open questions, that it admits of an accumulation of difficulties, which might be dismissed with comparative ease as they arise in succession, but which baffle • every art when...

Tsts House of Commons have been at work in their vocation for some hours every day except Wednesday, but the account is not very imposing. The pitched battle on the Irish...

Bill is under discus3ion by the Chamber Of Peers with every prospect of passing. The King is said to be more solicitous on the subject than ever. ,n d- warlike preparations...

DANISH CLAIMS. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Mr. CRESSWELL once more brought under consideration the claims of certain British subjects for losses sustained by the...

The trial of the Earl of Cardigan by the Peers, sitting in their capa- city of a High Court of Parliament for the administration of justice, the preparation for which has...

Tare Queen has resumed the habit of attending Divine service in pub- lic, which she had discontinued some time before her confinement until last week. On Sunday, her Majesty and...

An election of a Common Councilman for Coleman Street Ward commenced on Thursday ; the previous election of Mr. Cousins having been declared void, on the ground that he was not...

The adherence of Lord Ehrington to his rule of excluding Repealera from any Government appointment continues to excite the we of the Repeal papers in Dublin. In the appointment...

The official declaration of the poll for East Surrey election was made at Croydon on Monday. The numbers were—for Mr. Antrobus, 2,635; for Mr. Alcock, 1,436. Mr. Antrotms and...

The Lord Chancellor has been too ill to attend to his public duties.. The Morning Herald intimates that the Great Seal will be put into commission until his Lordship's...

ineeung c • Onve - 1.- 1 2; e rat:osi of Glasgow, on tempi , - sition signed by a large number of the most respectable members in that city, was to be held yesterday to take...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The House Of Lords last night resumed its sittings as a legislative chamber. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY having moved that the proceedings on Lord Cardigan's trial...

The Journal des Debats announces that the Committee of the Chamber of Peers appointed to report on the Fortification Bill had decided by a ma- jority of 6 against 1 in favour of...

the - command of the preliminary expedition of their Second Colony, and the duty of establishing the new settlement, to Captain Arthur Wakefield of the Navy.

from New York, after a voyage of only fifteen days and a half. She brings accounts from that city to the 2d instant, two days later than by the Acadia. Nothing further had...

ac- counts of the elections in the Provinces are stated to be satisfactory. Partial riots had occurred; but the people generally had evinced great calmness, and a favourable...

various 'islands, was received to-day, by the Delight packet, which sailed from St. Thomas's on the 21st January and from Cape Henri on the 26th. The news is not unfavourable,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AETERHOGN. The Stock-market was firm on Monday, at the closing prices of last week ; but in the afternoon of that day, a large sale of Stock by an...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 17th February 1841. Sm—I was much surprised, on reading a letter in your valuable.miscellany, to find that ally English musicseller should...

The Miter Elizabeth, from Claim to Liverpool, has got ashore on the Skerries-!-her cargo is taken out of her. Arrived-At Graveseud, Feb. 13th, Cairo, Thorns. from Bengal; 14th,...

LORD CARDIGAN'S TRIAL. It is hard to decide whether the conduct of the Prosecution in this case, of the Defence, or of the Court, has been most equivocal. The Attorney-General...

THE great festival of the founders of British New Zealand, on Saturday last, will form, or we are much mistaken, the tent from which our colonists will reckon a series of more...

THE rumours of an approaching dissolution of Parliament, to which we alluded last week, still continue. It is best to be pre- pared for any contingency ; and so there can be no...

A SENSE of delicacy may have prevented public men, while the trial by his Peers was banging over Lord CARDIGAN'S head, from . pushing the inquiries into the system of management...

GOVERNMENT have flung aside every affectation of discretion in the conduct of the scheme for founding an Anti-Slavery trading colony on the banks of the Niger. In doing so, they...

Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Plin;.ab; in Ladakh and Kashmir ; in Peshawar, Kabul. Koncluz, and Bokhara ; by Mr. William Moor. cro!t anti Mr. Geor g e...

Moen meditating, we have at last discovered, though more by accident than meditation, why the present Ministers of this coun- try hate the Chinese. Coarecrus is held in...

Tea title of this volume has been chosen rather with reference to the taking character of its sound, than with strict regard to the contents ; for neither TYCHO BRAHE nor KEPLER...

Ma. WILKINSON, we believe, is a member of the firm so celebrated for its fire-arms ; and his attention having been of necessity directed to this class of weapons as a...

Books. The Life of Beethoven; including his Correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works. Edited by IGNAce MOSCHELES, Esq.,...

BIRTHS. The Lady of the Lord Bishop of TUAAI, of a daughter. On the 6th inst.. the Lady of the Rev. the Provost of Oriel College, of a son. On the 12th inst., at Adore Manor....

WAR-OFFICE. February 16.-10th Light Drae '' s-Licut. I.ord F. G. C. G. I.ennox, from the 43 4 Foot, to be Limit. by purchase, vice Long. who retiree. 13th Light Drags. - Lieut....

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) ,Satuniay Monday. Tuesday 'redoes. Thurs. Friday, 881 88/ 881 884 881 884 88e 881 881 884 88* 881 89 884 881 881 894 89 97i 974 97f 974 984 974...

Tuesday, Feb. 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. and J. Mulleuv, Bath, brass-founders-Shaw and Brook. Brighouse, Yorkshire, iron-founders--Bright and Hemar, Bishop's Castle,...