THE settlement of our Municipal elections, which for the time made a stir in all the corporate towns, anti the conclusion of the spirited though to us unintelligible contest at...

arrangements before entering on business than our Houses of Parliament. With us, the :■lember who moves the Address goes prepared with the answer to the Speech from the Throne...

decrees tbr regulating the finances, and for ofeeting various changes in the official departments. One of the decrees commands, that trout the 1st of the present month all the...

Mr. James Swann, aged fifty-seven, to Parliamentary agent and writer to the signet, Edin- burgh, who on Wednesday morning killed himself by jumping out of the second-floor...

minutes before the Queen and Prince Albert left Windsor Castle on Friday, for London, the royal standard, which was floating from the Round Tower, was rent completely in two by...

application was made for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up William Baines, who had been committed to Leicester Gaol for non-payment of Church-rates. The objections urged...

TITE Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Household, attended divine service on Sunday, in Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty drove in the Parks on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, in...

Mr. Harmer has resigned the Aldermauic gown. His intention was first announced in an address to the electors of the Ward of Farringdon- Without, published in his own newspaper...

A supplemental Municipal election took place at Liverpool on Thurs- day, in consequence of the death of Mr. Wallace Currie. It was in the Toxteth ward that the vacancy occurred...

on Tuesday, did a great deal of dainage both inland and at Sc:,, I he storm of Frilay appears to have been most violent in the North- eastern part of the coatory, where the...

the Bishop of Derry, which has been for some time pending, was brought to a conclusion in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on Thursday scnnight. The cause of action was the...

watchful eye on the belligerent exhibitions of' tit it "junior Member." In the last number of the Edinburgh Weekly Ckiwilele, we find the following notice of Lucky Tom, in the...

with their lives on Wednesday week. They were riding in a gig from Whitehaven Castle to their residence Rydal- mount, when in a narrow part of the road they met the mail - coach...

Dr. Dickenson, the incumbent of St. Ann's, Dublin, and Chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin, is to be the new Irish Bishop. lle owes this important preferment solely to his...

The election of a Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow took place on Monday. The candidates were the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Breadalbane, and Sir A. P. Cooper....

collision near the Harrow station of the London and Birmingham Railway, the evidence proved that the blame rested principally with the driver of the second engine of the...

Tuesday's Gazette announces the appointment of the Right Ho- nourable James Alexander Stuart Mackenzie, to be Lord High Com- missioner in the United States of the Ionian Islands...

t innet.•lietely after the vote on .11 ; says, tine 1, :a._ • 7 ', sent .Minieao"s:11 which wi:1 e - end an foe sent Miniiey, ',ill • the 11th The Univers the pre- t■ts...

Stopt'ord, describing the movements of the Allied. troops on the coast of Syria, already noticed in private communications to the English newspapers. The latest date is the 22d...

interruptions experienced by Mr. Murray at Lime- rick, a copy of the following has been sent to him, to be inserted in such news- papers as he may deem proper. " National...

by that of Austria to exert all its influence with Mehemet Ali to induce him to offer terms of submission to the Sultan, on the condition of his being allowed to retain the...

by England. (In Motel:':, I.ea, Lord Palmerston and General Hamilton, the Envoy of I L.X I a treaty, which places this colony of the Anglo-Saxon re e s • , s.112 r'.1/ hag of...

of Thursday are due, but the continued stormy weather interrupts the regular communications with France. The papers of Wednesday are chiefly occupied with reports of the...

SATURDAY. BIRTH OF A PRINCESS. Slime our pages were at press, the confinement of the Queen, and her Majesty's safe delivery, of a daughter, has been announced. This event took...

the Irish steam-packet City of Bristol, with the loss of all on hoard with the exception of one man. The following are the only particulars yet given of this calamity— "Bristol,...

rumours in the Clubs, regarding certain Ministerial arrangements said to lie in Con- templation, but for an article relating to them, or something of the sort, in the 'Times of...

Arrived - At Deal, Nov. 1611i, Anna Robertson. M fr; mouth, 17th. Claudine, Brewer, from New South Wa1e,.. rilmouth, 19111, Breint, ; ileitina, Sept. friln Si Weil-Friuli...

nt Garden, w here it stave be - , i - ed that , if fairies, Mt: mrd - seed, ' their !ming tiny ,tent with them, I for by many ; o carry into 1:1 this as it :meal Le little...

STOCK EXCIIAN02, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. There has not been any very material fluctuation in the Fonds during the past week. The market has experienced occasional depressions,...

drollery of the Beggar's Opera with the characters reversed ; the women played by men, the men by women. It is very ludicrous to see Mrs. linsa.m . as Macheath, straining up on...

to-night, is postponed for a few days : STRICKLAND'S indisposition is the cause alleged.

with the title of Paul die Brazier : in whi011 BALLS personates the brazier,—for which he has one qualification, at least ; and Miss J. Mos:mums the heroine. This young lady's...

TO THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR, Hitt November. Sett—I have observed, in a Government print, certain half-prophecies of an intended rising of the Egyptian population against...

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SPECTATOR. Lyndon, 12th Noventoer 1840. DEAR SPECTATOR—Is there not something peculiar iu the paragraph of your last week's theatricals, relating to the...

A FRIEND has transmitted to us a file extending front June 1839 to September 18-10 of the Purtef;e, , /io .3.1;t1tese, a journal of high repute in the Mediterranean, for the a....

THE vapouring of the warlike Democratic press of France is doing much mischief. The hulk of the writers for it seem to be ignorant even of the first principles of that Democracy...

A CHAPTER ON " WAYS AND MEANS." WHEN the Delegates of the Anti-Corn-law League declared that they were prepared on the part of their constituents to gi i ve up all...

Tun ..1forning Post of Thursday contained an apology for a practice into which it confesses to have fallen of late—" the investigation of fundamentals in matters political." The...

IT is comparatively easy to lnystilY the public in discoursing about distant ant communities, whose sentiments and relations, civil and domestic, differ widely from our own. But...

IT might have been expeetcd that, as the railway system extended, and experience was gaincd in the menages s .unt of the engines and the regulation of the reads, the danger or...

Eranx, while practising at the Edinburgh bar as JOHN CLERK, was one night busy coneoctina . an important law-paper with the assistance of his amanuensis, hen a conclave of cats...

Tun Court historiographers, who did such ample justice to the Royal Bride-cake, are already hard at work on the Royal Cradle. This is taking time by the forelock. There will be...

In the Egerton Papers, lately printed by the Camden Society, there is a document which we extract as confirmatory of our statement that the Cathedral Choirs were originally...

THIERS? [mom A CORRESPONDENT.] IT is not perhaps a needless task to inquire into the difference between the political tendencies of the late French Ministry and the present, in...

Is a very able work; embracing an extensive view of the history of man both in a savage and civilized state, with sometimes an analysis of his social and sometimes an...

MORAL PITTLOSOPHY , The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized Sta te: Essay towards discernin g the Ori g in mid Coarse of !Inman Improvement. By W. ('..she...

Is not, as the title might imply, a single fiction, but a collection of tales. The three first relate to the wars of the Empire, and the festering intrigues continually carried...

Or the eight splendid volumes laid out before us, six are edited by ladies fr,un the (1:tshing Countess of BLEssixt;rox to simple MART 11M1Ler 31r. 11.)acalr, whoae p o li s h...

THESE volumes, as the title implies, are collections of odds and ends, or " Miscellanies," as our forefathers would have called them; many of the productions having appeared...

RESPONSIIIILI'VY. Pftrula est improbos eocreerep.ena, nisi ps o bos Okla s LETTER IV. TO Tnr. EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR — That the views which in my previous letters I...

" The lights are fair." By GEORGE HOGARTIT. " The Primrose, By the Same. " Look out upon the stars, love." By the Same. " The Violet." By the Same. In examining the songs...