FOREIGN COLTN7RJES. Africa—Attack on Lagos, 27 ; capture, 172. Treaties, 485. America—Reception of Kossuth, 7, 50, 74, 911, 195. Fire in the capitol, 50. Congress—The...

" LE JOUR DE L'AN" is always a gay and bustling day in Paris. M. Bonaparte has this year added pomp and stateliness to its celebration, by decreeing a " Te Deum " in gratitude...

late Fo- reign Secretary has not yet led to 'anything more than desultory skirmishes. Nothing conclusive or authentic is to be expected till the meeting of Parliament. Indeed,...

that Kossuth shall be publicly recognized as a guest of the nation : an amendment on the resolution, to the effect that all the Hungarian exiles should be included in the public...

Mi- nisterial changes. The Austrian Finance Minister Krauss has re- signed ; his enemies say, on account of the growing conviction of his incapacity ; his friends, on account of...

The usual farewell to the Old and welcome to the New Year was given on Wednesday night; some "watching" the transition with religious observances, the merry-living quaffing...

ties in a small way. The war with the Affreedies has been re- newed on the Western frontier, and in the East an expedition has been despatched to Rangoon for the purpose of...

THE Queen gave audiences at Windsor Castle, on Monday afternoon, to Baron Brunnow the Russian Minister, and Count Walewski the French Ambassador ; who were introduced to her...

explo- sions, all of them attended with the loss of many lives, and the in- fliction of permanent debility on numerous survivors. The evi- dence produced before the inquests on...

Dover has been thronged with an influx of strangers to witness the de- - nre of the Rifle Brigade, ordered from that garrison to the Cape. The Duke and Duchess Dowager of...

FRANCE. — The Usurpation is now able to assume the guise of national ratification. The official report says that Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has received 7,439,219 of the...

The Provostship of Trinity College has been filled up by the appoint- ment of the Reverend Richard Mac Donnell, D.D., senior Fellow of the University. It is said that Dr. Mac...

The Scotsman states that the Government has promised its influence in support of the bill lately approved of by the Town-Council for settling the Annuity-tax, only under the...

Nothing more authentic than appeared last week on the causes and mode of Lord Palmerston's leaving the Cabinet has been vouchsafed this week. Concerning the future foreign...

SATURDAY. The honours paid to a king anointed on the day of his coronation were mild to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte on Thursday morning, to inaugurate his ' acc eptance of the...

Rawmarsh colliery explosion concluded yesterday . afternoon. Two more persons have died, making the present number of victims fifty-two. After three hours of private...

praotical work—it has been applied to the boiler of a farm steam-engine ; and Mr. Edward Baines has received wheat thrashed by steam-power generated by its heat.

Treasury to Lord Seymour, Sir William Cubitt, and Dr. Lindley, to inquire and report on the cost of maintaining the Great Exhibition building on its present site ; of its...

STOOK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY APTICHNOON. The English Funds at the commencement of this week exhibited the same buoyant appearance as they did at the close of the last. On Monday,...

Fitz- patrick, the comic muse of the same theatre, and "the Bateman Children," have appeared at Drury Lane, with decided success. However, we sus- pect that when the attractions...

The Christmas season of 1861 has been not very fruitful in novelties in that department of supply which is the more special demand of the time. The places of amusement open in...

The proposition that "Pantomimes are not what they used to be" has become such a regular Christmas wail, that one would be glad to pick a hole in it, through mere weariness of...

BUSINESS BEFORE US. — " Every man has business and desire, Such as it is." Hammer. 3 ,TEw YEAR'S DAY did not find Europe in the happiest of dispo- sitions, nor were the...

" Promo ornriorr " is said to be the lord paramount in our consti- tutional land ; and when anything is desirable to be done, we are told to bring public opinion to bear upon...

A DETERMINATION not to understand the matter in hand seems to be fixed in the minds of those who have been dealing with the in- tended" strike" of the engineers and mechanics of...

" A GOOD surgeon on board" is a frequent addition to advertise- ments of ships offering to carry passengers ; and one would think that the benefit desirable for passengers, the...

" THE greatest happiness of the greatest number "—in what, at present does that consist ? The pleasures of " the masses"— where do they lie ? The solace of Lle to the...

THE omnibus is developing itself into a great social engine. It ap- pears to be a boon of that class which philosophers call "a beau- tiful provision of Nature," to compensate...

Tuesday, .December 30. PAirrxwasures DtssoLvED.—W. Ingle and W. Ingle jun. Shoreditch, tailors—Foun- tain and Probin, Walworth Road, gasfitters—Penpoll Lead Smelting...

On the 18th December, in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, the Countess of Constant, of a son, stillborn. On the 25th, at Creigston Castle, Tuniff, N.B., Mrs. Pollard Urquhart, of a...

WAR-oviumr, Jan. 2.-7th Rest. of Foot—Ensign C. E. Kirk, from 68th Foot, to. be Lieut. by purchase, vice O'Grady, removed to the 64th Foot, 33cl Foot— Lieut. C. Fitzgerald...

[From the Official _Return.] Ten Weeks Week of 1841-30. of 1851. Symotic Diseases 2,314 .... 203 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular...

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COKE'S RIDE OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. * THAT the brother of an earl and a sailor to boot should accompany a friend on a first visit to his plantation in Jamaica, and run on to...

FOR THE WEEK ENDING N°. 1227.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1852. [GRATIS WITH THE WEEK'S SPECTATOR.

OF SPAIN. * THE interest of this volume lies as much in the circumstances of the times, and the matters to which the author's inquiries were directed, as in the absolute value...

of papers, originally published in Fraser's Magazine, differs from various works on similar subjects that have been lately published. It is not founded on observations of nature...

a series of tableaux illustrative of life and manners, principally in Germany, at some period of the middle ages between the first and last crusade. The story by which these...

for Mr. Wilkie Collins and Mrs. T. K. Hervey, the season would have gone by without a literary . memorial. Michael Angelo Titmarsh is otherwise engaged ; Boz ms tired, perhaps...

Boors. Recollections of a Literary Life ; or Books, Places, and People. By Mary Russell Mitford, Author of "Our Village," &c. In three vo- lumes. The Life and Letters of...

HUMPHREYS'S TEN CENTURIES OF ART.* "Ten Centuries of Art "—architecture, sculpture, painting, metal work, ivory and wood carving, glass and pottery, textile fabrics, and...