THOUGH this is considered only a preliminary week of preparation and muster in Parliament, the report of the proceedings of three working days filled 46 columns or about 28...

makes a new effort to shake off the incubus. A fresh outbreak has begun in Alicant ; and it appears to spread to Valencia and other provinces. But the most important...

has closed, and Mr. O ' CONNELL has delivered his great speech. Its nature and its fate are anomalous : in Dublin it seems to have been considered ineffective ; here, it reads...

THE ADDRESS: THE QUEEN'S REPLY. The House of Commons met on Saturday, to convey the Address to the Queen ; but Sir ROBERT PEEL having announced the death of the Grand Duke of...

very plain matter. The French Royal Speech declared an "entente cordiale" to subsist between France and England ; the English Speech avows only "friendly relations" between the...

A SUDDEN gloom has been cast over the Court, by the unexpectedly- announced death of Prince Albert's father, the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha; intelligence of which reached...

The nomination of Parliamentary candidates for Devizes took place at that borough on Tuesday ; the Conservative being Mr. Ludlow Bruges, the Liberal and Free-trader Mr. C....

A great meeting of English Catholics, to protest against the exclusion of their fellow-churchmen from the Jury in the State trial, was held at the Freemason's Tavern, on...

Last week, our epitome of the State trial broke off in the midst of the speeches of counsel for the defence. On the Seventeenth day—Friday, February 2. Mr. Whiteside continued...

Fels:cm—The Paris papers continue to repeat rumours of a change of Ministry, and a coalition between Count Mold and M. Thiers is talked of. In the late contest between the...

The deaths of several royal and remarkable persons abroad are re- corded. That which excites most interest in this country is the death of the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha,...

BIRTHS. On the Seth January, at Dover, the Lady of Captain MANNERS, R.N., of a daughter. On the 31st, at Rock Hill, the Lady HELEN &tawnier, of a daughter. On the 26 February,...

New York to the 24th January. Mr. Tyler was at issue with the Senate, who were considering, and rejecting, his recent appointments to the Ministry. The Oregon question and...

colony of Hong-kong—Mr. John Francis Davis, to be Governor ; Mr. John Walter Hulme, Chief Justice ; the Honourable Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, Government Secretary ;...

in the first week of March. Several of the accustomed singers are promised, and some new ones : Fornasari and Madame Persiani appear on the opening- night ; Mademoiselle...

Solicitor- General continued his reply, without bringing it to a conclusion. An affidavit was made in court on this occasion, that two of the persons whose names had been struck...

pa- ralysis on the 26th January, as in a dying state.

to the 17th December. According to the accounts from Graham's Town, the Dutch Emigrants of Natal showed a disposition to depart from their professed submission : Moeke, a...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Parliament had a fit of indolence last night : for the Commons did not muster forty Members, and therefore could not" make a house"; and the Peers were brief._...

which has just broken out in Spain, is confirmed and elucidated by the news of the morning. It began at Alicant, on the 27th January, with a public riot, marked by cries of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The fluctuation in the English Stocks has been about 4 per Cent; Console having touched 97 and 974 on more than one occasion during the last...

COLERIDGE in his Friend complains of a want of becoming diffi- dence in the writers of the age. There is no such thing now-a- days, he say s, as a modest anonymous first attempt...

Tim funeral-orations—not exactly encomiastic—delivered by the European press over the grave of Donna CARLOTTA, recall to mind the equal merits of her two surviving sisters,...

ABERDEEN ON THE RIGHT OF SEARCH. LORD ABERDEEN has rightly described the right of search as "an evil." It is an evil, he says, only to be justified by the great object for...

THE odious spirit of rivalry, that seeks to exalt one man by decrying his neighbour, is not only the opprobrium of shopkeeping, but infects the very pursuit of virtue among us....

Tnouda aggravated by many other grievances, the deficiency of the means of sustenance for the mass of the population is at the bottom of the sufferings and discontent of...

MILITARY ADVENTURES, Simcoe's Military Journal ; a History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps, called the Queen's Rangers, commanded by Lieut.-Col. J. G. Simeon, during the...

THE frequent change of entertainment at the French Plays strikingly contrasts with the sameness of those at our English Theatres. M. ACHARD took his leave of the London public...

AN American journal says of the Governor's message to the Legis- lature of the State of Maryland, "it is a short document, contained in less than three columns of the Baltimore...

IT is said that during the rehearsal of The Duenna, the author was hard to please as to the air of a particular song. The composer made several efforts in vain ; but on the last...

IF not to suffer in silence be any consolation, all classes may enjoy it at the present time. The daily press is ever ready and willing to publish the complaints and misfortunes...

Bonita. The Crock of Gold; a Rural Novel. By MARTIN FARQOHA.R TOPPER, Author of "Proverbial Philosophy." On the Choral Service of the Anglo-Catholic Church. [An historical...

TEE flattering anticipations of improvement of the public taste in orchestral music, in which some sanguine persons indulged on the first establishment of the Promenade Concerts...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE exhibition of modern pictures in this gallery, which opened to public view on Monday last, affords indisputable evidence of the down- ward progress...

Tuesday, Feb. 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Crocker and James. Bath. linendrapers-Rubin auil Co. Wilson Street, Finsbury, preserved provision manufacturers-Cordy aud Wright,...

ARRIVED-At Gravesend, 6th Feb. Nautilus, Thomas; and Dorothy. Whale, from Mauritius; dth. Galatea, Owen ; and Mary Ann. Lock, from the Cape. Off Dover, Helena, Levitt, from...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday Wednes Thurs. - 3 per Cents. Reduced 98 9,3# 98 971 98 34 per Cents Reduced 103 1024 103 103 1034 3 per Cent. Consols...