" DESPATCH of business" appears to be the real *object for which the Representatives of the People have assembled in this session of Parliament. Various and important have been...

mails, and left us bare of Continental intelligence this week. The proceedings in the French Court of Peers were closed on Sunday evening, with a long, tiresome, and vulgar...

MINA had taken a fortress in Catalonia, situated on a precipitous rock, and called Santuario del Hort. He found 300 prisoners, Carlists, and Catalonian rebels, there; all of...

1. TliE CARLOW ELECTION. A petition from Mr. Nicholas Aylward Vigors, in answer to the allegations in the Carlow and Bath petitions respecting his conduct in the matter of the...

THE King gave an audience on Tuesday to Lord Melbourne, who ar- rived at the Palace from London about two o'clock. His Lordship was closeted for several hours with the King; and...

on Weflnesday afternor n. By great exertions, the body of the church was saved ; but the engines were not sufficiently powerful to play upon the belfry, so the spire was totally...

was held on Thuredisr morning, at the house of the Deputy Grand Master, Lord Kenyon, in Portman Squaw.. Ali the leaders of the party woo present. A ballot took place at the...

the robbery at the Mint-house, near Chipstead, in September last h will be recollected, that a gang of burglars attempted to rob this house, which was inhabited by two maiden...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday. Mr. Humphery in- formed the Court, that proceedings to set aside his election as Alder- man for Aldgate Ward had been commenced by Mr....

Mr. J. W. Chi/ders, formerly Member for Cambridgeshire, was elected for Melton on the 12th instant; and Colonel Anson for Stokes upon- Trent on the 15th; both without...

having been finished, is expected daily at Liverpool, to be placed in the singu- lar building in the cemetery raised to his memory. The guarantee fund for the coming grand...

The Commander-in.Chief has issued a general order expressly pro- hibiting the employment of the military in the collection of tithes or rent, or in the execution of legal...

So, - an election contest, though on a small scale, was got up in Glasgow after all! Mr. George Mills, son of the Provost, was in- duced to become a candidate at the eleventh...

exhibit a saving of 32,6101. as compared with those of last year.

The number of applications for admission into the Reform Club increases every day. The second numba, of five hundred, will Le immediately filled. His Royal Highness the Duke of...

r at interest for the drtn3ht of the charter of the Metropolitan University, about to be 1 tid before Parliament. With whatever degree of confidence they may rely on the Liberal...

BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., at Kingston House, Dorset, the Lady of the late Lord SURYIELD, of a son. On the 15th inst., in London, the Right Hon. Viseountess FORBES, of a son....

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Paris papers of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, arrived this morning. Late on Monday night, the Court of Peers sentenced Freseirr to the death of a...

motion on the subject of Irish Tithes. There is a rumour in general circulation in quarters likely to be well acquainted with the fact, that the Duke of ■Vellitigton has...

The extent of the breach, which is owing to a very high tide, is about 140 yards. Great alarm prevails in the neighbourhood ; but no accounts of the arable amount of the damage...

THE petition which the Reformers of Birmingham adopted at their late meeting in the Town-hall, waa presented to the House of Commons on Tuesday, by Mr. Arrwoon; who stated that...

of the missing whalers belonging to the port of Hull, on Thursday. The Viewforth of Kirkcaldy, which got away in company with the Jane, must ere this have reached home (her...

STOOK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions of the week in the English Funds have not been such as to call for any remark, the business having been on a very trifling...

Arrived.—At Gravesend, Feb. 19, Duchess of Northumberland, Jobliu g , from Madras At Deal, 19th, Arabian, M•Gildonnev, from Matnitius. At Liverpool, 16th. Juliet Wilson, from...

SPECIMEN OF CONSERVATIVE REFORM. ME. ROEBUCK'S motion as to certain doings in the Maurit:us would certainly have been carried, if the Tories (including Lord STANLEY) had not...

COLONEL THOMPSON, following t:fie good example or the l a t e Mr. Kintner' of Dundee, addresses a weekly letter to his consti- tuents at Hull, on the more prominent suNects of...

THE question of Poor-laws for Ireland has enabled Mr. O'CON- NELL to appear in a new character. The few remarks on this sub- ject which have fallen from him in Parliament, might...

IT is a pity that the modern Tories—the soi-disnnt " gentle- men" of politics—should be so inveterately addicted to the un- gentlemanly rice of lying. For some months past,...

As the composition of an oratorio is the highest effort at which the musician can aim, so it is one that offers, in this country, the smallest inducement for him to attempt....

WE were attracted to the Queen's Theatre the other night by the announcement of Pauvre Jacques, the original of Monsieur Jacques at the St. James's; VIZENTINI personating the...

THE second concert was on Monday the 15th; and the selection was as good as usual, combining the same grateful variety of such pieces as are most worth the attention of a really...

IN Political Economy the coining of terms is a most important business ; fora good part of the terms in this science are expres- sive of principles. Almost every peculiarity of...

of being able to encounter the fatigues of a Parliamentary campaign. The unceasing exertion, mental and bodily, to which he has sub- jected Iiiinself in the cause of his country...

POLITICAL BCONORY, An Outline of the Science of Political Economy. By Nasstift W . gentOr, A.M., for merly Fellow of Magdalen College, and Professor of Political Economy in the...

WHEN XERXES bridged the Hellespont, the Greeks regarded it as an impious presumption, and a miraculous display of human power ; the sceptical Romans of a later age dismissed the...

THE second volume of this publication more than fulfils the promise of the first. The excellencies we there praised are all maintained, and the deficiency noted—the want of...

THE more connected portion of these volumes chiefly relates to suburban life as it is found in the genteeler suburbs lying on the Northern parts of London, from Somers Town to...

THE design of this book is more bold than original; the execution more vivacious than characteristic. Ben Brace, the supposed writer, is feigned to have been a companion of...

THE nature of this production is not very new, but there is something of novelty in its form. It is in reality a collection of individual opinions and remarks, such as the more...