THE week began with an unusual stir—with reports of meetings among leading Anti-Ministerialists, and rumours that Sir Robert Peel would lie out of office by this present...

"Gregory the Sixteenth," has died, somewhat sud- denly; and the College of Cardinals is thrown into the agony of an election. The usual difficulty of choice seems likely to be...

Tim Imes Comiciox Ban. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day for the second reading of the Preservation of Life (Ireland) Bill having been read, Sir WILLIAM...

performed with unusual privacy ; thus stripping it of that theatrical display which has made punishment a pre- mium to such crimes. But it almost looked as if Ministers were...

their General on the Texan frontier is hammed in by superior fonds, and hiAvampplies: - ard cut off. Meanwhile, their volunteers desert, and libealk of raising an army of forty...

TEE Queen continues in retirement; so the 'courtly incidents of the week are limited to the movements of Prince Albert and the visits paid to her Majesty by the Dutchess of...

A dopy of the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade on the Report of the Railway Gauge Commissioners, was submitted this meek to Parliament. Their...

The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law held its first public westing on Saturday; Lord Brougham, President of the Society, in the chair. The Dukes of Cleveland and...

Ascot race week commenced most auspiciously, both as regards weather and attractiveness of programme. A sporting authority says- " Ascot never offered so brilliant a series of...

Captain M'Clintock Bunbury, R.N., the nephew of the late Mr. Bun bury, is the Conservative Candidate for Carlow. At the weekly Repeal meeting, on Monday, a letter was read from...

The Commissioners for General Purposes under the Property and In- come-tax Act, for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire, had under considers tion, at their meeting on Thursday,...

Fittatez.—The trial of Lecomte commenced on Thursday the 4th, before the Court of Peers at Paris, and terminated on the following afternoon. Two hundred and thirty-two Peers...

. Ibrahim Paella did not leave Portsmouth till Monday mo rning. Saturday, he visited the Clarence Dockyard; expressing unbounded delight . Ibrahim Paella did not leave...

to Germany. The Times understands that the names of the young Princess are to be "Helena Augusta Victoria." The Dutchess of Orleans, a Protestant, and a near relative of Prince...

down. on Thursday. The loss is estimated at 20,0001..

The new ballet of Lalla Rookh gives signs of a deeper plunge into the treasury than any work of the kind which we have seen for some time. Gorgeous silk dresses, gilded banners,...

the 1st instant thus —" The panic has become universal. The Funds have fallen a further 10 per cent; 15 per cent within a fortnight." Accounts from Madrid to the 6th instant,...

SATURDAY NIGHT. At two o'clock this morning, the Lords resolved to go into Committee on the Corn Bill; not then, but on Monday; Earl Stanhope's "six months" amendment having...

PEEL OUT OF OFFICE. TRIUMPHANT revenge for the Country party! still more tritunph for the place-hunters expeotant, and all the enemies whatsoever of Robert Peell The Corn Bill...

Broca Bic:murex, FRIDAY Armarroott. The aspect of domestic politics has operated unfavourably upon prices, and the decline at one time was 1 per cent n. our last quotations....

ARRIVED —At Gravesend, 9th June, True Briton, Consitt, from Madras; 10th, Der Went, M'Pherson ; and Winchester, Milligan, from Van Diemen's Land ; Steward. Salmon, from Port...

THE affirmation of the principle of the Corn-law Bill by so large a majority of the Lords, awakened a general feeling of satisfac- tion in the public mind. As the phrase is, men...

IF Bentham had lived to see these days, he would have been glad: we mean, he ought to have been glad ; for that really great man had his own share of the exigeance of original...

Thu Minute of the Board of Trade on the Report of the Gauge Commissioners is a mere evasion. The Board of Trade—or its - Railway Committee or Department—are an administrative...

MENTAL SCIENCE, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive : being a connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. By John...

AMERICAN COLONIES. Mn. MUSGRAVE, whose colonial life as a clergyman is narrated in this volume, was, by dint of books on geography, early smitten with " ro- mantic ideas...

"Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo I " The "garments" may be a little different, the hair may be dyed and other means of disguise resorted .to, but the material is of the...

From June 414 to June 1 1th. Booms. The Ddbutante; or the London Season. By Mrs. Gore, Author. of " Mothers and Daughters," &c. In three volumes. The Lives of Twelve Eminent...

Wha-ornez, June 9.-4th Light Drags.-Lient. R. Portal to be Capt. by purchase vice Megan, who retires ; Cornet H. D. Slade to be Lieut, by purchase, vice Portal ; C • Brandneth,...

On the 4th Jane, at the Deartely, the Lady of the Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford, of a daughter, atm - born. On the 4th, at Ballethin Dense, Perthshire, the Lady of Capt. R....

7'nestlay, June 9. vairmnrassups DISSOLVED. W. L. and J. W. Lewis, Stroud, mercers-Kilvert and Evans, Bath, surgeons-Smith, Elder, and Co. Coriffith, booksellers-Nicklin and...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Alabama (Sterling) a p, Ct. -..- Massachusetts (Sterling). ..5 p. Ct. Austrian 5 - -- Merriam...