" WILLI. will the Lords do ?" is again a prominent political question. Lord Derby's announcement that he will prevent the passing of the Paper-duty Abolition Bill—if he can,...

seems to be imminent ; and at least some of the Powers appear to shrink from the only alternative—a Congress. With regard even to the Conference on Switzerland,—that poor in-...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House OF Loans. Monday, May 14. The Gun-boats ; Lord Hardwicke's Mo- tion—Selling and Hawking Goods on Sunday Bill committed—Consolidation of...

[The following letter, addressed by Mr. Cobden to an intimate friend in Manchester, has been forwarded to the morning journals, and pub- lished by them on Thursday.] " Pails,...

Alarmed by the symptoms of hostility to the repeal of the Paper Duty exhibited in the House of Lords, the leaders of the repeal movement called a meeting in St. Martin's Hall on...

THE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday, and a second on Tuesday. Seiler Gutierrez, Minister from Honduras, and Count Ludolf, Minister from Naples, had audience...

The Cotton Supply Association held its annual meeting at Manchester, on the 11th. Mr. Cheetham presided ; and among the speakers wen! Mr. Bazley, Lord Alfred Churchill, and and...

the Pope, and =heir departure for Italy. It is said they are chiefly Phoenix Club men. 3ome priests are accused of taking an active part as recruiting-sergeants. - • The...

,frastr.—Preceded by Baron Budberg, Russian Minister at Berlin, the Grand Duke Nicolas, arrived in Paris on Monday evening. On Tuesday, he was received at the Tuileries and on...

A deputation, headed by Mr. Milner Gibson, and including a number of distinguished, scientific, naval, and commercial men, waited Kam Lord Palmerston to ask assistance in...

SATURDAY AFTERNOON. A report derived from Paris this morning, via Brussels, states that the Emperor Napoleon had left his capital without any suite, and had gone none knew...

her birthday. It was very numerously attended in spite of weather, that did not harmonize with the day. She has returned to Windsor Castle. The State Ball on Wednesday was very...

agreed on the new Russo-Turkish question. If there is to be an in- quiry into the state of Christians in Turkey, it must be based on the re- ports of all the powers and not on...

to feed the excitement oc- casioned by Garibaldi's expedition. Our Paris correspondent reports as follows :-- "Paris, Thursday evening. "Garibaldi's safe landing and success in...

STOGIE EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The continual decline on the Paris Bourse, amounting at times almost to a panic, has kept the Markets on this side in a constant state of...

Stn CHARLES TREVELYAN has been likened to Curtins ; but it is the Curtius of the playhouse, who knows that the abyss is only a " practicable " trap, and can calculate the effect...

LORDS AND COMMONS. THE petition to the House of Lords, and the address to Lord Derby, both adopted bythe meeting on the paper duties at St. Martin's Hall, open rather seriously...

On the 6th of May, at Westbury Hill, near Bristol, Lady Campbell, of Barcaldine, of a daughter. On the 7th, at Roushaw, Norfolk, the Wife of Charles North, late Captain Nor-...

the sentiments of the Government from the columns of the Okbe, we may infer that Ministers regard any interference of the Powers between the Government of the Sultan and his...

Wirer is the use of Deans ? We know, indeed, that in the opin- ion of the shoemaker there is nothing like leather, and we have no doubt that every dean in England is prepared to...

THE question discussed by the letter-carriers of the General Post Office at a public meeting on Monday, is of the deepest import to the interests not only of that particular...

THE verdict of the Jury, and the deliverance of the Judge, sentence Eugenia Plummer to be sent to school. Few cases have more lucidly illustrated certain defects in our law and...

City, 15th May 1860. Sra—Although I have not yet seen any announcement of the release of the Reverend John Hatch, I presume that the consequence of the conviction of Eugenia...

LANDED PROPERTY IN BENGAL. Sra—As public attention is at present directed to the state of affairs in the agricultural districts of Bengal and Upper India, between European...

FROUDVS HISTORY OF ENGLAND. * AMONG the historians of our day, Mr. Froude occupies a peculiar position. He has research, conscience ' learning, and talent of an unusually high...

Psychology of Shakespeare, published last year, Dr. Bucknill laid open, and well nigh exhausted, a new and precious mine of Shaksperian criticism. His purpose then was to...

LORD BROUGHAM'S Law REFORMS by Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot, is a reprint, in a portable form of a book which we noticed last year Its reduction in bulk has been made in...

tell our. readers that Castle Richmond is a clever and amusing novel, for its author's name is warrant enough for them of that fact. Critics may shake their sagacious heads at...

A "Greek History, from Themistocles to Alexander, " by A. H. Clough, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon • and a series of Elementary Examples in Practical Mechanics, by the...

We mentioned last week that there had been a performance of _Don Giovanni at Her Majesty's Theatre, and of the Barbiere di Siviglia at the Royal Italian Opera. Since then, Don...

TME ROYAL ACADEMY. A fable of Phcedrus tells how all Rome once went time after time to hear an actor imitate the cry of a goose ; the actor made a fortune ; and, when he...

Le Satchrr (10 la Rae Quincampoix, a long drama illustrative of the frantic times of John Law, which was brought out last winter at Paris, has been cut down into a short piece...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 16. Bookrupts.-HEsET MilooranroE, St. George's Place, Brixton Road, builder- THomaa THORP, Surrey House, Clapham Road, linen-draper-SAMUEL FREEMAN...

spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer Bills, lid, per...

We have visited the studio of Mr. Papworth, in Milton Street, Dorset Square, to see a bust of Blake, executed as a memorial of the naval hero. The task was not one of ease....