Tim longest day has an end : the long debate on the second read- ing of the Ew..1. esiastioal Titles Bill has been brought to a close. The vote of the Commons may be taken as a...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. Horse or Loans. Monday, March 24. Sale of Arsenic Regulation Bill, read a third time and passed—Corn Importations ; Motion by the Earl of...

rumours of the approaching substitution of a definitive Parliamentary Ministry for the existing Ministry of transition. The reports were at first definite and peremptory ; but...

At a Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, Mr. Carter was sworn in as Alder- man of Cornhill Ward, in room of the late Sir John Pirie. The Court passed resolutions of condolence with...

THE Royal Family returned from Osborne to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday afternoon, The Queen held the third levee of the season, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday : she...

Lord Dungarvan has, much to the astonishment of the electors of West Somersetshire, retired from the position of candidate for the honour of representing the county on the...

The Lord Provost of Edinburgh has received a communication from , the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, acceding to the request of the citizens that the statue of Queen...

Dungarvan election has issued in a very signal defeat of the Tenant League party, represented by its most able advocate, Mr. J. Francis Ma- guire, of the Cork Examiner : the...

FRANCE.—At the end of a week during which the French journals have communicated not a scrap of news interesting to the English reader, there comes the " report" that the...

SA.T17E.ILY. The House of Commons witnessed, last night, another exhibition of "Ministerial practice in the art of sinking : Lord Jonst RUSSELL brought forth his third or...

The Protectionist papers announce with much flourish, that Lord Stan- ley will be entertained at Merchant Tailors' Hall on the 2d of April. " Upwards of eighty Peers and more...

Bristol. It is understood that Major-General Smelt will be removed from the Sixty-second Regiment to the Thirty-seventh, and that Major-General Lightfoot will be appointed...

of the child. Caroline Warns, at Thurlton, in August last. This was the singular case in which a labourer went into the bedroom of a little girl, the daughter of another...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has continued in the same state of inaction which has been its characteristic forsome time. The business transacted...

at the Hay- market, of Idoliere's Tartufe, done into English blank verse by Mr. John Oxenford. The experiment of producing a French comedy of the high "classical" school, with...

ANOTHER SHOT AT THE CAPE. London, 28th March 1851. Snt—To the annoyances, disgusts, and dangers, which have for a time transformed the Cape of Good Hope from one of the most...

Her Majesty's Theatre opened on Saturday last, with unusual bril- liancy. The house was completely full in all parts ; and, instead of the ordinary ante-Easter dullness, there...

on Thursday next, with Semiramide—Grisi and Angri in the two principal characters. In addition to the standing repertoire of the theatre, several novelties are announced : a new...

the Adelphi, is probably the worst of its kind ever seen. There is all the aim at " Adel- phi " effectiveness ; but the incidents are so ill-strung, that a shapeless mass,...

sented the audience with the following bill of fare. PART I. Sinfonia, No. 11 (Grand) Haydn. Quintett, "Tell me, good Ali," (Azar and Zenatra,) Miss Kearns, Miss Thornton,...

MAJORITY FOR THE SECOND READING, Abdy, Sir T. N. Blakemore, R. Christy, Samuel Acland, Sir T. D. Bt.Blandford, Marq. of Clay, James Adair, Hugh E. Boldero, Capt. IL Clay, Sir W....

THE STANLEY MAJORITY. THE worst enemies of the official Whigs could not have wished for anything more destructive of their power than this supplemental existence, since it...

THE decennial enumeration, to be taken on the 31st of this month, seemed to be distasteful to Lord Stanley from its particid-rity. But the opportunity is a rare one, and ought...

to consider whether the Cafflo war ought to be prose- cuted or not, and by whom the expenses ought to be paid. The cost should be defrayed by those who incurred it; the war is...

lfasaniello is suppressed at Berlin, even as Tell has been—not modern imitations- of those heroes, but the operas so called, by Rossini and Auber. The Prussian Government,...

ACCORDING to the Turin correspondent of the Times, the great military cordon which Austria is drawing from Lego di Como to Lago Maggiore and along the banks of the two is formed...

A StrDDMq flush of boiler explosions has its uses in drawing more marked attention to a danger which is constant amongst us, al- though its actual visitations are not, in...

THE perishable labours of man often form a chapter of lamentations, and those of modern public life seem more than any "to dumb for- getfulness a prey." In diplomacy, hardly any...

DIXON'S LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN . . * Ma. HEPWORTH Drxox has shown the same judgment in choos- ing William Penn for the subject of a biography, as he displayed in his previous Life...

NILE NOTES. * AT one time a book of travels, whatever else it might be, was solid. A traveller who ventured upon a volume had either something to tell about a country that had...

present time—the middle of the century ; and it forms part of a work in which the past and the future are both to be treated of. Whether the first fifty years are a bygone day...

EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. The first general glance round this exhibition impressed us with the idea that it is the best held by the Society of British...

Boons. Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social. By James F. W. Johnston, M.A., F.R.S. S.L. and E., &c. In two vo- lumes. The History of the Church of...

On the 15th December, at James Town, St. Helena, the Lady of the Reverend James Chambers, Chaplain of the island, of a daughter. On the 2d February, at Government House,...

WAR■OPPICE, March 24.-18th Regt. of Foot-Ensign J. E. Swindley to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Minter, deceased; Ensign A. H. Thistlethwayte, from the 97th Foot, to be...

AnninAurv, March 21.-The followin g promotions have this day taken place con- sequent upon the death of Admiral Sir E. Hamilton, Bart. K.C.B.-Admiral of the Blue G. Barker to be...

PAnTNERsntrs DISSOLVED.-Hastings and Pagan, Rochdale, cotton-spinners- Pagan and Co. Rochdale, woollen-manufacturers; as far as regards R. Pagan and A. Stewart -Cattermoul and...

RAMA/TIP- Caledonian Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties Great Northern Great South. and West. Ireland Great Western Hull and Selby Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and...