Libe- ral parties : it is now clear that they rage even more violently among the Tories. According to newspaper report, sentence of excommunication has been pronounced by the...

TirE newest phasis of Anti-Papal legislation is the reluctance with which its most zealous promoters revert to the subject after it has been allowed to lie dormant for a few...

Society, this week, Lord John Russell took occasion to explain, that " it certainly was the agreeable custom of his life to attend annually at these meetings," but that " he had...

suspicions, which have been for some time gaining ground, that the French President's new Minister of the Interior has been plotting with the Legitimists to undermine his...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Horsx or Loans. Monday, May 12. Irish Petitions for protection against foreign Sour, presented by the Earl of Glengall—Church Buildings Act...

saloon at Buckingham Palace on Monday, to a party of nearly four hundred. The foreign visitors at the Palace, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of...

At a meeting of the constituency of the Ward of Langbourne, on Saturday last, Mr. William Cubitt, M.P., was unanimously elected Alderman of the ward, in room of Sir John Key,...

The writ for the Isle of Wight election has been received at Newport, The nomination is to be on Friday the 23d instant ; and the polling, if a poll be demanded, on the Monday...

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Guinness, has been requested by some of the most influential of the city electors to stand for the representation of Dublin in Parliament, at the...

The Commissioners of Woods and Fo.,sts have decided upon widening Park Lane from Oxford Street to Grosvenor Gate, by a breadth of eight feet. The inhabitants, who have...

FnAncz.—There is much fermentation of opinion in Paris on the ques- tion of revising the Constitution. The thing cannot now be done legally in the time that remains to do it...

Some progress was made with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, or rather with an Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, last night. The "Irish Brigade" stood at ease, and allowed the bill to...

building which is being erected in Graceehurch Street for commercial chambers, fell in, and crushed some twelve or fourteen workmen. Three dead bodies have been taken out; and...

room of Mr. Joshua Henry Mackenzie, resigned. The Dublin Freeman's Journal says that Mr. Martin Burke , the dissen- tient juror at the trial of Mr. Gavan Duffy, has written to...

STOCK EICKANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions of the English Stock Market have been unimportant, and the fluctuations insignificant ; the range of variation of Consols...

markable, was on the whole satisfactory. In consequence of the absence of Costa, commanded to preside at the Queen's concert the same evening, the baton was committed to Mr....

'The long-promised theatrical treat, furnishing the first stone for the .erection of the Guild of Literature, was given last night at Devonshire House, to all who chose to pay...

is constantly elicited by the performances at St. James's Theatre —the petty France of our metropolis. Une Bataille de Dames has been followed by Une Chaine, written by M....

qui suit led Dames,. a vaudeville, which made a great sensation at the Montansier some six months ago • and, that he may nail it down not only to British soil but to the...

in the production of novelty. Both are ringing the changes on the old pieces of their repertoires, performed in the old manner. The managers seem to think, in the present influx...

safer be- cause his wife lets every part of the house to every description of foreigner on the strength of the Great Exhibition, and Mrs. Keeley, as the maid of all work, who...

THE BREAK-DOWN OF TUESDAY NIGHT. TzE Financial Reformers have completed the round of quasi- Ministerial abdications : Tuesday night was set down for the time when Mr. Hume...

the Metropolitan Sanitary Association : it has infused a. great number of important ideas into the public mind; it has created the Board of Health, set both City and Sewer...

A LOCUS POKNITEN112E has been afforded to the managers of the railway companies by the verdict of the Coroner's Jury in the But- ton Tunnel case; an opportunity which they would...

DEALING with " the seedy author" question in his happiest vein of satire, Mr. Thackeray has done much to accomplish his own wish, that the miserable literary hack of George the...

Ix persevering with its useful agitation to obtain a better regu- lation of cabs, the Times appears to us not to rest its main reform on the best basis, when it holds out a...

Tire apology offered by the Secretary for the Colonies, in the House of Lords at the close of last week, for obstinate perse- verance in sending convicts to Australia, was...

THE novelty of the facts of all kinds concentrated by the Festival of Industry, cannot fail to throw useful light on many interesting problems, especially such as pertain to the...

Tars time, we will enter the building by the Eastern approach, which is reserved exclusively for foot-passengers. You are pleased to note how much more orderly and beautiful...

LIFE OF EDWARD BAINES. * TICE late Edward Baines, of the Leeds Mercury, and for some time a representative of Leeds, was compared by his friends to Ben- jamin Franklin. He...

of service found Colonel Arthur Cunynghame at Montreal in September 1850, with a seven-weeks leave, which he determined to employ in a survey of the United States from the Lakes...

of the nature of travels, that it seems founded on an excursion in Sweden : it is, however, rather a Swedish sketch-book than anything else. Andersen describes some of the most...

Boors. The Mabry of Normand a and of England. By Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., the Deputy Keeper of her Majesty's Public Records. Volume L introduction to the History of the...

Isaiah ; an Oratorio. The Words chiefly selected from the Scriptures. The Music composed by William Jackson. We close this handsome volume with a high opinion of the author's...

Mr. Poole is an artist to whom, in virtue of our sincere conviction of his genius, we would claim the privilege of venturing a few words of re- monstrance. He has now for...

for four Voices and Chorus. "Let all those that seek Thee" ; Anthem for two Voices and Chorus. " The day is dark and dreary" ; Romance. All composed by J. Lodge Ellerton, Esq....

A copious series of designs in water-colours, the produce of Oriental tours undertaken in 1847 and 1848 by Mr. R. Clive, is on view at Messrs. Dickenson's, of New Bond Street ;...

Among the exhibitions of the season are two of Transatlantic interest. Mr. Catlin's collection of paintings, models, costumes, and implements, of the North American Indians,...

WAR-OFFICE, May 16.-1st Regt. Foot Guards—Lieut. G. Viscount Dupplin to be Capt. by purchase, vice Lord C. P. P. Clinton, who retires; Cornet and Lieut. St. G. Caulfield to be...

Tuesday, May 13. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. — Parkin and Co. Worksop, wine-merchants— Bit- cham and Co. Hackford. Norfolk, tailors — Swarbrick and Tomlinson, Preston,...

On the 7th May, at Kinnoull Cottage, Perth, Lady Charles Kerr, of a son. On the 8th, the Wife of Captain Starkie Bence, of Kentwell Hall, Suffolk, of a daughter. • On the...

BRITISH F U N D 8. (Closing Prices.) .-.... — 5aturd. Monday. Tuaday. Wawa. 3 per Cent Consols 974 97 i 974 97 Ditto for Account 97 971 971 97 9 S per Cents Reduced 981...