MINISTERS have so managed to steer their Foreigners Enlistment Bill through the two Houses of Parliament, as to succeed with the measure, at the cost of considerable though...

invitation of the Allied Powers, to subscribe the treaty of the 2d December and join in the alliance, is a mission intrusted to a special envoy; who will explain, it is said, to...

; but we have watched the world of statecraft too long to be greatly impressed by the aspects of the passing day. While President Pierce is pro- *ssing an absolute neutrality,...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. Moran us. Looms. Saturday, December 16. Enlistment of Foreigners; Duke of Newcastle's Bill reported. Monday, December 18. Lord . Brougham's...

THE Quwarr visited the Duchess of Cambridge, at Kew, on Wednesday ; and, accompanied by Prince Albert, dined with the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore, on Thursday. Prince Albert...

The nomination for Marylebone took place on Monday, and the election On Tuesday. Mr. Jacob Bell was proposed by Mr. Brettingham, and seconded by Dr. Dillon, as the...

Mr. Pete has issued an address to the electors of Norwich, acquainting them that he has resigned his seat in the House of Commons, because, having contracted with the Government...

Captain Pakenham, the brother of the late Member, killed in the Crimea, has issued an address to the electors of Antrim. An official notification from the Board of Trinity...

FRANCE.—It is stated that the Emperor lately convoked an extraordinary council to debate the question, whether the constitution should be revised so as to give more liberty to...

Herr Von ITsedom, charged with a special mission from the Xing of - Prussia to the Court of St. James's, landed et Dover on Wednesday, and proceeded to London on Thursday. The...

On the 12th December, at Idoncreiffe House, the Lady Louisa Moncreiffe, of a son ' and heir. On the 13th, at Hampton Court Palace, the lion. Mrs. Bradshaw, of a daughter. On...

evening. Further telegraphic despatches relating to the recent combats at Sebas- topol are published this morning from the Moniteter of yesterday. The Chargé d' Afaires of...

SATURDAY MORNING. The third reading of the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill was last night carried in the House of Commons by a majority nearly the same as on the second...

striking novelty for its readers, comes out today with a slashing attack on Ministers for incompetency in the war. The whole article tells like a new shot "from the maintop" ;...

The last novelty before Christmas is an exceedingly tiny translation from the French, called My Wife's Journal. A young wife keeps a jour- nal, and finds her husband's intimate...

M. Adolphe Adam has supplied the Theatre Lyrique with a new opera, called Le Huletler de Toledo, of which M. Dennery has written the book. M. Dumanoir, so often the dramatic...

most inde- corous of all Terence's plays—is the most popular with the students of Westminster. Indeed, this year it has even been played out of its turn, in consequence, we...

FOR THE SECOND READ/ING. Acland, Sir 'T. D. Elcho, Lord Keogh, W. Richardson. J. A'Court, C. H. Ellice, E. Kershaw, J. Robartes, T. J. Acton, J. Elliot, Hon. J. E. King, lion....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOON. The indications of buoyancy that prevailed in Government Securities at the close of last week have been succeeded by a flat market ; for...

THE WAR CHRISTMAS. THE season of domestic reunion, the anniversary from which each Christian year would naturally date, comes to us this time under circumstances unknown to the...

IT is highly probable that some men who were opposed to the war and desired to veto it are the same with those who have quite lately opposed the Enlistment of Foreigners Bill ;...

BOTH Opposition and Government ought to have learned a great deal from the successive debates upon the Enlistment of Fo- reigners Bill. This controversy proved the extent to...

a THE war is the fashion," bitterly remarks a writer at Sebastopol. Funds are got up for the wounded and the suffering, meetings are held to collect money and sympathy ; "and...

Jr ever a series of events happened to rebuke the ordinary sectarian absurdities, it has been the war in the Crimea. The secretary of a charitable association may have refused...

" REFOBX "may be effected as much through the school-room as by any other channel. It is computed that in the State of Ohio alone, out of 838,000 youths between the ages of four...

1 Adam Street, Ade?phi, 19th December 1854. Sin—In the late debates there are two circumstances remarkable in the speeches of two different Ministers. The Earl of Aberdeen has...

TILE PUBLIC LOAN QUESTION. 10th December 1854. Sm—The loan question is so serious a one, that I cannot forbear addressing you even now, on the eve of the sitting of...

C.B. of the Royal Artillery, now acting as her Majesty's Commiseioner with the Turkish army in Asia, to have the local rank of B r-General while so employed. 7h a e dk...

the Official Return.] Ten of Weeks lett-W. Week of 1854. Zymotle Diseases 2,887 .... 330 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat . 610 .... 61...

and elsewhere, cotton- warp-manufacturers-Thomas and Kirby, Liverpool, wine-brokers-North and Bowers, High Streetahoreditch, linen-drapers-S. S. and I. D. Lucas, Greenwich,...

ADMIRALTY, Dec. 13.-Staff-Col, S. R. Wesley to be Deputy-Adjt. of Royal Marines, vice Major-General Sir J. Owen, KC. B. ; Lieut.-Col. G. C. Langley to be Assist. Adjt.-Gen. of...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) — Mexican 8 p. CZ 905 New York 5 — Peruvian 41 981 Portuguese 6 — Ditto 8 1008 Russian 5 1011...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JO8Crli Clja Ton, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's le the West, in the City of London ; and Published by the...

THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN RUSSIA. * THIS volume is the result of ten years' residence and travel in Russia ; during which period the writer's field of observation ex- tended from...

DECEMBER 23, 1854.

histories of the Turks which the present war has produced, this is by far the best. Professor Creasy has brought to his task a mind more practised in historical investigation,...

IT appears that when Mrs. Stowe was in England she requested Sir George Stephen to furnish her with a "narrative of the aboli- tion of slavery in the British Colonies," with a...

THE merits of this elaborate publication are not sufficiently great to struggle against the indifference with which colonial subjects are mostly regarded in England unless some...

Tins second series of Mr. Matthew Arnold's Poems consists en- tirely of pieces before published in his two original volumes, with the exception of a poem in blank verse called...

BOOKS. A History of the _English Peer-law, in connexion with the Legislation and other circumstances affecting the Condition of the People. By Sir George Nicholls, K.C.B., late...

One Battle of the Alma, on paper or canvass, succeeds another. After speaking of Mr. Burford's panoramic battle, we come to Messrs. Col- naghi's lithographic one. This gives us...

There is something eccentric about this handsome volume. The de- signs are the work of a lady known as J. B., and doubtless an amateur ; but they are published not as...

This popular place of entertainment has opportunely got a novelty ready for the Christmas season, and a novelty of the most timely kind— the Battle of the Alma. The...

Mr. John Zephaniah Bell, the painter, delivered a lecture upon this subject on 'Wednesday, at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus. His object was to vindicate the paramount...