auccEssrorr of small rebuffs exposes the condition of extreme weakness which the Russell Ministry has at length attained. Their troubles began with the week. On going into...

of which the Gorham dispute is the proximate cause, is attended by an enlargement also of the spirit which animates the several parties. The movement is far from being confined...

of its own danger, and tends more and more to place the " Republican " rulers in a position identical with that of Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe. It is prosecuting...

false position at the (lege of gaga , Hope: .4 s ,gaveu everything — the hireling of the convicts, 16 fattire Aransmis- sion of convicts, the immigration of military...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. HOUSE OP LORDS. Thursday, April 11. The - Lord Chancellor being absent from illness, Lord Campbell on the 'Woolsack as Speaker—The Convicts Bill...

Fifteenth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons. II. Northern and Eastern Dis- trict. IV. Scotland. (Presented by command.) By a recent arrangement, Mr. Frederick nil 1 has been...

Forty-six clergymen of Hull, Beverley, and other parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, have "embraced an opportunity, under the present painful not to say alarming crisis of...

Saturday ; all enjoying good health. The Queen gave an audience on Tuesday to Lord Seymour ; who kissed hands on receiving the appointment of Chief Commissioner of Woods and...

The East India Directors have chosen Mr. John Shepherd as their Chairman, and Sir James Weir Hogg as Deputy Chairman, for the en- suing year. The Oriental Club gave a banquet...

FEANCE.—The Minister of Finance has presented to the Assembly his budget for 1851, in a speech unusually clear, and free from financial "effect." The leading features of his...

The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided at a meeting- on Monday - to peti- tion Parliament against the abolition of the Viceroyalty. The meet- ing was numerously but not very...

A large and earnest meeting was held at Edinburgh on Tuesday night, in flutherance of the principles promulgated in the manifesto issued fel= Edinburgh, some time since, on the...

, The Marquis d'Azeglio has returned to London from Italy, to resume his official duties as Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires.—Court Circular. The Duke of Wellington, as...

In the House of Commons last night, Lord Josef litreaatz moved the resolution of which he had given notice as follows- " That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into...

of the educe - tional plans propounded by the Lancashire Public Schools Association, and the necessity for carrying them out by a national enactment. Mr. John O'Connell has...

few days in the country before resuming his duties. The Marquis of Granby, following the Belvoir hounds on Saturday, charged a river at full speed "where it was impossible any...

with accounts two days later ; but they contain no important news.

the late Cam- bridge Assizes of murdering Susan Lucas, the wife of Miss, were executed this morning, before an enormous concourse of people.

the Palace of the Conseil d'Etat in Paris, on Wednesday night. M. Thiers portrayed the existing situation in gloomy colours, and then stated that he was ready to take upon...

SINCE EEC/LANGE, FR/DAT AFTERNOON. The English Funds were slightly depressed by the occurrence of settling- day, a large quantity of Stock being in the hands of weak holders :...

The House of Commons has concluded the tenth week of its actual sittings, and during that period Ministers have sustained four absolute defeats, and one so closely bordering on...

the Second, and' exhibiting magnanimous disinterestedness on the part of a poor cousin in - favour of his wealthy relatives, and the generous love of a lady who re- wards him...

the comedy season has commenced; and Mademoiselle Denain and M. Samson,. the latter celebrated equally as an author and actor, are the present' "stars." The acting of these...

country, anal - something of the kind may be said with respect to Mr. Bernard's new piece of .774c Passing Cloud, at Drury Lane ; which is not half so bad as the severer critics...

that Mr. Stirling Coyne's version of The Vicar of Wakefield, just produced at the -Haymarket, is greatly superior to the one written by Mr. Tom Taylor and previously brought out...

week. On Tuesday there was llossini's masterpiece, Ii Barbiere di Siviglia the .finest specimen extant of the pure opera buffs; and on Thursday the superb Don Giovanni. They...

The third Philharmonic concert, on Monday, was excellent as 'to the instrumental music; the vocal portion was worse than indifferent. In the irustrumentalrdepartment, indeed,...

Monday, April 15. Stamp Duties Bill: -Committee. Security for Advances (Ireland) Bill: Second. reading. Registration of Deeds (Ireland) Bill: Committee. Other Bills to be...

. LONDON AND TICE .E 1 :114NE•98 TH1jUO1. IT is the season in London the Parliament is in tie midst of ;bnsi nese, the Opera has attained its prime, and the Metry Ilia It is a...

THEE scandals among the clergy, the controversies, the divided. agitations7-wbat , sire they' init signs of - seine internal uneasiness, some conscious want, some -"aching...

AmoNG the most creditable of iOra Grey's public satilmfin4tonte• time, is his retraetation freni . the false ••position tosikardlilthetiOaps• of Good Hope :...

lodgement of the national pictures is a subject of great magnitude, a detail in that broad question presses 'with tnote immediate in*eney - than all the rest: We , notitte:semet...

Sin—Agitation is so seldom successful unless based on prejudice and up. pealing to passions, that it is hopeless to expect any enthusiasm in so cora- mon-sense a cause as a...

THE NEW STAMP-DUTIF.S. . April 10, 1850. Sin—The grievance of which your correspondent "C. S.' from Idanches, ter complains, namely, the existence of a stamp-duty of 11. 15s....

" WitAr is the use of incendiary fires P" asks the rationalist: "why, because a poor man is made poorer, in the reduction of wages, should lie destroy the _property of others ;...

Sur—The suggestion of your corm dent "C. S." relative to the "lease for a year" duty has been anticipated by:the new bill. Thatduty is thereby repealed. There is, however, : one...

CATHCA.HT ON THE RUSSIAN AND GERMAN CA.MPAIGNS 'OF 1812 AND 1813. 4 Ix 1812, Colonel Cathcart, then in his nineteenth year, and a Lieu- tenant of Dragoons, accompanied his...

IN ENGLAND AND EUROPE. * Anotrr the (era of the Reform Bill and for some time later, a class of doctrinaires in this country were rather unduly smitten with the charms of...

A. Mason, the inventor of the hygrometer which bears his name, was ordered M Nice, by Sir James Clark, for a pulmonary affection. During the, journey, a relation was attacked 11...

mg? else efiiihis him to sustain theinferest Of his fic on,s, no ding a rapidity of production almost amounting t , ,o novlgrhiding : he has ch4 . en an extensive phase of...

The History of the Papal States, from their Origin to the Present Day. By the Reverend John. Miley, D.D., Author of Rome under Pagan- ism and the Popes." In three volumes....

Blackbnrn, of a son. On the 2d April, atEwell, the Wife of the Bev. Sir George L. Glyn, of a soa. On the 4th, at Eveiton, near Liverpool, the Lady of the Rev. J. idacnaught, of...

• PORTRAIT OF LAYARD AFTER PHILLIPS. * .Mv. Henry W. Phillips has produced a striking and animated like- ness of a remarkable man. Mr. Layard will be ever memorable as the man...

Wan-ernes, April I2.-5th Regt. of Drag. Guards-G. S. Bundand, Gent. babe Cornet, by purchase, vies Bridge, appointed to the let Drag. Guards. 4th Light. Drags.-l'. W. Martin,...

Psarzreasnies Dissotre.O.-W. and 'W.' H. Wood, liorncantle,..Lhicolnsbire, mercers-Edwards and Roghes. Ave Jiaria Lane, buolifellers*eleh ahd Co.Tipton , ironmasters; as far as...

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