vivified by the presence of Mr. O'CONNELL who takes up with renewed vigour the old threat of what Ireland will do to obtain in- dependence when England shall be at war. Few...

THE Parliamentary deeds of the week may be briefly recounted. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has tied down the House of Commons to work out, in Committee, the clauses of the new Poor-law...

renovated hopes *mu the effect which the Import - duties Report has had throughout the country. Last week we recorded a meeting at Huddersfield, which was satisfactory on...

POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. The House of Commons resumed the discussion of the clauses of the Poor-law Amendment Bill on Monday. Before going into Committee, Mr. FIELDER moved an...

from the United States is most remarkable and most satisfactory : no new symptom of hostility has appeared ; the hostile tone of the Legis- lature and the press is not supported...

The labours of the St. Alban's Election Committee have terminated somewhat abruptly. The inquiry was continued for ten days, from Sa- turday week till Wednesday last. The...

THE incidents of Court history this week are not very striking. The Queen and Prince Albert have appeared a good deal in public. A Court was held at Buckingham Palace on...

The annual meeting of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association was held on Wednesday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. Ouly those were admitted who had procured...

The Manchester Chronicle renews the statement that Mr. William Entwistle he started with Sir George Murray as a candidate for the representation of Manchester at the next...

The Lord - Lieutenant is to leave Dublin today, on a visit to his father, Fortescue. It has been reported that he will not return, but thai be will succeed Lord Normanby at the...

The objects of a "demonstration" against the Corn-laws, which is to be made in Glasgow, have been enlarged. The Glasgow Evening Post says— " We learn that it has been resolved...

The Marquis of Northampton, as President of the Royal Society, held a conversazione on Saturday night, at his mansion in Piccadilly. Prince Albert spent a couple of hours with...

OUR notice of this ingenious and useful inkstand has been postponed until we could speak from experience of its merits : we have had it in pretty constant use for several weeks,...

BIRTHS. On the 25th ult., the Hon. Mrs. KING, Rectory House, Henley-on-Thames, of a SOU. On the 57th ult., at the Vicarage, Ea s t Brad, Somersetshire, the Hon. Mrs. WILLIAM...

Arrived—At Gravesend. March 29th, China, Robertson ; and Northumberland, Guthrie, from Bengal ; and Marianne, Hal le, from Van Diemen's Land; April 2d, Ariel, Austin. from...

Bill, in the Chamber of Peers, closed on Thursday. A vote was then taken on the whole bill ; when it was carried, by 147 to 85. Of all the speeches made during the lengthened...

• SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. BLACKSTONE called atten- tion to the gross bribery disclosed by the evidence before the St. Alban's Election...

STOCK REMAIN:II. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The anxiety for the arrival of the American intelligence was gratified yester- day by the delivery of the letters and papers brought by the...

28th March. The Cortes, having finished the task of examining the validity of each Deputy's claim to sit, bad proceeded to elect a President. S. Arguelles was chosen, by 118...

York some days since, had not made its appearance up to a late hour last night ; though the Virginia sailing-packet, which left New York three or four days later, has arrived....

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION LAW. THE law of England is full of rules for the admission or rejection of evidence : some persons are, according to it, admissible witnesses, others not...

THERE is a North-country proverb to the effect that children and persons of weak intellect ought not to be intrusted with edge-tools. There are persons whom it seems equally...

Ma. GOULBURN opposed the third reading of the Jews Declara- tion Bill, on the ground that " a Jew could not enforce the law against blasphemy " ; and Sir ROBERT INGLIS declared...

Loan CARDIGAN'S mock trial does not seem to have given so much encouragement to the practice of duelling as some good people anticipated : at least the " fighting intelligence "...

SOME advocates of the claims advanced by the majority in the Ge- neral Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland think they have esta- blished their case when they say that the State has...

THE Concert of Monday was an improvement on the preceding one. The musical standard was altogether higher : every thing was excel- lent of its kind, and the only defects were...

As rart an existence of nearly half a century, this last gift of HAYDN to his art and to the world has been produced in Eogland ; not by the rich and titled patrons, as they...

Hisronr, Italy and the Italian Islands, from the earliest ages to the present time. By Wil- liam Spalding, Esq., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinbur g h.. With...

Ma. RAIKES is known, and not unfavourably, for a superficial but readable book descriptive of St. Petersburg and impressions he re- ceived there. The publication, however, had...

IF our readers are curious to see the book of a genuine lord, we recommend them to borrow these volumes—not to buy them. If the author may claim to have conquered English...

BOOKS. BOOKS. France since 1830. By THOMAS RAINES, Esq., Author of " A Visit to St. Petersburg." In two volumes. The History of Duelling : including narratives of the most...

THE CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL IN DANGER. • h' Nor is the imminent peril which h the Cartoons have just escaped the only one to which these precious 'relics are subjected: they have...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, March 29.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—First Lieut. W. Cr. C. Coffin to be Second Capt. vice Dixon, retired on half-pay ; Second Lieut. A. R. Wragge to he First...

Tuesday, March 30. PARTNERSHIPS DTSSOLVKIL Norton and Bufthem, Ipswich. milliners—Warburton and Ovington. Cateaton Street, warehousemen—Nicholson and Longmore. Hertford,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Primer.) Saturday Manday. rendes,. Wednes. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced d} per Cents. Reduced New 3} per...