THE Imperial Government have at length taken a decided line against the Repeal agitation in Ireland, and the Agitator's bold course has received a palpable check. There was to...

satisfaction to all parties. The ratifications of the Nankin treaty have been exchanged, and a commercial treaty has been con- cluded. The embarrassing, and obstructive Hong...

A Common Hall was held on Tuesday, when the Sheriffs reported the result of the late poll for the nomination of candidates for the Mayoralty : the numbers were—for Magnay, 893;...

trade and the condition of the people, is in some degree confirmed by the Revenue-accounts just published. The serious falling-off in the previous year, indeed, is not quite...

THE life of the Court at Windsor Castle has been unusually quiet The Queen and Prince Albert have taken the customary out-door exerehie; walking a good deal ; the Prince...

Lord De Grey, with the Countess, arrived at Kingstown, early on Friday morning, in the Queen's steamer Merlin ; accompanied by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the...

An Anti-Corn-law League meeting was held at Worcester, on Satur- day. A requisition, signed by Lord Southwell, Sir Edward Blount, Mr. Robert Scott, M.P., and a hundred and...

The religions riots in Ross-shire have been quelled. On Saturday, the Lord-Lieutenant, the Sheriff, and several Magistrates, supported by some hundreds of special constables,...

Intelligence has been received from India and China; though the second overland mail from Bombay has failed to arrive at its appointed time. The Oriental steamer left Alexandria...

• SA T URDAY NIGHT. Matters remained without material change in Dublin on Thursday. The correspondent of the Tintes, however, declares that Government are about to take some...

Tuesday's Gazette contained the following important announcements- " The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and...

meeting he replied to attacks made on him at Covent Garden Theatre ; but not very felicitously, and in a defensive tone, that must encourage his oppo- nents. As a set-off...

journals adopt the tone of taunt towards Mr. O'Connell for his discreet submission to the compulsion enforced upon him. It is more pardonable in those who are engaged in the...

reports a general belief that South Wales is becoming more settled ; which he attributes to the conciliatory demeanour recently adopted by the landlords and gentry. The day of...

The Kate, Wilson, bound t.r Liverpool, put back to Calcutta previous to 7th August, and aascoudemned. The Sarah and Elizabeth, Billinghtust, of London, was taken possession of...

Paris of yesterday's date. A telegraphic despatch of the 8th instant had been received from Madrid- " The elections have terminated almost everywhere, with the exception of the...

Land, to the 16th Jane. The only point of news is the active pursuit of some desperate bushrangers who bad been troubling the colony. From South Australia, however, there are...

Bank of England, from the 15th July to the 7th October 1843— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £19,561,000 Securities £22,193,000 Deposits 11,466,000 Bullion 12,078,000...

with varying and hesitating opinions. The National regards it as the result of the Queen's visit to Louis Philippe at En

Steen EXOBANOE, FRIDAY ArrtiurooN. The great improvement in the revenue, coupled with the prospect of an ap- proaching termination of the Repeal movement in Ireland, has given...

by Mr. Bona- maxim—French in subject and sentiment, though not in neatness of construction—called the Old Guard; in which Mademoiselle Emmirc PROSPER, from the French Theatre,...

light and laughable interludes. One is the popular piece Anthony and Cleo- patra; in which WRIGHT resumes his old part of Anthony the tailor- hussar, and a Miss WooLcart made...

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SPECTATOR. SIR—The public appear to he ignorant of the importance of this subject, and the benefit the Magistrates in Petty Sessions are rendering to their...

playing Paddy Murphy in LOVER'S Happy Man, very successfully. His Irishman is the best we have seen since POWER ; hearty, easy, and humorous without vulgarity : he sings, too,...

the close of the theatre, and the commencement of a second season on Monday next ! The cause assigned for this extraordinary proceeding is the complete failure of the attempt to...

THE Haymarket has this week exhibited one of those finished assump- tions of character, the more prized for their rarity, which remind us that the art of the true comedian is...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 9th October 1843. SIR—At the late meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League in Covent Garden Theatre, Mr. COBDEN in his speech on that...

Drury Lane ; and the revival of Clari bids fair to fill the house more than ?nee at the opening of the doors : Miss RAINFORTH makes a strong impression in the old character of...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. 64, Button Lane, Sheffield. Sin—In your paper of the 26th of August, I observe a moat interesting ar- ticle on London Fires, in which you...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 10th Oct. 1842 and 1843, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED 10th...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Oswestry, 10th October 1843. Sin-T read with interest your article upon this subject in your paper of the 30th ultimo, and entirely agree (as I...

IRELAND: AMBULATORY PARLIAMENTS. Mnasrsits having abandoned the passive policy in regard to Ire- land and begun to act, they will find enough to do, and doubts and difficulties...

MART speak of "law reform" without a clear conception of what law is ; yet it is evident, that whoever will materially amend our law, must have a precise notion of what it is he...

ON Wednesday week, an old man—eighty-four was his age—was hanged at Stirling for murder. A scene of unusual horror had been looked for, but the reality seems to have exceeded...

PERHAPS the most characteristic peculiarity of the social condition of England at present is the unhealthy want of repose. Travelling by railroad is merely typical of the...

THE statue of BEETHOVEN is now completed, and has attracted name- sous visitors to the studio of Hiihnel the sculptor, at Dresden ; where it remains, previously to its removal...

sixty years ago." It does not exhibit such a scene of savage debauchery as the account of Ireland at the same period lately given by the Dublin University Maga- zine; but the...

Hamar, ,,The Despatches of Hernando Cortes, the Conqueror of Mexico, addressed to the Emperor Charles V., written during the Conquest, and containing a Narrative of its Events....

MRS. CHILD, who is known as an American authoress, is, we believe, a Bostonian by birth, whom circumstances carried to New York, and detained there, in the years 1841-42 and '...

THESE Letters were originally written to call the attention of the public, and more especially of the Governments of Germany, to the practical importance of chemical science,...

From September 29th to October 12th. Bongs. Ireland and its Rulers since 1829. Part the First. Sir Cosmo Digby ; a Tale of the Monmouthshire Riots. By JAMES AUGUSTUS ST....

On the 27th September, at Geneva, the wife of the Rev. J. H. HAMILTON, Vicar of Sheepshed. Leicestershire, of a daughter. On the 29th, at Perth. the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel R....

WAR-OFFICE, Oct. 13.-1st Regt. of Life Guards —Cornet J. M. Hogg, from the 9th Light Drags. to be Coruet and Sub-Lieut. vice Colston, who exchanges. 1st Drags.- Lieut, C. C. W....

Tuesday, Oct. 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Green and Wicking, Sutton at Hone, Kent. millers—A. and M. Stanley, Blackburn, innkeepers— Lees and Co. Oldham, coal...

CURRENT. BRITISH 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 31 per Cents Reduced New 33 per Cents Long Anon lies Bank &ook. 7 per cent. India Stock, 101...