the French Ambassador at Madrid and the Spanish Regent, by the position of France and England. At first M. DE SALVANDY pre- tended to deliver his credentials to the Queen alone....

and Dundee. The former speaks, chiefly, the sentiments of the Dissenting ministers of Scotland, and their congregations. Dundee adds another to the list of great manufacturing...

States attracts some notice in America. The Negro slaves on board the brig Creole, on its way from one town to another within the Union, revolted against the Whites, murdered...

" WHAT will Sir ROBERT PEEL do with the Duke of Boca- isinnAst ?" was the question asked all round, as soon as it was known that Sir ROBERT had some thought of altering the...

At a meeting of the Committee of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association and of Delegates from the Branch Associations, on Monday, it was announced, that with the concurrence...

a se- cond steamer has been sent out of the river to escape the destruction of its crew. It will be remembered that one of those who gave the most emphatic warnings of this...

Tim Queen and Prince Albert left Windsor Castle on Tuesday, for Claremont, escorted by a party of Horse Guards, and followed by the suite. The Royal pair continued the...

The subscription in the West Riding of Yorkshire for a memorial to Lord Morpeth amounts to 1,4001. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle suggests that the proceeds should be...

Mr. Gregory, grandson of a late Under Secretary of State, is now definitely put forward as the Tory candidate for Dublin. An address has been forth on the part of Lord Morpeth,...

The Duke of Wellington is understood to have treated the authorities of the town of Dumbarton with as little courtesy as he did the deputa- tion from Paisley. The Magistrates...

Among the minor reforms which Sir Robert Peel has made, is one in the style of the circular issued by the Leader of the House of Commons before the opening of the session. This...

with very opposite results. At one, held by the Liverpool Operative Anti- Corn-law Association, on Wednesday, the Chartists carried a resolution condemning the Corn-laws, but...

Helston, is now understood to be the Ministerial candidate for West Cornwall. The Whig candidate is said to be Sir Charles Lemon.

Salvandp after receiving from the Spanish Cabinet a reply to his ultimatum, left Letters from Madrid, dated the 6th, announce that M. de Salvandp after receiving from the...

Mr. Christopher John Geldard, of Settle, in Yorkshire, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

to re- ceive the report of the gentlemen who had been appointed at a previous meeting to procure the inquiry into the charges against the officers of the Sevenoaks Union....

128 votes to 1. OnWednesday, the Baron Daunant moved that M. Perrite, the editor of the Slack, be summoned to attend at the bar of the House, to answer for contemptuous...

SATURDAY'. Her Majesty will hold, this day, a Privy Council at Windsor, at which will be considered the arrangements with reference to the bap- tism of his Royal Highness the...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Jan. 13th. John Bull, Ormond, from Bengal; Tito. Lowry; Graham, from China ; Duna, Sanderson. from Singapore; Bolivar. Fens% lett, from Bombay ; and...

letter from a correspondent— Chichester, 12th January 1842. RESPECTED Farran—In reading the article in last week's Spectator enti- tled " Post-office Improvement," and the...

STOCK EXCHANDE, 1 . '1.91AT AFTERNOON. The appearance - of a further advance in the prices of the Public Securities, to which we alluded in our last report, has not been...

BIRTHS. On the 8th January. at Couvamore. the Countess of LISTOWEL, of a son. On the 9th. iu Eaton Square, the Lady of Colonel M'ALeors, of a daughter. On the 11th. in Belgrave...

has expanded it into one of greater dimensions—" Vocal and Narrative Il- lustrations of Scottish Music and Song "—this again being only the first section of an encyclopedic...

THE Morning Chronicle is singularly infelicitous in its attempt to fasten odium on Sir JAMES GRAHAM by reviving the recollection of the speech he delivered in April 1840,...

NOVELTIES are not looked for during the first week or two after Christ- mas ; but each of the principal theatres has given occasion for a word or two by way of reporting...

THE RIGHT OF SEARCH. THE Morning Post has rather mystified us by insinuating, that in the opinions we last week expressed regarding the right of search controversy, we are...

Tao question regarding the effect of the Corn-laws upon rent has been considerably mystified by the partial and one-sided view of rent which has been taken by Messrs. M./mans...

IN our last remarks on the recent Army and Navy Promotion,* we gave the new Admiralty credit for fairness and Justice, which the Navy List for the present month proves to have...

WHEN the scholar of whom so many wise tales are told went to see a sick friend, he found him speechless. " Oh " he cried, " if you won't speak to me when I come to see you, when...

" THE good Oldlinies" is rather a vague expression : most of those who use it would be puzzled to tell wherein the goodness con- sisted. sisted. In general, however, it may be...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Glasgow. 7th January 1842. Sin—I observe in last Spectator a letter on Death-punishment, signed M. B. SAMPSON, abounding in a greater degree...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Leamin g ton, 10th January 1842. SIR —Had your correspondent upon the subject of military promotion, in your number of the 8th January,...

Btosaarar, Memoirs of the late James Halley, A.B., Student of Theology. Jelaistene,Rilisberyk. 2101LICULT11111, The Book of the Farm. By Henry Stephens. Editor of " The...

CHEMISTRY. WE know not whether the movement on the Corn-laws has had any thing to do with stimulating the productions of books on agriculture, but one of the wisest modes of...

Amin the quantity of verse continually pouring forth from the press, the two little volumes at the head of this notice may claim some distinction ; not indeed as effusions of a...

IT is probable that neither the housewife who sighs over the high price of the best isinglass for her blancmange, nor the confectioner who adulterates it or substitutes animal...

From January 7th to January 13th. Boors. On the Production of Isinglass along the Coasts of India, with a Notice of its Fisheries. By J. F. ROYLE, M.D., &c. Observations on...

Seca is the title of a prospectus issued by Mr. MET I um, an artist who has devoted his attention to producing pictorial effects in colours by means of lithography, in...

Waa.ornce, Jan 14.-7th Regt. Drag. Guards-Cornet W. Hogg to be Lieut. by par. chase, vice Dillon, who retires; A. Robertson, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hogs. 7th...

THE EXHIBITION SYSTEM. THE painter's purgatory, the exhibition-season, has commenced : the artists are now undergoing the annual torment of being suspended upon the tenterhooks...

Tuesday, Jan. 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. and M. Tolson, Earl's Heaton. Yorkshire, blauket-manufacturers-Funiss and Paulson, Mansfield, surgeons-Hoole and Whitworth,...

-FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation Alabama (Sterling) 5 p. Ct. da.lug the - Week ending Friday Evening.) Mexican 5 p. Ct. 294 Arkansas (1863) 6 - - Ditto (Dererred) 5 - 9...