the citizens of the United States ; and the moot question is, whether it can be effected without the simultaneous annexation of Cuba? The Southern States say not, and the...

trifling interest taken in such proceedings. In spite of every ef- fort to get up an "excitement," it could not be elevated above the level of a cumbersome joke. The candidate...

of all French Governments, bad finance; and the sin of com- forded by the straightforward candour with which M. Passy fronted the difficulties of his department scarcely...

QUEEN VICTORIA has met with a reception in Ireland which justi- fies our expectation of the response that so loyally-inclined a peo- ple would make to the advances of their...

At a special Court of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, on Thurs- day, a letter written by Mr. Baker, Coroner for Middlesex, to Sir George Grey, was read by desire of Sir...

The nomination for Reading election took place on Monday. Five can- didates appeared on the hustings. Mr. Bowyer proclaimed himself the owner of 5,000 acres in Berkshire, and...

THE Q1JEEN ' 5 VISIT. The appearance of the Royal excursion-fleet was signaled in Cove har- bour between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday evening; and at a little before ten...

Fnawm—In the Assembly, on Friday, M. Passy, the Minister of Fi- nance, read an exposition of the state of the national treasury. He reviewed the different budgets during the...

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Dutchess of Gloucester on Wednes- day evening, at her residence in Richmond Park. On Thursday morning the Duke returned to Kew; and on the...

visit to Rouen and Havre. In the French Assembly, on Thursday afternoon M. Pansy presented two important measures,—the one for the establishment of a tax of 1 per cent on all...

SATURDAY. In the papers of the morning the largest space is devoted to reports of the Queen's proceedings in Dublin, speculations as to the probable effects of her visit upon...

Council ratifying a scheme submitted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under their Par- liamentary authority, for the new-modelling of the patronage, Sec. of the benefice of...

On the 20th July, at Catania's Ee e t er y, the Wife of the Rey. Barren Hayley, Of a daughter. LL.B., Cantab., Chaplain to the Hon. the On the 31st, at Vimiera House, Han+....

of the course taken by the Governor in relation to the Italian refugees. The Malta correspondent of the Dailg News writes, on the 2d instant- ' "It has transpired that his...

graphic account of the occupation of Raab by the Hungarians, on the 4th instant. "This morning, as I was standing on the bridge, I observed a tumultuous as- semblage of officers...

Cape Town to the 10th June, from Natal to the 18th May. They indicate no abatement of the disposition to resist the introduction of convicts. Of the Cape Town memorial,...

On the night of the 29th July, they attacked a strong post of Austrians, and captured a large quantity of provisions. About the same time, a Venetian flotilla from the Ionian...

sentence lately passed by the Civil Tribunal decreeing the separation of Count Mortier from his wife, on the ground of repeated acta of insane violence. The substitute of the...

STocx ExcHANGL FRIDAY A1TERNOON. A sale of 150,0001. Stock by the Chancery broker, early in the week, depressed the price of Consols about i per cent,---namely, t, 82i; the...

The two Italian houses are preparing to shut their doors: and with their closing there will be an end of the "season." It is full time; for there is something preposterous in...

London, 8th August 1849. Sut—I wish to call your attention to the insidious encroachments which are gradually taking place in the Regent's Park. This once most beautiful park...

OUR FOREIGN IMPOLICY. PREVARICATION is the mortal sin of our statesmanship, SS it is of the " public opinion " of the day. It is that which renders our foreign policy at once...

WE had scarcely noticed the very incompetent manner in which political economists approach the controversy on Communism be- fore an able correspondent vouchsafes a bran new...

DEPLORABLE as it is, we cannot gainsay the fact, that among Englishwomen of the humbler classes the settlement of conjugal or pecuniary difficulties by the summary help of...

THE great public hall which is rising on the North aide of Long Acre is remarkable in its origin and in its objects: it is a monu- ment of things achieved, and a theatre for...

IT in an antiquated error to say that "the course of true love never did run smooth"; for it now seems to run by rule, and therefore must be as smooth as a tram-road. Indeed,...

A LEVEE in Dublin is not like one at St. James's, but a far big- ger and more laborious affair. It is a sort of wholesale pa- geant, quantity superseding quality. To set it...

No. L WHEN the late Sir Alexander Rumes, some sixteen years back, published his narrative of a voyage upon the Indus from the sea to Lahore, consider- able interest was excited...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOEL. Camberwell, Slat July 1849. Sut—I think it may with truth be asserted, that most of the readers of the Spectator, who are so from preference...

WALPOLE'S FOUR YEARS IN THE rectrIc.* " &mut. months of light study and heavy indiscretions" having re- duced the Honourable Frederick Walpole's purse, paled his cheek, and...

never reached us : the critical panegyrics in the journals led us to expect the advent of a new novelist who should combine the minute truthfulness of Miss Austen in painting...

accounted for the cold reception of his second volume on the supposition that " an author who cannot ascend will always appear to sink." Unless the subject be changed or...

ENGRAVERS. * NIS is a useful contribution to the library of reference on art ; but still it falLs so far short of a manifest desideratum, as to provoke surprise that the...

BOOKS. Wayside Pictures through France, Belgium, and Holland. By Robert Bell, Author of 'The Life of Canning," &c. The Religious Ideas. By William Johnson Fox, M.P. Before and...

We have before us two maps exhibiting the hydrography or geographi- cal distribution of the inland waters and the population-statistics of the British islands—the two first of...

STATE OP THE ROMAN MONUMENTS AFTER THE FRENCH SIEGE, DESCRIBED BY AN EYE - WITNESS. The periodicals of Italy have lately published such precise information re- garding the...

Tuesday, August 7. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. F. and G. Franklin, Exeter, coachmakers—Kerrison and Son, East Marling, Norfolk, bricklayers—Balmer and Pye, Liverpool,...

BRITISH FUND 8. (Causing Prices.) Seamed. afeaday. Monday. Wawa. Shan. Fridee. I per Cent Console 921 921 921 921 921 93 Ditto for Account 93 921 924 921 921 921 3...