THE position of the Conferences at Vienna, although officially veiled with a certain degree of reserve, is perfectly intelligible. The Plenipotentiaries, as we stated last week,...

in the Crimea. The French works approaching the Russian earth-works in the front Of the Malakoff tower continue to be pressed forward ; and collisions between the advanced...

consideration of the message from the Crown annonnoing the con- vention with Sardinia, under which that state will furnish its contingent of 15,000 men for service in the Peat,...

J. C. Ewart, and by so great a majority as 6718 to 4262. His opponent was selected by the Tory party as a fitting heir to Mr. II. T. Liddell ; the organization to support him...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER, Eorss OF LORDS. Monday, March 26. Treaty with Sardinia; the Queen's Mes-- sage considered—Despatch of Business Court of Chancery Bill committed...

one track, the admLnistration of the medical depart- ment,—the exposure becomes more complete, the evidence more damaging to "the system " ; and the u:gent necessity of reforms,...

opened on an unprecedented occasion—the arrival of a French "Emperor," and that Emperor a Napoleon. Verdun is avenged ; St. Helena is assoilzied. The visit at once gives birth...

The thirty-fourth anniversary of the Seamen's- Hospital Societrwas celebrated by a dinner at the London Tavern on Wednesday. This-in- stitution extends its benefits to. seamen...

THE QUEEN held a levee at St. James's Palace on Monday. The levee was attended by a brilliant crowd ; but the presence most remarked was that of the Marquis of Clanricarde. On...

Fluarce..—The Moniteur of Wednesday contained the following an- nouncement of the long-expected visit of the Emperor Napoleon to this country. "Her Majesty Queen Victoria has...

The nomination for the vacant seat at Liverpool was on Tuesday. The proceedings seem to have excited little interest, and the speeches of the candidates certainly were not...

Some new information affecting the "Handcock and Delacour " case came to light in the Times of Monday. In his recently-published affidavit, Lord Clanricarde mentioned "a Mr....

On the 21st March, in Carlton Gardens, the Hon. Mrs. J. Stuart Wortley, of a daughter. On the 22d, in Upper Grosvenor Street, the Hon. Mrs. Robert Herbert, of a son and heir....

long Easter holiday ; fixing Monday the 16th April as the day for the next meeting. In the House of Commons, various statements were made and an- swered on the motion for...

of Trade ; Mr. H. B. W. Brand the office of a Junior Lord of the Treasury. Mr. Edmund Burke Roche has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The inquiry before the Sebastopol...

SAT17RDAY. In connexion with pending negotiations, the Morning Past gives the following information- " We believe that, yesterday afternoon, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, with the French...

STocio Eseloopeit; FRIDAY ARTREHotoi. A belief has prevailed this week of an early reduction by the Bank of England in their rate of discount. This feeling has been promoted...

Monday, the New on Wednesday. Both were good, and both at- tracted crowded audiences, a - proof that there is room for both, and that an honourable emulation will not do harm to...

The departure of Mademoiselle Rachel for the United States, which has been so long anticipated, is . at 'last formally prohibited by the voice of authority: By the 12th article...

If Mr. Charles Mathews's advertisement for a partner possibly raised a smile among some of the readers, a feeling of sympathy is assuredly awakened by the later and longer...

evening drew a large audience"; and its success has led to the announcement of a similar concert on the lath of 'April. The concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms, also, are to...

RECEIVED TEE ROYAL ASSENT. Militia BilL Enlistment of Foreigners BilL Army Service Act Amendment Bill. Fisheries (North America) BilL Consolidated Fund (3,300,00W.) Bill....

THE VACANCY IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE. PERSONALITIES are to be avoided in reference to public affairs, and 3 et while persons retain influence it is impossible to exclude per-...

Jr is proposed to form as a contingent of the British Army in the East a corps of Turkish Irregulars in British pay, commanded by British officers. The proposal is not quite so...

Ix some nations it has been the custom to place women and criminals on the same footing ; and to a certain extent it may be said to be the case with us at present. When, in...

GOSSIP, says Mr. Drummond, is the commodity manufactured in the office of the principal daily newspapers. Gossip the people of this country will have, and it is the vocation of...

ALMONERS FOR THE POOR. _London, 26th March 1855. Sin—If my reply to your correspondent, "A Loudon Clergyman," has given him the impression that I am perfectly satisfied with...

IN the Militia debate of the Peers on Thursday, Lord Panmure said that Government is "endeavouring to accomplish that by voluntary , means which formerly could only be...

MAYOR'S NICHOLAS FEMUR.. This is a volume which must be allowed mainly to tell its own story in the extracts we can find room for. It consists of two lives of the famous...

in China, and his Im- pressions of the Celestials contain useful and rather striking mat- ter, overlaid by the groundless hopes and headlong reasonings of a sanguine man engaged...

TEE first part of Thorney Sall is a story of the commonest occur- rences of daily life among the humblest middle-class, rendered interesting by the social condition in which the...

Boons. Learning and Working. Six Lectures delivered in Willis's Booms, London, in June and July 1854. The Religion of Rome and its Influence on Modern Civilization. Four...

An exhibition of "Water-colour Drawings and Pictures by amateur artists, and art-contributions, in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of British officers...

THE SOCIETY OP BRITISH ARTISTS. The exhibition in Suffolk Street, though as much wanting as usual in passable treatments of subjects of any ambition, and even in pictures of...

The last artistic record we saw of Mont Blanc was a large and very clever amateur volume, by a gentleman named, if we recollect rightly, Browne. Another one,* small in scale, is...

7ue8day, March 27. Pmts.:seam:1ms DISSOLVED.-Lilly and Carter, Barnstaple, drapers-Beck and Co. Middle Wharf, Adelphi-Cousens and Whiteside, Davies Street, Berkeley Squire,...

WAR-OFFICE, March 27.-Scots Fusilier Guards-Capt. J. Scott, from the 79th Foot, to be Lieut. and Capt. by purchase, vice Bulwer, who retires. 79th Regt. of Foot-Lieut. P....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday Wednes. — -- -- 3 per Cent Consols 934 93 93 921 Ditto for Account 931 93} 93} 93 3 per Cents Reduced shut New 3 per...