for its disgraceful conduct at Rome. Not only has the French Republic, fresh from the expulsion of Louis Philippe, sent an army to force back the Roman Sovereign on the Roman...

As soon as Mr. Qobden had developed his motion on the subject of international-arbitrations for superseding the resort to war, the alarm which had-been created by associating...

to be between Abso- lute bigotry and a Social revolution bigoted also in its scepticism. In an address to his Bishops, the Emperor of Russia, devoutly crossing himself, has...

PRINCIPAL BUSINEss OF THE WEEK. Rom or Lorna. Monday, June 11. Irish Encumbered Estates Bill, referred to a Select Committee—Adjourned at 10 h. 12m. Tuesday, June 12....

The Fraternity and Guild of the Merchant Tailors of the City of Lon- don celebrated the Festival of St. Barnabas, which fell on Monday, with the usual magnificent entertainment...

THE Queen and Prince Albert, with their six children, returned on Satur- day from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace. The Dutchess of Kent came to town on the same day, from...

FRANCE.—The ferment which has taken possession of Paris began in the Assembly on Monday. On that day, M. Ledru-Rollin brought for- ward his interpellations respecting the Roman...

The Gloucester agricultural meeting, held on Saturday in terms of the re- markable requisition formerly mentioned, was large and well attended. The Sheriff presided. The...

the Queen's trades- men in Aberdeen, we may safely infer that it is the intention of the Queen, with Prince Albert and the Royal Family, to visit Balmoral next month. It is also...

SATURDAY. It began somewhat heavily, with queries by Dr. NicHoLL, and ex- planations by Sir Joan JERVIS; who admitted that Lord Elgin could not depart from the spirit of the...

5th; interesting, but too log and too late for our first edition. The writer describes the hostilities as he views them from the Pincian conflict was outside the walla, and...

On the 2d June, at the Vicarage, Chalgrove, the Wife of the Rev. It. F. Laurence, of a son. On the 7th, at Nonsuch Park, Surrey, the Lady of W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., of a son....

expenditure of certa i n sums entered under the head of "Parliamentary Expenses " by the In- The Select Committee of the Commons has imported on the expenditure of certa i n...

streets during the previous night. Considerable excitement was reported from the provinces, however,—at Lyons, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Evreux, Dijon, and Mulhausen. M....

The performance of Il Matrinionio Segreto at Her Majesty's :1 hentrn,.-mtsell Thursday, was for the benefit of Lablache; who sustained the - dfuiracter in which he made his...

Adelphi bills is a novelty. These bills, instead of telling the world that a new fin on called so-and-so will be produced, gravely declare that " an unwarrantable in- trusion...

approved principle, has been converted into a little non-operatic drama, which has been produced with success at the Strand. An innocent village girl, naturally anxious to buy...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The settlement of the Consol Account was on Tuesday on Wednesday the books of the Three per Cent Consols closed for dividend; and speculators...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Alarylebone, 5th June 1849. Ste—Some experience of your liberality in permitting your opinions to be questioned in your own paper, induces me...

was Beethoven's Ninth or Choral Symphony, which formed the whole second part of the concert. This gigantic work, composed expressly for the Phil- harmonic Society, long remained...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR —In the letter you were so good as to insert in your excellent paper of the 19th May, I showed how, without prejudice to " vested rights,"...

EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Lincoln's Inn, 14th June 1849. SIR—The Irish Encumbered Estates Bill, which has just passed the House of Commons, has been discussed only with...

PEACE. THB objection to Mr. Cobden's proposal of international peace- commissions is only half stated in pointing out the fact that such a commission would be, in its very...

A SERIOUS doubt hangs over all attempts to amend the law of debtor and creditor—the doubt whether our code on that subject is not based upon a fallacy ; and the professed object...

BY way of retrieving his absurd position as the enforcer of the rule to exclude "strangers" from the House of Commons, Mr. John O'Connell gave notice of a motion to reconsider...

FROM a country paper we derive a story shocking in its nature, and still more shocking from the fact that it is a strong rather than a singular example. At the Southampton...

THE newly-arrived foreigner sees things upon the surface of na- tional manners more vividly than the native; the philosophic alien may penetrate to truths overlooked : but even...

LYELL'S SECOND VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES.* THE route of Sir Charles Lyell in his second journey to the United States extended from the frontiers of Maine to the Valley of the...

THREE pamphlets recently put forth by M. Boudin* establish some curious conclusions against the practicability of ever really settling a French power in Algeria. M. Boudin has...

particular assemblies are rarely successful efforts ; and the most successful are those in which ideas rather than actions are the subject of the meeting. Yet of all the...

the slightest original works on natural history, which it is difficult to account for. It may be said that it arises from the freshness of the observation—the direct manner in...

ROYAL INSTITUTION : OLD MASTERS. THE collection of pictures for the summer exhibition of the Royal Insti- tution is not so interesting as usual: although the catalogue includes...

BOOKS. Catnbrensia Eversus, sen potius histories fides in rebus Hibernicia Giraldo Cambrensi abrogate; in quo plerasque justi historici dotes desiderari, ple- rosqne naevos...

The experiment made last year by the Society of Arts, of exhibiting at one view the works of a living painter, proved so successful, that this year the plan is repeated with the...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Clymer and Co. Finsbury Street, printing.press-manufacturers—Ryley and Fitton, Burslem, corn-millers—W. and E. Philp, Launceston, booksellers—Tiley and...

Was-eerie& June 15.-6th Drag. Guards—Lieut. B. Broca& from the 71st FoOt, to be Lieut. vice Neville, who exchanges. 11th Foot--Lieut. J. W. D'Oyly to be eel*, by purchase, vice...

BRITISH 7 U N D 8. (Closing Prices.) &slued. Monday. Tuesday. Widnes. !kora. Prides. S per Ce,t Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank...