THE readers of Parliamentary debates cannot complain of any want of variety in the topics discussed during the week. We have had speeches on Greece—" conversations" on Mexico on...

on Tuesday till half- past twelve ; on Thursday, till one nearly ; on Friday, till half-past eleven. Ou Wednesday, the Houses met only to adjourn. On Thursday, the House of...

the despatch of business. Among other matters, the coal-monopoly was talked Over. It was a question among some of the members, whether the pre- sent high price of coals was...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—We have had a busy week in this place since our last report, and frequent fluctuations; but the Market has shown more firmness latterly, and...

on the body of Lord Graves at the Mason's Arms Tavern, Maddox Street, Hanover Square. His Lords hip has for six weeks lived in lodgings in Hanover Street, from inability to...

subject of the American Tariff. The report states that the majority of the people throughout the United States are hostile to its repeal. Don MIGUEL has, after trying in vain to...

that accounts have reached town of the death of Major-General Stewart, of Garth, Governor of St. Lucia, at Government House in that island, on the 18th day of December last,...

Arrived.—In the River, the Protector, Waugh, sailed from Madras the 4th Oct., front the Cape 1st Dec., and St. Helena the 12th Dec. : also at Liverpool, on the 8th inst., the...

the Almshouse, No. 6, York Street, Westminster, near Buckingham Gate. Her coffin was carried by mistake to No. 7, where lived Dinah Mason, an old woman of ninety-seven, but no...

Bench, on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Bayley pronounced judgment on Alexander, Isaac- son, and Marsden. Mr. Alexander was sentenced to four months' impri- sonment, in Neivgate, for...

COLLECTIVE WISDOM. - REMARK ABLE SAYINGS OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS. MR. O'Coensatei. objected to the abolition of the Viceregal Govern- ment in Ireland, because there were...

NOTWITHSTANDING the determination of his Majesty's Ministers to treat the question of India, the commerce to which, with a few useless and inoperative restrict - ions, has been...

OF this excellent institution — excellent at least ' in its origin and ob- jects—we are and have been sincere, steady, but impartial friends. We utterly despise the...

f ON the 1st of November last, the family of a baronet in the county{ (of Roxburgh, in Scotland, were seized with severe pains in the sto-I mach, accompanied with retching, and...

Fr is especially unfortunate that scruples of delicacy come Upon news- papers on such occasions as to render them of the very worst effect on the public mind. • "It is whispered...

"FLAT, stale, and finprofitable "—Semiramide, Le Carnival de Ve- nise, and their audiences. BLAsis is good, but it is cruel to try her in a character v hich had been filled by...

THERE are few readers in England who are not aware of the im- portant labours of M. CEsix. MOREAU on the trade, commerce, shipping, and finances of this country. In his various...

M. CHABERT AND HIS PERSECUTORS. "Dilly, dilly, dilly, come and be killed; The gentlemen are vacant, and want their noddles 'filled." STItANGE to - say, it would seem that in...

TYTLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. THE third volume of Mr. TYTLER'S excellent History conies down to the death of the First JAMES. The portion of the history of Scotland that...

AT the Harmonists' Society on Thursday, a very excellent new glee, by Sir GEORGE SMART, was sung by Master PHILLIPS, and Messrs. TERRAIL, HORNCASTLE, Goss, and E. TAYLOR. We...

BETWEEN thirty and forty years ago, the new-born po$trof the Germans made their language a popular study amongst us.' When our enthusiasm had burnt itself out, it was discovered...

Trim is not a novel, though it appears in that shape. There is no story ; and though there are many characters, they have as little connection with each other as the figures on...

PICTURES AT THE GALLERY OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. SECOND VIEW. I, Italian Boys. A. MottET ox.—A group of wandering mendicants, cleverly drawn and composed. The colouring is...

WE seldom enter upon the formal discussion of scientific questions in this popular miscellany, although for such a task we possess, in the disinterested cooperation of kind...