the journals of the Metropolis have engaged in controversial dissertations on the state and position of their respective parties; a sort of town eclogue, wherein Chronicle and...

A LONGER recess than usual at Whitsuntide gives a little breathing- time to take a review of the progress of Parliamentary business since Easter. We have a very different...

Americans at Washington. They are pleased with the elegant liberality of his table ; the assiduity of his fourteen itagmen z livery has touched Republican hearts ; the...

traders of the city of London, was held yesterday in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion- house, to consider the means of relieving the sufferers by the fire at Hamburg. The Lord...

LIFE at Court was comparatively quiet after the grand fete of last week, until the holding of a Drawing-room on Thursday, to celebrate by anti- cipation the Queen's birthday....

free press ; and its freedom has been testified by a recent event. On Saturday, the Temps, a moderate Opposition paper, which is said to have been in the pay of some of the...

electors. A Chartist presented to him a paper setting forth the " Sit points " ; to which Mr. Stnrge signified his adhesion. Mr. Vincent was among the speakers in support of the...

In a valedictory address to the electors of Londonderry county, after a connexion of twelve years, Sir Robert Bateson assigns bad health as the reason of his retirement. Two...

The theological statute passed at Oxford last week constitutes Dr. Hampden (Regius Professur of Divinity) Chairman of the new Theological Board ; and thus, observes the Globe,...

Preparations have been made in Edinburgh during the week for opening the General Assembly, on Thursday last, with unusual splen- dour. The Earl of Bute, the new Queen's...

CONTROVERTED ELECTION& The Flintshire Election Committee assembled on Saturday. The contest turned upon a scrutiny ; the sitting Member, Mr. Mostyn, haw- ing an apparent...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The two Houses of Parliament Met last night, after a week's recess._ In the House of Commons, Mr. CHARLES BULLER claimed precedence for bringing forward Mr....

intrigue of Italy in the middle ages have been transferred, is not less than usually torn by anarchy this season ; and the chief political disaster is Signor Mario's alleged...

Since the notice of the Italian Opera, which appears in a subsequent page, was written, Fioravanti's comic opera, Le Cantatrici Villane was revived, on Thursday, for the benefit...

of the Dutchy of Cornwall, at the office of the Dutchy in Somerset House • assisted by the Lord Chancellor , the Chief Justices of the Queen's B ench and Common Pleas, and the...

dignity of knighthood on Mr. Laurence Peel, Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

because he did not bring forward the motion last night of which he had given notice, to restrict the inquiry of Mr. Roebuck's Committee, Sir John has written to the evening...

Arrived—At 'Gravesend, May 14th, John Knox, White, from Singapore. In the. Downs, 20th, Thomas Sparkes. Sparkes. from China. Off Portsmouth. 20th, Vigilant. Clarke. from Bombay....

Allen had sailed from Ascension for the Niger before any orders from home could arrive to stop the expedition. " The accounts from the settle- ment were of a nature to require...

STOCK EIONANOE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. There was a very great pressure for money during the early part of the week ; and under its operation as high as 10 per cent interest was...

BIRTHS. On the 4th May. at Leeds. the Lady of the Rev. Jona BLAIR, of Scarborough, of a sou. On the 5th, at Heatheeld. Dundee, the Wife of the Rev. JOHN RoaBURan. of a son. Ou...

AN incident has just occurred, at Constantinople, calculated to place in a striking point of view the necessity of making a profes- sional education an indispensable requisite...

A CHAPTER IN SOCIAL ESTHETICS. A sumer irregular conversation in the House of Lords, the other night, was a bitter commentary on our system of morals. The disclosures which...

" HERE I am," said a great man, to a friend who entered his sick- room while flattering physicians were telling him of hopes of recovery which he felt were false, "dying of a...

THERE was one purpose of the Queen's grand fete last week dis- covered only by our sensitive neighbours over the water : ever pricked to the quick by their point of honour, they...

"Piais coronet opus." IN plants the period of their flowering, in insects that of their met:ging from the chrysalis •into the winged state, as they are the most beau- tiful...

THE instrumental portion of Monday night's concert maintained the reputation of the two which preceded it, and evinced the same thought and judgthent in the selection as well as...

Poor r, as well as his wife, demands a more significant notice than we have ye r bestowed on either ; and we have rather waited in the hope that something might be forthcoming...

MEN entertain a natural preference for a tool which has been tried and found to work well, over one, however goodly to look at, which is yet untried. Leatherlegs, the hero of...

Therony, History of Scotland. By Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq. Volume VIII. Tait, Edinburgh. TRAVELS, Greece Revisited, and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840. with Thirty-six...

MR. GARSTON was one of the original Pbilhellenes who entered the service of Greece when there was little to be got in it beyond hard knocks and the privilege of "finding...

AFTER full allowance has been made for the greater facility Of ob- taining education now than in former ages, ROBERT Nicola, thelate editor of the Leeds Times, will always take...

BEYOND a more quiet ease of manner, as if the writer felt conscious of his strength and had less need of straining after effect, the post- humous Tales of a Jury-room will not...

SELDOM has the title of a book puzzled us so much. Being attars that less is known of the economy of fish than of other animals— that the science of halieutics is in a very...

From May 13th to May 19th. BOOKS. • Travels and Researches in Asia Minor Mesopotamia, Chaldea L and Ar- menia. By WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH, F.G.S., F.R..G.S., in charge of...

. A SECOND VISIT TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. ON ont^second visit to the Royal Academy Exhibition, the poverty of the display of art was more conspicuous than before ; but...

A REMARKABLE instance of that latent ambition of English artists to distinguish themselves, which the Royal Commission of Fine Art has taken measures to develop, is afforded by...

WAR.OFFICE, May 20.-9th Regt. of Light Drags. -D. F. M'Nevin. Gent. to be Cornet, bypurchnse. vice Mae n, promoted. 1st Regt. of Foot-C. Rivers. Gent. to be Ensign. by...

Ma. BURFORD, ever on the alert to picture foreign scenes for the grati- fication of stay-at-home travellers, has produced a beautiful and interest- ing panoramic view of Cahul;...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wedses. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent. Console 92} 921 921 921 924 92} Ditto for Account 92} 921 921 921 928 92.1. 3...

Tuesday, May 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Pearce and Plowman, Chelsea, Buckiagliamshire, timber-dea'ers-Warren and Adams. Longue,. Staffordshire Potteries. china manufacturers...