'Trim proceedings of Parliament in the second week of the session give birth to a hope which will arise in spite of its frequent disap- pointment, that by degrees the...

and most intelligible that we have had of recent overtures from St. Petersburg to Vienna and their results; but the additions supplied by "the ordinary channels of information "...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Boutin OF Loans. Monday, Feb. 6. Code of Malta ; Statement by the Duke of Newcastle—Pauper Schools; Question and Answer—" Peace or War" ; Lord...

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, Mr. Layard was presented with the freedom of the City of London ; an honour con- ferred on him for his labours in the East. Sir John...

Nornma beyond the ordinary daily exercises of the Queen and the Royal Family has occurred at Windsor this week. The Queen and Prince Al- bert have driven out every day. Amo-ur...

The election of a successor to Sir Robert Inglis as Menai:air for Oxford University took place on Tuesday, and Sir William Heathcote WAS re- turned without opposition. • He was...

Fmaiscn.—" The Minister of Russia left Paris on Monday." Such was the brief announcement of the departure of M. Kisseleff, in the Moniteur of Tuesday. M. Kisseleff had then...

Herr Sommer gave a "monster concert" in the Exhibition building on Monday. The Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of St. Germans were present. ,The audience numbered some 14,000....

Captain Craigie's success in raising Coast Guard volunteers has been good on the whole. Up to the end of last week, 800 out of the 1500 re- quired had been enrolled. The crews...

A Cabinet Council held at the Foreign Office on Saturday, arid attended by all the Ministers, sat nearly five hours. A second Cabinet Council sat on 'Wednesday, for three hours....

The Earl of Crsitastmarc stated that the counter-project of the Emperor of Russia was not taken to Vienna by Count Orloff, but had been pre- vionsly forwarded by the Austrian...

On the 26th January, at Valetta, Malta, the Wife of Richard Cornwall Legh, Esq., Assistant-Secretary to Government, of a daughter. On the 31st, at Ickleford House, near...

Guy .Mannering, although a hybrid sort of affair, produced by the con- version of admirable romance into commonplace melodrama, has been brought out at the Haymarket in such...

the entire part of the Prophet was sustained by Signor Belletti ; who showed that he had studied it deeply, and had now thoroughly mastered it both in a dramatic and a musical...

of classical pianoforte music, at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Tuesday evening. Mr. Bennett was the originator of this description of concert ; but, though he has many...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. On Monday, Government Securities gave strong indications that the buoyancy so conspicuous at the - close of last. week would be further aug-...

two %diet recommended by Dr; Elliotson to public beneficence; Mr. Nonage of 67, Upper Thames Street, acknowledges the kind response" made by many of our readers. We heartily...

men from the:Grenadier, Coldatream, and -. Scoots Fusilier Guaide, forming in the aggregate brigade of 2500, to hold themselves in readiness to embark for Constantinople on ,...

this morning. The papers laid before Parliament last night com- prise six letters,-by Count. Nesselrode, Baron Brunnow, and by Lord Clarendon to the Baron and to Sir IIamilton...

WAR AND REFORM. WHAT is a political opportunity? What is that combination of cir- cumstances which renders one time fit and another time unfit for the application of remedies...

her design of coming to England this season, and mtends for the present to remain at Dresden. Apprehension of the impending war is assigned as_ the reason for her change of...

TO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11. House of Commons. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Title. Assessed Taxes Act Amendment, Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund charges Valuation of...

more abused than the cuckoo cry against " centralization." To concentrate authority, appears to be re- garded by a certain class of political lecturers, at the present time, as...

Loa]) HARDWICKE performed a public service in following up the effort of Lord Grey to fasten attention upon the great difficulty which threatens to mar the efficiency of the...

attempts on the part of the "High Church" section in Convocation, to set on foot active measures for recovering legislative and administrative authority to that body as the...

IN makin g his unstudied vindication before the House of Com- mons on i'Vednesday, Mr. Hudson stated some truths and imper- sonated other truths. There were indeed passages in...

UNIVERSITY REFORM: TEE DISSENTERS. Canzbeitcta, 31st Jaattary 1854. Sun — As a Dissenter, it was with great 'satisfaction that I observed the liberal tone of "A Resident...

Sin—Two articles have appeared in your influential paper advocating the merits of M. Haug, as the original proposer of the expedition to explore Northern Australia from the...

NUMBERS in this country who know little of Italian affairs, and meddle not at all in politics, will feel a shadow of regret at learning the death of Silvio Perna°. It has been...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. stitution portraits with fancy names when portraits with the sitters' names are excluded. Mr. Buckner's No. 233 is as near an approach to the actual...

An artist from whose independent thought and keen sense of beauty we had felt warranted in anticipating results of unusual excellence, Mr. Walter Howell Deverell, died on the 2d...

THE Mount OF THE DANUBE IN SEPTEMBEIL.—On the morning follow- ing our departure from 'Varna, we anchored at about a mile from the mouth of the Danube. There being only six feet...

2tst of January, have taken place on the reserved list, consequent on the removal of Ad- miral J. Carthew to that list, with a pension—Vice-Admiral F. Temple, on the reserved...

WAR-OFFICE, Feb. 7.-17th Light Dragoons — hi aj.-Gen. Sir J. M. Wallace to be Col. vice Maj.-Gen. T. W. Taylor, C.B. dec. 16th Regiment of Foot—Maj.-Gen. T. E. Napier. C.B. to...

BRITISH FUNDS (Closing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Trednes. Than. 3 per Cent Consols 924 941 911 911 911 Ditto for Account 924 924 911 911 911 3 per Cents Reduced 934...

Tuesday, February 7. PAserNiasines DISSOLVED.—Hodges and Dalton, Duke Street, Ade1phi, porter- merchants — Hammond and Kenwright, Liverpool. carvers—Bell and Tompkin,...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the cake of J esus CI,T_ TO 71 Na. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. DIITSUIA.. the West, in the City of London ; and Published hY . 1 1...

COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY. * THE " Cours de Philosophie Positive" is at once a compendious cyclopmdia of science and an exhibition of scientific method. It defines rigorously...

FEBRUARY 11, 1854.

As the omniverous appetite of the densely-packed Celestials would make short work of game in China proper, it may be said that we - have now narratives of British sporting...

a nation upon the progress of the world is so obvious as to interest from association alone, let its acts and actors be treated how they may, every history ought to illustrate...

for several works on the principles and practice of painting; and to the public at large for various prints after paintings that would for their character and homely truth have...

Booxs. The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829: with a View of the Present State of Affairs in the East. By Colonel Chesney, RA., D.C.L., F.R.S., Author of "The Expedition...