in Wales may have some influence in Ireland ; where, though working with a larger machinery, which it has taken a longer time to bring into active use, the plan of Government...

under Sir CHARLES METCALFE ' S administration, is in full career; and to the distant politician, who may not see all that is working underneath, the new Governor has no very...

land the process which he has so successfully carried on in Eng- land, and has induced Haddington to declare for Free Trade. Indeed, that omnipresent body " the League" was...

THE trials under the Welsh Special Commission are over, and that inevitable though painful process in the pacification of the Prin- cipality is finally disposed of. Whether by...

The Lord and Lady Mayoress gave a splendid entertainment at the Mansionhouse, on Monday, to celebrate the christening of their young- est son, who had been born during the...

THE Queen and Prince Albert have returned to Windsor Castle from their visit to Cambridgeshire. Before the dinner at Wimpole, on Fri- day, addresses were delivered to her...

The Dublin Monitor states that Government have actually issued the Commission to inquire into the tenure of laud in Ireland; and it adds some particulars- " The Freeman states...

The two candidates for the representation of Salisbury are fairly in the field. The Honourable E. 0. Bouverie, the Liberal, who stood at the last election, but retired from the...

The Anti-Corn-law League has extended its visitations to Scotland. A public meeting was held at Haddington on Friday, in the West Secession Church, to receive Mr. Cobden, Mr....

Private letters from Paris state that the Duke and Dutchess Be Nemours may be expected in London on Monday, on a visit to the Queen. It is reported that Lord W. Hervey is to be...

GREECE.—Intelligence has been received from Athens to the 15th October. Some further accounts are given of the absurd attempt at counter-revolution on the 9th. The would-be...

Annivzn—At Gravesend, 30th Oct. Zeuobia, Owen, from Calcuti-.; and Seagull, Muyse, from Ceylon; 3Ist, Oriental, Wilson, from China; Eden, Jones, from Bom- bay; Shepherdess,...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The proceedings in the Irish State prosecutions commenced on Thursday, the first day of Michaelmas term. The Court of Queen's Bench was very much crowded. About...

had broken out at Ancona, between the Pope's troops and the Swiss Guards who are in the pay of his Holiness. The news, however, required con- firmation.

on Friday next, the 10th instant, at three o'clock ; when it will be ordered that Parliament be farther prorogued from Tuesday the 14th, to some future day, then to meet for the...

November 3d," the Morning Chronicle gives the following intelligence from Spain- " There is Madrid news of the 29th. The Commission had approved of the law to declare the Queen...

the Cortes had referred the project of law for sanctioning the Queen's majority to committees. S. Olozaga arrived from Paris on that day. The widow of Count de Belascoain, the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AITHRNOON. Business has been on a more extensive scale here for the last few days than for some time ; and the result of some considerable purchases of...

lard by Government against some of the speakers at a Repeal meeting in Cork, held on the 23d October. The Derry Standard asserts that "the Southern system of agrarian terrorism...

THE third attempt of the lessee of Covent Garden to fill his great house has failed: the French Children have not found favour with the Eng- lish public. The first appearance in...

No. II. OBSERVING the vague notions on this subject generally entertained, and even by some who on other topics are distinguished by dis- tinct conceptions and accurate...

THE INTOXICATION OF SUCCESS. TICE November number of Blackwood's Magazine contains a glow- ing and poetical description of the measures taken by Government to prevent...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sul—Permit me to add a little to the information you have already given the public on this subject. By referring to the official returns of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 3d November 1843. SIR —Referring to my letter in your last number, "urging a suspension of British judgment" in approval of the late...

Dublin, 30th October 1843. Srn—A subscriber to your talented journal, I admire your general good sense and fairness. I am glad to observe .occasional articles upon the sugges-...

ON Thursday, the first day of Michaelmas term, the Gresham Pro- fessors assembled ; and, for the first time since the year 1767, the customary lecture was delivered in a College...

THE law is sometimes perverted from its use for the amusement or self-glorification of individuals, who usurp the office of the State in attempting to punish public trespassers,...

Tux fallen estate of the drama was never so sadly exposed as it is at present. Exiled from the great houses, the high drama has not reappeared elsewhere. Several questions...

The History of the Conquest of Mexico ; with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican CiorWsation, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Castes. By William H. Prescott....

Mas. GREY'S new volumes of fiction contain two tales under one title—The Belle of the Family, and Harry Monk. The Belle of the Family is the story of a poor beauty, who is...

PROPERLY treated, "Ruins and Old Trees" are a very good sub- ject for that desultory kind of literature which for want of a more distinctive title is called miscellaneous. The...

BOOKS. Lord Dacre of Gilsland ; • Novel. By Etazaszxst M. STEWAIT. In three volumes. Forget Me Not; a Christmas, New Tear's, and Birthday Present, for 1844. Edited by...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 31st October 1843. Sees—You have among your readers many well-educated Dissenters and Dissenting ministers ; and I am persuaded that you...

TEAT prodigious effort of British taste to give an air of architectural magnificence to the Metropolis, Trafalgar Square to wit, is approaching its consummation : the bronze...

questions the novelty of Mr. Hosx.rNo's "longitudinal central groin- ing through the arches of a bridge : "it has been largely used," he observes, "in the construction of arches...

the other day, a little engraving of the intended fa9ade of the new British.Museum ; which we were assured by the publisher is authentic. A more meagre, frigid, commonplace...

merit—namely, opposition and disparagement—has been offered to Mr. HULLMANDEL in acknowledgment of the value 'of his new invention of lithotint : he has had to defend his patent...

On the 53d October. at Radborne Hall. Mrs. CULNDOS POLE, of a daughter. On the 25th, at Oldbury Rectory. Salop, the wife of the Rev. Jonst Powrow, of.a daughter. On the 27th,...

Tuesday, Oct. 31. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Promoli and Hausburg. Liverpool, jewellers— Routledge and Knight. Bridge Road, Lambeth, linendrapers—Hale and Arch, Birmingham,...

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 3-5th Bee. Foot—Sec.-Lieut. R. Darell to be First-Lieut. without pur. vice Campbell, who retires ; W. H. Candler, Gent, to be Sec-Lieut. by pur. vice Dare% 14th...

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