Tnoectr the Parliament has been sitting since Tuesday, there is not much of national interest to record; partly owing, in the Com- mons, to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S absence, which...

the Government very unsatisfactorily. In consequence of the refrac- tory conduct of the prisoners, MARTIN, the Attorney-General, proposed that all who refused to behave quietly...

appears that the successor of PALMELLA is the Count VILLA REAL, not LINHARES. It is also said that the true cause of PAL- DIELLA'S resignation was the bad terms on which he was...

last week. It does not appear that they did more than obtain a cartel for the exchange of prisoners, and a promise that in future prisoners should not be murdered in cold blood...

completely defeated by the troops of the new Shah, com- manded by Sir HENRY BETHUNE, who had taken possession of Ispahan, and nearly put an end to the war.

THE House of Commons reassembled on Tuesday. Mr. Fox Manic and Mr. F. T. Baring were the only Ministers in the House when the Speaker took the Chair; but soon afterwards the...

Mr. Horsley Palmer, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. G. R. Dawson, Lord Lyndhurst, .Lord Wharneliffe, Lord Abinger, Sir George Clerk, and Mr. Yates Peel. Mr. John Masterman was in the...

The disputes between the majority of the Common Council and the Lord Mayor have not been settled. We subjoin an account of the proceedings since our last notice of them. On...

Tier. King and Queen arrived in town from Windsor Castle on Wed- nesday. The King held an Investiture of the Order of the Bath soon after his arrival, and General Sir Edward...

Campbell obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict obtained last week with 35'00/. damages by Miss Wood of Manchester, against Mr. Hurd, the son of the London solicitor,...

upon Sir Robert Peel, and stated their wish to invite him to a public dinner ; but Sir Robert l'eel begged to decline the honour, on the ground that during the sitting of...

The members of the East Norfolk Conservative Association dined together in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, on the 7th. Lord Wode- house, Lord Lieutenant of the county, presided....

The Earl of Mulgrave made his public entry into Dublin on Monday. He landed at Kingstown, from the Lightning steam-packet, about eleven in the forenoon. Many thousand persons on...

WEST BIDING OF YORKSHIRE. AS the polling-days approached ibe confidence of both parties seemed to increase. Mr. Worthy's friends, encouraged by the defeat of Lord John Russell...

constitu.: encies would gladly avail themselves of an opportunity to secure Lord John Russell's services. It will he seen from our rt part of Election Movements, that the...

Eldon's net income was 1 ; and in the year 1811 it amounted to the enormous sum of 22.,7;37/. Mr. Stephenson, the railway engineer, has been made a Knight of the Order of...

A report was prevalent at the beginning of the week, that Sir John Campbell was to be Lord Chancellor ; but ithas received no authentic confirmation. Mr. Spring Rice has...

BIRTHS. On the 5th just., at Windom- Castle, Wilts, the Right lion. Lady Dorot ER, of a son. On the 6th inst., at the Rectory, Weldon, Northamptonshire, the Lady Lows*. Ewen Or...

to the bar of their House the ninety-one signers of the letter approving of the conduct of the state-prisoners. There was strenuous opposi- tion to this measure even from some...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The causes to which we alluded in our last report have operated during the whole of the week to produce a decline of prices; which has been...

his nominal constituents refuse to acknowledge him as their Member : in the Fife _Herald be is alluded to as the former Representative of the Burghs, and be is reminded that he...

Arrived - At Gravesend. M.ty 11th, Briton, Parker, from Ceylon; 12111, Hive, Litsconthe; Moffatt, Cromartie; Louisa Campbell, M'Queen ; Nlinerva. 'Templar; Cat math., Ryles;...

SATURDAY. MarquisIVrt.r.r.sr.cy resigned the office of Lord Chamberlain on Thursday. The Times announced the fact yesterday, and undertook to supply at second or third-hand...

PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT ELECTION. Winner the memory of very young politician% it was a leading maxim of the Tory party, that the People had nothing to do with the laws but to...

MERCHANT TAILORS HALL. SIR ROBERT Peet is attempting to net a part which no public man can perform with credit to himself or benefit to his party. Ile is striving to make tliv...

THE Duke of WELLINGTON told the Merchant Tailor people, that the King regretted the late change of Ministers. This may be true; but who authorized the Duke to make such a...

Lar.Lacits had his benefit on Thursday evening; when Marino Faliero, a IleW opera in three acts, written by Signor Dunne, with music by DONIZETTI, was performed. Adopting the...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL is distinguished in public life for courtesy of demeanour. As a debater, his tone and language are remark- ably free from asperity. His speeches are never...

SURELY the session will not be allowed to slip away without some measures of' effectual Reform, if not total abolition, of the Eccle- siastical Courts. The oppression which is...

Tuesday evening, a lecture was delivered by Mr. T. Wicksteed, Engineer to the East London Water-works, on the distribution of the supply of water to the Metropolis. Among other...

TILE Great 0 is as fertile a theme for the HB's comic pencil as Little Nap was to his predecessor OILLRAY. O'CONNELL, WO, is quite a godsend to the whole race of old women : the...

THE concert of Monday evening contained more beauties and fewer blemishes than most of the preceding ones. We are willing not only to compound, but to be thankful, for the...

IIIMIGIOUS TRAVELS, A Narrative of the Vis:t to the American Churches. by the Deputation from the Congregational Union of England anl Wales. By Andrew Reed. D.D. and James...

A "Congregational Union" was formed in 1831 by some of the Dissenting churches of England and Wales. One of the ends in view seems to have been to advocate and advance the...

OUR last week's indicative conjecture as to the nature of Mr. W11/1211N'S volume was near the mark: his object is threefold, vant to what we thought an ante-room, we found the...

" native and to the manner born ? " There are other traits, too, of hoar anti- A CHARACTER. been considered with as much care as if -it had been the action of A WOCLD•RE FINE...

LAST week our attention was directed to the most prominent features of this Exhibition ; this week we propose to scan its minuter beauties. Our glance at these lesser points of...

THIS volume is a collection of tales, poems, criticisms, and other varieties, set in a sort of framework; which has nothing of no- velty, inasmuch as it is merely the old story...

THIS book is a sort of puzzle. It purports to be the notes of a journal kept by GRANT THORBLMN during a sojourn in London, Liverpool, Ediuburgb, and other chief towns; and we...

THESE epistles are addressed to the editor of a New York paper, by a supposed attendant and bosom friend of General JACKSON. They profess to narrate the events of the...

-0er turning over the papers in these volumes, we recognized many of them as old acquaintances. This is some proof of merit, for mere mediocrity is soon forgotten. The best...

THE history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was only achieved " by the labour of six quartos and twenty years." Mr. MONTGOMERY MARTIN has a readier pen and quicker...