THE flowing hospitality of the Mansionhouse at the great annual banquet, on the day when the Prince of Wales was born carnally and London's Lord Mayor officially, gave occasion...

the Court of Chancery. Last session there was a bill to " reform " the Court, and last week an Order in Council was issued to carry the new law into effect ; but as soon as...

not very promising to the perfectibility-philanthropist. A meeting of commercial representatives has assembled at Paris, ostensibly to protest against the contemplated Customs...

the pro- gress of preparations for deeds—the movements of the troops in Afghanistan. General POLLOCK and General NOTT had simulta- neously sallied forth from Jellalabad and...

Wednesday was "Lord Mayor's Day "—and a better day than usual, for although cold and dull, it was not wet till night. The show took place in the usual way, with the customary...

THE Court has passed from Windsor to Walmer Castle ; given up to the use of the Queen by the Duke of Wellington. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the infants and the suite,...

a few additional places. The list is necessarily imperfect, because in some cases the account is given in such a way as to convey no political information to the distant reader...

The usual skeleton Parliament assembled on Thursday, in order to the form of a further prorogation. A. little before three o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch,...

Mr. Henry Kemmis, Chairman of Kildare county, has been appointed to the Chairmanship of Kilmainham, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Maxwell Blacker. The post is worth 2,000/. a...

There are no materials to complete the summary of the Scotch Municipal Elections, on account of the same defects that we have no ticed in the case of the English; but we add a...

of September, re- ceived today, narrate most disastrous shipwrecks. Two of them occurred on the 28th of August, in Table Bay. The Abercromby Robinson, bound for Algoa Bay, with...

at their rooms in Manchester, on Thursday evening. The great attraction was an address from Mr. James Silk Buckingham ; who enlarged on the general question, and on the capacity...

lately ; and some of them are " suspected" of being the result of incen- aatism. It is, however, a common trick of the peony-a-line reporter, to - throw the spicy hint into his...

Sinew EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The intelligence brought by the Indian mail produced a favourable effect upon the general tone of the Money Market, as evinced by an increased...

from the office of Hospodar of Wallachia. A temporary Regency has been formed ; and after the meeting of the Deputies, the election of a new Hospodar is to be proceeded with.

be passed under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland, granting the office of her Majesty's Solicitor- General for...

People begin generally to recognize the importance of the negotia- tions between this Government and the Canadian respecting some fur- ther alteration of the British duties on...

The Tempest is again produced at Covent Garden, with increased splen- dour of scenic effect and ingenuity of mechanical contrivance, and, what is of greater importance, a more...

young woman who lately figured at the Old Bailey, is a scandalous indecency, that one is surprised to find tolerated by any portion of the public. The stage must be degraded...

Arrived- Off Scilly, Nov.9th, Lydia, Brunton, from Bombay. At Liverpool, 10th, Nestor, — , from Bengal ; and Ward Chapman, —, from Bom- bay. At Mauritius, July 14th, Pliwnix,...

from Drury Lane, in consequence of some differences with the manager, into the merits of which it is not our province to enter.

AT the risk of appearing to repeat ourselves, we must direct atten- tion to the additional illustration of the real dangers of the war with China furnished by the last mail from...

OUR AWKWARD POSITION AMONG THE AFGHANS, AND WHAT TOOK US THERE. Form years ago the British forces crossed the Indus and advanced into the Afghan country. The professed objects...

SINCE the time when the "identical horse and chaise" of the WEARE murder graced the boards of the Surrey Theatre, we have not heard that any manager has ventured on a more...

Acrs of musical indiscretion are not rare, but among the chiefest may be reckoned the performance of Samson at Exeter Hall on Friday sennight. With the glorious oratorio which...

Ii these shocking levelling times, some people will deplore the ex- tension of duelling amenines to the " lower orders " ; but the en- lightened patriot will see in the fact a...

THE second of these excellent concerts was given at St. James's Theatre last night. It is a high gratification, and a rare one, to hear so admir- able a band engaged in an...

Researches is Asia Minor, Pontos. and Armenia; with some Account of their An- tiquities and Geology. By William I. Hamilton. Secretary to the Geological Society. In two volumes....

THIS fiction appears under melancholy circumstances : the author- ess, HattatEirrs CAMPBELL, died in "the very spring-time of youth and beauty"; and Mr. GLEIG, as a family...

IT has often been a matter of wonderment why the French, a mer- curial people, and other Continental nations with more vivacity of temperament than we possess, should have been...

THE Art - Union schemes are beginning to show what they really are,—namely, lotteries tempting the cupidity of subscribers, not joint- stock funds for the promotion of fine art:...

Moll" day last, are Messrs. Taomes,CitaawrcK, Joan Houma, and FRANalg GRANT, all artists of superior merit in their several departments of landscape, figure, and...

TEE British Institution was opened on Wednesday for the annual pri- vate view of the "copies," by courtesy so called, made by students, from such pictures of the old masters as...

Londou, 8th November 1842. Sts—Last Saturday you quoted from the German periodical on Art a remark from a Dr. MERE, on the exhibition last year, " that there was not a work in...

Tuesday, Nos. 8. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Spencer and Co. Nottingham. dyers-Wing and Jones, Goodge Street, butchers - Mullins and M'Mahon. Dublin. contractors for public works...

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 8.-3d Regt. Drag. Guards-Lieut. F. Garrett tobe Capt. by pur- chase. vice Campbell. who retires; Cornet H. H. Bacon to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Garrett ; C....

BIRTHS. On the 1st November, at Langtou Rectory, the Wife of the Rev. ROBERT FARQUHAR- SON, or a daughter. On the 3d, at Shirley House, near Southampton, the Lady of...

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