PARLIAMENT has risen for the Easter holydays ; and Ministers, though incessantly badgered, since their accession to office, to de- clare their policy, have, at least in so far...

Austrian Prime Minister, may affect the position and prospects of Austria more materially than the demise of a sovereign. Born about the beginning of,the ,century, and early...

would net seek to beimlide Emperor unless the " enenues of order" aonniellea him to atannie the dignity in self-defence: Rumours 04104-this week in hkown journal; of attempts to...

of the week is the first triennial visitation of Queen's College, Bell fast. It 'passed in a quiet, businesslike manner. The institution is still of inconsiderable- extent and...

on the affairs of the Irinian Islands and the British dominions in South -Africa. In the - former, it was With justice alleged on behalf. of - Sir Henry Ward, that heinherited...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. HOME or LORDS. Monday, April 5. War with Ara; Lord Ellenborough's State- ment—Foreign Refugee Correspondence ; Lord Mahnesbury's Explanation....

Birkenhead troop- steamer, on the coast of our South African colony, has rarely been published. The strict preservation of discipline to the last, the quiet heroism with which...

Tan Queen held a Court, at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday after- noon. Count Buol Schauenstein, the Austrian Minister, had an audience "to take leave of her Majesty on a...

Mr. Cardwell the Member and Mr. Joseph C. Ewart addressed a nu- merous meeting of the Liberals and Free-traders of Liverpool, on Satur- day last, as candidates for election to...

The promenade in the Crystal Palace on Saturday afternoon was quite a monster demonstration. The estimate of the number of visitors ranges from 40,000 to 70,000; some 2000...

FRANCE. —The sum of twelve million of francs (about 480,0001. ster- ling) per annum was not the full extent of the " dotation" benefits thrown at the feet of Louis Napoleon by...

Lord and Lady Eglinton have commenced a series of balls at the Castle, which are described as magnificent in their accompaniments, and most successful in their attractiveness to...

A great Free-trade meeting at Glasgow, called by the Lord Provost on requisition, was held in the Trades Hall at the end of last week. Mr. Walter Buchanan, Mr. S. Higginbotham,...

A wreck more terrible in its circumstances, and even more fatal in its results, than that of the Orion on the coast of Scotland, has happened in our colonial seas, off the coast...

Almost at the very moment the debate in the House of Lords on the 'Refugee question began on Monday evening, Prince Schwarzenberg, the Austrian Minister who took so principal a...

On the lot April, at Swakeleys, Middlesex, the Wife of Captain Thomas Cochran, It of a son. On the 2d, in Lansdowne Place, Brighton, Baroness de Linden, of a son. On the 4th,...

nate announcements in the morning newspapers, it would appear that Mademoiselle Johanna Wagner, the new star whose appearance on our horizon is looked for with so much interest,...

Sun- day the 28th of March. On the evening of the 29th she struck on the Foreados rocks, and before morning was beaten to atoms. The whole of her passengers, thirty-six in...

been discovered in a tide- pond at Putney ; and there is no doubt they were those of a father and two sons, the result of a double murder and a suicide. The pond is a piece of...

SATURDAY. The country is making holyday as to news. There is scarcely any- thing afoot ; and therefore the papers have scarcely anything to tell this morning. The election...

Bruges, 9th Aril. In London, I believe, you constantly hear Belgium spoken of as if it were destined to perform its ancient function of being the Cockpit of Europe." Persons...

WHAT LORD DERBY'S GOVERNMENT IS WITHOUT PROTECTION. Dublin, 6th Apra 1852. Sin—If your "Puzzled Conservative" correspondent be not satisfied with the ample though indirect...

STOCK EXCHANGE, THURSDAY Arratattoox. The English Funds continue to improve ; the advance in almost every description of Government Stock (except Three-and-a-quarter per Cents)...

pro- nounced than I had anticipated from the absence of party bias usually observ- able in the Spectator, the experience of twenty years, during which I have sub- scribed to...

The activity of election preparation somewhat abates. Most of the new arrangements contemplated have been broached and have passed their first stage. The candidates and...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th April 1851 and 1852, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED...

THE DEFINITE ARTICLE. Wrriforr pretending to have originated a course of political pre. paration for the autumn, which indeed had been entered upon by partisans of one of the...

the one point at least the present Ministers seem to stand confessed as totally incompetent—they cannot make an explanation. They have tried their hands at it again this week,...

JAMAICA appears, by its House of Assembly and two of its im- portant "parishes," in the advertising columns of the Times, to protest against the injustice of the Imperial...

WHILE Customs and Excise show an increase both on the quarter and the year, the Income-tax is stationary., or even declining. The increase of the two great departments of...

Lours NAPOLEON is the true political philosopher : other men have established dogmas, he finds a use for them • other factions generally uphold incompatible dogmas, he recon...

"A roam of Lord Derby" is the turn given by some people to that peculiar idea of a military franchise which Mr. Walpole flashed upon the House of Commons on Friday night—" an...

in course of con- struction under the superintendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson, was de- spatched from Cardiff on the 26th March. We understand other cargoes arc now in course of...

IAMIRTINE'S HISTORY OF THE RESTORATTON FRANCE.. Tre marvellous rapidity and success of the evasion from Elba and the march upon Paris, with the subsequent battles of Ligny,...

No other country than America could have produced the author of "Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England." An English agriculturist who would cross the Atlantic solely...

THE economists tell us that wherever there is a demand there will be a supply—if not of the genuine article, it should be added, of something which passes instead. Let there be...

DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ART. The views of the Superintendents of the new Department, Mr. Cole and Mr. Redgrave, have received official expression in a letter addressed on the...

Mr. Ouseley's large and very handsome volume is one of the most satisfactory contributions to amateur landscape art with which we are acquainted. Among the twenty-five views of...

Mr. Burford has prepared for the Easter holydays by opening a now panoramic scene, having on the present occasion sought the Austrian ter- ritories for his subject : and a...

Tuesday, April 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED.—Lambert and Andrew, Hull, ship-brokers—J. Lam- bert and Co. Hull, dealers in ship-stores—A. Lambert and Co. Hull, fruit-merchants...

Booze. _Narratives from Crisninal Trials in Scotland. By John BM Burton, Author of "The Life of David Hume," 8m. In two volumes. History of Physical Astronomy, from the...

J. Cass to be Quartermaster, vice Perkin, retired.

BRITISH FUNDS (Closing Prices.) Satard. Maass. Tuesday. Wean". Thurs. Friday, Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock,...