THE Opium expedition to China thrives apace. The news re- ceived this week blows peace and war with the same breath. At Macao, some smart cannonading had been directed against...

bodies of Paris to the King of the French on New Year's Day, afforded Louis PHILIPPE an opportunity of expressing per- sonally those pacific sentiments which had been previously...

of late, according to the vulgar criterion of improvement and well-doing. DOST MAHOMED, the active enemy of English interests, was sup- posed, when the previous accounts were...

The Sultan's recognitisn of Admiral STOP.. FORD'S treaty has not been announced ; and his strong dislike of the terms of the NAPIER convention has given occasion to ques- tion...

our increased war expense without additional taxes or loans. The noti- fication from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, which generally appears at the...

New Year's Day in various parts of the country. The ostensible object was to petition that pardon be extended to FROST and his associates. If the pertinacious adherence of the...

Tux Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Household, attended divine service on Sunday in the private chapel in the Castleasis :usual since their return to Windsor. The weather on...

The commencement of the erection of the new Royal Exchange is announced this week. On Thursday morning, the workmen began to lay the concrete for the foundations, in a large...

The Honourable Mr. Smythe, son of Lord Strangford, is now an- nounced as the Conservative candidate for Canterbury ; Mr. Gipps having withdrawn. The Kentish Gazette, a Tory...

Mr. Lucas, the Conservative Member for Monaghan, has addressed Ins constituents, intimating his intention, at the close of the present Par- liament, to retire into private life,...

An overland mail from India has brought further accounts of the ex- pedition against China. The accounts from Chosen. to the 30th September, mention reports of negotiations...

Colonel Ferguson has at length met the electors of the Kirkcaldy, and seems to have given them great satisfaction. He spoke against the Corn-laws ; and said he would at the end...

The news from India reaches to the 1st December ; on which day the Cleopatra steamer left Bombay. In Afghanistan, Dost Mahomed has been completely defeated, and has surrendered...

instant ; and On the same day Lord Melbourne gives a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers. The Queen Dowager has given 2,000/., the Bishop of London 1,00W., the Christian Knowledge...

to the projected fortifications. The Ministers of War, of Commerce, and of the Interior, were examined before the Committee on the measure on Wednesday ; after which, the...

SATURDAY NIGHT. A Supplement to the London Gazette of yesterday is published this evening, containing official accounts of the war proceedings in India, previously announced in...

date of" Wednesday night," says- " Mr. Smith still proceeds with his canvass. He has already obtained a con- siderably larger number of positive pledges than Mr. Lyttelton had...

states that the military preparations observed there some time since had. ceased. The Emperor of Russia has conferred the Order of St. George, seconct class, on Admiral Sir R....

Discipline, afford us the means of sending a letter to him.

the Re- gency was labouring to suppress the fueros of the Basque Provinces, having already suppressed those of Navarre. A letter from Valladolid. of the 27th states, that on...

has come to, assimilates Paris, as far as military servitudes are concerned, to a fortified place of the third class ; and it is in consequence of this that the zone has been...

The Post-office has recently issued tenders for carrying the letter- bags in the London District Post. They differ from all previous ten- ders, in intimating a readiness to...

The Funds were languid at the commencement of the week ; and on Mon- day and Tuesday Consols for Account were as low as 89, with an appearance of a decline. This heaviness was...

Bank of England, from the 13th October 1840 to the 5th January 1841, both inclusive— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation X16,112,000 Securities £22,362,000 Deposits 7,049,000...

The Penny Postage, which it was prophesied would not pay its -expenses, has yielded 441,000/. net revenue in the first year of its expe- riment. So that, judging from the...

the Standard, the Globe, the Courier, and the Sun, upon the questions whether the -Government has shown any, and if any, what favour to Mr. Frost, the New- port traitor, since...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th Jan. 1840 and 1841, showing the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof....

WHIG METHOD OF WRITING HISTORY. WHAT a pity the Poet Laureate is not a Whig! He would have " famous victories" to celebrate, by way of atonement for speaking disparagingly of...

APPETITE must be created before taste. What is called taste, is no other than the discrimination between different impressions, and the selection of the best means for...

TILE indignation with which the Whig organs received the first intelligence of the proceedings at Walsall has cooled down con- siderably. They have magnanimously agreed to an...

THE Glasgow Argus " cannot forbear entering our decided pro- test" against the policy adopted by the Anti-Corn-law League in the Walsall election. It will not run the hazard of...

A PARAGRAPH relating an adventure of Lord SYDENHAM, before he was, like Bottom, "translated," is going the round of the pro- vincial newspapers. Mr. P. Tnomsox and some brother...

EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE. Letters Illustrative of the Reign of William III., from 1696 to 1708; addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury, by James Vernon. Esq., Secretary of State....

IN an Analysis of Raihnays, published nearly four years ago, when none of the great lines were opened, and many of them hardly "begun or not begun, Mr. WMSHAW gave a descriptive...

FITZ-OSBERT, surnamed the Lougbeard, was, according to the chroniclers, a mob-leading lawyer of London, in the reign of RICHARD the First, who, under pretence of public...

SIR THOMAS indulges a great partiality for national legends, especially for those of his native country; and when, during his rambles, he falls in with an ancient "...

THE booksellers, like the rest of the world, have been making holyday ; which has caused a slackness in their business specula- tions. The first week of 1841 has not furnished a...

A LESSON IN DRAWING. OF the thousands of young masters and misses now at home for the holydays, a pretty large proportion probably have been" learning to draw," as it is called...

Par= est improbos coercere panto, nisi probes tfficias diseplina. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—In m): last communication I laid before your readers a series of facts...

WAR-OFFICE. January 5.-14th Light Drags.-Lieut G. M. Fullerton to be Captain, by purchase. vice Henderson. who retires ; Cornet and Adjutant W. Clarke to have the rank of...

BIRTHS. On the 31st Dec.. at Shernford Park, Sussex. the lion. Mrs. Astranaszusza, of a daughter, etill-burn. On the 24th Oct., at Ahmedabad, in the East Indies, the Lady of...

'The George aud Mary. Golightly, from Calcutta to London, was wrecked at Anda- man's Bay on the 5th Aug.-crew and passengers saved. Arrived-At Gravesend. Jan. 4th. Queen...

Tuesday, Jan. 5. PARTNERSHIPS masinvsn. Bramah and Co. Pimlico, founders-Allbuseet and Bolckow. Newcastle-upon-'Tyne, merchants-Allhusen and Co. Sunderland, merchants ; as far...

CURRENT. BRITISH Spec Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 31 per Ceuta. Reduced New 31 per Cents. Long Annuities Bank Stock , 7 per cent. India Stock 101...