Loan JOHN RUSSELL'S appointment on a special mission to Vienna - is the principal act of the Government hitherto. The first remark made by the club statesmen at the announcement...

6th instant, are what is called somewhat more favourable; repre- senting great progress in the arrangements for the comfort of the soldiers, and such an advance in the front of...

Tar QUEEN and Prince Albert have not failed to enjoy the out-door ex- ercises of the season. On Saturday, her Majesty and the Princess Au- gusta of Saxe Coburg drove out in two...

the Ministry, not altogether calculated to increase public confidence. A. sort of fatality seems to hang over these subsidiary proceedings. Mr. Lowe has left his desk at the...

The three great Dock Companies have bills before Parliament, the ob- ject of which is to extend their powers "with regard to the levying of rates in respect of lighters and...

Lord Palmerston was reelected for Tiverton on Monday, by acclama- tion. He was proposed by Mr. John Heatheoat Amory, and seconded by Major Hole. The speakers expressed the...

has the power of creating a new one. Mr. Henry Herbert, Member, am Kerry, is spoken of as likely to be the person selected for the honour. A Limerick paper states that Mr....

FRewem—The presence of the Prussian envoy, M. de Wedel, at Paris has given rise to much speculation. The most seemingly authentic state- ments say that he was received with...

By the death of Mr. William Forbes of Callender, on the 10th instant, a vacancy occurs in the representation of Stirlingshire, for which he had been many years the Member.

The complete reconstruction of the Ministry has-not yet been effected, but some progress has been made. Sir Francis Baring has been ap- pointed Chancellor of the Duchy of...

rumoured appoint- ment of Sir Francis Baring to the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lan- caster, and has "reason to believe" that in the final arrangement Lord, Carlisle will...

SATURDAY. The practical business before the House of Commons, last night, was to vote the Naval Estimates—in amount 10,716,3381.; but before going into Committee there was a...

3d instant. They still indicate improvement ; but the weather, which had been fine up to the 2d February, broke on that day, and frost, snow, and cold winds, returned. With...

this forenoon still =subdued, broke out last night in the Albion wharf, near to Blackfriars Bridge on the Surrey side of the river. The premises belong to Messrs. Routledge '...

letters- patent, conferred the dignity of Baronet upon Samuel Morton Pete, Esq.

It is impossible to make room for more than a small portion of the correspondence that flows in upon us at present. Letters of considerable length are particularly unmanageable.

far as she is concerned, is the more renowned person of the two; and thus varies the Haymarket bill. Mr. Wigan, recollecting how successfully he played in A _Lucky Friday, when...

The only important event of the week has been the revival, at the Adelphi Theatre, of Auber's pretty ballet-opera Le .Dieu et la Bayatlere, produced on a scale of magnificence...

The New Philharmonic Society began their fourth season on Wednes- day. They have returned to their original locality, Exeter Hall, after having tried St. Martin's Hall for a...

Irish peat is composed, promise successful results to the speculators. According to a statement by the Irish Peat Company, 775 tons of peat were reduced in twenty-two days to...

The inactivity in the various branches of trade, and the withdrawal of money from the Public Funds, continue to create a flat market ; which in its present sensitive state is...

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday, the 10th day of February 1855. 189176 DEPALTMLNT. libtes issued 426,063,315...

THE WAR AND FINANCE OF 1855. PEACE will be initiated at Vienna by the Conference in which Lord John Russell is to take part, or the failure of the attempt will initiate the...

The recent expedition up the Chadda has met with a success unex- ampled in the history of African explorations. The expedition arose out of a discovery made by Dr. Barth. Before...

very object of their systems by exaggeration. The very able gentlemen who have laid before Par- liament a plan for the reorganization of the Civil Service are no exceptions to...

THE successful navigation of the Eastern branch of the Niger to a distance of two hundred and fifty miles above any previous ascent, without loss or serious sickness among the...

ONE of the succesful competitors for the post of Assistant-Surgeon under the East India Company is Dr. Chuekerbutty. And who is Dr. Chnekerbutty ? During the six years ending in...

IT seems impossible that the statement made by the Irish Attor- ney-General to the Dublin Court of Chancery in the case of "Hand- cook versus Delecour otherwise De Burgh" can be...

EXCHEQUER BILLS OF LOW DENOMINATION. Florence, 6th February 1855. Sin—The recent success of the Emperor of the French in raising a loan of twenty millions sterling, in...

1, Adam Street, Adetphi, 14th February 1855. Sin—In answer to Mr. Hugh Mason respecting the wages of cotton- workers here and in America, I beg to say, that I took my data from...

Sin—A short time back one of your correspondents contributed his views as to the training of the Army. We certainly wish it may get such a train- ing, but doubt much of such a...

Orra last resume of political news from New Zealand painted the state of affairs in that colony in somewhat gloomy colours. The acting Governor was left, at Auckland, in the...

OXFORD ESSAY'S. * This volume of Essays contributed by members of the University of Oxford,—whose bond is not identity of opinion, or any one definite practioal object, but...

"Swing" proceedings, some five-and-twenty years ago, Mr. Knight published a little book on Machinery, to deter the rural rioters from destroying thrashing-machines. On a sub-...

of Roman per- secution and of Christian martyrdom, faith, and virtue, at the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century. The leading feature of the fiction is...

Boon. Oxford Essays, contributed by Members of the University. 1856. Slave Life in 'Georgia : a Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown a Fugitive Slave,...

A sale which took place on Thursday of some pictures from the col- lection of Mr. Birch, of Westfield House, near Birmingham, is chiefly memorable for having included a most...

There is at present to be seen in the window of Mr. H. White, a plum- ber and glazier ' at No. 8 Carburton Street, Portland • Place, a picture which purports to be a Holbein ;...

PICTURES AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. An admirably luminous sky, and a foreground thronged with novel detail yet finely modulated and harmonized into breadth, mark Mr. Anthony's...

Tuesday, _February 13. PARTNERSE/ES DISSOLVED.-J. and R. Clowes, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, builders -Spurr and Hunter, Droufield, Derbyshire, coal-masters-Haywood and Outwin,...

WAR-OFFICE, Feb. 13.-5th Regt. of Drag. Guards- Lieut. G. S. Burnand to be Capt. without purchase, vice Campbell, deceased; Cornet T. L. Hampton to be Lieut, without purchase,...

On the 9th February, at Badminton, the Duchess of Beaufort, of a son. On the 9th, at St. Breward's Vicarage, Cornwall, the Wife of the Rev. George Martin, D.D., Vicar of St....

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) &asstd. jMoidair Tuesday. Waxes. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 91 : 901 911 009 909 901 Ditto for Account 911 91 911 909 901 901 3 per...