than the present. May was a cross between March and November, and if multitudes did throng "places of public resort," wet and dulness dimmed the humble gayety. "Administrative...

THE appointment of General Pelissier to the chief command of the French army in the Crimea appears from some of the earlier achievements to have justified the favourable...

sufficient to attract attention ; and it is evident that a certain local interest in each branch of commerce has superseded general politics for this dull season. The Stock...

. Lambeth follows Flushing and Southwark in joining the Administra- tive Reform movement. The leaders in this borough are Mr. Chame- revsow, Mr. F. Doulton, Mr. Slack, Mr....

day afternoon. In the evening, her Majesty, with Prince Albert and Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, went to the Italian Opera. During her stay at Osborne, the Queen found means...

The nomination for the Bath election takes place today. At the out- set there were three candidates,—Mr. Whateley, Sir Culling Eardley, and Mr. William Tite. The Conservatives...

Tax Cancess.—Several despatches of great interest have been received from the military authorities at the seat of war since our last impression; reporting a successful renewal...

Lord Carlisle continues to visit his "subjects." On Wednesday he examined the children of the Linen-Hall Street School, in reading, spel- ling, geography, mental arithmetic, and...

The General Assembly of the Established Church was opened at Edin- burgh on Thursday last week, by Lord Belhaven as the Queen's Com- missioner ' with the preliminary levee, and...

The appendix to the Fourth Report of the Sebastopol Committee con- tains the correspondence between Lord John Russell and the Earl of Aberdeen respecting the competency of the...

SATtniDAT: The - electric telegraph is not now half so fertile as formerly in rumou4 and we may presume that a more judicious selection of news is made bY' the correspondents....

Commissioners for in- quiring into the state of the University of Cambridge have pronounced against the Government Reform Bill, in a letter to the Lord Chancellor, signed by all...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The success of the expedition against Kertch and occupation of the Sea of Asoff have increased the upward tendency of the English Funds this...

The Philharmonic, on Monday, had a feature of novelty in a symphony by Mr. Cipriani Potter ; a composition of great merit, very favourably received, and worthy of a place among...

(Stamp-Duties—Drafts on Bankers Bill ; Fairs and Markets (Ireland) Bill; Price's Indemnity Bill). 3 Gone to the Lords 4 In progress 27 —54 In Progress—Leading Measures of the...

the friendship of England and France than Mr. Cooke of Astley's. His ele- phants symbolize the entente cordiale by continually passing over from London to Paris and from Paris...

.Don Giovanni was revived at Covent Garden on Thursday. We say revived ; for, although this opera has not been altogether dead to our stage, yet for some years past it has...

"star" of the Haymarket, and reappeared on Monday in the play with which above all others she is identified—The Lady of Lyons. A little farce, called Only a Halfpenny, has been...

attractions of Mr. Wright—a visitor where he was once a settler—received its lawful sove- reigns on Monday last ; and they wete heartily welcomed on their return from the...

commence on nesday next at the St. James's Theatre, under the management of M. Levassor, a comedian whose fame is well established in both London, and Paris.

A novelty in the amusements of the French metropolis is a series of Italian plays, acted by the King of Sardinia's company at the Italian Operahouse. The Francesca di Bimini of...

At the reassembling of the House of Commons, on Monday, the debate on the amendments arising out of Mr. Disraeli's War motion will have prece- dence. Twenty-seven Bills, chiefly...

SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 26. MAIORITY AGAINST THE MOTION-319. Acland; Sir T. D. Bellew, T. A. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Acton, J. Berkeley, Admiral Burke, Sir T....

THE PEACE PARTY IN PARLIAMENT. TirE position which Mr. Gladstone took up in the debate on the conduct of the war, at once gives to the proposal of making peace with Russia on...

To a certain extent it may be said that the result has justified both Lord John Russell and Lord Aberdeen for the part which they took against each other in the controversy,...

IN a speech addressed to the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope, Governor Sir George Grey sketched out a new Border policy. He dismissed, and very properly, the idea of...

TILE Patron's gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society has been bestowed upon Mr. Livingstone for hid travels and geographi- cal observations in Africa. What is it that Mr....

THE TRILTMEH OF RIGHT. Adam Street, Act4hi, 29a May 1855. Sin—At length we are moving onwards, and the Scyth is moving off. The Sea of Asov is as much ours as the see of Asaph....

A LEAGUE is formed to procure the enactment in this country of "the Maine Liquor law,"—a law which prohibits the sale of alco- holic liquids, except in such quantities as...

Ssa—The slow and imperfect progress made in many reforms urgently re- Inked by the country has greatly indisposed men's minds to constitutional government, and created...

Shake the Nation's measure up, Be its vacant spaces filled : O'er the rim of Britain's cup Many golden grains are spilled. Shake Old England's measure up, Keep the gold within...

PEACOCK'S LIFE OF DR. YOUNG. * TEE name of Thomas Young is most generally known as a discoverer of the art of reading the ancient Egyptian writing. But he was a man of great...

Hannay's Eustace Con- yers but its great feature is the effective exhibition of two contrasted characters, both indicative of the age or its wants. Henry Mildew represents the...

As dates are a great point in reference to transactions in the Crimea, it may be premised that the Amateur arrived at Balaklava on the ad February and quitted it on the 6th...

Boons. Land, Labour, and Gold: or Two Years in Victoria ; with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. By William Hewitt. In two volumes. The _Encyclopedia Britannica ; or...

TUB BOYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION: DOMESTIC PICTURES. The confidence up to a certain point with which one may generally, in an English exhibition, turn from more ambitious matter to...

A course of lectures on Sculpture, ancient and modern, by Raffaele Monti, commenced on Wednesday, at No. 18 Great Marlborough Street. The lecturer's object is rather to enlarge...

On the 21st March, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Wife of Lientenant-Colanel Aston, of twin daughters. On the 19th May, at the Palace. Corfu, the Wife of Captain E. C. Butler,...

Week of 1455. Zyznotle Diseases 211.7 .. •• 246 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 45.0 .... 48 Tubercular Diseases 186.2 .... 232 Dimaem...

2ue8day, Hay 29. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED.-Macualley and Co. Park Street, Camden Town, plumbers-Deakin and Co. Sheffield, cutlery-manufacturers-Knock Mill Company,...

OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, May 23.-Royal Regiment of Artillery-Lieut. J. Campbell to be Second Captain and Adjt. of the Royal Invalid Artillery. Corps of Royal Engineers-Second Capt....

BRITISH PB Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents. Long Annuities. Bank Stock, 8 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer Bills, 21d....