WE need not tell our readers that the Budget is the news of the week. It has been the talk not only of the United Kingdom, but of all Europe. Ten days of hard discussion in the...

been idle. Lord Clarence Paget has been enabled to set forth_ in full detail the Navy Estimates. As we have already re- marked, the estimates are very large in...

the difficulty respecting the choice of a Speaker. After many experiments, the House elected Mr. Pennington of New Jersey by a majority of 117 to 87. His election has been...

the Savoy question on an intelligible basis. The statement of Lord John Russell confirms the previous assurances that Sardinia has no engagement with France on the subject of...

not appear to have made any great progress. Austria still withholds her answer to Lord John Russell's proposition ; the Pope remains in a state of confirmed obstinacy, and there...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. Boma OP Loans. Monday, February 13. Indictable Offences (Metropolitan District) ; Lord Chelmsford's Bill read a second time—St....

The following is the Treaty of Commerce between her Majesty and the Emperor of the French, signed at Paris, January 23, 1860, and the ratifications of which were exchanged at...

TILE QUEEN departed from Windsor Castle on Saturday, and arrived at Buckingham Palace. In the evening, accompanied by the Prince Con- sort, her Majesty visited the Haymarket...

The two Houses of Convocation resumed their sittings on Wednesday ; and sat until yesterday. In the Upper House the Bishop of London presented a petition from the diocese of...

The Town Council of Edinburgh debated the Annuity-tax Bill, brought in by the Lord Advocate, at a long sitting on Monday. Two propositions were placed before the Council. One...

Mr. Justice Perrin, a Judge of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench, has retired. The Irish Attorney-General, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, has accepted the post vacated by the much...

Mr. Hutt was reelected for Gateshead, and Mr. Cowper for Hertford, on Monday. There was no opposition in either case, and the proceedings were merely formal. The Liverpool...

PAWL — The meeting of the French Chambers has been postponed from the 23d of February to the 1st of March ; a measure supposed to be occasioned by the postponement of the debate...

We are informed that Lord Elgin will undertake a second mission as Plenipotentiary to China, in the hope of being able, by the influence ob- tained in his former visit, to...

Milan at three o'clock on Wednesday last, and was received with extraordinary enthusiasm by the population. The Fulton arrived at Cowes yesterday, bringing advices from New...

SATURDAY MORNING. At the meeting of the House of Commons last night, Mr. DUCANE stood forward and announced the line that the Conservatives would take on the Budget. He said...

the French Chambers to the inability of the Emperor to make any state- ment respecting Italian affairs in their present diplomatic stage. He re- ports no progress, but thinks...

STOCK Exciunaz, Fames AFTZRXDON. Very little business has been transacted in the British Funds this week, although the variations have equalled 4 per cent per diem. There is...

On the 7th of February, at 7, Warwick Villas, Maids Hill, the Wife of the Hon. Alexandez Campbell, Kingston, Canada West, of a daughter. On the 7th, at 31, Palmetra Square,...

THE WEST INDIAN Ql7ESTION. addressing you as the self-appointed advocate of the West In- dies, my position is both navel and dangerous. It is dangerous, because I may not be...

Sin—With a high appreciation of the candour, courtesy, and intelligence of the notice with which you have honoured my pamphlet on "American Securities " in your journal, I beg...

THE Budget, although so generally acceptable, is not without some features which require consideration in Committee. The provincial grocers, wine and spirit dealers, are asked...

THE BUDGET OF 1860. ME. GLADSTONE'S financial scheme for the year towards which he glanced seven years ago with so much fervour, notwithstanding the disturbing circumstances of...

RUMOUR, taking authentic shape last night, told us that the party of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli was about to make war on the Bud- get ; and that the valorous resolution to do...

Giarszia. PEEL, then Secretary of State for War, stated, in his speech in the debate on Captain Vivian's motion, in 1858, that " he hoped there was no intention of submitting...

THE remarkable fact in the history of the British Navy is that our present force of ships is, to use the language of Lord Clarence Paget, " the product of the last decade." The...

Tnotroirrsui. readers of the public journals cannot have over- looked the unsettled state of " the religious world." In the same week, we have chronicled the riots at St....

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OP LEIGH HURT.' Mu. LEIGH Husrr published the first edition of this work about ten years since. From the title which was then given it, we judge that it was...

THE fourteenth and last volume of De Quincey's collected works contains nine papers, several of which, as the publishers inform us, were revised by the author. Two of them would...

praise were it only for this 'remarkable peculiarity, that being a modern novel, and written in the form of an autobiography, it yet does not weary and disgust the reader with...

A reprint of the works - of Robert Greene and George Peele, edited by the Reverend Alexander Three, with many corrections and additions, IS now in the press, and will be...

The first two volumes of a HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF HENRY IV. of France, by Miss Freer, have been issued without a prefatory line ' but the title page informs us that the...

The past week has been barren of musical matter. At the Royal English Opera, Wallace's Lurline will be produced in a few days. Having been present at one of the rehearsals, we...

As the pantomime grows older, Mr. Smith of Drury Lane endeavours to increase his attractive force by strengthening the introductory part of his entertainment. Mr. Charles Dillon...

THE ARCHITECTURAL PROT2GRAPIEIC ASSOCIATION. There are few better applications of photography made than in archi- tecture. As a faithful sketcher in of detail no eye could ever...

The aggregate amount of the receipts of the places of public amuse- ment at Paris, during last January, was 1,880,968 francs, 44 cents, being an increase of 173,623 francs, 54...

On the 10th instant, Professor Huxley delivered a lecture before a crowded audience at the Royal Institution, "On Species and Races, and their Origin." The object of the lecture...

On the 9th instant, the Emperor and Empress of Austria inspected in the Empress's apartments entitled Belaria, Raphael's famous picture of " Apollo and Marsyas," together with...

Bankrupts.—ELLEN SUSANNAH Wray, Bingham Place, New North Road, Hoxton, boarding-house-keeper—Taomes Symms's, Portsmouth, hotel-keeper—Joss Don, HAM, Wingland, Sutton Brid g e,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 6aSurd. Monday. Tuesday. Widnes. 91 1 94 94 ; 94; 17 1 231 26 3 4 FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Oficial Quotation daring the Week ending Friday...