THE Whig attempt to form a Cabinet has come to nothing, and now be- longs entirely to the past. The party, that was almost "in power," has clean gone, almost as if it had...

prudence be long delayed; and those who have at heart the Colonial interests of this country feel much anxiety as to the choice of the man. The rumour that it is to be Sir Henry...

The annual Wardmotes for the election of Common Councilmen were held on Monday; Saint Thomas's Day having fallen on Sunday. Contests took place in some cases, but for the most...

and the do- cument is before Europe. In style, it is a decided improvement an the lucubrations of his immediate predecessors; free alike from the pedantries and the Yankeeisms...

The recall of Sir Robert Peel has checked the election movements of Free-traders and Protectionists; the probability of an early dissolution of Parliament being deemed less...

THE holding of a Court of Privy Council is the only incident of a public kind which has diversified the Royal occupations at Windsor Castle this week. The Court was held on...

The Irish Representative Prelates for the session of 1846 are, the Arch- bishop of Armagh, and the Bishops of Tuam, Derry, and Limerick. Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour has been...

FRAN-cm—A good deal of anxiety had been felt in Paris, lately, respeet- ing the adjudication of the Paris and Lyons Railroad; the Government somewhat procrastinating. The...

The election movement is scarcely perceptible in Scotland. Two facts arc mentioned: Mr. Wilson of Dundyvan is to oppose the present Con- servative Member for the Falkirk...

A rumour has been for some time in circulation, and has of late obtained a degree of credit altogether disproportioned to its probability, that an in- tention existed in the...

to pay poor-rates for the Flemish farm to the Law-officers of the Crown, and is to abide by their opinion. Whenever Lord Morpetlis name is brought before the public as a...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Whig outcry against Earl Grey, for his conduct in the recent nego- tiations, has led us to make inquiries into the facts; and we have learned enough to...

give them an account of his stewardship. He took a lugubrious view of the Parliamentary session; accusing Sir Robert Peel of having "betrayed" Protestantism through the...

inn Supplement which accom- panies the Spectator of the Week—being stamped, it is transmissible by post to every Subscriber free of charge.

Awn AD—At Gravesend, 25th Dec. Inchinnan, Hyslop, from Bombay. In the Downs, 24th, Palmyra, Campbell ; and Helen Stewart, Whittinghame, from China ; Senator, Anderson ; and...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE prices of all sorts of Stocks, both Foreign and English, have advanced ma- terially; Consols for Account having risen nearly 2 per cent...

WITH the arrival of Christmas the threatrical world bursts forth anew into scenic life and pantomimic activity. The stage, yawning with fissures and chasms like an earthquake,...

PEEL'S FUTURE. AGAIN the Government and the Corn-law question are thrown on Sir Robert Peel's hands, and he begins a new career—opens another volume of his history. What is his...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL accepted office and framed his Ministry in such manner as if his sole object were to show how utterly in- competent he was to execute the task—bow very...

AMERICA. IN his message to Congress, Mr. Polk assumes as incontrovertible a doctrine unknown to international law, and utterly untenable, though not entirely new in the mouths...

THE visible distinction of the Peel Restoration is the change of Mr. Gladstone for Lord Stanley as Colonial Minister. There 'is some endeavour to make it appear that Lord...

CHRISTMAS brings the annual list of good Christmas dinners sent by benevolent rich people to inmates of cottages and union workhouses. The list is accompanied by the annual...

Hurroar, The Reformation and Anti-Reformation in Bohemia. From the German. In two volumes Lioniston and Stoneman. Ma'am, Letters from the Bye-Ways of Italy. By Mrs. Henry...

MRS. STISTED and her family appear to have resided in Italy for at least these dozen years, and to have visited its principal places at various times, although the Dutehy of...

IT is a relief to turn from the unskilful or trading compilations of the day, and from fictions where the artist is sunk hi the craftsman, to a work like this, where a cognate...

BEYOND those qualities which may be called the formal characteristics of Charles Dickens, there is not much to distinguish The Cricket on the Hearth from the common run of tales...

From December 19th to December 24th. Boots. Stories from the Italian Poets; wills Lives of the Writers. By Leigh Hunt. In two volumes. The Cricket on the Hearth; a Fairy Tale...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Rosana Ptiai an and Ioarrn Ottawa, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London ; and...

You may make anything of the Irishman—out of Ireland : the difficulty is to make him a good citizen, and a happy one, at home. The very nature of the necessity is the greatest...

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