last sent to us from India and China. The Celestial Emperor has ratified the Nankin treaty ; but refused to sign before Queen Vrc- TORIA, on some ground of etiquette. People do...

THE proceedings at the agricultural meetings, which 'continue to be held about the country, exhibit a vigorous and rapid . growth of the new spirit we have lately noted as...

rioting at Skibbereen and elsewhere ; and the fact is .pointed to as ful- filling the warnings of 'those who opposed , t he Irish _Poor-law. An attempt is made to prove an "...

ACCORDING to the expectation, the Court returned to Windsor on Saturday. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the infants and the suite, left Walmer Castle in three close carriages...

at the time of the latest accounts, the Regent and the insurgents were still threatening each other. There is something very curious in the secondary symptoms of the disorder :...

A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday ; when Mr. P. A. Taylor moved a very long resolution on the Corn-laws and their con- sequences, to be transmitted to Sir Robert...

The Dorset County Chronicle reports the proceedings at the annual meeting of the Yeovil Agricultural Society, on Friday last. They con- sisted of a cattle-show, which was...

The Primate and seven other Bishops of the Established Church in Ireland, as Presidents of the Church Education Society, have addressed a circular 'Etter to the Secretaries,...

Mr. Stuart Wortley was elected M.P. for the county of Bute, without opposition, on Thursday last. Dr. Candlish delivered a statement to his congregation in Edinburgh, on...

There appear to have been two arrivals from India and China ; the ordinary overland mail, and the Company's steam frigate Auckland, which was despatched by Sir Henry Pottinger...

It appears that her Majesty's Ministers are at length convinced of the necessity of adopting a fixed duty on corn, as the new sliding-scale has worked so unsatisfactorily for...

steamer, which left Malta on the 27th, reached Devonport yesterday, having on board Major Malcolm, Secretary of Legation, the bearer of the treaty, and Commander Richards, of...

trates the saying, "one must draw a line somewhere": Box's barber drew a line at bakers ; Anti-Corn-law proselytism draws a line at Yeovil or Clevedon, including not Brill—at...

SATURDAY NIGH T. At the Privy Council held by her Majesty at Windsor Castle today, a proclamation was agreed upon for further proroguing Parliament, from Tuesday next to...

THE event of the week, the Stage-presentation of the Patrician's Daughter at Drury Lane, which had been announced for Thursday, has been postponed till this evening; and we...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 12 mo. 5,1842 RESPECTED Fitiersn — Thy attention on former occasions to the subject of Post-office Reform induces me to trouble thee with a few...

refusal of France to ratify the Slave-trade treaty. The retractation was justified on the ground that the principle of the late treaty between Great Britain and the United...

however, heightened in its colouring by the medium through which it passes. It should be premised, that there are in Barcelona Roads the Rodney and Formidable. British...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Funds have not fluctuated materially during the week, neither has any business of importance occurred in them. The books of the two...

EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. StoCkbridge, 5th December 1842. Sin,—I deny the position which you appear to imply, (in page 1163,) that the Magistrate who committed MARY MORGAN to...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 8th November 1842. Stn — I am a constant reader of your paper, and I may add, an admirer of your independence and sincerity ; but I have...

PEACE THROUGH PEEL. THE full amount of the debt which this country owes to Sir Ro- nsar PEEL as a peacemaker, has not yet been reckoned by the public. The materials for a...

Nomura has of late excited such a sensation as Mr. Vex AMBURGH'S announcement that he intended to make a public entry into London on Friday. " Under the patronage of her...

IN a letter to Mr. WALLACE, M.P. for Greenock, which has ap- peared in the newspapers, Sir ROBERT PEEL says—" The state of the law in Scotland in respect to the relief of the...

PEOPLE are just now tantalized with some little speculations about holydays lost and to be won. First, Christmas-day falls on a Sunday, and that is clearly a bolyday lost. But...

Basra's, The Recreations of Christopher North. Iu three volumes Blackwood and Suns. Socio. Draws, The Age of Great Cities ; or Modern Society viewed in relation to...

THIS title is appropriate enough, if not sufficiently comprehensive. The object of Dr. VAUGHAN'S work is really to trace the progress of human advancement ; and it treats of...

As both Mr. BROWNING and Mr. TRENCH less aim at producing effects by exhibiting Nature as she really is, than by the character they can infuse into their own interpretation of...

From December Ist to December 8th. BOOKS. Lace and Duty, and other Poems. By THOMAS CLARKE, Author of "A Day in May," &c. The Modern History and Condition of Egypt, its...

PRINCIPLES OF DECORATIVE ART. WE invite attention to the following valuable and well-timed communi- cation from Mr. HAYDON : it enunciates clearly and forcibly the true...

Arrived — At Gravesend. Dec. 7th. Carnatic, Cunningham, from China. In the Channel, Ditto. Chusan, Laird, from China; Calcutta; and Iris. Linton. from Ceylon. At Cowes, 3d...

BIRTHS. Ou the 6th June, the Ladyof JAMES WINTER, Esq., of Ellerslie, Van Diemen's Land, formerly of Sheuley Hill. Herts. of a son. On the 26th November, at Holmes House,...

OrVcs os OanstAmce, Dec. S.-Royal Re g t. of Artillery-Sec. Capt. W. R. Ned- ham to he Adjt. vice Somerville. promoted ; Sec. Lieut. E. A. Williams to be First Lieut. vice...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closin g Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Weasel. 3 per Cent. Consols ..... ... 941 shut - Ditto for Account 94 ex el. 94 94 3 per Cents. Reduced 944 941 34...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVRD. Dyer and Pullman. Coleman Street-R. and W. Harrell, Middleton. Essex. millers -Richardson aud James, Welbeck Street, booksellers-Tyler and Chardin. Old...