which appear in various quarters of France just now. Marshal Bugeaud shows himself at Lyons and Bourges, in taking his command of the Army of the Alps, and talks most perilous...

it is plain that they will not satisfy public opinion unless they go to the extent of searching out needless expendi- ture and castigating the public accounts of all...

JuDOED by the debates in Parliament, neither Irishmen nor Ministers are yet provided with any plan for Ireland. Clamorous Irishmen only ask for more aid ; though, as in the...

relation of Aus- tria to " Germany," which is in effect a fiat refusal to recognize any federal state, or to acknowledge any federal authority supe- rior to the Government at...

Tus- cany has fled ; and the leading men of Florence, denouncing "Leopold of Austria" as the violater of their constitution, have induced the people to appoint a Provisional...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House or LOADS. Monday, Feb. 12. Conference with the Commons regarding Reso- lutions on the Printing of Bills: Resolutions agreed to, with...

THE Queen and Prince Albert returned to town on Monday; travelling by special train on the Great Western Railway. A Privy Council was held by her Majesty at Buckingham Palace on...

At a meeting of the City Commission of Sewers, on Tuesday, Mr. El- liot moved, " that the Officer of the Board of Health be ordered to make a special report on the effect of...

FRANCE.—Tbe President of the Republic gave a soirée at the Ely - see Nationale on Thursday the 8th, which appears to have been remarkable in its brilliancy. It is well described...

Archbishop M'Hale, and the other Roman Catholic Prelates of Con- naught, have adopted a resolution in conclave, to act immediately on the Pope's recommendation of forming a...

The election for Cardigan Boroughs terminated on Saturday, in the success of the Liberal candidate, by a narrow majority. The votes were— for Mr. Pryee Pryse, 299; for Mr. John...

We understand that the vacant Garter will be conferred upon Earl Spencer.— Titnes. A statement having appeared in a contemporary that Rear-Admiral Dundas, Senior Naval Lord of...

WAR - 02310E, Feb. 16.-6th Drags—Capt. R. D. Barber. from half-pay Unattached, to be Paymaster, vice C. F. Gregg, who retires upon half-pay, as a Lieut. Unattached. 14th Light...

The business tranqoated in the House of Commons last night was of a very multifarious kind. Introducing the Navigation-laws Amendment Bill, Mr. LABOUCIIERE stated that, for the...

at the dis- posal of Government. Thomas Bennan has been arrested at Peterborough, on the charge of being the murderer of Colonel Mahon, in November 1847. In the Dublin...

in the new law which prevents the marriage of a widower with his wife's sister. We have received a number of documents relating to the present state of the question,—namely,...

The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera have issued a prospectus of their arrangements for the approaching season. The list of engagements ex- hibits several remarkable changes...

Republic was proclaimed in Rome on the 8th instant, and the Pope deposed. Paris itself was quite quiet yesterday. The Sheridan packet-ship, from New York on the 27th January,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Fonds have experienced considerable fluctuation. In the course of Wednesday, the Consols reached 941 1 for the March Account,...

IRRESPONSIBILITY OF MINISTERS. Taman is a doctrine coparty politics the prevalence of which at this time exercises a very important influence : it may be said, indeed, to be...

remains as it stood last week. On Monday an advertisement appeared in the Post, merely stating that the prospectus of the season would be issued in a few days. But we:nd, on...

be called a novelty. It is a version of the French piece Un Secret, which has not only been played here by Madame Albert and M. Lemadre, but was made some years ago to wear an...

produced at the St. James's Theatre. It was performed on Monday, and went off so heavily that we scarcely expected its repetition. Nevertheless, in consequence of ite "brilliant...

PERHAPS the most indiscreet thing ever said in Parliament was that explicit licence conveyed to the Repeal agitation, in Sir William Somerville's declaration that "his...

TEE new spirit which animates the Commons in the conduct of business works well—so well as to incite the hope of effecting further improvement. " A Parliamentary Reporter" has...

IT may almost be said that Lord John Russell never gives a rea- son in support of his " opinion "; for he uses that word in the vulgar sense, to mean an impression which is not...

IL—Tan WAR. When Charles Albert entered Lombardy, victory was almost in our hands, the ground was everywhere our own. In Lombardy, the Austrians, terror-struck and demoralized,...

WHEN Charles Lamb made merry with the undertaker's invita- tion to be buried in the best of coffins at the most moderate charges, he overlooked one side of the question. His...

SKr that the accounts from the gold-diggings are exaggerated : what then will happen? Can all the digging and boasting go for nothing, as though the Californian fever were a...

PETTIGREW'S LIFE OF NELSON. * Tins book appears to be based on the papers of the too well known Lady Hamilton ; consisting, in the words of the advertisement, of " upwards of...

professes to give an account of "six months' service in the African blockade," the suggestions it contains about the slave-trade are drawn from a much wider experience. Captain...

story is not altogether the forte of the author of the Falcon Family. Second only to Thackeray, in some respects, as a sketcher of manners and society, his very cleverness as a...

closure of the glottis or entrance to the air-tubes, which produces a difficulty of breathing, or rather a suspension of the breath. It is accompanied by distressful feelings ;...

BOOKS. The Life of 211aximilien Robespierre- ' with Extracts from his unpublished Correspondence. By G. H. Lewes, Author of " Ranthorpe," &c. Sacred Latin Poetry, chiefly...

Tuesday, February 13. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Wall and Thomas, Oxford, plumbers-Mack and Baxter, Liverpool, brokers-Good- man and Watts, Coleman Street, solicitors-Balkwill...

BRITISH INSTITUTION : MODERN ARTISTS. Tuts season, the winter exhibition in Pall Mall is distinguished by a re- markable absence of leading artists: with few exceptions, the...

On the 29th January, at Malta, the Hon. Mrs. Lambert Baynes, of a daughter. On the 7th February, at Langton Hall, Nottinghamshire, Mrs. Richard Coke, of a daughter. On the...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) S per Cent Consols Ditto for Account It per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India S tack, 108 Exchequer...