THE session of Parliament reopened on Thursday, with Lord George Bentinck's demonstration in favour of Protection and the Sugar Colonies. The champion was curiously placed ;...

or '21, has won a constitution of some sort for Naples, and has thus consolidated Italian Italy in a general bond of freedom. The conduct of the King of Naples was as paltry as...

lawless- ness so varied and so marked, that although they are as old as the hills they strike the mind with all the effect of novelty. Bishops, magistrates, farmers, and...

stage, the Peace meetings about the country continue to be compara- tively unsuccessful; perhaps because they are a transparent "hum- bug. " They profess to antagonize a " War...

influence in commanding assistance. M. Guizot, who inclined to Austria while the Italian cause seemed doubtful, has now discovered that France sympathizes with Italy, and...

REASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT. THE WEST INDIES. Both Houses of Parliament met on Thursday, for the first time after the Christmas recess. In the House of Commons, the evening was...

A Special General Court of Proprietors was held on Wednesday at the India House, pursuant to a requisition from the gentlemen who advocate the cause of the late Rajah of...

THE King and Queen of the Belgians left Windsor Castle on Tuesday, on deir return to the Continent. Their Majesties travelled by railway to rover, crossing over to Calais in the...

The address of Mr. J. W. Dod to the electors of North Shropshire has made its appearance, dated from Cloverly Hall. It is not striking: the writer promises support for measures...

Mr. Shaw, the Member for the University of Dublin, has surprised his constituents by issuing a retiring address. Ill health, and a desire to give more attention to his judicial...

ITALY. —The news from Naples and Sicily increases in importance. The accounts received during the present week give a more connected narrative of the course of events at...

The Morning Post states it to be the intention of the Queen to hold two levees in the course of the present month at St James's Palace. A drawingroom is also spoken of as likely...

Mr. Milner Gibson's logic.—" We have averaged something like fifteen mil- lion pounds a year since 1815 for armaments and defences; and therefore I be- lieve we always have bad...

SATITEDAt., The adjourned debate on Lord George Bentinck's motion was continued last night for several hours, but any great encroachment on our pre- occupied columns would be a...

our Correspondent " A. E. C." on the Ecclesiastical Courts; but we hope to resume their pub- lication next week.

tantalizing from its imperfect and dubious state. The French telegraph says that the King of Na- ples announced by proclamation, on the 29th January, a constitution on the basis...

of influenza, which seized her Royal Highness on Thursday. This morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury is reported to be in great danger.

The past week has not been remarkable for dramatic productiveness. Mr. Gustavus V. Brooke has appeared as Sir Giles Overreach, at the Olympic; and has acted in such a manner,...

the Irish " Con- federates "; the question of debate being "Peace or war?" Mr. Smith O'Brien proposed a set of resolutions to restore unanimity, and pledging the association to...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, let Feb. Stratford, Butterwlck, from Mamitlus. Off Ports- mouth, 2d, Essex, Howard. from Madras. At Bristol, 3d, Neptune, Le Molguon, from Calcutta. At...

sroce EXCHANGE, FaIDAT AFTERNOON. The English Funds were until yesterday in a languid state; the fluctuation being within } per cent of 89. A purchase of the Bank Broker...

WAR-OFPICE, Feb. 4.—Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieut. the Hon. E. R. W. Coke to be Lieut. and Capt. by purchase, vice Brevet-Major the Hon. D. H. Murray, who retires ; the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 30th January 1848. Sm—You have treated the general principle of the Irish Poor-law in your accustomed clear and philosophical manner. Of the...

LETTER VI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Dublin, 10th January 1848. Sui—I am not without hope that some of those who may have taken the trouble to rend my slight sketches...

for another cam- paign. No programme of the season has as yet been put forth by Her Majesty's Theatre; but an article has appeared in the Morning Post which, from its...

SoME worthy enthusiasts seem to think that free trade is the philosopher's stone, the inclusive creator of all things human. They ascribe to their formula such omnipotence, that...

THE LAW OF THE HAMPDEN CASE. Tan opinions delivered in the Court of Queen's Bench on Tues- day, by the four Judges, form no decision of the Hampden case. As the voices for and...

SESSION after session, the failure of public business in Parlia. ment has been the opprobrium of every Government. The mea- sures carried, almost equally with the measures...

Moss who have raised a talk about reduction in military ex- penditure can scarcely be in earnest : they are vague, obscure, and slow-going in their theories of reform. The...

Is a letter to the Builder, Mr. F. H. Waller, an ingenious sur- geon with a turn for practical invention, suggests what would be a very great improvement in the regulation of...

IN one of three im portant lectures on the transfer of real proper- S , just delhered by Mr. James Stewart at the rooms of the ociety for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, the...

Mr. Cobden's er- roneous estimate of the pacific spirit which the latter believes now to animate the French nation. Captain Plunkett recalls the time, not many years ago, when...

BI001APHT, Memoirs of the Life of Elisabeth Fry, with Extracts from her Letters and Journals. Edited by Two of her Daughters. In two volumes. Vol. II Gilpin. VOYAGES AND...

Ale. FORBES was employed in China and Borneo from 1842 to 1847, sometimes in movement, sometimes stationary : when duty permitted, he occupied himself in collecting coins,...

A FRIEND, in whose "doctrine, assiduity, and pastoral love" Mr. Trench could place the fullest reliance, having offered to take charge of his pariah for a month, Mr. Trench...

COLUMBA. Ma. SzwELL's name is more widely known than his character is under- stood. With some he passes as a concealed emissary of the Pope; others look upon him as a somebody...

BOOKS. Five Years in China, from 1842 to 1847. With an Account of the Occupa- tion of the Islands of Labuan and Borneo by her Majftiy's Forces. By Lieutenant F. E. Forbes,...

Tuesday, Feb. 1. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. B. P. and .1. Haworth, Sheffield, merchants-Fry and Co. Fenchurch Street, colonial- brokers-Hills and Co. Bradford, Yorkshire, slate...

On the Gth December, at Varna, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel E. St. John Neale, her Britannic Majesty's Consul in Bulgaria, of a son. On the 22d January, at Moffat House, the...

BRITISH Prices.) Tuesday. Wads., Thurs. Friday. If N D S. &turd. (Closing, Monday. 5 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 8 698 894 69 894 881 0 89 891 1381 3 per Cents Reduced...