'Thf Cnnrt. THiE QUEEN- celebrated New-Year's Day by the annual distribution of food and clothing to six hundrod and twenty persons belonging to the i parishes of Windsor and...

-CrIt -RIftruvotio. The reelection of Lord John Russell, at Guildhall on Monday, was unanimous. Mr. John Dillon and Mr. R. W. Crawfcrd were his proposer and seconder. Both...

Qr lhouium, The elections for the seats vacated by the Ministerial appointmnins arc now over in all the E'nllish constitueneies, except those of Oxford Ulliversitv and S`outh...

THE RAILWAY COLLISION AT OXFORD. WE have heard a report that the collision at Oxford has made a deep impression even upon the mind of railway-directors, by its terrible...

SHEFFIELD MONUMENTS. " A MONUMENT more lasting than brass " is what the poet desires; but Sheffield, while proposing to erect a monument for one of its few poets, seems to...

OBSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUSINESS AT THE CAPE. I IN the complicated machinery of our own political system, where so much is done by routine and the momentum of mere magnitude, we...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. As it is our custom to send back a statesman designated for office - A L A _ _ 1 . with an appeal for the sanction of his political constituency, our new...

The formal recognitions of the French Empire on behalf of the - -- A, I_ no L *, . Foreign Courts, with few exceptions, are said to have arrived in Paris; so that if the Great...

The Revenue-tables for the year and quarter supply their now -.fib;; l AL N__! _ p1 periodical confirmation of the general prosperity. The reductions of taxes still tell, and...

BOOKS. RANKE'S FRANCE.* THE events and characters of French history may be read in many I authors of very varying merit; a philosophical history of the country-a work which...

POSTSCRIPT. SATrRDAY. It will be seen by the figures in a preceding column, that Mr. Glad- stone yesterday distanced his opponent by 56 on the general poll, and by 76 on the...

FOREIGN RELATIONS. IF the doctrine of absolute nonintervention were legitimatelv followed out, it should immediately enforce upon our Ministers two important series of...

THIE B ALLOT. THE question of " the Ballot " is not to be so dashingly disposed of as Sir James Graham, sejactans amongst his constituents at Carlisle, would seem to think, by...

PETITION OF NATIVE INDIA-NS. ON-E of the most interesting documents that have come before us is a petition to "' the British Parliament, from the members of the Bombay...

- "forrigp nud efuaI1. FR.4ScE.-New-Year's Day, and the grand annual reception held by the "Chief of the State" at the Tuileries, passed over without the presence of the...

3Risir2 laruu3. Some of the minor posts, left vacant last week, are now filled up. Mr. Bradv is Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Mr. W. Deas is Solicitor-General for Scotland. In...

SIMPSON 'S PARIS AFTER WATERLOO.* IMMEDIATELY after the battle of Waterloo Mr. Simpson visited Flanders and the field of victory, subsequently proceeding to Paris. Of the...

LAN-M.A.N'S PRIVATE LIFE OF DANIEL WEBSTEI.* M1n. L.ners>, the private secretary of the great American orator, does not possess the art of portrait-painting in words. He has...

SCOTLAND. - The first Scottish constituency appealed to, that of the Leith Burghs, has recorded its approbation of the new Administration by returning the Lord Advocate. Mr....

IRELAND. Lord and Lady Eglinton held an undress reception for the last time on Tuesday; on Wednesday they set out for Scotland. Earl St. Germans arrived in Dublin, and took...

MUSIC. Instrteons in the- Art of Singing, after the 1Vethods of the best Italian Afasters. Written and arranged by Matter Ho nard n, :_ '. _ .I - _ ,. . ,I^.n.. Books of...

Six Duects for Fmcale Voices. Coiniosctl by Ilheny Sinart. ' 0Ji, tie merry Summer Awlr." /iuet ha Saoprano and Contralto. CGioiposed by folea Lodge Ellerton, 1agq. These duets...

Mr. Ingersoll was entertained in his official capacity, yesterday, by the I Corporation of Manchester. The banquet was given in the Town-hall; and the Mayor, Mr. Barnes,...

Another information for murder has been laid against the convict Kirwan. I A Mrs. Boyer tells that some time ago her husband, an intimate friend of the convict, mysteriously...

FRENcCH THEATRICALS. Although it is now upwards of a month since UIZ Fils de Fanille was first produced at the Gymnase, its unremitting success has made it so completely a "...

,,air 'CrIpatm. I Receding a few paces back from the great mass of Christmas entertain- ments, we can now reduce it to something like a definite shape, in which the several...

The Prussian Ambassador presented his credentials at the Tuileries on Thursday. Baron Prokesch Osten is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and President of the Germanic...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEXT BUDGET AND THE INCOME-TAX. IT will not become the present Ministers, with the necessity doubly imposed upon them of being a contrast to their...

MARK IIRIIDLESTONE.* IT may be inferred from the introduction that this novel was originally contributed by Mrs. Moodie to the pages of some Canadian magazine. At all events,...

FINE ARTS. APSLEY HlOUSE. The present Duke of Wellington has, with much good feeling, opened to the public the principal rooms of the house which will long continue memorable...

WORDSWORTH'S GREECE.* TRANSLATED into French and Italian, and now in its fourth English edition, Dr. Wordsworth's Greece may be considered to have passed through the...