ANOTHER scheme claims public attention as the veritable Corn- law Reform contemplated by Sir ROBERT PEEL. Mr. CHRISTO- PHER, a Lincolnshire Member, is the promulgator; and...

the representatives of France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, signed a treaty with Great Britain, in which the four Foreign Powers agreed to adopt the English laws against the...

The question of the Corn-laws was introduced into the City Munici- pal Elections on Tuesday, St. Thomas's Day. Mr. Richard Taylor and Mr. P. A. Taylor led the way with sturdy...

it is for the good of the monarchy to condemn a man for a conspiracy, of which, for aught that appears, he was totally ignorant, because his opinions seem to them like those...

Tan Queen remains in good health at Windsor, taking daily walks with Prince Albert. On Tuesday, her Majesty walked to the Little Park, where Prince Albert skated with some of...

s. d. a. (1, s. d. 70 0 2 8 10 8 69 0 1 0 13 8 68 6 1 0 16 8 Mr. Christopher threw out a suggestion, with a view of eliciting in- formation ; for " there is no very simple or...

According to the Perthshire Advertiser, Sir William Rae is to be " provided for " with the Chairmanship de new Board of Customs at Leith and a salary of 1,500/. ; and Sir...

Tuesday being the day to which the Parliament was prorogued, the Lord Chancellor proceeded to the House of Lords shortly after three o'clock ; and the Commons having been...

Two formidable rivals to Mr. O'Connell have made their appearance, in the persons of the Countess de Grey and Lady Jemiina Elliot, who have determined to wear only Irish...

Nassau, New Providence, sailed the 21st November, reports that the brig Creole, of Richmond, Virginia, bound to New Orleans, arrived at Nassau on the 9th November, with about...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Paris papers of Thursday bring the sentences on the state prisoners, which Baron Pasquier read in the Court of Peers that afternoon. Quenisset, the...

it is to be hoped that it will prove to be only a little newspaper spice to sea- son the political dulness of the time- " We have reason to believe that a very serious...

oc- curred yesterday morning to a luggage-train on the Great Western line, halfway between Twyford and Reading. There were thirty-seven pas- sengers, chiefly stone-masons, with...

to the 30th November ; according to which, Selim Pasha, with an army of 3,000 men, has forcibly pacified the Maronites of Lebanon; but the Drnses retired into the mountains and...

we have incorporated with it the year's INDEX; which is found by experience to be the most convenient arrangement for subscribers who bind their volumes. Numerous Letters lie...

Tax Adelphi is the only theatre that has broken through the mana- gerial custom of not producing any novelty the week before Christmas : YATES, with characteristic promptitude,...

of Mr. MACREADY, will give a new stimulus to theatricals, and a promise of intellectual entertainment of the best kind that the stage in its pre- sent state is capable of...

tre- mendous power" which the manufacturers possess over the agricul- turists, " immediately available, and perfectly legal in its exercises " A committee of inquiry, similar to...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Dec. 22.1, Courier, Scott, from the Cape. At Liverpool, 21st, Herculean. Grindale; from Bombay. At St. Helena, previous to 3d Nov., Gra- titude. Hervey ;...

Monday, with Mr. WALLACH as Shyloch, was no novelty ; neither is it likely to become more familiar by repetition, since it could only be useful as a foil to the forthcoming...

There has been a disposition to sell Stock during the week, and money has been more in demand. All the current varieties of English Stock have conse- quently been depressed...

READJUSTMENT OF THE INCIDENCE OF TAXATION. As we anticipated, Mr. COBDEN'S reference to the Land-tax, in a speech which suggested some remarks we offered last week upon the...

A NEW series of Dissolving Views of Turkey and Asia Minor has been added to the multifarious attractions of this amusing and instructive gallery of scientific marvels, for the...

arrangements behind it promise to be equally.adapted to produce effec- tive representations of sterling works both dramatic and operatic : in fact, the experience of Mr....

BIRTHS. At Terrors, Ireland, the Countess MAOAWLET, of a daughter. Ou the 10th December, at Leamington. the Right Hon Lady EUBANK, of a daughter. On the 10th, at Ifutyrood...

"THERE is a trite topic of consolation frequently in the mouths of a certain class of moralizers—" You are no worse than your neigh- bours." It is certainly not a very amiable...

THE modesty of the Globe is hurt because we have not reprinted all that it has published about emigration and Mr. WAKEFIELD'S letter : it complains that we have quoted only " a...

ONE of our correspondents takes us to task for the views expressed in our remarks on the sentence on BEAUMONT SMITH regarding the right of society to punish criminals and the...

TRAVELS, Notes of a Half-Pay, in Search of Health ; or Russia, Circassia, and the Crimea, in 184-40. By Captain Jesse, Unattached. Iu two volumes Madden and Co. narrow, The...

attended by their Hon. Sec., Robert Brown, Esq., K.T.T.," [what these initials mean, that courtly oracle does not explain, and we believe no one else can,] have been assailing...

IT was laid down as a rule by WALTER SCOTT, one of the shrewd- est studiers of the arts which insure immediate success, that a title should "convey no indication whatever of the...

Texas in January 1840, in search of better health, and it would seem of better fortunes ; and quitted it in the following July ; having been in the interval called to the Texan...

THE following letter from Dr. PARKIN refers to the charge of plagiarism brought against him by our correspondent J. M. G. ; upon which he fairly claims a right to be heard. TO...

From December llth to December 23d. BOOKS. Letters of David Hume, and Extracts from Letters referring to him. Edited by THOMAS MURRAY, LL.D., Author of " The Literary History...

FRESCO-PAINTING: LETTER II. STATE OF THE ART IN THE TIMES OF MENUS AND WACHTER. ITS RE- STORATION BY CORNELIUS AND OTHERS.' WORKS EXECUTED BY THEM LT ROME AND GERMANY....

BRITISH FUN D S. (Closin g Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday Wednes. ever Cent. Consols Ditto for Account d tier Cents. Reduced .4 per Cents. Reduced New 31 per Cents. Lon...

. Tuesday, Dec. 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Nunn and Hall, CaMberwell, tar-refiners -Haslam aud Taylor, Rnwtenstall, Lan- cashire, woollen-manufacturers-Bowls= and Bati g an,...