Our attention has been drawoAn to an error in the Index of Parlia- mentary Proceedings last week : Lord Robert Grosvenor's motion for leave to bringr in a bill to abolish the...

Privatc letters, received by the Tinses from Madrid, state that the Government is under a fresh alarm, more serious than any former 'fl% for the safety of Cuba against a...

POSTSCRIPT. I SATU AY. I Before the lt.,lc4 of Commons had proceeded far in its regular busi- ne1s ;st Min . I'YSOUvLnS asled Ministers, whether it was their intntihi ii x...

I In a second edition, the Tiias publishes a translation of the material portion of the note addressed by Count Nesselrode to -M. Brunnow, for corninunication to Lord...

I Last night's Gazette notifies that the Earl of Carlisle was sworn in Chancellor ofthe Dutchy of Lancaster, ou Wednesday. A Government re-ward of 20,000?. or 10.0001. for...

I The Paris papers of yesterday recount an important meeting ef the De- mocratic Socialists, onl Thursday, at which Cr6micux, Emanuel Axago, Anthony Thourct, Mathieu (de la...

DIORAMA: STOLZENFELS AND SHRINE OF THE NATI-ITY. The Easter holyday-makers will find two interesting pictures at the Aiza Ln the Regent's Park. One, rcexhibited, represents the...

THIE ARTS. A sornw Raphael has " tllrned( up," and instead of bein- seized at once 1w I the catercrs for the 'National (Calleir, it has found it.,s way into the choice...

Art in Scotland has lost a worthy and respected chief, by the death of Sir Willianm Allan, President of the Academy in Edinburgh. William Allan has had an eventful life, marked...

.1-Irv -11 ". 4 r ? Irtruputis. In a Court of Common Council, on Tuesdav, fr. Barber brought forward a motion, that the public convenience wvould be promoted, and the...

THE ABSURD GOYERNMENT BILL FOR AUSTRALIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 8PECrATOR. 6th March 18O. Sin-As Lord John Russell has again postponed the Australian Colonies Bill, and it seems...

The Philharmonic Society's first conceit of the season took place on Mon- I day. Having chronicled the proceedings of this Society for twenty years and more, we havc nothing...

Twi-o of those "chamber concerts" which now render quartet-playing I unnecessary at the Philharmonic have taken place this week. Mr. Lucas and Herr Molique have each commenced...

_PROFESSIOXAI CONFIDENXCES. THo-uGII the 1mecs, "at Surgeon " discloses somewhat novel attempts made by the Police to associate the medical profession in a system of espionage....

THRiEATS FOP. THE EXPOSITION OF 1851. DOUBTs are suggested to the public mind by the concurrent facts, that while the scheme for the Exposition of 1851 expands in vastness, the...

BOOKS. MEl:OIRS OF A HU'NG(ARIAN LADY.' THEsE volumes contain a brief sketch of the authoress as a Viennese girl, with an account of the strangc contempt or indifference felt...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. LORD PALMEIRSTON IN GREECE. ]BY what fatality is Lord Tohn Russell's Cabinet obliged to support Lord Palmerston in his preposterous and scandalous Greek...

Tip Cuurt. THE Court has paid a flying visit to Windsor Castle. The Queen and Prince Albert, with their children, went thither on Saturday afternoon, and returned to Buckingham...

IREL AN D. Thc state of the county of Down, and the character of somc of the proceedings which have produced that state, have been officially brought under the notice of the...

'furrigif flu? Cutnuint. FRANCE.-Amidst the preparations carried on by the Socialists of Paris for the elections tomorrow, have been a number of banquets at which speeches of...

SCOTLAND. Mr. Sheriff Gordon has been chosen Lord Rector of Aberdeen, in competition with Mr. Thomas Carlyle. The votes of the "nations" wvere 136 for Gordon, 64 for Carlyle;...

NORMAN' S EXAMINATION OF PREVAILIrN-G OPINIONS AS TO THE BURDEN OF TAXATION.' MR. GEORGE: WARDE NORmAN is better known to political economists than to the public at large, as a...

i CHAN\-GE IENCE'SSANT AND CONSTANCY ETERNtL. FIRM upon its towering piers the Britannia Bridge spans the Menai Strait: it has withstood the gale, it withstands the weight of...

FORESTER S RAMBLES IN NORWkY.* ACQUAITNTED with the scenery of many and distant regions, and tired of the common run of holyday excursions, Mir. Forester determined on a trip...

,&d1r Vrnuiumr5. (, I The election of Colonel Frederick Rormillv for Canterburv, on Mlondav, was unopposed; Mr. Vance, the Protectionist candidate, having retired from the...

visattailrous. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady fMary Wood left town yesterday for Brighton.-Court Circular of Tuesday. The following correspondence has passed...

Through want (of public support, the Olympic Theatre suddenly closed on Thursday night. althotugh thte ilSll hills had been issiwed iln thi morning. At a inirstin el thu...

T lip fltrn fl II ?t ?-11, it 5 i C. I Goldsillith's ulnlivrsallv-eradl tale of Tlic r-i,,, of I7-1aLfield has been I t'iciiedttl -itlh no ni bre alteration than the...

: Some -wevis as, a1I lllt)ffl(i31 af (ll(cllelet (,f thu arIllrang(enlts for tle appl)rdachlig season at Iucr Majestys Theatre appeared in the 11or11nilg new-,lspapers, and we...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. IT is out of Parliament that the most notable events of the week I -have happened, though the proceedings in both Houses have been by no means without...

Some important official changes indicate the resolve to effect decided improvements in the conduct ot public business. It is no longer concealed thak Ministes intend to abo~ih...

The most interesting portion of the foreign news lies in the " rumours " and half-authenticated reports of public documents. Lord Palmerston's position in Greece, where he has...

Vrbntt5 talk J.rnrrrfintgg in it SnrlifnlraIt PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSF . oF Loo /)s Jfmidoi, March 4. Railway Audit Bill; introduced by Earl Granville, and readl...