Colonies con- tinue to force themselves on public attention. Cape settlers are still keeping their Governor at bay, in resisting the admission of convicts. Western Australia,...

ONE week too long has the recess lasted, for neither Protectionists nor Free-traders have been able to reach the commencement of the session with unbroken dignity. The public...

to change alone. In the French Legislative Assembly, the debate on the Education Bill is chiefly , interesting for fetching out the disposition of the Legitimists and...

in the North, and of a minor glory in the waters of Cochin China. The Silch.s cannot leave off plotting, and a " foreign " potentate in the Trimalnyeh mountains has seized upon...

The Lord Mayor gave a grand banquet at the Man.sionhouse, on Thurs- day, to the Corporation of Hastings and Rye, and a party of immediate friends. Lord Edward Howard, the...

THE Royal Family enjoy good health at Windsor. With the departure of the frost, and the discontinuance of the daily drives to Frogmore to - witness Prince Albert's skating, the...

The Times publishes the following letter as the reply given by "Colo- nel Mason, a stanch Protectionist," to an "application made by his ten- antry for a reduction of rent in...

The Earl of Clarendon held his first levee for the season on Wed- nesday. There was a very numerous attendance, notwithstanding some defections significant of the...

FE...WM—The accounts from Paris written on Sunday gave details from the Gazette des Tram= of a conspiracy to assassinate President Napoleon. Eleven young men had sworn to draw...

We are informed that her Majesty will not open the next session of Parliament in person. We have reason to believe that her Majesty's absence on that occasion will be owing to...

the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, by Professor Brande. The leading points were, that a considerable saving in quantity is effected by the use of what is called the...

trans- portation of the insurgents of June to Algeria was adopted on Thursday evening, by a vote of 416 to 203. At last the French authorities have agreed upon a plan for...

Office. Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has directed that the forts and settlements on the Gold Coast do cease to be dependencies on the colony of Sierra Leone;...

open:ng facile and secure channels for the application of capital to agriculture. One letter, from a gentleman well qualified to handle the question, ex- pounds a plan very like...

SATURDAY. A commencement was made at the Mansionhouse, yesterday, of the p ublic measures to raise funds necessary for carrying out Prince Albert's Expos ition of the Arts and...

The works of the pupils in the School of Design for the year just part have been exhibited in the rooms at Somerset House • and the display marks a decided improvement in the...

At Drury Lane, the system of reviving stock pieces, with two or three- parts well filled, and decorations the reverse of brilliant, is pursued with great vigour ; and the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has been heavy, from the continued pressure occasioned by the large amounts of Stock recently sold on account of the...

AGRICULTURAL POVERTY RELIEVED BY A RENT- CHARGE FR A NCHISE. Ii' pseudo-official rumour may be trusted, and it has not been started as a diversion of popular claims, Ministers...

WHEN Virtue and .Pleasure invited the youthful Hercules to enter upon the paths over which they respectively presided, that dis- tinguished demigod not only exercised his...

Loan CAurrsts a tyrant! Impossible ! you cry; it is a joke ?— By no means; it is no joke, and is lamentably true. As a Minis- ter of the Crown, Lord Carlisle is in possession of...

VRESIDENT Bonaparte is not only a magistrate, he is also a national BYmptom : the peculiar and isolated position arrogated for him is not only an anomaly in policy, but it also...

Foam from the iron empire over which he ruled, the Napoleon of Railways turns round upon the rock of calm retirement, reviews his brilliant career, and confesses his virtues. He...

Tr is impossible to compass Nature's vast design, but it is certain that some of our multiform contrivances war greatly with her primitive beneficent purpose. Unquestionably man...

TO THE EDITOR OF VIE SPECTATOR. Manchester, 22d January 1850. smpathszusg with your last correspondent on the heavy tax AL imposed upon him in the shape of costs on his...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Leasow Castle, 21st Ionian?" 18,50. Fan—A discussion on our Colonial Policy could not very properly be ter- minated without a consideration of...

MRS. HOUSTON'S HESPENOS. * IN 1844, Mrs. Houston published a very lively and agreeable ac- count of a yacht voyage which she and her husband had made, in 1843, to Texas, New...

look at objects with something larger than a technical eye there is an interest in titledeeds ; for they tell the story of a family with more fulness than a tombstone, or that...

named Morbus Brightii, after its discoverer Dr. Bright, exhibits in its visible results a structural Change in the organ itself. From the nature of the case, the earlier...

This fiction exhibits manners, characters, and field sports, in a remote district of Scotland, seventy or eighty years ago. Ned Allen, the hero as he may be called, had left...

BOOKS. The War with Mexico. By R. S. Ripley, Brevet Major in the United States Army, &c. In two volumes. The Other Side; or Notes , for the History of the, War between Mexico...

Bd`Cleverty, commanding troops, Southern Province, New Zealand, of a son. On the 10th December, at Galle, Ceylon, the Lady of the Rev. Norman Garstin, D.D., of a son. On the...

Tuesday, January 22. PAMrSERSITIPS DISSOLVED.—Howarth and Ayland, Blanchester, fustian-shearers- Shield and Turner. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, prmtsellers—W. and J. Birkby, Birstal,...

K:Sidebottom to be Lieut. by pair, vice J. Fort, who retires. 10th Light Drags.—Cornet T. Williams to be Lieut. by pun vice Blake, who retires. 14th . Light Drags.—Paymaster W....

BULLION. Per oz. Foreign Gold in Bars, Standard .£3 17 9 Foreign Gold inCoin,Portugal Pieces 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 104 Silver IR Bars, Standard 0 4 114 METALS. Per ton....