THE work of reaction in the larger half of Europe is complete. Or rather, the ebb of the spring-tide of Liberalism of 1848 leaves ex- posed to - view a greater extent of shoals...

from the communion of the Church of Rome. The adherents of the faith he has abandoned, and those of the faith he has adopted, will of course estimate differently the value of...

try of the Absolute Governments of the Continent and the pick- tooth insouciance of the English Ministers. The European policy which the Russell Cabinet has denonneed.with...

been only a second invasion by Lopez ; which, so far as our present information exteuds, has been a more disastrous failure than the first. None of the re- sident inhabitants...

been retarded by rain, the grain-harvest is all but completed. In the ordinary routine of agricultural employment, what may in a man- ner be called the meat-harvest is now in...

The visitors to the Exhibition have continued at the lowered average of last week. On Saturday the number was 13,052; and the sum taken, in half-crowns, 1806/. 15s. This week...

last week chronicled the close, is one which seems to indioate some advance in social organization—the half-yearly meet- ing of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company. This...

The Speaker of the House of Commons has given the usual- fortnight's notice in the Gazette before issuing his writ for electing a new Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, in...

The seclusion of the Royal Family at Balmoral has been unbroken this week. The news of the death of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg Gotha was not received at Balmoral before...

Reports fly about Dublin, to be doubted one day and reasserted with confirmations on the next day, that Government intends to prosecute the Bishops who signed the resolutions at...

FRANcr..—The candidature of the Prince de Joinville has assumed a leading importance in French politics. All the week the Paris journals have been discussing the new aspect of...

Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce have been ap- pointedJudges of Appeal, the latter with a seat in the House of Lords. Sir W. Page Wood and Me. James Parker are to...

Holyrood on Thursday last, intimated by letter to Professor 'Wilson her Majesty's in- tention to bestow a pension of 300/. a year upon him, in consideration of his eminent...

SATURDAY. There is no farther information this morning on the exciting and im- portant topic of Cuba. In the absence of new facts, there is a flood of comment on the cardinal...

inaugurate the year of office of Mr. W. Webster, the speeches of the day were made by Lord Wharncliffe, and Mr. Beckett Denison, M.P. for the West Rid- ing. Mr. Parker and Mr....

the 31st Au- gust, describes the manner in which the final suppression of the Austrian Constitution has been received by the Viennese. "If a newly-appointed correspondent had to...

Neweastk, 2d September. Sra—Can you afford a little space for some remarks on the appropriation of the surplus gains of the Great Exhibition with reference to Mr. Fuller's...

the Dublin cor- respondent of the ritP188 says—" An account from Maryborough mentions that one of the chief actors in the late tragedy has been arrested by the Police. Of this...

ROYAL PROGRESS. 51, Burton Crescent, 3d September 1851. Sin—In your last paper, on "Topics of the Day," there are some animad- versions on the "rude Vestry" of St. Pancras '...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRMAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds were in demand at the beginning of the week, and on Tuesday afternoon the closing prices were about 1 per cent above those of...

THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-BED. PROSPERITY is said to have 'visited New South Wales with its crowning disaster, in the discovery of a gold-field vast in extent. There is still room,...

IF the revolutionary organization has any extent and substance in Italy, Germany, and the Austrian states, the gigantic prepara- tions made by the Governments of those realms...

real life" has seldom furnished a more curious story than that of the Baroness von Beck; a story of which the disclosure at Birmingham gives us the first part. A lady appears in...

THE murder of Mr. White, in Queen's County, revives an old and a sad topic. We recur to it, not because we have any new light to throw upon the social evils of Ireland, or their...

WHEN Lord Brougham in the House of Lords spoke of Lord Dur- ham's despatches from Canada as causing their "noble friend" Lord Glenelg so many "sleepless days," he unconsciously...

ALTHOUGH the main principles which must regulate price are tole- rably apparent, yet in respect to railway conveyance the managers are at sea for practicable rules. The usual...

Cueem's lock has been picked, and also that of Braimah. When Gibraltar was taken, Spain could not have been more dismayed— when the Bastille Louis the Sixteenth—than many a...

ICANNA'S LIFE OF CHALMERS. * THIS third -volume of the Life and Writings of Dr. Chalmers abounds in curious and entertaining matter, but scarcely equals its predecessors in...

Vsaious incidents and descriptions of sea and savage life are con- tained in this volume ; but the most interesting part is the picture of society in California when the report...

obvious topic of religious persecution, the history of the Jews in Spain contains three features of considerable interest. There is first the subject of alien or opposite races...

of a Liverpool en.- gineer " is a didactic novel on the condition and political feelings of the artisans, with the proper remedy to be applied to the alleged evils under which...

EXHIBITION OP SEETCTIES AND DRAWINOS, IN PALL MALL EMIT. This is the second year of an experiment which promises to prove a successful one. The sketches exhibited number about...

Bootie. The books of the week have run somewhat in dames. Besides the second and concluding volume of Mignet's "Mary Queen of Scots," the Life and Poetical Remains of the...

[Era as the Official Return.] of Ten Weeks 1841-50. Week 0[1831. Zymntie Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 4,35s 438 .... :::: 45...

On the 27th August, at Hendon, the Wife of Mr. F. G. P. Neison, of a son. On the 27th, at the Rectory, the Wife of the Rev. William Pridden, M.A., Rector of West...

Tuesday, September 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED. - Porteus and Co. Manchester ' trimming-merchants- Pender and Co. Manchester, merchants ; as far as regards A. Smyth-Hardman, and...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Spec Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer...

ADMIRALTY, Aug. 27.--The following promotions have this day taken place con- sequent on the death, on the 26th insta nt, of Rear-Admiral of the Blue Lord J. Hay, C.B.-C. R....

WAR - OPTICE, Sept. 2.-4th Regt. of Drag. Guards-Regimental Sergt.-Major J. Stillman to be Cornet, without purchase. 12th Light Drags.-Lieut. J. E. Swindley, from the 18th Foot,...