V,(4 NEWS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. America-Oregon-Official correspondence 7, 224. Congress--Oregon 7, 57, 107, 127, 178, 225. 274, 298, 343, 366, 417, 440, 464 ; Polk's Message to...

Cabinet are announced ; and a vacancy thus occasioned, at the head of the Admiralty, is to be filled by the Earl of Ellenborough. The admission of this nobleman to the Ministry...

This is usually the dullest week in the year for newspapers ; all honest folks being at home to enjoy the holydays in the bosom of their families : but the Protection meetings...

the venerable King, Louis Philippe, under an unusually peaceful aspect. The Royal speech, Algeria necessarily excepted, breathed nothing but pacific aspirations ; alluded with...

pear now ripens apace : the Sikhs have done their best to deserve "inter- vention ' by waiving all self-government, and now they seem about to provoke it by beginning...

No incident of a public kind has occurred this week at Windsor Castle. On Monday, her Majesty and Prince Albert dined with the Ohtelless Kent, at Frogmore House. On the morning...

from the United States, completing the set to which President Polk's message belonged. It is not calculated to raise the na- tional character in European estimation. Ability, of...

A Free-trade meeting was held on Tuesday evening, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington; Mr. Hawes and Mr. T. D'Eyncourt, the Members for Lambeth, being present. Mr. Robert Pope, the...

Lord Morpeth has issued the following reply to the requisition from the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire " Gentlemen—I am deeply penetrated by the gratifying import of...

FRANcE.—King Louis Philippe opened the session of the Chambers (the fourth since the last general election) on Saturday. The King left the Tuileries at one o'clock, in a...

At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. O'Connell devoted a long speech to remarks on the last report by the Times Commis- sioner on Darrynane; expressly...

Some further changes in the Ministry were announced by the Times early in the week, and last night the Standard published a complete official list of the new Cabinet; which we...

One of our correspondents is very anxious to know " what was Lord John reading when the Queen's messenger arrived?" This, no doubt, has become a great question of the day. The...

" war message" by very intelligent and moderate people in the United States, may be seen from the subjoined extract of a letter written by an American citizen of the highest...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Free-traders of West Yorkshire are indefatigable in their organized efforts to secure the return of Lord Morpeth; although there appears to be no chance of...

Deputies was defi- nitively constituted on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Sid-el-Had j Abd-el-Kader Achache Pacha, Envoy from Morocco, was presented to King Louis Philippe and to the...

for an extensive retirement of Naval Captains- " We are authorized to state that the number of Captains of the Royal Navy who have volunteered to retire under the offer of the...

greater part of December, continue to be reported. Ninety vessels are known to have been lost. Among the number is the St. David steamer, on her passage from Havre; and two...

STOCK RIcHANGE, FRIDAY ASI:ERNooN. The English Funds advanced at the commencement of the week, but have since declined; and Consols close this afternoon at 94 for Account—a...

The Neptune, Ferris, from London to Bombay, put into Mauritius, 4th Oct. with loss of bowsprit and foremast. Amtiven—At Gravesend, 30th Dec. Mary, Grant, from Calcutta ; 31st,...

nights. She appeared there on Monday, as Romeo; her sister, Miss Susan Cushman, making her London debut as. Juliet. To say that Miss Cushman is the best Romeo that has appeared...

PANTOMIME shows symptoms of revival, and Burlesque of decline, this season. Not only are pantomimes the most numerous, but, judged from those we have seen, they are the most...

• - )■•••i THERE is a class of politicians whom the plain: . does not satisfy. They cannot be happy unless th li sort of violence upon their opponents, whom they . light in...

" Times Commissioner " on Mr. O'Connell's Kerry estates have made a great impression in this country, and so have Mr. O'Connell's replies : the reports have satisfied Eng- lish...

THREE years of negotiation have, apparently, left unaltered and unmodified the views of the Oregon question entertained by the British and the United States Governments...

THERE is a period in the history of most political reforms at which they are almost universally acknowledged to be at once expedient and impracticable. It is when their abstract...

SOCIAL ECONOMY, Etudes sur l'Angleterre. Par Leon Faucher. Deux tomes Paris. Blositspity, The Dispatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. With Notes by Sir...

THIS fifth volume of the Nelson Correspondence extends from January 1802 to April 1804; during the first year of which period Nelson resided in England, chiefly at Merton ; for...

A LIMITED survey of literature will show that to succeed in fiction an author must have a real knowledge of the life he undertakes to de- scribe, or the manners must be...

has been long practised, and, as will always happen in a dense and civilized society, by many men of ability, a standard excel- lence is reached, which though in a philosophical...

From December 26th to January 1st. BOOKS. The Fall of the Nan Sourq ; a Tale of the Mogul Conquest of China. By A. L. Lymburner. In three volumes. The History of Civilization....

WELLS'S ANTIQUITIES OF SPAIN. * No country in Europe, Italy alone excepted, offers such an abundance and variety of attraction to the student of art and the lover of the...

Tuesday, Dec. 30. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Jennings and Ford, Blossoms Inn Yard, Laurence Lane, common carriers—H. and C. Hollins, Nether Langewith, Nottinghamshire,...

WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 30.-2d Regt. Life Guards—Brevet-Col. Sir H. Fairfax, Bart from half-pay Unattached. to be Lieut-Col. vice Col. G. A. Reid, who exchanges ; Major and Lieut.-Col....

On the 25th December, at the Vicarage, Chatteris, Cambridgeahire, the Lady of the Rev. M. A. Gathereole, Vicar of Chatterts, of a son. On the 25th, at Widmer, the Lady of Major...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) per Cent Consols Ditto for Account . 8 per Cents Reduced. ........ 32 per Cents Long Annuities &turd. Monday. rucsday. Wanes. Thum...