their heads, fostered by the want of organized government It is not without, but within the National Assembly, that the disorganization is best seen. The Assembly is so unruly...

Repeal As- sociation, with the closing of Conciliation Hall. The parting re- volutionisms of Mr. Mitchel, who advises his fellow rebels to "go on"—the moderated battle-cry of...

DIVERSITY rather than fruitfulness has again been the character of the week in Parliament. Some of the most interesting dis- cussions have had little immediate or tangible...

this week. Without any feasible motive to revolution ' or any spon- taneous anxiety for reform," we have had tumultuous riots in the East, and meetings of orgunize:: agitation...

SPANISH Arrenis. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. BASIVES moved, by way of amendment on the motion for a CoMmittee of Supply, " That this House learns with deep regret,...

just now the very focus of anarchy. The Tyrol, conscious of a present Emperor, is loyal. Vienna is under a revolutionary Govern- ment; the existing Ministers 'having accepted...

Ital- ians have gamed a double victory over the Austrians : a great at- tack by the latter, at Goito, was effectively repulsed in the first pitched battle ; and the repulse was...

Tire Queen visited the Queen Dowager, at Marlborough Howe, on Mon- day; was visited, at Buckingham Palace, on the same day, by the Dutchess of Kent; and gave Lord John Russell...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Wednesday. In the course of a con- versation on the late processions and disturbances in the City, the Lord Mayor said that there was an active...

The new Irish Peerage which the Crown is impowered to create by the extinction of three others (Mountsanford, Allen, and Hartland) has been conferred on Sir Patrick Bellew,...

The Reformers of the new movement in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as in other parts of the kingdom, are making efforts to get up public meet-. jugs, and to pass resolutions in...

The sittings of the General Assembly and of the Free Church Assembly, at Edinburgh, closed on Tuesday se'nnight. In neither Assembly had the proceedings attracted any very...

FRANCE.—Tho aspect of Paris is still clouded. The determination of the question concerning M. Louis Blanc's prosecution has led to official troubles. It seems that the Law...

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued a notice for- bidding irregular punishments of a secondary kind, introduced into the Navy in the desire to avoid corporal...

Have been run this week under conflicting influences, good and bad. The Queen's absence was a heavy blow; but a prospect of unsurpassed sport and the fine weather served to...

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday, the 9d day of rune 1848. IMBUE DEPASTIONT• IfedealeilUed £26,800,060 Government...

The project of law against riotous or armed meetings was affirmed in the National Assembly on Wednesday, by a majority of 478 to 82. The Paris elections have terminated in the...

persist hi as- sembling next Monday, in Bishop Bonner's Fields. Great precautions have been taken by the authorities; and it is expected that the demonstration will be...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons, last night, the adjourned debate on the alavigation-laws was continued to a division ' with speeches of greater ' nark than any which has...

is to add to old or to build new mansionhouses much too large for their fortunes. In the case of an heir of entail this becomes a sad grievance when family provisions have to be...

striking pamphlet on the text " Le Cheap Sugar the triumph of Free Trade?" It is in the form of a" Second Letter" to Lord John Russell; the Letter occupying only 24 pages, but...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APPEENOON. The only bargsi f importance during the week was a sale of 100,0001. yester- day afternoon. Tl.s price of Consols, which had been as high as...

The Sutlej, Parish, from Calcutta to London, pot into Table Bay, 13th April, totally dismasted. The Johanna, Falconer, and Martha Woolley, both bound for London, were wrecked...

THE RIOTS IN THE EAST. IN their degree, the Bethnal Green mobs have amounted to anarchy : they existed in so far as the orderly functions of the Executive Government were...

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOR. Dundee, 7th June 1848. Sin—In your impression of May 27, at page 506, under the head of Scotland, M your notice of the meeting of the General...

The event of the week has been the appearance of Jenny Lind in a new part,—Adina in L'Elisir d' Amore; whi.1 she performed on Thursday to an overflowing audience. The transition...

to the St. James's Theatre, and relieve it from an insipidity that had been rather prevalent this season. Use Pierre Brulante is an extravagant farce in three acts, in which the...

been produced, un- der the title of Anything for a Change. The principal character is one of those fidgetty persons who have an uneasy desire for everything that does not belong...

THE advance of public opinion on the subject of Colonization, which we noticed a short time since, has made progress even in. that brief interval. "Colonization" or " Emigration...

Do not let us rely on abstract considerations as to the usefulness of maintaining an Ambassador at Madrid : let us turn to the official record to learn historically in what it...

IT is not for want of the will that nothing is done in Ireland "private enterprise" would soon be at the work of regeneration 2 if it had but the official fiat. The causes of...

TIM annual meeting of the Law Amendment Society was too remarkable an occurrence to be passed over with the brief men- tion that we were able to make last week. The attendance...

THE established punishment for the graver kind of offences com- mitted by the blackguard boys about London is "transportation": there may have been changes in the practice, but...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Electric Telegraph Office, L,othbury, 7th June 1848. SIR—I am informed that during my recent absence in America an article ap- peared in the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Tottenham, 7th June 1848. SIR—As the distress among the labouring population arises almost always from the want of employment, which at this...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] 1.T the present time, when the attention of the public is being justly and wisely directed towards the interests and claims of our Colonial brethren, it...

NAVAL BIOGRAPHY, Sketches of the Last Naval War. Translated from the French of Captain E. Jurien de Is Graviere, by the Hon. Captain Plunket, R.N., Author of "The Past and...

A SMART book, by a clever writer, though of a bad school and in a bad style. The "late Secretary of Legation" belongs to the dandy class of writers : a set who (with pen in...

Ara one in the slightest degree acquainted with geology is aware of the opinion, received as an axiom, that the earth's surface has been elevated, either by sudden violence or...

A Word for the Universities of Scotland; and a Plea for the Humanity Classes in the CollegeofEdinburgh. By Professor Pilk118. IThe object of Professor Pillans in this...

Mr. H. W. Phillips has just brought over from Paris a portrait of the most eminent among French statesmen of the day-the only one for which M. de Lamartine has sat. It is in the...

At Mr. M`Lean's in the Haymarket we have seen some interesting views taken from the gardens of Rome and Albano, by Mr. George Vivian, with lithograph copies by Mr. Harding. Mr....

THE GENOA ertilcunt. At the Cosmorama Rooms is exhibited a crucifix, of which the figure, some eighteen inches or two feet high, is carved in, ivory, and is said to have been...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. APLean and Co. Glasgow, manufacturers-Millbourn and Turner. Isle of Dogs, paper- makers-Howe and Briggs, Wakefield, cornfactors-Dawes and Fear,...

On the 27th May, the Lady of Sir Henry Durrant, Bart., of Scottew Hall, of a daughter. On the 30th, at Liamore Castle, Ireland, the With of F. E. Currey, Esq., of a daughter....

OFFICE or ORDNANCE, Jane 5.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Sec. Capt. P. Ellis to be Capt. vice Greenwood, placed on retired full-pay list ; First Lieut. A. R. Wragge to be Sec. Capt....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &Mord. Monday. Tuesday, Weans.. 3 per Cent Consols 84 at Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 831 82 Si 52 39 per Cents 83 Long...