from the visit which our young Queen has just paid to it, its wavering but continued mercantile hostility to us, and its own theological com- motion. Our excellent Sovereign...

WHEN a steamer leaves the smoother waters and goes among head-winds and cross-currents, although its speed be not in- creased it seems to be making the hubbub which the elements...

at Inverness which has just closed, has had some practical conclusions whic h may not be without advantage in the present state oi Scotland. The Assembly adopted a plan for...

much at heart, has been emulating the English patriotism of Viscount Palmerston, in exposing her defenceless condition. He has obtained a Royal Commission, has procured himself...

; for every newspaper-reader knows that Punjaub means intrigue and civil war; Scinde, predatory aggression, gallant retaliation, costly occupation, and military controversy. In...

been substituted for Riza Pacha, but there has been a complete re- modelling of the Ministry, and further changes are expected ; all tending to a change from the policy of...

QUEEN VICTORIA:10A Irer Consort left Coburg on Wednesday week, and passed to Gotha, the other domain of Prince Albert's family. We have, however, to go back to the last two days...

The writ for the election of a Member to serve in Parliament for the borough of Southwark, in the place of the late Mr. Benjamin Wood, was received by the High Bailiff on...

The Honourable Charles Hope was inaugurated as Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, with the usual ceremonies, on Wednesday. Lady Isa- bella Hope and other ladies were...

The Dublin correspondent of the Times thus makes an important announcement— "In pursuance of the promise of Sir James Graham, given towards the close of the last session of...

At the evening sitting of the Free Church's General Assembly, on Monday week, the subject of " site-refusing " was taken up. The Reverend Dr. Buchanan, a member of the Committee...

'flA&cE.—The Moniteur of Monday published a Royal ordinance relieving Count Duchatel, Minister of the Interior, from the temporary direction of the Foreign Department, which...

We hear that the Queen Dowager intends setting out early next months on a tour through the Perthshire Highlands; and that her Majesty is expected at Taymouth Castle by the 9th...

The French drama is again in the ascendant on the English stage; the latest productions at the three principal theatres in town being all of Parisian origin. This time, however,...

Bow street Police-office, today, with creating a disturbance at Clarence House St. James's Palace. He had endeavoured once or twice before to obtain admission; but last night he...

been deputed by Govern- ment to inquire into the causes of the explosion at Jarrow Colliery. . During some interesting and successful experiments on the Croydon Atmo- spheric...

night; and Mr. Miall took occasion to refer to Sir William Moles- worth's last speech. He said, the contest was assuming more the aspect of theological controversy than he could...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Gotha was devoted on Tuesday to music; the Royal folks joining in the devotion to the art. The Thuringian Musical Society held its third 'yearly festival, not...

Bugeaud, an- nouncing two expeditions against the Sheha tribe; a party of whom, being driven into a grotto, capitulated; while others were killed by the explosion of a mine....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have been heavy for the last few days, in the almost total absence of any business; and the appearance is still gloomy, the...

PROGRESS IN SOUTHWARK—BACKWARDS. SOME peculiarities in the contest for Southwark relieve it from the tiresomeness of so protracted a struggle. In Mr. Pilcher, the utmost...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Ifamore Cottage, Roseneath, 31st August 1845. Sin—In the Spectator of 23d August is an editorial in which you comment on a resolution offered...

United States Constitution," in our last number, it was stated that one-third of the Se- nators vacate their seats triennially; whereas it should have been biennially.

accidents, which are now of more than daily occurrence, illustrates the absolute necessity of subject- ing railway-servants to some strict discipline of the nature of a drill....

LIKE that Yankee who challenged his foe to walk off the Exchange at New York arm-in-arm, the Free Church of Scotland has rushed into a suicidally false position, and has...

8 and 9 Victoria, c. 127, "for the better Securing the Payment of Small Debts," is a more important statute than the mere title indicates Power is given by this act to the...

THE Reverend Henry C. Wright's reclamation against our com- ments on his call upon the people of Britain to combine for the dissolution of the American Union, (printed in a...

Fr is amusing when the over-righteous are surprised into the very offence which they rebuke. Nothing pleases an audience at the play better than the prude detected in a levity,...

NEVER a day passes but something in the papers shows the great humanity of the English heart. If a cheap schoolmaster beat a boy, sent to him because incorrigible at home, or if...

Gotha the Queen has been living en bour,eoise-- keeping good hours, eschewing state parade, and dining in a pa- vilion at a fair, as good citizens were wont to dine in booths at...

TRAVELS, Journals of Expeditions of Discovc7, into Central Australia, and Over-land from Ade- laide to Xing Georges Sound, in the years 1840-1, sent by the Colonists of South...

Dn. Sinit's bulky volume cannot be called a rare example of book- making, for bookmaking implies some craftsmanlike skill, and some attention to the arrangement of the matter,...

THESE four lectures were delivered at the University of Cambridge with the sanction of the authorities and of the Professor of Political Economy ; the bait held out by Mr....

for the Pianoforte or a Quartet of &relayed Instruments. The English Versum by. Thomas Oliphant, Esq. Composed by Louis Van Beethoven. This composition will be found...

ART-UNION PRIZES. THE Art-Union is a national gustometer: its annual show of prize-picture& is an index of the state of popular taste. The present display indicates - a little...

ORGAN TOR THE NEW CATHEDRAL AT CALCUTTA. THE powers of this instrument, built by Messrs. Gray and Davison, were exhibited at Guildhall on Wednesday morning, by Mr. Adams. Much...

.1 1, rorn August 291h to September Vb. Boox.s. Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian, Descriptive and PictoriaL By Wil„ Ram Richard Holmes. Repeal Prize Essays. Essays on...

On the 26th August, at the Grange, Hinxton, Mrs. Charles Nash, eta daughter. On the 28th, the wife of the Reverend William J. Butler, Perpetual Curate of Ware side, Hens, of a...

paper, that is too long for insertion, containing some severe but just strictures on the in- jurious influence of the Art-Union, and the secrecy with which its affairs are...

WAR-omcz, Sept. 2.—let Drag. Guards—Lieut. C. Arkwright, from the 7th Drag. Guards, to be Lieut. vice Riddell, who exchanges. 7th Drag. Guards—Lieut. T. M. Riddell, from...

ARRIVED.—In the Channel, 2d Sept. Autumnus, White, from New South Wales ; Swithamley, Jennings, from China; Neptune, Hewley, from Batavia ; and Lady Nugent, Santy, from...

Tuesday, Sept. 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Taylor and Co. Colchester, cabinet-makers ; as far as regards J. Taylor—Stevens and Co. Queen Street, Cheapside, attornles ; as far...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Irednes., Thurs. Frisloy. FORE 1 (Last Official Quotation during Alabama (Sterling) 1p. Ct• — Austrian I —...