country, in order that Financial Reformers, Free-traders, and Pro- tection ists might say their last words out of Parliament. On the eve of the opening-clay, Mr. Cobden and Mr....

1)3TE thing at least was settled on the first night of the Session— the Protectionist party. In other respects, the opening of the session is little more than the opening of...

The authenticated explanation of the abolition of the passport sys- tem is like an official joke. The passport is abolished in favour of the F.nglish passenger, but he must have...

OFERMI OF THE SESSION. Parliament was o ad by Commission soon after one o'clock on Thus- day. The Lords . . oners were the Lord Chancellor, the MIN , quis of Lansdowne, the...

TIM Queen held a Privy Council, at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday after- noon. The Speech for the opening of the session of Parliament was arranged and agreed upon. An election...

The Court of Common Council reelected its officers on Thursday ; agreed unanimously to a motion by Mr. Anderton, for referring the question of smoke-consumption to the...

The Free-traders of Dublin claim a great triumph in the result of a meeting in the Rotunda, on Monday, which had been convened by the Lord Mayor, Mr. John Reynolds, Ma, as a...

The repmentation Of Colchester has been suddenly vacated by Sir George Henry Sm ; at whose suggestion, a deputation has been ap- pointed to wait on Lord George Manners with a...

A Committee, appointed at a recent conference in Edinburgh, of friends of national education, have determined "that an effort shall be made to unite the friends of this great...

FRANCE.—The Paris papers state that Count Strogonoff, some time since Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, has been appointed by the Czar to be his Ambassador to the French...

It is said that Lord Denman, yielding to the representations of Lord Brougham, (who arrived from Paris on Monday,) has at length deter- mined to retire from the bench. His...

Commission; including Captain Houston Stewart, in the room of Lord John Hay, re- tired. The death of Lord Jeffrey offers a vacancy on the Scottish Bench for the exercise of...

SATURDAY. In the House of Commons, last night, the adjourned debate was re- sumed by the Marquis of GRANBY, on the Protectionist side, and continued without interest for a...

of Queen Victoria's third Parliament, on Thursday, if slackly attended in the day-time, because Royalty was absent, was signalized by good musters in the evening. The leading...

news from Athens—to the 19th January. The papers this morning add nothing to clear up the matter. Sir Thomas Wyse had long been nego- tiating "differences" with the Greek...

On the 18th July, the Wife of John Cartwright Hill, Esq., of Adelaide, South Aus- tralia, of a son. On the 7th October, at Adelaide, South Australia, the Wife of Captain...

" Cette pike eat au rang de cellos qu'on joue souvent, lorsqu'une actrice veut se distinguer par im rale capable de in faire valoir." In other words, it answers the purpose of...

As we never ceased to point out the negligent style of production which marked the commencement of Mr. Anderson's management, we are especially bound to notice the great change...

• Windsor and Colchester Vacant. The Speaker not included. Names of the Absent. Adare, Viscount. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Kerrison, Sir E. Bt. Philips, Sir G. R. Bt. Alexander,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTED.NOON. Consols have fluctuated between 951 and 961, and the general aspect of -the market has been heavy. The lowest quotation occurred today, when...

MINISTERS. NONE of the measures promised for Ministers during the recess are claimed by them in the Royal Speech which opens the session—not one, except an indication of some...

the St. James's, hardly deserves the success it has met with in Paris. It is a mere farce, purposely absurd and extravagant; and the music, of a slight and trivial character, is...

under the title of The Talley of Andorre. The English libretto is fairly execu- ted, and the music is given without mutilation. The principal characters are well sustained by...

WHEN the discussion of a political topic runs beyond the limits of political circles, the fact is a sign that it is obtaining a wide hold of the public mind. Thus the fact that...

IT is a courtesy to call the laws establishing free trade "the tri- umph of a great principle." In that long struggle men fought for their several interests, as now they...

" Timms I Thames ! ever while you live, Thames, go between your banks," cries Mr. Puff; but the injunction was a dead letter on Tuesday, to the dismay of neighbouring residents,...

Dnuirs and Chapters have hitherto piqued themselves upon their inscrutability. Their statutes—the leges scriptce, by which the funds which our ancestors intrusted to their hare...

RENAISSANCE is to go beyond the raising of mediseval architecture; to the restoration of mediwval weapons ; and even in England, the stiletto is to be transferred from that...

FORKERLY, if you wanted to drive a man out of public life, you called him a Radical, or a Materialist : now, no institution seems to be proof against the charge of costliness....

Tees news of Francis leffiefs death carries the mind back to times from which we are separated by twenty years of bustling and -noisy if not creative agitation. Since he...

.1faa'eira, 29th December 1849. The undersigned—a constant reader of the Spectator—trusts he may be excused for asking the editor to take charge of and forward to their...

TILE combined pressure of Parliament, Advertisements, and the Index for 1849, has induced the publication of a Supplement; where reviews of the following works will be found....

Tuesday, January 29. PARTNERSHIPS Dissovran.—Pountnev and Gillam, Bewdley, comb-manufacturers —Hyde and Lamb, Newcastle-under-Lyme, paper-manufacturers—Goode and All- bon,...

(Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Massachusetts (Sterling) 15 p. Cl. Mexican 5 Michigan 6 - Mississippi (Sterling) 6 New York (1858) 5 Ohio 6...