IF Easter has brought with it the customary suspension of business public and private, it has this year been distinguished by some events, public and personal, that do not occur...

ME MBERS RETURNED. [The following Members have been returned since last week. The only election now pending is that for the county of Leitrim, which is fixed for Mondey.]...

THE birth of the ninth child of Victoria and Albert took place on the 14th, at Buckingham Palace; and was forthwith announced by the discharge of artillery, and by the...

The Easter Monday banquet at the Mansionhouse was this year more distinguished for the foreign. than the native guests who partook of the hospitality of Lord Mayor Finnis. There...

At Liverpool, on Wednessay, Mr. William Brown, the rich merchant who represents South Lancashire, laid the foundation-stone of the Free Library and Museum, a building to be...

Looking at each of the Three Kingdoms separately, and especially comparing Scotland with Ireland, the results of the general election supply one or two useful lessons or hints...

c f ARM—Paris is engaged in celebrating the festival of Easter with all the pomps that are usual in the Roman Catholic Church ; in feting the Russian General Todtleben ; and in...

The Commander-in-chief has issued the following General Order on the qualifications which every Staff-officer must possess in future. "Horse Guards, 8. IV., 9th April 1957. "His...

SATURDAY: The intelligence from Paris shows the very unsettled state of money matters in that capital, which is at present to so great an extent the key to the financial...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTRRNOON. The market for English Securities has been animated all the week, at lower prices. The great and continued drain upon the Bank, and the...

Her Majesty's Theatre opened on Tuesday-, with Donizetti ' s La Favorita, chosen for the first appearance of the now soprano and tenor, Spezia and Giuglini. The excess of...

The Wachs of Alfieri has been played at Paris. This is an addition to the repertory of Madame Ristori, who commenced her series of performances this year with Maria Stuarda,...

THE NEW MINISTERIAL POLICY. TILE old fug of Blue and Yellow has in this instant April deserted "the good old cause "—the Edinburgh Review has ceased to be the organ of the Whig...

" IT appears to be no longer doubtful," says " Justitia," a writer in the Daily News, " that railways are about to be constructed on an extensive scale in Russia. Financiers of...

IF the country is to be literally sold to the grand European Stookjobbers—if the House of Commons is to prove a House of Medio crities incapable of rescuing the country from...

WE have found out through Mr. Letheby that the afflictions of Lazarus are very inconvenient to Dives, and it is the gross inarticulate sense of that moral fact which has induced...

Nor receiving from the State any assistance worth the name in the way of education, our officers are self-educated ; and not being directed in the course of their education,...

Two imperfections always attend on history. In the first place, nobody knows so completely the whole of any series of facts, their causes, relations, ahd consequences, as to...

SHORT PARLIAMENTS OF FIXED DURATION. Rafael, 13th April 1857. Sin—Mr. Freeman, in his letter published in your number of the 4th, advocates the holding of elections at fixed...

SPOTTISWOODE'S TARANTA.SSE JOURNEY THROUGH EASTERN RUSSIA. * A " TABAPTASSE" /13 the vehicle mmon to the country) in which Mr. Spottiswoode made his Russian journey, and such a...

Nimes, exhibits considerable acquirements and abilities, though rather wanting in the qualities essential to fiction, if indeed the author has a thorough apprehension of the...

BOOKS. A Personal Narrative of the Discorery of the North - west Passage; with numerous Incidents of Travel and Adventure during nearly five years' continuous Service in the...

Sin—In a recent notice of the above - work in your columns, I find some errors of statement, for which, (relying upon the old reputation of the Spectator for candour and...

The "errors of statement" which the author of Time and Faith has discovered in the notice of his work published in the Spectator of January 31, arc purely subjective illusions,...

On the 8th April, at Canford Vicarage, the Lady Louisa Ponsonby, of a daughter. On the 8th, in Eaton Square, the Lady Sophia l'ower, of a son. On the 10th. at Dover. the Wife of...

On the 2d March, at Ceylon, Colonel Garvock, Assistant Quartermaster-General, only son of the late Major Garvock, Assistant Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards, to Blanche,...

On the 14th September, killed by accidentally falling down a quartz mine, at Muckleford, Victoria, George King Thornhill, Esq., son of the late Colonel Thornhill, Thirteenth...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 14. WAR 0 MCI:, April 14.—Infantry-43d Regiment of Foot—Capt. C. R. More, from half-pay 7th Foot, to be Capt. vice Billies, who exchanges. FROM...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 14, Partnerships Dissolred. — Dawsons and Gardner and Gardner and Dawson, Birmingham, printers and general factors—Dean and Co. Burnley, masons ;...

Partnerships Dissoleed.-D. and F. Barstow, Bradford, Yorkshire, or elsewhere, grocers-Pilling and Co. Ravvtenstall, Lancashire, confeetioners--Minshall and Co. Oswestry,...

SEASON 1857 - '8, PROGRAMME. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.Pint appearance Of mac e e. PICCOLOMINI On Tres OFF:ILL-Le FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO. Cent. ..re-LA TRAVIATA. BALLET (on both...

THE LIFE OF HANDEL. By VICTOR SCHOELCHER. TM:LINER and Co. 60, Paternoster Itow, Loudon. flONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.— "J SIX PER CENT BONUS—Warrants for the guanuiteed...

CODER THE UnrEDIATE earaOHAOS 07 li_ER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN arrn HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT. Who haS graelously consented to preside at the Giusti isscorert...