in the history of the British Parliament. Not that the prominent numerous ; but they are measures are nume important, both for their direct effects, and for bein g cardinal...

TEE number of measures hurried throu g h their latest sta g es this week in both Houses of Parliament, in order to be in time for the Royal assent before the proro g ation...

discussed at a meeting of the Ministers and Grandees of Spain. The present favourite, it seems, is Don Francisco de Assiz, eldest son of Don Francisco de Paula. There...

in a con- trastio markedns almost to imply a lesson, that the root is the worst, -the grain the best relianoe for the national food. The potato fails universally in Ireland, in...

EMPLOYMENT IN IRELAND. In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that the House go into Committee on the bill to facilitate the employment of the poor...

The " Evangelical Alliance " commenced a series of public meetings in the Metropolis on Monday; the previous proceedings having been con- ducted with closed doors. The "...

THE marine excursion of the Queen and Prince Albert proved more ex- tended than was at first expected: it embraced Guernsey, a portion of the British dominions which had not...

Tuesday next is the first day of partridge-shooting; and it is many sea- sons since the sportsmen entered a more cleared field, and with a better prospect of filling the...

The Government scheme for compelling baronies to provide employment for the destitute has created alarm among some extensive landowners. On the promulgation of the plan, a...

F RANCE. —The trial of Joseph Henry, for firing at the King, on the 29th July, commenced before the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday. The arrange- ments were the same as those...

The Ministerial "white bait dinner" took place at Greenwich on Sa- Imrday last. Lord john Russell, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Charles Wood, -and other heads of departments were...

New York to the 15th instant. On the 27th July the President had transmitted to the Mexican Government an offer to commence negotiations for the settlement of all existing...

for the Queen's use, at Medehole, near Osborne House. Lord John Russell went to his Wimbledon Villa yesterday evening; and several ethers of the Cabinet Ministers left town...

Joseph Henry, on Wednesday, the prisoner was asked if he bad anything further to say in his defence? In reply, he made an incoherent statement about the heroic nature of the act...

the ehair—resolyed to petition for commutation of the sentence passed on Smith, for the murder of Susan Tolliday. The general subject of capital punishment was postponed for...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Times states that immediate measures are now contemplated by Go- yernment for improving the condition of the soldier— " For some weeks past a strict...

STOOK EVRIANGE, FaIDAY ATTERNOON. A decided change has occurred in the state of the money-market, in conse- quence of the notice issued yesterday by the Bank of England,...

THE BENTINCK AND LYNDHURST AFFAIR. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK has raised a prodigious dust—no less familiar term will express his achievement ; yet out of the tur- moil nothing but...

- Mr. Charles Dance, who for a series of years was the assistant of Mr. Mancha in manufacturing those Olympic pieces in which burlesque for the first time put on a garb of...

TO THE EMITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 8, Sergeant's Inn, 25th August 1846. Sra—In the able letter of "A Barrister," in your paper of Saturday last, my name is mentioned, coupled,...

.Aaarvso--At Gravesend, 22d Aug. British Queen, Page, from Batavia ; 23d, Mar- nilon, Fletcher, from China ; 24th, ElLtabeth, Morice, from Java ; and Roseanne, Crichton, from...

PALACE. IT has been proposed in Parliament to improve Buckingham Palace—to improve Buckingham Palace ! Nay, Ministers intend to lay out 150,0001. in the experiment, and have...

THE Morning Post is consistent and earnest as the champion of antiquated and declining interests : the generous zeal with which it advocates a reprieve for Toryism it cordially...

FOREMOST among the manifold advantages flowing from the more rapid communication between Great Britain and India, we reckon the moral influence thereby brought to bear on the...

LETTER VIL The fourth section of the second chapter is that of negligent homicide. Article I. " Whosoever shall be guilty of negligent homicide shall incur the penalties of...

Tins contrast between our immense pretensions and our puny practice may well strike the foreign visiter with amazement. We English vaunt ourselves the most " practical " people...

of Dr. Gully that have fallen in our way have been generally distinguished by literary ability, ingenuity of hypothesis, and considerable plausibility of exposition and argument...

TAVELII, A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 184-5-6. By Mrs. Romer, Author of " The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquiver," &c. In two...

Is a polemico-historical romance. The time is between the close of Ed- ward the Sixth's reign and the opening of Elizabeth's ; the principal his. torical characters are Mary,...

THIS essay was originally designed as an introduction to a larger work on the ancient annals of Egypt, Assyria, and other Oriental countries, whose civilization at once...

THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL. Ix every part of the management of this, as compared with former Bir- mingham festivals, there has been a marked improvement. There have been not one...

Boons. The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism. By Robert Southey, Esq., LL.D. Third edition. With Notes by the late Samuel Tay- lor Coleridge, Esq.; and Remarks...

On the 1st June. at Victoria, Hon g Kon g , the Lady of the Rev. Vincent J. Stanton, her Majesty's Chaplain, of a son. On the 25th July, at Tan g ier, the Wife of John H....

Tuesday, Aug. 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Morgan and Swift, Sheffield, linendrapers—Taylor and Hewitt, Great HAMM, Yorke shire, brewers—Johnson and Dltchett, Louth, sur g...

Was-orrice, Au g . 25.—let Foot—J. C. Pu g h, Gent. to be Ensi g n, by purchase, vice Shadwell, appointed to the 21st Foot. 21st Foot—Lieut. W. Doraville, to be Capt. by...

BRITISH FUNDS. 3 per Cent Consols ... ........... Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 3* per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 10i Exchequer Bas, lid....