themselves on the general notice in the Parliamentary recess. But, though the public is at this season kept as it were at a distance from the carefully shut doors of the...

THE fearful crisis of "May 1852 " has been antedated, and France lies prostrate before a military despotism. Louis Na- poleon has swept away the Legislative Assembly ; dissolved...

the op - miens of the middle.class leaders in Lancashire and the - West Riding. Carlisle, Edinburgh, and one or two other towns out-, side of these districts, were represented;...

THE Royal Family have remained again in comparative seclusion at Os- borne. On Tuesday, the Earl of Listowel and Colonel Seymour returned from Hanover, where they had attended...

at Bombay, which, though as yet purely local, are of a kind which hesitation or injudicious treatment might easily cause to spread. An insult offered, or supposed to be offered,...

to com- mand attention and respect. Leading merchants in all the various branches of commerce were present, along with representatives of some important outports ; while letters...

The Court of Common Council on Thursday found itself obliged to re- fer back to the Committee the bill for reforming the City franchise, the Recorder having intimated his...

cation have been very active this week. The advocates of the Manchester National system have held a conference and a public meeting ; the advocates of the Local Manchester and...

The Conference of Lancashire and Yorkshire Reformers, with help from other English districts, and from Scotland and Ireland, took place at Man- chester on Wednesday. The...

FRANCE. —AR di: petty crises of party politics are merged in the crisis of a new revolution. President Louis. Napoleon has torn up the Constitution, by dissolving the Assembly,...

. report has been.geoeral for the last, few days to the effect thatt. Arch. bishop Murray haft come to the couelusion. that. it. would be both. uno necessary and unadvisahle in...

The Balmoral estate, recently purchased by the Queen, extends fully seven miles in length by four in breadth, and includes the best deer-range in the Grampian chain. The...

Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday, on Thursday, and yesterday ; most of the Ministers were present, and long deliberations were held....

SATURDAY'. There is no doubt now that a very serious and bloody straggle was maintained in the streets of Paris during the middle of Thursday. Bar- ricades were raised in such...

An entertainment quite of the "Christmas" kind has been opened at this new and enterprising place of amusement, under the designation of "Optical Illusions." The name may not...

of Haydn, after long hesitation, caused by its not falling regularly under the category of sacred music. There was no room for any such scruple. The Seasons was intended by its...

Temple, 4th December 1851. Srei—I observe in the Spectator of Saturday last, that the " Street Shoe- black movement" is mentioned as Mr. C. Cochrane's. Mr. Cochrane is not...

Terence. The days of performance will be Monday the 15th, Thursday the 18th, and Monday the 22d instant. The Marquis D'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister, has quitted London for...

Hope to the 18th October, a few days later than the last dates. The military situation re- mained unaltered. The Caffres had again been successful in carrying off large herds of...

There is one generous quality which is eminently conspicuous among the amusement-seeking portion of the English ; and that is the warm friend- ship, not to say gratitude, which...

MR. KINGSLEY AND MR. DREW. 4th December 1851. Srn—Will you allow one of very many persons who are deeply interested in the incidents to which your correspondent " T. C. D."...

STOCK Excesses, FRIDAY Arrsarroos. The intelligence of the coup d'etat in Paris, which was received early on price Tuesday morning, sent the pri of Console down about 2.1 per...

THE comments of the daily papers upon the speeches at the meet- ing of the Protestant Alliance leave us little to add to the remarks made last week. The speeches were less...

THE dark season is advancing with a more rapid stride than usual, and with a kind of pace unusual. Certain ultra-weathervrise anti- cipate that the winter will not be severe,...

LOUIS NAPOLEON'S LAST CRIME. Man TREASON in its grossest and most criminal form is the crime which Louis Napoleon has perpetrated—the h i gh treason of a low- minded...

THE art of Ministerial support in journalism has not been restored since Sir Robert Peel discontinued. the practice of retaining Minis- terial papers. The Whigs, it would seem,...

THE decay of " a bold peasantry their country's pride " has so often been the theme for the tuneful lament of poets and the more solemn warning of philosophers, that we can...

SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S ADMINISTRATION 07 scrsinE.* THIS volume is a continuation or completion of the author's work on the Conquest of Scinde ; and is composed, but more avowedly,...

admirer of the late Dr. Chalmers. He found the great preacher " one of the most interesting and delightful characters he ever met with "; he considered it " one of the highest...

WE know not whether this novel is by a " fashionable" writer, but it has strong traits of " fashion" about it. Clara Harrington exhibits some acquaintance with society and the...

before a fair estimate can be formed of their merits; others bear evidence at a glance of the incompetence of their authors to the task they have undertaken. This new...

Books. A History of the Romans under the Empire. By Charles Merivalo, B.D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Volume HI. A Faggot of .French Sticks. By the Author...

the Official .Return.) Ten 'Week* Week of 184140.. of 1861, Eymotie Diseases 2,282 232 Drew , Causer, and other diseases of uncertain or satiable seat_ 614 64 Tubercular... ....

Wan-omen Dec. 5.-5th Regt. of Drag. Guards-Lieut. A. J. H. Elliot to-be Adjt. vice Bob bins, who resigns tbe Adjutancy only. 7th Drag. Guards--Cornet . J.J. Nunn to be Lieut. by...

On the 28th November, at St. James's Palace, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, of a son. On the 28111, in Chesham Place, Lady Caroline King, of a son. On the 28th, at Shalden Rectory,. the...

Tuesday, December 2. Parnmeesurre DrasoLven.—Adamson and Watkins, Tottenham, buiklers—Aubert and Co. Trinity Square, Tower Hill, ship-brokers—Partridge and Co. Colonial...

EIIITION 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account .......... 3 per Cents Reduced 3i per Cents N128. &Our d. (Cloaks, Maslow. Prices.) Thousiaps. Wawa. mare Teidtqt. 95 1 9 97...