the week, that the public revenue of 1851 has fallen short of that of 1850 by rather more than half a million. The receipts in the first and third quarters of 1851 were greater...

connected with South Africa. The steamer employed - to 'convey the Rifles to - the Cape has proved utterly unfit - for a troop-ship there was no place to stow away the soldiers'...

• Jr has been generally understood for the last fortnight, that . nego tiations have been on foot with a view to further Cabinet changes. The public have waited to learn the...

sides an attitude of more uncompromising hostility. A great number of the masters have given the threatened notice that they will close their establishments on the 10th; and it...

THE Queen continues to dispense the Christmas hospitalities at Windsor Castle. The Countess de Neuilly and the Duchess of Orleans visited the Queen on Monday ; and the Duchess...

the Royal _Mail Steam-packet Company have been lost at sea, with great destruction of human life,—the Solway, off Coruna; the Trent, in the Gulf of Mexico ; and now, most...

formally and finally rescinded by an Imperial rescript. The reign of secret tribunals is restored ; the proceedings of the law courts are no longer to be public. Along with the...

London is still under the influences of the holyday season. New Year's Eve was celebrated at Colney Hatch County Lunatic Asy- lum by an entertainment to the inmates : 230...

this there is no loss, for no one expects anything but a sham constitution at such hands. But the same spirit of theatrical dis- play which led him to undertake the completion...

goes merrily on. The crews of four of the cruisers employed in the coast blockade of the slave-countries have just achieved an ex- ploit at Lagos worthy to take rank alongside...

The Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association continues steadily its peripatetic labours in the provinces, by its President, Sir Joshua Walmsley, and Mr. George Thompson....

Fin:gm—There have been sundry balls, banquets, &c., in celebration of the Imperial instalment of the President. M. Bonaparte accepted an invitation to a grand ball given by the...

The Liaburn election took place on Monday ; when Sir James Emerson Tennent was returned without opposition. A meeting of the principal landowners of the county of Armagh as-...

The total catch of herrings in the Wick district during the past season exceeded 150,000 barrels,—a very large take. Upwards of 39,000 barrels were sent to Ireland, and nearly...

The Premier has again been oftener closeted with the Queen this week than the Court Circular fully explains. It duly informed the public that Lord John Russell left his...

" sixty persons have been arrested at Montpellier, on charges connected with the late disturbances." A message transmitted this morning at nine o'clock states, that the...

Reform had an interview of considerable length with Lord John Russell yester- day. In his reply, Lord John stated, that " up to this period private merchants, and not the...

a week for Sarah Ann Hill. Mr. Milner, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Leeman, of York, came up to town yesterday, and had an interview with the Home Secretary on the sub- ject, and a...

in Carpenters Hall yesterday, to the number of about 3000, and passed re- solutions declaring their opinion, after serious consideration, " that the resolutions issued by the...

Daily Hews and the Morning Post simultaneously, states that the Duke of Wel- lington and Sir John Burgoyne have been for some days past in almost daily communication and...

SATURDAY. The Queen holds a Privy Council at Windsor Castle today. It is ex- pected that the day for the meeting of Parliament will be fixed for Tues- day the 3d of next month.

Glasgow, let .Tammary 1852. Stn—In thinking over the portentous vaticination in which your alarmist correspondents indulged to such an extent lately, I very much doubted the...

Talfourd for its author. A "willow-pattern" plate is represented on the drop-scene ; and when this is removed, the business of the drama sets forth the history of the persons,...

THE RAW MATERIAL FOR SOLDIERS. Leeds, 3d January 1852. Sin.—Observing your impartiality in the admission of letters from corre- spondents, 1 venture to offer a few remarks on...

interrupted by the Christmas holydays, has been resumed, and is announced to be continued weekly. The second concert, on Thursday, was better than the first, and of a more...

our Consul at Brest, of the names of the and seamen from the Amazon saved by the Dutch gall iot Gertruida, ptain Teinteleer. It seems that two of the Ama- zon's boats were...

The English Funds have been steady during the whole week ; and though a considerable amount of business has occurred, the fluctuations have been insig,niticant. The rumours of a...

THE WANT OF 1852. A Poi.cizcnaE could scarcely express more comprehensively his de- sire for an improved management of public affairs in England, than by wishing for a strong...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th January 1851 and 1852, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED...

THE Caffre war, which Sir Harry Smith was to finish off by his mere appearance, continues, at a cost, says Sir Charles Shaw,* of 38001. a day. Such is the cost, we presume to...

of All Religions and Ceremonies, the editor -should notice the modern English custom of " going up in deputa- tion" to a Minister. We have lately seen instances of the prac-...

Tm long-threatened order for a strike among the Romish officers .of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland has at length been promulgated; if, indeed, the term promulgation can be...

ALTHOUGH our land forces may not be in a perfect condition, our coasts, it is said, are sufficiently defended, because our naval force is great, and it may at any day procure an...

Is seems that Earl Grey kept his promise to the House of Peers, in the matter of a constitution for the Cape colony, more strictly and promptly than was expected of him. But it...

the Liverpool Albion, "is fully at work throughout the kingdom, in connexion with this port, for thepurpose of pillaging emigrants." The vast emigration of the United Kingdom...

MISS XITFORD'S RECOLLECTIONS OF I LITERARY LIFE. * Taman Recollections of Miss Mitford are not a regular autobiogra- phy ; but something more varied, probably more attractive....

this work is political morality, as politics and morals are understood by the Mahometan mind; the monarch be- ing the moving principle of government, and government con- fined...

of magic—that is, an extraordinary (for strictly it can hardly be called supernatural) power acquired over nature by a knowledge of nature, and deriving its moral character from...

combines in a singular degree the manner of the old school and of the new. There is the minute description of scenery , and people of the old school, with the particular...

BOOKS. Observations on the Past and Present State of Fire-arms, and oa the probable Effects in War of the New Musket. By Colonel Chesney, D.C.L. and F.R.S., Royal Artillery....

On the 29th December, at Osberton, near Betford, Viscountess Milton, Wife Of George Saville Foljambe, Esq., of a son. On the 1st January, at Walton-on-Thames, Lady Thompson, of...

Tuesday, January 6. PAarxEssurrs D1SS0LVED.—The Penpoll Lead Smelting Works, Feock, Cornwall —Herring, Brothers, Aldersgate Street, druggists—Ravenscroft and Co. London; as far...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Cloidug Priests.) &slued. Monday Tuesday. Moines Thurs. Frida y, 3 per Cent Consols shut — 971ex d. 97 97 . 971 Ditto for Account 961 ex d. 97 971 97 971...