of Deputies was scarcely needed to prove the increased strength of Ministers. To this country it is interesting as a guarantee of continued peace ; for in proportion to their...

Tan cardinal portion of Sir Robert Peel's new commercial scheme, the proposed change of the Corn-law, has been actively debated for three nights in the House of Commons, and the...

for the exploits of a new and untried hero—General Paredes. The General has not directly appointed himself Dictator—he professes to await the commands of the National...

disease, and not really an epidemic : it has carried off very few, and those none of the strongest. Lord William Gordon is the solitary seceder this week, at the eleventh hour....

COMMERCIAL P9LICT ON mien Govraszmonm. The formal debate on the Ministerial propositions, in the House of Commons, commenced on Monday. The interest, both within and without ....

THE prominent incident of the week is the holding of a levee by the Queen, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived under escort from...

, A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday; at which a number of sub- jects were considered and disposed of. The propriety of reestablishing the Justice-room at the Town-hall was...

Lord Henry Gordon Lennox was nominated and elected for Chichester on Tuesday. Mr. Falvey, one of the League lecturers, was enabled to make a long speech, and obtain the show of...

Fnaxcx.—The tedious debate on the Address, in the Chamber of De- puties, closed on Friday, the eleventh day! Ministers had been victorious, with scarcely an exception,...

The Cork Constitution of the 5th instant announces the arrival of food in the harbours of Ireland- " We mentioned on Tuesday the arrival at Cove of a vessel (the Atlas) with...

The Honourable James Stuart Wortley, who had vacated his seat by ac- cepting the office of Judge-Advocate-General, was reelected for Buteshire, at Rothesay, on Saturday, without...

The baptism of the Hereditary Prince of Hanover, son of the Prince Royal, took place on the 4th instant. He has received the name of Ernest-...

in London yesterday. It had been delayed by some accident to the Iberia steamer, on the way from Alexandria to Malta. The accounts are upon the whole _ mere amplifications of...

Perthshire, 18th February 1846. SIR—I have read the letter of "John Lewis Phipps" in the Spectator of the 7th instant. I have since referred to your number of the 31st December...

The debate on the alteration of the Corn-laws, continued I the fourth time, again stands adjourned; probably to be pro some nights longer. The final result, however, is...

.Eltham, 9th February 1846. Sin—With reference to a communication addressed to you by Mr. John Lewis Phipps, dated from Doe Park, near Liverpool and headed " The Currency, the...

as keeping within doors, and the soldiers within their quarters. To relieve their ap- prehension of scarcity, one farmer caused the town-crier to gira.notico that ap- prehens i...

Bowles have resigned their seats at the Board of Admiralty. The appoint- ment of Captain Rous is the reason assigned in the Times for these resig- nations. The Morning Post...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The purchases of the Chancery-broker have not been of so extensive a charac- ter as last week. The various motions made in the Court of...

for further information respecting the small tract on maize, noticed in our number for the 24th January. We will tell all we know. The tract is entitled " Maize or Indian Corn,...

Augustus FitzRoy, Knight, to be Gov- .or-General of New South Wales and its dependen- cies. Mr. Henry Hallam, Sir Henry Ellis, Mr. Wyon, Mr. Macdonald, ( ?) and Mr. Landseer,...

THE actual state of Railway business in Parliament may disabuse those who were sanguine enough to anticipate any efficacious re- form in the mode of dealing with it during the...

PRINCIPLES OF PARTISAN STRATEGY. SOME persons seem inclined to claim unusual credit for the Whig Opposition because they do not thwart Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measure, in...

CAPITAL punishment is practically beginning to go out of use ; and two very curious if not opposite illustrations have just oc- curred, to show that the punishment is equally...

THE great obstacle to an amicable settlement of the Oregon con- troversy is not the importance which either Great Britain or the United States attaches to the possession of the...

Sikh chiefs to take the hold step of in- vading the British territory? The conviction that so long as they remained at peace with their neighbours, they would be at war among...

VOYAGES AND ADIrElirMIES, The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido, for the Suppression of Piracy; with Ex- tracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak, now Agent...

ALTHOUGH forgotten save by the historical student, the case of Antonio Perez, Secretary of State to Philip the Second of Spain, was at one time an occurrence in all men's...

of Miss Martineau's didactic Tales on the Game- laws relate to the last and present centuries, and illustrate the workings of the acts under three different aspects. The first...

"Los* engagements," and "the Affghan rebellion," or more properly war, do not seem well adapted for fiction. A long engagement may be a proper step or the very reverse,...

VOCAL PERFORMANCE OF THE HUTCHIMON FAMILY. A. ancoND and more favourable specimen of the musical produce of ionerica than we lately noticed in the Ethiopians, was exhibited by...

BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE exhibition of the works of living artists this year is on the whole an agreeable one; not the less so because its pretensions are of a humble sort....

Although the population of the towns would not be absolute data, as part of the depositors may come from the surrounding districts, yet it would be well to give it in a future...

Arativen-At Gravesend, 9th Feb. Anna Mary, Stephen, from Mauritius ; I ith, Wigrams, Patterson, from Penang ; Timaudra, Skinner, from Calcutta; Cleopatra, Early, from Mauritius....

the Hon. Captain Frederick. Pelham, of a daughter. ' On the 5th February, at Fawsley, the Hon; Mrs. Gage, of twin sons, who survived their birth only a few hours. On the 5th,...

Tuesday, Feb. 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Hensley and Clink, Word, horse-dealers--Stevens and Co. Birmingham, brazierP-; Kitchen and Moore, High-Street, St. Giles's,...

WAR-Orme, Feb. 13.-2d Regt. Life Guards-Cornet and Sub+Lient. H S. Lumley to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Lucas, who retires ; H. Johnstone, Gent. to be Comet and Sub-Lieut. by...

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Priem.) Tuesday. Tiredness. 97 961 96* 971 961 961 97i 971 97 01 "1 991 981 101 101 — --- 207/ — 260 39 40 40 — — — Alabama (Sterling) 6p. Ct....