IT is still asserted most stoutly, in the Liberal journals of Paris, that a change of Ministry is at hand ; but no change has yet taken place. These papers are not less absurd...

ascribed to a fit of fear, to which he was subjected by the falling of a vase during the night, in a closet adjoining his bedroom. Such a circumstance is associated, it seems,...

redeem the 4 per cent. Stock, by converting it into 31 or even, as some allege, into 3 per cent. The whole account, we may premise, is but' a rumour,—Government has not...

of Time's Tele- scope. We do not know that it is authentic ; and were it so, we cannot understand how its author could expect its insertion, except as an advertisement.

has been far several ays back prevented from taking his usual exercise. His Majesty still continues reside at the Royal Lodge ; but it is expected that he will take up his...

STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNING, HALF-PAST TEN. — We have had very little business in Consols this week, but there has been fluctuations to the extent in the whole of z per...

whole of Monday and Tuesday. Many accidents occurred. A drummer in the Guards was drowned, near Btackfriars Bridge; and a stonemason near Wandsworth. One of the Ken nington...

subsequent, at Gray's Inn Coffeehouse, before Mr. Phillimore and others, to inquire into the sanity of Mr. Edward Davies, of Philpot Lane, whose case was before the public some...

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Stn,—Your paper of the 11th inst. contains a short notice of my Lectures on Education, which certainly does as much justice to the work as can...

WILLIAMS V. PARKINSON.—The defendant is a poor woman,who havingrefused to sign an answer which had been drawn up on her part, was brought before the 'Court on Friday last, when...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE Times has announced that certain Church reforms are contem- plated, as sweeping in principle as any reformer could wish. It is proposed to take from the...

WHATEVER else may be in a state of decline in the City, certain music thrives. Of amateur instrumental talent, we suspect that far ilw larger proportion is to he found eastward...

THE historian MuNcHAusEN tells us of a region where the cold is so intense as to freeze words, which remain congealed till a thaw, when the uproar of Babel is produced by the...

THE firm of " Mathews, Yates, and Elephant " had on Thursday night the high honour of a visit from one of the most remarkablO men that the last thousand years has produced,—Mr....

OUR arguments have convinced the King ! He has declared his ap- probation of the principles which we have recommended, and set the stamp of supreme fashion on economy. His...

to town, where he means to repeat his lectures on Egypt and Southern Asia, and on the monopoly of the East India Company. In his tour, as was to be anticipated, he has made...

at the head f the list of delinquents, we place a Belfast paper of the 10th December. In the orthera Whig of that date, we observe two dramatic notices—of KEAN, and the Ele-...

IT appears to be the plan of those who direct the affairs of the Royal Academy of Music, to limit the education of its vocal pupils to the school of the modern Italian opera :...

THE reputation of L. E. L. makes it incumbent upon us to notice her volumes as they appear, although the task is unpleasant to us, and one we would willingly defer or delegate....

WE cannot help thinking that Sir WALTER, though addressing a very youn ,, reader, and naturally writing down in some measure to his ce pacify, has produced in the Tales of a...

favour of the Hackney LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S zeal in the work of reformation has brought another assailant upon him, in the form of a professed auxiliary to the Bishop of FERNS....

MEAN has during the last fortnight been playing Richard, Othello, and Sir Giles Overreach, in his usual way, and with the usual results. He pleases his ad- mirers, and carries...

"Through the wood," a Carolina. The Ifirsic by C. E. HORN. WE are glad to welcome Mr. HORN back to England. We have few better melodists among our composers ; and the present...

The Swiftsure, Johnson, from New South Wales to Mauritius, was totally lost In Torres Straits on the 4th July. Crew and passengers saved by the Resource, arrived at the...

BOORS IN THE PRESS OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION Anecdotal Reminiscences of distinguished Literary and Political Characters, with Autographs, by Mr. Leigh Cliffe—Literary...

Ox FOR n„ December 17.—This day the following degrees were conferred. Doctor in Civil Law W. Morgan, Esq. Fellow of Magdalen. Masters of Arts—E. 0. Hughes, Jesus ; Rev. H. N. G....

WAR-OFFICE. Dec. 19.-2d Reg. Life Guards : J. 0. Fairlie, Gent. to be Cor. and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Franklen, who retires—Royal Horse Guards : Corporal C. Fairbrother,...

His Majesty's Stag Hounds meet on Monday, at Thorpe; and Thursday, at Two-Mile Brook-at half-paid ten. The Bri g hton Hurlers meet on Monday, at Patcham ; Wednesday, at the...

Tuesday, Dec. 15. PARTNERSHIPS TnssoLvEn.-PEARSON and HARRISON, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, lace-makers-Rt.:max and REES, Tredegar Ironworks, Bedwelty. Monmouthshire, tat-...

BtaTits.-In Fitzwilliam-square, Dublin, the Viscountess Bangor of a son-On the 8th inst. the Lady of John Woodbead, Esq. of Nether-thong, of two sons and a daugh- ter: the two...

CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, DEC. 18. The arrival of Wheat and Flour this week is moderate, the trade umelaaeless is ex- ceedingly dull, on rather worse terms than on Monday. Barley,...