the parties or factions that divide France now confine their strug- gles. Every sitting of the Assembly opens with the presentation of a mass of petitions for revision. The...

THE week of " the Derby" is never a business week in Perna- ; ment. It could have been wished that an exception had been made to this rule On the evening when the question...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEISE. HOUSE Or LORDS. Monday, May 19. Income-tax Bill, read a secend time. Tuesday, May 20. PinTre Coininission; Explanations by Eari...

The Metropolitan Local Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of In- dustry gave a dinner to the Foreign Commissioners, at the Castle Inn, Richmond, on Saturday last. Lord...

THE Queen held a Court on Tuesday afternoon, to give an audience to Count Schimmelpenninck, the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary of the King of Holland, and...

- The Harwich Election Committee proceeded with the scrutiny de- manded by Mr. Crauford, and at last struck off so many of Mr. Prinsep's votes as to leave Mr. Crauford in a...

FRANCE.—The political excitement on the question of revising the - Constitution increases as the period approaches when Parliamentary tac- tics with that object must be set in...

The Irish papers express a belief that the census returns will show an immense diminution of the population below the number of the census taken in 1841. Belfast, however, will...

'The appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, C.B., to be Governor of St. Helena, was gazetted on Tuesday. Mr. More O'Ferrall, having resigned the government of...

SATURDAY. The debates of the House of Commons in Committee on the Ecclesi- astical Titles Bill, last night, had but little interest. A motion by Mr. The debates of the House of...

In point of numbers, the attendance on Epsom Downs on Wednesday, the seventy-second anniversary of " The Derby," was the greatest ever seen. The " Exhibition year" at Epsom will...

On the 16th May, at Tunbridge, Kent, the Wife of the Rev. Dr. Welldon, of a son. On the 16th, at Geneva, the I.ady of the Hon. Thomas Preston, of a son. On the 16th, in...

in New Zealand,—a despatch from Mr. Godley, agent to the Asso- ciation, dated on the 6th of January, with various enclosures, by the co- lonists and their representatives. The...

The scene of excitement in Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday even- ing, at the performance of Fidelie brought freshly into our memory the still greater excitement within the same...

in the case of Madan versus Karr; a suit promoted by the Vicar of Cam, after inquiry instituted by order of the Bishop, against the Vicar of Berkeley, as lately reported in the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arrzaaoos. A more than usual degree of activity has this week been apparent in the English Stock Market, and the price of Consols has advanced from 1 to...

Sin—I have to ask you in fairness to insert a few words in reply to the review which lately appeared in your paper upon Hartley Coleridge. Had that review concerned only Hartley...

St. James's Theatre since the departure of M. Regnier, and so rapidly are they changed one for another, that we do not pretend to follow them with any- thing like an analysis of...

ENCORES AT THE OPERA. Sin—I was delighted, as everybody must have been, with the performance of Fidelio on Tuesday last. It did high honour to the manager, the per- formers,...

Temple, May 20. Sea — In regulating cab-fares there are objections to milestones, difficult to count while en route, and either a division of the Metropolis into squares or by...

at the Lyceum of a semi-sentimental piece, called tin Paysan, produced somewhat re- cently at Paris. Two fashionable young men, who take up their re- sidence in a farm-house,...

Wells, has left that establishment, and has commenced a series of readings at the Marylebone Institution.

public which is vulgarly symbolized by a "chip in the porridge," Dr. Kinkel, a German celebrity, is steadily marching through a course of twelve lectures on the drama and its...

, Sir William Molesworth has rendered a great service to colonial self- government, by changing the venue of the cause, and treating it as a ques- tion of Imperial finance...

CLAUSES." ME remarks with which Sir George Grey combated Mr. Fox's motion on Thursday, for a system of purely secular schools under local control, seem to indicate a...

GOVERNMENT BY EVASION. THE one art in public affairs which is making progress at this day, is the art of governing by evading the duties to be performed. It is probably the...

WHAT are his lectures like ?—good of course, exceedingly worth hearing, but like what ? Well, they are like his conversation, like his books, like him- self ; probably very....

"NOTHING can be done without a dinner," is a national maxim which has been illustrated for the use of foreigners during their visit to this country. That M. Soyer should not be...

ENGLISH feeling, which took a pride in giving plain plenty to humble dependents, in making work strong and sound, and in doing all things on a " handsome" scale, is giving way...

observing a synoptical treatment in our descrip- tions, which we foresaw from the first, becomes more palpable as we re- peat our visits to the Great Exhibition. One would have...

CORRESPONDENCE OF W./M.0LN AND NA SON. e This correspondence between Horace Walpole and Gray's friend and biographer Mason, the author of "The English Garden," the " Heroic...

40951. 10s. was taken of the five-shilling fees alone. On Monday - next the entrance-fee falls to one shilling ; and such an enormous influx is expected, that there is report of...

IN 1848, the Reverend Thomas Debary was recommended by his medical adviser to winter abroad ; and lie tried Madeira Not finding much benefit from that climate, he sailed for the...

adventure, intended to describe manners in Cairo and to sketch the history of the Mamelukes towards the end of the last century, as well as to furnish a notice of the Syrian...

BOOKS. A Geological Inquiry respecting the Water-Bearing Strata of the Country around London, withreferenee especially to the Water-supgy of the Metropolis; and including some...

THE BRIDGEWATER PICTURES. The Earl of Ellesmere has announced his intention to admit the public to the large gallery of paintings at Bridgewater House, on Mondays, Tuesdays,...

We have received from Messrs. Cundall and Addey a series of wood- engravings after famous pictures, on a comparatively large scale ; and copies of which may be observed in the...

Mr. Frederick C. Cooper, the artist sent out by the British Museum to aid the researches of Dr. Layard, has opened, at No 3 Grosvenor Street, a diorama of the scenes of his...

WAR-OFFICE, May 23.-2d liegt. Life Guards—Cornet and Suh-Lieut. H. J. T. Stephens to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Hon. J. E. D. A.stley, who retires ; Assist.- Surg. T. Tardrew,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Soturd. Monday. Tuesday. Weds... 3 per Cent Consols tin 971 971 978 Ditto for Account 971 971 971 971 3 per Cents Reduced 961 961 961 961...

Tuesday, May 20. Pwaranasutes Dissosvm.—Harrls and Co. Liverpool, wine-merchants—Brown- ing and Rigby, Salford, millwrights—Gelley and Charlton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,...