harvest have this week experienced a cheek. The wea- ther suddenly changed from bright and hot, to cold, gusty, and wet. A gale of extreme violence and extensive range has been...

more depressing. For fifty miles on either side of the frontier line be- tween the Cape colony and Caffraria, utter anarchy prevails ; the British and the allied Caffres and...

thing done in the matter of the fisheries. The question is debated as keenly in the United States as here, but as yet there have been no overt acts. Mr. Webster's colleagues,...

"0= Queen is a true British sailor." The ballad composed in honour of William the Fourth need not go out of use yet; like the.national antheffi, it may by a simple change in the...

to be marked by harshness and superciliousness, not un- mixed with symptoms of fear and hesitation. The treaty of com- merce between France and Belgium, concluded in December...

with curiosity if not with deep interest. Petitions calling upon the Senate to take the initiative in a movement to place the imperial crown on the brows of the President are...

Tim Queen is off to Belgium. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Roya], and the Princess Alice, embarked at Cowes, in the Royal yacht Victoria and...

A meeting under the presidency of the Lord Mayor was held on Thursday, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionhouse, for the purpose of raising subscriptions to relieve the...

Preliminary proceedings have already commenced in various counties for raising their quotas of Militia. The Lord-Lieutenants have issued addresses and delivered speeches...

FaAimn.-13y a decree published in the Ifoniteur on Sunday last, Croton, Thiers, Duvergier de Hauranne, Chambolle, Remusat, Lasteyrie, Laidet, and Thouret, Representatives...

The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday says that Lord Derby has given authority for the translation and publication of the whole of the famous Bt ehon Laws; and that the task has...

A special meeting of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce has been called "to take into consideration the present state of our relations with the United States of America." The Rays...

SATURDAY. Lagging after the despatches by electric telegraph, come the fuller accounts of the preparations for the reception of Queen Victoria at Antwerp, and of her arrival...

is to review the National Guards in the morning, and treat the Dames de la Hallo to a grand ball in the evening. The Guards will be drawn up on each side of the Champs Elysoe...

be held at Newark from the 16th to the 21st of August inclusive. After the usual meeting of the General Committee, the proceedings of the congress open with an evening meeting...

on the 17th or 18th of this month—just before the Parliamentary writs are returnable. Is it to settle the meeting of Parliament ? or to unsettle it ? Evidently, Minis- ters...

the London and North-western Railway Company yesterday, that Company offered, on the 4th instant, to amalgamate with the Great Western Com- pany; but the offer was rejected, on...

in Welling- ton Place, Weet India Dock Road. It is thought that two lives are lost ; one body has been found ; but at mid-day the fireman are still seeking for the other.

of the usual India mail. No news of the missing mail had been re- ceived up to the 7th August. The dates are from Bombay of the 6th July. The Burmese made a second attempt to...

with being concerned in the Stockport riot—George Pell, tailor ; William But- tery, green-grocer ; Mark Gleave, mechanic; Samuel Preston, steam-loom weaver ; Thomas Walker,...

that Beltran de Lys is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Miraflores. Ordonez, Governor of Madrid, is appointed Minister of the Interior. It was currently...

to it by IL Similien, Professor of Mathematics at the School of Arts of Angers. "In your number of the 16th ultimo, you announce from a letter which I had sent to you, that some...

Lord Chief Justice Jervis highly complimented Mr. Blundell, of Ince, because, al- though member of an ancient and distinguished Roman Catholic family, he had not attempted, as...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. It seems now to be generally admitted that the deficiency of the harvest will be considerable, and a large importation of foreign grain...

The only novelty connected with the new melodrama is its produetion by the Adelphi company during their temporary sojourn at the Haymar- ket ; since generally that sojourn has...

CONVOCATION—TO BE, OR NOT TO BE P TSB desire for the restoration of the legislative powers of Convo- cation, so loudly expressed of late years by a portion of the clergy, and...

two "farewell performances at playhouse prices." The season, as everybody knows, has been disastrous; and the same circumstances which have marred its success have also rendered...

To put the case in its briefest and most direct shape, it may be said that in the North American fishery question our Government has been technically " in the right," but has...

" H. M. MreTsrEns have made arrangements for supplying H. M. Enemies at the Cape of Good Hope with Minis Rifles of the newest pattern. " H. M. Subjects continue to supply...

Tim Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the case of the Baron de Bode is a record of disgrace to the Go- vernment of this country, so explicit and so...

disheartening to be continually reiterating exposures of notorious evils; and it has required a degree of courage on our part—which our readers may measure by their own...

" Griffiths versus De rEspinasse and another" is better than the origin. The case itself lies in a nutshell, and the substantial question at issue was one of fact, not...

again at Louis Napoleon, to extort from him the release of Abd-el-Kader, detained in France by a violation of pledges. To us the spectacle of the worthy old gentleman per-...

THE last of the Leopoldine laws are dying out in Tuscany, and Romish views are rapidly gaining ground there. One of the fore- most of a new series of laws which will help to...

Auer - RAT:Lk, which promises us such boundless wealth,—if we duly earn it,—is putting us to some inconvenience in various ways. The Bank is parting with its silver, as the...

Sin—I am glad that Mr. Freeman has, upon competent testimony, with- drawn the charge of personal favour and party purposes which he brought against certain of the Fellows of...

University College, Oxford, 9th August 1852. Sin—Mr. Freeman, in his letter of June 26, censured the Oxford Com- missioners for referring to a case in which, as he asserted by...

London, 12th August 1852. Sin—The public cannot expect impossibilities of journalists; and no one can therefore accuse the editor of the Spectator of negligence if he omit re-...

THE OBJECTS OF CONVOCATION. 10th August 1852. Sin—Will you permit me, through the medium of your journal, to put two questions to those who are advocating the restoration of...

London, 17th July 1852. Sin—It being generally admitted that some alteration in the constitution of the Board of Customs is imperatively called for, I trust a few suggestions on...

[The following letter has been in type fora long time. excluded by the pressure on our space during the Parliamentary session and the General Election since. The subject has not...

NIEBITHA'S LECTURES ON ANCIENT HISTORY.. THESE Lectures on Ancient History, following the arrangement and observing the limits which Tustin has handed down in his abridgment of...

OssEr's volume is but a little book, and there is very little in it that is either new or informing. We all know by this time the excellence of the New York river steamers, as...

more than the faculty of truly conceiving and sustaining characters in action and dialogue. It extends to the power of varying the narrative with the nature of the subjects, and...

BOOKS. Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the years 1850-1851, performed by H. M. Ships Lady Franklin and Sophia, under the command of Mr. William...

On the 6th August, at Clifton, the Hon. Mrs. Robert Daly, of a daughter. On the 6th, at Brandsby Lodge, York, the Wife of Henry Cholmeley, Esq., of a daughter. On the 6th, in...

BRITISH FUNDS Sosturd. (Closing Monday. Prices.) 71seseisoy. Wars. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 993 99% 991 983 981 soi Ditto for Account 991 991 991 983 90. 991 8 per...

Tuesday, August 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Clark and Co. Anstinfriars, merchants-Clark and Co. Corfu; Clark and Co. Zante, merchants-Verity and Co Cardiff, sail-makers-...