her cousin, Don Francisco de A ssiz. It is reported that France con- sented to the marriage, on condition that the Infanta Luisa should be married to the Due de Montpensier: but...

po- tato crop will be a total failure; • the bulk of the people being thrown for support on the aid of their richer countrymen and the Government. It is an ugly feature in the...

vision of the Parliamentary election lists ; and the Liberals in London are shocked at an incident which they have en- countered in the registration for the City : the agents of...

ON the opening of the recess, " a dreadful stillness first invades the ear" ; and in the quiet, even a single election makes a noise. The electors of Derby could not be...

Eng- land must account a strange decision—that the taking of pledges vitiates a Deputy's election. Englishmen have the greatest personal dislike to submit to pledges; we deem...

greatest weakness: he does not know what he would be at. He Is all for liberty ; but then it must be a liberty anticipating his own wishes with a spontaneous servility that...

A rural fete in honour of Prince Albert's birthday was given by the Queen on Saturday; the recipients being the labourers and workmen, with their wives and families, employed on...

The following resolutions, intended to improve the existing system of legal education, have been sanctioned by the deputations appointed by the four Inns of Court: the step,...

The reelection of Mr. Strutt, the President of the new Railway Board, for Derby, was opposed by Sir Digby Mackworth, as a supporter of "our Pro- testant religion." Mr. Strutt's...

The Dublin Corporation presented an address to the Lord-Lieutenant On Monday. Mr. O'Connell was present in his capacity of Alderman. The address was exceedingly complimentary-...

FiteNee.—On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies elected their officers. The vote for the office of President was as follows—For M. Sauzet, 223 Votes; Odilon Barrot, 98; Dupin, 9;...

Viscount Hardinge, in a letter to a relation, dated Simla, the 19th June, exprleesssct:rdhimay was theriae tt i i rt c y all rs o t n an th nev subject o r th re e ttr a e t w...

The departure of Mrs. Warner from Sadler's Wells seemed likely to leave a gap in the company not easily to be supplied. Miss Cooper, an amiable, agreeable actress, is not fitted...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 3d Sept. Packet, SquIrer, from Mauritius. 017 time Isle of Wight, ditto, Jessie Smith, Baxter, from Algot; Bay. At Liverpool, 1st Isabella, Gray, from...

on that day, they write—" This town is in the height of enthusiasm, as the Queen arrived this evening in the Roads, and will land tomorrow. A general illumination takes place...

July, in anti- cipation of the overland mail. There is no political news. The ravages of the cholera at Kurrachee had been most disastrous. Between the 14th and the 23d of...

best means of exterminating the Indian monopoly, was held at Northwich on Monday; and a series of resolutions were passed, indicating the determination of the trade to use the...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The British Association for the Advancement of Science meets at South- ampton on Thursday next, the 10th instant. The meeting promises to be attractive, and...

and the West Indies. From Mexico the dates are to the 30th July. Most of the troops had left for the North, and General Paredes was about to place himself at their head; having...

the American Union vary exceedingly; but on a review of the whole, as exemplified by the trade of the great harbour of export, the New York Sun speaks in the most cheering...

decree, by which the Queen makes known to the nation her determination to marry her cousin, the Infante Don Francisco de Assis Maria; and her Majesty convokes the Cortes for the...

FINE ARTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Southampton, 3d September 1846. SIR —In regard to the letter of your correspondent, J. R. Gowen, upon the sub- ject of a house for...

from Berlin, an- nouncing that the Government of Saxony has acceded to the convention lately concluded between Prussia and England concerning the rights of authors and...

from Vienna, which states that Prince Metternich was occupied at Kcenigsburg with the question of Schleswig-Holstein. It will be regarded generally in a federal point of view,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The aspect of the English Stock Market is but slightly changed in its character egmlwred with our last report. The reduction in the Bank rate...

effective attention. There is a Ministerial crisis : indeed there may be said to have been a Ministerial crisis ever since the Liberal Ministry broke up, in the dispute with Sir...

COMMERCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE FAR EAST. THE leisure now afforded to the public mind cannot be better em- ployed than in reverting to the many topics of great intrinsic in- terest...

THE Parliamentary recess opens with peculiar advantages for advancement in the question of National Education ; for we re- gard the recess, in all great questions, as an...

WEAK, culpable, and abortive as was the late Polish insurrection, it seems likely nevertheless to be followed by strange and im- portant results affecting the three great...

OUR attention has been drawn to the cases of two Scotch paupers : one, that of John Malone, we noticed in a former number ; # to the other, that of John Wood, we have not yet...

THERE is just now a run of censure on the Magistrates of the Police Courts. Politics are flat and trite, writers are at a loss for piquant topics, and they fly to the standing...

LETTER VIII. The 17th article of the 7th section of ch. IL, which we are now considering, provides that "Where a woman shall have been delivered of a child, any person who...

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, The Works of Walter Savage Landor. In two volumes Moron. Memoirs Official and Personal, with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern...

then= the elder, and it would seem by all accounts the better age of the American Government, the trade with the Indians was a state affair, in which private persons were not...

one of those active, observing, and recording men, that form the commissariat of science; collecting the materials from which more theoretical, and it may sometimes happen more...

As we inferred on the appearance of the first volume, Professor Wilson has been unable to include this Continuation in his proposed limits of two vol- umes, and another, at...

THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL. LAST week we gave some account of the earlier part of this festival, which included its most remarkable feature, the performance of Mendelssohn's Eli-...

On the 21st August, in Caledonia Place, the Lady of the Rev. Sir Christopher 71.„ Lighten, Bart., of a daughter. On the 23d, at Castle Bellingham, the Lady of Sir Alan E....

BRITISH FUND 8. (Closing Prices.) Saud. Monday. Tuesday. Wahl.. Thurs. .1%-idAv. 96 90 981 96 95 El r.1 363 93# 96 HI 1 96 96 981 910 96 SiS 98 98 96 --- 101 ,2 209 209 210...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Goodman and Spoor, Northampton, tailors—Summers and Co. Homeastle, Lincoln- shire, coach-builders—Arthur and Co. Skinner Street, Bishopsgate Street,...

thence or Oransamc.a, Aug. 26.—Royal Rest. of Artillery—Major-Gen. T. W. Tobin to be Col.-Commandant. vice Lord Bloomfield, dec. ; Major-Gen. R. S. Brough to be Col.-Commandant,...