the Con- stitution closed earlier than was expected, and did not retain to The debate in the French Assembly on the revision of the Con- stitution closed earlier than was...

of their penny postage ? The bold innovation of Rowland Hill has become a familiar thing, as necessary to our comfort as oral conversation. The feasibility of an "ocean penny...

"COURAGE, I see land," said the old philosopher, when he came in sight of the "finis" of a tiresome volume he was reading aloud. " Courage, we see land," may now be said by all...

predecessor the Anti-Slavery Society, to be in a fair way to be- come one of our national institutions—a kind of volunteer Foreign Office, or diplomatic depot. Meetings at which...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOttsg op Lotto& Monday, July 21. Inhabited Houses Bill, passed through Counnittee—Ectlesiastical Titles Assumption Bill; second reading moved...

Baron Lionel de Rothschild has rallied his City friends to the standard of Jewish emancipation. Ile called a meeting, which took place at the London Tavern on Thursday, to...

Ta. Queen and Prinee Albert, with the children, left Buckingham Palace on Friday the 18th, en route for the Isle of Wight ; artved at Osborne before sunset ; and there hey have...

The poll for Scarborough, on Saturday last, ended in the return of Mr_ George Frederick Young the Protectionist, by a majority of 33 over the Whig Lord Mulgrave. The numbers...

Lord Dunsandle will succeed to the vacancy in the Representative Peerage of Ireland, caused by the decease of the Earl of Charleville.— _Daily Nem The ashes of Richard Lalor...

FRANCE.—Our resume of the Revision debate in the French Assembly last week briefly touched on the speech which M. Victor Hugo delivered on the 17th, the fourth day of the...

M. Thiers is reported by a Parisian paper as having started for the Pyrenees, and by the Messages. du Soir as on his road to London ; to start thence early in August for Vienna,...

on the Grosvenor Pictures had not been lost upon me; but I did fancy that the favour of a spontaneous order of admission from the noble owner would have been in- disputable. On...

They do not directly recommend the abolition of the stamp, but they sug- gest that "news is not in itself a desirable subject of taxation.' The delegates of the Peace Congress...

SATITRDAY. The formidable stage of " Committee" on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, that cost the Conant:1,s so many troubled sittings, the Lords glided over in a single...

Red Lion Square, 25th July 1851. The late Duke of Bridgewater gave his pictures to be held as heirlooms by the persons taking his estates. Many of your readers will recollect...

execute in marble his group of Paolo and Francesca, the plaster cast of which we men- tioned as almost the only work of promise in the English sculpture-room at the Great...

Lady Julia Bonwens, of a daughter. On the 16th, at Album Surrey, the Wife of Martin F. Tupper, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th, at York, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Vicars,...

The drama of Angelo, Tyran de Padoue, which is among the earlier works of hi. Victor Hugo, was recently added to the Parisian riipertoire of Mademoiselle Rachel, and she has...

returning to her profession—has sung at Exeter Hall, last week and this, in The Afesstalt and Eljjah. Her vocal powers are not in any respect impaired ; and her whole...

Juliet, and As you Like it, at the Olympic Theatre, proved successful enough to lead to a reengagement.

an Ita- lian version of Auber's last opera, Ls Corbeille d' Oranges, which has been BO unanimously pronounced a total failure that we think it superfluous to take any further...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds were heavy at the commencement of the week, and in- dications of feebleness were observable in the market. Since Wednesday,...

THE Prime Minister has announced a new Reform Bill for next session, and has thrown out hints of a kind which induce men, even such as might be reckoned hardheaded, to expect...

THE IMPERIAL OBSTACLE. EVERYBODY joins in expressing dissatisfaction at a Ministry that cannot enforce its own purpose : that is an old story, but the con- sciousness of the...

OF all the events of this year, at home or abroad, one of the most striking is the publication of Mr. Gladsthne's pamphlet on the State Prosecutions of Naples.* If the mere...

CHARITABLE festivals arc numerous this year, and successful. The Scottish charities were the object of a ball at the Guildhall this week, and a brilliant company enjoyed itself...

COMFORT is an English word, but the idea which it conveys is relative one. English comfort is not French comfort; and when Frenchmen came to London, expecting to find large...

A COUNTRY visitor is puzzled at a London phmnomenon, and com- municates his surprise to the Morning Post. "United University Club, July 21. "Sir—I went into one of the chapels...

FINLAY'S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL 'GREECE AND TREBIZOND. • THE decline of an empire, like the decline of life, is generally con- sidered an unfavourable subject for an author.Energy...

THE PENELOPE'S WEB OF FRANCE. The Legislative Assembly of France is once more engaged in that strenuous idleness the very naming of which is provocative either of laugh- ter or...

future for Spain than she has yet experienced. Till within these few years she had escaped the "homage of the race that write." The few men who formerly travelled in Spain might...

ENGLAND. * POSITIVE judgment cannot be passed upon a work till it is com- pleted ; but the three lectures before us are inferior to those which Father Newman addressed to...

WANT of subject is the conspicuous want in the novels of the day. Fictions are continually met - with that exhibit vivacity of style and variety of mind ; the writer has...

OMCE OF ORDNANCE, July 21.—Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieut.-CoL T. Blan- shard to be Col. vice Thomson, dec. Brevet Major 11. P. Wulff to beldeut.-Col. vice Blanshard ; Sec....

FUNDS (Closing Fiices. Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. Thurs. Friday. -- 961 961 96/ 961 96 91.4 96 , 96/ 961 96 1 971 971 971 971 97 971 951 98 9 98 99 — 7 li 7 711 — —...

Tuearlay, July 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - Robinson and Co. Rainhill, Lancashire, tar-distillers- Owen and Evans, Southampton, Doctors of Medicine-Appleton and Co. Manchester,...