has proved fatal ; and within five days after EDWARD DRUMMOND'S friends saw him rejoicing in health and honourable prosperity they surrounded his deathbed. The visitation is...

their adherents are so rash or so gauche as to make very awkward admissions when they venture on "demonstrations." Thus, Lord MOUNTCASHEL, the other day, managed his...

Tins is the last week of a recess which differs from others in its singularly eventful character; insomuch that, instead of being a mere interval of inactivity between the...

for- gotten. Yet some are already putting forth hints of the wish that he may be sacrificed to the manes of his victim. The only hope for him is, that nothing will occur to...

NOTHLKG has occurred to interrupt the quiet life of the Court. The Queen has daily taken her usual early walks with Prince Albert. The Prince went out shooting in the Great Park...

The aim of the assassin M'Naughten was but too fatal, and Mr. Edward Drummond is no more. On Saturday morning, a very un- favourable change took place in his symptoms, and...

of the French Parliament, have been kept under by the Ministry More successfully than could have been expected. The draft of the address in the Chamber of Deputies has indeed...

The sixth annual meeting of the Conservative Association of Buck- ingham and the neighbouring districts took place on Tuesday ; when about four hundred gentlemen and yeomen sat...

It is understood that the Duke of Cleveland will move the Address in answer to the Queen's Speech in the House of Lords ; Lord Conrtenay, the eldest son of the Earl of Devon, in...

at the Manchester Corn Exchange, on Thursday. Mr. George Wilson, the Chairman, said that during the week they had sent out about 700,000 tracts for distribution, and that they...

" The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be forthwith made and passed under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the...

of immediate im- portance or interest, compels the omission of several others, which had claimed attention, but were of a less pressing nature.

SATURDAY NIGHT. Last night's Gazette contains the following formal announcement of Sir Charles Metcalfe's appointment- " The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right...

fire, which broke out between five and six o'clock this morning. Sir George Larpent, who has rented the house for a few weeks, had just left it with Lady Larpent, for Bristol,...

final examination at Bow Street today, at twelve o'clock. The office and the street outside were much crowded with spectators, but there - was no manifestation of feeling. The...

Lisbon to the 18th instant. The Portuguese proposals for a new tariff were delivered to Lord Howard de Walden on the 16th; but the farther alterations offered to Great Britain...

Decem- ber, from Graham's Town to the 2d of the same month, and from Port Natal to the 24th November. No further operations had taken place between the British troops and the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arrnuroow. With the commencement of the week there were indications among the lead- ing capitalists of a disposition to sell Stock ; and some extensive...

[We have avoided as much as possible the endless, profitless, and disagreeable controversy respecting the Church of Scotland ; but we are induced to give insertion to the...

BIRTHS. On the 14th January, at Phoineas House, Inverness-shire, Mrs. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, of a sou. On the 14th, at Louth Hall, Ireland, the Lady LOUTH, of a son. On the 20th,...

THE private box in which an author is ensconsed on the first night of his play has been christened "little ease," from a tradition handed down from that remote period in the...

or two new parts. In L'Ami Grandet, she plays a coquetting Dutchess of the linden regime, who ensnares the heart of a General of the Empire, and is brought to contrition by her...

extent to show off some first-rate horsemanship, in addition to the feats of Messrs. VAN AMBURGH and CARTER with their wild animals. One of these, performed by CARTER, who is...

4' TOPICS OF THE DAY. FRENCH DENOUNCERS OF THE RIGHT OF SEARCH. THE declaimers in the French Chambers on the subject of the right of search claimed by Great Britain under the...

THE loss of two Indiamen near Boulogne within the space of six weeks, and the recurrence of similar calamities year after year, have awakened feelings which ought not to be...

OF the various musical clubs with which London may be now said to abound, perhaps that of the Melodists is, to the majority of amateurs, the most agreeable. Madrigal and Glee...

a restoration of the text of SHAKSPERE as could be desired, and less elaborate and finished in costume and scenery than some others of Mr. Mscamtpv's Shakeperian revivals, is...

To judge by the tone of a portion of the soi-disant Liberal press for the last week, it is labouring under an exaggerated apprehension that Ministers are about to adopt a more...

SOME facts, throwing light on the moral condition of the paupers in the Liverpool Workhouse, have been elicited in the course of an investigation before Mr. Rusirrost in the...

[Though we cannot reach the practical conclusions of the following communi- cation, yet, recognizing its great ability, and knowing that the writer has studied his subject...

Pounced. Economy. A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M.P., on the Condition of England. and on the Means of Removing the Causes of Distress. By R. Torrens,...

THE object of the Spalding Club (named after a local historian and antiquary) is to collect, edite, and publish "historical, ecclesi- astical, genealogical, topographical, and...

IN the autumn of 1839, Lord FRANCIS EGERTON was advised to undertake a Mediterranean voyage ; and, after touching at Portugal and Spain, he proceeded to Syria and visited...

THE Field-officer left Madras in August 1841; and, after deten- tions at Penang, Singapore, and Macao, or rather Hong-kong, em- barked, at the end of November, to join the Army,...

Booxs. Travels in New Zealand; with Contributions to the Geography, Geo- logy, Botany, and Natural History of that Country. By EasEsT DIEFFENBACH, M.D., late Naturalist to the...

THE XANTHIAN MARBLES. This British Museum now presents fresh attractions to the lovers of art : it has been recently enriched with a most valuable addition to its collection of...

a small but singularly elegant collection of lyrical poetry, united to music of a similar character. The author, we understand, is an amateur, who though deeply engaged in the...

Mass in D. By JOHN LODGE ELLERTON, Esq. M. LODGE (who has lately taken the additional name of ELLERTON) has long been distinguished as an amateur of extraordinary talents and...

Aaarvito—At Gravesend, Jan. 22d, Sarah Botsford, Wallace, from Singapore ; 234 British Sovereign, Cow; and Cleopatra. Early. from China; 24th, Royal Saxon. Crawford. from China;...

Omen or ORDNANCE. Jan. 23.—Royal Regt. of Artillery —To be Second Lieuts.— Gent. Cadet E. B. Hamley, vice Haultain, promoted; Gent. Cadet G. T. Field, vice Cooper, promoted;...

Tuesday, Jan. 24. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. and M. A. Shawcroes, Gorlou, Lancashire, publicans-Dugard and Winder. Rugby, grocers-Payne and Melling. Liverpool....

BRITISH Saturday FUNDS. 3fonday. (Closiug Tuesday. Prices.) Wednes. Thurs. Friday , 3 per Cent. Console ........ 95 95 941 941 941 941 Ditto for Account 95 95 941 941 941 911...