legal- the Marriage of a wielovief with his sisp-ii-law. Vier have, therefore, deferred the question fOr another year, and have prolonged that difference between the two Houses...

THE Reform debates have given us more of a. Parliamentary -contest, more of a stand up fight between the two great parties in the State, than we have seen for many .a year. In...

doubt so far as the acceptance of all the Five Powers is concerned ; and we are now in a position to explain the uncertainty which has prevailed for some days subsequently. In...

John Lawrence is an event of more importance to India than Lord Ellenborough's suritr . - y cur financial position : at a new point, the great inn network which 4 ^ bind our...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Douse or Loans. Monday, March 21. Grand Juries ; the Lord Chancellor's Bill committed—Mutiny Bills committed—County Courts Bill read a second...

of London, who had dismissed him from the curacy of St. Bar- nabas, to the Archbishop of Canterbury has resulted in a con- firmation of the original sentence ; but, it appears...

A congress is the order of the day. The Moniteur of Tuesday con- firmed, in the following paragraph, the statement we were able to make on Saturday. "Russia has proposed the...

The usual meeting was held in Hyde Park on Sunday. These demo- cratic gatherings have become an institution. Numbers of foreigners mingle with the crowd and cheer the extreme...

Tan Court newsman records very little this week. The Queen anti Prince Consort have twice crossed to Gosport, to visit the Prince and Princess of Lciningen ' • and the...

The Neapolitan exiles continue to come from Ireland to England, pass- ing through Bristol on their way to London. At Bristol the detachments of these suffering men have been...

Edinburgh opened its National Gallery on Monday. The Scotsman says— "The Gallery was in a manner inaugurated by the attendance of a very large assemblage of ladies and...

subject of Reform. One, however, at Walsall, has been the subject of remark in Parliament. Mr. Forster was the speaker. Mr. Disraeli had taunted Sir Robert Peel that he had...

raurt.—The review on Sunday of the Imperial Guard, a complete little army, 24,000 strong, was a magnificent affair. There were present the Emperor, Empress, the Imperial Prince...

The Queen has been graciously pleased to direct that letters patent be passed under the great seal, granting and declaring that the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts,...

On the 2d of March, at hiontepelier Hill, Dublin, Lady Alexander, of a son. On the 13th, at Hendon, Middlesex, the Wife of Rear-Admiral Edward Stanley, of a daughter. On the...

8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday the 23d day of March 1859. [sans DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £33,642,950 Government Debt £11,015,108 Other Securities...

SATURDAY MORNING. In the Lower House the debate on the Reform Bill was resumed by Sir STAFFORD Noarnearz, who said the bill was a reply to the call of the country, not an...

" Prince Napoleon bad personally insisted upon the admission of Pied- ment into the Congress, and has represented to the Emperor that in the event of Piedmont, not being...

and may do, would regret to see the earliest of such bodies pass away. Accord- ingly, strong efforts have been made to save from collapse the institution in Southampton...

STATE OF TRADE. THERE 15 not that healthy tone with trade, experienced by the whole- sale houses of the City, that is generally looked for at this season of the year, when it...

Edinburgh, tell us to what address we might direct a communication for him on the subject of his letter. His facts might be useful to us.

(From our own Correspondent.) We are in the midst of the concert-season, and for the moment ball- dresses are forgotten. Wreaths and garlands give place to light tulle bonnets,...

Director of Convict Prisons, has been appointed Knight Cominander of the Bath, and that the distinction of Commanders of the Order hos been conferred upon Major Robert Lewis...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market opened on Monday at a further improvement upon Saturday's prices of 1 per cent, which was well supported up to the...

Dr. Collyer whose reputation amongst paper-makers is assured from his successful application of beetroot refuse in their manufacture, has re- cently alighted upon an important...

WHAT ITALY ASKS. Sts.—Will you allow a person who has passed many years in Italy to point out a few of the causes which produce so much social discontent in that country...

Wily interfere with Austria in Italy ? Because the independence of the Italians is necessary to the peace of Europe. This great political fact is clearly made out by the recent...

THE CONGRESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. order to appreciate the importance of the policy which the Con- gress embodies, we may glance at the circumstances under which the suggestion...

TnnouGH the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Government has announced that in the estimates of the coming year a sum will be set apart as compensation to Mr. Barber for...

THE movement in favour of intermediate education in Ireland has afforded a good opportunity for the Irish Catholic Church to illus- trate its new position and its subtle policy....

A GREAT amount of gold is being sent at present from England to Paris in exchange for silver; the East India Council sent out by the last steamer 100,0001. in five-franc pieces,...

0 noble souls, freed from the foulest spite That ever tyrannous and heartless fool Wreak'd on the worth that shamed his worthless rule, Linking your very bodies, day and night,...

MEMOIR OF THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS.* EXCEPT on the last day of the Revolution of February 1848, when maternal love and a quiet heroism enabled Helen of Orleans to display a...

Dn. WOOD was principal medical officer of the San Jacinto, an ,American war-steamer that was despatched from New York in 1855 to Palo Pinang in the Straits of Malacca. Her...

THE modern party connexion suggested in the title of this vo- lume between "evangelical and apostolical teaching" is not supported by the sermons themselves. It is not...

Although the number of books has not much diminished, yet their character has some reference to the doubts and debates of the week, being mostly independent of English...

The only novelty of the week has been a short farce, called Vandyke Brown , produced at the little Strand Theatre. The plot has been already familiarized to the public, by Mr....

new strength into that not very vigorous establishment, where Othello has been played, without so much as an attempt at adequacy of cast, for the sake of a Mr. James Bennett,...

and Italy." The sale of Salvagnoli's pamphlet on the Independence of Italy was so rapid, that two editions were ex.hausted in two days, and a third is about to appear. M....

Henry V., which will be revived at the Princess's on Monday, will be the wonder of the coming season, abounding with historic illustrations enough to eclipse the memory even of...

Madame Alexandre Dumas, whose recent death at Genoa we recorded last week, began her theatrical career as Mademoiselle Ida, at the Ban- lieue of Paris, whence in 1831 she was...

to celebrate the completion of the Adelphi Theatre, was attended by a large number of, his friends, and proved a most agreeable festivity. A manly, eloquent, and even pathetic...

for the Italian Opera at Drury Lane, we have now to add Miss Victoire Balfe, in consequence, no doubt, of the great success she has met with at Turin. After having appeared...

The transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, for 1858, have been published in a thick and closely- printed octavo. The Camden Society have...

A second visit to the Portland Gallery does not strengthen the favour- able impression so commonly given at the first visit by an array of care- fully and tastefully painted...

Some interesting and valuable examples in various sections of art have been, within the last few days, added to the Art Museum at South Kensington, having been acquired at Rome...

course of next month, and will make his first apperance for the season at the first Philharmonic Concert on the 2d of May. Joachim intends to give three concerts in May, for the...

THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERY. The question of the National Gallery is settled. The finest site in Europe is not to be appropriated to an hotel, but is to remain in posses- sion of...

from some of the frequenters of the museum , at South Kensington that the new galleries for the Turner and Vernon - collections will be open to the public on certain evenings in...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. TotesdaysiWednes. Thurs. Yriday. 3 per Cen Consols 961 961 961 962 9C2 96 Ditto for Account 961 961 so 961 9b 4 962 3...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 22. Bankrupts. - SAXIAL COCESILAW, Horse Shoe Court, Ludgate Street, printer- Wzxa.ws Jovsa, Isleworth, coal-merchant-Joan FRANKS Cierrimaims,...

The special act, by Mr. Albert Smith, of decorating three of the ante- rooms to his Salle in Piccadilly within the last month, with objects of art and curiosity illustrative of...