44 REBELLION " in Canada, "insurrection in Canada "—such were the announcements that startled the town on Tuesday morn- ing. When the particulars became better known, it was...

inte- rest,^4bough no formal proceedings are recorded. The principal speakesa, besides Ministers have been Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Glad- stone, Lord Stanley and Air. Herriea,—leaders...

as momentous and as pregnant with danger as they have ever been, the events of the week are not of a decisive kind. The French expedition to Rome remains in its anomalous,posi-...

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Mouse OF LOADS. Monday, May 14. French Intervention at Rome : Lord Beau- Mont's Questions and Lord Lansdowne's Explanations—Rate-in-Aid Hill,...

AND KINCARDINE TO EARL GREY. Government House, Montreal, April 30, 1849. My Lord—I regret to state that rioting, attended with some consequences Much to be regretted, though...

TELE Duke and Dutchess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, with their three children, became the Queen's guests at Buckingham Palace on Sa- turday afternoon, and remain her...

At a public meeting convened by the High Bailiff of Southwark, on the requisition of 180 electors, and held in Southwark Town-hall on Wednes- day, the Chartists attended in...

The office of Poor-law Commissioner in Ireland, resigned by Mr. Twisleton, has been given to Mr. Alfred Power, Assistant-Commissioner resident in Dublin since the reconstitution...

FRANCE.—The elections absorb all political attention in Paris. The counting of the suffrages is now in progress, and enough is not known to show whether any party has obtained a...

Great complaints are made at Sunderland of the want of trade and em- ployment. There is nothing to do for the working men, and the prospect this year is worse than during the...

Mr. Hudson has resigned the Chairmanship of the York and North Midland Railway—his chief domain—on the ground that "the position in which he feels himself placed has become so...

by the Con- stitutiormel; and the estimate is very nearly the same as that given by the Pats-is and other journals. " The elections of 52 departments known on Thursday night...

the 13th, that Prussia has requested the Danish Cabinet to send a Plenipoten- tiary for the opening of peace negotiations at Berlin.

"That it appears by tho said record, that William Smith O'Brien, a Member of this House, has been adjudged guilty of high treason. "That Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the...

announced his acceptance of the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. Leigh, eldest son of Lord Leigh, is spoken of as a Liberal candidate; and Lord Guernsey, eldest son of...

Leg- horn was attacked on the 10th by the Tuscan troops before it, and, after a fight in which about 250 were lolled or wounded, entirely subdued. The Austrian auxiliary force...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTEENOON. The peaceable way in which the elections were conducted in Paris on Sunday last, when it was expected that some disturbances would have...

at Sadler's Wells, is a weak piece, with some strong points in it, and with the merit of being very well written. Calaynos, who is probably named after the hero of one of the...

her final exit in the midst of such a tumult of excitement, was performed two nights after- wards at Covent Garden. It was presented with a splendour and complete- ness not...

a manner which has given new freshness and interest to a hackneyed opera. This effect arises more from the excellence of the ensemble than from any striking features in the...

Alboni returned to the boards of Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday The performance of the Cenerentola was now strengthened by the rich humour of Lablache in Don Magnifico, and...

THE PILLARS OF HERCULES. To be beaten on the Navigation-laws, is for the remnant of the old Tory party to be exterminated ; and Lord Stanley's brave stand is but like that of...

no means judicious in selection, and contained so much inferior matter that the audience became cold to what was really good. The symphonies were, Spohr's "Historical Symphony,"...

A WRITER says that Mr. Roebuck gives true expression to Eng- lish feeling when he rates the Irish landlords and refuses more money. But we doubt the fact. The Member for...

AN able contemporary hails the departure of Jenny Lind as a greater gain than loss to the world, because " her operatic career, in England as in Germany, has afforded the most...

E Borgias adorned the fifteenth century ; it is England in the nineteenth century which exhibits poisoning as a domestic insti- tution. Of course, burial-societies must be...

exercise of the national activity, and which would manifestly benefit all who labour to feed labour with sustenance or ma- terials. Free trade itself, energetically developed,...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sue—I am induced by your remarks upon the promotion by purchase in the Army, in your number for the 28th April, to address you a few...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Philanthropic Farm School, Red Hill, 16th May 1849. Sin—In the Spectator of Saturday I find some very useful remarks on our newly-instituted...

BOEBUCK'S COLONIES OF ENGLAND. * THE object of this work is to inquire into the best mode of governing colonies, at least colonies of English original ; Mr. Roebuck considering...

when all London was out of' town, Dr. Forbes took a physician's holyday in a trip to Switzerland. He was accompanied by two young men, and the party were prepared to rough it if...

Mt. GEORGE BYANI is a ci-devant officer of the Forty-third, who appears to have passed some years in Chili in the superintendence of mines and searching for metals. His reasons...

be said that there is no historical picture in the exhibi- tion, except Mr. Patten's Destruction of Idolatry in England; so far do the others of a cognate class stand either...

BOOKS. Mornings among the Jesuits at Rome. Being Notes of Conversations held with certain Jesuits on the subject of Religion in the City of Rome. By the Reverend M. Hobart...

OFFICE OF Oernsescs, May 12.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Sec. Capt. W. Henderson to be Capt. vice Fyers, retired upon half-pay ; First Lieut. A. F. F. Lennox to be See. Capt. vice...

Tuesday, May 15. PARTNERSHIPS DissOLVED. Baron and Fryer, Wbitelee, Northumberland, coatmerchants-Marsiand and Rosser, Albion Works, Rawtonstall, Lancashire, engineers-Allen...

On the I Ith May. at Blahop'a Teignton, Devon, the With Of Captain A. G. West, aeon. On the 121b,,In Bris:keley Square, the Lady Elizabeth Lawley, of a son mad-heir. On the...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Coning Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. Thurs. Friday. 11 per Cent Consols 901 9,1 so/ 901 911 91# Dlt to for Account 90a 911 91 91* illf 1111;...