has begun to disarm; and the com' . ? • which our neighbours keep accounts in their aff .4 IC: the mystification. It is first announced that 1‘ reduced the war-estimate of 1842...

THE great Parliamentary show-fight, the debate on the second reading of the Government Irish Registration Bill, is over, and party-men breathe again. The struggle began with the...

THE IRISH FRANCHISE. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the motion for the second reading of Lord Morpeth's Bill for amending the elective franchise and the registration of...

The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a sumptuous enter- tainment to several of the Ministers on Saturday last. The occasion was one on which it is customary to make no...

Tax departure of the King of the Belgians, on Monday, has been the principal event at Court. At the dinner -party given on Saturday at Buckingham Palace, the Duke of Wellington...

A meeting of Sir Alexander Grant's constituents was held at Cam- bridge last week, to take into consideration that gentleman's conduct in voting for the second reading of the...

The polling for King's County election commenced on Monday. The Tory candidate had evidently no chance. The numbers polled on the first day were—for Mr. Armstrong 235, for Mr....

Sir Robert Peel gave his first Parliamentary dinner this season on Saturday last, in Whitehall Gardens. The Speaker gave his third Parliamentary dinner on Saturday even- ing,...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Lords, last night, the bill for compensating the owners of property in Dublin for losses sustained during riots was, on the motion...

the Chamber of Deputies, on that day, the Secret Service Money Bill was brought forward. The debate on this bill, which has served to revive the fierce spirit of opposition to...

"the division." The Whig journals are gleesome, because the questions of a dissolution and a resignation are postponed. The Tory papers exult, because the majority makes certain...

" Nurse. Doth not Rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter? " Romeo. Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R. " Nurse. Ah. mocker ! that's the dog's name : R. is for the...

at two o'clock. The Council was attended by all the Ministers except the Lord Chancellor.

part of the House of Commons, the Irish Members, finds that Ministers have a British majority against them of 32; while the nominal majority was swelled by five of "the tribe of...

pretty sight enough when the motley groups were set in motion by the strains con strepito of M. Jum.retee band. The galop, with a hundred couple of gro tesque maskers in full...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Feb. 24th, Augusta Jessie, Sparkes. from Singapore; and Sarah, Hadick, from Bombay ; and 26th, Larkins, Ingram, from Bengal. Off Dart- mouth. 24th, Trial....

THE approach of the operatic season, which promises to be unusually brilliant and varied in its attractions, will probably stimulate the ma- nagers of the other theatres to...

STOCK EXCRANCII, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. There has been but little business doing during the week, and the fluctuation in the English Funds has not exceeded per cent. The market was...

an effi- cient corps of vocalists, including Messrs. Wit.sox, H. l'arixies, STELE- TON, and BARKER; with Madame 11.t.trE as prima donna, and two debutantes, Miss Goyim and Miss...

Dramatic School " on Monday ; not as before, with a company composed of vete- rans and tyros, but she alone filled the stage, with the succession of characters interspersed...

an- nounced to open on the 9th of March, with an opera of CIMAROSA'S, in which Madame GARCIA VIARDOT, (Marauriax's sister PAULINE,) will be the prima donna. GRIST. PERSIANT,...

fora season of fifty nights; and, in addition to the operas given last season, we are to have Les Huguenots, and others. Among the company, we rejoice to see the name of...

1841. MAJORITY FOR THE SECOND READING " NOW." (299.) Abercromby.1 In.G.R.Childers. 3, W. G,:lon. W Downe Listowel, Earl of Acheson. L rd Visct. C.ay. Wall:1m Gishorne. Thomas...

Tun Report of the Committee on Import-duties is working well.* Public attention has been drawn to it at the right moment—when an increased expenditure is meeting a decreasing...

THE FIRST FACTION-FIGHT OF THE SESSION : " IN FOR ANOTHER YEAR." Tun fifth week of the session is over : what has been done ? The first four weeks were characterized by...

THERE is still some power in public opinion. Several members of the House of Lords have felt it necessary to explain that they did not concur in the Attorney-General's estimate...

POCKETS." WE fancy that by "much meditating" we have penetrated the true policy of the lately threatened dissolution—assuming that the rumour once so rife as to be " in...

Anrcourrs, The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century. By the late Henry Swim borne, Esq., Author of" Travels in Spain, &c. Edited by Charles White, Esq.. Author...

Tins volume is of necessity a compilation ; for the system of Japan being more exclusive than that of China, and more completely carried out, no single traveller has ever...

Ms. JAMES'S last fiction is of the same smooth and even texture as any of his former productions, though the tissue is less glittering and its fabric slighter than some : the...

On the 21st inst., at Brighton, the Lady JANE LAWRENCE PEEL. of a daughter. On the 21st inst. at Collingwood, Hawklunst, Kent, the Lady of Sir Jelin F. W. IlEascurx, Bart., of a...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) S aturday Monday . i Tuesday Wednes. Thurs. Friday. 881 881 831 884 881 884 881 88* 881 881 894 89* 89 881 89 894 884 684 97.1 971 971 98 9...

Tuesday, Feb. 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Alsop and Chapman, Uttoxeter, surgeons-Paul and Sellers, Balham, Surrey, linen- drapers-Hughes and Bates, Richmond, Surrey,...

WAR-OFFICE, Feb. 26.-2d Regt. of Drags.-Lieut. R. S. Forlong to be Capt. by purchase, vice Macquarie, who retires; CornetG. A. F. Sulivan to be Lieut. by pur- c.hase, vice...