The declaration of the Kilrush Guardians might be passed by as Irish swagger, but that it receives formidable confirmation from the official statements of Sir John Burgoyne,...

and London, and not contradicted, Spanish statesmanship has fairly sunk to competition between rival panders. The story, more or less openly but always intelligibly told, is...

towards Italy, by the report that the Austrian troops, so far from having evacuated Ferrara on the 3d instant, still remained in oc- cupation on the 4th. Tbat fact, however, by...

the 10th of October are alarming—a decrease on the year of above a million ' • on the October quarter of above a million and a half ! This was to be expected : the famine in...

The iron-masters of South Staffordshire and Shropshire held their quarterly meeting, at Birmingham, on Thursday. The state of the trade was deemed exceedingly satisfactory;...

The Lord and Lady Mayoress gave a grand entertainment, at the Man- sionhouse, on Saturday, to the Duke of Cambridge and a very large party of distinguished visiters. The...

TEE Queen has been entertaining a rather numerous circle of visiters at Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady John Russell arrived on Saturday, and staid till Monday. On that day, came...

to be resolved upon an actual appeal to arms at an early day ; both sides making diligent preparations. Accommodation appears to be hopeless for the present. Berne, the Canton...

The Lord-Lieutenant received a deputation from the county of Clare, on Tuesday, with a memorial, calling upon the Government for a loan from the Treasury to enable the gentry of...

Fnarecn.—The Moniteur of Sunday published a Royal ordinance au- thorizing the Minister of Finance to contract a loan of 250,000,000 francs (10,000,0001.); to be adjudicated on...

Lord Ashley has been lending his assistance at a meeting held in Dundee last week in behalf of the Industrial School recently established in that town. Lord Kinnaird, who...

A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday, at the Forei g n Office; all the Ministers except the Earl of Minto being present. The Council sat an hour and a half. The Council also...

The Sixth Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the most effectual means of Improving the Metropolis , and providing increased facilities of communi- cation, sets forth...

[Extracts from the Evidence taken by Lord Monteagle's Committee.] Mr. Samuel Cunard, contractor for the mail-steamers between Liverpool and Boston, and owner of extensive lands...

had already felt the weight of Narvaez's power. He has been got rid of, and sent out of Madrid, as Captain-General of Grenada. It is said that he helped Nar- vaez to be made...

The firm of Messrs. Laurence Phillips and Sons, merchants and East India agents, has issued this circular- " 16, George Street, Mansion House, London, Oct. 15. " It gives us...

advieea to the 1st instant. There is positively no additional news from Menke. General Scott's official dispatches of the two great battles fought. under the walls of the...

a special meeting held to obtain the authority of the shareholders for re- ceiving the loan of 136,0001. from the Treasury. Mr. Aglionby was called to the chair. In their...

to the Mayor. After dining with Mr. Charles Lawrence at Morley Hill, on Thursday, passing the night there, Sir Robert came into Liverpool about eleven o'clock next morning, in...

hav- ing become decidedly retrograde in his policy— "The Sardinian Government has refused to establish a civic guard, and to take measures for securing the freedom of the press,...

Aaarvzn.—At Gravesend, 9th October, Tamar, Hall. from China; 10M, AatturatItli. White, from Sydney ; Mary Ann Webb, Fowling, from China; Conservative, Hall, from Madras; and...

This week has afforded an instance even more striking than usual or the advantage of a theatre regularly devoted to a particular object, over one re- lying on a " star " system....

convoys of arms had entered into the Neufchatel territory from France, for the Canton of Friburg. The progress of these larger convoys had not then been interfered with, and the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The decline in Government Securities continued until yesterday, when, at the settlement of the Consol Account, Consols for Money went down to...

in the recent accident on the Brighton railway, the issue of the two-shilling piece is likely to be delayed longer than was expected.—Globe. On the North Midland Railway,...

be that of a triple murder "by a gentleman," at Foot's Cray, a little village in Kent; the report being most minute in its particulars. The victims were said to be, Mrs. Lawson,...

Theatre: an azure ceiling setting off a splendid lustre, and a judicious application of white and gold in the decorations, produce a light effect, that augurs well for the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Camberwell, 11th October 1847. SIR—We have ground for hope that when things have reached their worst they must mend. Tradin and social morals...

THE FIRST CABINET COUNCIL. THE first meeting of Ministers for the season has been the signal for newspaper speculation on the probable course of the next Parliamentary session....

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, October 1847. Sin—Among the causes which have operated to produce our present monetary difficulties, there are two which have...

THE evidence of Mr. Cunard before Lord Monteagle'a Committee , shows how one of the presumed " difficulties " of colonizing may be nullified by shrewdness and energy. It is...

THE "normal" state of Ireland is an enormity: it is that of a fertile country, with abundant labour, which does not grow food enough to support the people, and which makes no...

EVERY fresh batch of railway accidents begets a diligence in de- vising remedies to prevent that particular sort. It chances that the sort of accident that befalls a train from...

Federal politics, by a sequence of events one growing out of another, from the politico - religious movements prior to 1840 down to the present Diet and its votes respecting the...

LAST year, in advocating the erection of a new edifice for the safe custody of the Records, we pointed out the Rolls estate in Chan- cery Lane as a good site : if a concurrence...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October 1846 and 1847, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. 1,716,154...

NATURAL HISTORY, Bare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland, represented from living Subjects ; with Practical Observations on their Nature. By Sir John Graham Dalyell, Baronet....

THE late Mr. Acland quitted England in 1842, as an East India Com- pany's Chaplain ; which mean; the resident clergyman of an extensive district, and in his case the district...

THE present times are not favourable for scholastic theology, at least in this country. It may be that the rapid-moving and practical character of the age, which drives directly...

Tuts correspondence affords a pretty thorough insight into the workings of Schiller's mind during the lapse of not the least interesting period of his intellectual development....

BOOKS. Results of Astronomical Observations, made during the years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope; being the completion of a Telescopic Survey of the whole Surface...

Oh the 7th October, at Surrenden-Dering, the Honourable Lady Hering, of a son. On the Stb, at Shernfold Park, Sussex, the Hon. Airs. Ashburnham, of a daughter. On the 8th, at...

Omen or OIDNANCE, Oct. 11.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Gent. Cadets to be Sec. Lieuts.-S. D. Wright, vice Greville, promoted ; A. Y. Earle, vice S. R. B. Swinneys, promoted ; Hon....

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Goodricke and Adlington, John's Row, St. Luke's, corn-dealers-Adams junior and Watts, York Street, Westminster, vietuallers-Rowley and Evans, Hatton...

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) &nerd. Monday. Tuesday. iTednes. I7surs. 3 per Cent Consols 821 82 82 815 81 Ditto for Account 83 83 82 83 82 82 82 8 per...