TEE proceedings of our First Minister in Parligapent lead us back to earlier times at the beginning of the preseMentury, when the First Consul, then ruler of France, was making...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. Horn or LORDS. Saturday, Feb. 6. Peers met to present an Address to the Queen. ay, Feb. 8. Transfer of Land ; the Lord Chancellor's Bill read a...

The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Can- terbury sat for a short time on Wednesday at Westminster. The sub- jests discussed in the Upper House were a...

Born Houses of Parliament presented addresses of congratulation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, on the nuptials of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of...

The election at Reigate terminated on Saturday in the return of Sir Henry Rawlinson. He headed the poll all day. At its close, the numbers were—Rawlinson 212, Doniton 116,...

1r It U.—The principal incident in the French news is a strong indi- cation of the intentions of the Emperor. M. Billault, Minister of the Interior, resigned his office on...

A public meeting was held in Edinburgh on Monday to consider a mode of dealing with the Annuity-tax. By this plan, it is proposed to abolish the tax ; to hand over the 20001....

SATURDAY. The House of Commons was very fully attended last night by Mem- bers anxious to hear the Premier expound his Government of India Bill. Lord PALMEBSTON moved for...

WATifyyssx's DIMPATC11. The following is the text of the despatch from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, referred to in the debates in Parliament, and not answered by...

We cannot promise insertion of any Letters during the continuance of heavy and interesting debates in Parliament. Notices of the British Institution Exhibition, &c., are among...

Smear EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arneurooir. The arrivals of specie from various parts continue very largo ; aud al- though there is constantly a great demand for gold for the Continent,...

FRANCE AND ENGLAND. THE object of the bill introduced by Lord Palmerston to in- crease the rigour of our law of conspiracy is political, and it is a sign of a bad case if the...

The most popular of Balfe's operas has been produced, in Italian, at Her Majesty's Theatre, under the title of La Zingara. Its first perform- ance, last Saturday, had a very...

AMONGST the measures of _repression adopted by Louis Napoleon, one of the most barefaced in its tendencies is the appointment of General Espinasse to be Minister of the Interior...

IT is with the greatest deference that we ask whether the subject and treatment of all the sermons at Westminster Abbey, or at its chapel-of-ease St. Margaret's, have been of a...

WHEN last we commented on the want of proper system in our military management, we did not anticipate that a most striking proof of the fact would be brought under the notice of...

THE Moniteur forms one of the most curious records in the world. In the present week it contains the despatch from Count Walewski to Count de Persigny, in which we find this...

EARL GREY ON PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT AND REFORM. * "NE sutor ultra crepidam." The debater should confine himself to tongue-work. Cicero, as Juvenal intimates, would have been...

AGES. * THE " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is everywhere ac- cepted as the work of the greatest historian England has ever produced. Yes, we say it with unaffected...

faults in this curious account of the numerous individuals whose Papistry prior to the Act of Settlement deprived them of the crown of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as of...

Tin publishers have at last awakened from their torpor, and at the opening of the Parliamentary and London season sent forth a batch of books that we have not seen paralleled in...

On the 15th September, from concussion of the brain, caused by a fall from • balcony, in the Residency of Lncknow, Lieutenant James Fullerton, 16th Regi- ment N.I., third son of...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 9. Gazarrk OFTICE, Feb. 9.—The appointment of Cornet G. Wohlmann to be Quay termaster in the 12th Foot was erroneously inserted in the Gazette...

On the 2d February, at the British Embassy, Florence, the Rev. P. M. Sankey, Curate of Highclere, Hants, eldest son of the Rev. Richard Sankey, Rector of Wit- ney, Oxon, to...

On the 5th February, at Orton Longueville, the Marchioness of Huntly, of a daugh- ter. On the 5th, in Eaton Square, the Wife of the lion. W. H. Wyndham Quin, of a daughter. On...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12. ADMIRALTY, Feb. 11.—The following promotions, dated the 4th inst. consequent on the death, on the 3d inst. of Vice-Admiral of the Red the...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBUARY 9. Partnerships Dissolred.—Traais and Pickup, Bridge End, Newchurch, Lanca- shire, woollen-printers—S. and J. Gostling. Castleacre and West...

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