the hori- zon presents the same appearances of tranquillity as at home. France is friendly ; and has just concluded a postage-treaty with this country, giving to both new...

THE two nights that Parliament sat this week were occupied with the winding-up of some business and a few parting blows and skirmishes of a desultory kind. The principal contest...

lot of the people. Measures have been put before Parliament, and there they re- main. Lord ASHLEY'S work was a thorough exposition of the brute ignorance of large masses of the...

REGISTRATION OP VOTERS. The Registration of Voters Bill having been read a third time on Monday, Lord CHARLES FITZROY proposed a clause securing the fran- chise to every...

THE number of the Royal infants is still but two; and the assertion has even been denied that Dr. Loco& has orders to be in constant attendance at the Palace. In the mean time,...

The Lord Mayor gave a magnificent banquet on Wednesday, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionbouse, to a party numbering about a hundred and fifty, and consisting chiefly of the...

A meeting of the electors, freeholders, and inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, convened by the High Sheriff, was held at the County Hall, in Aylesbury, on Saturday, "for...

The Crown Prince of Wurtemberg has been suffering from cold, which manifested itself after he left the Dutchess of Gloucester's on Wednesday night last week ; but he was much...

There is some prospect that the Nonintrusionists will be in a mino- rity at the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. A recent decision of the Court of...

The Secretary of State for the Home Department has replied to Lord ale Grey's application on behalf of the memoralists who remonstrated against the mail-contract's being taken...

Thursday, on the Powder-mill River, a branch of the Lea, where stand a series of Government-buildings for the manufacture of gunpowder. One of these was a corning-house,...

Anti-Corn-law people and their opponents. The Morning Chronicle says that Eprl Stanhope could not persuade the Duke of Buckingham to head the requisition to the High Sheriff to...

further light on the malady which has visited the Duke of Sussex. Its comparatively favourable character will gratify everybody- " His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is...

revolution not only continued, but the progress of the Democratic in- surgents had been triumphant throughout the Southern part of the island ; and they were marching 15,000...

Guttierez, the former Political Chief of Barcelona, had been appointed Director- General of the Post-office at Havannah.

a distance. A woman was discovered on Thursday morning, crouched up under a tree, in a wood at Walton-upon-Thames, unable to speak a word of English. Taken before the local...

SLUMS EXCHANGS, THURSDAY Arrest:wow. Scarcely any thing of importance has occurred in the English Funds, during the week; but the great abundance of money has given firmness to...

rived at Boston, in the Columbia, on the 20th March. The latest ac- counts of Sir Charles Begot again represented him as dying.

SATURDAY NIGHT. The packet-ship Virginia has arrived at Liverpool, with intelligence from New York to the 23d March. The papers contain a corre- spondence between General Cass...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend. 9th April. Ellenborough, Close, from Calcutta ; 13th, John King, Bristowe, from Mauritius. At Portsmouth, 11th ditto, Cornwall. Hillman. fr,m China; 14th,...

THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION MEASURE. THE temper in which the educational clauses of the Government Factory Bill have been talked of by the leaders in the House of Commons is such...

Ma. COBDEN has stepped out of his legitimate avocation, as a Free Trade agitator, to be an Anti-Colonial agitator. Probably, in the course of his statistical researches he has...

Tan unsatisfactory issue of our negotiations with Brazil sur- prises nobody. Brazil and Britain are not at present in a condition to place their commercial relations on a...

The fallacies offigures of speech are not here meant : the character of these gay deceivers is well known, and men are on their guard against them. But those dull, plodding,...

IN a walk to visit a friend in one of the Western suburbs, about a week since, our musings were interrupted by a placard, copiously stuck up on every post, palisade and blind...

SOME subjects," says the Irishman, " are too serious to men- tion—praties is one : " "grandmothers," says a Scotchman, "is an- other." The Reverend Joust &nom taboos jocose...

BIOORAPHY. The Life of Sir David Wilkie, with his Journals, Tours, anti Critical Remarks on Works of Art ; and a Selection from his Correspondence. By Allan Cunningham. Is...

TRE writer of these Letters is a young married lady, who accom- panied her husband to India. Shortly after their arrival at Madras, the husband was appointed Zillah or District...

Tars work is, in its way, a great curiosity. It is the result and record of certain proceedings on the part of a fraction of the Baronets, which for ignorant folly and...

From April 7th to April 13th. Booxs. The Life of Sir David Willie; with his Journals, Tours, and Critical Re- marks on Works of Art, and a selection from his Correspondence....

EXHIBITIONS, PRESENT AND TO COME. Tan Exhibition-season is nearly at its height : in the course of the en- suing three weeks, as many galleries of modern art will open their...

Tuesday, April 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Stiff and Co, Strand, newspaper proprietors-Tod and Roberts, Alexandria-Woods and Turner, Blackburn, millwrights-Larking and Son,...

RIRTHS. On the 5th April, at Berry Hill, Taplow, the Lady MABELLA Kirox, of a daughter. On the 6tb, at Escot, Devonshire, the Lady of Sir JOHN KENNAWAT, Ban, of a son. On the...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, April 10.-Royal Regt. of Artillery.-Capt. and Brevet Major T. Grantham to be Lieut.-Col. vice gf. Blachley. retired on full-pay ; Second Capt. T C. Robe to...

Rye 80 to 32 22 .. 23 Malting 27 .. 28 Malt, Ordinary 48 50 Fine 50 ,, 52 Peas, Hog 17 .. 28 Maple .. 57 tells White se .20 Boilers 81 33 Beans, Ticks 24 .. 25 Old 55..85...

Strand; and Published by him at No. 9, We .cgton Street, Strand, SATURDAY, 15ru APRIL 1893.

Tun quantity of wheat annually consumed in the United Kingdom may be estimated at fourteen millions of quarters.* This, at 58s. 4d. per quarter, the average price of the last...

*Implement to the *pectator, april 15, 1843.

THE following table shows the population of the United Kingdom in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, and 1841; and the average amount of sugar annually retained for consumption...

The fair price of any commodity is a sum of money that will cover all the charges of bringing it to market. A fair price must cover the wages of the labourers, the profits of...

It is well known that sugar can be produced from other vegetables besides the cane. In France and Prussia, it is extracted from the beet- root ; in some parts of France, from...

SLAVERY is an arrangement characteristic of one of those stages through which society must pass in its transition from the utter anarchy of the savage state to the ascendancy of...

the subject of the sugar-trade, and which is so transparent that it is strange it should have been so long listened to. Brazil, India, and other continents, it is gravely said,...

condition which bears considerable analogy to that of the Lowlands of Scotland about the time that David Dale established the cotton-mills of New Lanark. There is a class of...

THE considerations suggested by the preceding inquiries address themselves in particular to three classes—to the Free-traders, the West India interest, and the friends of the...

No. I.—How TO SAVE THE WEST INDIES AND ABOLISH NEGRO SLAVERY. [From the Colonial Gazette, ]st January 1840.] IT would almost seem that a law of nature has condemned the Negro...