I Customhouse unions, turiffs of duties, free-trade or protection- these are the questions that at present agitate Germany. The I treaty by which the Zollverein was...

- NE-WS OF THE WEEK. THE Budget speech of Mr. Disraeli affected his party like the I touch of a torpedo. At first they knew not what to think of it. They saw clearly enough...

The Autocrats of France and Russia disagree on the amount of the reward to which the former is entitled for the services he has rendered to despotism. Their quarrel, however,...

The principal electioneering novelty is a small movement that I tslike an attempt wtoorganize a local canvassing committee in the disguise of an association to agitate a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. PRINCIPLE AND POLICY. -NOTHING was ever more natural nothing was ever more clearly foreseen, than that the chiefs of the Protectionist party, when sub....

The arrival of 'Mademoiselle Ruse Cheri, with Mr. -Numa, one of her, X , -1x; a- - I ablist coadjutors in her own G(rnnase, gives a nc'v turn to the St. James's 'T'heatre;...

Dcci calls the best burlec(luc vet w-ritten on Iiie Corsican Brethcrs is the one produced at thue Mariontte Thcatre ; vhcre thu British l:/iT1 le-arns by sympathy that his...

There was a great choral performance in Westminster Abbey on Thurs- I day, for the benefit of the Choral Benevolent Fund for the relief of widows and orphans of cathedral...

The great concert of the weelk has been the fourth Philharmonic, on Monday. As usual, thc selection exhibited excellence rather than novelty. The symphonies were Mendelssohn's...

Mario has reappeared at the Rloyal Italian Opera, in his great part of: 1>,oil in the Ifuie9oots. Ile is icturned from a second winter campaign in Russia, and certainly looks...

THE A.MIATEUR EXHIBITION'. The amateur contributions to the gallery at No. 121 Pall Mall have increased in number this year to 262, as compared with 179 last season; while the...

XEIV DIO RAtI1C EXIH IBITIONS. The well-deserved success of the Overland Route Dioramna at the Gallery of Illustration has been brought to a close by the substitution of one...

TIHE BOOKE-TRADE REVOLUTION. ArinTHra the Free-trade party in the bovok-trade have taken steps to appear by their representatives before the volunteer umires in the ease...

A T AXNO-T-FTT T.GTgT.ATTVFT CIARMIT-NG was the reciprocity of feeling evinced by the leading statesmen at the convivial board of the Royal Academy, on Saturday last. In the...

trtters tu thD dhitur. TILE PRESS IN BELGIUM. Brussels, 4th lf'y. SIR-Though you did not, consistent with the doctrine " hear both sides," publish my last letter, I cannot...

dr, lintrDs an? 311 ns i r. Without knowing anything whatever of the antecedents of the reve- rend gentleman to w hom the new play of The Wf~rdcne of Galway is attributed, we...

THIE MILITIA BILL. Snt-The Government Militia Bill seems to be condemned in its details by all who are practically acquainted with the difficulties that attend the drilling and...

T Ip ?Jjrtrop u I b. The yearly dinner of the Royal Academyv, on Saturday, was a delightIful reuioan Leading statesmen of all parties, ambassadors, and men of scincne and...

(r ' rourt. TIIE iiicidents of the -week in the Court chroniclc have been of a plcasant or lihtsome character. 'The Queen gave a state ball, at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday...

THE OPPORTITNITY. FEE support which the Government finds in carrying forward its Militia Bill confirms what wc have before said respecting the opportunity now offered to any...

THE WELLINGTON OF PEACE. SorM distinguished member of the Peace party has been doing the good~service of placing the doctrines entertained by his colleagues anid the opponents...

3Vioulv aurng. The Earl of Stanhope has seceded from the National Protection Assoiation, and from the West Kent Protection Society, on the ground of their treachery to...

The Mahnchester Examiner announces with feelings of deep regret, the death of Mr. Alexander Mackay, the Indian Commissioner appointed by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr....

The Cape of Good Hope mail arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning, I by the Harbinger steam-ship, which left Cape Town on the 1st of April. The Hydra had arrived at Siimon's...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY. The House of Commons was again in Committee upon the Militia Bill I last night. Th e dibate was discursive. Its main features were a speech of some...

SCOTLAND. The joint Committee requested by the late public meeting at Edinburgh to cooperate in selecting a candidate in place of Sir William Gibson Craig, met in very full...

IRELAND. Lord-Lieutenant Clarendon instructed Major Brownrigge, of the Irish Constabulary, to make a special inquisition into the amount and causes of crime in the disturbed...

PREPARATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION. ENGLAND. AYLESBURY. Dr. Layard, the explorer of Nineveh, and late Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has appeared at Aylesbury in...

'forriau ad culouial. FRANCE. -The Paris correspondent of the Thvnes follows up his note of negotiations between the late Prince Schwarzenberg and the Russian and Prussian...

HIAMILTON' S SIXTEEN MONTHS IN THE DANISH ISLES.* I TiE freshest and most informing result of M1r. Hamilton's sojourn in Denmark is his description of its country life and the...

THIE MELVILLES.* TMis writer's former novel, John Drayton, described the life and temptations of the artisan, with the recommendation " reform yOur' selves." I'ze lfelrilles...

Erhbatr5 nlul 4hrnrmriitg5 in 4hrt~iamItrnt. PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. flOv 1-t Iir. 31,M'nday, May 3. Drainame of lmad il Irelan; a Select Com1iiitt, trsiJat( d to the...

I1vT 4b ru iurrB. Sir Fitzroy eclly has transferred his Parliamentarv services from Harwich to East Suffolk. Ile vacated his scat fur the borough last week, by accepting the...

FINE ARTS. THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. We have but little to add in the way of general remark to our impres sions of the private view, already stated. The exhibition is one...

BOOKS. CAMPBELL'S MODERN INDIA A-ND ITS GOYEIN'MENT.* ON the night of the reassembling of Parliament after the Easter r,-cess, when Mr. lHerries moved for a Committee on East...