MAY London be as well prepared for the cholera and all other inflictions, when they come, as it was for the political disorder of which it felt the remote shock on Monday, like...

have given a character of greater earnestness to the proceedings in Parliament. The Government Security Bill has been the chief subject of discussiep,. The title .of the bill is...

Tim CHARTISTS, AND THEIR PROCEEDINGS. In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord LANSDOWNE stated that the meeting on Kennington Common had been held by the Chartists, but had been...

the intelligence of the week presents less than the recent regular amount of change. Doubts beset the national movements here and there ; but on the whole they advance. France...

Great preparations were made to guard against any mischief from the Chartist demonstration on Monday. The inhabitants generally along the lines of thoroughfare converging to...

THE Queen daily walks and rides in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne, ac- companied by Prince Albert. The Dutchess of Kent went to Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday, and on...

Simultaneous Chartist meetings were held, on Monday, in several provin- cial towns,—Leeds, Coventry, Leicester, Warwick, Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Blackburn, Liverpool,...

The military preparations in Dublin continue without interruption. The garrison of the Castle is strengthened; and last week the Castle was sur- veyed iu order to render its...

A Chartist meeting was held in Edinburgh on Monday, on the Calton ran. Resolutions in favour of the Charter having been adopted, a pro- cession was formed, and the meeting...

The disclosures most damaging to Royalty in France have been effected by the medium of a new publication, La Revue Retrospective, established by M. Taschereau for the special...

Fa.asicE.—The Provisional Government received, on Monday, a deputa- tion from the employ& of various offices, who prayed for the non-employ- ment of foreigners in the public...

SATURDAY. The Peers took the lead, with the help of Lord Stanley, last night, in attempting a great improvement in the mode of conducting public business in Parliament. Lord...

Both the Italian Operas have failed in producing certain novelties pro- mised in the course of the past week. At Her Majesty's Theatre, Mademoiselle Schwartz, the contralto who...

foreigners residing in this country as to the intended operation of the "Removal of Aliens Bill," introduced into the House of Lords, on Monday last, by the Marquis of...

on Monday. At the close of the poll, the votes were—for Mr. Towneley, 183; for Mr. Somers, his opponent, 127. A run on the Irish savings-banks has been commenced by the...

from the provinces. At Toulouse, the clubs, 400 strong, broke into the house of M. July, demanding arms. At Auxerre, the Commissary was mobbed and forced to walk in procession....

Krocx Excitation, FRIDET Armstioon. The alarm occasioned by the Chartist meeting on Monday was considerable during the early part of the day, but subsided as the day advanced....

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 6th April, Berkshire, White, from Ceylon ; 7th, John Farn- worth, Christie, from Calcutta; 11th, Achilles, Thomson, from China; and Mary White, Tacker,...

The Philharmonic Society are often injudicious in their introduction of novelties; and in the concert of Monday last they were peculiarly so. The two Symphonies were...

The Postmaster-General, Colonel Moberly, and Mr. Rowland Hill, may set their houses in order and prepare to evacuate St. Martin's-le-Grand; for they will soon have to exclaim...

LETTER II. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 10th April 1848. SIR—In treating of the subject of these letters, it is difficult to give a full idea of the remedy without...

" Discussion " is not plotting, and Sir George Grey's Govern- ment Security Bill no more invades freedom of discussion than it provides for the defence of the capital from the...

MONDAY—ITS LESSONS. Tiii adventures of Monday were a great lesson to the Chartists a nd their more turbulent allies among the working classes. They bad challenged the...

IRISHMEN are fond of drawing a parallel between their ease and that of the Sicilians : only on Monday night, Mr. Smith O'Brien taunted Lord Palmerston with countenancing the...

Wnzif folks move in a hurry, they are very apt to overlook such things as old papers, which strangers ought not to find ; and the precipitate journey of King Louis Philippe was...

" MAGNA est veritas," says every orator in rounded phrase, " et pnevalebit" ; and then, with chivalrous magnanimity, he pro- ceeds at once to " lie like a chambermaid,"—of...

WE should be glad to find politicians anxious not only to point out the absurdities of empirical regenerators of national prosperity, but to investigate a state of society which...

NATURAL FIISTORT, The Natural History of the Human Species, its Typical Forms, Primeval Distriba- tion, Fillatluns, and Migrations. By Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton...

NOT only in the political, but in the operatic world, Europe is convulsed. Perrot has been playing Masaniello, not on the stage, but in the streets of Milan : he headed a sortie...

Mn. ItusairrrNn is a young man, who in 1841 was appointed an "ap- prentice-clerk" of the Hudson's iay Company ; and, after voyaging to York Factory through ice in summer,...

MR. BYRNE has been "wandering" for the last twelve years through the British Colonies of the Southern hemisphere, and has turned his ex- perience to account in the form of two...

the beautiful ? or what is beauty? has been answered in different ways by different schools of philosophy. Hume, and others after him, consider that beauty is not a quality in...

THE genius of Miss Pardoe is essentially rhetorical, and this unfits a wri- ter for fiction ; partly from the onesidedness of mind—the sacrifice of truth to point and phrases,...

BOOKS. Travels in Ceylon and Continental India; including Napal and other parts of the Himalayas to the Borders of Thibet; with some Notices of the Over- land Route, &c. 1 , 1...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. TEE collection in the Suffolk Street Gallery, this year, has benefited by a more rigid process of selection; for we do not notice anything so...

Wax-orrice, Apri114.-2d Regt. of Life Guards-Capt. A. G. Fullerton, from half-pa, /Matt. to be Capt. vice Brevet Major J. Roche, who exchanges ; Lieut. E. Michael Eari of...

On the 6th April, at Firby Hall, Whitwell, Yorkshire, the Wife of George Towline Gordon, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 7th, in Park Place, St. James's, the Lady Georgians...

Tuesday, April 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. White and Co. Grantham, Lincolnshire, attornles-Rogers and Green, Hinge% Herefordshire, attornies-at-law-Metcalfe and Son, Jarrow,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices:I Sslu,d. Monday. Tuesday. TVedors. Thum 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 39 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 9 per...