Benjamin Hall's two bills on the subject of Health and Removal of Nuisances were introduced on that night. We have noticed them in a separate paper. The one continues the...

been marching, and the documents themselves are events of magnitude. They consist of correspondence between Austria and Prussia, of a despatch by the French Foreign Minister to...

GOVERNMENT has anticipated the discussion of the House of Com- mons on the question of confidence, by mooting the question of confidence in itself, with an important...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF TY113 WEEK. Holm OP Lome. Tuesda JIM. 23. The Vote- of Thanks ; Acknowledgment of AdmicalDundas.read by the Lord Chancellor—The Crimean 3Iedal; Duke of...

and it threatens new irritations. There are about 13,000 convicts in Van Diemen's Land, which, it will be recollected, continued to be the depository of convicts from this...

The Court of Common Council met on Tuesday, and took into consi- deration the recommendations of the recent Commission of Inquiry with respect to the reform of the Corporation....

TEE QUEEN gave audience to the Earl of Aberdeen on Wednesday and Thursday. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the children, have walked in the grounds adjoining Windsor Castle...

Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans has been staying at Folkestone- and the inhabitants of Folkestone, Hythe, and Sandgate have presented Mtn with a sword, and an address of...

Dublin was nicely hoaxed on Tuesday. A report, springing nobody knew exactly whence, was rapidly circulated that "Sebastopol has fallen." Some said that the Lord Chancellor had...

FBANCE.-At a meeting of the Senate, on Monday, Admiral Hamelin took the oath and his seat. The bill calling out 140,000 men of the class 1854 was brought forward, and at once...

There has been a long trial in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, for wilful fire-raising. The accused were Dr. George Lillie Smith and Robert Campbell. Campbell VMS...

• Two Cabinet Councils have been held this week. At the first, on Wed- nesday, all the Ministers attended, except Lord John Russell. The Coun- cil broke up a few minutes past...

SATURDAY. The topic of absorbing interest is the Ministerial explanations in the Rouse of Commons, last night. . The orders of the day having been postponed, on the motion of...

Of these, 106 are for Railway purposes, four are promoted by Insurance- companies, two by Scotch Banking-companies ; the others comprise Roads, Gas, Docks, Canals, &c. The...

Manchester, an extract from the reported speech of Mr. Milner Gibson at the soiree on Friday last, in which that dilettante statesman, casting about for points to 'adorn his...

it is stated a French army of 100,000 or 160,000 men will forthwith pro- ceed to join the Austrian army on the Russian frontier. A telegraphic despatch from St. Petersburg,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have been rather unsettled this week ; attributed more to speculative transactions and various rumours than to other causes....

Ifonday, January 29... Mr. Roebuck's War Motion—Adjourned debate. Newspaper-stamps and Postage-duties—The CHANCELLOR of the Excaactuaa to move in Committee of the whole House, "...

their concerts for the ensuing season ; a step which they have taken, we believe, after long inquiry and anxious deliberation. Herr Wagner, (the uncle of Mr. Gye's Johanna,)...

Although scarcely a year has elapsed since the production of r Eloile do Nord, the composition of an opera is a slow work, and therefore M. Scribe has had plenty of time to...

career. He has followed up his Beethoven and Mendelssohn Festivals with a " Mo- zart Festival," which he gave on Tuesday evening. The house was the fullest of the season ; the...

To be, or not to be, a military nation, is the grand question posited by the Times this week : the same question, mutatis mutandis, might be applied to any other branch of...

The Parisians, whO, from the days of Moliere downwards, have ever enjoyed a laugh at unfortunate husbands—as if the estate of matrimony were the most ridiculous thing in the...

STATE OF THE CABINET. THE explanation of Lord John Russell involves disclosures which, on reflection, are even more painful than the surprise at his abrupt desertion to the...

carries forward two improvements besides those strictly relating to health alone. It advances a reform in the mode of legislation on local and private business, and it will be a...

MERE i8 a style of speaking which is very effective in public meetings, and which consists in round assertions without proof. If such assertions are mixed up with a sufficient...

WE had fallen, it seems, under the displeasure of our great con- temporary the Leading Tonrnal; and we learn the fact under the most agreeable form—the first holding out of the...

COBDEN, COTTON, AND WAR. 1 Adam 8treet, Adeiphi, 22d January 1855. Sni—Mr. Cobden has in his speech in Yorkshire done his utmost to make out his case in repudiating the war....

Arle-Bury, 24th January 1855. SIR—As you have alluded more than once to the fact that Russian agency is at work in England, and have even suggested that the periodical press of...

SIR — I notice in the Spectator of this day, 20th January 1855, two dis- tinct paragraphs in the same page, but greatly separated ; I think they might have been placed in...

_Edinburgh, 13th January 1855. SIR—A few weeks ago, a "North Briton," in a letter to the Spectator, al- luded to the courage and prowess of the Scotch regiments in the Crimea....

On the 4th December, at the Mahableshur Hills. the Wife of the late Henry Ed- ward Goldsmid, Esq., Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, of a daughter. On the 6th...

Tuesday, January 23. PARTNERSHIPS Dissozven.-Hanson and Sons, cabinet-makers-Cassini and Dou g hty, Hi g h Street, Camden Town, pianoforte-hammer-coverers-White and Morns;...

BREVET. Mejor-Gen. Sir C. Campbell. E.C.B. and Major-Gen. J. L. Pennefather, C.B. to i have the local rank of Lieut.-Gen. in Turkey. Col. H. H. Rose, C.B. holdin g the rank of...

AM/MALTY,' Jan. 23.-The followin g promotions, dated the 22.1 instant, have this day taken place, conse q uent on the decease, on the 20th instant, of Rear-Admiral of the White...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Cies mg Prices.) Sanwa. Monday Iharday Wed ass. 3 per Cent Consols 91/ 911 911 Ditto for Account 911 91 911 3 per Cents Reduced :1 1 11 si 91 911...

County of -Middlesex, Printer, at the office of /Osten Cksttou, No 10,,Cranc_Court, In the Parish of St.- Phu- sten'. in the West, in the City orLondon; • and Published LI the...

GUNNING'S REMINISCENCES OF CAMBRIDGE. * THE writer of these Reminiscences died in the early part of last year, between eighty and ninety years old, having filled the office of...

JANUARY 27, 1855.

James Watt have been published in various forms. The " doge " of Arago presented the scientific intellect of the great discoverer, with an acumen and a completeness that left...

of Brittany, through whose marriage with Charles the Eighth the province was annexed to France, has been incidentally told by Hume, with a pregnant brevity which exhausts the...

case, a gazetteer cannot be original in its matter. Even if a man had visited all the places in a country of sufficient importance to require a geographical dic- tionary, he...

ACCOB.DING to indications the greater portion of these papers should be new ; but there is just now so much deception going on with respect to American books that it is only by...

to "take their ease in their inn," and in their diligence also, most assuredly they will not, if they make no allowance for the fair writer's account of her two months' journey...

Berms. A History of England during the Reign of George the Third. By William Massey, M.P. Volume I. 1744-1770. A Ramble through Normandy; or Scenes, Characters, and Incidents...