G'AiTA has fallen. A lucky shell blew up one of the reserve maga- zines, and with it an entire bastion. The defence consequently became hopeles . s, and on February the 13th the...

vote of thanks by Parliament to the Chinese expedition. Both Houses passed the - vote unanimously, the only difference of opinion being on the pro- priety of levelling the...

of "No surrender !" ha - vg mustered their strength to support Sir John Trelawny's bill. A very large conference, attended by sixteen Members of Parliament, and delegates from...

at Liverpool ; its mouthpiece is Mr. Robertson Gladstone, President of the Financial Reform Association. At the annual meeting of this body on Tuesday, the doctrine was laid...

Cliathain will,we may trust, open the eyes of the Government to the defects of the Jebb System of convict management as it prevails in England. For weeks the Chatham convicts...

is one of these, and it has advanced a stage. The marquis is an infant. A year ago the Court of Chancery in England appointed three guar- dians—Colonel Crichton Stuart, General...

part of England, and our eastern coast. There have been inundations in Yorkshire and Durham, and a severe gale, foretold by the meteorolo- Ms from observation, on Saturday and...

of elec- tions. Mr. Leathern, convicted of bribery at Wakefield, sought to upset the verdict, on the ground that the first count of the indictment —that he personally gave money...

Statute Law Consolidation ; the Lord Chancellor's Bill read a first time. [This bill repeals obsolete statutes]—Indictable Offences (Metropolitan Districts) Lord Chelmsford's...

Tan Queen held the first levee of the season at St. James's Palace on Thursday - . It was fully attended. On Saturday her Majesty called on the Duchess of Cambridge, and on...

(From the Prase.) Documents relative to the affairs of Rome show clearly two things —first, that the French Government in the relations with the Pontifical Court has gone...

men. An archdeacon of the diocese of Exeter has appealed :to his bishopfor "a declaration of opinion"—not the only appeal he has re- ceived—and Dr. Philpot's opunon, it will be...

SATURDAY MORNING. Berra Houses of Parliament sat last night. The House of Commons rose early after disposing of some formal and unimportant business. Sir CHARLES Woon, in...

On the 6th instant, at Kensington-gore, the wife of Hugh FIammersley, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th, at 6, Dawson-street, the Hon. Mrs. Handcock, of a daughter. On the 9th,...

of knighthoodlupon Colonel Arthur Cotton, Colonel Commandant her Majesty's Madras Engineers. and Mr. Richard Charles Kirkly, late Accountant-General of the War Department. The...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 1 Friday. Bank Stock, 10 per Cent I 288 India Stock, 104 per Cent I — Exchequer Bills, II& per diem 1 per Exchequer Bantle, 5001.-- I par...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. YESTERDAY, at the weekly Court of the Bank Directors, an advance in the minimum rate of discount was resolved upon, viz., from 7 to 8 per cent....

Bankru pts.—John Denton, William Denton, and John Denton, jun., of Dartmouth- park, Forest-hill, Kent, builders—Frederick Cogman, Norwich, tailor—Henry Bate- man, Old...

tHUR011-RATE PLANS; THE TRUE REMEDY. TH:Enz is nothing like a religious-political question for the development of crotchets. It is a mental guano, restoring vigour to the soil,...

"THE people of Rome," says a recent letter from Italy, "believe that their deliverance is near at hand ;" but the belief seems to most Englishmen only one of those fond illu-...

TILE Whigs must improve their party organization. Never so strong as that of their opponents, it has sustained, in the death of Mr. Coppock and the resignation of Sir W. Hayter,...

ITALY. TUB war of 1859, and the statecraft of 1860, have gone far to create what Mr. Disraeli derides when be speaks of the "splendid phantom of a United Italy." And why does...

THE Government have begun the session with a measure which, if it be passed with anything like the unanimity which was promised by its first reception, will enable them to boast...

THE month of January has glided away without intelligence from America, save of the progress of secession. The fatal evil of the hour, the absence of men who are at once states-...

THERE are some men left in the world, we believe, who con- tend that the first object of English politics is the elevation of Englishmen. They hold that the defeat of a beer...

THERE is, perhaps, no subject on which English and French politi- cians differ so radically as on the administration of finance. With the public men of England it is a settled...

OUR transatlantic kinsfolk, if we may trust the North ihnerkan Review, do not share in the apprehension so freely expressed in England of late on the subject of our cotton...

FEMALE ARTISTS.—The Society of Female Artists exhibit for their fifth season a collection of more than three hundred works, now open to the public, at the Gallery of the New...

on Saturday last, was so crowded as to render it a matter of great difficulty to see the pictures, and still more difficult to form an accurate judgment of any particular work....

THE WILD HUNTRESS.. A NECESSARY consequence of the extraordinary development which, within the last half-century, has taken place in that department of literature which is...

is confessed by Dr. Copland, in the preface to his lately published work on Consumption and Bronchitis, that "our knowledge of the pathology of pulmonary diseases, and of their...

Ix this volume, as in his two previous ones on the period preceding the Revolution, .Mr. Chambers's object has been "to trace the moral and economic progress of Scotland through...

Homer is one of them. Almost as much labour has been employed in criticizing those who have translated him, as by the translators themselves, yet a specimen of a new...

IN Mr. Beard's Port Royal we recognize a valuable and meritorious publication; though Sainte-Beuve's now completed work, on the same subject, renders it, perhaps, of secondary...

we noticed a very pretty edition of Andersen's Tales, published as a Christmas present. The book, though far from being dear, was still too high in price to be bought for a...

Halcyon; or, Rod-Fishing with Fly. Minnow, and Worm. By Henry Wade, Honorary Secretary to the Wear Valley Angling Association. London : Bell and Daldy.—Under this somewhat...