AT length we are quit of the Reform Bill for a month. The Measure has been read a second time, aril the Committee has been fixed for the 4th of June, a remote period that...

of the continent, loyalty decidedly gaining as time advances. ' Perhaps there is no cavalier at present who is more triumphant than King Victor Emmanuel; the Re Galantuomo is ....

proofs of the reaction amongst the Roman Catholics in that island ; but to us all the circumstances have rather a different signification. No doubt they prove the activity of...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. -MINISSi OF Loans. Howley, April 30. Church Rate Abolition Bill read a first S mithfield Market ; Lord Ebury ' a Question — NationalEducation in...

The May meetings have set in, St. James's Hall proving a formidable competitor as a gathering-place to Exeter Hall and the Hanover Square Rooms. The Society for the Propagation...

THE QUEEN has been actively engagedin outdoor exercises and amuse- ments. She has driven abroad every day. Accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Princesses, her Majesty has...

The emigration from Ireland threatens to equal that of 1846-7. This time the emigres are chiefly farm labourers and household servants, and their inducements to go to the United...

,f TR U t f.—The Emperor, accompanied by the Prince of Oldenburg, went on Tuesday to the Polygon of Vincennes, to be present at some ex- periments with rifled cannon which have...

The election of a Member for Berkshire, in the room of Captain Ver- non, took place at Abingdon on Tuesday. Mr. Benyon was proposed by Mr. Robert Palmer, and seconded by Mr....

discharge the duties of Postmaster-General, in addition to those which already devolve upon him as Lord Privy Seal. The arrangement is an interim one, andis inftmded termed the...

a sanguine view of - the progress of the Sicilian insurrection :— " Turin, May 1. " The Sicilian attempt, which, as I have already told you, was hopeless by its nature, is...

on two charges of fraud and embezzlement. Lytlleton, the cashier, charged with embezzling moneys, has been acquitted by the Lord Mayor, who told him that he left the Court "...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Great firmness with little business has been the prevailing feature of the Stock Exchange, since our last impression. In the English Market,...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. In the House of Commons last night, the business of the sitting began by the putting of a shoal of questions, some of which relate to matters of current...

a rich gold- field has been discovered near the sources of the river Murrumbidger, and that many persons had left Adelaide in consequence. War has broken out in New Zealand...

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM AND PARLIAMENTARY INCOMPETENCY. THE dead lock to which, the House of. Commons came this week on the subjeet ofiteform is a symptom of a bad character na-...

THE . RATIONAL GALLERY AND TILE APOLLO AND- M4RSYAS. Milan, Tuesdoy, Nay 1st, 1860, &a—On December 16, the sculptor. Widumann, one of the leading artiste * Munich, and Professor...

Tim circular letter from the new French COmmercial'Reform As- sociation to the several Chambers. of Commerce in France calls upon those commercial bodies to join is claiming a...

military, organiza- tion recalls attention to the broad questions still unsettled by our statesmen. The largest practical question is this of Military Or- ganization for...

Tun difiieultyof meeting the evil of electoral• corruption by action out of doors; is much increased by the inconsistency of Perlin- ment. The only remedy which- the Hansa of...

its own excesses is often amongst the most effectual counteractives to fanaticism. Few things have happened more injurious to the Ultramontane cause than those eases which are...

On the 21th of April, at South Terrace, Surbiton Hill, Mrs. St. Vincent Jervis, of a daughter, stillborn. On the 25th, at 14, Hereford Street, London, the LadySaitoun, of a...

EUROPEAN JURIBPRUDEXCE. 1 Tax book of Hugo Grotius, says the illustrionceuthor of the cog-. nate work which we propose to review, introduced into the coun- cils of monarchs and...

Bell, if not.exaotly such a book as we desMerate, is yetweleome as a foreigner's tribute to the memory of a distinguished man, whose merits, though not unknown to his own...

THE battle of theological metaphysics continues. The gyration of abstract: thought seems destined to be perpetual. The circle ever returns into itself, and knows no onward or...

their parts so as to make up a total of fourteen love stories, and these fourteen resolving themselves after the requiiite course of vicissitudes and perplexi- ties into the...

A new work from the pen of Mr. George Borrow, author of "La vengro," is announced by Mr. Murray, under the title, " The Sleeping Bard ; or, Visithis of the World, Death, and...

BOOKS. The Autobiography of an Italian Rebel. By G. Ricciardi. Translated from the Italian. Mary Bertrand. By Francis Meredith. In three volumes. The Wild Flowers of England...

JELINGER COORSON SYMONS, ELM., late Inspector of Schools, whose lamented death took place at Great Malvern on the 7th of April, was the son of a beneficed clergyman in...

At the Opera Comique, there is a new work, composed by M. Govan* to music by MM. Cormon and Michel Carre, With the title Le Chateau Trotupette. That indefatigable roué, the Due...

no longer means something adapted to an uneducated and unrefined taste— something in which the high and classic productions of the art are eschewed as being calculated only to...

There has been no theatrical novelty of importance this week, except the appearance at the Adelphi of Miss Julia Daly, an American actress, devoted to the representation of...

Mademoiselle Piccolomini has finally retired from the stage. She took leave of the public at Her Majesty's Theatre, on Monday last, when she appeared, for the third time, in...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. The private view of yesterday enables us to give a general idea of the exhibition for this year, which will be opened to the public on Monday. The post of...

R. A. The idea of a one-master Exhibition originated with the Society of Arts about ten years ago, when collections of the choicer works of W. Etty and W. Mulready, were...

The Exhibition of the Old Society, which was opened on Monday, is one of unusual interest ; there are abundant signs of thought and ac- tivity shown in the works of the members,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Segura. Nowdoy. taudoy.I IfOrloaa. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Bank...

'Prinkrhiltby Anniillth - Joss HEtrrrr, junior, Halceigate, Norfolk, miller. :-.8aNkrtfpta,-EDWIN Hester SPARK, Heatheete Street, Gray's Inn Bead, jeweller - mix...

On Friday evening, the 20th instant, Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold de- livered a lecture " On the Scope and Tendency of the Natural-History Sciences." The speaker referred to the...