-Dissourrrox—not resignation—is the alternative which Lord Palmerston has chosen as the sequel to a defeat in the House of Commons on the China question ; and by the end of the...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE Or Loans. Monday, March 2. Ionian Subjects Commissions bill read a second time. Tuesday, March 3. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ; the...

about half. past four on Tuesday afternoon, and reached Windsor Castle about twenty minutes past five. Lord Palmerston arrived at the Castle on Wednesday afternoon—" on a visit...

At a meeting of the Court of Common Council on Thursday, Mr. Rathbone suggested that some steps should be taken to support her Majesty's Ministers in the course they have...

The East Seaeee election took place this week. Two candidates were nominated at Lewes on Monday. Mr. It. W. Blencovse proposed and General Davis seconded Mr. J. G. Dodson, the...

Captain °tiny R.N. was entertained at dinner on the 23d February-' by his tenantry in Tipperary, on his return from the Black Sea. The Protestant Rector. of Templederry took the...

The nomination for the seat vacated by Mr. John Macgregor took place on Monday, in front of the Glasgow Justiciary Court Hall. The Lord Provost proposed and Mr. Alexander Graham...

$raurt.—The treaty of peace between England and Persia was signed at Paris on Tuesday afternoon by Lord Cowley and Feruk Khan. Lord Cowley, it appears, was assisted by Mr....

The Mayor and principal inhabitants of Preston recently presented an address to Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, in the course of which they stated that they had not yet...

SATURDAY. The Rouse of Commons was engaged the greater part of the sitting last night in discussing the scale of duties on tea and sugar proposed by the Government. On the...

Monday, March 9. Second reading of the Income - tax Bill. Committee of Supply. Ways and Means Committee. The Arromorr-GiontnAL—Bill to make criminal Fraudulent Breaches of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Funds opened on Monday at the closing prices of Saturday-93 1 f for Money, and 94k1 for the new Account on the 8th of April ; and...

The Directors of the Great Northern Railway have issued their report. From increased receipts and slightly diminished expenses, there is an augmentation in the divisible profits...

The third version of Use Femme qui detests 3014 Kars has at length been produced at the Lyceum, where it bears the title Angel or .Devil. Three modes of treating one subject are...

MM. Lambert Thiboust and Leon Beauvallet have favoured the Va, rietes with a new piece, entitled Les Princesses de la Rampe, framed for the purpose of vindicating the character...

It is at length settled that Covent Garden Theatre is to rise out of Its ashes, greater and more magnificent than ever. The Duke of Bedford has leased to Mr. (lye an area...

REPRESENTATION OF LANARKSHIRE. 26, Wilton Crescent, London, 3d March 18.57. Sin—In your paper of last Saturday I find an article headed "The Scotch Freehold Movement in...

Belfast, 3d March 1857. Sin—An idea appears to be proyalent that one of the functions of a Minister of Justice ought to be the prevention of incongruities and technical errors...

PARLIAMENTARY FUNCTIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY. Ix may at first sight seem that the decision of the House of Commons on the Chinese quarrel refutes the observations we made a...

Ir there is a foreign country which at the present moment alight to engage the respect and sympathy of England, it 18 Sardinia, threatened by an exercise of Austrian power, upon...

IT is scarcely possible that a select number of the Peers should apply themselves as a Committee to a subject so practical, so clearly within the province of law, as the law of...

WHY is a telegraphic line of communication to be attempted along the Euphrates Valley route, when one was already arranged for the Red Sea route ? The 9 . nestion is raised by a...

PEEL'S SECOND VOLUME OF POLITICAL MEMOIRS. * As we last week intimated after a cursory examination of this volume, those who expect many political revelations in its pages as...

term " critical" in this collection of Professor Wilson's Works had been suffered to remain undisturbed in the mausoleum of Blackwood's Magazine the edition would have been less...

THE PEACE CONFERENCE. A picture of last year's Peace Conference at Paris, on the great scale of 17 feet by 10 feet 6,—the property of the Emperor of the French, for , whom it...

A lecture under the tide of " An Hour with the Old Masters" was delivered on Wednesday evening, by Mr. Henry Ottley, at the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution,...

of Henry Campbell Raikes, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, of a daughter. On the 25th February, at Waltham Abbey, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Askwith, Royal Artillery, of a...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 3. WAR OFFICE, March 3.-Carolry--61h Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Ensign W. H. Border, from the 88th Foot, to be Cornet, paying the difference,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 3. Partnerships Dissolned. - Rawlins, Brothers, Crown Street, Finsbury, buildersDroullet and Alpe, Fenchurch Street and Havre, merchants-J. and...

Partnerships Dissolced. - Sands and Emery. Cursitor Street, carpenters-Richardson and Co. Manchester, cotton-manufacturers-Horton and Sons. Bath, cabinet makers-Gunn and James,...