war as a diversion in its favour : as an argument for making no important modifications of the Budget ; as an excuse for Sir Harry Smith, engaged in military duties, postponing...

Ministerial crisis has not prevented Lord Monteagle from remind- ing the Peers that we still possess colonies in remote regions, with irritating grievances crying for redress....

" DIGNUS vindice nodus " : the perplexity of the Ministerial crisis grew so inextricable, that the Duke of Wellington was called in. After hearing how Gladstone would not help...

HIE OF tax63. .3foneity, March 3. Iiinisterial Restoration ; Explanations by Lord Lansdowne—Papal Ag'grossion ; Opinions of Lord Brougham and other Peers, Ttiesday, March 4....

on the intiVon to repeal the law by which the Bourbon princes are declared perpetual exiles ; in other words, the motion has been negatited. This result was brought about by the...

subject of debt, in which the views of his predecessor are adopted and complimented. This is strong confirmation of what Sir Charles Napier has said of the denioralization that...

TIIE Queen held her second levee of the season, at Buckingham Palace, on Thursday. Her Majesty was dressed in deep mourning for the Prin- cess Elize Hohenlohe Langenbourg ;...

Irregular indications of policy have been made by the heads of both the two great Parliamentary parties,—by Lord John Russell to a sum- moned meeting of three hundred of his...

The borough of Harwich has filled the vacancy made by the promotion of Sir 5 . ohn Hobhouse to the House of Peers with a Protectionist Member of Parliament. The candidates were...

The University of Dublin conferred the degree of D.C.L. on Lord Gough, at the Spring Commencements of Trinity College, on Shrove Tuesday. Mr. John O'Connell has adjourned the...

The statement of the Duke of Argyll in Parliament, that the public feeling in favour of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill "is as decided and una- nimous in Scotland as in England,"...

FRANCE.—The Assembly discussed on Saturday the proposition of M. Creton to repeal the law exiling the family of the Bourbons. M. Berryer opposed the motion on the principle...

The Queen has conferred the distinction of the Order of the Bath on several of her public servants. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons, last night, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated the course of proceeding with public business which the Government now pro- poses to follow. The Home...

We regard the comedy of Love in a Maze, produced this week at the Princess's Theatre, as a happy omen for the English stage. This may appear strong and peculiar commendation,...

the Xing who signed Magna Charta and the Minister who moved the Reform Bill in the House of Commons. Even the fortunes of their houses have a re- semblance. William, the great...

of London. The Board of Trade had not answered a memorial lately presented, on the grievances inflicted by the Mercantile Marine Bill ; a meeting of sailors was held at the...

body of refugees from Hungary, which arrived on Monday last, in the Arpia, a Sardinian mer- chant-vessel. They are in number 262; of which 10 are natives of Hungary, 5 of...

Grey, dated "ape Town, 25th October 1850." "I dare not conceal from your Lordship that I believe the delay is dan- gerous. No country can long suffer with impunity such a...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have been rather more buoyant, and the market has during the week evinced a greater degree of activity than has for some...

performance than the ordinary run of concerts, was given on Tuesday evening, in St. Mar- tin's Hall, to aid the building-fund of Trinity Church and Schools, in the Hartland...

THE MYSTERIES OF CEYLON UNRAVELLED. London, February 1851. Sra--The well-earned reputation for impartiality which your journal en- joys induces use to hope that you will not...

RESULTS OF THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. IT is not the opinion of competent judges that the Great Britain steamed out of Dundrum Bay in better condition than she went in; nor that...

Sir Charles Napier is bound to prosecute the reorganization of the Indian Armies. Sir Charles has accused divers sections in those armies of indiscipline; he has made a sweeping...

WILTS." AN addition to the Peerage usually forms one incident of a Minis- terial crisis ; and the ascent of Sir John Cam Hobhouse into the legislative empyrean, pending the late...

A CROP of budgets has sprung up from the seed of the Wood fail- ure, each superior to the original stock. Sir Charles must be al- lowed the merit of having established the...

IT is scarcely possible that any amendment of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill can release it from the forked censure to which it is liable—that it must be either...

Two passages in Lord John Russell's speech of Friday last have attracted a good deal of interest, as capital specimens of what he oan say for himself; and for their historic...

CAPTAIN FORBES'S DAHOMEY AND TRE DA 1101dANS. * ArrEn the late John Duncan returned from his successful expedi- tion to the Kong Mountains, he was appointed Tice-Consul at the...

NEXT summer is to witness some revolution in this great capitaL The great concourse of foreigners coming to the Exposition is view- ed with eyes of jealousy by the timid, of...

read many books relating to Hindostan and its wars but must have met with some striking traits of "Skinner's Horse " ; a body of irregular cavalry which on parade exhibited the...

when a combination of skill and fraud im- posed upon the vulgar, is easily settled. The priests of the an- cient mythology, the adepts of the middle ages, turned their know-...

Boons. The stagnation in the political world has not extended to the literary: the publications of the week have been more numerous than of late, with many books of promise,...

HAY'S GEOMETRIC BEAUTY OF THE HUMAN FICIURE.•• MR. HAY'S investigations into the principles of colour and proportion are already known in the world of art and science, and have...

The new exhibition, by the painters of the Panorama of the Nile, pre- sents us with views of the path of the Israelites across the Wilderness ; Petra, Jerusalem, and the...

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths...

AnminALvv, Feb. 26.-Corps of Royal Marines-Col. Sec. Commandant A. H. Gordon to be Col. Commandant, vice Fergusson, retired on full-pay; Lieut.-Col- II. Mitchell to be Col. Sec....

On the 27th February, at Kingscote, the Wife of Colonel Kingscote, of soon. On the 27th, at Sibton Park, Suffolk, the Lady of J. W. Brooke, Esq., of a daughter. -On the 27th,...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLYED. - Flintoft and Lister. Whitby, shipowners-Humphries and Co. Skinner Street, carpet-manufacturers-G. and W. Pearson, Liverpool, wine- dealers-W. and J....

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian 5 p. Ct. — Massachusetts (Steeling). ..a p. Cl.! 1061 Belgian 44 — 911 Mexican 6 I 341...