the destruction of the Caroline steamer, in which Mr. M'Laon is so painfully involved, has assumed a very dark and alarmins. aspect. A New York packet-ship has just brought...

THE last Irish measure introduced by the Government turns out like all the rest of the Irish counterfeits. The kind of ruse has so lost its effect by repetition, that an attempt...

[With the following analysis of the condition of public affairs in the United States we have been recently favoured by an Englishman in that country at the time, on an important...

POSTPONEMENT OF THE IRISH REGISTRATION BILLS. On Monday, Lord JOHN RUSSELL explained the course be meant to take with respect to Lord Morpeth's bill. His first consideration...

NOTHING has occurred this week to vary the usual routine of Court life. The Queen and Prince Albert attended service in the Chapel Royal on Sunday. When the weather has been...

Sir Peter Laurie is announced as a candidate at the next election of Members of Parliament for the city of London. On Saturday, a Court of the Masters and Elders of the Trinity...

The Tories are making active preparations for any possible election, in several places. At Manchester, a requisition is getting up to Sir George Murray and a Mr. Richard...

The death of Earl Rosse occasions a vacancy in the Irish Represen- tative Peers. The Earl of Caledon is named as his successor. The Ulster Reform Association held a general...

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers except the Lord Chancellor. The Cabinet Ministers dined on...

A public meeting was held at Glasgow on Tuesday evening, to agree to petitions to Parliament in favour of Lord Morpeth's and against Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bills....

SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Lords, last night, the Duke of ARGYLL gave notice- that in case the subject of the Scotch Church was not taken up by some other member of the...

enforce the liberation of Mr. M‘Leod, still in confinement in the United States. Ten sail of the line are said to have been ordered to assemble at Gibraltar, and thence to...

to write a letter to his constituents to explain the cause of his voting against Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill. He alleges as one ex- cuse, the inconsistency of...

The Reform Club-house, in Pall Mall, was opened partially this week ; and great has been the infl ux of visiters as well as of members, curious to see if the interior realized...

Arrived—At Gravesend, March lit, Achilles, Trevit, from Ceylon ; 24 Iced.. Ise - monger, from the Cape; 3d, Copeland, Sims; Abel Gower, Henderson ; Crust, Whar- ton; and...

letters to the 24th ultimo, have been received, but they contain no political news.

Bank of England, from the 8th December 1840 to the 2d March 1841— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £16,372,000 Securities £22,725,000 Deposits 7,567,000 Bullion 4,076,000...

STOGIE EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTIRNOCAL The close during the present week of the books of the various Stocks upon which dividends become due in April, caused a pressure for money,...

LORD MORPETH'S IRISH REGISTRATION BILL. OUR anticipation regarding the fate of this bill has proved true to the letter. Ministers are devising excuses for not pushing it...

ABOUT a month ago we suggested that great benefit might be de- rived from the adoption of more accurate forms of business by the House of Commons. The commencement of the...

ONE of the Covent Garden novelties alluded to last week was produced on Thursday, under the farcical title of London Assurance ; w ith a de- gree of success well merited by the...

A CORRESPONDENCE between Mr. PATRICK CHALMERS and his Forfar constituents, which has appeared in some Scotch newspapers, suggests matter for remark, to which it seems desirable...

THE commencement of our yearly attendance on these Concerts now excites any feeling but that of pleasure ; for we have no longer to witness the well-directed efforts of a...

by the tone in which Lord ABERDEEN spoke on Tuesday evening of the parties at whose suggestion he last year undertook to legislate for the Kirk of Scotland, he will now admit...

THE Parliament could only give Prince ALBERT precedence of the Royal Dukes : the Trinity House has done more—it has made him, although his father's youngest son, an Elder...

Ma. JOHN HuzzAri has opened another singing-class for schoolmasters, at Exeter Hall ; and, preliminary to its commencement, he repeated on Tuesday his exposition of the system...

TRAY ru, A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Souree pf the River Oxus, by the route of the ludas. Kabul. and Badaklothan ; performed under the sanction of the Supreme...

CHILDREN. LIKE most of the documents that emanate from the Poor-law Com- missioners, this volume contains a good many notions, put forth in a prolix style : the subject of the...

THESE volumes are an olla podrida of matters relating to the dramatic family of COLMAN, or the Theatres Royal, with occasional gossip and anecdotes about other people. The...

BOOKS. The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century. By the late HENRY SWINBURNE, Esq., Author of "Travels in Spain, Italy," Sec. Edited by CHARLES WHITE, Esq., Author...

BIRTHS. On the 25th ult., at Albyn Place, Edinburgh, the Lady GannoN of Drimnin, of a daughter. Ou the 2d December, at Igquibigha, Caffraria, the Wife of the Rev. ROBERT NEVER,...

Orrtcx or ORDNANCE, Feb. 26.—Ronal Regt. Artillery—John M'Coy to be Second Capt. vice J. A. Wilson, seconded as holding a civil employment; Second Lieut. J. J. Branding, to be...

BRITISH FU Saturday NDS. Monday. (Closing Tuesday. Prices.) Wedaes.i Thurs. Friday. 8 Ceut. Cousols per 881 S81 831 89 881 881 Ditto for Account 89 891 894 891 89 881 3 Der...

Tuesday, March 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Byron and Medley, St. Helen's, Lancashire, grocers-Wilcock and Sparrow, Black. buru, cotton-spiouers-Michaelis and Samsou,...