TEE exact amount of Sir Charles Wood's surplus, and the use he -means to make of it, are still secrets. His financial revelation has been put off till next week. It was...

Napoleon has taken this rebuff with a dignified im- erturbability that tends to strengthen the public feeling in his favour. He has declined the proposed extra-legislative...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE or LORDS. Monday, Feb. 10. Lord Shaftesbury's Services ; Address to the Crown — Post - office Malcontents; Measor's case of grievance...

At a meeting of the Common Council, on Tuesday, a report was brought up by Mr. Deputy Hale for sealing a deed of trust respecting an addi- tional gift of 1000 guineas by Mr....

THE Queen held a Court and Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Tues- day. At the Council, her Majesty pricked the list of Sheriffs for the counties of England and Wales. At the...

Two of the Provincial elections have taken place. At Windsor, Mr. Ilatchell went through a formal reelection, on his promotion from the office of Solicitor-General to that of...

FRANCE.—The report of the Committee on the Dotation Bill—adverse to the demand, and of decidedly Anti-Imperialist policy—was presented to the Assembly, by M. Piscatory, on...

it is understood that Mr. Stuart Knox will be returned for Dungannon_ without opposition, in room of Lord Northland. The Tablet has the following statement in reference to the...

The nomination of the two candidates to represent the Falkirk district of Burghs took place on Tuesday, with little political excitement ; and the show of hands was in favour of...

The Gazette announces that the Queen will hold levees, at St. James's - Palace, on Wednesday the 26th instant, Thursday the 6th March, and Wednesday the 26th March; and a...

of the poll yesterday, the numbers polled were for Mr. Barrow, 1344; for Lord Newark, 1325; majority fox Mr. Barrow, 19—other accounts make it 14. In the last contest, between...

no great Par- liamentary importance, will create some interest out of doors : the Attorney- General is preparing a bill to amend the Patent-laws ; and Government is- to...

SATURDAY. The preliminary debate in the House of Commons on the Papal ag- gression is at length finished : the Premier last night obtained leave to bring in his bill to prevent...

from Bombay of the 17th January. The points of interest are, that Sir Charles Napier had arrived at Bombay, and would leave it by the next steamer, on. the 3d instant ; that the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Money has become much scarcer. In the early part of the week it was taken on call in Lombard Street at 2t per cent; today, 4 per cent has been...

arrangements for Her Majesty's Theatre. It promises a brilliant season. The list of vo- cal performers contains all the distinguished members of last year's com- pany, with...

The activity of last week has been balanced by a total absence of novelty in the week just terminated. However, official announcements tell us that we may expect a version of...

MINORITY IN FAVOUR OF SIR. DISRAELI'S MOTION. Acland, Sir T. Bt. Bolder), Capt. H. Clive, Henry Bayley Buncombe, Capt. A. Arlderley, Chas. B. Booker, T. W. Cobbold, John C....

MINORITY AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF THE DILL. Anstey, T. C. Goold, W. Arundel, Earl of Grace, 0. 0. J. Blake, M. Grattan, Ii. Blewitt, it. .1. Greene, J. Bri g ht, J....

PRESENT POSITION OF THE ANTI-PAPAL LEGISLATION. WE have got hold of the real Simon Pure at last—the measure which, after much dubiety in picking and choosing, Ministers have...

- WHATEVER the verdict of the Jury may be in the trial of the London Docks Company for evading the Customs, that decision will not dispose of a question which still more...

DISEAE - LI has once more dashed off a policy as he would a novel, and has attained so much success as to show what he might do if he could cure himself of trusting to hasty...

IT is an instructive fact, that a substantial part of the case be- tween the English Premier and the Roman Pope turns upon the most trivial incident of gossip. The case on the...

" ItsricE," as technical retributive law is sometimes called, pro- ceeds in great part upon a sort of inverse morality. The kindly sarcasm of Socrates, when his wife was...

OF all deluded creatures, the British Lion is the one most misled: Not that he is without faculties : •for all his illusions on the sub- ject of the French nation, divine right...

MEMBERS vindicate their freedom by wearing their hats, rushing rather than walking, making strange noises, and other assertions of the right to be ill-mannered ; but they are...

SIR — I see in your last number a letter from a young gentleman in statu pupillari, signing himself "D.," and attacking somewhat fiercely my last letter, as "illo gical,"...

THE LEXINGTON P.IPERS. • ROBERT Surrox, the second and last Lord Lexington, was born in 1661, and was bred to arms, but on the Revolution abandoned war for diplomacy. Having...

attractive in itself, for an inge- nious framework, variety of story, and a picture of rustic and urban everyday life, such as we scarcely meet elsewhere in ancient writers...

Tins work may be called an economico-agricultural romance ; combining action, discourse, travels, discussion touching prices, reclamation of wastes, emigration to the Colonies,...

a pedestrian tourbylir. Collins in Cornwall, a county to which railways have not yet pene- trated. Leaving Plymouth behind him, the author, and his artist friend Mr. Brandling,...

BOORS. A Year on the Punjaub Frontier, in 1848-49. By Major Herbert B. Edwardes, C.B., H.E.I.C.S. In two volumes. Discourses on Some of the most Difficult Texts of Scripture....

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. EXPECTATION has been raised high, and much talk has been indulged in, concerning the efforts to be made by our artists for the present year. And the...

Wen-onus, Feb. 14.-7th Regt. Drag. Guards-A. R. G. Costello, Gent, to be Cornet by purchase, vice Fftench, who retires. 1st Drags-St. J. W. C. Charlton, Gent, to be Cornet by...

On the 6th February, at Hartlebury Castle,', the Lady of the Rev. Edward Win- nington Ingram, of a daughter. On the 6th, at Bamby Moor, Notts, the Lady of W. I'. Wastemeys,...

Tuesday, February 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Leifehild and Blaxland, Moorgate Street, auctioneers - Oakes and Co. Austinfriars ; as far as regards It. P. Dalgairns-Gent and...

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week eliding on Saturday last : the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths...

BRITISH FUND S. S per Cent Consols Ditto for Account Spar Cents Reduced 91 per Cents Sigurd. --- 961 90 , I 9 9 7 0 i (Closing Monday. 97 961 97 981 Pries% Tuesday. )...