TEE holidays of Whitsuntide have brought the customary sus- pension of all reoognized business ; but the momentum of political excitement was too strong before the holidays to...

Tim QUEEN still remains ether marine villa in the Isle of Wight, fol- lowing her usually active course of life. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred have both visited her...

The Court of Common Council sat on Wednesday to consider a report from a Committee upon the Corporation Reform Bill. This measure has been altered by a Select' Committee; but...

The Conservatives of South Bucks entertained Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Dupre at Slough on Wednesday. Colonel Howard Vyse presided ; the Duke of Buckingham was present ; among the...

In April last the governing Board of Trinity College, Dublin, called up and " admonished" the Reverend Dr. Shaw and the Reverend Mr. Carmichael, Junior Fellows, for the offence...

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was opened on the 20th May with the usual ceremonies, by Lord Mansfield, the Lord High Commissioner. The Assembly has since sat...

$ roIM—The Conference of Paris held a preliminary meeting on Saturday, and assembled again on Wednesday. With the exception of Count Walewski, the president, none of the first...

The remains of the late Duchess of Orleans were buried at the Catholic Chapel, Weybridge, in the vault where lie the ashes of Louis Philippe and the Duchess ofNemours. A good...

SATURDAY. The House of Commons met at four o'clock yesterday and sat until long after midnight. It was, however, engaged, for the greater part of the time, on Committee of...

. An English version of the vaudeville Edgard et sa bonne, exneuted by Mr. J. M. Morton, and entitled Our French Lady's Maid, will Iprobably hold an important place in dramatic...

There is very little to say about the theatres this week. At Her Majesty's there has been nothing but repetition of the three or four pieces produced at the beginning of the...

Bank Issues Indemnity Bill, East India Loan Bill. Havelock Annuities Bill. Consolidated Fund (10,000.0001.) Bill, Consolidated Fund (500,0001.) Bill. Mutiny Bill. Marine...

THE PARLIAMENTARY SITUATION. WE apprehend that the Parliamentary atmosphere will prove to have been partially cleared up by the catastrophe of Mr. Card- well's motion. But the...

THE scandal of the recent duel in Paris does not appear to have been exaggerated in the earlier accounts ; on the contrary, it be- comes more serious through the explanations of...

TILE great fable of the Cardwell motion, which the House of Commons had been dramatizing to itself for a week, was just about closing when Mr. Bright appended to it that ....

TUE Times throws out a good suggestion, probably not without some reason for doing so : it is that the two lines of telegraph, by the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, shall both be...

Sirreosisu himself to be accused by Lord Derby of Sabbath- breaking, Lord Shaftesbury writes to the Times, denying that he " attended any meeting on the Sunday to which he...

le France they are going through the hard and apparently im- practicable lesson of trying to eat their horses: in England we are learning to make friends of our horses ; and the...

THE DEBATE ON MR. CARDWELL'S MOTION. Belfast, 24th May 18.58. Sin—The withdrawal of Mr. Cardwell's motion gives me no feeling except one of relief from perplexity and danger :...

Sia—The appointment of a Commission of Inquiry as to the best mode of "Manning the Nary," is indeed very promising of those "practical re- sults" which you anticipate from the...

STOCK EXCHANGE. Fames Arrunzoom. Since the commencement of business on Monday morning, the Market for Public Securities has been characterized by great inactivity, and an...

Lasrumney, Cardiff, 25th May 1858. Sm—I trust I may be allowed space in your columns for a few remarks en the affairs of Montenegro, which may pass as a supplement to the letter...

HURRAY'S FRENCH FINANCE AND FINANCIERS UNDER LOUIS THE FIFTEENTH. * A rtriff. history of French finance from the time when the cul- pable necessities of Louis the Fourteenth...

Ma. HORNBY was one of the Commissioners of the Turkish loan, and in the autumn of 1855, Mrs. Hornby accompanied him to Constantinople, remaining there for upwards of a...

" The 'Warden " his satire took a wider yet a closer range than he has since attempted, embracing the law, the church, the press, especially the " Thunderer " under the title of...

Tars volume is the result of a long acquaintance with Paris, and treats of topics that only the resident is likely to observe. Ex- cept the Bois de Boulogne, it is probable that...

BOOKS. Thy Word is Truth : an Apology for Christianity. By the Reverend John Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E., Minister of the Scotch National Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden ;...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. (Fourth Notice.) _ The new spirit which animates our art—that of seeking strong interest and pathos in the rich but latent resources of the life...

On the . 10th February, at Assumption, Paraguay, William C. Ouseley, only re- maining son of Sir Witham Gore Ouseley; K.C.B., her Majesty's Envoy . Extraordi- nary and Minister...

A second instalment of Mr. H. Wallis's collection of pictures is on view at this gallery. The works, numbering 132, are mostly familiar to our exhibition visitors. They include...

The French are perhaps the most military nation of the Continent; they are beyond comparison the best painters of military subjects. We might say (allowing for an exceptional...

James John Graham, eldest son of the late General Graham, Governor of Stirling Castle, to Isabella Louisa, daughter of the late General Walker, R.A., of Bushey, Herts. On the...

May 28.—Caralry-2d Re t. Drag. Guards—Capt. 1. G. Price to be Major, without purchase, vice J. P. Smith, killed in action ; Lieut. G. H. Allfrey to be Capt. without purchase,...

On the 19th May, Lady Margaret Leveson Gower, of a son. a On the 20th, at Orleigh Court, the Wife of Capt ain Audio,' Mervyn Archdale, of IL son. On the 21st, at Ashintully...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. N'ednss Thurs. Friday. 3 Per Cent Consols 984 98 971 971 99 978 Ditto for Account 98 i 974 971 978 98 074 3...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 25. Bankrupts. - LONDON AND EAsrenn BANIUSo CORPORATIoN, Threadneedle Street CLEmEnrs, Hythe, corn-factor-WM.1.MM TOWNSEND, Notting Hill, florist -...