THE MINISTRY. SOMETUING is going on about the M\inistry which looks very like a continuous sequel to the late unaccountable redistribution. The exact nature of the movement is...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEW MAP OF THE WAR. WITII the retirement of Russia into Moldavia, and the occupation of the neighbouring provinces by the forces of the alliance, a new...

.Vi5altauruns. The report of the Commissioners on Promotion in the Army, presented to the House of Commons on Thursday evening, concludes with twenty recommendations. 1. "...

'd JD Arty. I GREEK AND ROMAN ART AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Greek Art in Greece and under Rome presents a sequence of something like a thousaud years. Bearing internal evidence...

The musical theatres have not been doing anything remarkable during the week. Grisi's farewell performances continuing to draw overwhelming houses, she has-as we...

The Sacred Harmonic Societv produced on Friday last a new oratorio I called -Daniel, composed by Mr. J IHenry Gricsbacb, a musician of highly respectable attainments, but not...

EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION. An exhibition of educational apparatus has been for some time in hand i under the superintendence of the Society of Arts. This week it has been I opened...

dr1ratug flu? -Vmir. We may imagine the case of an ancient Athenian, who having dropped into a preternatturally long sleep in front of the Parthenon, shinld wake in the Elgin...

PARISIAN TIlEATRICALS. Not all the fame of La Dame aux C'boim as-not all the notorious morality of e-s Fill&.5 (cle Mahre-has been sufficient to save the Thdatre du Vaudeville...

I:rtttrg tu t?r LE, ? it u r . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. London, 3d July 1854. SIR-A correspondent, writing in your last number, corrects, in a perfunctory manner,...

OFFICIAL INSPECTOR. OF COMPLAINTS AND SUGGESTION S. AMONGST the suggestions for the better organization of the public service, if we remember rightly, there was one for an...

BELLIGERENT RIGHTS. THE dignity of the House of Commons is certainly not enhanced by the growing practice of discussing abstract resolutions. Would it not be better, if the...

TIlE IIUSSO-DUTCH LOAN. 35, Norland Road, Notting Hill, 6th, July 1854. SIR-The most ominous sign of England's approaching fill is furnished I every day in the utter violation...

MEDICAL STAFF OF THE TURKISH ARMY. I Ieskels How, tdbledarid, 31 July S1 . l Sin-The correspondent of the Times, their "Own Correspondent,' in a I letter fior Constantinjople...

Iitisn BEGGING BLARNEY ON A NEW LAY.- -A candidate for free passage, long past his minority, informs the Emigration Commissioners, that having reared a calf he has something...

OUR PUBLIC HOSPITALS. London, 6th July 1854. SIR-A letter in vour number of Saturdav last, from "Senex," adverting to the case of the poor infant Alfred Richardson, laments the...

The long-announced insurrection in Spain has at last broken out; and it has held its ground for several davs, notwithstanding the daily announcement put forward by the...

UrhatrB u11 1'rurprhingq iu 1)atrtinmrut. PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF I.ooDo. lf/wdai, July 3. Royal Assent to Excise-duties Bill, Customs- ! duties Bill, High...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. " Ta&ANK God, there is a House of Lords! " -Cobbett's excla- I mation was never so applicable as it was last night, at a time when peculiar attention was...

X plan has at last been constructed for relieving the Army of the dead-weight of superannuated officers who now encumber the list and even claim promotion to active service....

Almost daily the telegraph has been announcing the actual re- ceipt of the Russian reply at Vienna, and the attack on (Jronstadt by the combined fleet; and down to last night...

The Revenue tables begin to exhibit one of the incidents of war: there is a decrease both on the year and quarter; and both on the year and quarter there is a decrease under...

Afurrigiu lus Cu31nnu1. 1RANC-E.-General Baraguay d'Hilliers has been appointed to the cornmand of the French troops about to be transported to the Baltic in British...

IR EL AN -). Richard Earl of Bantry has been chosen by a majority of votes to be: the Peer to sit in the IH ouse of Lords, in the room of the late Hayes St. 1 Leger Viscount...

SCOTLAND. A public meeting was held at Glasgow on Wednesday,-Bailie Macgregor in the chair,-to pronounce on the war policy, and protest against any compromise or alliance with...

iljt Ihnillm. The Scots Orevs, ordered on foreign service, left Nottingham on Monday. They were met in the Market Square by the municipal authorities; the loving cup " was...

BOOKS. I ItSBVRY'S NARRATIVES OF SOME PASSAGES IN THE LAST WAR WITII FRANCE.' Tills volume contains the reminiscences of the author, General Sir Henry Bsinbury, upon the...

Cunrt. AT a Court held in Buckingham Palace on Saturday, the Maharajah Dhulcep Sing was presented to the Queen by Sir Charles Wood; and the Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of...

li.r.lilt Vrtrupulis. The Society of Arts celebrated its completed centenary of existence on Monday, at the Crystal Palace. The Duke of Newcastle had undertaken to preside at...

The Parliamentary business for next week is voluminous. For Mon- I day, thirty-seven BfIls and other Orders of the Day are put down; and leave is to be asked to bring in six...

The following telegraphic despatch purports to be based on authentic documents. ''BLerlin, July 7. "Thile ouvelle Gazette de Prusse gives some extracts from the answer of the...

POSTSCRIPT. SAT1URDAY. I The Oxford University Bill passed through Committee last night in the Housc of Lords, with some useful amendments. The House sat till past two...

NOVELS OF THE SEASON.* THE author of "Mrs. Margaret Maitland" was, we believe, the first who introduced the public to a class of fictions, which mu,* Magdalen Hepburn: a Story...

IrILL'S BALTIC AND MOSCOW.' TrE chief attraction of this volume is the motive which led to its publication. It describes the Baltic and the principal towns upon the shores of...