THE Government and their Liberal supporters have suffered a virtual defeat on the Church-rate question. The adjourned debate on Mr. RICE'S resolution commenced on Monday, and...

capture of' the Vixen to have been perfectly legal. Perhaps it was; but Englishmen will desire to have the opinion of the learned men whom Lord PALMERSTON consulted before...

of the United States, by a majority of 31 to 16 over his competitor, Mr. GRANGER New York.

Queen's troops iu the in ighbourhood of St. Sebastian. On the 10th in- stant, General EVANS attacked the Carlist intrenchments on the heights, and took the fortification on the...

British residents and Minister have got into an ugly quarrel with the new Grenadian Government. Mr. RussaLL, an Englishman, having had a scuffle with a Grenadian, was thrown...

Mr. Spring Rice on the 3d instant having been read by Mr. BERNAL, the Chairman, Sir ROBERT PEEL addressed the Committee. He said ti at he rose thus early in the discussion, in...

tuguese Ministry intend to move for a Committee of the Cortes, on the new Tariff, with a view to its modification or abolition. A band of Guerillas disturb the province of...

blow whicli the Chamber of Deputies struck last week, as from infernal weakness and disunion, and the contempt which the French public feel and cannot conceal fur the King. Some...

A meeting was held at the Alansionhouse on Saturday, to set on foot a public subscription for the la lief of the ten:tufty of the landowners itt the North of Scotland. The Lord...

examined on a charge of stabbing Mr. Loch, Deputy Chairman of the East India Company, with intent to kill bitn. It appeered that Kearney had been or fancied himself ill-used by...

THE King came to town on Wednesday; and soon afterwards a Levee was held at St. James's Palace. Among the company, were Lord Portman, Lord Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke...

day, that in the Times of Satutday a speech on Spanish affairs had been attributed to him, of which he never uttered a word. He was made to talk about the "voluptuous form " and...

Brookes's Club. The Whigs will do their best to keep his juvenileGruce inclose keeping. The death of a Dean of Bristol, at Torquay, last week, in his eighty- seventh year, leis...

to supply the vacancy which will be occasioned by Mr. Kemp's ietended retirement. Mr. John Easthope, formed) . Member for St. Alban's, having been in- vited by pearly 200...

On the :lilt inst., at Duddingston House, N.B., Duly IlAllalltT IIAILLIE of u t•on. On the Ilth inst., at Kensington, the Lady Ds 1,'Isr.s awl Donny, of n On the 12th inst. ,...

SATURDAY. Tim wily Foreign intelligence of interest is, that on the 12th in- stant General Evaes occupied the same position near St. Sebastian as on the former day ; and that...

the electors of the borough of Finsbury, to protest against time attempt of the Government to violate the constitutiooal rights of Lower Canada. 'f hus, while our rulers, who...

been commenced in the county of Limerick. At Kilmoreen, in the beginning of the wet k, there was an assembly of the peasants by horns and signal fires, to drive off the bailiffs...

the House of Peers—say Lord Chancellor COTTENHAM, Lord MeLeouisse, Lord BROUGHAM, and a Bishop—might be saved the trouble of meeting on Thursday next. The report of the...

It is rumoured at the Clubs this evening, that the serious question of resignation was dismissed to-day in a meeting of Ministers assembled for the purpose at Lord MELBOURNE'S....

are no longer his friends, or no longer omnipotent ; so he has retired, saucing on the chalice of being elected for some very rottess borough.

STOCK EXCP•NON,FRIDAT AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market, which was very firm in the early part of the week, has since given way about per cent 'This decline is apt ibuted by...

last night, for papers and correspondence relative to the Russian blockade of the Circe.sien coast, the commerce of the Black Sea, arid the capture of the Vixen, produced a...

Intelligence of an interesting and important nature has reached England from the Colony of South Australia in the course of the present week. Of fifteen vessels, which have...

BURKE somewhere tells a story of an elderly Member of the Howie of Corn. mons whom he one day discovered in the Library intrenched amid huge folios, gravely digesting a bill...

Arrived—At Gravesend, March 1411,. Royal George. Wilson, from Bombay ; Se- nator. Grindley Carribean, Irving; and Thames. Arnold, from Mauritius. Off Ha-dings, Sovereign....

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEC TATMI. Si it — . Matters get on but oddly in France. We mire in •• ime hebroglio," RS c; mm Says, With a estvernmelit nomi7s1Py i m piemetat:re, e e...

lterorm Tlearsday Evenlne. Breit Sin—May I ask a portion of next Sperfator, for the statement of some facts, having, in my opinion, an itnportnnt bearing on the question which...

WHIG-TORYISM ACCOUNTED FOR. THE conduct of the Whigs with regard to Canada, throws an portant light on home politics. The Whigs, from the first exist- ence of their party down...

A TaAcr, compiled from Parliamentary returns, and showing the great preponderauce of aristocratic influence in the Retie rued House of Commona, has been published by " the...

A centres:tie t - isx.r at Bristel has supplied us with some parti- cult: Is I-es:diets Ile e nu ni nsation awarded to Mr. Sergeant Lt. D- Lew', lut4! q't.v• id that city,...

" The total amount of fines in the no of Durham on an net rage of three years, wli bib formed the basin of the Cover 'intent cahmlationn, was I 7,e001. per annum; but it had...

from land let for a term of years on renewable leases; and suppose the State stepped in, and said that the noble lord's was an improvident method i,f sotling tin ptoperty ; that...

THERE are Bishops alive who were systematic purchasers of lottery-tickets, until Parliament was persuaded to abolish that species of gambling in England. In the United States,...

Tun second concert of the season was on 31oeday ; and consisted ot tire following selection. -ACT T. Silleollk ill (7 (SO. 6) Moz ART. Air, Mr. •• 0 God have mercy" (St. 1 ME...

was a tissue of blunders; notwithstanding the parade of con- scious superierity with which he heralded it—the candid conde- seensi. n of his " Stop me when obscure. correct me...

So far as our acquaintance with the Napeleonic memorials enables us . to fitrin a jedgment, (and who bus read all that has been written upon BONAPARTE?) this volume may be...

HfIrOStIr. Piiip./..011 in Council; or the Opinions delivered by Bonaparte in the Connell of State. 1'r:instated from the French of Baron Pelet. (I it. La bemire.) Member of...

To every one who wishes, either for speculative or practical pur- poses, to acquire a knowledge of the present economical condition of British India, this little book is...

THERE are only two modes in which a general interest can be im- parted to an account of barbarous tribes. The one is by a con- densed and elegant treatise concerning them, such...

ITALY. Tuts discursive narrative of a Continental rambler over well- trodden ground, is thrown into the shape of letters " by the advice of the printer, as more fitted for its...

In which class of the belles lettres the productions are nu- merous; consisting of 1. Xeniola. Poems, including Translationsfrom Schiller old De la Motte Fouqui. By JOHN...

In this branch Of literature there are two publications. Prince PIICKLER MUSKAU'S Adventures in Algiers and other Parts of *lea, in 3 vols. from Mr. BENTLEY; and from Mr....

Tins romance is it philosophical novel, which narrates, with the indescribable felicity of manner that seems peculiar to French writers, the conversion of an atheistical Count...

The First Volume of the long-talked-of Memoirs of The Life of Sir Miner Scott, by Mr. LOCKHART. Johnsoniana. A very judicious, amusing, and instructive selec- tion from the...

Under this head, the work of the highest merit is most pro- bably Mr. W,urn's vtrations if Haman Li fe; though the au- thor denies the intention of writing a novel even in the...

LIKE tlie creatures that Scripture speaks of, the publishers know their appointea time. and are ebviously on the look-ont for the approaching holydays, when Parliamentary...

P. Terentii Afri Comedite Sex. With Explanatory Notes, by D. B. Deem, LL.D. The Antiquities qf Greece. By JOIIN POTTER, D.D. 117th Notes and Improved Indices, by JAMES BOYD,...

SPAIN, so rich in the picturesque and romantic, is a fertile soil for the painters, who having well nigh exhausted the beauties of Italy and Switzerland, are now leaving the...

Those of any consequence are two. I. A second edition, en- larged and almost rewritten, of MACNISH'S Introduction to Phre- nology ; which is certainly plain enough, but from the...

HARDING is indefatigable in following up his successful career As a lithographer. His large book of Sketches and his pretty little Port. folio Intke not prevented him from...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. THE Exhibition of this Society opens to the public on Monday, at their Gallery in Suffolk Street. The private view is to-day; which being too late...