up a series of announcements respecting an immediate increase to the forces of the country, with a corresponding increase to the Military and Naval Estimates. The pubhc must...

illustration of the maxim"wires acquirit - eundo." Beginning some four years since to urge a - claim to share in -the government of their University, they have succeeded,- with...

IN the repose which has followed the exciting debate of last week, and in the suspense before the promulgation of Mr. Disraeli's budget, the most conspicuous topic in Parliament...

inter- nal question ; other states of Europe claim to have a voice as to the erection of a new power in the midst of the system which it has cost so many saorifices to maintain....

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. HOUSE OF LOUD& Monday, Nov. 29. No business of importance. Tuesday, Nov. 30. Oaths in Chancery Bill, read a second time—University Tests,...

THE Queen held a Privy Council, and a Court, on Saturday . . All the Cabinet Ministers attended, except Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Herne& At the Court, the Duke of Hamilton had an...

At a Court of Aldermen, held on Tuesday, letters were read from Mr. Walpole and Lord Derby. The former simply transmitted the Queen's approbation of the excellence of the civic...

We have to record three contested elections this week, to supply the vacancies occasioned at Abingdon, Durham, and Oldham, by the death of Major-General Caulfield, Mr. Thomas...

Dr. Singer, the new Bishop of Meath, was consecrated, in the College Chapel at Dublin, on Sunday last, after the morning service. Time - officiating Prelates were the Primate...

Lord Eglinton was installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, on Tuesday, in the Common Hall of the College. Among the distinguished gentlemen around the Lord Rector...

FaArres.—The steps initiated after the return of Louis Napoleon from the South, for the purpose of obtaining a formal establishment of the Empire, have been this week completed....

From the second report of the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 it appears that they have purchased the Gore House estate, for 61,000/. ; and that, on the assurance...

New York, 12th November 1852. Your article of October the 23d has been republished in most of our papers. It is time that England begins to perceive her isolated position in...

SATURDAY. That which has been colloquially called Mr, Disraeli's "Budget" came off last night in the House of Commons. Mr. Disraeli did not "jump into the quart bottle," nor...

If in the whole compass of literature there is a work of fiction bearing intrinsic evidence that it was not designed by its author for stage-adapta- tion, certainly that book is...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have not maintained the firm appearance they pre- rented last week ; but, under the influence of information respecting the...

pro- rogued to the 14th February. On the morning of the 2d, M. de Pentigny, " en grand tonne," rode into the Place de in Concorde, and there read a proclamation of the Empire...

The important affair at the Italian Opera at Paris' is the rehearsal of Verdi's Luisa Miller; and public curiosity is stimulated by the recorded fact that Mademoiselle Sophie...

CAMBRIDGE COMMISSIONS. OXFORD. Constitution. That the right of initiating mea- sures at present enjoyed by the Heb- domadal Board should be conferred on Congregation, and...

of London at the commencement of the present year, will reappear at the St. James's Theatre on Monday next. Their own theatre is occupied by Mr. Woodin.

H. J. Aglionby, H. A. Biggs, V. Caulfield, Col. J. M. Crook, J. Alcock, T. Blackett, J. F. B. Cavendish, Hu. C. C.Crossley, F. Anderson, Sir J. Bonham-Carter, J. Cavendish,...

Wit:ERE TILL FREE-TRADE DEBATE LANDS US. Tim result of the great debate last week caused us no surprise. As we anticipated, the substance of Mr. Villiers's motion was car- ried...

PEntiars there has been no precedent for the number of exposures to which the present Government has been subjected within the short term of its existence. Some of its attempts...

Tics estimable ladies who have held a species of public meeting on American affairs in an exclusive and carpeted saloon of Stafford House, have suffered Lord Shaftesbury to lead...

If is necessary to maintain our defensive powers in a state of per- fect efficiency, argues the Morning Post, and the addition an- nounced to the strength of our forces is...

THE abstract of the Cambridge University Report which we pub- lished a fortnight ago and the comparative table of the leading sug- gestions of the two Reports given in another...

THE - fierce and murderous attack by poachers upon the game- keepers of Lord Hawke at Womersley, has suddenly opened the eyes of public writers in quarters where it may not have...

IT happens now and then that a "person of fashionable appearance," —in fact, a gentleman with long shiny black hair, a profusion of rings, and a Jewish physiognomy—is brought up...

The Songs of Scotknel without Words, for the Pianoforte. The Dance Music of Scotland; a Collection of all the best Reels and Strathspeys both of the Highlands and Lowlands, for...

THE .11.0iYA.L A_CA D E HY. .Tan long-vexed question of the relation of engravers to the Academy seems on - the point of receiving a solution. A memorial from the en- gravers,...

Nine more pictures at the National Gallery have been deaned,—The Emberkation of the Queen of Sheba, the Marriage-Feast of Isaac and Rebecca, and the Annunciation, by Claude; the...

la is seldom that an historical doubt has been so speedily and so satisfactorily settled as the place and date of the Duke of Wel- lington ' s birth has been settled by the...

Hon. C. I. Keith, from the 10th Light Drags, to be Lieut. vice Fairlie, who exchanges. 10th Light Drags.—Lieut. H. J. Fairlie, from the 4th Light Drags. to be Lieut. vice the...

On the 224 November, at Thornford Rectory. Dorset, the Wife of the Rev. '-oarles Robert Dampier, of a daughter, which survived its birth but a short tane. Oa the 224, at...

Tuesday, November 30. Parra ea PS DISSOLVED.—llargreares and Co. Fall Barn, Lancashire, stone- masons; as far as regards L. Hargreaves—Stagg and Kilvert, Manchester, home-...

the Official Return.] Mama of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last. Ten Weeks Week • ZyMcdle Diseases Dropsy...

BRITISH FUNDS (Closing Prices.) Saturd. t per Cent Consols 1011 Ditto for Account 1011 3 per Cents Reduced 100/ 31 per Cents 104 Long Annuities 64 Bank...

the County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JosErn CLArros, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London • and Published by the...

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1852. [GRATIS WILLI TUB WERE'S SPECTATOR.

DOVETON'S REMINISCENCES OF THE BURMESE WA.R. * THESE reminiscences of the Burmese War of 1824-26 originally appeared in the Asiatic Journal. They are now republished in a more...

melodramas will recollect that the leading art of their authors was to make the most of lit- tle—" working up" some common incident into a "thrilling effect" by means of...

Murmur orders have this defect for the purpose of the historian —their story is mostly contained in some larger event, and ma- terials are wanting to substitute particular or...

John the older came before the world with any original work ; and the lying fallow appears to have enriched and enlivened his mind as well as his style. There is more freedom of...

pretty well exploded, but too much importance is still ascribed to a something called by various names,—as poetical power, spirit, faculty. Of course this quality is essential...

Boma. ALTHOUGH the publications still continue numerous, there is the same paucity of books of mark which we noticed at the opening of the season. Of this week's arrivals, the...