THE debates in the House of Commons on the Government measures of finance closed for the Easter recess on Wednesday, with a greater brilliancy than they had yet shown. The dis-...

im- portance. Sir CHARLES NAPIER has moved some resolutions to construct the Admiralty Board of men of the nautical profession, and to give dockyard appointments to...

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FINANCIAL MEASIGIE£3. When the motion was made in the House of Commons, on Monday, to go into Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Fox MAIILE said that parts of...

progress of the session, such as it is. The whole time has been taken up with the chief measures to which Sir ROBERT PEEL has devoted all his energy and all his Parliamentary...

Tau Court has removed to Windsor. After visiting the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House, on Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert departed from Buckingham Palace in a carriage...

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, Mr. Peter Laurie was elected a Common Pleader, in the room of Mr. Bullock, who has been appointed a Judge of the Sheriffs Court. The...

A meeting, called by a circular addressed to the principal bankers, merchants, and traders of Norwich, in the Guildhall on Tuesday, adopted petitions to the Queen and the House...

On the authority of the Limerick Chronicle, the Dublin Monitor says that the new Income-tax will press heavily on absentees from the county of Limerick. One nobleman is...

Sir Robert Peel left town on Thursday, to join his family at Brighton; where he will pass the Easter recess. It is said that Sir George Arthur is likely to be the new Governor...

decided a cause in favour of the heirs of Viscountess Hawarden. The lady had lived for many years at Toulouse ; and after her death, in 1839, M. Bonnet, her steward, set up a...

the expedition of Texans which was seized by the Mexican forces. The writer is a barrister of studious habits, not unknown to the lite- rary world ; and known also in political...

American mails. The Unicorn steamer had left Halifax with the mails but a few hours on the 7th, when she met the Acadia, and returned with her. They entered the port at...

the Marquis of Waterford—has just had rather a bad accident. In an annual steeple-chase near Dublin, on Wednesday, he fell from his favourite mare Columbine, and the beast...

week but had not the means to correct, has been explained by an official letter from the Board of Trade : the duty on Foreign warnanefeetvred Tortoiseshell is to be Is.; on the...

Lord Rolle, who is in his ninety-third year, lies at the point of death. The Western Times, published at Exeter this day, says that Lord Rolle, who is in his ninety-third year,...

Arrived—In the Downs, March 19th, Repulse, Heade; and Lady Faversham, Web- ster, from Bombay ; Harrison, Cowley; W. Lee, Shepherd ; and Premier. Brownrigg, from Bengal ; and...

STOCK EXCEIANOS, THURSDAY APTERNOON. There has been rather a heavy pressure for money during the last few days at the Stock Exchange, occasioned by the delivery of 200,000/....

are about to invite Mr. Harford to be their candidate. The decision of a Committee of the House of Commons has just deprived Mr. Harford of his seat for Lewes.

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Financial measures are the only subject of general interest astir ; and even they create far less active interest than could under any circumstances have...

of Mr. John Malone against Mrs. O'Connor, (the sister of the late Mr. Richard Malone,) Mr. Hugh Morgan Tuite, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Ardill, a solicitor, was decided at Nenagh, on...

NAVAL AND OTHER PROMOTIONS. THERE is a good deal of truth in what was urged by Sir Cambium NAPIER in the House of Commons respecting the advantage of till- ing up the civil...

AMONG the favourite grievances of that class of popular declaimers with whom the Factory system and the New Poor-law are a regular stock in trade, the Rural Police occupies a...

THE Foreign Secretary of the United States has taken a view of which has at least the merit of originality : "this Govern- me inks it a clear case for indemnitieanon." Whoever...

a man's yearly income should be ascertained by a reference to the calculations of insurance-offices. The casualties of life and death are not all that here come in question ;...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "Be aye planting a tree, Jock—it'll be growing while you're sleeping." " Service is no inheritance." Sia—The national mind has taken a fresh...

A raw concerts are given every year by the pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, past and present, in order to try their prowess and display their progress. The plan is not...

TiLVZIA4 The Slave States of America. By J. S. Buckingham, Esq., Author of " America. Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive." In two rots .Psher. Fiume, The Expectant; a...

REFERRING to our notice of The Fright* for a generic character of Miss PICKERING as a novelist, we may say that in her present work she preserves her essential mannerism, though...

THE two poetical publications placed at the head of this article though not ranking high as efforts of original genius, possess sufficient merit to entitle them to fuller notice...

From March 18th to March 24th. BOOKS. The Expectant; a Novel. By Miss ELLEN PICKERING, Author of "Nan Darrell," &c. In three volumes. I Watched the Heavens; a Poem. By V.,...

EXHIBITION OF NASH'S PICTURES OF OLD ENGLISH MANSIONS. TEE fifty-two water-colour pictures by Mr. JOSEPH Nam, now exhi- biting at Messrs. GRAVES'S in Pall Mall, are the...

THOSE who would know wherein consists the power of TURNER as a landscape-painter, and on what his high reputation rests, should repair to Mr. GRIFFITH'S in Waterloo Place, and...

THE Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo, which was opened this week in Leicester Square, has been newly painted by Mr. BURFORD, with the assistance of his able coadjutor Mr....

BIRTHS. On the 28th February. at Coblentz on-the.lthine, the Lady of Dr. J. FRANCIS I). YoNoz. Resident Physician, of a son. On the 19th March, at Watkin's Terrace, Eaton...

Soma of our readers may perhaps remember, that towards the end of last year a notice was given, under this head, of a set of casts from the "Poniatowsky Gems,"—a collection of...

Orrice or ORDNANCE. March 22.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Ma:or-General A. Wat- son to be Colonel-Commandant, v:ce Lieut.-Gen. Shrapnel, dec. ADMIRALTY. March 19.-Corps of Royal...

Tuesday, March 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Armstrong and Walton, Greenwich, coal merchants - Batmen and Burgeff. Eastcheap, intwenierchants- Waring and Anderson. Sheffield...

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