THE new Parliament met on Thursday, and many of the Members saw each other for the first time. They have before them a clear stage, and no unfavourable construction. The public,...

TAB OPENDTO. The first session of the fifth Parliament of Victoria was opened on the day appointed—the 30th April. )3oth Houses met at two o'clock—two hours earlier than...

Immediately after the return of the Commons to their own House, they proceeded to the election of a Speaker. The chairman on the occasion was the Chief Clerk, Sir Denis Le...

THE Court is reminded of the transitory tenure of the highest station, by the death of the Duchess of Gloucester. Ever since the 18th of last month the Duchess has boon visibly...

Much attention has of late been paid to the great diversities and the' unequal incidence of the poor-rates in the London parishes. While some parishes levy a rate as high as...

The Liberal Members for the city and county of Hereford were entertained by their constituents in the Shire-Hall on the 29d April ; the Chancellor, of the Exchequer presiding....

The Dublin Protestant Association has met with a rebuff from the Lord-Lieutenant. They presented a memorial to him, complaining of outrages against tho Px.oteetants during the...

The citizens of Glasgow, obedient to a call from the Lord Provost, met on Tuesday in the Merchants' Hall to express their sympathy for the condition of many of the states of...

"Tall fr.—The lion of the day in France is the Grand Duke Constantine. His stay at Toulon was one long fete, our lively allies making everything pleasant. But the balls and...

The subject of military education continues to draw out those who have long taken a share in its advancement. The letter of Dr. Vaughan has suggested to the Reverend 0. It....

SATURDAY. The largest intentions of the Government appear most frequently to find their earliest foreshadowing in some such utterance as that which stands first in the leading...

STOCK EXCHANGE, THURSDAY Arrsasoos. The Money-market has been depressed all the week. The demand for accommodation continues very active, the rate of interest on Government...

Mr. Lumley has now put forth the whole strength of his company, with the exception of Alboni, the only performer of note announced in his prospectus of the season who has not...

Cannna, the new tragedy written by Signor Montanelli, (the Itelian translator of Medea,) for Madame Ristori, has been produced with great success. The plot is taken from...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, Year by year the number of our very bad pictures diminishes, and the seriousness, close study, and sound purpose with which art is pursued,...

That England is far ahead of all other countries in water-colour painting is an admitted fact. The comparison, therefore, which she challenges from year to year when the two...

A CO1JE.SE OF ACTION FOR THE NEW HOUSE. IF our representative institutions are on trial, so are the individual representatives, the Members of the present House of Commons. How...

THE French throw out "ideas," the practical English convert them into " fads." The science of France is distinguished, buc it is in England that we apply it to the purposes of...

IN a recent paper we claimed attention to the state of military education in England as compared with the great Continental monarchies. We contrasted the comparative absence of...

left by the Government to finish by herself the search for the remains of her husband and his comrades. The Government, which last year "considered" her request, temporized, and...

IF gentlemen would spare the memory of John Macgregor, and apply the true moral of his story, his calamities would not have been in vain. His career was indeed remarkable. A...

"WRONG change !" is a frequent complaint with the railway passenger, who finds it out too late to rectify the mistake ; and it is not worth while to take a second journey, or to...

Oun Leading Journal relates the most striking event to which we are at present looking forward, and draws from it a sufficiently practical moral ; but the event points, we...

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 8 Upper Harley Street, W., 'Ads April 1857. Sin—I conclude we shall have a Reform Bill, and that it will extend the franchise and equalize the...

Belfast, 25th April 1857. Bin—David Urquhart, a writer from whom I have learned much, though I do not in general agree with his practical conclusions, remarks that the...

30th April 1867. Sin—I had rather expected that you might yourself have applied some corrective to the principles advocated in Mr. James Aytoun's letter which appeared in your...

On the 22d March, at Agra, the Wife of the Hon. Robed A. J. Drummond, Bengal Civil Service, of a son. • On the 2Ist April, at Spa, Belgium, the Hon. Mrs. Harbord, of a...

On the 14th January, at Adelaide, South Australia, James Carisbrooke Lyon, Esq., second eon of the late James Lyon, Esq., of Southampton, to Jane Catherine, second surviving...

On the 16th March, at Ootamacund, Neilgherry Hills, Amelia, wife of Captain Colin Campbell, First Madras Light Cavalry, and daughter of the late MajorGeneral Sir Archibald...

WAR Orem, Pall Mehl, May 1.-/sfaratry-12th Regt. of Foot-Major-Gen. C. A. F. Bentinck to be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir It. G. H. Charges, K.C.B. dec. 60th Regt. of...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 28. Pcirtnerships Dissolred.-Jackson and Jopling, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whitesmiths-A. T. and J. Laport, Spitalflelds Market, fruit-salesmen-C....

Partnerships Dissolved.-M.Kean and Co. Southampton and Shirley, Hampshire, brewers ; as far as regards W. B. and J. aPC. 31•Kean-M'Kean and 'fobin, Southampton and Shirley,...

MAY 2, 1857. BOOKS. TOM BROWN'S SOHOOL-DAYS.* THE " Old Boy" has written a book which will interest almost equally thoughtful youths and genial men who look back to their...

IF these concluding volumes of the biography of Sir Charles Napier, mainly descriptive of his Indian administration, were to be implicitly believed, the reader Must form a ead...

principle of making iron—that is, of extracting the metal from the ore and separating from that metal the dross or refuse— is, like the principles of most other arts, simple...

BOOKS. New Zealand ; or Zelandia. the Britain of the South. With two Maps and seven coloured Views. By Charles Dursthouse, a New Zealand Colonist. In two volumes. The Life of...