TEE leading political fact of the week is a future event, for it anticipates the election of Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE is again to fill the chair : the...

the first report, that it brought no news from China, proves not to be lite- rally true—the news is two days later than that brought two months before. This scanty addition...

sun; and a glance at the leaden sky betrays all the mockery of the "if." The glance may well unnerve the boldest heart. The Whigs leave office with the cry of "cheap bread" in...

THE Queen and Prince Albert have been leading a quiet life at Windsor after their brief round of visits. The Royal pair returned to the Castle, from Panshanger, at three o'c:ock...

A dinner was given at Portsmouth, on Thursday, to Admiral Stop- ford. The Mayor was the chairman. The assembly was very numerous, and comprised a great number of persons...

A meeting of Corn-law Repealers was held on Monday evening, at the Jacob's Well in Shoreditch, to form an auxiliary Anti-Corn-law Association, in connexion with the Metropolitan...

The proceedings of the Repeal Association on Monday were diver- sified by the introduction of Mr. O'Connell's bill for the better security of tenures in Ireland. He began,...

We have reason to know That Sir Robert Peel has conimunicated to Mr. C. Shaw Lefevre his intention to support the reelection of that gentleman, in the event of his being...

BIRTHS. On the 15th ult., at La Prairie, near Geneva, Switzerland, La Cumtesse Ds Sr. GEORGE, nee Heigham. of a son. On the 5th inst., at Upper Gore House, Kensington, the Lady...

Thursday, says—" Mr. Howley, Q.C., has been directed by the Lord- Lieutenant to bold an inquiry at Dungannon, on Monday the 9th in- stant, into the conduct of Major Snow,...

collision be- tween the British and the Guards Costa Company. An English vessel, the Ricardo, has been seized by the felucca Robinson in the open sea, on its way to Malta, and...

to the 1st May, and private letters have been received to the 4th. They resent a very satisfactory picture of the progress of the colony. The inhabitants had.received their new...

" During the present week the passage of distinguished company towards the North has been considerable, and the increase is daily observable as the 12th approaches. The meeting...

SATURDAY NIGHT. A break in the gloomy weather somewhat relieves the worst appre- hensions respecting the harvest. There was a slight improvement yes- terday, and today it is...

post- ing of letters- " On and after next Tuesday, letters may be posted half an hour later than at present, namely, till a quarter past six, at the branch-offices at Charing...

East India Directors on the 28th July, of Sir William Hay Macnag - hten, to be Governor of the Presidency of Bombay.

SToCR EICHAN01. FRTDAY AFTERNOON. The fluctuations since our last report have not exceeded * per cent. Consols lor Money have been done at 893 and 891, while for Account the...

upon the premises of Mr. James Smith, corn-merchant and granary-keeper, Upper Thames Street ; which has proved destructive to a large amount of pro- perty, and threatened still...

affairs of Toulouse; where as determined a resistance as ever, though more temperate, is offered to the Government scheme of taxation. One of hi. Dural's new Municipality has...

THE POSITION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. "The bark was still there, bat the waters were gone." — Moonz. Wu have received a well-toned and temperate letter from an in- telligent but...

A PROLIFIC source of error in reasoning upon Free Trade, as upon other questions, is the use of terms in a loose and shifting sense. o' The trade and commerce of the United...

THE Times, in a series of able and temperately-expressed papers, has been giving an exposition of its notions of a true Conservative policy. One of those papers presented an...

has dwindled down to a mere pretext for begging. Man has been defined "a reasoning animal," and "a cooking animal" : we suspect "a begging animal" would embrace the cha-...

4th August 1941. Sin—A correspondent in your last paper complains that the minority Should Pettnin unrepresented—giving as a strong instance of hardship the case of the 12,000...

TRAVELS, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas. and Yucatan. By John I.. Ste- phens. Author of " Incidents of Travel in Egypt. Arabia Petrtea, and the Holy Laud," &c....

THE germ of this volume was a thesis, which Mr. M‘Cosif wrote for the University of Edinburgh when he became ambitious of adding M.D. to his name. Determining on publication, he...

WHEN the first part of this new translation appeared, we embraced the opportunity to express our opinion that so attractive and popular a work as the Arabian Nights deserved a...

Is a random, slipshod fiction, that one minute tempts the reader onward by a promise of interest, and the next provokes him to fling aside the book in disgust. The author wants...

HARDING'S PARK AND FOREST TREES. UNDER the title of The Park and the Forest, Mr. HARDING has pro- duced a volume of vigorous and masterly sketches of trees in conjunc- tion...

Tins is a clever work of its kind, but it will not teach the art of singing. It is adapted to the average state of vocal training in this country ; which seeks a memoriter...

The First Set of Madrigals; composed by JOHN Printed for the members WILBYE. of the Musical Anti- Dido and "Eneas, an Opera; composed by HENRY guarian Society. PURCELL....

THIS work, the First Part of which has just appeared, is interesting as a complete and scientific account of a singular class of animals only recently known to Europeans, and...

THE art of painting is just now in a transition state in this country : the loose, sketchy, generalizing indication of " the good old English school," to which REYNOLDS,...

The Memnon. Rams. from Bombay to Liverpool, in putting back, struck on the rocks off the Lighthouse the llth June, and was expected to go to pieces. The Fergussou. Vertue. with...

WAR OFFICE. Aug. 3.-5t1e Regt. Drags.-A ss ist-Surg. G. Dolmage, from the 59th Foot. to be Assist.' Surg. vice Buyes, promoted on the Staff. 9th Light Drags.-Assist.- Slag. A....

PARTNERSHIpt , nivisobygts. T. and J. Smith. Clithero, blacksmiths-Watson and Co. Nottingham. cotton-waste- dealers - Riley Brothers, Sheffield, table.kune menufactarers -...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week euding Friday Evening.) Alabama (Sterling) 5 p. Ct. - Ditto (Deferred) 5p. Ct. Arkansas (1863) 6 - - Ditto 6 - Austr i...