THE proceedings in Parliament have been more marked by variety than political importance ; though important interests have been involved on one or two occasions. The week...

SEMINARY OF ST. SULPICE. In the House of Lords, on Monday, the Bishop of EXETER moved an address to the Queen, praying the disallowance of the ordinance of the Governor and...

as- pect of affairs not materially changed, and certainly, on the face of things, not changed for the worse. Congress display no less ac- tivity in making military preparations...

At the sixth annual meeting of the Marylebone Loyal and - Constitu- tional Association, on Wednesday, a report was read, which made out some progress for Toryism during the past...

THE Court has been very quiet during the week. There was a select dinner-party on Monday, and another on Wednesday. On Saturday and Tuesday the Queen and Prince Albert were...

The Worcester Journal announces that a requisition to Mr. Frederick Wynn Knight, of Wolverley, to stand for the Western division of "Worcestershire, has already received...

A great meeting was held on the Curragh of Kildare, on Sunday last , for the twofold purpose of agitating Repeal and supporting the Govern- ment Irish Registration Bill. The...

The changeable weather has carried the popular ailments, colds and influenza, into high circles. The Queen Dowager has suffered during the last few days from a slight cold ; and...

The Chartists of Scotland have marred the sport of the Nonintra- sionists at Airdrie. A public meeting was held there on the 9th, to pe- tition Parliament for the abolition of...

The Columbia steam-ship brings intelligence from New York to the 1st instant. No very marked alteration had occurred in the state of affairs since the previous advices. The...

having waited upon Lord Courtenay, requesting him to allow himself to be placed in nomination for the representation of South Devon, in place of Mr. Parker, who has accepted the...

SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, the order of the day for consi- dering the report of the Poor-law Amendment Bill having been read, Mr. WAKLEY moved an...

the pe- tition complaining of an undue return for Sudbury, met today. Mr. Sergeant Merewether and Mr. Leahy appeared for the petitioners ; Mr. Sergeant Wranghaua and Mr. Austin...

confidently stated, that Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam will be the new Commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. It was rumoured that Admiral Sir Robert Stop- ford would leave...

arrange- ment of the Syrian question was signed in London on the 13th instant, by the Ambassadors of the Four Powers, parties to the treaty of the 15th July. It declares that...

this week as we ever remember at this season of the year ; and the manufacturers complain heavily that they cannot obtain remunerating prices, and in consequence mmy of them are...

OFFICE of ORDNANCE, March 13.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Brevet Major E. Sabine to be Lieut.-Cul. vice E. Mitchell, dec.; Second Capt. J. Howell to be Capt. vice Sa- bine; First...

for excluding office-bearers from the House was brought forward by M. Pages. The discussion was postponed till Saturday next. The supplementary credits of 1340 were the subject...

The intelligence brought by the Columbia steam-ship, the arrival of which was delayed till Wednesday morning, being on the whole of a favourable cha- racter, produced an...

the 11th.

The Europe, Cole, from Loudon to Bombay. has been condemned at the Mauritius Arrived-At Gravesend. March 13th, Hesperia, Morgan, from Mauritius. At Deal, 18th. Winchester....

Oen welcome visitants from Germany have reappeared, occupying a larger stage, and with an accession of vocal and instrumental strength. Drury Lane is again a theatre ; and the...

Madrid. "You may consider the Philippine Islands as lost to Spain. The Government has just authorized an English company to establish itself there, under the pretext of...

ARBITRATION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND 'VIE UNITED STATES. TILE sug gestion that the differences between this country and the United States should be settled by a neutral power,...

LORD PALMERSTON admitted, on Tuesday evening, that Mr. Hurr's statement as to the Sound-dues was " almost" the case of the British Government against the Government of Denmark :...

House of Commons is important, or it is not : if it is important, then those who undertake it ought to attend to it—if it is not important, the sooner some new CROM• WELL turns...

THE Green Park, we are glad to hear, is again to resume its ver- dure : this pleasant thoroughfare from St. James's to Piccadilly— the garden-highway along which the townsman...

NEVER was designation more accurately descriptive than that of " Foreign Secretary " as applied to Lord PALMERSTON. When the stability of the present Spanish Government was...

ACCORDING to the Globe, the father of Master Joao; affirms that overtures were made to him on the part of Government, to place his son, at the expiry of his confinement in the...

AN Oratorio, new to London, was performed by the members of this Society last night, at Exeter Hall. Its title is The Death of Abel; its au- thor, Mr. GEORGE Perry, the leader...

IN a trial at Maidstone of a servant for robbing her master (a clergyman) of some articles apparently of no great value, the coun- sel for the prisoner, according to the...

THE " enumerators" to be employed in taking the new census are to be paid in proportion to the number of houses or persons in the districts assigned to them; from 10s. for every...

THE second concert, on Monday night, displayed an unusual activity on the part of the Directors. The scheme assumed a new feature ; and the old form, which, like a policy of...

MENTAL PHILOSOPHY. On Heroes. Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. Six Lectures; reported, with emendations and additions. By Thomas Carlyle Fraser. TRAVELS. The Chinese...

MR. LAY was the Naturalist in BEECHY'S expedition to the Pacific : he subsequently made a voyage through the Indian Archi- pelago in a ship freighted by the religious house of...

THESE volumes are pleasing from their elegance, variety, and a certain unaffected naiveté, which argues that they are the genuine outpourings of the writer's mind and a true...

SUN-LIMNED PORTRAITS. THE Polytechnic Institution has just made an addition to its multi- farious curiosities in science and art of one more wonderful than any, and likely to...

WE adverted incidentally, last week, to the limited and partial views taken by our legislators of the nature and extent of popular instruc- tion in the arts of design ; we will...

BIRTHS. On the 16th inst., in Charles Street. Berkeley Square, the Countess of Crt.tverr, of a sou. On the 15th inst.. the Lady of the Rev. C. Mo:ersou DOUGHTY, of Theberton...

Tuesday, March 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Crabtree and Whittley, Halifax, machine-makers-real and Huxley, London, to- bacco-manufacturers-Hayes and Atkinson, Whitby....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. ;relines. [' burs. rrulay., ni 8 7* 88 88f 88* 88f 88f SSit 88# 88f 881 8tii shut shut 94 961 96f 96f 9...