the turmoil that Ireland presents just now—the tangled troubles, the disheartening weaknesses, the utter demoralization throughout—and to see even a dawn of hope beyond. Perhaps...

Two Cabinet Councils have been held this week ; and Lord John Russell has received a deputation from Castle Street, Oxford Street, on the subject of "opening the ports." At the...

and London journals, waxes fiercer, and it professes to reflect the diplomatic relations of the two Governments ; the Times treating the Journal des Debuts as if it were M....

Tot Court movements of the week are destitute of public interest. The Queen and Prince Albert are, as usual, indefatigable pedestrians. The Prince has hunted or shot almost...

In accordance with annual custom, the Lord Mayor Elect, accompanied by the. Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and several Aldermen, and attended by . the Sheriff, Remembrancer, and...

made a step or two of progress, not without a vast quantity of pigmy efforts. The little kingdom is traversed in divers quarters by little armies ; and each party alternately...

A meeting of "independent electors" of West Gloucestershire was held at Bristol on Tuesday, mutually to explain and consult on the state of the representation, in reference to...

The Fermoy deputation had their interview with the Lord-Lieutenant on Friday last week. Several memorials having been read, embodying the resolutions agreed to by the meeting,...

'The Duke-of Sutherland has issued two addresses to his smaller tenants acid workpeople. The first is in answer to a petition from some of the in- 'habitants of Clyne, stating...

FRANCE.—The Duke and Dutchesa of Montpensier arrived at Pau on the afternoon of the 29th October. They were received with acclamation. Having graciously responded to an...

A Cabinet Council, which sat three hours and a half; was held on Satur- day last, at the Foreign Office. All the Ministers in town attended. Another Council was held on Monday...

Dublin post of Thursday have rather a favourable tone. The number of persons employed by means of public funds, up to the close of last week, is de- clared to be 110,251. The...

at Vienna, is announced, and will, it is feared, involve other houses in ruin. The failure of the important banking-house of J. B. Ghirardello, at Vienna, is announced, and...

new Board of Com- missioners of Railways is now complete: the members of the Board are the Right Honourable Edward Strutt, the Right Honourable Granville George Earl Granville,...

noon at the Palace of St. Cloud; where they were received by the King and Queen, and the ether members of the Royal Family. The Royal couple travelled from Blois by railway; and...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. A well-informed German correspondent, whose letter is dated from Mainz on the 2d instant, mentions a remarkable sign of political movement .in...

deserving labourer in literature, with the hope that a knowledge of the. circumstances may draw some beneficial aid to his family. On the 16th October, died Mr. John Rowbotham,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTEINOON. No change of importance occurred in the English Funds till Wednesday; when extensive sales both for Money and Account depressed prices; and...

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Lloyd's, Monday. MDDEAR Sm—Teuching the " impunity" with which the - American liners cross and recross the Atlantic, can the writer of the...

The last Shaksperian experiment has been the revival, at Sadler's Wells, of. Measure for Measure; a play which seems at certain long intervals to tempt managers to produce it,...

The Oratorio performances in Exeter Hall began for the season on Wed- nesday. A selection of sacred music was followed by The Last Judgment of Spohr. All the miscellaneous...

followed almost im- 'mediately by a burlesque on the same production at the Adelphi. As a spectacle it is one of the most brilliant ever produced at that theatre; some new...

pro- mise of a season of great activity. The beginning will be " legitimate," Perlet being the hero of Molie•"e. Then Frederic Lemaitre is to conduct , us into the region of the...

WHEN Parliament meets again it will take up the Condition-of- Ireland question at a more advanced stage. It will not be a ques- tion whether Government should interfere; for...

ANGERS BREWING BETWEEN FRANCE' AND ENGLAND. ITit3 not to be concealed that an estrangement between the Govern- ments of France and England has taken place. The confiding....

a government, in establishing a system of intellectual culture for the people, is to provide a proper class of educators. If it form a comprehensive idea of all that this...

THE general impression appears to be, that the Wellington statue is not so atrocious after all. The burst of ridicule which harbin- gered its issue into the world has been...

THERE is nothing to equal the satisfaction of General Pasley—it is forthcoming on demand with marvellous inexhaustibleness. The North British Railway furnishes a striking test...

TO. THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. LincolnIs Inn, 2d _Nrovember 1846. Sur—That the insolvent or at least embarrassed condition of the bulk of the proprietors of land in Ireland...

[We have received, and continue to receive, a number of communications on Poor-law Reform. We are glad to see the spirit of discussion so active; but out limited space, seldom...

CIIMINAL Jmnsparnascs, The Great Oyer of Poisoning: the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poiaouing or.: Sir Thomas Overbury, in the Tower of London, and. various matters...

In point of variety and attractiveness of subjects, these two volumes scarcely equal the Report of 1843. The merit is, indeed, the same; but there is not so much of direct...

SOME effort after character and novelty has been made in The Book of Beauty, by attempting to render the plates a representation of Byron 's female characters accompanied by...

JrrnorNG from internal evidence, we should not have ascribed this volume .toa, clergyman, much less to a rector. There is nothing about it to sug- gest the classic, the...

The Great Oyer of Poisoning: the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poiseninwof Sir Thomas' Overbury, in the Tower of London and - various matters connected therewith, from...

RECENT ENGRAVINGS AFTER WILKIE. Two remarkable additions have recently been made to the series of large prints after Wilkie; both fine engravings of his latest pictures,—The...

THE SPECTATOR. Kensington, 3d November 1846. Sin-In your brief allusion to the mismanagement of the National Gallery, last week, you do not particularly mention the cleansing...

Tuesday, Nov.3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Wragg and Co. Liverpoot, cutlers-Blackburn and Puzey, Dorking, linendrapere-:- Spendlove and Butterworth, John Street North, NewBoad,...

WAR-OFFICE, NOV. 6.-7th Drag. Guards-N. C. Nagle, Gent - to be Cornet, by par- chase, vice Johnston, who retires. 2d Drags-Brevet Col. Henry Salwey, from half- pay Unattached,...

On the 26th July, at Secunderabad, East Indies, the Wife of Captain Thomas Ditmas, Madras Artillery, of a son. On the 9th October, at the Seigneurial House, St. Hilaire, Canada...

denims-At Gravesend, 3d Nov. Lahore, Carpltn, from Ceylon ; 4th, Zemindar, Pardon, from Calcutta ; and ()wailer, Edwards, !tom Bombay ; and 7th, Australia, Blanchard, from...

BRITISH FUNDS. Ilatuni. (Closing Meadow Prices) Nadas Wanes. 5 per CentConsols Ditto for Account . 94 4 9 3 per Cents Reduced 93 tat 93 54 1154 93 35 per Cents 95...