Assembly possess at present more interest than any other French political events. Contrary to general expectation that Odilon Barret would be named reporter, M. de Tocqueville...

THE House of Lords has been tolerably busy this week. A useful measure, the Registration of Assurances Bill, has been passed through all its stages ; leave has been given to...

commencement. Altogether Ill members were present ; of the sixty elected members only two failed to attend. The scene is described as very imposing : the aged Bishop was arrayed...

persuasion to keep Baron Rothschild company in the Lobby of the House of Commons. The claims or no-claims of Mr. Salomons and Mr. Wire seemed so equally balanced, that little...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. 11011SE or LORA4. Monday. June 23. Lord Lyndhurst on Privilege in reference to the attendance of Jud g es -Re g istration of As: unlaces Bill ;...

the Whigs, it affects to hold the balance between Aristocracy and Democracy, or Conservatism and Progress ; like the Whigs, it is notorious for the facility with which it...

THIS week the Queen has been accompanied by the King of the Belgians in her almost daily visits to the Exhibition. On Tuesday her Majesty staid later than usual, and, by...

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the following letter was read from Messrs. Wigan and Co., the hop-factors who have suffered the loss of so many thousand pounds by the...

111th election took place on Tuesday ; and the citizens chose the Libe- ral candidate, Captain &obeli, in preference to their own Conservative Alderman, Mr. Sutcliffe. The...

The prospects of the crops of all kinds are deemed so highly favourable that the subject is almost the only one of a general nature discussed in the Irish journals. There is no...

FnANcE. — The Committee on the projects for revision of the Constitu- tion has determined on its report, and has chosen its reporter. The decision is in favour of a "total...

The Queen has signified her gracious intention of visiting Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday the 5th of July. The arrangements, we understand, will be on a scale of unusual...

The proclamation, so long delayed, for the election of a Representative Peer of Scotland in room of the late Viscount Strathallan, appeared in last night's Gazette. The election...

The opinions of the two Liberal candidates were very similar ; but Alderman Salomons had pledged himself on former occasions to stand, and bad been promised support as a Jew ;...

execs E./masses, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market continued without animation, or important business till yesterday; when some speculative purchases were effected The...

SS.TrarDAV. • The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill is again modified by Ministerial defeats and capitulations. In the general engagement with Sir Frederick Thetri ger, on his attempt...

Another - novelty is rinnounced by the active manager of Her Majesty's Theatre,—Thalberg's Florinda, to be produced on_ Thursday next. This opera is founded on a. subject which...

East Didia Company's College, lIaileybury, took place yesterday. At the former, the Duke of Cambridge made his first public appearance since the death of his father; moving a...

sudden re- action to a state of unexampled depression, continues in full force, but is no stimulus to dramatic productiveness. Mademoiselle Rachel has re- vived the dullest...

ter- minated the series for this season. It presented two novelties : the ap- pearance of Herr Pauer, a young pianist from Vienna, who played Hum- mers fine Concerto in A minor,...

Madame Viardot, in her great part of _Fides. This was last Saturday, when the .Prophite was performed to an. immense audience and with all its former splendour. Mario seemed to...

OP THE SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS. [Laid before the House of Commons on the 191h instant.] Thi elaborate and temperate document offers a clear and decided opinion, which...

"THANK GOD, THERE IS A HOUSE OF LORDS!" ALTHOUGH William Cubbett's exclamation was never adopted by the country to express u settled popular opinion, yet it must be confessed...

"Timm is something in the way of a murmur afloat, that the London shopkeepers find their shops comparatively deserted—that other exhibitions and sights are unattended—that money...

be reformed according to the Govern- ment plan, by being removed out of town altogether : so the House of Commons has decided. The plan has the advantage of seemine. ° to be a...

" I WILL " : the words will live in the memory of the people of Bedminster. The effect of the lesson conveyed by the devetion and hardihood of James North will be increased by...

the deaths in the Metropolis are ascribable to diseases of the chest, the hospital accommodation devoted to that class of diseases has heretofore been only one-tenth ; that is...

in our last paper to the overcrowding of towns : it will be seen bow strongly the writer, a man of observant mind, confirms the further remarks in our present number. "In all...

PALIN'S HTSTORY OF THE CHURCH o r ENGLAND. * TirE object of this work is to complete the history of the English Church from the Revolution, where Burnet and Bishop Short, with...

" WHAM shall be done with the surplus of the Crystal Palace ? " is a question now agitated in such a manner as to promise a clear and pleasant reply from all concerned, public...

How can you tell the way to pronounce a strange name correctly, unless it be clearly written ? how can you make out the spelling, unless the handwriting be perfectly...

volumes, the Reverend H. Christmas, was ordered relaxation and a warmer climate ; towards the close of last summer he started on a Southern tour, in company with " a dear and...

"hurry-graph." The subject of the poem is that phase of the Italian'struggle for independence and unity which was exhibited at Florence in 1848, with the ensuino . ° reaction,...

BOOKS. The Judges of England; with Sketches of their Lives, and Miscella- neous Notices connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the time of the Conquest. By Edward Foss,...

BRITISH INSTITUTION: EXHIBITION OF OLD PiCTIMES. The first striking landscape of the collection is a Rubens, admirably rich and free, "The Watering-place" (16). Near this is...

lead in poetic landscape based on idea and invention ; Mr. Liunell in that whose poetry, though not less deep and to the full as delightful, belongs rather to deli- cate and...

WAR-OFFICE, June 27.-7th Regt. of D ags.-Major G. P. Bustle, from half-pay Un- att. to he Major, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col. Sir H. F. C. Darrell, Bart. who exchanges; Capt. A. C....

On the 18th March, at :Mauritius, the Lady of the Hon. Rawson NV. Rawson, Esq., Treasurer and Paymaster-General of Mat colony, of a son and heir. On the 19th June, at Hartlip...

[Front the Official Return.] Ten Weeks of 184140. Week. 01'1851. Zymotk Diseases 1,883 .... 203 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases et' uncertain or variable seat 415 35...

Tuesday, June 24. Pstrrmasnirs DISSOLVED.—Massey, Neptune Street, Wandsworth Road, and Umpelby, High Street, Lambeth, potters-Scaife and Hunter, Bradford, Yorkshire, ca...

' (Last Official Quotation Austrian 5 p. Ct. Itelglau 41 - Ditto .14 Brazilian 3 - Buenos Ayres 6 — °Milan 6 Danish 5 - Dutch (Ex. 12 Guilders) —24 — Ditto 1 — French 3 -...