To maintain the existing Corn-laws, will be found " too painful an endeavour" by the landed interest, predominant only when other classes, forming the great bulk of the...

ineffectual attempt by Count Moil , . to obtain assistance from some members of the Coalition. The Ministerial majority kept together till the more offensive portions of the...

De- cember, and from Calcutta to the 21st of November. It appears that the Indian Government is involved in a war with the Burmese. As soon as a large portion of the British...

Wed- nesday, a petition for the total repeal of the Corn-laws was adopted. At a numerous meeting of the parishioners of Clerkenwell, on Wed- nesday, a petition for the total...

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen on Monday fore- noon. In the evening, Viscount Melbourne, and his two nephews, Mr. John Ponsonby and Mr. William Cowper, dined...

Saturday in hearing a complaint of Mary Croker, that her daughter had been sent, without her knowledge, by the Children's Friends Society, to the Cape of Good Hope, by desire of...

this week with the case of the Canadian prisoners. On Monday, Lord Denman delivered the decision of the Judges, which affirmed the right of a single J udge in vacation to issue...

Lima is contradicted ; and it is now only said that SANTA CRUZ was at the head of a force sufficient to drive them out of the Pe- ruvian territory. The French Consul has...

was ad- mitted to bail, himself in 1,00W. and four sureties of 250/. each, to ap- pear and take his trial on a charge of" stabbing with intent to kill" a Mr. Pocock, in a...

An numerous meeting of members of the Common Coun- cil :is.- at the Guildhall on Thursday, to consider the question of the ' , :r11-l'INVS. Mr. Heppe' proposed a series of...

The Anti-Corn-law gathering at Manchester has not disappointed ex- pectation. From all parts of the country men of influence and pro- perty were assembled to issue a combined...

. a public dinner in Sunderland on Monday. The Marquis of London- ti,rry presided at the entertainment, and Lords Ravensworth and Sea- ham, With Messrs. Liddell and Hodgson,...

'tables, with his subscription of .51.1i. towards tut Anti-Corn-law fund. Sir William Molesworth has addressed the following letter to Mr. 'tables, with his subscription of...

succeed the paesent Duke of Buckingham itt the representation of Buckingham- shire. In his address to the electors, Mr. Du Pre says-- . I nun deeply attached to those revered...

on Wednesday last, to patition fir a total rt acal of t h e ('urn-lawn. Mr. Stanton, the Chairmau, rcml the Fillolving important letter from Los:1361m Russell-- " White:stn.,...

at Brighton on Monday afternoon, to sanction the collection of the " Na- tional Rent." Captain Peelle'', M.P. for the borough, having been re- quested to attend, presented...

has safilired severely by the late hurricane ; and, although the mansion has sustained little or no injury, it is said that .7,000/. will not cover the damage done to the...

at Penzance, to memorialize the Government to construct a Breakwater and Harbour of Refuge, at Mount's Bay. Mr. Carteret Ellis was one or the principal speakers ; and thanks...

The King's County Magistrates have received something like a re- primand front the Lord-Lieutenant, in the shape of a reply to the me- morial adopted at the Tipperary meeting....

Mr, Cooper have been linind guilty, end sentenced to death. It m as proved that the murder was planned in the most cu, ii and deilberaie manner s IT" Weiland was to have been...

in Aberdeen to establish an Anti-Corn-law Association, On that occasion, Mr. Bannerman, M.P., said- " - The question of the Cora-lairs is a praeticarqUestion,...

Ireland, in the room of the late Lord Faraham. • Lord De Vesci has been elected a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the room of the late Lord Faraham. • Lord Clements,...

The Waterloo Rooms at Edinburgh were filled on Monday by opponents of tine Corn-laws, whom the Lord Provost summoned, in compliance with a numerously-signed requisition, to...

Mr. O'Con- nell, at the Circus ; hut, for Some cause not explained, the Agitator seems to have been out of temper, and be abused the "paltry press " for not assisting him as it...

suite, will em- bark on the 29th instant on board the Thomas Coutts, Indianian, for the seat of his government. Lady Carnac and family accompany Sir James. The accounts...

It is announced that the Earl of Lovelace will move, and Lord Vermin second, the address in the House of Lords. In the Commons, the address will be moved by Mr. Edward Buller,...

in high life- The Morning Herald announces the following list of matrimonial engagements in high life- " It is reported that the preliminaries of a marriage are adjusted between...

respecting the Queen's marriage- * The country will learn with delight, that the most interesting part in the Speech from the throne ' to bOth Houses of Parliament, and the...

over Hamburg on the day following; and was succeeded there on the next night by an immense tide is the Elbe, that forced up the ice and shipping both alike on the dry laud and...

to endow a college of languages at Oxford, it is said that 30,000t. has already passed into the hands of the lawyers, and that " the crows have not yet done with the carcase."...

Baxter, is published in the Dundee Advertiser. His Lordship also sent a . subscription of 201. to the Dundee Anti-Corn-law movement. " &rims. 14th January 1839. • " My dear...

Even his friend Lord Normanby comes in for a share of attack. He declared at the Dublin dinner, that by leaving Lord Oxmantown in ()thee, "Lord Normanby and the entire Cabinet"...

4th January 1839. DEAR SPECTATOR—The papers will have informed you of the speeches de- livered at the meeting which took place hem yesterday. There are several filets,...

Mr. Mettle, M.P. for Carlow, is appointed to the vacant Judgeship; and we have no doubt that such is, or will be, the selection. The Right Honourable Frankland Lewis, one of...

Anti-Corn- law meetings to he held in the course of a few days, in the Tower Ham- lets, Finsbury, St. Pancras, and other large districts of London.

on our spa this week, to the exclusion or curtailment of other 'natters; and es-011 to the numerous details of the One subject, it has been found impossible to render full...

intelligence from Canada ; but it is unimportant. The trial of prisoners was proceeding, and two executions had taken place at Montreal. The bands of Sym- pathizers on the...

Tho Pr,dect!.,r, front London to Bengal, with a large number of recruits for the East butt Cmep .oy'S service, was totally wrecked on the Pith Oct. in the lioodiley River, and...

bombastic proclamation to the Mexican army, calling upon them to ex- pel the French invaders. There is a rumour that Tampico had been attacked by rebels, who were repulsed by...

SATURDAY nom, The French papers, received this morning, mention that Marshal Somr had declined taking office, " under existing circumstances ;" and the remodification of the...

BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., at Nice, I IR! nand , .s or l'elVF:RSCOrliT, or a son. On the 17th inst., at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, the Conntess or W/LTON, of a sou. On...

London to Calcutta, at the Sand Heads, near her place of destination. She had on board 116 recruits for the Company's service, a crew of thirty-six, nine passengers, and...

lower this week than last ; but this reduction is partly owing to the inferior quality of the-grain offered for sale. It is said to be " generally out of condi- tion." Yet, for...

Examiner. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. " The absent are always wrong," says the French proverb, and, in conthrmity with this observation, since the return of Lord Durham to...

STOCK ENCITANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. fluctuation of the English Stock Market has not exceeded a per cent., and the business transacted has not been important. Consols for Account...

• MR. • POULETT TIIOMSON'S APOLOGY. BRIEFLY last week we noticed the President of 63 Board of Trade's letter in defence of his conduct on the Corn-law question. The...

THE report which we gave, some time since, of the conduct of Mr. SPRING RICE in reference to the dispute between him and the Corporation of London, has been fully confirmed by...

SIR ;Tons BARROW'S Supplemental Chapter to his Life of Lord Assoc, is noticed subsequently, in our account of the book. It is not our intention to go further into the vexed...

Sir Jol li ty n 4 : BIOGRAPHY. Thu Life of Geor g e Lord Anson, Admiral of the Fleet, Sze. 8:c. By row, Bart, F.R.S. Author of the " Life of Admiral Lord Howe." Fmnos. Janet ;...

THAT the London solicitors are a shrewd, hard:headed set of fel- lows, nobody doubts, who, for his sins, has been compelled to seek • and pay for their assistance. If by any...

AMONGST the literary drawbacks attending the mechanical facilities of printing, announcing, and distributing books, must be reckoned the prejudice in favour of making them of a...

Tuts novel is a fiction of Miss AIJSTEN's school. The incidents are few and simple ; the story is made up of such events as are daily occurring, though there may be some want of...

Tins complete collection of the Poems of SHELLEY, is another adventurous speculation of Mr. MoxoN, in a walk of literature where, but for his previous experience, any thing of...

BoUND Booms. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. SAELLET. In 4 vols. Vol. L The Deluge. A Drama, in twelve scenes. By Joust EDMUND READE, Author of "...

pub- lished together, on account of' their containing portraits of the vocalists who performed in Roome's opera, " Amine." The heads of Henry Phillips and Miss P. Horton are...

Cove- nanters, painted by GEORGE HA R vEv, of the Scottish Academy, has just been engraved by WAGsrArr. It is intended to represent the battle of Drumclog ; and portrays the...

NEW PRINTS. IT is not long since we had occasion to notice the appearance of two engravings from early pictures by Thrum:: we have now to welcome a third, of higher character...