I Some interest was revived in Parliament on Thursday night, when Government were beaten, in the Committee of the Peers o. the Irish Poor-Relief Bill. The defeat had been...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ALTHOUGH real work has been done in Parliament, and some- what more critical times are at hand, everybody has been remarking an extraordinary lassitude in...

I Zbe Court. THE Queen gave a grand concert on Monday evening, to the Royal Family and many of the nobility. There were dinner-parties at the Palace on Wednesday and Thursday....

Ebr -Mletropolis. At a special Court of Common Council, on Thursday, Mr. R. L. Jones presented the report of a committce on a proposed consolidated Court of Conservancy for the...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY. BIOGRAPHY, A Voice from Lebanon; with the Life and Travels of Assaad Y. Kayat. TRAVELS, Madden and Co. Journal of a Few Mlonths' Residence in Portugal, and...

JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN PORTUGAL. TnE authoress of these volumes went to Oporto in 1845, it vould appear [ for her health ; and spent a good portion of her time in equestrian...

I The season of Drury Lane, after winding through a not very lively course of native Englisl! operas, ballets supported by foreign " talent," and ielodrame sustained by...

THE THEATRES. IF the power of giving delight may be regarded as a test of merit, then the I merit of Jenny Lind must be pronounced supreme; for never in the course of our...

THlE ANCIENT CONCERT. IHis Rlovl dhighness Prince Albert was the Director of the concert of IW edniesdtad last. The Queen, attenlded by a brilliant cort~ge, honoured it With...

| M. IRegili.,r appeared at the St. James's Theatre on Mlonday; with 3la- j eiiioiselle Denain. an actress of genteel comedy from the Th(catre Frai~ais, j ho made her first...

i The Flates have set a veto against the production of anything like effec- tive ballet at the "IRoyal Italian Opera' at Covent Garden. The maInagenient has secured Fanny...

The present management of the Lyceum is fast drawing to its close; and a burlesque on the old nielodrarna of One o'Clock is probably the last piece of imiportai ce which Mrs....

TOPICS OF THE DAY. WHAT ARE WE ABOUT? IT is remarkable that in the recent debates on manning the Navy and Army, the sole reliance for obtaining men was upon the mercenary "...

W I N E. VIEWAvs which we have formerly expressed respecting the restricted consumption of wine in England have received a remarkable corroboration from a quarter, not indeed...

f HOW TO PROVIDE BUILDINGS FOR ILL-LODGED h PUBLIC OFFICES. | p AMoNa other haphazard modes of dorgle business in which this i "practical" country delights, is toe mode of...

MR. A. TROLLOPE'S MACDERMOTS OF BALLYCLORANI Is such a subject as Mrs. Trollope herself might have chosen, or advised; and the treatment has a literal kind of naturalness,...

There are incidents in the week's news from foreign parts in- terestinx though not momentous. In the French Chamber of Deputies a strange scanaal nas Deen dragged to light....

Drbates ant Proaeflngs in parlialnent. IM1PROVEMENT Op ESTATES IN ILELAND. In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the Marquis of LAXSDOWNE moved the Colmmittee onl the Landed...

DR. SCIIMITZ 9S HISTORY OF ROME. TVE primary object of this work is to furnish a history of Rome for the higher classes of schools, in order to present youth with the results...

COLONIZATION FOR IRELAND: LORD LINCOLN'S MOTION. I TO THlE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 6th May 1847. Sin-Lord Lincoln's notice of motion having given, as you justly...

REPORTING IN THE PRUSSIAN DIET. TIuE Prussian Chamber of Nobles has resolved that all its debates and proceedings shall be published, with two exceptions,-when the Royal...

FINE ARTS. EXHBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. TnE collection exhibited in Trafalgar Square this year is as numerous as ever, and much more than commonly various: it comprises...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY NIGhT. , D I Important proceedings took place in both Houses of Parliament last night. In the House of Peers, Ministers sustained another defeat. In the...

Al lisECIIantous. After a variety of conflicting reports, it is understood in Cambridge that the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University is to take place...

Zbe Vrobinces. I ,i Preparations of an informal kind have pretty widely commenced for I I the general election. Several of the Memibers have addressed letters to I their...

IRELAND. The Lord-Lieutenant has rallied to a degree that outgoe all expectation, and the reports on Wednesday were favourable. Still, we conceive, there is no real hope of his...

SCOTLAND. The Ab-'deen Ierald mentions, that at a general meeting of Lord Arbuthiot's creditors, a proposal was submitted by Mr. Christopher Kerr, of Dundee, on behalf of the...

jforrign ant Qrolonial. FRANCE.-Thc great event of the week is the celebration of the Kina's fete-day, which fell on Saturday last. The weather being favourable, the out-door...