has been slaughtered; but an English Lieutenant, who did not understand French, was asked where he was going to when he landed—was forced to show himself to a French...

10th instant, are upon the whole satisfactory. There is an increase on the year in six of the eight branches of the ordinary revenue ; the exceptions being an insignificant...

KING Lours PHILIPPE is sojourning with Queen VICTORIA at Wind- sor Castle. It was said last year, when our Queen's visit to France was mentioned, that she could not go because...

Tax King of the French arrived at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. To account for his movements before his arrival, we must glance at the doings on the coast of France. (S1) The...

here and there landlords are conscious of some necessity for vindicating the utility of such gatherings, by allusions to the welfare of labourers; while a few farmers speak out...

affairs have just undergone a paroxysm of agitation, occasioned by the election of a Vice-Chancellor for Oxford University. Dr. SYMONS was nominated by the Chancellor as a...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Wednesday. Mr. Sidney ap- peared at the table, and took the declaration and his scat as Alder- man for Billingsgate Ward. Mr. Salomons, who had...

The officers of the French squadron have been feted at Portsmouth. On Tuesday, they dined with Admiral Sir Charles Rowley ; on Wed- nesday, with Major-General Sir Hercules...

Lady Heytesbury has sunk under the painful malady that seized her so soon after her arrival in Ireland—gastritis. Her Ladyship was at- tended in her last moments by her husband,...

The Gazette des Beaux Arts describes an album which King Louis Philippe has brought over as a present for Queen Victoria- " It would have been difficult to execute with more...

FRANCE.—Suuday, October the 6th, was Louis Philippe's seventy- second birth-day. It was only observed privately, at the Chateau d'Eu; as the public celebration occurs on the 1st...

The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, by Baron Maro- ebetti, was " inaugurated," at Glasgow, on Tuesday. It stands in front of the Exchange ; and an immense concourse...

by the Times, [by way of amende from "our own correspondent "? ] it is not to be understood that any high displeasure has been incurred by the bustling visiters of Blair Atholl...

The stately pageant of an installation in the Order of the Garter was performed at Windsor Castle yesterday, with unusual magnificence ; the candidate for investiture being...

over the expenditure for the year ended on the 5th July 1844, was 1,770,0801.; and that one-fourth of that sum, 442,5201., will be applied to the re- duction of the National Debt.

Wash- houses in the Metropolis is fixed for next Wednesday. At a prelimi- nary meeting in the Mansionhouse, yesterday afternoon, it was stated, that the Bishop of London, who...

Wednesday last. The " Island" near Clontarf was overflowed ; and a wooden cottage, containing a man and a boy who attended upon bathers, was carried away. A boy who ventured on...

steam-ship, Lieutenant-Commander Lunn. The vessel is per- forming quarantine at the Motherbauk.

transposition by the printer made nonsense of the paragraph in the Postcript describing the festival of the Manchester Atheneum. Trusting that our readers detected for them-...

makes no mention of the " unpleasant affair," the alleged insult to Lieutenant Rose ; and therefore doubt is cast upon the story by many of the French journals.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Son-When Mr. CHARLES DICKENS wrote his able and eloquent preface to JOHN 0cm:is's Evenings of a Working Haas, his philanthropic desire was to...

spirit of the news down to the 4th instant- " All is conjecture as to the new Cortes, but you may be certain that Minis- ters will not have a majority. Martinez de la Rosa in...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 9th October 1844. SIR - In your reference last week to American news, you mention that "a great armed crusade has been got up in States round...

conferred upon Dr. Justus Liebig. He afterwards dined with the Lord Provost and a number of scientific gentlemen.

Notes issued £28,082,955 Government Debt Other Securities Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £11.015,100 2,984,900 12,388.819 1,694,086 £28,082,955 £28,082,905 BANKING...

AnaivEn—At Gravesend, 6th Oct. Lady Kennoway, Spence. from Bombay ; 7114- Arachne. Pearse, from Sydney; Brahmin, 151•Arthur, from China; Pearl, Burrows, from Calcutta ; Grafton....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The intelligence from Tahiti, received on Monday, caused a slight depression in the prices of the Government Securities, and Consols for Money...

a revival of the old ballet of action The Deserter of Naples, with an effective cast, as an afterpiece for the off-nights of DUMILATRE. The Syren is also an- nounced at this...

ONE of the most pleasant representations of Anglo-Italian opera, for which the Princess's Theatre has become famous under the direction of Mr. MADDOX, is Lucia di Lammermoor....

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October 1843 and 1844, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. Customs YEARS...

THE meeting at Manchester, to celebrate the conquest of fortune by the supporters of the local institution called the Athenaeum, is a tide-mark of the rise of opinion in many...

LOUIS PHILIPPE AT WINDSOR. Fos the first time a French King visits England of his own free will. A Dauphin of France once came here to seek a crown on the battle-field, and a...

"A SUBSCRIBER," who dates his letter from Cambridge, demands our attention to " something like an inconsistency " in our remarks, last week, on the proceedings of the British...

THE proceedings at Chipping Ongar form no contradiction to what has been said against the servile spirit of agricultural meetings in relation to labourers ; for they are rather...

THESE words must this week have met the eye of nine-tenths of our London readers, on the side-walls of many a placard-bearing vehicle. There is something melancholy in seeing an...

the war-mania which has taken possession of certain journalists on both sides of the Channel, it will be the following cool calculations, which we copy from an American news-...

Tnavms, Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, during a Residence In that Colony from 1839 to 1844. By Mrs. Charles Meredith Murray. HISTORY, Memoirs of the House of...

THE second volume of Mr. TOWNSEND'S work alludes to the de- struction by fire of the old House of Commons : but his method of treatment renders it difficult to say whether he...

Tins continuation or completion of Afloat and Ashore rather falls below the anticipations we had formed from the close of that work, than rises above them. Above half the three...

Tins is a well-arranged tabular exposition of facts connected with the mercantile marine of Britain, France, and America, compiled from official sources, and suggestive of some...

BOOKS. Life and Times of Louis Philippe King of the French. By the Reverend G. N. WRIGHT, M.A., Author of "Life and Reign of William the Fourth," &c. The Dark Falcon. A Tale...

THE GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. IF not financially considered completely successful, the late festival has so nearly achieved that point, and has done such credit to the...

BIRTHS. On the 13111 May, at Karori, near Wellington, New Zealand, the Lady of Mr. Justice CHAPMAN, of a son. On the 3d October, at Lewes, the Wife of the Rev. WILLIAM EDWARD...

PARTNERsilIPS DrssOLVED. Storey and Co. Liverpool, ship-chandlers—Win,pear uud Co. Liverpool, shipsMitha — A. and J. Burt-ti,. Skinner Street, furniture-dealers—Kenyon and...

WAR-OFFICE, Oct. 8.-6th Drags.—Capt. the Hon. H. Crichton to be Major, by pure chase, vice Wollaston, who retires ; Lieut. H. J. Denny to be Capt. by purchase. vice Crichton ;...

SHARES. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) MINES— BANNS- BalanOS . 1 — ' Australasian Brazilian Imperial — British North American Ditto (St....