newspaper slang calls a " split " among the Conservatives : that party, as well as the country, have found out that Sir ROBERT PEEL is not a Tory of the old stamp, and they are...

THE Income-tax is law : the bill was read by the Lords a third time, and passed, on Tuesday ; and on Wednesday it received the Royal assent. The two debates on it in the Upper...

THE INCOME-TAX. The order of the day having been moved in the House of Lords, on Tuesday, for the third reading of the Income-tax Bill, the Marquis of CLANRICARDE rose to move...

in search of professions to win the suffrages of " the country." Some of the trades are in a state of great depression—as the wine-trade and the import sugar-trade ; the...

THERE have been no great events at Buckingham Palace this week. The Queen held a Court on Tuesday ; at which All Effendi, the Am- bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from...

The meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was opened at Manchester on Wednesday ; when the General Committee for the arrangement of the proceedings...

A Privy Council was held on Wednesday, at the office of the Comp- troller-General of the Exchequer, for the purpose of empanelling a Jury of twenty-four members of the...

The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says that it has latterly become a question whether Lord De Grey or Lord Eliot should resign ; and that Sir Robert Peel and the...

Tuesday's Gazette announced that Major Graham, private secretary and brother of Sir James Graham, had been appointed to the office of Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and...

intimated his intention of forgiving the whole of his agricultural tenan- try an entire year's rent. This generous act was determined upon by the Marquis immediately after his...

with Major Graham, at the Home Office. We understand that the case of this miserable individual has been several times under the considera- tion of the Cabinet Ministers, but up...

SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons last right, the question of the Poor-law was reopened. The order of the day having been read, Mr. LAWSON moved, " That it be an...

yesterday, decided on admitting " strangers ;" so there are reports of its proceedings. Mr. Baker appeared as agent for the petitions by the " electors " and "inhabitants" of...

20th instant. The elections for the Cortes began on the previous day ; Government calculate on a small majority. Verbal difficulties in the transtation a the commercial and...

the copper coinage of half-farthings. The proclamation declares that they will not be a legal tender for any sum above the value of sixpence. There is also a notice to all...

the increase of the duty on imported linen-thread will appear towards the end of next week. We learn also from the same quarter, that the general impression in well-informed...

canes ExaHANG., FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The decline of the French Funds, which appears to have originated in the scarcity of money in Paris,produced a momentary effect upon our own ;...

of the population, are now dependent on parochial relief. The Stockport Chronicle states that the pauperism in that town is increasing ! De- legates from the manufacturing...

announce- ment, following very unpleasantly the promulgation of higher duties on our manufactures in France and the United States- " On Wednesday, the intelligence reached...

A COUNTY MEMBER OF THE OLD SCHOOL. SIR RICHARD VYVYAN has penned a letter to his " friends and neighbours," his constituents of Helston, which contains matter for history. Not...

Arrived—At Gravesend, June 19th, Earl of Hardwicke. Voss, from Bengal; 20th. Plantagenet, Boma. hum ditto; Mary Ann. Tarbutt, from Madras ; 21st, Ea Prance, Malterley, from...

THERE is a melancholy difference between the recent field-day of the Niger Association and that which was celebrated when the scheme was first presented to receive the homage of...

"Clown,. We wits will be flouting." SHARSPERE. THE pitcher that goes too often to the well comes home broken at last. The Reverend SYDNEY SMITH, who has enjoyed a forty-years...

IN the debates on the public finances, the new Postage has very often been alluded to in a spirit of unfairness. Before it was seen how the revenue would be affected by the...

" IT will end in smoke" has been often said of a public commo- tion which men foresaw would lead to nothing ; but " it began in smoke " is something new to hear predicated of a...

MEYERBEER'S opera of The Huguenots was produced at Covent Garden Theatre on Monday night, and has been repeated every acting night of the week. With the active search after...

GARRICK between Tragedy and Comedy, as pictured by REYDOLDS, is a type of the present position of John Bull between the two great French performers : on the one hand,...

said. At the Haymarket, Bubbles of the Day, with FARREN and Mrs. NasaErr in their original parts, alternates with the Rose of Arragon. At the English Opera, 0. SMITH has joined...

THE attention of persons passing along Knightsbridge has been lately attracted by a Chinese house, resplendent with gold and bright colours, its roof and veranda turned up at...

WE have lost the last of the Adelphi—those three buffo brothers MATHEWS, REEVE, and YATES—a triad of comic talent that kept the house in a roar : FREDERICK YATES is dead. The...

that a French artist, Monsieur BORGET, has recently returned from China with a numerous collection of spirited sketches made at Hong Kong and Macao. We were gratified by a sight...

Theroae. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restomtiou of the Bourbons in 1815. By Archibald Alison. F.R.S.E., Advocate. Volume the...

THE object of this work is to furnish a general view of Bel- gium, especially in topography and statistics, and to answer the purpose of a guide-book through the country. The...

Da. LONSDALE is an Anglo-Indian ; and having read in very early life " The Nabob," and two other fugitive poems of Miss BLAMIRE, " the Muse of Cumberland," his mind was so...

Booxs. History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution in • 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. By ARCHIBALD Arasos, F.R.S.E., Advocate. Volume...

BIRTHS. Ou the 18th April, at Purneala Bengal, the Lady of the Hon. ROBERT FORBES, Com- pany's Service. of a sou. On the 12th June, at Copenhagen, the Lady of the Rev. ROBERT...

Tuesday, June 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Wyllie and Co. Conduit Street. tailors; as far as regards Plambly-Critcbley and Co. Birkenhead. teachers; as far as regards Copeland...

WAR-OFFICE, June 24.-4th Regt. Drag. Guards-Lieut. G. T. Jacob to be Adjt. vice Ibbetson, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 4th Light Drags.-Brevet Lieut.-Cel. F. D. Daly to be...

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