NOTWITHSTANDING the interruption caused by the adjournment of two days, both Houses of Parliament have again got through a very considerable amount of business ; and although...

PRINCIPAL RFSINESS OF THE WEER. 1101:Fri Or loans. Monday, May 25. Transportation and Penal Servitude ; Sir George Grey's Bill read a first time—Divorce and Matrimonial Causes...

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates, Mr. Wimumas moved that the Estimates should be referred to a Select Committee. His reasons for taking...

Select Committee "to inquire into the constitution of the Board of Admiralty, with the view of making it more efficient, and better adapted to the various duties it has to...

When the report of the resolution adopted in Committee of the whole House on the 224, for granting an annuity of 8000/. to the Princess Royal, was brought up on Monday, Mr....

On the motion for going into Committee on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, the Duke of NORTOLE moved that the bill should Le referred to a • Select Committee....

Mr. ROEBUCK celled attention to our Mallow with Brazil, and moved that a Select Committee should be appointed to take those relations into 'consideration. He said that his...

Lord Doarosassois asked the Bishop of London, whether certain evening discourses delivered in Exeter Hall by right reverend prelates and other dignitaries of the Church were...

Lord RATICHAM moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Aggravated Assaults Bill, with a view to render it more effective. He believed corporal punishment...

On the motion of Mr. G. H. Moors; a bill "to provide for the better securing and regulating the custom of tenant-right as practised in the province of Ulster, and to secure...

Tire records of the Court newsman are without incident. The Queen appears to have gone much out of doors, according to her custom ; sometimes walking with Prince Albert and the...

The Queen's birthday was kept with great spirit on Tuesday. In the morning there was a military parade in the rear of the Horse Guards. The Duke of Cambridge and nearly all the...

Mr. Baring, the new Lord of the Admiralty, was reelected at Fa/-mouth on Wednesday, without opposition. Death has already made two vacancies in the new House of CommoneMr. D....

Church of Scotland, at Edinburgh, commenced on the 21st instant. The session was opened in the Assembly Hall, with the usual formalities, by Lord Belhaven, the Lord High...

i fraurr.—The French Court and its guests returned to Paris from Fontainebleau on Sunday. The King of Bavaria was lodged in the Pavilion Marsan at the Tuileries ; and...

Two appointments that had been some time in suspense are now filled up. Mr. Henry Herbert, Member for Kerry, succeeds Mr. Horsman as Secretary for Ireland. This appointment is...

Epsom races began on Tuesday. The weather, proved propitious, and the sport has been above the average in quality. The racing on the first day attracts little notice except from...

SATURDAY. The House of Commons alone sat last night ; the House of Lords having adjourned from Thursday to Thursday next. A great variety of business was transacted in the...

STOCK EXCH./140E, FRIDAY ATITEN0011. The transactions of the week in National Stocks have been extremely limited ; up to yesterday prices had continued almost...

The Lyceum came into collision with Her Majesty's Theatre by the production of a rival Trariata ; Her Majesty's Theatre has retorted by bringing out a counter noratore ; and now...

A short piece entitled La Clef des Chanting has been produced at the Opera Comique. The inhabitants of a French village, anxious to celebrate a local festival, are tit a loss...

-The Cologne Choral Union (Der Reiner Manner-Gesang-Verein) have visited this country a third time, their previous visits having been in 1853 and 1854. During the week they have...

CONSOLIDATION OF THE LAW. visiona, the following enumeration will probably suffice— by making each head the subject of a separate enactment, those that remain that it may well...

London, 26th May 1857. Sin—Statistics, it has been said, can be made to prove anything : a coach and six can be driven, it is well known, through an act of Parliament: what of...

Belfast, 26111 May 1857. Sie—We have heard but little lately about the Suez Canal ; but the impression remains that the British Government is disposed to discourage it. I fear...

"OUR ISTHMIAN GAMES." - Ta - E national games at Epsom held our legislative business suspended, and summoned society to witness that important event— the triumph of a horse....

WHAT a larder, what a kitchen would be established, if France and England were to enter into partnership—if the "entente cordiale " could be established between the grazier, the...

WmurnEn or • not the Educational Conference, which is to be opened on the 22d of June by Prince Albert, shall result in a new impulse to popular education, or only a new impulse...

IN every , respect the Attorney-General's bill to make provision for the punishment of frauds committed by trustees, bankers, and other persons intrusted with property,...

No explanation has been given to Parliament respecting the Dallas-Clarendon tre-aty.* We noted the expiry of the term for the exchange of ratifications without any announcement...

MEHORIA.LS OF ANDREW CROSSE THE ELECTRICIAN. * IT is just twenty-one years since the British Association an d the world at large were startled by a statement, that a man unknown...

PYRENEES. * THE author of these sketches lately passed a winter at Pan and the watering - place of Bagneres de Bigorre for the benefit of his health. His volume contains an...

formerly mentioned has been noted by others, and indeed the fact is too obvious to escape notice. It may be doubted, however, whether the increase is much greater in the pure...

Booxs. History of Wesleyan Methodism. Volume I. Wesley and his Times. By George Smith, F.A.S., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, &c. The City, its Sins and Sorrows : being...

On the 16th, at Sketty Park, Glamorgansldre, the Wife of G. B. Morris, Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th, at Speke Hall, Lancashire, the Wife of R. Watt, Esq., of a slaughter....

On the 19th May, at Croydon, the Rev. Henry Estridge, B.A. of Trio. Coll. Oxon., Curate of Cl,. Ch., Ramsgate, and eldest son of the late Rev. H. T. Estridge. of Tunbridge, to...

On the 15th May, deeply regretted, Sophia Elixabeth, wife of Major R. M. Poolden, Royal Artillery, only daughter of the late Lady dophia Foy, and of LieutenantColonel Foy, of...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 29. WAR Genes, May 29.-Military Train-Parnaster O. Williams, from the late Land Transport Corps, lobe Paymaster. Infantry-1st or Grenadier Regt....

Partnerships Dissolred.-Brown, Epping, and Adams, Nosing, sheep-dealers-T. and W. Rowlands, Epping, chemists-Sewell and Wilson, Manchester, silkmanufacturers-Deritend Tannery...

Partnerships Dissoleed.—Thompson and Co. Leeds, mungo-manufacturers; as far as regards 11. B. Richardson—Richardson and Thompson, Leeds, cloth-merchants—Pascoe and Co. Bodmin,...