without the slightest evidence of his having intervened in politics at all, has at last received something like official recogni- tion, since Mr. Greville, the Clerk of the...

to a certain point all was successful, and down to the same point all was published and clear. Suddenly, however, the movement is obscured in conflicting rumours, and its...

Norsawn has yet been received from St. Petersburg to terminate the suspense in which we are kept until we know the Emperor's decision, for acquiescence in political necessity,...

of the diplomatic correspondence between the English and the American Governments on the subject of the protectorate which the two Powers jointly exercise over the so-called...

new election of a Member to represent Oxford University. Many will regret the departure of Sir Robert, for other reasons besides that of entailing the preliminaries of election...

Otrr-noon exercise and in-door recreation form the simple records of the Court ; the Queen driving with the children, or walking with the Coun- tess Walewski and the Marchioness...

Mr. Merewether, Mr. E. Tyrell, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Charles Paarson, Sir John Key, and a number of other officers of the Corpora- tion, have given evidence this week before...

all parts of Great Britain, has received two conspicuous impulses this week,—from the meeting of the National Public School Asso- ciation at Manchester ; and from the speech of...

Sir Robert Harry Inglis, who for twenty-five years has represented the University of Oxford in the House of Commons, announces his inten- tion of resigning his seat, in the...

Although the commission for inquiry into the management and eco- nomy of the Irish General Post-office has not perfected its labours, re- ports have transpired which, if well...

The educational controversy has given birth to a portentous resolution, technically termed an "overture," proposed by Mr. Hislop, on the 41h instant, in the Free Presbytery of...

FRANCE.—The principal news from France is still of warlike pre- paration. The Minister of Marine has issued an order for arming twelve additional ships of the line ; several on...

A Tory morning print having put forth doubts as to tho legal capacity of the Prince Consort to be a Privy Councillor, the Clerk of the Council has forwarded the following...

a grant for 30001. for the additional pay of the lettercarriers at present in the London dis- trict of the Post-office, and for an increase in their numbers.

SATURDAY. The " hopes of peace," as the phrase is, are not strengthened by the morning's intelligence. Accounts from St. Petersburg continue to con- firm those heretofore...

the Uni- versity of Oxford. It is even said by the organs of "Mr. Perceval's party, that they have found the opinions of Sir William Heatlicote less objectionable than they had...

more persons of both sexes than the Music Hall would hold. Tea, cof- fee, cakes, and fruit, constituted the substantial portion of the repast ; and these being disposed of, the...

great but distinct interest. The first gives the names of the new Commission- ers on the Sale and Transfer of Land. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. After official hours on Saturday, Government Securities improved 1, upon a rise of nearly 2 per cent in French Stocks, and pacific impressions...

the Week's Paper next Saturday.

Square Rooms, by a newly-formed society who call themselves "the London Orchestra." The spirit of competition is strong at present among our musicians as well as other classes....

The French—that is to say, those of their number whose region of ac- tion and enjoyment extends from the Porte St. Martin to the further ex- tremity of the Boulevard du...

plished the erection of a building which is in many respects the finest music-hall in London, seems now to be in the way of reaping the reward of his exertions, and at the same...

The blank of this week is rendered more dreary by the intelligence that Mr. Mitchell has retired from the management of the St. James's Theatre : for those who are aware how...

THE RF.A 7, GUARANTEES IN F00/Li . STATESMANSHIP. ,i c . Fon some weeks we have been awaiting the decision of " tilt? brat peror " on the question of peace or war. Each hour...

THE project suggested by the gentlemen to whom the Treasury had intrusted an inquiry into the state of the public offices would supply many defects of the existing system, and...

LAST year we had to notice an emigration in excess over any pre- vious experience and in its absolute proportions. Emigration had been going on at a surprising rate for six...

FEW instances of scientific induction applied to fact are more distinct or instructive than the circumstances which attended the discovery of gold in Australia. Many persons are...

THE method of Russia in extending her territory is, like the rules of art, to be gathered from her works. Two of the most striking stratagems by which she accomplishes her ends...

Ir is impossible to mistake the character of the Temperance move- ment, which not only belongs to Great Britain, but appears in a much more energetic form in distant countries,...

IF there is one feature more remarkable than another in the history of China, it is without doubt its early civilization. No one who has glanced for an instant at the most...

THE QUEEN, THE WIFE, AND THE NATION. Sin—The English nation just at this time is placing itself between the horns of a dilemma. Religion teaches us that the relation between...

Sin—Permit use to offer some observations respecting the policy which you attribute to the Dissenters, of opposing any measure of University Re- form which falls short of Mr....

THE Parsion OP WALES : Courarma nv DEPLETION.—He was at that time deeply engaged with his passion for Lady Hertford, contracted during his negotiations with her family to have...

Tuesday, January 17. PARTNERRUIPS DISSOLVED. — Ashdown and Oates, Piccadilly, gas-engineers—Ed- wards and Son, Sharp's Alley, St. Sepulchre's, bow-string-makers—Sheppard and...

OFFICE or ORDNANCE, Jan. 14.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—Erratum in Gazette of Jan. 6.—For Gent. Cadet Benjamin Humphrey to be Second Lieut. read Gent. Cadet Benjamin Geale...

On the 13th January, in Moray Place, Edinburgh, the Countess of Kintore, of a son. On the 14th, at Croxton Park, Cambridgeshire. the Wife of George Onslow New- ton, Esq., of a...

ADMIRALTY, Jan. 12.—The following promotions have this day taken place, con- sequent on the decease, on the 11th inst. of Rear-Admiral of the Red T. 0. Falcon- Rear-Admiral of...

93 911 92 94 51 7 FOREIGN FUNDS. (last Official Quotation daring the Week ending Friday Evening.) Mexican 3 p. Ct. Mississippi 6 - New York 5 - Peruvian 41 - Portuguese 6 -...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Yosera CLAYTON, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. DTA- starve in the-Pest, in the City of London; and Published by the...

LORD HOLLAND'S MEMOIRS OF THE WHIG riiirin* THE public has a right to expect from the memoirs of men who have themselves played a great part in the history . of the country, or...

Ton THE WEER ENDDiG No. 1334.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1854. [GRATIS 'WITH THE WErieS SPECTATOR.

residence in Sweden is of a miscellaneous character, and partakes more of reading and observation than of adventures in a strict sense. There are passing sketches of landscape...

This volume belongs to a class of biographies well nigh extinct, from the passing away of the persons who alone could give rise to them. Although living till, 1851, James Crabb...

this fiction is excellent, that of inculcating the social and domestic duties as the true moral sphere of woman. The mode of embodying the precept in examples is not so good....

Roby was a banker of Rochdale, who combined many tastes, acquirements, and accomplishments, not often found in one person, and still less in the member of a calling where it is...

Booms. The History of Yucatan, from its Discovery to the close of the Seven- teenth Century. By Charles St. John Fancourt, Esq., recently IL M. Superintendent of the British...