THE proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament issued, as was anticipated, on Monday ; it was accompanied by the usual procla-. mation for the election of the Sixteen...

this we are indebted to the laudable activity of the Morning Newspapers. The Times has two correspondents in Belgium; one at Brussels, and one at Antwerp. The Herald has one;...

"Citadel of Antwerp, November 30. " M. In Marshal—Tn reply to your summons, which I have just received, I have to Morin pin, M. he Marshal, that h shall not yield the citadel...

and the impression gains strength that no change will take place, but that the old men will quietly remain in their places.

the French Chamber of Deputies, was carried on Monday, by a triumphant majority. The number for Ministers was 233, while against them there were only 114. A great many...

THE King came to town on Monday. On his arrival, his Majesty proceeded to hold a Court, which was attended by the greater number of the Cabinet Ministers ; and afterwards a...

The Court of Common Council agreed on Thursday to a vote of IOU towards defraying the expenses of the Arctic expedition in search of Captain Ross. The vote, most honourably to...

was passed upon Joseph Allen, Charles Taylor William Kingsley, George Wilden, John Carter, and John M'Cardy, for entering dwelling-houses, and committing larcenies therein ; and...

the parties, was tried at the Common Pleas on Monday. It occupied twelve hours. The defendant was a Mr. Hamilton, and the plaintiff a Mr. Rigby, both of Yately parish, Hants....

the wellknown champaigne-vendor, Charles Wright, a Jury was on Monday empannelled to try the case. It would appear that Charles's resolution against speaking has forsaken him;...

Thomas, James, and William Berryman, were charged with a desperate burglary at the dwelling-house of Mr. Hancox, a farmer, in the parish of Bisley, Gloucestershire, and shooting...

eel schuyts and fishing smacks to pay all monies received by them into the Bank of England, on account of the Dutch Consul, who gives them a check for the amount, to be paid to...

A great county meeting took place at Hertford on Saturday, on the subject of the expedition against the citadel of Antwerp. The requisition was signed by two hundred and fifty...

Leeds at the public meeting, was sent by Thomas Benyon junior, Esq., the Chairman, to Lord Melbourne, the Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, on Monday night...

Mr. Owen has been at Birmingham, and has explained his system to a meeting of 10,000 people. ••. We are happy to say, that by the end of this week the dispute between the silk...

It is now confidently stated, that the Duke of Richmond and Sir John Cam Hobhouse have been appointed to replace Lord Anglesey and Mr. Stanley. , A rumour to that effect...

We have noticed the presentation of a piece of plate to the Lord Chancellor; our attention has just been called to an account, in the Glasgow Free Press, of a similar compliment...

Friday last week, a series of resolutions were unanimously passed, approving of the conduct of Ministers in respect to the attempt to procure a settlement of the Dutch question....

ASIITON-UNDER-LYNE.—A Conservative candidate has made his appearance, in the person of Mr. Thomas Helps, barrister-at-law, son of Mr. Thomas Helps, of London, who carried on...

The Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation directing the immediate release of all Dutch vessels having on board perishable cargoes. The French ships Syren, the Rear...

FRIDAY Dem tso. The Sir Howard Douglas arrived at St. Helena from Bombay reports that the 11. C. S. Marquis Camden was about to be surveyed, and would probably be condemuel...

New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries. England and Wales... 49 15 60 Scotland 73 34 30 Ireland 97 46 32 219 95 ...... 122

BIRTHS. On the 28th ult., at the Chateau de Males, near Atli, in the Netherlands, the Coun tess ALEXANDRE VAN DER Bunco, of a son. . At Birling, in Kent, the Hon. Mrs. Nryna,...

WAR-OFFICE, Dee. 4.—Royal Regiment of Horse Guards : Brevet Major E. W Bouverie to be Major and 'Lieut.-Col., by purchase, vice Haunter, who retires—Lieut J. Lord Elphinstoue to...

SATURDAY. The intelligence from .Antwerp this morning is meagre, and consists of little else than a recapitulation of what had been formerly stated. The firing on both sides...

At least one day must, according to the Act, intervene hP2tween the day of nomination and the first day of polling. The runnber of polling days is two. On the first, the books...

SATURDAY, Two o'CfocE. The crowd at Covent Garden is by no means so great as might have been expected, though it is very considerable. Agreeably to our anticipations, though...

be doubted whether men of more abstract science, or authors by profession, are calculated to snake useful members of Parliament ; while by deserting the posts for which they are...

put a question to the Mayor on the subject of the pollingbooths for Marylebone. The candidate Knight wished to learn if the Knight installed were prepared to furnish the...

THE FIRST WEEK OF THE ELECTIONS. THE METROPOLIS. Tisa contest for which we have been so long preparing has at last casstmenced in good earnest. Parliament is dissolved ;...

A GREAT deal, if not the whole of the dispute about pledges, in the present state of the question, hinges upon a verbal quibble. What the constituents—the honest ones, we...

A BRIEF explanation of this term may be acceptable to our Country readers. The Rump of Westminster describes a small body of Westminster electors, nearly all tradesmen, who, by...

THE Times, intending, no doubt, to support his Majesty's patriotic Ministers, is labouring hard to divide the Reformers into two parties,—those who would treat the Reform Act as...

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ATTENDANCE. • ON the subject of our Supplement on the Working of the House of Commons, we have received the following letter from Mr. RIGBY WASON, the late honourable Member...

THE argument of" dear and ancient alliance," now applied to the Dutch, is no new one. The Duke of WELLINGTON, it may be recollected, had the credit of its application to the...

Bellegarde, the Adopted Indian Boy ; a Canadian Tale. 3 vols.. Saunders ae 1011 ey. Fleetwood, or the New Man of Feeling. By William Godwin. Revised, corre:ted. . and...

IS a novel which presents but inferior claims merely as a fiction,— tile ,story inartificial, the characters feebly developed, though in some instances well conceived : but as a...

IT is needless to say any thing at this time of day of the peculiar merits of GODWIN'S Fleetwood. In interest, in truth, and nature, it is perhaps not equal to Caleb Williams ;...

THESE tales by Mr. SHERIDAN KNOWLES have nearly all, if not all, appeared before in Magazines and the Annuals. Nothing of the kind is stated either in the titlepage or in a...

WE were among the first to recognize the genius of the AntiBread-Tax poet, as Mr. ELLIOTT will have no objection to be called.. The Author of the Corn-Law Rhymes is perhaps the...

THE death of Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH unhappily arrested his History of England at the 211th page of this the third volume; an event on many accounts to be lamented, and especially...

THE Life of Dr. MASON GOOD, by Dr. GREGORY, forms the Seventh Number of the Select Library; the previous parts of which we have not seen, and cannot therefore speak of its...

Ma. MURRAY has done well to incorporate the Six Months in the West Indies with his Family Library. It has long been a favourite of ours, and we think it would be difficult to...

Tars is likely to prove a very favourite book with children: the anecdotes are tolerably well selected, and the whole well calculated to satisfy the curiosity of that age so...

THE press has not in our memory produced a more interesting or a better compiled work than this Pompeii, now completed by the publication of the second volume. By the aid of...

TURNER'S ANNUAL TOUR. Jr is as we wished it to be. TURNER'S is the last of the Annuals. We could not have enjoyed the sight of the others after it; and it is as well for them...

Tire chronological arrangement of the Works of Lord Byron gives to this monthly republication of them an air of novelty, and an interest derived from the associations which they...

The St. John, after ANNIBALE Cananea in the National Gallery, and the Dutch Lady with Fruit, by Boa, are positively bad, and unworthy of the work. The Landscape called the...

are by no means pictorial. Fraser has a characteristic full-length sketch of William Roscoe ; the British, an excellent lithograph of the old Church of St. Martin, at Canterbury...

MR. BURTORD has painted a blautiful panoramic view of Stirling and the surrounding country, taken from the Castle. The picturesque buildings of the Castle form a prominent...

of Niagara. This mode of representation is the only one which can give an adequate idea of the vastness and grandeur of these Falls, on account of their immense extent and...

Rondo Brillante, 5. la Russe ; with an Introduction for the Pianoforte, and Fantasia Irlandese for the Pianoforte. By J. B. CRA.MER. How refreshing it is, after being obliged...

Tor Anniversary Meeting of this Society for the election of Council and Officers for the ensuing year, was held on Friday the 30th of November, being St. Andrew's Day. His Royal...

OXFoRD. The following degrees were conferred on Thursday. Masters of Arts—R ev. D. S. George, Scholar of Jesus; Rey. E. A. Waller. Brasennose ; Rev. G. D. Grundy, Brasennose ;...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. I . /lesson: and haulms, Old Haggerstone, bone-boilers—W. and G. JAcEses, Lancaster, maltsters—M'CAnE and PEARSON, block and pump-makers—Tarx0RAri and...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. FLEECY and OAKLEY, Southwark, attornies—Monatis and FISHER. Derby, surgeons— WILSON and JoLLy, Mauniugham, joiners—Beams - rex and Co., Leeds, cloth...