historical composition, and of the scope and plan...

this volume has any pretension to the office of an attaché, the berth must be an easy one enough. Excursion, izing, sight-seeing, seeing "life," and learning dancing, are about...

Ir you take up the map of Ireland, yen will see Lough Erne lying a little way inland from Donegal Bay, and be able to trace the channel by which the surplus waters of the lake...

AMATEUR EXHIBITION. THIS is the second year in which the experiment has been made of form- ing a collection of drawings and sketches by amateur artists ; a room for the purpose...

Boons. The Exposition of 1851; or Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government of England. By Charles Babbage, Esq., Corresponding Member of the Academy of Moral...

The great model of the earth, the requirements for whose adequate exhibition have induced the reclamation of the Leicester Square enclosure, has at length been opened to the...

Mr. Wyndham Harding delivered a lecture at the School of Design, last night, in illustration of the principles of form promulgated by Mr. Hay of Edinburgh and on which we...

A new panorama of these regions, painted by M. Gompertz, is now ex- hibiting at the Partheneum Assembly Rooms, St. Martin's Lane. It is on a scale of great variety and extent ;...

[From the Official Return.) Ten Weeks Week. of 1841-30. of 1951. Zymetic Diseases 1,730 .... 220 - Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 449 .... 40...

On the 27th May, at Phesdo House, Kincardineshire, the Lady of J. T. Mackenzie, Esq., of a daughter. On the 28th, at Washington Rectory, the Hon. Mrs. L. W. Denman, of a...

WAR-OFFICE, June 6.—let Regt. Life Guards—O. W. George, M.D., to be Assist.- Burg. vice Tardrew, promoted in the 2d Regt. of Life Guards. 10th Light Drage.-- Lieut. B. C. Holmes...

PARTNERanies DISSOLVED. - Gourley, Sunderland, coal-fitters-Places and Blob- ton, Hoddlesden within Over Darwen, Lancashire, cotton-spinners; as far as re- 5 s J. Rishton-T....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. Duesday. Wanes. There. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank...