the debating has been neither voluminous nor of any political moment. A number of bills have been introduced on old familiar subjects,—by Sir George Lewis to amend the London...

steady substantial progress. The encyclical letter of the Pope has been published in extenso ; it contains not the slightest new reasoning ; it constitutes an avowal that the...

public has been the reported negotiation for a cession of Savoy and Nice from the Sardinian Crown to that of France. Our Foreign Secretary has been asked for papers, but has...

PARI.ThlitzN'T has passed the week with a very scanty allowance of political discussion. Business has been done, where it has been pressed by those who take a practical...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Housx or Loans. Monday, January 30. Criminal Law Consolidation; the Lord Chancellor's Bill read a first time—Law of Property Bill read a second...

had a cu- rious, and apparently, contradictory double effect. It has satis- fied public expectation, and caused something like a minor panic. The causes are well understood. The...

THE QtrEine has diligently walked and driven out this week in spite of the weather. The Prince of Orange arrived at Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty on the 27th of...

The Marriage Law Defence Association convoked a meeting for Wed- nesday at Willis's Rooms. It was fully attended. The Duke of Marl- borough presided, and the Bishop of Oxford,...

fraurt.—The chief incident reported to us from Paris is the sup- pression of the notorious journal r Univers. The cause of this rigorous measure was the publication by 1'...

Mr. Cardwell's reply to the memorial of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, asking for changes in the fundamental principles of the system of national education in Ireland, has...

Three elections have taken place this week—for Pontefract, Scar- borough, and Beverley. The election of a new Member for Pontefract took place on Monday and Tuesday. At the...

The Horning Post, in leaded type, gives great prominence to the follow- ing oracular announcement on the question of Italy. "It is now formally determined that no intervention...

of March, has been set apart by her Majesty for the special and exclusive reception of officers of Volunteer Corps. The Queen will hold Levees for the reception of her other...

agree- ment on the general subjects of the day. The exception was the Savoy and Nice annexation. The prohibition imposed upon discussion is said to have emanated from the...

SATURDAY MORNING. In the House of Commons last night, soon after the sitting opened, Members availed themselves of the motion for the adjournment till Mon- day to pat questions...

distrust, which I have already men- tioned, continue to prevail among the middle classes, and are attributed to the secret but active influence of the clerical party. It is said...

It is with regret that we are compelled to postpone the letter of "A Catholio Subscriber," controverting a review, in a recent number of our paper, with much force of argument....

Svocx EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arntarroos. The Money Market has been in an extremely sensitive state throughout the week. On Monday, the Market for public securities opened at a...

"THE FUSION OF LAW AND EQUITY." No passage in her Majesty's Speech from the throne is more cal- culated to cheer the legal reformer, than that in which she suggests "such a...

IT is a great mistake to suppose that the advantage to be derived from the removal of any one commercial restriction is limited to the direct profit accruing from the...

No official revelation have we to make ; everything of that kind i is reserved for the first appearance of each Minister n his depart- ment. We can but marshal some of the...

WE have now fully described the present double government in the administration of the army. We may close that part of the exposition by showing that, in two other cases, which...

TEE writer of the able pamphlet entitled American Securities* has been at considerable pains to collect several facts and statisti- cal figures, in order to illustrate at once...

lecture which Lord Clyde, through the Adjutant-General of ker Majesty's Forces in India, has addressed to the commanding officers of regiments, and which he has made public, is...

"Two elopements chronicled in a single week, both by ladies in the highest circles of society," drew upon the Timee ' about the middle of last month, a little shower of letters,...

[PROW • CORRESPONDENT.] IV. kr has been stated that, in order to estimate the comparative expenditure for the convict services in England and Wales during the last ten years, it...

On the 22d of January, at the British Legation, Vienna, the Lady Augustus Loftus, of a son. On the 23d, at Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs. Greenhill, of a daughter. On the 25th, at...

DAN= WILSON AND ROBERT NELSON. * BIOGRA.PHY that would show us men, invested with all the cir- cumstance and colour of their life, that would be at once brief, graphic, and...

Tins little book appears very opportunely. At a moment when great changes are imminent in the practical application of mili- tary science, Captain Brabazon comes forward to...

THE Cousin's COURTSHIP is a kind of prose idyll, in which an earnest, pure, simple love is developed, in a quiet, every-day fashion, without any hysterical romance, or stilted...

years the attention of English- men has been drawn to the immense resources of Eastern Africa, and to the importance of redeeming that prolific region and its swarming...

Instead of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest, the proprietors of the Cornhill Magazine are proving that it is sometimes good economy to reverse that rule,...

In his ASPIRATIONS PROM THE INNER, TILE SPLRITUAL LIP; Dr. Henry M - Cormac aims "to reconcile religion, literature, science and art, with faith and hope, and love and...

Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co. have in the press the fifth and conclu- ding volume of Mr. Ruskin's "Modern Painters " ; a translation into English verse of "The Book of Job," by...

Mrs. Haller, in the Stranger—a character which she had not before played in London. She brings with her all her accustomed force, and her artistic progress is marked by...

the Albion, in Aldersgate Street. Professor Edward Taylor, of Gresham College, the President of the Club, was in the chair, and there was a full gathering of members and...

of the Italian stage, has been reproduced at the Theatre Italien, to the great delight of the Parisian public. Such pleasures make us envy this same Parisian public, for the...

Mr. Toni Taylor's version of A Tale of Two Cities was duly produced at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday last; Madame Celeste, the lessee of the house, taking the part of Madame...

Set of Four-Part Songs. Composed by Henry Smart. Mr. Smart's Set of Four-Part Songs consists of four numbers- " Morning," "Hymn to Cynthia," "Cradle Song," and "The Joys of...

Mr. Henry Leslie, who has gained a place in the first rank of the Eng- lish musicians of our day, by several great works in the highest branches of his art, has even enhanced...

Bankrupts. - Cssume Lehmoriam, Salisbury Wharf, Strand, barge-builder- ADOLPH WORMAN, MinOrieS, boot - manufacturer - THOMAS CRICKEIT JENNINGS, Ipswich, tea-dealer-W=1mm Jonms,...

BRITISH FUNDS. &turd. Monday. (ClosingPrices.) Tuesday. Widnes. 2Aurs. Friday. S per Cent Consols 941 91 944 941 941 94; Ditto for Account 941 94; 94* 1141 941 941 3 per...