a supervernal mildness came over the air, with moistening showers of rain ; less sparkling to the intermittent sun than April usually is, but also, at least by contrast, warmer...

Prussia is contending against failure at Erfurt; Austria has given a for- mal adhesion to the Wurtemberg allience,—stipulating, however, that the whole Empire enter the League :...

ists. M. Vidal had been elected for the Department of the Lower Rhine as well as for Paris, and, making - choice of the country constituency, he leaves a vacancy for the...

MINISTERS have been dispersed for their Easter recreations, and -the Premier honours Manchester with his selection. Manchester, much flattered, takes pains to treat him as an...

attacked our troops in Peshawur ; and, though gallantly repulsed, with something too much like impunity. Tohore murmurs with whispered reports of incessant plottings. The Nizam...

Lord John Russell has been spending part of his Easter leisure at un- leisurely Manchester. During his sojourn in Scotland last year, he accepted an invitation from Sir Benjamin...

the freest country in the world hesitates to admit California to its Union because that State as desired to repudiate slavery ; andthe legislators of said freest country are...

Easter Monday was a real holyday to the thousands of toilers in Lon- don. The day was beautiful; and the crowds who filled the Parks, and sallied as far as Greenwich and Hampton...

THE formal register of Court movements is scarcely diversified by a sin- gle incident of variety. One loyally reads that her Majesty daily walks or drives out, and one is...

trouble. 'The Cape, indeed, is resting on its arms, and will probably be con- tented by the official concessions in London. But at the two op- pate extremities the Ministerial...

FEANCE.—The Paris papers state that President Napoleon was insulted on Easter Monday, by the populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine. The journals variously colour the details,...

A preliminary public meeting of the citizens of Dublin has expressed its hearty concurrence with Prince Albert's Show of Industry, and called on the Mayor to summon a general...

Lord Medwyn has not taken his seat as third Judge of the Court of Session since the Christmas recess, though much recovered from the in- disposition he then laboured under. It...

Carrying out the generous policy which we lately intimated, the Queen has purchased a life-presentation for the Prince of Wales to the Orphan Working School at Haverstock...

Southampton yesterday, has mostly been anticipated by the American route: The Guiana Court. of Policy was to meet on the 9th March, to pass the esti. mates for 1850. The revenue...

SATURDAY. The Ministerial papershave beenengagedduring the week in preparing the public mind for an untoward aspectorthe Customs on the publication of the annual. and quarterly...

King of the Belgians and his father-in-law Louis Philippe have succeeded in bringing There have been vague reports during the week that the King of the Belgians and his...

an election for member of the As sembly, vice M. Vidal. The most prominent candidate of the , Mtn- Liberals-is-M. Emile Girardin ; who is beyond doubt the most influential'...

lingering illness; places the Deanery - of Hereford- at the gift of Ministers. Dn Merewether held the Deanery eighteen years.; he was a protégé of William the Fourth, Sam the...

of the company' owning the wrecked Adelaide, states the exact loss of humant. life. The passengers who left Cork were 144 adults, and 23 children; those. from Plymouth, 14...

town to- day from Windsor Castle: Lord John Russell returned home yesterday from his Manchester visit. Emulating the Town-Councils of Salford. and Manchester, the Lanca- shire...

The majority of well-disposed people support all Governments in keeping up efficient Naval establishments, ashore and afloat. Our officials reduce the Marines one-fifth, and the...

At the reopening of her Majesty's Theatre, on Tuesday, the perform- ance of Lucia di _Lammermoor was attended with the unusual circum- stance of the two principal characters...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds were firm on Monday, and the tendency of the market upwards. The intelligence since received of the fall of the French Funds...

some novelty, splendid in decoration, at nearly every one of the English theatres. Pan- tomimes, by a rule whereof the memory of man knoweth nothing to the contrary, are always...

In a literary sense, Thackeray has conveyed the Londoner from Corn- till to Grand Cairo; pictorially, the Diorama at the Gallery of Illustra- - tion conveys him fr om Regent...

A second tablet of high relief is now affixed to the Nelson monument, —on the back, facing Northwards. It represents a scene in Nelson's life at the battle of the Nile ; when he...

Monday, April 8. Supply Committee—Ordnance Estimates: Navy Estimates. Exchequer Bills (9,200,000L) Bill : Committee. Brick-duties Bill: Amended, to be considered. Ways and...

THE TRIUMPHS OF HAWES. As Mr. Hawes's Australian Constitutions come again before the House of' Commons on Friday next, we are induced to notice the state and prospects of the...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th April 1849 and 1850, showing die Increase or Decrease thereof. . TEARS ENDED...

HOWEVER well a governing body may be constituted, experience begins strongly to testify that its first-born purity can hardly be expected to last longer than while the bells are...

advances, a question arises, not only of healthy wet-muses to suckle the royal infant, but also of .a safe Prime Minister. Narvaez is held to be not a safe Minister for a Queen...

OTER-RITEITESS is proved in the Church question by the number- less minor questions which teem in it as soon as it is laid bare to the light of day. The subject of Gorham and...

Tins is essentially the age of iron. Iron roads, iron houses, iron churches, iron boats, are the stern, inflexible features of the times in which we live. Yet there are those...

The main obstacle to a larger introduction of untitled ability into office is to be found, in our opinion, among the very same critics who are loudest in their denunciations of...

Ifkarrzo duly taken an express-train, our surprise was considerable to find that we were decidedly getting behind the age, insomuch that the error in time was corrected by a...

TO THE EDITOR AP SHE SPECTATOR. litanchester ' 2d April 1850. Six—While congratulating the country on the prospect of greater facili- ties in the -transfer of hind, and the...

A CONSTRRIJTIONAL VIEW OF TILE CORM% tf DECISION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Oxford, la April 1850. Bra—It seems to me that neither you nor your correspondents have done...

London, 2d April 1.850. Sra—I am one of those members of the Church of England who take in their Mendl sense the words of its Catechism, in which the child is _declared to be...

LLFE AND CORRESPONDENCE •OF DR. ANDREW COMBE.. Tun distinguishing characteristic of the late Andrew Combe was the power of popularly expounding scientific principles, and ap-...

not so pervadingly scien- tific as Miss Martineau's tales, illustrative of political economy ; not so skilfully impressing the moral to be pointed through the conduct of the...

the question of life-assu- rance induced us to give an historical précis of the subject, and a summary of its principles and practice as then generally esta- blished. Since that...

th His human air, ei, ....,-, [tii,,,at„ia is just before : 2- t-i>"'-""." ;"`-' 1 ' 973 Thiadetlie' of IBM, no more— He had left the chapel, then, as I. -1 - roilibirol a...

Boons. publications during the . Easter holydaye- have resembled those at thabeginningrof the year. Except Colonel Cathcart's." Commentaries," tb which we mean to return, and a...

Iler musical' press, as well as the literary press; groans incessantly; and immmerable reams of paper are daily blackened with masses of demi- semiquavers,. which serve little...

On the 24th March, at the Vicarage, Ilfracombe, Barth Devon, the Wife of the Rev. J, Chanter, of a son. On the 26th, at St. Peter's Vicarage, Thanet, the Wife or the Rev....

Tuesday,, April 2. PARTICEIWITIPS DissoLven.-Heath and Wearing, Liverpool; chemists-Cured:arc and Ogden, Manchester, makers-ugh-Peel and Co. Manchester, merchants; as far as...

C. Smith. (Itidingmaster) to be Limit, by purchase, vice•Nettleship. who retires. 15th.Light Drags.-Lieut.C. J. Raeford, from the 824 Foot, to be Lieut. vice Hutton, who ex.-...

£38,813,243 . £38,313,2* ' Including Exchequer, Savings-Banks,Commisidoitersofkintional Debt, &DividendAects. BULLION. Per oz. METALS. Per ton. Foreign Gold in Bars, Standard...