Monday as Prime Minister, with a carefully-prepared explanation ; simple, some might call it meagre, in the matter of its statement, but full and flowing in language, emphatic...

PRINCIPAL 31118IMM2111 OF TUE WEEK. Loam. Monday, Mitch L lard Herbs% llinistcrial Statement- Houssialleurnod until March hrs. Horn oy COSITIONS. Monday; March 1. Ilo business...

Tim Qt-Rm•r, the Prince Consort, and the younger children, quitted Buck- ingham Palace on Monday morning, and arrived at Osborne early lathe afternoon. The Prince of Wales...

At a meeting of the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday, Alderman Cope- land moved that a precept should be issued for the election of an Alder- man for the ward of Cheap, in the room...

at the end of last week, but Lord Stanley did not publish his till Tues - day. There are few peculiarities in these documents, but they are noticeable. Sir Fitzroy? Kelly is the...

As Mr. Joseph Napier, and not Mr. Blackburne, has accepted the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, a vacancy has occurred in the representa- tion of Dublin 17niversity. Four...

A great eclipse of the sun is announced by the astronomers for Monday the 15th March. It will happen in England about one o'clock, and over a large belt of country there will be...

/rum—A good deal of agitation still exists in France, and com- merce has not revived. General Espinasse has directed the Prefects to exercise redoubled surveillance over all...

In June 1857, Lieutenant Oetavius Green, 36th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, and second in command of the 9th Oude Irregular Force. He is supposed, from the best information...

On the 20th February, at All Saint's, Paddington, W. G. H. Morgan, Esq., Lieu- tenant RN., eldest son of Wm. Morgan, Esq., Gloucester Terrace, to Marianne, eldest daughter of...

On the 11th January, at Meeam Meer, Punjaub, the Wife of Colonel Benny. 11.M.'s 81st Regiment, of a daughter. On the 12th February, at Corfu, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The upward tendency of the Consol Market, which has been recorded for some time past, has received a decided check from the Ministerial...

The style and title assumed by the new Lord Chancellor is "Baron Chelmsford, of Chelmsferd, in the county of R.tex." It was at this town that Mr. Frederick Thesiger gained his...

LORD DERBY'S POSITION. IN making his Ministerial statement, Lord Derby both began and ended by challenging the handsome construction of the Parlia- ment and people of this...

A very extravagant farce, called .Double Dummy, written by Messrs. Yates and Harrington, and produced at the Lyceum, answers the purpose of exciting a transient laugh. A barber,...

Tim position of the Liberal party at the first recommencement of business in Parliament will be one of the most perplexing that they have for a long time had to accept. It...

IT is remarkable that the Conservative Ministry comes in not only with the infusion of "new blood" that might have been expected from the Liberal side nor solely with the...

Two months ago there appeared in Fraser's Maga=ine a very eloquent article entitled "India in Mourning." The writer then limited himself to facts, postponed criticism and...

THE British soldier is in much the same position with regard to his clothing as to his food; but there is a difference —people not only have an object in stinting him, there is...

DISCUSSION has been so developed amongst us by the extension of the press in all directions, that it begins to prey upon itself. Subjects have become so haeknied, that even in...

IT is among the incidents of political life that men frequently get blamed for mistakes which they make but do not get the credit due for their good acts. Lord Campbell was...

London, 2d March 1858. Sin—Will you allow me to call in question the first extract which you copied from Mr. Trelawny's "Last Days of Shelley and Byron" ? I cannot help thinking...

LORD MULGRAVE'S COLONIAL APPOINTMENT. Bra—Being a New Zealand colonist, I have read with great concern your two articles on the appointment of Lord Mulgrave to the Governorship...

Sin—Deeply impressed as every reader of your paper must be with the truth of your remarks on the "French Question," I cannot refrain from urging you, especially at this...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 2. WAR Omer., March 2.—Caralry-501 Light Drags.—To be Captains, without purchase—Capt. and Brevet-Major G. E. Hillier, from half-pay 80th Foot ;...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 2. Partnerships Dissolred.-Fitch and Skeet, Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, pro- vision-merchants-Evershed and Whitcombe, or Whitcombe and Evershed,...

Ansunm.rr, March 2. - Vice - Admiral of the Blue W. Walpole has been appointed to receive a pension of 150L a year, as provided by her Majesty's order in Council of the 25th of...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) a pse Cent Console 974 90/ 961 962 97 961 Ditto for Account 97} 96/ 96 971 961 971 96} per Cents Reduced 971 97f 97} 974 shut New 3 per...

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MARCH 6, 1858. BOOKS. NACHNIGHT'S LIFE AND TIMES OF BARRE. * IT is curious how little is known of one half and how much mys- tery on one point hangs over the other half of the...

Birch is as much a critical account of ancient pottery as a history. Beginning with Egypt as the origin of the art, the author describes the various kinds of pottery found...

art. This tragedy has everything except the dramatic " innatus amor," or more properly the innate turn. There is definite design, clearly conceived ana steadily pursued ; there...

is popularly ascribed to the burnt child, will he who has at all familiarized himself with the works of the Epigoni in German philosophy shrink from a new book on Hegel. How...

BOOKS. Our list of reserved books is more numerous than promising; for the whole consists of but two classes—novels, and accounts of the siege of Lucknow. On this latter...

THE CHEVALIER NEVE OMIS' S TREATISE ON THE ono/41 , 4. 4 This work has just appeared simultaneously in London and Paris. The two editions are quite similar, except in the...

More than oven hundred photographs and daguerreotypes forming the fifth year's exhibition of the Photographic Society, testify to the industry of its members, and the zest with...

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. The growth of this collection is marked, in its present early stage, by a modesty and deliberation truly "national." A quiet private house in a...

A likeness of the Princess Frederick William of Prussia in her bridal dress, announced as "the official portrait," is to be seen at the French Gallery in Pall Mall. The artist...