rest or importance. The French Gwvernment seems disposed to adjust the quarrel with Switzerland in as short a time as possible. The blockade tit the Swiss frontier has been...

that a " re- bellion-ruffian," (as the process-servers of the Exchequer Court are familiarly called,) and a body of policemen, were attacked by a mob of the peasantry in a...

Lancashire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, and Essex, have been dining and spouting, and lauding themselves and the imma- culate House of Peers. The old topics serve their turn....

in the monied and commercial circles, have not subsided. It is generally understood that the harvest will prove to have been deficient, especially in Ireland. This must tend to...

THE assertion of the Tories, that the country has gone over to their side, has received no confirmation as yet from the proceed- ings in the Registration Courts. Symptoms of...

The Court of Common Council met on Tuesday. Mr. Wire asked the Lord Mayor, what had been done respecting the right of the Lord Mayor . and Aldermen to sit as Commissioners of...

the Gazette de France; and the Augsburg Gazette also alludes to some at- tempts to create disturbances in Sicily and Calabria, by means of proclamations with the forged...

Sloane Street, Chelsea, fought a duel yesterday morning at Wormwood Scrubs. The two first shots did no harm, and the seconds interfered to effect a reconciliation. The attempt...

news bad been received of the defeat of GOMEZ in Andalusia, by Ge- neral ALAIX ; and such was the positive statement of a Madrid paper, since repeated by another journal of the...

THE King visited Kew on Monday, in company with Lord Francis Somerset. The Marquis Wellesley arrived at the Castle on Monday evening, on a visit to his Majesty ; and Lord...

in reply to Lord GOSFORD'S opening speech, was received by a recent arrival from New York. The tone of the address is mild, but firm. The Assembly will not vote the supplies,...

Fifteen hundred Liberals of Worcester, principally belonging to the working classes, dined at the Guildhall, and in several inns of that town, on Monday. The recent display of...

peeing the arrangement of the frontier of the two countries. The union between the three great Northern Powers is not so close as it was formerly. Austria and Prussia are...

Wednesday, to their Members, Mr. Cavendish and Mr. Gisborne, was enlivened by a capital speech from the latter gentleman. The tone of Mr. Cavendish was rather subdued and...

last treated our readers with some choice specimens. Our opponents, " greatly daring, dine," and are no doubt "judicious" in their choice of liquors ; but their oratory is still...

address to Mr. Paul Methuen, M. P. for North Wilts, expressive of their thanks for his attention to the public interest, and of their senti- ments, &c. regarding Church-rates....

the corrupt old Corporation made over their property, worth about 70004 to certain members of their own body, in defiance of the opinions of Sir Frederick Pollock and Sir...

secured. Ile has a pledged majority of voters, giving all the doubtful men to Lord Eliot. The following requisition to SirWilliam Molesworth is in the course of signature at...

Malaga to Hull, was totally wrecked on the rocky banks of the Spurn Lights, on Wednesday night the 12th instant, and every hand on board perished.— Western Luminary. The North...

pay of Government are actually engaged in supporting and canvassing for the Tory party, which opposes that Governnment so virulently ! One is connected with the Post-office,...

of notes circulated in England and Wales by Private and Joint Stock Drunks, between the 2.5th of June and the 24th of September ISS6. Private Banks X7,764,H24 Joint Stuck...

An affray between the peasantry and police occurred on Friday the 21st instant, at Dunkerrin, in Tipperary. Philip Ryan, the notorious " rebellion-ruflian," with his bailiff...

Dutchess of Kent having been applied to for her Royal Highness's pa- tronage, with her usual munificence immediately sent 201 towards the laudable institution. The Manchester...

Sessions of Clare- monis, several processes and civil bills were brought for recovery of tithes, and only a very few were proceeded with, the process-server swearing in open...

Lord Glenelg was to meet his old constituents at a public dinner in Inverness yesterday. A public dinner was given at Hawiek, on the 14th instant, to the Earl of Minto. There...

Lord Brougham has returned to London, and is now at his house irt Berkeley Square ; looking, it is said, remarkably well. lk has paid a visit to Lord Melbourne at Brocket Hall,...

lies in a very few words : during the past year the Spectator has written as a Radical, the Examiner as a Whig : this is the simple fact divested of its mystifications.—Kent...

the Liberals, except in Belfast, where the Tories have gained 17 votes. The Registration continues to be very much in favour of the Liberals, except in Belfast, where the Tories...

placed a vast mass of the most valuable statistical information at the disposal of Mr. ISPCulloch, to be used either for the improvement of his Dic- tionary or otherwise, as he...

on tbe Seine and the Oise, situate a few miles south of Paris, is now the property of ore of the deceased nobleman's principal domestics (his coachman, we believe), to whom it...

the occasion of Lord Milton's coming of age, one of the party mentioned, as an illus- tration of the munificence of Earl Firzwilliam, that his Lordship al- lowed the late Mr....

pos- sessed of considerable property, which he has amassed on the stage. He was comparatively miknown in his native country until brought forward by Kean to represent Iago to...

the 18th of June, to determine upon the measures that should he adopted to pre- vent the final success of an act passed by the Supreme Government, depriving British-born...

WAR-OFFICE, Oct. 28.—lst Regt. of Dtags.—C. C. W. Sibthorpe, Gent, to be Cornet by purchaAe, vice Coningham, who retires. 1st Regt. of Foot—Ensign 3. R. Heaton to he Adjt., vice...

' me; and, tried tinder such circumstances, the verdict which condemns it can scarcely be just. We think, however, with the Carlists besieging Bilboa, threatening St. Sebastian,...

Banking system in the most striking point of view. Notwithstanding the con- tinued depression of the exchange, and the efforts of the Bank of Eng- land to narrow the...

the in- convenience of the late ordinance concerning the Jews had led to me- morials to the King. A manufacturer, in a petition to his Majesty, complained that his Christian...

of imitating Europe, I may mention that a theatre is now building at the Polytechnic School after the model of ours; and that the Sultan and Court are in a few days to assist at...

SATURDAY NIGHT. THE erce Weather, which while we write has found its solution In a A of snow, prevent heavy fall ? d the arrival of the Foreign mails yesterday. This morning,...

Ma. Joilm AUSTIN and Mr. CORNWALL LEWIS have ere this arrived in Malta, with a commission from the Colonial Office to inquire into the grievsnces of which the Maltese complain,...

STIWK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Money Market has presented very different appearances during the week; lantiag been first firm, then depressed. and then again improved....

UTILITY OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. STANDARD—We think that we have brought the question of "Peerage Reform," at least as that question stands in controversy between the Spectator...

Madras. At Bombay, June 17th, May. Syms, from Liverpool ; 22d, Castle Huntley, Jolly, from London ; 2401, Eleanor. Lyon; iltEl ii latin, Lowthiam from ditto; and Majeetic....

"A BOLD AND DECIDED POLICY." As the usual November consultations of the Cabinet approach, the question which has so frequently occupied our pages since last Easter, becomes...

THE Examiner, as we have shown already, resembles that cu- rious mixture of fish, flesh, and fowl, which naturalists bare termed the Ornithorincus Paradoxus. New Holland is full...

NOTHING is more disgusting in the present policy of the Tories, than their affectation of peculiar anxiety for the spiritual welfare of the poor. The Church, we are told, is...

OUR subtle adversary the Standard appears to have formed the design of treating as as spiders treat flies : he courteously asks us for a plan of e 'Peerage Reform, and when, in...

TIIE American tragedian has promptly obeyed the call of the public to leave the human shambles and gladiatorial display of the amphitheatre, and enter upon anobler field of...

CONTAIN the pith of an extensive knowledge of history, and ex- hibit considerable power of dealing with those leading points which make distinctive epochs iii the annals of...

J3eartaar seems, at length, in earnest about the affairs of his theatre. He ept•ned it without a vocal company, relying oil his owe unaided powers for success. These curried him...

the Romantigue school, Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas, have ap- plied to the Minister of the Iliterwr for permission to open a new theatre in Paris.

I IsToav. II istorical Treatises—The Polities I t 'onsequenres of the Reformation :TI. it ins. Pro gress. and Practical tilltiemee of Political Theories: The Rise and I: too th...

WE last week mentioned the countries which were the subject of Mr. HOPPUS'S volumes; his way turns out to have been as well beaten as the lands through which he passed are...

THE title of these volumes tells their subject. Their scope em- braces much that can be seen by the eye, or grouped into large masses. The baok opens with the external and...

ALTHOUGH, happily, not a common, the disease of The hip-joint is not an unusual complaint; and is remarkable, not only from its character, and the proof it affords of the...

in the King's Bench prison, addresses the following letter to the Morning Chronicle, on "the new light in art." "Sir—The youn g artists are now running a lid about "a new...

MR. HALL'S 11001i oF GEMS. THE second Book of Gems completes the century of British Poets and Artists; bringing the former down to BLOOMFIELD. The mo- dern section of the...

OF the various prints that we have seen, professing to be portraits of MALIBRAN, four only appear to have been drawn from the life, and to have any pretensions to likeness. I....

PRA SER'S picture of "Robinson Crusoe Reading the Bible to his Man Friday," is not only the artist's best work, but is one of the few simple and characteristic illustrations of...