our own Parliament ; where, with some decline in the position of Government, parties or ambitious Members regain hopes of open- ing opportunies. The Ministerial measures have...

TEE Conference at Paris is in full session. Its members assem- bled on Monday, and took their places round the table at which is to be settled the question of peace with Russia...

traffic—the Great Northern on tht one side and the North-Western with two allies on the other—is the timely affirm- ation of a principle which it is peculiarly important to...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOME or Loans. Monday, Feb. 25. Appellate Jurisdiction ; Lord Lyndhurst's Notice of Motion—Committee of Privileges ; Report received. Tuesday,...

been announced, and they are such as to command respect. At the head of them is Lord Seaton, and they are all of them military men of acknowledged ability and rectitude....

The Lord Mayor resolved to give a banquet in honour of Mr. Bu- chanan, the American Minister; and he fixed on Wednesday evening for the purpose. The company invited to meet Mr....

Tice second levee of the season was held by the Queen on Wednesday, at St. James's Palace. It was well attended, but fewer remarkable men were presented than at the first levee....

It is thought likely that Mr. Heatheote, the eldest son of Sir Gilbert Heatheote, now Lord Aveland, will retire from the representation of Boston, and present himself to the...

c f t HIM—The last Plenipotentiary to the Conference, Aali Pasha, was received at the Tuileries on Sunday ; and on Monday the twelve repre- sentatives of the states concerned...

Tim CRIMEAN Imatrinv.—The Royal Warrant, summoning a Board of Officers to investigate the charges against Lords Lucan and Cardigan, and other officers, is signedby Lord...

Monday—on Thursday. The Plenipotentiaries are to meet a third time today. No intimation of the aspect of the proceedings thus far has leaked out. The telegraph states that...

useful war map. Its main purpose is to show the new boundary line between Russia and Turkey which it is proposed to establish by the treaty of Paris. The line is clearly...

SATURDAY. The House of Commons, last night, was mainly occupied with the dis- cussion on Mr. Roebuck's motion. Soon after the House met, in reply The House of Commons, last...

was very fully attended, and was very stormy. The most im- portant result was, that three new Directors proposed by the Opposition— Ur. Helps, Mr. Orr, and Mr. Walters—to...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAT AFTERNOON. The subscriptions sent to Messrs. Rothschild for the new Loan were ex- tremely large, amounting, it is believed, to 30,000,0001.; and since...

France and England so frequently run parallel in the matter of theatrical productiveness, that-to use a mathematical expression-they might be supposed to "vary &raptly " 'with...

our glances to the future. Covent Garden, after six nights of opera, has closed; and Professor An- derson announces his intention of taking leave of the public next week, with a...

THE POSITION OF THE GOVERNMENT. Irr mid march of sueoessful action abroad, our Governinent drawi attention to its position at home by bringing upon itself varioui defeats. No...

[FROM A CORRBSPONDENT.] The second part of the oral discourse of George Bidder on mental cal- ulation delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers on Tuesday evening....

THERE is always a temptation to preach sermons over the body of the fallen, and Mr. Sadleir's fall was too signal an incident to escape the handling of our innumerable writers....

"Sirs, Colonies, and Commerce," were the demands of the first Napoleon from his subjects—" Ships; Colonies and Commerce," in order that he might obtain a standing-ground equal...

IF there is one enterprise upon which all well-informed people are agreed it is the amendment of the law. The annual meeting of the Society which takes its name from that...

Ix Lord Stanhope's proposal be carried out, he will have laid the foundation of one of the most interesting institutions that a -country can possess. Next week he is to take a...

BRAZIL AND TER SLAVE-TRADE. 20 Victoria Road, Pimlico. Stit—You state in your leader on this subject last week, that no slaves have been imported from Africa into Brazil...

San — In reading attentively the letter in last week's Spectator entitled "Woman's Mission," for the purpose of attempting a reply, I find it far from easy to grapple with...

London, ma lebruary 1856. San—Mindful of your editorial injunction, I proceed to state quern bre- vissime what I hope you will permit to see the li,ght, though I piuis over...

On the 18th February, Mary, Wife of Isaac Hughes, of Nantsyddion, of four children—three girls and one boy ; the mother and children are doing well. ' On the 21st, at...

of newspapers, yet I take con- siderable interest in the Spectator, because the articles contained in it are more philosophically treated than the articles of a newspaper...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 26. WAD. DEPARTMENT, Feb. 26.—Caratry.—Ist Itegt. of Life Guards—Lieut. A. W. Peyton to be Capt. by purchase, vice Viscount Dupplin, who...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 26. Partnerships Dissolved.-Morgan and Marsden, Macclesfield, machine-makers- Ridge and Co. Newark-upon-Trent, booksellers--Blakenay and Owen,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices ) 3 per Cent Consols 9 per Cents Reduced New Ditto for Account New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, S percent .........

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Josses CLAN- WM, lie. 10,:erine Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London; and Published by the...

GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE—.VOLUME XII.. MR. GROTE's twelfth and concluding volume embraces the history of Alexander the Great from his accession to the throne of Mace- don in...

MARCH 1, 1856.

IT may be objected to this book, that the author's experience was, apparently, limited to Lisbon, Oporto, and their respective neigh- bourhoods; and that his style is often...

THEE handsome library edition of Dugald Stewart's Works, bear- ing upon its titlepage the name of Sir William Hamilton as edi- tor, suggests the remembrance and regret that Sir...

Cousin Veronica is to depict American Slavery as it practically exists. In effect- ing this, she steers between the two extremes of Anti-Slavery ex- aggeration and Pro-Slavery...

Magazine, this month, is the one entitled "The Opening Session." Not that there is much of a story to tell in all that has happened, but that the writer, by his straightforward...

Booms. History of Greece. By George Grote, Esq. Volume XII. With Por- trait, Maps, and Index. Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey. Edited by his Son-in- law, John...

FOR THE MONTH AND TWELVE MONTHS ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 1855 AND 1854. ExPoiers. Month ended Dec. 31, 1835. 1854. Twelve Months ended Dec. 31, 1855. 1834. Declared value of...

DIVIDENDS AND VALUE OF SHARES. • The table below shows the position of thirty-four Railways in regard to dividend and market-price of shares. The dividends recently declared...

On the 30th June 1855 there was an army of 136,498 men employed on the Railways opened or in course of construction in the United Kingdom. The Parliamentary return supplies some...

In the last session of Parliament 73 acts were passed in connexion with railways. They were for new companies, extensions of old lines, abandon- ment of former lines,...

The following table exhibits the proportion]; in which each of the Three Kingdoms contributed to make up the grand total of railway figures in the half-year ending 30th June...

Last year the receipts of the principal French railways showed a very large increase over those of the preceding year, as the table below exhibits. The earnings have been...

Official documents issued by the respective Governments exhibit the movement of railway traffic in the two countries-retrogressing in one, making great strides in the other. In...

On the 31st December last there were 21,450 miles of railway open for traffic in the United States ; an increase of 2010 miles in the year. At the end of 1850 the mileage was...

General Merchandise, Cattle, Minerals, &c 5,212,865 It will be observed that there is not a very great difference in the receipts from the three classes of travellers : the...

On the 30th June 1854 there were 7803 miles of railway opened in the United Kingdom ; on the 30th June in the following year that total had been increased to 8115. In the...

There are no means of arriving at an exact account of the amount of gold obtained by diggers : some is brought to the towns by private hands ,- some remains in the country ;...

The total amount of the expenditure of Great Britain for her Colonies in the year 1853-'4 was the respectable sum of 3,288,338!.; but though this large outlay is called "...

The revenue of New South Wales, in 1854, was 991,683!.; the expendi- ture, 630,812/. In 1850 the totals were respectively 370,896/. and 373,680!.; in 1851, 482,2361. and...

All the world knows how recklessly shipments from Europe were poured into the colony of Victoria after the gold-discovery, attaining an enormous total in 1854. Last year there...

It appears from the official tables that the total Ordinary Revenue of South .Australia for the year ending 30th September 1855 was 423,8681. Of this total, Customs supplied...

Journals brought from our Southern Colonies by late mails enable us to throw together some interesting facts regarding their public finance, bank- ing, trade, gold-production,...

The Sydney Mint, from the 25th June to the 3d November 1855 received 82,076 ounces of gold, and issued 178,600 sovereigns. Up to the 14th September, New South Wales Government...

There appear to be three banks carrying on business- in South Australia, -the South Australian Banking Company, the Union' Bank of Australia, and the Bank of Australasia. ' We...

The Mother-country does not appear to spend any money on Victoria : the last Parliamentary return on Colonial Expenditure does not mention that colony. The following table...

We are now enabled to give the banking statistics in New South Wales to a late date, and if the reader refers to the last Monthly Supplement, he can compare them with those of...