which Lord Derby exulted, appeared formidable in the earlier and vaguer reports of the week ; but we believe they never were what they, were supposed to be, and they gave way...

heir to the Emperors of Germany, has consented to visit the younger house of Hohenzollern, now the royal house of Prussia. The Imperial ingenuity has been taxed to contrive...

A NEW Ministry under Lord Aberdeen is now nearly ready to take the place vacated by that of Lord Derby; which could hold its ground no longer, and resigned at the end of last...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Howls or LORDS. Monday, Deg,. 29. Resignation of Ministers; Lord Derby's Statement—Adjournment till ThursMay. Thursday, Dec. 23. No...

Lord Derby assembled a numerous body of his political supporters in Downing Street, early on Monday last, and rehearsed to them that speech which he delivered to the House of...

Tin QUEEN is no longer at Osborne. Her Majesty embarked on board the Fairy at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, and, amid the salutes of the men-of-war at Spithead and the...

Lord Eglinton has received a long memorial from the relatives of the men killed at Six-mile Bridge. They aver their belief, that after the open declarations of the...

Lord Ward attended and addressed a public meeting held at Chelten- ham on the 16th, to adopt preliminary steps for establishing a School of Art in that town. The Reverend Mr....

Ii'nerems.—Obstacles still impede the progress of the new constitution in the Senate. A meeting took place on Tuesday, when M. Troplong pre- sented a report on the modification;...

Lord Derby tendered the collective resignation of his Cabinet to the Queen, at Osborne, on Friday. The Queen accepted his resignation; and summoned to her aid the Marquis of...

SATURDAY. The following is issued this morning as a correct list of the new Ministry. THE CABINET. The Earl of Aberdeen First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Cranworth Lord...

parte, in default of legitimate or adopted heirs, successor to his nephew the Emperor. After a warm debate, the Senatils-eonsultum modifying the constitution was adopted on...

his son in Victoria Square, Grosvenor Place. He was a veteran in both services ; having been afloat with Nelson, and present at Waterloo, and bearing many commemorative...

ADIMIALTY, Dec. 13.—Brevet Major J. T. Brown to be Lieut.-CoL vice Tothill, retired on full-pay ; Brevet Major E. A. Parker to be Lieut--Col. vice Whitcomb, re- tired on...

STOCK EXCHANGIC, FRIDAY APTIRMOON. The English Funds have this week exhibited increased firmness. There was not much business transacted at the commencement. Consols were...

Weston-super-Mare, 15th December 1852. Enrron—Having by your courtesy been allowed to occupy your co- lumns in bringing before the public the claims of the beneficed clergy to...

" entertain- ment at her seat in Yorkshire. Miss Glyn, whose fame as a " reader " is now established all over England, is to read Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and Hamlet, on...

The Dame aux Camilias, whose long and glorious reign at the Vaude- ville has excited Parisian wonder, is now threatened with a rival from the hand of her own creator ; for M....

Carlton Club, 17th December. Sin—Having sat on the Conservative side of the House of Commons from 1837 to 1841, and having fought more than one contest this year in the hope of...

Our record this week is not of performanoes, but of promises. Our retrospective view is a blank—we look forward to "Boxing-day." Our record this week is not of performanoes, but...

ON THE B.ESIGNAITON OF THE EARL OF DERBY. Written after reading his speech, December 20. When late, her hero to succeed, A ruler Oxford chose, Beneath whose shade,...

Dublin, 8th December 1852. Sin—In the course of your remarks on the "Lady Abolitionists " in your last week's paper, .you object to all external interference with American sla-...

CHRISTMAS 1852. THOUGH a few Lords of Parliament may feel aggrieved by the du- ty of waiting on a Ministerial crisis, the English people gathered round their Christmas...

CONSERVATISM professes to reform the essential errors of Toryism, by substituting the fidelity to long-established principles in lien of maintaining antiquated frameworks as the...

THE present Government, says Lord Derby, was at the head of "by far the largest party," and had opposed to it four separate parties. He seems to have thought that his position...

IF the Ministry which is in the slow process of formation should prove to be a "Coalition Ministry," in the old sense of that term, it will be a failure ; if it were a practical...

IMMENSE activity prevails in the shipbuilding trade : several large companies are extending their marine, besides private speculations, and besides the activity in the Royal...

poor has been pub- lished. There has been an increase of pauperism in eleven parishes to the number of 1485 persons, and a decrease in twenty-six parishes of 3844 ; making a net...

THIS is a seasonable book ; but in a critical point of view The Legends of the Madonna are not equal to the previous volumes of the series. The subject has not the variety of...

MRS. MEREDITH'S HOME IN TASMANIA. * AFTER an experience of a settler's life in New South Wales, Mrs. Meredith and her husband departed for Van Diemen's Land, where Mr....

THE subject of this fiction is the characters and doings of the Irish Brigade : and very broadly and darkly Mr. Owen Maddyn paints the " Mimbers." Their poverty is caricatured;...

IN the wake of larger and more sumptuous books destined to at- tract many a hand and eye on the table of many a drawingroom this season, a modest instalment reaches us in the...

Boos& The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament : a series of Sermons, preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn, by Frederick Denison Mau- rice, Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn, and...

THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Two new pictures are added to the gallery, — Turner's "Building of Carthage," and "Sun rising in mist " ; which now hang, according to the condition of...

Mr. Burford is again in the field this holyday season, with a panorama of the Bemese Alps. The subjectraay not seem particularly inviting to sight- seers in winter ;...

A soirée was held on Wednesday at the Society's rooms in the Adelphi, with the object of exhibiting a large photographic collection, both British and foreign. The rooms were...

On the 16th December, in Gloucester Square, the Wife of A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P.., of a son. On the 16th, at Kinnaird Castle, N.B., the Lady Catherine Carnegie, of a daughter....

WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 24.-5th Regt. Drag. Guards—Capt. J. D. Murray, from half. pay Unatt, to be Capt. vice Brevet Major A. Bolton, who exchanges ; Lieut. A. W. B. Burton to be Capt....

Sorted. 3 per Cent Consols shut Ditto for Account 1003exd. 3 per Cents Reduced 1011 al per Cents 1041 Long Annuities 61 Bank Stock, 7 per Cent — India Stock, 101 per...

Tuesday, December 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Todd and Turner, Wheelton, Lancashire, gold-thread- manufacturers-Rostron and Co. Rio de Janiero; as far as regards J. H. M•Kinuell...