upon Chita are coutireled. The troops wore SO (11111111i:11o:I by cold, sick- The accounts Of the utter failure of the Russian expedition upon Chita are coutireled. The troops...

Persia was marcl , iog with a large army upon Bagdad.

It; all besides are pleasure-seeking at Easter and other holyday- times, O'CONNELL is SUIT to be found working in his old voca- tion: and never has the veteran been more active...

and in ;'vat the Israelites in both places have b jet:tett to tho 1110'1 11, , r111114; to11111es to elicit confessioa: f „ 4. , ; murdered. in Dara , ■lis. .1 priest and his...

pre- sent. 'I he French Government offered its mediation between England and Naples : which the l ower at once accepted, and it is vresumed that the consent of Naples will not...

are revived ; and it is said that liSrAilTEE0 has pledged himself to ; , ut an end to dm civil war in Arr:Ton and Catalonia by the month 4./ Septen.her. Mcanw idle. the budget...

a discussion on the bill. " reported" by the Committee ofthc Cham- ber, to reduce the interest on the Five per Cent. Stock. Two of the King's Aides-de-Camp spoke against the...

and private letters to the 4th instant. .Affairs in Nova Scotia have assumed a very serious aspect. The House of Assembly voted resolutions declaring the uccessity of...

TEE Royal party at Windsor enjoy the fine weather which has con. tinned during the week, in frequent rides and walks in the neighbour- hood of the Castle. On 3Iondly, there was...

ington by Mr. Fox and Mr. Foasyrn, was described last week. The sub j ect has since leam keenly discussed by most of the Lon- don journals. Aware that difficulties of a...

the Peru, was launched from Messrs. Curling and Young's dockyard at On Saturd;.y, one of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's vessels, the Peru, was launched from Messrs....

Standurl last night, that the defendants in the still-pending case of Stockdale versus Hansards bad applied yesterday to Mr. Justice Williams at Chambers, to stay the action,...

en board .1.. in•li r. -- to of respectable eonnexi- ,: ii•• :,:-. 1 .eetalde, and he ' Woolwich, is in custody on a of his sons. mere lads, were ••- mar:ler : but there was...

The COM( -- hour the Whigs ••,, person of Mr, 'Me following aee, . how closely the (.7■ , !.1.. - To-nes, At the eleventh . : Baldwia. in the for Carlow. d';-rent hours shows...

Elections of Churchwardens, Overseers, and other parochial officers in the Metropolis, have been held during the week. In some parishes the contest between the Liberals and...

prosecutions which have been instituted the Government and various local authorities, and thi• great nutub,:mt of trials and consequent con- vietions and imprisonment of many of...

an " Essex County Branch of the London I ■incesan Board of Edeeation." The Essex Stqndard says, it was " a splendid assemblage of the piety, in- telligence, beauty, and wealth...

in, and a considerable dispenser of Government patronage, dined at Stockport on Wednesday, with a large party of his constituents, the North Cheshire Liberals. The immediate...

telupe on Wednesday, on his Lordship's special invitation. The speeches were not remarkable. The StuffunIstriee Adcatiscr announces that the " independent men of Tamworth will...

in Nottingham quarrelled in the park about some girl, and were going to settle their dispute by a battle, when one of them thinking to make himself appear more valiant than by...

Mr. O'Connell emplees himself in organizing his new plan of agita- tion, wen elihmeteri energy. Scarcely a day pa.;,;-es in which some public ineeting is nut held in D-htin, r.t...

300,000/. in the improvement of their different lines of communica- tion, including the new line up the 'fame Valley. The Birmingham and Derby Railway are obtaining an act for...

the Ceeree:•, - of Mount Jerome, Harold's Cross About two hun- dred carria:es e ore in the procession : the first conveyed Mr. John Drumm:m:4 the ileum iseirs brother, the...

a power- fill shock of earthquake was felt in Stirling. the motien of the earth being from West to East. It was accompanied whit a grave hollow sound, and resembled that of...

The Glasgow Constitutional of Wednesday contradicts a report, which had appeared in the Liberal paper, that Lord Aberdeen had relin- quished his Church-bill. The Glasgow paper...

of his action against Widow Murphy ; but the death of the defendant has virtually put an end to the disgraceful proceedings, Mr. Robert Harman, a graduate of Trinity College,...

se- cure maj trities on the lists of registered voters. Tint Cork Southern Reporter publishes the following circular letter, which exposes some of the Tory tactics- 4r-te,:s_t...

:e the 5tli ins! lilt. WA tit 1 - 115 , Frain N.1Y1... with a friend e; of his ' left Naples I:: had nalocistki his trove:Hee-bee some things, as it' prenarille: tor r, he...

Kilkenny County. intended as an apology for the offence of' absence in recent di- visions when Miaisters wanted every vote. The defence is couched in 3ubmissive and...

.., nee of :Mr. 1.:111tielS. (ffiecr of the Twenty-s.•,.. •! li scroll ehildren. Th. • young . he that at an officer deprive I at rank aml the unju.nt verdict of a...

The Month:9 Chronicle announces •11.:t the p :sea. ono; will come into use on the tith of May ; that they Post-office in London, mei. from all license- It is announced that Lord...

ha& ligencer calls "tire most extraordinary sitting of the House of' Represen- tatives, or perhaps of any other legislative body. since the creation," The subject of debate was...

character of the King and state of public feeling in the Neapolitan dominions- " The whole kingdom of the Two Sicilies is discontented. Avarice and caprice, the leading vices of...

from London, expresses an expectation, that at length the negotiations for reciprocal commercial concessions by France and England might be regarded as promising success. Dr....

shipping arrange. meats" The Times calls attention to the " changes in our shipping arrange. meats" in consequence of the " war with China "— " In proportion to the loss...

SATURDAY. The Paris papers of Thursday are very bare of news. The Chamber of Deputies had decided that the holders of the Five per Cent. Stock should be paid off, or take...

COVENT Oa tows and the Adelphi have made splendid F.Aster offering:, encli after its own peculiar fashion, and both of the extravaganza spe- cks. proper to the season. VEsrms...

(tit the 2311 inst., in Belgrave Square, the Counte.s or LIsTowill., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at the Ray, Maidonliwail, Lady Puitm.im,ar, of a postliumou daughter. the...

sTorK E ICUANOV. Pains, AFTER:WM,. The business done in the English Funds this week, has been almost entirely confined to money investments ; by which, in the aggregate, a...

Arrived—At Gravesend, April 22d, Malabar, PaIhrk from Bombay; 23d. Royal Suvereie a, Mynah from Bengal ; and Regains, Crews, from New South Wales, At Deal, 24t11, Anabella,...

of playgoers to be unduly affected by dulcet accents, a graceful person, and intentness of manner. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sl'ECTATOR. . Manchester, 224 April 1840. Stn—In your...

revived Ull Thursday, at Covent Garden : it was played as well as it deserved, and dressed in a most piquant style—it now only wants to be used " as men should serve a...

DEfOSITS IN THE BANK OF OR NOT ENGLAND: ARE THEY CURRENCY ? Tao recent appointment of a Committee of the House of Com- mons to inquire into Banks of Issue, has greatly...

IT is very seldom that splendour and utility are combined; yet few, we believe, who have frequented the Library of the British Museum refuse it this praise. There, in the midst...

Toe slise.thle Post cautions us against what he terms our " ha- bitual tendency to the enormous blunder of exhibiting a warm and indiscriminate sympathy with the projectcws and...

" Friends all, but now—even now In quarter and in term like bride and Divesting them for bed; and then, but Low, (As if some plaLet had nuwitted men.) Soon:, at and tilting at...

ROMILLY. PERHAPS no individual ever obtained so great a hold over the Eng. lish public and the English aristocracy, by the mere weight of his personal character, as Sir SAMUEL...

BloGRAVIIY, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Rotnilly, written by Himself; with at selection front his Correspondence. Edited by his son. la 3 vets. manly. TRArEcs, Narrative...

GUATEMALA, or as it is pompously styled by its inhabitants, Cen- tral America, lies between the eighth and eighteenth degree of North latitude, Harming that long straggling neck...

MR. FAY enjoys great popularity among his countrymen beyond the Atlantic--hardly inferior, we believe, to that of the American WALTER Scow, CoOPER himself. lit this country he...

A Collection if Glees and Cottons. Contpo,s.ed by Jos. MeMunurE, Mus. Bac., Oxon. Among the glee-writers of the present day. Mr. MeMunous holds a respectable rank. Ii is cons...

Tats little volume is edited by the Dean of Exeter, or rather it is published under his superintendence, for he declined the task of revision it contains a lyrical drama on the...

This is the first volume of a work published in periodical numbers, and having for its professed object " the universal diffusion of good muaie at a cheap rate." Though heartily...

This compositi in should rather he called a trio with pianoforte ac- companiment : ,ieee without this addithm it cannot he sung. When so supported, i: a ill be heard with...

by T. OLIPHANT. SCHUBERT is in some vogue as a vocal writer, and many of his com- positions evince considerable skill, if not genius, in this branch of his art. They arc...

a Pianoforte Duct. A very clever composition, as far as we can judge of it from an arranaement ; although it might as well be entitled an Overture to - MS& or Lear.

A good collection of this kind is beginning to be wanted, but the present publication only partially supplies the deficiency. Such a work should consist of compositions in two...

This book, we presume, is the reprint of a French work : and it would be as well, in this and all similar cases, if what portion of it has to be expressed in language were...