EASTER meetings have kept alive the "lamp of sacrifice" which Englishmen place before the shrine of political duties. Although nothing new was disclosed at these meetings, they...

Emperor of the French, blazed upon the world this week as a pub- lic fact in the advertisements of the newspapers, with six or seven triple columns full of signatures. Then, by...

and look- ing down the crater, he would p rob ably discern the boiling fire below; if he ascended Mount and then Hecht, and then Chimborazo, he would discover the fires ever at...

The Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Ministers at the Mansion houseon Easter Monday, in accordance with old custom. Among th e guests, were Lord Aberdeen, Lord Granville,...

terest. From farthest Ind we learn of new reverses on a small scale sustained by British arms. A gallant officer, whose per- sonal exploits have lent a lustre to the name of...

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal children, have returned to Buckingham Palace. The party left Windsor Castle at three o'clock on Thursday, and arrived in London at four...

Alnwick was the scene of a great banquet on Tuesday, in honour of Sir George Grey. After his defeat at the general election, a proposition was made to raise a subscription and...

The cattle show of the Royal Dublin Society was held on Tuesday. The number of animals exhibited exceeded that of any previous year— the young stock especially. In the evening,...

The Earl of Carlisle arrived at Aberdeen on Tuesday,' to deliver his inaugural address as Lord Rector. He had cut out for himself a "busy week," as he expressed it at Alnwick....

Fassez.—The Emperor has been gratified, this week, by the visit of a deputation from certain gentlemen of the City of London to present an address announcing their peaceful...

the House of Commons, printed since the adjournment, that on Monday next "Lord John Russell is to state the intentions of the Government with respect to education in England and...

SATURDAY. The improved plan for manning the Navy, in general terms, is made public this morning. The Commission appointed by Lord Derby's Go- vernment to consider the subject...

had abated in the West Indies. General Santa Anna was at St. Thomas on the 17th March, on his way to Vera Cruz.

by Sir Robert Carden, for stealing bacon from a shop near the City Hospice and Soup Kitchen. The prosecutor complained of " the intolerable nuisance" of the Soup Kitchen ;...

arrived in town this morning. The latestRates are Rangoon 14th February, Bombay 1st March. The report of the revolt at Ava is confirmed ; that of the King's death is...

The week has been one of tranquillity in the English Stock. Market. Con- fidence has been restored, under thebelief that the Turkish "question has been nearly arranged ;...

day. They complain of the system of "checking and docking their wages." 'They have memorialized the Admiral Superintendent.

1 Adam Street, Adelphi, 26th March 1853. Sin—In restoring the damaged portion of Windsor Castle, it may be as well to exercise considerable caution previously, to make sure that...

Easter used, like Christmas, to have its defined class of entertainment,—a fairy or mythological spectacle, with a tone of more or less burlesque : but this year there is small...

PEACE-PLEDGES. THE true Peace deputation from London was that which visited the French Emperor on Tuesday, and not the deputation of Mon- day, which went up with a parade to...

IT is usual at this season that rumours should prevail on the sub- ject of measures contemplated by the Government ; but since the present Ministry has so well defined its own...

The last theatrical novelty in the French capital is La Tonelli, a comic opera composed by M. .Ambroise Thomas to words of M. Sauvage. The plot turns on one of those improbable...

Ottu evening contemporary the Globe exerts its learning and its wit against a statement which it ascribes to us, that Ministers and the Constitution have lost their prestige by...

THE Times announces that the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope "is resolved to convert the Amatolas into a military settle- ment, on a system which seems analogous to that of...

IT has become a commonplace to observe, that whatever statesmen may enter office in the English Government, the results of their administration are tolerably sure to be almost...

IT is curious that a nation priding itself on the promptitude with which commerce supplies any ascertainable want should remain so long as the English nation has remained...

THE great Cab question is again before the public, much in the old form. On one side the charges of extortion and insolence are pre- dicated of the whole race of " drivers " and...

!:;IT.IIBitwomeies EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA.. Miwuvemeiniaro the number of travels in America, Marianne lettokis in some matters an informing as well as an agree- athltoaelilition...

THE journey to the Gold-diggings of Victoria and New South Wales, of which this volume is a narrative, seems to have been undertaken with pastoral or agricultural objects. On...

THE general " idea," and very often the particular suggestions of Mr. George Campbell's proposal for the reconstitution and im- provement of the Government of India, exhibit a...

lies not in what he de- monstrates for the intellect, or creates for the imagination, but in the powerful appeals he makes to the conscience and the heart. He addresses himself...

Mr. Scott's newvolume is founded on the death of Thomas a Becket. For a drama the whole subject of Becket is not well adapted, from the length of the story, which would of...

POORS. ' Chamois-Hunting in the Mountains f Bavaria. By Charles Boner. With Illustrations by Theodore-Horschelt, of Munich. Political Incidents of the First Burmese - War. By...

are leading cha- racteristics of Edwin Arnold ' s Poems Narrative and Lyrical. Other qualities of promise are conjoined with these,—much faci- lity, some vigour, with the power...

EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OP BRITISH ARTISTS. There is no foreboding the degree of badness to which, with well. directed effort, an English exhibition may be made to attain. We...

Orricx OP ORDNANCR, March 28.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—Second Capt. L. G. Paget to be Adjt. vice Radcliffe, who resigns the Adjutancy only; Second Capt. R. Phelips to be Adjt....

On the 26th March, at Avening Court, Gloucestershire, Mrs. I. G. Kentish, of a daughter. On the 27th, at Wiseton Hall, Notts, the Wife of the Rev. Robert Sutton. of a son. On...

[From the Official Bettors.] .5 Ten Weeks 1543-51. Week of 1843. Zymoric Diseases 2,047 .... 233 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat,. 231...

SHARES. Weekending Friday ETBMID8.) Boats- 1031 Australasian 631 ex d. British North American 73 Colonial 129 Commercial of London 81 London and Westminster 1071 London...

Tuesday, larch 29. PARTNERMIPS DISSOLVED.—Higginbottom and Co. Bury, woollen-printers; as far as regards G. Nabb— Wilkinson and Austin, Southampton St. Camberwell, hosiers—...