ROYALTY is in active demand, - especially English royalty. No sooner has the Queen returned to England, after ascertaining how high are the quotations of English royal stock in...

The East India Company held a special Court on Monday, Si- Frede- rick Currie in the chair ; a meeting chiefly remarkable because it is the last of the famous old Company as a...

QUEEN Vic-roma is now at Osborne again, having arrived there on Tuesday. Before she quitted Babelsberg a festival was held there on the 27th in honour of the Prince Consort's...

Major Beresford, who is apprehensive of some Tory opposition in North Essex from Colonel Brise the select man of the malcontents, has been down to the Saffron Walden polling...

During his stay at Ballinasloe, Cardinal Wiseman was entertained at a banquet where only two laymen were present ; the convivialists being a collection of one hundred and fifty...

It is reported that Mr. Smollett, who represents Dumbartonshire, is about to retire from public life. Mr. Archibald Ewing, of Leven Bank, is mentioned as his probable successor....

f f5 II 11.—The Emperor and Empress have left St. Cloud for Biarritz. While in Paris they were visited more than once by Lord Palmerston. Of course his presence in France has...

The Council of India is now completed. The four members nominated this week are, Sir John Lawrence, Bait, G.0.13., Sir Henry Montgo- mery, Bait, Sir Probyn Cauticy, K.C.B., and...

SATURDAY. The change in the Home Government of India was yesterday formally effected. In the room in Leadenhall Street, where the old Court of Di- rectors were wont to meet,...

The penultimate season of Mr. Charles Kean's management, which came to its termination this week has been distinguished by an honour- able and successful effort on the part of...

&wee EXCHANGE, Faulty Aro:execs. The announcement of the new Turkish Six per Cent Loan for 5,000,000/. the first issue of which is to be for 3,00000a, caused the English Funds...

This—the greatest of all the provincial music-meetings—has been going on during the present week, and terminated yesterday. The Birmingham Festival has been held every three...

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, THE East India Company has passed away ; the Council of India has taken its place, at least in part ; for at the very hour of " moving " it was...

Wait did Colonel Jebb in his annual report on the progress, state, and prospects of English convict prisons, include observations on the Irish convict prisons ? Perhaps we shall...

Is the tradesman to be bound to tell the truth under pain punishment at the criminal law ? The attempt to enforce sue: a -- rule would appear to be not only an inversion of the...

Ie many men still living had been told in youth, or even middle life, that a scene at the antipodes, a departed friend, or an object invisible to the naked eye, could be...

AMONG the duties that overburden Parliament, and, as often hap- pens, sometimes compel it to be idle by throwing upon it too much work, there is no section more burdensome than...

IT has often been remarked, that no man could for an instant ride a horse if the brute could only once conceive the real differ- ence between the strength of the two. It has...

BEFORE the Prince Imperial was born, the Empress Eugenie used to ride in the Bois de Boulogne. In the wood is an effigy of the Virgin Mary, and, according to the tale, the...

CHURCH-RATES. August 23rd, 1858. is to be hoped that in the next session of Parliament the church- rate question may be got rid of one way or another. Four plans, it seems, are...

Sin—Beyond the British boundaries in South Africa there is a "free state," enjoying freedom from British law, and the restraints of justice and humanity. It is composed of the...

WELLECGTON ON DRAUGHT ANIMALS IN DRY COUNTRIES.—" The question is what species of cattle will answer 'hest. The country which must be the scene of operations is a desert from...

On the 19th, August, at Douglas, Isle of Man, Vice-Admiral Henry Higman ; in his 77th year. On the 25th, at Crown Point, Norfolk, Lieutenant, General Archibald Money, C.B.,...

On the 19th August, at Stapleton, Salop, Rev. T. Burrowes Adams, of Aldridge Lodge, in the county of Stafford, to Catherine Frances, eldest daughter of the Rev. Henry and.the...

On the 29th June, at Hong Kong, the wife of the Hon. Henry Tudor Davies, of a son. On the 19th July, at Herschel, Cape of Good Hope, the Wife of Frederick F. Rutherford, Esq.,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, ATGEST 31. \TAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, August 31. - Cavalry - 2d Regiment of Drag. Guards- et-Major C. S. Hutchinson to be Major, by purchase, vice Keene,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 3 Per Cent Consols Ditto for Account S pec Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Sant Stock, 11 per Cent India Stock,...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 31. Bankruptc-Enwesto JOHN COOK, Hall Street, City Road, commission-agent- GEORGE Ross Binensta, Burton-upon-Trent, inn-keeper-Twoues DAwsos,...

County of Middlesex, Printer, atthe office ofJosern CIAT' TON, 17, Bouverie Street, In the Precinct of WhItefrhus , lathe City of London ; and Published by the aforesaid Jousts...

SEPTEMBER 4, 1858. BOOKS. COCHRAN'S TRANSLATION OF CHRISTOFFEL'S ZWINGLI. * 80ME admirers of the Swiss religious Reformer, Zwingli, in- c li ne to give him 'precedence over...

of clever dexterity rather th a n art, distinguish Mr. Thornbury's new romance of Brery Man his own Trumpeter ; but the work is not well adapted to stand the test of criticism....

Tins account of the race, whose head is the Duke of Leinster, may not have the historical breadth of view, the artistical digression, and (perhaps from want of sufficient...

prevail," though it often takes a lone. ° time to gain the mastery. In matters of practice and opin- ion this slowness is less to be ascribed to the weakness of truth and the...

John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, submitted to the Treasury a proposition for the publication, under competent editors, of documents illustrative of English history, from the...

ta- lent they possess of turning their hands to anything, threw up a battery front of their guns, and escaped with scarcely a casualty; while the artil- lerymen, less inclined...

Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion. By John Langton Sanford, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Five Years of It. By Alfred Austin. In two volumes. A Dictionary...