action in which our arms have been engaged : Odessa has been bombarded, in retribution of an outrage committed by the Russians in firing on a flag of truce. The bombardment was...

DIFFICULTIES appear to gather around Ministers ; and if in some cases the trouble can fairly be laid to their own door, created by DIFFICULTIES appear to gather around Ministers...

PRINCIPAL: BUSINESS OP THE WEER, HOME or Loans. Monday, May 1. Ticket-of-Leave System; Statement by Lord St. Leopards-Income-tax Bill committed. Tuesday, May 2. Income-tax...

seed of most important results. Relinquishing old privileges, which under the appearance of freedom enabled the representatives of Jamaica to obstruct each other,—accepting the...

The eighty-sixth exhibition of the Royal Academy was celebrated on Saturday, by the usual annual dinner ; at which Ministers, present and past, are expected to make pleasant...

THE QUEEN held a Privy Council, at Buckingham Palace, on Monday. Her Majesty also gave audiences to Earl Granville, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir James Graham. The Queen held a...

it is said here that the responsible office of Chief Commissioner of In- come-tax for Ireland will be shortly left at the disposal of Government by the resignation of Mr. John...

On the supposition that Mr. Brisco, Member for Hastings, is about to resign his seat, candidates are in the field ; Mr. North in the Liberal, and Mr. Crake in the Conservative...

It records that Marshal St. .Arnaud has at length left Marseilles ; setting out for the East on Saturday last, in the steamer Berthollet. . The Prefect and the military...

Tuesday's Gazette contained the following announcements, under date April 30th— The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Ogle Carr, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Island...

voting of the Supplemental Estimates for Navy, Army, and Ordnance, in Committee of Supply. With a brief preface, Sir JAMES Go a TTAAL first brought forward the Sup- plemental...

Our table is inconveniently crowded with communications on all manner of subjects. We shall be niuch obliged to amateur correspondents to give their pens at least one week's...

SATURDAY. The action of the combined fleets at Odessa formed the subject of anxious inquiry in the House of Lords last night, as preface to a worthless debate about the old...

On the 20th April, at Field House, Wavertree, the Wife of John W. Nichol! Came, D.C.L., of Dimland Castle, Glamorganshire, of a son. On the 25th, in South Street, Park Lane, the...

declared value of the exports for the month ending 5th April at 10,042,754/. ; being an increase of 2,155,5211. over the corresponding month of last year. Upon three months the...

Prussian Minister at War, General Bonin, has resigned ; that his resigna- tion has been accepted ; and that Count Waldersee, Commander of the Federal Garrison at Frankfort, will...

espe- rially the first- The Gazette of last night contains several interesting notices ; espe- rially the first- " The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir William Page Wood,...

DVELNO THE WEEK ENDING EAT 6. Hoare of Commons. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Hamra. al. Title. By whom introduced. Stage arrived at. Testamentary Jurisdiction From Lords Bead a...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The financial operation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer respecting the proposed creation of 6,000,000/. Exchequer Bonds has in safer...

[COICKENICATED.] Gabriele Rossetti, the most daringly original of the commentators on Dante, died on the 26th ultimo, in London, in his seventy-second year. Born on the 28th...

at St. Martin's Hall on Monday. It was less interesting and successful than the first and second. Nearly half the evening was spent in the perform- ance of Dr. Wylde's music to...

respectably in it s old domicile, the St. James's Theatre. M. Lafont, the head of the enterprise, has assembled together the old corps of Mr. Mitchell, including M. Lange- val,...

giving "note of preparation." Don Giovanni is to be performed next week, with Ma- dame Rudersdorff, the celebrated prima donna from Berlin, as Donna Anna; and the same lady is...

Thursday, presented no remarkable novelty, yet it drew a very crowded audience. Mademoiselle Cruvelli was the Leonora, for the first time at Covent Gar- den ; but her...

Horton Hall, 24th April 1854. San—I entirely concur in the sentiments expressed in your last number by a British subject residing abroad ; but a far more serious question arises...

MR. GLADSTONE'S LOAN. THE temporary cheek given to Mr. Gladstone in his advance to- wards a loan of 6,000,000/. on Exchequer Bonds may perhaps be ascribed chiefly to the...

CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. Christ Church, Oxford, 2d ilteq 1854. Sm.—In your comment on my letter of last week, you do me an injustice, which I am sure you will be willing to...

ALL Englishmen and Americans who love their country must be watching with anxiety the opening of a naval war which might revive in their full force questions that have slept...

Tim inextinguishable faculty of hope is miraculously exemplified by Lord Aberdeen's having some expectation of results from Lord Redesdale's resolution, that no bill shall be...

A SOLUTION of the Lincoln's Inn Fields question has been struck out, which has the merit of being sufficient to satisfy both " the two great parties in the state ' contending on...

DIE police courts are again full of outrages on women, especially the outrage of sheer brutal violence of husbands against the wives. The cases are exceptional, no doubt, but...

STOCQUELER'S MEMOIRS OF GENERAL NOTT. a THERE is less of biography than of secret history in these volumes; meaning by the term "secret history," not only those things which are...

keener pleaders and closer reasoners, than the late Mr. Justice Talfourd, might not be difficult to find ; though the combination of such genius, accomplishment, and special...

respecting the deciphering of the ancient Assyrian and Persian inscriptions, especially since Botta's and Layard's discoveries, might be modi- fied if people reflected upon the...

Boors. Journal of a Cavalry Officer; including the Memorable Sikh Campaign of 184o-1846. By W. W. W. Humbley, M.A., Trinity College, Cam- bridge, Fellow of the Cambridge...

Tuesday, May 2. PARTNERSHIPS Dissotvsn.—Lovelock and Co. St. Swithin's Lane, manufacturers of India-rubber goods ; as far as regards H. A. Jaques—Binyons and Shapland, Man-...

ADMIRALTY, April 28.—Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieut. and Adjt. W. M Mansell to be Capt. vice P. Onslow, to retired full-pay; Second Lieut. J. P. Murray to be First Lieut....

WAR-OFFICE, May 5.—Royal Regt. of Horse Guards—Ensign Sir B. P. Henniker, Bart. from the 68th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hon. J. B. Dormer, pro- moted. 1st or...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian 5 p. Ct. — Mexican 3 0.01. Belgian 41 - Mississippi 6 Ditto 24 - — New York 5 -...