THE two main subjects for the special meeting of Parliament have been fully brought forward this week : the Irish Coercion Bill has been settled in its earliest stage ; the Bank...

best men in the land, the Irish assassins have picked out an es- teemed Protestant clergyman—the Reverend John Lloyd, Vicar of Aughrim—as their principal victim for the week....

PREVENTION OF CRIME DT IRELAND. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Sir Gstonoa-GuEx obtained leave to introduce a bill " for the better. prevention of crime and outrage in...

by General Dufour, have been of the most decisive kind the Separate League has been conquered ; Lucerne, the head and front of the rebellion, has surrendered, and is governed at...

States enhances the intrinsic interest in a speech just delivered by Mr. Henry Clay. The eloquent statesman declares, boldly and un- equivocally, that the Mexican war was begun...

House, taking daily walks in the grounds. The beach and their ponies afford amusement and health to the children. Sir James Clark arrived at Osborne on a visit to the Queen, on...

A:Court of Aldermen met on Tuesday, mainlrfor the purpose of re- ceiving Alderman Thomas Wood's resignation of the gown for Cordwainers Ward. The resignation was conveyed in a...

Mr. William Yates Peel has resigned his seat for Tamworth, on the score of domestic affliction. Mr. Peel has recently lost his wife, Lady Jane; and one of his sons is...

The most stringent measures are now taken to enforce the payment of the poor-rate in city and town as well as rural districts, and so far with the best possible results. No...

The following statement of mills working and stopped, &e. may be relied on as correct. In the power-loom weaving department, only four mills are working full time, thirty-six...

SWITZERLAND.—The narratives of the civil war are still meagre and con- flicting to a degree that forbids all reliance on the details: for instance, there is no account...

It is probable that the Reverend W. Jacobson, of Magdalen Hall, will succeed Dr. Hampden in the chair of the Regius Professor of Divinity.—Morning Chro- nicle. The death of...

SATURDAY Noun. In the House of Commons, last night, the adjourned debate on the Bank Charter Act and the commercial distress was continued at some length, by the Marquis of...

The Emma, Hall,frour London to Adelaide, has put back with loss of foremast, bow- sprit, maintopmast, and damage to rigging. The Lady Hennaway, from Bombay to London, which was...

of Hesse—to commence on the 5th instant, change on the 9th, and terminate on the 12th. The Paris papers of Thursday announce the return of the Prince de Joinville, with his...

In the race between the two " young legitimates," the Marylebone Theatre is decidedly getting the start. As You Lila It, at Sadler's Wells, is done very well, " considering ";...

a very suc- cessful debut. She sings exceedingly well, acts with ease and point, and without obtrusiveness, and has the advantage of a pretty face. The new piece, Peggy Green,...

creditably rising into working condition,—trained with diligence, and exerting them- selves with zeal,—at the Princess's we find the melancholy results of the " star " system....

morning, with intelligence from Bombay to the 2d November; but it has little interest. A mountain tribe of Boogues, to the number of 700, had attacked the Natives of Scinde,...

18th in- stant, arrived at Cowes yesterday; with no news, but with 30,0001. in gold. The American writers are beginning to complain of the drain of bullion on their side, and of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The large increase that has recently taken place in the reserve of notes and the stock of bullion in the Bank has enabled the Directors to...

THE Metropolitan Sanatory Commission forms an example, as useful as it is rare of promptitude and activity, not only in the members of the dommission, but in the proceedings of...

THE NEW IRISH PEACE BILL. You refused a Coercion Bill, says an Irish Member to Ministers, when there were fifty murders a month, and now you ask for one when there are only...

Is it certain that this country will never again be engaged in war? The question is one which, for many reasons, demands an explicit and positive answer. If it cannot be...

Tan bigotry which marked every act of John . Bull's• life in: the last generation has yielded to a curious reaction, manifested in a. proneness to remain content in compromises....

Waren, The Military Life of John Duke of Marlborough. By Archibald Alison, P.R.S., Author of " The History of Europe." Blackwood and Sons. Ticraori, Ernest Singleton.- By the...

ALTHOUGH in name and form a fiction, Ernest Singleton has little in common even with the didactic novel. The interest of that class of works is generally marred by a too...

IT is nearly fourteen years since "Philip Van Artevelde" appeared ; and during that large section of the working part of human life, Mr. Tay- lor has added nothing to the...

RESEMBLES Ernest Singleton in being a clever book, though not a good novel ; but differs from it in being one of those works of fic- tion in which the incidents of the tale and...

BOOKS. The Military Life of John 'Duke of Marlborough. By Archibald Alison, F.R.S.E., Author of "The History of Europe." The Eve of the Conquest, and other Poems. By Henry...

On the 21st April, at Wellington, New Zealand, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel trCleverty, Deputy.Quartermaster-General, of a son. On the 24th November, at Bayfordbury, the Wife...

PARTNEsmium DissoLVED. H. and F. Hull, Newmarket St. Mary, Suffolk, cabinet-makers--Martens and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants-lronside, Brothers, Newgate Market, salesmen-...

Weal-orrter., Dec. 3.-3d Drag. Guards-Lieut. E. B. Purefoy to be Capt. by pur- chase, vice Watt, whn retires ; Ccrnet A.D. Monteath to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Pnrefoy; W....

BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday the 27th day of November 1847. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. £23,956,165...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the mace of ROBERT Prim and Joarra Cxsyrolv, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Farah of St. Dunstan's in the West, In the City of London: and...

HOUSE OF COMMONS—MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29. Sir GEORGE GREY began by moving that so much of her Majesty's Speech as related to Ireland be read by the Clerk at the table. This was...

FOR THE No. 1014.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1847. GRATIS WITH THB WEEK'S SPECTATOR.