RESPECTING the measure of the most immediate interest, the alteration of the Sugar-duties, nothing more definite has tran- spired this week, except that Lord John Russell has...

more newly-appointed Members have to drop in; and the Government has experienced quite as little effectual opposition as it could have anticipated. The race has been almost...

BUSLNESS OF THE SESSION. On Monday, the following newly-elected Ministers took the oaths and their seats in the House of Commons: Lord John Russell, Lord Palmers- ton, Sir...

which we have received fail to enlighten us on the subject, and we only recur to it in order to remind Ministers of an unaccomplished duty in that quarter. When Lord Cathcart...

towards the semi-civilized South, laughed to see the one postilion of a diligence turn a corner with his intractable team ; the "wheelers" perhaps three abreast and the "leaders...

fore the citizens of the great Democracy begin to discover the inconvenience of having to provide for the expenses. Two salu- tary results promise to flow from that feeling :...

SOUTHAMPTON and its waters presented a gay appearance on Wednesday, in honour of the Queen's visit to Sea Lock, in the Itchen estuary, to witness the mode of salmon-fishing...

The Tower Hamlets election took place on Saturday, at Stepney Green. The Universal Suffrage party issued a placard, intimating that as the pre- sent Parliament could not be of...

Sir George Grey was again elected for Devonport, Captain F. Berkeley for Gloucester, Mr. William Francis Cowper for Hertford, Lord Marcus Hill for Evesham, Mr. Jervis for...

The Edinburgh election did not terminate without a contest. Sir Cal- ling Eardley Smith accepted the invitation of the Free Church people and some of the more Anti-Catholic...

The Earl of Besborough, the new Lord-Lieutenant, arrived in Dublin on Thursday last week, and was sworn into office in the usual manner. Mr. Shell was reelected for Dungarvan...

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.—By the royal mail steam-ship Cale- donia, which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday morning, accounts have been received from New York to the 30th June....

Ibrahim Pacha's visit to England terminated yesterday. On Wednesday evening he left London for Portsmouth, travelling by the South-western Railway. On Thursday he partook of the...

take place at Buckingham Palace on Saturday next ; upon which occasion her Majesty will give a grand dinner and an evening party.—Morning Herald. Colonel Anson was reelected...

has published a general amnesty for all political offenders since 1836 to the present time.— Venice Gazette, July 3.

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Parliamentary business last night was of minor interest. In the House of Lords, the Earl of DeLnousto moved the resolutions giving effect to the Railway...

request, that he would suspend the Repeal agitation for a year, in order to form an Irish party, for the purpose of exacting the fulfilment of Sir Robert Peel's promise—equality...

greater part of Ogden's iron-foundery was destroyed ; and yesterday mormng the warehouse de- partment of the Apothecaries Hall was burnt down.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTItaNOON. Some speculative sales, made in anticipation of the effect to be produced by the absorption of capital for Railway purposes consequent upon...

THE MAIN POINTS OF THE SUGAR SETTLEMENT. Noz only for those who are charged with an active share in the - Sugar settlement, but also for those who will shortly have to form. a...

ST. JAKE8'S. To those who are accustomed to live through a series almost uninterrup- ted of dramatic spectacles, it is extremely difficult to preserve a vivid re- collection of...

Asatyzn—At Gravesend, 10th July, Abberton, 'Purchase, from Port Philip ; 19th, Pestonjee Bomanjee, Austin, from Hobart Town ; Union, Todd, from Launceston; - Equestrian,...

A GENERAL Poor-law movement in all the Three Kingdoms seems to be threatened. Mr. Hume has appeared in a novercha- meter, as an opponent of the New Poor-law system. It is a...

OUR support for the Cobden Testimonial has been asked, and we are not disposed to withhold it; since we respect the disinterested zeal of those who ask, and fully recognize the...

Tne new Whig Ministry labours under the defect of being with- out Mr. Vernon Smith. There was a general notion that he had been merely left out; but he has taken the pains to...

LETTER III. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. The third article of the Code is—" Provided that no person shall be ex- empted from criminal responsibility by reason of any...

Poxmcs, Revelations of Austria. By M. Koubrakiewlez, Ex-Austrian Functionary. Edited by the Author of "Revelations of Russia," "Eastern Europe," &c. &c. In two volumes Newby....

"AT the sea-bathing quarter of Walmer during the autumn of last year," Dlr. Gleig met the officers of the Thirteenth, the European regiment which Sir Robert Sale commanded...

tlrucumsTAsress rendering change of air desirable for some members o his family, Mr. Murdoch departed for Jersey in the autumn of 1843. and remained there six months. In the...

Bowes. Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan; with an Account of the Seizure and Defsuip of Jellallabad. By the Reverend G. R. Gleig, M.A., Principal Chaplets to the Forces. (Murray's...

On the 6th July, the Wife of the Rev. George Monnington, of Bitteawell Vicarage, Leicestershire, of a son. On the 9th, at Clifton House, near Exeter, the Lady of Major...

MAYERBEER'S HUGUENOTS AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. The Brussels Opera troupe commenced their second season in Lon- don, on Wednesday, with The Huguenots. The great elaboration of...

Tuesday, July 14. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Kenworthy and Co. Stalybridge, corn-dealers-Sidebottom and Ridgway, New Mills. Derbyshire, cotton-spinners-Gilbert and Fargher,...

BRITISH FUND per Cent Consoh Ditto for Account.. ...... 3 per Cents Reduced . 37 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 irer Cent . India Stock, 101 Exchequer Bills, 1}d....