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. The letter of President Bonaparte to Colonel Edgar Ney,
The Spectatorwhich we copied last week, has produced a great sensation in Paris, and something like a Ministerial crisis. The discreet Journal des Debats confesses that it is "a little too...
The cholera scarcely abates, and the alarm increases. Not content
The Spectatorwith the special prayer ordered for tomorrow, many persons are calling out for a general fast., and in some places a local fast has been observed. Medical and lay writers...
Mr. Disraeli is coming out as an O'Connell; only combining
The Spectatorwith the capacity of agitator that of English country gentleman, statesman, novelist, epic poet, and Hebrew-Caucasian. At the meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator, DUBLIN giveeliaaewAkie to.the Prince of Wales; whose creation by patent to be--" - Earl of Dublin" was announced in Tuesday's Gazette. The title is conferred upon the boy...
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• 'Ube jftetropolis.
The SpectatorThe City Committee of Health was specially called together at the Mansionhonse, on Thursday; the Lord Mayor having received a verbal complaint from the Board of Health that the...
The Colonial Office is our true War department. The Cape
The Spectatorof Good Hope grows angry enough to justify the Downing Street hopes of separation ; and the so-called dependency of Ionia is the scene of disturbances. The riot in Cephalonia...
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lEtt 13u:16611Es.
The SpectatorAt.the anniversary meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Association, held on Wednesday at Aylesbury, Mr. Disraeli expounded a plan of agita- tion for promoting the relief of...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorAt a meeting of the Corporation of Dublin, on Monday last, Mr. Walker brought forward his motion_ for rescinding the resolutiens recorded last year in' favour of the address to...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe news from the Royal residence at Balmoral is Confined to an- nouncements of the arriiils and departures. Lord John Russell took his departure on Friday; and his place as...
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fforeign anti Colonial.
The SpectatorFRANCE.—The President's letter to Colonel Edgar Ney has occasioned some fermentation in his Cabinet. It was at first alleged as certain that M. de Falloux had hastened to Paris...
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Alistellantous.
The SpectatorThe Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed ander the Great Seal granting the dignity of an Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto his...
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The Freese insists that the difference between M. de Fallonx
The Spectatorand the President has been very serious, and that the Minister has only consented to remain in the Cabinet on the urgent persuasion of M. Thiers. M. de Fitlloux has kept to his...
The Castlewellan Bench of Magistrates have refused, by 6 votes
The Spectatorto 5, to take informations offered by the Crown lawyer against several of the Orangemen con- cerned in the Dolly's Brae affair of the 12th of July. The ship Minerva, Captain...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. The Board of Health is taking energetic steps against recusant local au- thorities who violate or neglect its orders: last night's Gazette contains in- structions...
A friend, residing in Ireland, on whose judgment and good
The Spectatorfaith we can rely, sends us a melancholy report. " —, near Dublin, 13th September 1849. "I am :sorry to say, the potato is showing very badly. In this neighbourhood I thought...
Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has granted to
The Spectator"Sir Albert Denison Conyngbam, commonly called Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order," leave to take the surname of Denison...
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THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorBusybodies have long been recognized creators of mischief, and conse- quently of drollery on our stage. Hence, Mr. Carey Chick—so named, we suppose, from the bird whose presence...
THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL.
The SpectatorA fortnight ago, we gave some account of the general plan and ar- rangements of this great music-meeting, which was held last week. We find, from the detailed reports given by...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY Arrsawoow. The English Funds have been heavy, without any transactions of importance. The eettlement of the Consol Account was on Tuesday ; when, from...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE FALL OF THE.LEAF. AUTUMN tinges the forest, and the deepening, pee. fadea into brown. The slanting sun sinks sooner to his bed v-aliarnti are steadier and less hopeful of a...
TO THE EDrrOR OF TILE SPECTATOR.
The SpectatorCamberwell, 4th September 1849. Slit—I must confess my inability to discover, either in your remarks or in the letters of Mr. Jeffery and Mr. Cauvin, any reason that should...
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WATER.
The SpectatorLosnoN pines and sickens for want of water ! The paragon of - modern cities, the unrivalled metropolis of-the mightiest nation of the earth, is grovelling like a Cahouek camp in...
POSITION OF ROME AND HER CHURCH. ECCLESIASTICAL affairs partake of
The Spectatorthe disorder which prevails in every branch of polity, and therefore extraordinary interest is felt in every step that may give a new turn to the stream of . events, or furnish...
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THE COMMON SENSE OF COMMUNISM.
The SpectatorJUDGING by the many letters which we receivie, 'we oollect that the newly-revived subject of Communism ondiSions unabated in- terest among numbers who have hitherto...
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GRATUITIES TO RAILWAY PORTERS. '
The SpectatorTHHATJGH the Times, "A Passenger by the Eastern Counties Railway" draws attention "to the foolislicustom of giving fees to porters at railway stations "— ince we can eak. fro...
THE EXCURSION -TRAIN. MAN is commonly represented as a shortsighted
The Spectatoranimal ; and certainly, if he endeavour to foresee of any remarkable event the perfect form and pressure, he mostly proves widely wrong in his anticipations. The discovery of...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorLORD LINDSAY'S LIVES OF THR LINDSAY'S. * This work Was originally written between fifteen and twenty years ago, for the information of some junior members of the Lindsay family,...
PROPER NAMES NOT PROPER.
The SpectatorONE of the penny imitators of our weekly Pasquin warns people against assuming the name of Smith after it has been tarnished by Louis Philippe and Mrs. Manning : but what are...
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' THE COURSE OF A REVOLUTION. * THE subject of this
The Spectatorhistorical hetion Is the revolutions and ceunter- revolutions, civil wars, massacres, and court corruptions, that distracted a The Course of a Revolution, or the Farthenopiests...
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REID'S APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF STORMS.* IT is nearly
The Spectatortwenty years since Colonel Reid first gave his attention to the subject of Tropical hurricanes, and eleven since he published his book on the Law of Storms.t In that work he...
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EIBTA.S blETRICA. * THE inferiority of " sacred poetry " is
The Spectatorgenerally admitted. Dr. Johnson has endeavoured to account for the failure of devotional verse, on the plea that an address to the Deity proceeds from a more exalted con- dition...
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On the 8th August, at Corfu, the Lady of -Aulstant-,Commissary-General
The SpectatorWeir, -- daughter. , • On the 5th September, at Rowell& Hall,-Selby, Yorkshire, the Wife of Ralph Creyks, Esq., of a son and heir. ' On theStb - , at the Vicarage, Wickhatn...
COMMECIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, September 11. PARTBEEBBIPS DISSOLVED. J. and W. Clark, Russell Mews, Fitzroy Square, carmen-J. and W. Winter, 1t01 horn Hill, tatters -King eta Sheath, Regent...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-OFFICE, Sept. 11.-7th Regt. of Drag. Guanla-Lient. A. P. Gore to be Cant. • by purchase, vice Petre, who retires ; Cornet T. G. Smith to be Lieut. by Purchas e, Tice Gore....
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorFriday: 914 Sal 93/ 35 74 Monday. Tuesday. Melon Theirs. 921 921 521 921 921 921 521 921 921 921 931 shut 931 91 84 54 81 81 81 - — 199 shot — 251 — 38 39 36 25 76 pm. --...
