Despotic Powers. The Emperor of Russia, who has never_ yielded to or for a moment parleyed with Constitutionalism—the Emperor of Austria, who has destroyed the last shreds of...

expected from so devoted a partisan of the American "'Whigs." In what relates to foreign policy, it is satisfactory ; in what relates to commercial policy, the reverse ; in what...

Tint Usurpa tion in France continues its lawless and perfidious career. Nearly one half of the departments are placed in a state of siege. The publicittion of the few journals...

is the growth of habits of lawless violence both in the manufacturing towns and the rural districts. The garotte robberies, in Manches- ter and Birmingham, keep pace with the...

in France ? what course are they prepared to shape with reference to them ? If they anticipate from them any diminution of the difficulties of the coming session, they will...

Osborne ; the Queen and Prince Albert taking their early walks and carriage exercises, and the young people galloping about on their ponies, or driving out in juvenile...

most likely to be followed by beneficial consequences, is the remarkable meet- ing of the Duke of Newcastle with his tenantry at Newark. The object of the meeting appears to...

view, to wear an unfavourable aspect. The Anti-Convict League con- tinues to gather strength and perfect its organization. The irrita- tion of the colonists is obviously on the...

St. Thomas's Day falling on Sunday (tomorrow) thisyear, and Saturday being an inconvenient day for the municipal elections, the Lord Mayor has issued precepts for the election...

Mr. Bright and Alderman Kershaw met the members of the Stock- port Reform Association on Tuesday evening, and made speeches in ex- planation and recommendation of the...

The Edinburgh Witness states that the Lord Advocate has promised to bring in a bill on the subject of the University tests, similar to that in- troduced by his predecessor, Lord...

FRANCE.-It is scarcely less difficult now than last week to tell whether or not the Usurpation has entirely subdued the resisting departments. If the Bonaparte papers may be...

The Lord-Lieutenant was present at a banquet given by the Directors of the Irish Midland Great Western Railway, in their terminus station, on Tuesday ; and made a speech...

The remains of the late Duke of Cambridge were transferred on Tues- day morning from their temporary resting-place at the West end of Kew Church, to the mausoleum at the East...

SATURDAY. The great point of interest in Paris yesterday was the vote which is to be given throughout France today and tomorrow on the " plebiscite" of the "nephew of my...

The Earl of Eldon continues in indifferent health, at Shorley House, near Croydon. Mr. George Frederick Young M.P. is suffering from severe indisposition, arising from an...

The designs of Sir Joseph Paxton for a second "Great Exhibition Build- ing "—required in New York by the emulative Americans—have been submitted to private view this week, at...

resolu- tions of the late Reform Conference at Manchester, requested Mr. Milner Gibson to seek for them an interview with the Premier. Lord John being at Woburn Abbey, Mr....

French parties and French politics," has favoured the Times with an admirable letter of three columns on "Louis Napoleon and his Policy. The fol- lowing descriptive passages are...

Dit.o for Account 3 per Cent Reduced at per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock Exchequer Bills India Stock Brazilian 5 per Cents Belgian 4i per Cents Chilian 6 per Cents STOCK...

Sin—I am inclined to fear that you talented gentlemen of the press will (unnecessarily) increase the cordial hatred which the generality of the French people bear towards Great...

San — You and I have often belonged to a small minority, without dis- covering afterwards that we were in error. We are in a very small one now, as alarmists with regard to the...

Dublin, 17th December 1851. Stn—Allow me to correct an error which appears in the last number of the Spectator. You say—" but Lord Clarendon had already paid 3700/., and the...

Salt — A wise man beset by evil does not sit down to repine, but to extract from the evil all the good he can ; and in this point of view the axiom is a sound one, "Whatever is,...

must look to the dormitory of Westminster School, where the Eunuchus of Terence has been played with more than usual spirit. A commonplace compliment which is often paid to the...

this account, pro- bably, the information respecting Christmas entertainments is at present very vague and general.

The opening of the Lyceum on Monday was unaccompanied by novelty. Nevertheless, it was refreshing to behold the extra-polished glibness of Mr. C. Mathews, in that admirable...

20 Porehester Terrace, 161/1 December 18.51. Sin—There is one feature in the recent coup d'etat, which, if I mistake not, has hitherto escaped notice, and to which I would beg...

Sin—In my last letter I put the question, whether, even could we reduce our electoral body to a state of ideal perfection, we should necessarily there- by give increased...

I. Let loose thy hell-hounds, man of blood, But not against the foe- 'Gainst those who in thy quarrel stood Not three short years ago ; 'Gainst harmless burghers, whom the hum...

THE CANDIDATE FOR A TEN-YEARS LEASE OF FRANCE.—" STAND AND DELIVER!" MANY persons, usually clear-sighted enough, seem to regard the establishment of Louis Napoleon's power as a...

Syndicate was appointed at Cambridge by grace of the Senate for the revision of the University Statutes. This Syndicate, consisting of the Vice-Chancellor, six other Heads, and...

WE spoke last week of the Municipalities of France as exteemities of the nerves and muscles of the Central Government, and as thereby ill-adapted, in comparison with those of...

the views and wishes of the mer- cantile community with respect to the Customs, the resolutions passed by the late City meeting appear to merit a more deliberate criticism than...

LArnABLE efforts have been made of late years to instruct the working classes and to increase their comforts, by the classes above them. In addition to the oldfashioned agencies...

WHATEVER may be the balance of opinion on the subject of the "taxes on knowledge," as the taxes on newspapers are rather grandiloquently called, there can be no doubt that the...

THERE never was such a plague! Puck misleading Demetrius and Lysander, or clapping an ass's head upon Bottom, did not distract and worry his victims half so much as 'our own...

WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 19.-4th Regt. of Drag. Geards-Capt, C. H. D. Donovan, from 9th Light Drags, to be Capt. vice Coles, who exchanges. 6th Drag. Guards-A. J. Owles, Gent, to be...

Tuesday, Deestaber 16. PARTNERSHIPS I:lissom - en -Hail and Son, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, woollen-rnaup. facturers -Hall and Co. Brigstock, Northamptonshire, grooers-Corbitt and...

On the Sth November, at Bombay, Lady Yardley, of a daughter. On the 10th, at Florence, the Lady Methuen, eta eon. On the 29th, at Grand Cairo, the Hon. Mrs. Murray, the Wife of...

SHARES. (Lest Official Quotation during the RamwaTe- Caleannian Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties Groat Northern Great South. and West. Ireland Great Western Hull and...

City of London; and Published by the aforesaid JOSEPH CLAYTON, at 9, Weill/Oa.' Street, in the Precinct of the Stvoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex.-SATURDAT, 20th DECEMBEE...

LORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. * THESE fifth and sixth volumes of Lord Mahon's History extend from 1763 to 1780. In foreign affairs little more that. the Ameri- can disputes...

POE THE WEEK ENDING NO. 1225.1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1851. [GRATIS NITTE THE WEER'S SPECTATOR.

THE primary object of the voyage of the Rattlesnake was to com- plete the survey of the barrier reefs that block as it were the entrance to Torres Strait, in order to further...

Tins novel exhibits a great improvement over both its predecessors. The pictures of common life are more numerous, if not more gene- ral; there is more action, greater variety...

this little volume of verses. The writer has tenderness of feeling, a perception of the true points of interest in a story and of beauty in a landscape, and the not common power...

Booxs. Jacob Bendizen, the Jew. Adapted from the Danish of Goldschmidt. By Mary lfowitt. In three volumes. Antony, the Deaf and Dumb _Boy. In two volumes. The Practical Working...

MR. R S KIN' S WORKS ON VENICE.* Of those who may have speculated on the character of the work which had been announced under the title of The Stones of Venice—accord- ing to...