THE Easter recess is over : the country has had time to " consider" the financial measures of the Government ; and rather a curious use has been made of fhe time. The threatened...

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress gave the usual Easter enter- tainment at the Mansionhouse on Monday. Covers were laid for nearly three hundred; among whom were, Lord...

THE Queen has led an unusually quiet life at Windsor ; walking each morning with Prince Albert in the Home Park, and taking a ride in a pony phaeton in the afternoon. The Royal...

just now. The "protected" beet-sugar-growers have so contrived, that the measure to admit sugar from without on easier terms is postponed for a year ; and now the Government is...

Mr. Summers Harford, who has just lost his seat for Lewes through the decision of an Election Committee, has been invited by the electors of Brighton to stand as the " Liberal "...

The merchants of Cork have, through the President of their Com- mittee, transmitted to the Vice-President of the Board of Trade a re- monstrance against the discontinuance of...

The Montrose Review announces that Mr. Chalmers is about to retire from the representation of the Montrose Burghs ; and a number of the electors have determined to give no...

The Marquis of Lansdowne arived at the Hotel Menrice, in Paris, on Tuesday. At a Court of East India Directors, on Wednesday, Colonel Sir George Arthur, K. C. H., was appointed...

about taxation is the following correspondence. Who the gentleman may he with a name that looks like a Scotch version of - Do-good--approprately didac- tic—we know not ; but his...

SATURDAY. The Chronicle pursues its wandering course of commentary on the re- ception of the Government measures. If the object were to be guessed by the lucubration published...

George Macleod, Lieutenant-Governor of Trinidad, is made Governor and Commander-in-Chief of that island ; a change of title which carries with it certain local privileges much...

it has yet been ; that is in respect of quantity, for as to quality it does not differ from the description in our first page. The Mayor of Leeds presided over a large meeting...

16th March. Previous advices had made us aware of the arrest of one Hogan, at Lockport, on a charge of being concerned in the Caroline affair. Hogan, say the Albany papers,...

Arrived—At Gravesend, March 28th. Ann and Jane, Rigby. from China ; 29th, Tyrer, Shadwell, from Bengal ; 30th, Mary Gray, M'Kenzie, from Moulmein ; April 1st, Ann, Griffiths ;...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The rumours of a reduction of the French Army have produced a favourable impression upon the prices of our Funds, and the quotations of today...

Bank of England, from the 4th January 1842 to the 29th March 1842— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £16,952,000 Securities £22,586,000 Deposits 8,657,000 Bullion 6,125,000...

that M. de Bulow, the Prussian Ambassador at Frankfort, would succeed Count de Ma ltzan in the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Prussia.

was sub- siding, however, when the accounts left the place, and the streets were then passable for carriages. Great damage was done to buildings, to furniture, and to carts and...

BIRTHS. On the 28th February. at Athens, the Lady of FREDERICK STRONG, Esq., Consul at that,capital for Bavaria and Hanover. of a son. On the 23d March, at Sible Hedingham,...

A SLIDING SCALE FOR THE INCOME-TAX. Tug tax—the tax—is still the theme in all mouths, as it will be until it be settled. There is one advantage in the visitation of new taxes,...

As long ago as the days of' ADDISON, the British essayists began to raise their voices against the vulgar and mischievous practical jokes of the First of April ; and yet the...

AN ingenious correspondent has been at the pains to run a parallel between the reverses of the Romans under Caesars in Parthia and the recent reverses of the British in the...

morning in " the suburban village " of Knightsbridge, at the time when the multi- tudinous 'busses which rattle incessantly through it during the day not having begun to ply,...

BY A DISCIPLE OF THE SYSTEM. IN this paper it is intended to present a concise view of the principles of Homoeopathy ; a system of medicine which, originally promulgated in...

STRAWBERRY HILL is almost as much the resurrection of a former age as the so-called house of the Dramatic Poet in Pompeii. Sir EDWARD LYTTON BVLWER, by the simple process of...

COVENT GARDEN having no competitor this Easter in the production o f a holyday piece, the White Cat is not only matchless but unrivalled for beauty and playfulness ; and unfolds...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Blackheath, 24th March 1842. Sxn—Lord STANLEY has moved for two Select Committees, one "to in- quire into the state of the West India...

who personates _Robert Burns in a piece of that name ; Miss DALY being Highland Mary—to whom the poet is married! The other entertainments, The New Footman and a mythological...

first time this season ; and was followed by a light operetta in one act, called The Students of Bonn, a musical version of the Boarding - School; the lovers being German...

produced this week. A new melodramatic actor, Mr. H. Hom., made his debut on Wednesday, in As You Like it, and stamped and bawled through the part of Orlando; while Mr. STUART...

of Whittington and his Cat. The Queen's has adopted Jerry Abershaw for the hero of a Jack Sheppard sort of drama ; Sadler's Wells has taken up Madame Laffarge ; and the Surrey,...

History of the Earldoms of Strathern. Monteith, and Airth ; with a Report of the Proceedings before the House of Lords on the claim of Robert Barclay Allardice, Esq., to the...

Ma. STRONG is a banker and agent at Athens, as well as Consul to the Kings of Hanover and Bavaria. He also appears to enjoy the patronage of Orao ; for as soon as the Sovereign...

SUFFOLK STREET EXHIBITION. THE few works of merit in the Exhibition just opened at the Suffolk Street Gallery scarcely compensate for the trouble of looking through such a...

MB. MONTGOMERY is a remarkable example of the success of sounds, which are " so like sense they serve the turn as well "—or, as far as profit is concerned, very much better. Of...

SOME novelties have been introduced this Easter, in the several scenic exhibitions, which may be briefly noted. The Colosseum, in addition to its varied attractions of...

WAR-OFFICE, March 29.-4th Light Drags.—Assist.-Surg. G. K. Pitcairn. M.D. from the 58th Foot. to be Assist.-Surg. vice Graves. promoted to be Staff Surg. of the Second Class....

MR. J. P. KNIGHT'S portrait-picture of the Heroes of Waterloo is to be exhibited for a few days at Messrs. Gaaves's in Pall Mall : and, as a fine painting, independently of the...

Tuesday, March 29. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Stabbing and Clemow, Holborn, woollendrapers—Storey and Elder, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, hosiers —Jacksou and Holland. Birmingham,...

HAY AND STRAW. (Per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. SMITHFIELD. PORTMAN. WII ITEC II A PEL. Hay, Good Inferior Neve Clover Straw, Wheat 95s... 100s 68 . SO 0 „ 0 50 .....