IN their attempts to please people all round, Ministers have been betrayed into a very questionable step and into very embarrassing conversations. On Monday night, Sir Charles...

the Quadruple Alliance seems to have had the most untoward effect on the Portuguese Government : no sooner has that Go- vernment secured the protection of a British force for...

to do harm, but are punctilious when we are urged to do good. We can send ships to enforce our debt, but will not pay our voluntarily incurred debt to the Greeks. Although Lord...

LOANS TO IRISH RAILWAYS: FINANCIAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY. After the Education debate on Monday night, in a Committee of the whole House, Sir CHARLES WOOD brought forward a plan...

an anti-slavery explosion. A petition for emancipation in the French Colonies gave rise to a debate, in which evidence was adduced of the most frightful cruelties practised by...

untimely fend with the Diet, by a very conciliatory reply to the address; repudiating finality for his constitutional scheme, and not repudiating the volunteered advice of his...

At a meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, was presented the report of a committee recommending that the salary of Mr. Police Com- missioner Harvey be raised to 1,0001.,...

THE Queen held a levee, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. Her Ma- jesty afterwards had a dinuer-party at Buckingham Palace; followed by an evening-party. There was another...

Shakspere's birthday was celebrated at Stratford-on-Avon on Saturday' last, the 24th of April. The Shaksperian Club met in the morning, to talk of purchasing the old house in...

The Lord-Lieutenant lies in a hopeless state of illness. For some time be has been understood to be unwell; on Monday alarming accounts ap- peared; and the symptoms have assumed...

Glasgow"—which is saying a vast deal—was held on Tuesday evening. Its object was to petition Parliament for some law to compel railway companies to provide accommodation for...

PitussiA.—King Frederick William's answer to the address was read on the 23d April to the four Estates assembled in a Combined Court for that purpose. Contrary to expectation,...

Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office on Saturday and on - Wednesday. The Commissioners appointed to consider the state of the several Bishop- rics in England and...

SATUILDAT NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, Lord JOHN R ossEta. having moved the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply on the 620,0001. grant in aid of...

been con- ferred on Mr. William Snow Harris, inventor of the naval lightning. conductor. From a published correspondence between Mr. Bancroftand Lord Jan Russell, it appears...

Though Jenny Lind has not yet been seen or heard by the public on the stage of Her Majesty's Theatre, the pleasing torment in which habitues have been kept by the ingenious...

STOGIE EXUMA/TOE, FRIDAY Arra - moon. The Emperor of Russia is reported to have extended his favour to the English as well as to the French, and to have given instructions to...

of his Letter there is not the sliyhtest difference between us.

first appearance at the Princess's Theatre in the Sonnambeia we mentioned last week; and we have Enloe had an opportunity of seeing, hearing, and judging for ourselves. We think...

day at the St. James's Theatre, for the benefit of the distressed Irish and Scotch, and in which Mrs. Butler also played, was far superior to the professional performance at the...

M 0 N E Y. Tauimpromptu debate in Parliament on the finances, at the be- ganinng of the week, partly reflected and has partly stimulated a vehement discussion out of doors on...

Opera, on Satur- day, was virtually a novelty; and new performers made their first appear- ance in two of its principal characters. The piece was Rossini's opera buffs...

THE " difficulty " which prolongs the exclusion of the Roman Catholics from the benefit of the Education-grant appears to re- solve itself into some dread of proselytism. The...

THE subject of Colonization for Ireland acquires an immediate practical interest from Lord Lincoln's notice of motion in the House of Commons for the 13th instant.* As we...

LORD BROUGHAM, on Monday last, confessed the utmost alarm at the bill for establishing Limited Enlistment in the Army : he said he could not express his alarm ; and he foresaw,...

IT is proposed to strike a medal in honour of the gallant Spa- niards who so nobly rescued the shipwrecked people of the Tweed; and no sooner is this known than divers artists...

TRAVEL% A Year of Consolation. By Mrs. Butler, late Fanny gamble. In two volumes. BOCXESLAST/CAL POLITY. Moron. The Constitution of the Church of the Future. A Practical...

WHEN the bishopric of Jerusalem was established a few years since by the British and Prussian Governments, a sort of demi-official volume was published under the sanction of the...

Meneraz SCHOPENHAUER was a friend of Goethe, and an authoress of some popularity in Germany ; who after publishing four-and-twenty vo- lumes of biography, travels, fiction, and...

romances in which the story is made a vehicle for introducing descriptions of scenery and manners. The most popular exemplar (not perhaps the founder) of this school was Scott ;...

OF all the craftsmen under the sun, the litterateur is the one who exerts the greatest ingenuity and labour upon the most worthless materials. " Materiem superabat opus" is...

Booxs. The Student of Salamanca. The Macdermots of Ballyclaran. By Mr. A. Trollope. In three volumes. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year...

EXHIBITION OF THE WATER COLOVE SOCIETY. LANDSCAPE, as usual, predominates in the gallery of the Society of Paint era in Water Colours; with a considerable addition of social...

Sir Robert Peel's house in Whitehall Gardens was thrown open on Sa- turday to a large assembly of visitors, invited to see his collection of pic- tures and prints. Although not...

FOURTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT-MONDAY, APRIL 26. PART t. Sinfonia in F, (No. 8,) Beethoven. Duette, " Quis eat homo ?" Miss A. Williams and Miss M. Williams, (Sktbat Mater)...

Tuesday, Apra 27. pARTNEAscuPs DissoLyED. Tabor and Rankin, Little Stambridge, Essex, millers-Robinson and Wilson, Newark- upon-Trent, plaster-merchants-Lang and Co....

OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, April 24.-Corps of Royal Engineers-Brevet Major H. Y• Wortbans to be Lieut.-Col.; Brevet Major J. Jebb to be Lient.-Col. ; Brevet Major G. Tait to be...

On the 24th April, at Hampton Court Palace, the Lady Emily Seymour, of a son. On the 24th, at the Lower Rectory, Mitipas, the Lady of the Rev. J. Tyrwhitt Drake, of a...

ARRIVED-.At Gravesend, 27th April, Calcutta, Wrankmore, from Hobart Town ; William Aekers, Johns, from Manila ; Victoria, Williamson ; and Sunda, Brown, from &Ampere ; Malabar,...

10 23 11 .£22,549,140 £22,040,140 BANKING DEPARTMENT. £30,580,691 £30,580,891 • Including Exchequer, Savings Bank*, Commissioners of NationalDebt&Dividend Acce ante. GRAIN,...