this week. The French Ministers have defeated the united opposition of GUIZOT, THIERS, BARROT, LAFFITTE, and BERRYKR. on the ques- tion of an additional grant of four millions...

what has been done since its commencement, and what remains to be accomplished before its close. Parliament met on the 15th of November, and sat till the 23d of December 1837;...

BOTH Houses of Parliament adjourned on Wednesday, for the Easter holydays; the Lords to Friday the 27th, the Commons to Wednesday the 25th of this month. Those—if there be ang-...

parations of the Porte. It is expected that the Sultan will attack the forces of MEHEMET Ant in Syria, contrary to the advice of the Ambassadors of all the Great Powers. In the...

States has been received during the week. The British troops, commanded by Colonel JOHN MAITLAND of the Thirty- second Regiment, have sustained some smart skirmishes ; an offi-...

Re- presentative Chamber of the Cortes had sanctioned the Ministe- rial bill for a loan or five millions sterling, by a majority 120 to 6. Part of the security for the loan was...

Lisbon to the 3d of this month. The Queen is again in difficulty with her Ministry ; and, regardless of the strong protestations of the Ultra party in the Cortes, has dismissed...

25th of February, those colonies were in an unsettled state, and the planters very irritable. The Mayor and Council of King- ston in Jamaica had refused permission to Captain...

In the House of Peers, on Monday, Lord DENMAN presented a peti- tion for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship ; and took the oppor- tunity of reiterating the opinion he had...

A meeting of Liberals r,.sident in the borough of Alarylehone was held on Tuesday evi :deg, fur the purpose of establishing a " Reform and Registry Association." The main object...

Registrar to the Senate of the London University. The aw- ',ointment is a good one, with a salary of 600/. a year. At a Court of East India Director, held on Thursday, Sir...

Tut: Queen, accompanied7by the Duteltess of K' 'it, Baroness Lebzeu, Loud Falkland, Colonel Welnyss, Miss Cavendish, and Mr. Rids, took a lung ride oil horseback on Monday, in...

tied on a charge of causing the death of Mary Warner, by starvation sled cruel treatment. He was found guilty of" manslaughter." Robert Miers was convicted of arson. His trial...

A good deal of attention has been drawn to the conviction, at the Cork Ass:zes, of James Burke, a Catholic priest in the county of Cork, and three men named Crean, for a...

The Duke of Norfolk has sold the Worksop estate and mansion to the Duke of Newcastle, for 370,000/. ; the income of the property just *weeds 10,000/. a year, and the value of...

The Manchester Guardian has a strange story of a woman, in seventeen years has passed for a man, being married, and having fi e several years carried on the business of a...

and are entirely absorbed in stockjobbing, and adds this piece of ad-. vice—" Become rich, but take care not to be hanged." Laffitte's bank in Paris seems to be a thriving...

been appointed Inspector-General of the Irish Constabulary, in the place of Colonel Shaw Kennedy, resigned. Mr. Costelloe's appointment is Clerk of the Rules in the Queen's...

the HOW Brighton, Rue de Rivoli. The Duke of Wellington has, we are assured, consented to conduct the new military commission, to which the success of the late motions of Lord...

of the coronation. All the "ceremonies that have heretofore taken place in Westminster Hall" are to be dispensed with ; and " such part only of the solemnity and ceremony as is...

become of a large sum of money, subscribed thirty years ago for the erection of a monument to Nelson? The amount subscribed, he sap, w ig "many thousands."

STOCK EXCHANGE, THURSDAY AFTERNOO.,. The Consol Itiarket has improved about A per cent. ; the price having reached 901 on Tuesday, when the settlement of the Account caused a...

suspended in St. Lucia by Colonel BUNBURT, are to be reinstated; instructions to that effect having been sent out by Lord GLENELG ; also that St. Lucia has been brought within...

last night, st his residence in Pall Mall. He took cold in the City, on the 5th instant ; inflammation of the windpipe followed ; and yesterday Me, Laurence performed the...

An article in the Courier solicits, or rather " challenges," our atten- tion. In case we should fail of doing it justice in other respects, we shall at least let it tell its own...

given to Sir Ite. bert Peel on the 12th of May, by the Conservative Members of tiee House of Commons. It is a very few days since the design was erns " mentioned, and already...

SATURDAY. Letters from Bayonne, received this morning, mention a defeat of the Carlists by the Queen of Spain's troops at Ondoneda. The num- ber of killed was considerable, and...

by the municipal authorities in New York. An inquiry has been made into the conduct of the Phoenix Bank, one of the principal banks in New York ; which has disclosed a series...

On the Elth inst., the Countess of GUILDFORD, or a daughter. On the 701 inst., at the Craig, llownees, Windermere, the Lady of Sir THOMAS SABINE PASLRY, liart., or a SOIL On the...

MR. BCRI'011D could not have catered better Or the amusement of the holyday visiters to his panorama, than by giving them a peep at the Chinese. Unless it were a view in the...

with divers novelties to attract the Easter holyday-folk. The Haymarket, which has been newly decorated, commences its season with a numerous company for the performance of...

Its producing the Two Foscari for his benefit, MACREADY has con- nected the name of BYRON with the stage by another link : we are not sorry it is the last. Lord BYRON'S...

TO THE ED/TOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, April in. MA. g la —Your article on the Copyright Bill, in hat number, is the nearest ,ap. .1 I have seen to a reasonable view of the...

WHAT IS LORI) DURHAM'S REAL CHARACTER? Tit I., test i igence received from Canada or concerning it, is of a . kind to augment the iliterest :ittaehed to Lord DURHAM . 3 !MS.....

IT is seldom that a Minister fails to discover something "highly satisfactory" either in the actual or prospective condition of country whose affairs are committed to his...

SIR HENRY PARNELL presents the most conspicuous instance in recent times of the break-down of a public man who had once main- tained high character for political honesty. And...

Ir on a subject of no very immediate necessity—where a pro- posel change is contrary to the practice of all civilized nations, its public good or evil results vary doubtful, and...

CONTAINING much that is of an every-day or of a trivial nature these volumes are at the same time a valuable addition to class of works which throw a light upon life and man....

MetliGif, of Sir William Knienon, Bart. G.C. II., Keeper of the Privy pu rse Z4 i the Rehm of his Majesty George the Fourth. [nein hug his Correipowlence4 many tiktimptished...

of which he had no chance to hear a syllable from Dr. M‘Leod. When the Se- cond Report was prepared, there were twelve endowed and fourteen unendowed churches in Glasgow...

b. MANTILL was a Brighton practitioner, with a strong gusto for geological pursuits, and a propensity for being a member of Let the reader suppose centuries to elapse, and...

ANTIQUARIAN researches into ceremonial pageantry, would seem to he the most trivial and unprofitable of that species of labour which many account to be but industrious idleness....

THE current number of the Edinburgh Review challenges atten- tion, not merely as showing that the most extraordinary mind of the present day is yet unimpaired in its powers,...

T HE approach of the Easter holy days has infused some energy actions of the booksellers. Besides the picture of the into the v est world, furnished by the Memoirs of Sir...

Twer portion of the Tunbridge toy in Trafalgar Square appropriated to the national pictures, was opened to the public on Monday. The suite of rooms corresponds with that...