subjection of the Sonderbund is consummated, and Switzerland is no longer By the submission of the Canton of the Valais, the subjection of the Sonderbund is consummated, and...

THE Irish Members have possessed the House of Commons this week, and have been very successful in hindering the progress of public business. Two whole nights were devoted to the...

Tan IRISH DISTRICT COERCION BILL. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Sir GEORGE GREY moved the .aecond reading of the Crimes and Outrages Bill. Mr. JOHN O'CottNELL moved as...

conduct of the Pope; but we think that it leads them too fast and too far. An instance has just occurred. At the opening of the new deliberative Council, the Pope made a speech...

The ceremony of electing an Alderman for the Ward of Cordwainers took place on Monday afternoon, in the Vestry-room of St. Mary-le-I3ow, Cheapside. The vacancy was occasioned by...

Tau life of the Royal Family at Osborne has not been eventful; daily ex- ercise and the arrival of a few visitors being all that the Court Circular records. The Dutchess of...

The catalogue of fresh murders is happily meagre this week : the news- papers, however, supply evidence of a most lamentable extent of crime. The Fermanag h Reporter reports...

Valais, the last of the Separate League, surrendered to Colonel Rilliet, on the same terms as the other Cantons. On the 2d instant, the Diet decreed that the seven Cantons of...

In a Convocation of Oxford University, on Friday, it was resolved, by 52 against 10, to petition both Houses of Parliament against the elevation of Dr. Hampden to the see of...

A paragraph going the round of the papers reports an intended augmentation , of the British Army. A more specific report is that each of the ten battalions of Royal Artillery is...

Marquis of Normanby to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. It is understood that...

letter to the Freeman's Journal, solemnly assuring the public, "that the late Major Mahon was never denounced, nor even his name mentioned, from any chapel-altar in Strokestown,...

learn with satis- faction that the French and English Governments have at length come to an agreement which will, we trust, put an end to the very unsatisfactory state of...

On the 17th October, at Hingolee, Deccan, the Lady of Brigadier W.F. Beatson, K.S.F., commanding Hingolee division H. H. Nizam's Army, of a daughter. On the 30th November, at...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Though money for commercial use is less in demand than it had been for some time, and the rate of discount may be quoted at from 5 to 6 per...

Richard and Frederick William Cobden, calico-printers, of Crosse Hall; whence it is inferred that Mr. Richard Cobden retires from trade, and devotes himself hence- forward to...

SATURDAY NIGHT. • The House of Commons spent the greater part of last night in Com- mittee on the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill; not without renewed opposition from the Irish...

" Grand Opera, Drury Lane," is the title which Drury Lane Theatre has assumed under the new administration of Monsieur Jullien. " Old Drury " had long ceased to exist. The chief...

which has remained closed for nearly the whole of the week. The bill ; issued by the manager contain melancholy copies of physicians' certificates, in the place of dramatic...

not remark- ably robust. A piece called La Cigui, in which an Athenian, who is about to take hemlock, tests the qualities of his friends by certain testamentary dispositions, is...

fact that he wrote Did you ever Send your Wife to Camberwell? and How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress, favours his especial theatre with a new farce, called The Tipperary...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Dublin, 2d December 1847. Sin—I lately observed in one of your leading articles the enunciation of a doc- trine which I should much like to see...

Shakspere's House Fund " came off" on Tuesday; and the adventure has turned out The performance at Covent Garden for the benefit of the Shakspere's House Fund " came off" on...

well per- formed, allowance being made for the crudeness of Mr. Farren junior (Captain Absolute) and the grimness of Mr. Creswick (Falkland). Mr. Farren's Sir Anthony, and Mrs....

RESULTS OF THE BANKING DEBATE. GRIEVOUS would be the disappointment if one were to seek the conclusions of last week's debate on Banking and Distress in the express declaration...

THE case of the West Indies is again earnestly mooted in the press, and will soon come before Parliament; for like the ghost of a murdered man, it will continue to haunt the...

Mr. CHARLES BULLER is the President of the new Poor-law Board. We agree with a contemporary, that "there will be little difference of opinion as to the propriety of this...

IT is to be presumed that the activity of the Sanatory Commis- sioners will not stop with the appointment of the new Commission of Sewers : there is plenty to be done above...

BIOGRAPHY, The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, G.C.B. By John Barrow, Esq., F.R.S. In two volumes Bentley. STATISTICS, The History of Barbados ;...

REFLECTION has much reassured the public on the subject of our exposure to invasion. Although our nearest neighbour burns with military ardour—although Louis Philippe has some...

his surveys and explorations in the West Indies and the mainland of America, Sir Robert Schomburgk resided some considerable time at Barbados. His sojourn inspired him with a...

So= slight change has been made in the externals of both these Annuals, to approach a little to the fashionable imitation of the older style of typo- graphy ; but The Book of...

BOOKS. The History of Barbados; comprising a Geographical and Statistical' Description of the Island, a Sketch of the Historical Events since the Settlement, and an Account of...

WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 10.-6th Drag. Guards—J. D. Sheraton, Gent. to be cornet, by purchase, vice Gwyn, promoted. 3d Light Drags—Cornet T. H. Stisted to be Lieut. by purchase, vice...

Asunver.—At Gravesend, 5th Dec. Robertson, M'Clarty, from Maulmein. Off Port- land, 2d, John Laird, Case, from China. At Liverpool, 3d, Caroline, Hughes, from Bombay. At Bombay,...

Tuesday, Dec. 7. PARTNEESHIPS DISSOLVED. G. and N. J. Giles, Lincoln's Inn Fields, attorniea—Lowe and Roberts, Hyde, che- mIsts—Woodgate and West, Gresham Street,...

BRITISH FUNDS. I per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank r Cent India Stock, Stock, 101 pe Exchequer Bills, 3d. per diem...