BY the prorogation of Parliament today, to be followed by immediate dissolution, the agitation to influence the constituencies, which was begun within the walls of both Houses,...

PRIME/PAL BOSSINESS OF THE WEEK. House or Loans. Monday, March Hi. Income-tax Bill read a second time, Lord Derby's and Lord Granville's Speeches—Indemnity Bill read a second...

Lord Derby's electioneering announcement last week, that on the second reading of the Income-tax Bill, he should offer "a few observations as to the circumstances under which...

TIIE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Seiler Gonzales Bravo had audience, and delivered his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...

London this week —the first the adjourned sitting of the London Liberal Registration Association ; the second a meeting to enable Lord John Russell to appeal against their...

Among the addresses of Ministers to the conatituenoies, the only pass sage bearing on the future in Sir George Grey's to the electors of Morpeth is the following " While it will...

What course will be taken with respect to the Edinburgh election remains uncertain. No distinct opposition is offered to Mr. Black Mr. Cowan is the representative who calls...

ENGLAND. ABINGDON. Mr. Burr, Conservative has retired. ANDOVER. The Honourable D. Foreeseue is a Liberal candidate. 1SHBUR'rON. Mr. J. H..Astell is a Conservative candidate...

PRIM—There is at present a revival of the rumour that the French Ministry will be modified. It is stated that the recent illness of M. Mocquard, the Emperor's Chef du Cabinet,...

A further correspondence between Lord Panmure and Sir John M‘Neill has been made public. It is more concise than the former correspondence, but quite as characteristic and...

SATURDAY. The House of Lords sat yesterday to transact the remaining business of the session. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH availed himself of the opportunity afforded by the motion...

STOCK EXCEANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's vessel the Pera leaves Southampton today for India and China with 787,587/. in specie 776,000/. in...

Whether it speaks the language of prose or of poetry, originality does not often thrive on the London stage. An original drama in four acts, entitled A Life's Trial, was...

written a four-act comedy, entitled La Fiammina which has recently been produced at the Theatre Francais. The subject is the false position of a young gentleman, whose mother...

ELECT10.7.1 NOTES. Gun last week's diagnosis of the political condition of the country has not thus far been contradicted by the symptoms that have manifested themselves. The...

THE treaty with Persia recently concluded at Paris seems to have been greatly misconceived in some quarters ; a fact by no means remarkable, since the whole subject is so remote...

A CORRESPONDENT who is not uninformed strikes out a suggestion 'which probably accounts for the obstinate preference given to the Euphrates Valley line for railway and...

DETERMINED not to be beaten by any failure of the original arrangement, the managers of the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester have adopted some schemes not originally...

BOWEING'S stem.' As we intimated last week, the Personal Journal of Sir John Bowring, and such remarks from personal knowledge as are mingled with his digests from other...

except to literary students or antiquaries, than the facts which h is industry and the strange tales which his credulity treasured up. An indefatigable inquirer and a copious...

Booxs. History of Europe front the .Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Ntgolcon in 1852. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.!... Author of the of Europe from...

THE NATIONAL INSTITHTIDN. The tenth annual exhibition of this Society opened on Saturday last, in the Portland Gallery. Its old distinctive character fades out from year to...

Mews. Dickinson, of Bond Street, have opened their gallery for an exhibition which challenges more than ordinary attention. The work' displayed consist, with casual exceptions,...

On the 9d February, at Lucknow, the Wife of Captain Maya., Military Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, of a son. On the 14th March, at 29, Upper Brook Street, the Wife of D....

FROM THE LONDON warm, MARCH 17. Partnerships Dissolved.—Baker and Co. Leadenhall Street ; as far as regards S. Baker—Marshall and Paul, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden,...

Leeds or elsewhere, glass-manufacturers —Brown and Co. Princes Street, Hanover Square, tailors—Arnoll and Co. Barnstaple, biscuit-manufecturers ; as for as regards II. K....