friends in this country have been so lavish, as to the inevitable result of the elections to the vacant seats in the National Assembly, have been refuted by the actual election...

:TAXATION and Representation have been the leading subjects in Yarliamentthis week, though not strictly taken together. Mr. Rumé "began it—ding dong bell!" The Secretary at...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOusz or LORDS. Monday, March 11. Sir Thomas Turton's Defalcations in Cal- cutta; Petition concerning--Oath of Supremacy: Petition from two...

Tun Queen held a Privy Council and a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday. At the Privy Council, her Majesty's approval was given to the report of the Judicial Committee on the...

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the Officers and Clerks Committee reported in favour of continuing the salary of the Common- Sergeant at 1,500/. a year. The Lord...

The National Freehold Land Society have made a first purchase of land hi East Surrey. The estate consists of nearly sixty acres of building- land, near the Malden station of the...

The Edinhu r NO ; have lost a leader in the person of Sir Janice Gibson Craig ; a rthin - vilitsby . h.kpersonid qualities, exercised almost up to his death last week, it...

The Government announcement of an intention. to abolish the Vice- regal office in Ireland appears to have excited leas opposition, even in, than.was, expected; while almost...

Freasen.—The citizens of Paris have elected the three Socialist candi- dates, Carnet, Vidal, and De Flotte, and rejected the three Moderate can- didates, Foy, Lahitte...

The office of Associate to the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench has, it is well known, almost invariably been held by a son of that great ju- dicial functionary for the time...

Blantyre were elected Representative Pee for Scotland, in late Ear/ of Airlie and Lord Colvile of Cuirass. The Duke made a short speech, and delivered a protest signed by most...

the Man- sionhouse today, on remand, and the charge against him was again adjmitned till Monday week.

the Committee appointed to consider the merits of the plans for draining the Metropolis. One hundred and seventy-eight plans are classified and criticized. That of Mr. J. B....

effect of the elections on the Government. First, it is said that the President of the Republic was desirous of resigning, and only prevented by General (Than- gamier; next,...

SATURDAY. The chief business in the House of Commons last night was the financial ritatement of the year, by Sir CHARLES WOOD, in Committee of Ways and Means. Sir Charles...

STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The books of the Stocks whose dividends become due in April, all closed on Tuesday last. Three per Cent Consols i therefore now the only stock...

Afonday,March 18. Stamp-duties : Committee. Drainage : Committee. Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, and other Government measures. Amend- ments to be moved in Committee....

and the personal patronage bestowed on him by the Qrifek ai -e. quence of that position, render his, benefit a matter nf t -Fumeanshlic AptIts,5 rest than benefits in general....

Mir prospect of a successful season. In noticing, last week, Mr. Lumley's preparations, we remarked that his company was a very powerful one I), th for opera - and ballet ; and...

the New Strand Theatre. A farce which turns on the often-used subject ota "life about town," and which bears the characteriatic title of Out on the Loose, has been produced with...

compound of scholarly feeling and gentlemanly courage—probably induced Mr. Anderson to revive at Drury Lane this weak production of John Fleteher's muse. In point of writing,...

. EFFECT OF THE GORHAM .1 UDGMENT. Mon unsatisfactory is the position in whieh the decision on Gor- ham's case leaves the Church of - England. Not only is a Vicar forced upon...

MIL COBDEN sticks to direct reduction of expenditure, and re- pudiates readjustment of taxation ; apparently thinking that the reduction is the more facile and practical thing....

DREADED as it may be, and often deferred, the stage to which the Australian Colonies Government Bill has at last arrived cannot longer be delayed : the Committee is set down for...

Coma NFscixtwoDs's note leaves Russia without a locus standi in the present quarrel between England and Greece, since it admits the "independence" of Greece, the "private"...

Jr "county meetings are a farce," surely deputations "going up to Ministers are a niaiserie, and, the show of deference tradition- ally paid to them is now scarcely observed. A...

GROTE'S GREECE—VOLUMES VII. AND virr.* THE two preceding volumes of Mr. Grote's History exhibited the Athenian empire in its ascending and stationary periods. The present...

better in his romance of the fifth cen- tury than mi g ht hav e been e xpected from. his previo u s trainin g as a bio g raphic a l writ er , or the choice of a theme so remote...

Tar history of this litle pamphlet is not easily intelligible. The " article " was rejected, we are told in the preface, by the quar- terly periodicals. That it should be...

ORS. France and its Revolutions : a Pictorial History. 1789-1848. By George Long, Esq. The Social Condition and _Education of the People in England and .Europe; showing the...

On the 8th March, in Whitehall, the Wife of William B. Hodge, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th, at Fawley Rectory, Hants, the Wife of the Rev. William Gibson, of a daughter. On...

OPFICF. or ORDNANCE, March 11.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—See. Capt. A. T. Phin- potts to be Capt. vice De Winton, retired upon half-pay ; First Lieut. J. D. Shake- spear to...

Tuesday, March 12, PAIFINElisiUre DisSOLvED.-May and Turner, Twickenham, farmers-Toft and Heath, Tunstall, engravers-Probert and Vincent; Davies Street, Berkeley Square,...

lii R I T I S II F U 19,1) S- (Closing Prices) &deed. Monday. Tuesday. Wallies. 3 per Cent Consols 951 - 96 Ditto for Account 951 96 3 per Cents Reduced ,1,11 951 lit per...