A LUXtUAY OF IBOONWDLNG. Much as has been said in commendation of the excellence of modern elaborately-embellished bookbinding, nothing has fallen in our w-ay so exquisitely...

- - - - - I CARPETSr. There has just been completed at -' i ton, for the Mess-Room at Woolwicb, an Axminster carpet in a single piece, measuring seventy feet in length and...

PARlIS l' ASHI ONS. From ..d . . ol.e.lo/ou t.i | rll(' brilli nt : f th, lOw i't fw'.W days has brought fath a niumber of noveltici, aid tile ladies who fill the (arrliages...

-RIM trrl It urno. I Among the gentlemen presented to the Queen in the Diplomatic Circle Ion Wednesday, was the Honourablc Thomas L. Clingnian, a Senator of the United States....

Mr. Ella's Musical Union Soiree on Tuesday was a fine entertainment I of chamber instrumental music, consisting of concerted pieces of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, intermixed...

The Directors of the Popular Concerts, finding how successful the inI troduction of the classical element has been, are carrying it further and I furtier. The concert of Monday...

Henrv V. promises to be one of the most successful " revivals " at the Princess's Theatre. Already seats are unattainable save by long notice, . and there seems no doubt that...

The Prettu Girls of Stilsberm being rendered famous by Mr. B. Web- ster's assumption of ihe peculiarities of Napoleon Bonaparte, and by the appearance of a number of young...

The London Glee and Madrigal Inion, which we mentioned last week, I gave their first concert on Monday. It was a fine selection of English and Italian madrigals of the...

I Irish Melodies, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Steven- son, Mus. Doc., aid Characteristic Words by Thomas Moore, Edited by J. W. Glover, Esq. This goodly...

jiur Jrtt. ' I The Exhibition of Paintings by French Artists enjoys the privilege of a responsible and thoroughly practical dictator: Mr. WE: Gambart chooses the best pictures...

Mus 5ir. The Royal Italian Opera-the Covent Garden house-for Drury Lane, I too, is abjut to become a Royal Italian Opera-opened last Saturday evening: not with remarkable...

UrhatSt anu jrhurifup in 3'v1hatimnt. PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF LoRDS. Monday, April 4. lMinisterial Explanations; Lord Derby's Statement-Railway Tickets...

J? r uuiuri a 1. The dispute between the Bishop of Oxford and his clergy is by no means at an end. Some time since, it may be remembered, that the Archdeacons of Oxford, Bucks,...

furrigu ant cu'ulaul. f r a ii r r.-The Conferences on the affairs of the Danubian Principalities were opened on Thursday. There are to be only two sittings. It is supposed...

'gbJr 3dtruputi5. Mr. W. F. Finlason stands a candidate for the Judgeship recently vacated in the Sheriff"s Court; and he seems to be sure of influential support. It is...

IRELAND. The view which we recently took of the position of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland in relation to the question of education is confirmed by a pastoral, just...

-b r (f u u r t. The Queen held a levee at St. James's Palace on Wednesday. Prince Gholam Mohamed, son of Tippoo Sultan, and also taco grandsons of Tippoo were presented to the...

I . AN ENGLISH LADY'S SIX YEARS' TRAVELS IN RUSSIA.* ;TiE results of our English Lady's experience in these two vo,lumes are scarcely equal to the time bestowed upon their...

In addition to the evidence given in Parliament of the critical state of the European question we note that Sir James Hudson, whether summoned or not, left Turin yesterday for...

At the Evening Meeting of the It6yal Geogrthicil l&etdy onMdn- day next, the following'ppers wil be reaa. 1. Brief Remarks on the Isthmus of Suez, 'with specia _hfe'rence to~e...

According to the talk of the clubs, Ministers look forwawrd to the re- sult of the election with increasing confidence: what with the usual eotcial influence and other...

THE ENTRANCE TO THE CIVIL SERVICE. Couservatihe U(ub. Sin-Though little can be added to your article of last week on this head, it is in Miy power to corroborate many if not...

Our ministerial defeat, we learn, has been the absorbing subject of com- versation in Paris, there being so little of domestic interest to discuIss. "A At the same time most...

The Paris correspondent of the Globe, who has never hoped anything from the Congress, says "your new Parliament will meet to read war bulletins, not to discuss the Italian...

POSTSCRIPT. SNTURD-KY AFTERNOON. In the House of Commons last night Lord Palmerston was to have asked a question on foreign affairs, but Mrl. DISRAELI implored him not to do...

i THE MORAL OF THE LATE COTTON CASE. TuHE judgment recently given by Vice-Chancellor Page Wood in the case of Taylor tersus Degetau, has been genermlly accepted by the public...

RESTORATION OF ITALY TO EUROPE. N'EAV HOPES, XORE LABOURlE RS. EN'GLISHMEN' should be the last to deny any people that right. which is almost inherent in humanity, the right...

LITERARY NEWS. One of the-most gratifying results of the late disasters in India is the renewed impulse given to the study of the native languages and the ancient literature of...

ap- &fiJatrrs. A thrce-act picee, called JI'vrybody's Frien'd, Written by M),r. Stirling Coyne, and brought out at the Hlaymarket on Satul day last, is a speci' men of modern...

The following six new purchases were placed in the Gallery on Thursdav I week-1. "' St. Dominic as the Institutor of the Rosary," ascribed to Marco Zoppo. 2. A small expressive...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. NOT many years since, the Prince Consort remarked that in this country representative institutions were on their trial. The...

Eltrtiou Alourmnits. The preparations for the coming general election have already begun; indeed, they began on Monday evening, when the mails carried from London many...

FRAN CE AND AUSTRIA. The question of the Congress remains pretty much we here it was left last w-eek. The information -we hl2re present is derived from our contemporaries; our...

BOOKS. BURGON'S MEMOIR OF PATRICK FRASER TYTLER.- THE Reverend John Burgon's portrait of his friend as the ideal of a " Christian gentleman, is less a mere life of the...

Irtti to tijr ibitnr. GRAND JURIES AS A POLITICAL SAFEGUARD. SIR-Agreeing in the main with your views on Grand Juries, I desire to offer a few remarks on their supposed value...

THE OCCASIONAL. By LEIGii H7N-T. No. VIII. THE LATE AIR. PICKERIN-G THE BOOKSELLER. His worth, aned that 'If hispeeblications. Collected poems of Constable noe put forth by...

I The week has witnessed a continuation of reports the most contradictory with regard to the success or failure of the negociations for a Congress. Perhaps we shall not be far...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. MINISTERS stated to both Houses on the first night of the week, I that one of the alternative courses which they had resolved to I adopt; it is not...