his life in the active prosecution of his duties. From all quarters we hear high praise of his energy and tact ; and if exception is taken to the somewhat indiscriminate use of...

Bnront adjourning for the Whitsuntide recess, the House of Commons has been treated to . a four-nights debate on the English Poor-law. The motion to go into Committee on the...

of the winter. The bustle of a general election already stirs borough and county ; and speculation is awakened to conjecture whether 11r. Gladstone and Mr. Cardwell will oust...

ADMINISTRATION OF THE POOR-LAW. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord Joust RUSSELL moved the order of the day for the second reading of the Poor-law Administration Bill....

week's report. The greatest novelty is the discovery of political and treasonable plots in Paris. For the rest, the Portuguese Junta is still contumacious; Queen Isabella is...

The election movement has fairly commenced in the Metropolis. On Saturday, several electors of Marylebone, members of St. Pancras Paro- chial Committee, met at Lawson's Assembly...

Thu Queen held a Privy Council on Thursday; at which the Right Ho- nourable George William Frederick Earl of Clarendon was declared Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. Her Majesty...

Sir George Grey has slightly relented: he now tells the electors of North Northumberland, that should the result of the canvass answer the expecta- tion of his friends, he would...

After lingering many days in a state of hopeless exhaustion, Lord Bes- borough has at length sunk under his malady. He died on Sunday night; being up to the last moment in...

American sympathy is not confined to Ireland. The first of a series of shipments has arrived at Glasgow, in the Mores: the vessel brought from the good citizens of Boston a...

in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday. On that day M. Odillon Barret put questions to the. Government respecting the late changes in the Ministry; claiming the information as a,...

Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office on Saturday and on Monday. Referring to the appointment of Lord Clarendon as Viceroy of Ireland, the Morning Chronicle says—"...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Bryanston Square, 17th May 1847. —I have just seen your paper of the 15th, in which "you suspect" that" when I asked fur free trade in banking,...

The Sir Robert Peel, Champion. from Auckland, (with troops,' was wrecked on the coast of Australia, about thirty miles North of Port Jackson, on the 17th January; all hands...

Epsom races began on Tuesday, with fair weather, and good anticipa- tions; though the sport for the first day was not accounted attractive. The habitual frequenters of the turf,...

At the risk of shocking some of our readers who make a great case out of the word " legitimate drama," we are free to confess that the announce- ment of a "new five-act comedy "...

nant and Governor-General of Ireland. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the Foreign Office: Lord Clarendon was present. At Mark Lane yesterday there was a tendency...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Poor - law Adminis- tration Bill, and Mr. Ferrand's adverse amendment, closed last night, with a division...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AlTrANGON. Loan have been continued; and a very large amount has been received at the Bank of England. Bullion has also continued to pour into the...

produced at the St. James's. One is Un Coup de Lansquenet, brought out at Paris within the last few months; the other, Oscar, ou is Mari qui trompe sa Femme, is about five years...

The general course of management pursued at the " Royal Italian Opera" is evidently creating disappointment. When the project of a new ' Operahouse at Covent Garden transpired...

two oha- meters is a capital thing for the manager, the performers, and those of the struggling thousands who succeed in obtaining seats or standing room within the walls of Her...

Garden? Do what they will they cannot emerge from dulness. They have brought out novelties fast enough, but ill-luck seems to pursue them , and they cannot make an impression....

made-up hermits who serve to decorate pleasure-grounds, is not altogether new to the English stage; O'Keefe having written a piece of the kind, called The London Her , mit,...

that when he had sat out a modern comedy, he said, " This is all very well, but it requires imagination to make a melodrame." This preference for the broad-sword combat and the...

VIE USE OF A LORD-LIEUTENANT IN IRELAND. MINISTERS have determined to fill up the vacant office of Lord- Lieutenant for Ireland ; justly alleging that the present troubled...

IT would be much for the credit of Parliament if half the speech that is evolved died in the thinking. For one sentence that ad- Asinces any question, two or three are uttered...

THE issue of the Spanish marriage intrigues proves the folly of attempting to settle the state of Spain in London or Paris. But that was not the worst part of the method chosen....

'Ma. HUXTADLE, the practical investigator of agricultural science, is making a great diversion in favour of sound poor-law legislation. When he is bringing the book farming of...

Tan high prices have thrown careful people upon devices to eke out the daily meals with nutritious and wholesome food ; but the grand thing wanting appears to be some...

BIOGRAPHY, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., late of the Admiralty ; in- cluding Reflections, Observations, and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad, from...

NEARLY twenty-five years ago, the late Robert Southey suggested to Mrs. Southey, then Caroline Bowles, a joint poem on the subject of Robin Hood; the "battle-scenes and such...

Is one of a class of books which is rarely encountered in the present day. The writer is a scholar, though his reading is by no means limited to learned or English classical...

BOOKS. An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow , Bart., late of the Ad- miray ; including Reflections, Observations, and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad, from early Life...

ROYAL ACADEMY : HISTORICAL PICTURES. Its the state of art in this country were judged by the historical pictures in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, the estimate would not...

On the 10th May,. at Hllthead.House, Pollockshaws, Mrs. Alexander Broadfoot, of a son, who survived entity. days. en the 13th; at Compton Castle, Somerset, the Lady of George...

While the Sovereigns of France, Russia, and Saxony, were visiters at Windsor Castle, Mr. Nash had access to make a painted record; and the product is a set of twenty-five...

Tuesday, May 18. PA eriti:utiles DISSOLVED. Jenkinson and Brown, Pemberton, Lancashire, coal-proprietors-Serie and Carring- ton, Weston-super-Mare, brick-manufacturers-Knowles...

Orrice or ORDNANCE, May 16.-Royal Regt. GAZET f Artillery-Brevet Major F:Warde to-be Lieut.-Cul. vice Arbuckle, retired on full-pay ; Second Capt. J. H. Franklyn to be Capt....

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