No glimpse of hope in the black storm that is breaking over Ire- land, and continually gathering while it breaks ! The elements of disorder are the same, almost withoUt...

expectation formed of him as a Colonial Minister, by reforming the system of con- vict transportation. Transportation to Van Diemen's Land is to be checked ; that of males is to...

Russians and the Turks used to be, as the Russians and the Cir- eassians are. Nor does the great Union get on much more pros- perously than the great Empire did and does in the...

TILE Queen and Prince Albert attended divine service on Sunday, in Os- borne House. The Royal pair have been assiduously pedestrian during the week; and the young Princes and...

A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, to deliberate on the bill for extending the municipal qualifications of freemen; but the scene was one series of squabbles. The...

Mr. Hodgetts Foley, the late Whig candidate for the representation of the Eastern DiVial(611 of Worcestershire, has announced his retirement from the present contest. The...

Mr. O'Connell's proposed conference does not seem exactly to meet the views of the Young Irelanders. There was a meeting of the seceders at the Nation office on Friday last...

UNITED STATEB.—There have been two arrivals from Amerizathis week The Great Western left New York on the 27th November, and reached Liverpool on Saturday; and the Acadia left...

Glasgow is at present inundated with destitute Irish families, who am daily arriving under an impression that there is work for them on some railway. They inquire for a "Mr....

Prince Metternich's death is not confirmed. He has been suffering front bronchitis, which is diminished; but the worst symptoms, those of ad- vanced years, weigh heavy upon...

RATcaDAT Moaning. Aitatvez—At Gravesend, 12th Dec. John Gray, WDonald, from Calcutta ; litiz, Nereid, Parsons, from Bombay ; 14th, Christina, Baker, from Madrasm and 1641 4...

in the salt-trade to India, waited on Sir John Hobhouse, at the Board of Control, on Thursday. The object was to urge the abolition of' the power monopolized by the East India...

Freeman of Thursday gives some news of the conference between the Old Ireland and Young Ireland delegates. The deputations could not settle the terms of reconciliation. The...

Ministers will' propose to Parliament the immediate erection of Lancashire into a separate see, under the title of the Diocese of Manchester. The new diocese 'will consist of...

about to- be finally incorporated with the Russian empire; on which the Chronicle, this morning, observes that there must be some mistake, the Customs fron- tier only being...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The light of hope does at last break on Ireland-from" Saxon" England. The Daily News announces that a great comprehensive measure of redemp- tion is resolved...

Office. All the principal members attended. k The Gazette of yesterday announces that the title of Baronet has been conferred on Colonel Henry Robert Ferguson Davie; Frederick...

STOCK EXCHANGE. Far AT AFTERNOON. The English Funds experienced a downward fluctuation of nearly / per cent.. This decline was occasioned by a rise in the corn-market,...

A new piece, called La Famille Poisson, recently produced at the St. James's Theatre, does great credit both to the author, M. Samson, who has shown himself an elegant writer...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR- Castle Combe, 16th December 1846. Ent—The Morning Chronicle of yesterday, in attempting to combat your com- ments on the confiscation cry...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Liverpool, 10th December 1846. Sut—The article on the duties on tea in your paper requires a reply, because the authorities quoted carry weight...

called Story-telling stopped short in the middle, by Mr. Farren coming forward and declaring that he was too ill to do justice to the author, we, of course, refrained from...

To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR..4 have attentively considered the letter of Mr. Bland which appeared in the last number of the Spectator; and I am not without hope that,...

WITH a benignant regret the Morning Ch the Spectator has "joined the Poor-law agitators "—meaning the agitators for an Irish poor-law--but dismisses our views with comfortable...

A •HoPEPur. spirit is growing up among agriculturists. Deprived of protection, they are not disposed to sulk, but rather exert them- selves to attain the only sure and...

RACE FOR GOOD OPPOSITION SEATS. PascricAux the members of the Tory party busy themselves in showing that which they deny in words—that Sir Robert Peel is the most important man...

THE appearance of the Spectator in the Law Courts is so rare, its defeat so unprecedented, that we owe some explanation to our readers for the proceedings in the Court of...

WHATEVER may have been the fate of the entente cordiale in the political relations of France and England, there can be no doubt of its continued existence in their respective...

BrasWirt', Memoirs ot the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, N.G., Vice-Chamberlain and Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth. Including his Correspondence with the Queen...

HERE at last is a book of travels; not indeed distinguished by such wild adventures or hairbreadth escapes as characterized some of the older ex- plorers, who carried their life...

Tam volume is the first product of the Middle Temple's endeavour to in- stitute a more scholastic training for the bar than consists in handling a knife and fork, and a somewhat...

BOOKS. Two Discourses delivered in the Middle Temple Hall. By George Long, Barrister-at-law, &c. With an Outline of the Course. The History of the Sikhs; containing the Lives...

by Sir H. R. Bishop. Bishop, who has been induced by the mutability of musical fashion to abandon the field of dramatic composition, which he so long kept in this country...

Handers Suites de Pieces pour is Clavecin. Edited by I. Mescheles. Scarlates Piaces pour is Clavecin. Edited by J. B. Cramer. THESE may be called twin publications, in more...

a Clergy- man of the Church of England, and arranged in Vocal Score, with Sym- phonies and Accompaniments for the Pianoforte, by W. H. Kearns. This volume is so elegantly got...

a subscriber for the year ending with March 1846, he is, he says, entitled to a copy of the engraving from Mr. O'Neill's design of Jephtha's Daughter; and early in August he...

Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; and we are glad to see that the body is flourishing in all its parts, despite its state of warfare with official...

THE Society of Arts has made a vigorous move this year for the encou- ragement of decorative art. The great hall of the Society's house in Adam Street, Adelphi, has just been...

On the 27th September, at lahapore, near Calcutta, We Lady of Major William An- derson, C.B., of a daughter. On the 8th December, at Ileathstown House, County Westmeath, the...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dec. 18.-Royal Artillery-Major-Gen. J. Power to be Col.- Commandant, vice Dickenson, dec. ADMIRALTY, Dec. 7.-Corps of Royal Mari nee-Lieut.-Col. T. Peebles...

Tuesday, Dec. 15. PARTNERSMIPB DISSOLVED. Pilkington and Son, St. John Street Road, tea-dealers-Souter and Son, Birming- ham, japanners-Scott and Stoddart, Liverpool,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday Tuesday. reduce. Thum S per Cent Consols Ditto tor AeeoUnt 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per...