ECCENTRICITY seems to mark the political discussion of the recess . as it runs to its dregs : the aristocratic agitators are becoming vul- gar, the working men philosophically...

is becoming very complicated ; and the complication is not diminished by the pretensions which are set up on his behalf. These appear in the NapoMon, a journal edited by M....

any other country would lead to a Ministerial if not to a national crisis; and even Madrid is not yet " out of the wood." The Fi- nance Minister has produced his budget, and has...

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress gave a dinner at the Mansion- house, on Tueaday, to about seventy guests, including two of the City Members, Lord John Russell and Mr....

THE Queen and Prince Albert have driven daily to Frogmore, sometimes taking their elder children ; and Prince Albert has enjoyed his favourite diversion of skating on the...

At the meeting held by the Protectionists of East Retford, on Satur- day, Lord Henry Bentinck, on being called to the chair, withheld his unqualified assent to the assertion,...

The Irish Protectionist movement has received additional checks. The counties of Meath and Wexford are to be added to those who, when sum- moned to consider remedies for the...

The expenditure of the City of Edinburgh parochial board in out-deor relief has, in consequence of the present greater demand for labour and the cheapness of food, been fully...

gene- ral debate on the organic bill concerning public instruction. The debate, which still goes on, has not been marked by speeches generally interest- ing, so much as...

Parliament met formally in the House of Lords on Tuesday, to be fur- ther prorogued till the 31st. The House of Peers was represented by the Lords Commissioners only—the Lord...

SATURDAY. The Russian Government having advertised through Messrs. Baring for a loan of 5,500,0001. to complete the railway between St. Petersburg and Moscow, Mr. Cobden...

Lords the Earl of Ewes will propose, and Lord Methuen second, the Address in reply to the Queen's Speech.—Times. The Queen has contributed 1,000/. and Prince Albert 5001....

after- noon, with news from Bombay to the 17th of December. The interesting points are few. Another plot had been found out at Lahore—fomented by the fugitive Ranee : the young...

for the Whig Government, are very active just now in spreading two reports which precisely contradict each other. Both relate to the Colonial ques- tions now so rife. The first...

"the great" Protectionist meeting of noblemen, proprietors, and tenants, in the Dublin Rotunda, on Thursday. The Marquis of Downshire was in the chair; the Marquis of Westmeath,...

irnn- master, was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. A letter written on behalf of Mr. Henry Walsh, of Dublin, to Messrs. Fielden Brothers at Liverpool, confirms...

We have received a number of ingenious communications on the proper computa- tion of the Century : now as that is a matter almost self-evident, unless it is under- stood at a...

the Governor of New Zealand has appointed as Judge in the Scotch settlement of Ota g o, a person who was dis g racefully struck off the rolls of the court in which he practised...

main- tains the novelty before the lamps of a full house. The pantomime and the low prices are doubtless the g reat elements of attraction, For his second coup d'essai this...

The last production of Buekstone is one of the least felicitous that has issued from his pen. The subject, Leap-Year, with the concomitant notion that at that period ladies may...

Mom Baena:con, FRIDAY Arrmucooir. After the close of business on Saturday, it became known that the Bank Directors had raised the rate of interest upon loans on the security of...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Leaeow Castk, 8th January 1850. Sui—It would ill become me to discuss withyou those points on which it appears we differ in the question of...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Sin—I feel assured you will afford me an opportunity of attempting to de- monstrate to you and your readers, that the Private Money Drainage Act...

at St. Mar- tin's Hall in Long Acre, are entertahunents of a high order. They con- sist chiefly of chamber instrumental compositions of the greatest masters, with a sprinkling...

TO THE EDITOR. OP THE SPECTATOR. Sin—I have read with much satisfaction your excellent articles on cheap i capital for agriculturists . I believe that you and your...

On Thurs- day, its hundred-and-ninth anniversary meeting was held in Freemasons' Hall. There was a large attendance, and many of the old familiar faces —surviving lovers of the...

1.1:LIN, COLONIAL OASIS. IN the howling wilderness of our Colonial Empire there is one bright and happy spot ; an oasis of good government, pros- perity, and satisfaction, in...

THE revolution of March 1848 has wrought extensive and per- manent changes in Germany. The territorial divisions and the political institutions of all the states remain...

Tim third letter addressed by Mr. Wikoff, the American, to the Paris journal La Preen, deals in a sort of historical resume of French internal changes, from an early period ;...

The sanatory reforms which are requisite for rendering London, or any other large city, a place of healthful abode, may be divided into two classes : those which must be...

Scam progress has been made in the formation of a Commercial Debt Insurance Company. The practicability of the scheme rests upon the improved state of debtor and creditor law,...

strange that a library of music and musical literature should have remained a desideratum in London to this very year ; not so strange, perhaps, considering our usage and...

DYER'S LIFE OF CALVIN. * AL/moues Calvin was a scholar of considerable learning and a theologian of rigorous logic, his literary merit would hardly have rendered him famous ;...

original genius and the useful but inferior class of improvers, inventors, imitators, and what not, really lies in comprehension : it is the largeness, the wholeness, the one...

takes the form of fragmentary autobiogra ph y, was at one time fashion- able from its novelty, and perhaps from the facility which it seemed to offer to writers. It is true that...

Booxs. The third week of the new year preserves the characteristics of its prede- cessors,—an influx of numerous books of the nature of reprints, though still with something of...

WAIt-OMCE, Jan. 18.-2d Regt. of Life Guards-E. H. Howard, Gent. - to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton, promoted. 1st Guards-Sir T. Greeley, Bart. to be...

Tuesday, January 16. PARTNERSUITS DISSOLVED.-Pike and Lyme, Hammersmith, tailors-T. and J. Inkersole, Matching, Essex, farmers-Ralph and Co. Bolton, cotton-spinners- Booth and...

On the 7th January, at Trafalgar House, Wiltshire, the Countess Nelson, of a daughter. On the 9th, at Beeston Hall, Lady Preston, of a daughter. On the 10th, at Hariewood...

Ai:miasma% Jan. 14.-The following promotions have this day taken place cease. quent on the death of Admiral of the Blue A. W. Schomberg Vice-Admiral of the Bed J. Carthew to be...

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. Than Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 971 ex d. 961 961 961 Ditto for Account 971 ex d. 961 961 961 964 961...