opinions do differ on the point. There is an in- crease on the larger items for the year, excepting the Excise, which exhibits a decrease of 443,0001., but the increase on the...

LABOUR in vain seems the true description of the principal pub- lic activity this week ; failure or frustration, more or less, charac- terizes it all. The least liable to that...

histories of the day. In France, the opening of the court to try the Versailles pri- soners has brought to light some curious facts. Documents are forthcoming which supply...

brothers named Beers, have been removed from the commis- sion of the peace, for their participation in the late outrage against the Queen's peace in Downshire, and its sequels....

the House of Commons to the practical discharge of duty can best be ascertained from the official Division-lists. For the Session which terminated on the 1st of August last, the...

T HE Queen and the Royal Family remained at Osborne till yesterday. The Intention to go to Windsor had been-" postponed," says the Court Circular, "upo n the recommendation of...

A special Court of the Common Connell was held on Wednesday, for the purpose of considering several motions relating to Smithfield Market. The petition of the salesmen,...

There have been more meetings of Agricultural Societies in the Pro- vinces—at Waltham, Rochester, and Conway. Earl Stanhope presided at the Rochester meeting, and did not omit...

Frawcw..—M. de Falloux has suffered a relapse, and was so ill on Mon- day that his physicians enjoined a total suspense of exciting occupation. There is no chance of his taking...

The Dublin correspondent of the Times reports a project suggested by Prince Albert for enlarging the scope of the new collegiate education in Ireland- " I am in a position to...

It was ordered by the. Queen in Council, at Osborne, on Saturday, that the Parliament, which stood prorogned to Tuesday the 9th October instant, be further prorogued to Tuesday...

SATURDAY. The following "final instructions" relative to Sunday duties have just been issued by the Post-office. 4 On and from tomorrow (Saturday) evening, a London bag must...

to show that the reports as to the safety of Sir John Franklin and Sir James Ross are unsupported by sufficient evidence. Among those who have gone out in whaling ships to ob-...

other instances of "at- mospheric pestilence," like that described by the Harbourmaster of Ramsgate as passing over Goodwin Sands. "A gentleman of large fortune and great...

terest. A preliminary trial has first to be disposed of—that of Huber, who, galled by the accusations of Barbes and others at the Bourges trials, proceeded to Bourges and...

the loss of five lives. Along a street of new houses under the builder's hands, called Kenilworth Street, runs a branch sewer, which is bricked up at the end farthest from that...

The pmasurclof the Parliamentary statistics upon the space of our present number obliges on to defer some papers of interest. One of them is an able letter on the connexion of...

SIR—The evidence given before the Committee of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown, during its sittings last session, has lately appeared. It is observable, that...

The appearance of Mr. Macready on Monday last at the Haymarket, as the commencement of a series of performances that with some inter- ruption will continue a good way into next...

Bristol, 10th October 1849. Sin—I perceive in your last week's publication a letter from " William Reid, M.D.," in which it is said that "there is no special plan written down...

STOCK. EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTKENDON. The only circumstance worth notice is the resumption today of purchases by the Bank broker on account of the Sinking-fund. These operations...

Princess's Theatre last week in Zerlina, appeared last night with equal success in the part of Amino in the Sonnambula. She acted the character with great simplicity and...

by M. Scribe (or rather Scribe and Co.) for the display of Mademoiselle Rachel, has been doctored into three acts by Mr. John Oxenford, and produced with decided success at the...

The beginning of a new theatrical season revives the question, asked at the beginning of many a previous season, whether we are ever again to have an English opera. Twelve...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October 1848 and 18-19, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS...

As young poets dread the. critics, so that young. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Disraeli betrays a dread of the public notice which he courts.. - Mr. Disraeli's treatment by...

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water everywhere' and no stint of it such is the just and peremptory demand of the whole population of London. So far the many-tongued voice Of public opinion is singularly...

if it be wedded to a de- termined candour of soul ; and we cannot yet be convinced that M r. Cobden is not the man to profit by eiperience in correcting the error of his ways....

You cannot create things by the mere creation of their name, still less by creating the name of something else : you cannot make men Republicans by calling them Citizens. The...

LORD CLONCHREY'S PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. * THE author of these Recollections of Irish politics and politicians was at his birth, in 1773, a younger son of the first Lord...

EXPATIATING in the Westminster Review on Human Progress, "Helix" deplores the barbarous condition of the arts of costume: and he is right. Neither man's dress nor woman's fitly...

of manner, with a juster view of life and its objects, as well as a better moral tone, (although still dashed with the tone of the theatre,) than Sir Bulwer Lytton 's earlier...

HUNTER is well known as a skilful and experienced professional an- tiquarian. What is more rare, he combines with the lore of the archaeo- logist a just appreciation of the...

bqok for the agriculturist, as a warning and a guide. From tli9 nature of agriculture, an ab- solute - - periment—one where the design of the experimentalist and nothing else is...

BOORS. The Anatomy of the External Forms of Mani intended for the use of Artists, Painters, and Sculptors. By Doctor J. Fau. Edited, with Addi- tions, by Robert Knox, M.D.,...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. • Pendlebary and Sons, Radcliffe, cotton-manufacturers ; as fat' ma re g ards R. Pendle. bury aen.—Bonser hind Whaley, Manchester, grocers—G. and It.'...

ADMIRATP; to 11 ovripg 'Promotions' hiiie this "day taken place, .conse- quebt on tbeileitthAn theilth blatant, Of Admiral of the White Sir E.• W.: C. R. Owen, G.C.E.—Admiral of...

MILLAR'S Music-hall is drawin g near its completion. The lar g e Lec- ture-room and the , apartments for his classes are finished, and he has entered upon their occup a tion....

THE COSMOPOLITAN EXHIBITION OF ARTS -IN 1851. ONE of the finest exhibitions ever openedeo theerorld is in preparation by the Society of Arts,-with the countenance and...

WAR - OFFICE, Oct. 12.-19th Regt. of Foot—Lieut. C. K. Skisettb to be Capt. by Pot- chase, vice Brevet Major Burns, who retires ; Ensign F. p..Asuvrorni to be Lieut. by...

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