WHILE the Peers, as usual at "this early period of the session," have been "kicking their heels" for want of work, the Commons have been diligent in forwarding the temporary...

slipped into their seats for Middlesex and Chester, no party opposing. This is not merely because their tenure of the posts is to be short, but also because there is a perfect...

speech that M. Guizot did not speak. He was to have uttered a very warlike harangue on Wednesday, apropos to a paragraph in the address of the Deputies on the 11Iontpensier...

us often inclined to be forced into an act, rather than to do it on purpose of our own spontaneous will. Our Indian Government scruples to assume the sovereignty of the Punjaub,...

THE Ms - omits FOR IRELAND. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord Joins Roseau, moved the order of the day for the second reading of the Labouring Poor (Ire- land) Bill....

The election of a 'Member for the County of Ididdlesex,in'tbe velem - of 'the late 'Mr. Ilyng„ took 'place at Bretitford on 'Weliiieliday.The telly -candidate was Lord...

eourt. ThE tQt.te6n held aiCiitieratiti Ptery Coun - ell on Thursday, titWindser; tit Whitih Prince Albert was present. Her Majesty prieked the 'rell oT Sheri& 'for the English...

The election of a new Member for Chester, in the room of Lord Reheat Grosvenor, took place in that city on Saturday. There being no oppa- tition, Earl Grosvenor was quietly...

Tuesday's Gazette announced the constitution of the new CommisEiou for considering the state of the several Bishoprics in England and Wales. The Commissioners are-- 'The Right...

FnearcE.—The general discussion on the address to the King, in the Chamber of Deputies, began and closed on Monday; and the first para- graph was adopted without discussion. On...

The Reproductive Employment Committee met on Friday, to consider the Ministerial measures. They came to resolutions which may be briefly summed up as follows. The general...

The food-riots have been spreading in the North of Scotland, to so great an extent that several parties of military have been despatched from Edin- burgh. In some parts the...

the , Chamber of Deputies, on the previous days The seoond , paragraph of the- address, on unimpaired amity with foreign powers, had been postponed; it' was now resumed, and M....

SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Lords last night, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE produced a series of minutes by the Educational Committee of Privy Council, setting forth the plan...

for- the im- mediate erection of a General Record Office, and,pointedi out as tbe most ; eligible site for such a building the Rolle estate in Chancery Lane. We now hear that...

Russell's health. She) has been ill throughout the week, on Wednesday dangerously, so; on Thurs- day there - was an improvement; yesterday, again, anotben change for the worse....

Poor-law and other subject', must. stand over for want of room.

Watkins to. be Lord-Lieutenant and Caritas gotulerunt the county of Brecon. Mr. Edward. Carleton Tufnel and Mr. Joshua Fasten Buddock to be Inspector. of Schools. Dr. William...

TO THE EDITOR OF TICE SPECTATOR. 27th January 1847. Sul—In the whole province of legislation, there is no department which exercises a more important influence on the wellbeing...

noticed a dreary version produced at the Princess's, has given rise to another version acted at the Lyceum. This, which is adapted to the history of Dick Turpin, and written...

THE new comedy by Mr. Bourcicault, produced on Thursday, at the Hay- market, and supported by nearly the whole of the company, must be con- sidered as a comparative failure,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The most remarkable feature in the transactions of the week has been the sale, on Monday, by the Bank, of Reduced Three per Cents and Long...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 2d Feb. Chieftain, Scott, from Mauritius; and 3d, Victoria, Wakeham, from Calcutta. Off Torbay, lot, Essex, Howard, from Calcutta. At Fal- mouth, 181,...

PEACE FOR IRELAND. Mn. ROEBt'CK soinetimes startles the House of Commons with declarations which are soon found to be very admissible. In the first night of the debate on...

Tim plaint of "absenteeism" still rings in Ireland so loudly as to show that, even in this day, absenteeism is thought a master evil and the absentee a criminal. It has been...

THE whole of the correspondence on the Montpensier marriage is now before us,—at least we hope that there is no more to come ; and it is time finally to revise our judgment on....

WE feel satisfaction in publishing the letter of "Y. Z.," a New Poor-law Conservative, not only because we desire to see discus- sion freely promoted, but also because that...

STATISTICS, A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire : exhibiting its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious...

LAST week, we had in Trevor the individual Tractarian producing con- fusion in a parish and mischief in a family; the week before, we had in Stapleton an account of the manner...

fancy, like poetry, or a joke, admits not of mediocrity. If we are not ravished we feel the flatness of disappointment ; the mind has been wrought up to expect perfection ; and...

Boosts. Awn °afford to Rome: and how it Fared - with Some who lately madethe Journey. By a Companion Traveller. The Poetical Language of Flowers; or the Pilgrimage of Love. By...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Feb. 1.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Second Capt. J. F. eater to be Adjt. vice Nedham, promoted. Corps of Royal Englneers-Capt. and Brevet Lietit.-Col. R. C....

Tuesday, Feb. 2. PARTNERsHiPe DISSOLVED. J. and J. Cobb, Chetwynd-end, Shropshire, builders-Geiger and Co. Half Melt Passage, Whitechapel, cigar-manufacturers ; as Mr as...

On the 20th January, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, the Wife of Major C. H. Delamaln, C.B„ of a-eon. On the 23d, at Leamington, Lady Fanny Howard, of a son. On the 27th, a; Barrow House,...

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