IF the day when the Members of the New Parliament first met each other presented a marked contrast to the opening of the Re formed Parliament in 1833, the day of the Addresses,...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. Mores or Loans. Thursday, May 7. Queen's Speech ; Address debated and agreed to—General Ashburnham ; Lord Panmure's Reply to Lord Clanricaide....

In reply to an incidental question put during the debate on the Address, Earl GRANVILLE said—" A telegraphic message has been received this very afternoon, from which it appears...

During the debate on the Address, the Marquis of CLANRIOARDE brought up the subject of General Ashbuinham, who after he had departed from this country to take the command in...

Palace, on Wednesday evening. Mr. Denison, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir John M`Neill, and Mr. Frederick Peel, were sworn of the Council, and took their seats at the...

The poor-rating question continues to agitate the Metropolitan parishes. A meeting at the Southwark Literary Institution, on Tuesday, was attended by both the Borough Members,...

The opening of the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester was successfully accomplished on Tuesday, the appointed day. The Exhibition building stands in the green fields at Old...

Mr. Inglis, Dean of Faculty, was elected, on Saturday, Lord Rector of King's College Aberdeen. His opponent was Colonel Sykes, the Member for the city of Aberdeen. The numbers...

raurt. — The Paris correspondence is still occupied with the Russian Grand Duke. He seems to have received a very warm reception, and he has shown himself as fond of...

The Gazette of last night contains a copy of a commission to inquire into the organization, government, and direction of the Medical Department of the Army. The Commissioners...

Sevend Letters to the Editor lie on our table ; for none of which can wemake any positive promise of insertion at present. A Correspondent points out an error in one...

SATURDAY. Short sittings and short speeches characterize the commencement of the new Parliament. Both Houses sat on Thursday for little more than two hours. Yesterday the Lords...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTEHROON. The market for English Securities has assumed quite a different character the last day or two : the dividend of lf per cent on Consols being...

At Her Majesty ' s Theatre, Piccolomini has this week added Lucia di „Lammermoor to her as yet very limited repertoire. Her performance' on - Thursday night was the most real...

M. Victor Sejour, who will be remembered by some of our readers as the author of the Porte Saint Martin Richard III, has written a drama entitled Andre Girard, which is now...

The Philharmonic concert of Monday, got up according to the Society's ordinary plan, was even more than usually attractive and successful. Nothing now save the debht of a young...

THE SESSION. LORD PALI, EILSTON asks the House of Commons to attend, during the present greatly shortened session to the business which is immediately . before it ; to give him...

Tine exhibition of architectural drawings and plans for the construction of two new edifices, for the Foreign Office and the War Office, with the prospective concentration of...

IN former papers, we have asserted that a school for the education of Staff-officers in the British Army ought to be forthwith established, on the principle of competition. We...

PanecE ALBERT seldom speaks in public without depositing the seed of thought for future reflection among those who hear him and those who read his words. His replies to the...

TILE Condition-of-Women question continues to call forth unusual attention, from the twofold cause, that the difficulty presses with increasing severity, and that discussion has...

AN episode in the late contested election at Dundee has furnished many paragraphs for the Scotch newspapers, and has this week found its way to the Times, in the shape of a...

EMPLOYMENT Dili WOMEN. 4th Hay 1857. Sin—Allow me, as one taking a deep interest in the improvement of the social condition of women,—an advance to be safely made by slow...

MISS BIINBVB,Y'S RUSSIA AFTER TEE WAS.. Ma. SPOTTISWOODE, as we lately saw, devoted a moderate-sized volume to a journey into Asia. and the shores of the Caspian Sea,...

the letters of Queen Henrietta is, as the editor intimates, of more value to the biographer or historian than possessed of attraction for the general reader. Even to an...

Tam new novel of Dark and Fair, by the author of " Rockingham," has less of variety, action, and the kind of incidents which are termed deep or interesting, than his previous...

Boons. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa : being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government in the years 1849-'55. By...

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. By Various Writers. Edited by William Smith, LL.D. Editor of the Dictionaries of Greek anti Roman Antiquities.—This part completes the...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. "Nothing very particular" is the character of the Flrhibition of 1867: a creditable display it is, but certainly not a strong one. Few artists are...

The fourth annual exhibition of French paintings opened at Pall Mall on Saturday last ; an exhibition which has already grown so popular, and (if we mistake not) so...

We have more than once referred, in terms of merited pulse, to the works which the late Mr. Thomas Seddon painted, particularly those from Egypt and Palestine. The entire series...

On the 30th, in Carlton Gardens, the Wife of James Whatnian, )sq., M.P., of a daughter. On the 30th, at Bradfield, near Cullompton, the Hon. Mrs. Walrond, of a slaugh ter. On...

On the 28th April, in Albyn Place, Edinburgh, Morgan Singer, Esq., Lieutenant Royal Navy, eldest son of the Bishop of Meath, to Frances Crofton, eldest daughter of Colonel Burn,...

On the 26th February, at Calcutta, George Canning Jordan, son of William .Terdan, Esq. On the 11th April, drowned at St. Thomas's, with three of his crew, from his boat being...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE., MAY 5. Partnerships Dissolved.—liignett and Co. Liverpool, snulf-manufacturers—Addison and Rudd, Newcastle Place, Edgeware Road, drapers—Smith and...

Partnerships Dissolved.-Bradwell and Son, Congleton, Cheshire, silkmen-Shipman and Co. Gainsbomugh, millers-Storer and Hunt, Derby, silk-manufacturersBayley and Co. Manchester,...