'THE three principal subjects agitated in Parliament since our last number, are Chancery Reform, India, and Mr. O'Connell. The first occupied the House of Lordi on Monday ; the...

Despatches have been received at the Foreign Office from St. Peters- burg and Berlin. They were brought by Mr. Waring, the King's messenger, and are said to be important. We...

office of French Minister for Foreign Affairs, though requested by the King. The labourers and artificers of France, suffering equally with our own from the depression of trade,...

on Wednesday afternoon. I Maje.ty began by holding a Chapter of the Order of the Garter, for the purpose of electing, a Knight Companion, a vacancy being created by the decease...

• STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EvENING.—The transactions of the week have been more uninttcresting than for some time past. On Monday, the market opened with a very promising...

lower part of the premises of Mr. Carlile, bookseller, No. 105, Fleet-street, corner of Bell-yard, Fiar.s.—A destructive fire broke out on Monday morning, in the lower part of...

of the Exchequer, Mr. Herries, and a select party at dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester had a dinner party, and a numerous party in the evening. On Monday, the Duke of...

IT is; not a little curious to mark by what different plans an individual and a nation seek to manage their difficulties. The former makes it a regular study to pay nothing . at...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE "great 0" took—not his seat, but—his stand at the table of the House of Commons, on Friday night. The member is a good- humoured, jolly,...

WHEN we are told that the trade with India has not increased since 1814 in such a ratio as was anticipated, it would be well to inquire whether it has not so increased because...

"If the Legislature should not deem it expedient to establish such a just and equitable currency as may lift up the means of the country to a level with its burdens, it would in...

MORE frequent observation of Madame MALIBRAN GARCIA has only served to confirm us in our first estimate of her performances. We formed our opinion, in the notice alluded to,...

Soarrao is, in our opinion, much improved. She does not now labour under the grievous task of supporting an exaggerated reputation—she is relieved from the straining effort of...

IN the Chronicle of Monday, we read, in that type and form of para- graph which notify all historical events, from the eversion of a dynasty to the upsetting of an apple stall,...

MAY is usually a busy. month in our world of music. We are gene- rally visited with a swift succession of concerts ; but this year quite outruns all our former experience. To...

THERE is no member of the profession whose character stands higher than that of Mr. F. CRAMER. We never heard hiS name mentioned without respect. Educated in the school of...

ACT I. Sinfonia In B flat Beethoven. Aria, " Fra tante angoscie i " Signor Bordogni Caraffa., Concerto Pianoforte, Mr. Cramer Cramer. Aria, Madame Stockhausen, (La Clemenza...

THE second Concert of this set took place on Friday evening; and we must do M. BOCHSA the justice to say, that he showed industry in making his selection. Particularly were we...

FOR the first time in our memory, we miss the remark, that " the Ex- hibition at Somerset House, this season, is, on the Whole, considerably inferior to that of last year." Have...

EITERARY SPECTATOR. MR. GRATTAN- could not have tua•ivel at the degree of popularity wlich he enjoys, without being distinguished ii*OBI the vulgar herd of welters liv sonie...

TnE criticisms of our diurnal brethren on the subject of music are frequently edifying. The Morning Journal was lately in raptures with " HA.NDEL'S sublime oratorio of the...

Is a novel intended to show the evils of theological discussion among the people. The principal misery which it is here seen to entail, is family dissension. Religionists are...

REMARKABLE TALE OF MURDERS.—There lived in Lyons, in a respectable sta- tion of life, a man named Peter Claudius Chevallier, whose amiable qualities and gentlemanly appearance...

FOR beauty and for truth, this work is superior to the best sketches of WASHINGTON IRVING : it is equal to his writings for a certain kind of elegant pathos, in which few...

The arrivals from all parts of India this week are more than usually numerous. We ]rare advises from Canton to the 15th January ; from Bombay to the 17th, from Madras to the...

The Lord Bishop of Winchester has collated the Rey. Charles Gower Boyles, M.A. of Exeter College, to the Rectory of Buriton, with Peterstield Chapel, vacant by the death of the...

OXFORD, May 12.—The election of three Craveruscholars took place on Saturday last, when the following gentlemen were elected. William Henry Johnson, Commoner of Worcester...

Tuesday, May 12. Psnyresasitios DISSOLVED.—T. Sedgley and It. Kirby, Banbury and Deddington, Oxfordshire, drapers—Brooks and Osbaidiston, Manchester, fent-dealers—T. and...

Birrriss.—On the 11th inst. at East Sheen, the Hen. Isles. Penrhyn, of a daughter— At Clapham, the Lady of Mr. Alderman Farebrother, of a daughter—On the 10th inst. in...

BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. A Series of Dissertations, peel minary to a Nov Harmony of the Gospels. By the Rev. E. Greswell, M.A., and Fellow of Corpus...

CORN EXCHANGE, lettinAv, MAY 15. We have a very moderate arrival of English Wheat this week, but of Foreign there is a considerable supply, and the trade on the whole is dull,...