1848 and 1847; for the capital of European civilization is returning to its wonted aspect, though it still displays the tricolor. The soirees of the Princess Lieven, M. Guizot's...

failure in Montreal. They have held rather a numerous meeting ; but the grandees, whether of the English Liberal party or of the French blood, kept away. On the other hand, the...

For some time we have seen a steady decline of rural wages ; and from what passed at the Gloucestershire Agricultural dinner the other day, it does not seem likely that there...

THE Queen and Prince Albert, with their children, enjoy good health at Osborne House; in comparative privacy, however, for they receive "no ad- ditions " to their daily circle....

At a "great meeting" of the Metropolitan and National Freehold Land Society, in the "great room of the London Tavern," on Monday, Mr. Cob- den appeared as the apostle of a new...

Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, fourth son of the Duke of Richmond, has accepted an invitation to be a candidate for the vacancy in the repre- sentation of Shoreham. His political...

The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser gives a resume of the operations of the Encumbered Estates Commission, which suggests good hopes of its practi- cal usefulness- " During the...

FRANCE.—A paper in the Credit has raised much political excitement In an account of the official interview granted by the President of the Republic to several new Prefects of...

The National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association have continued their campaign in Scotland. On Monday last, Glasgow was the scene of their efforts. The City Hall,...

The German papers state that Prince Albert has instituted legal pro- ceedings in, opposition to a resolution of the Gotha Chambers declaring "certain private domains of his to...

lant means for carrying out the wishes of th to furnish on Monday next and distinguished officers are each expecte ' position of Sir John Frank- their opinions with reference...

Commis- able the Lord Mayor, and the four ion, to consider the course which should hich have been sent in to this Commis- polls." tish Hospital, held yesterday—St. Andrew's e...

SATURDAY. The Paris correspondent of the Times communicates the important in- telligence, that the French Government has given notice to the British Government of its intention...

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Silt Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday, the 24th day of Nov. 1649. ISSUE DEPARTMENT • Notes issued £29,570,175...

Court to fix the amount of bail for the appearance of Lord Dunboyne to answers true bill indictment that had been found against him by the Grand Jury for causing a entry to be...

ster in Dorsetshire, Burton-on-Trent in Lincolnshire, and Handley in Cheshire. The speakers at the Sturminster meeting regretted the absence of the inspiriting Mr. Haxtable,...

address of the sender) on more thaia; page. 4. It must be prepaid in stamps. Limitation of Size and TVek7i1.-5. The leegth of an inland letter or pack e t must not exceed two...

com- menced in some of the parishes which make up the Holborn division of the county of Middlesex. It is believed that the case of those parishes pre- sents a fair example of...

[PROLE A PRIVATE LETTER TO A FRIEND.] By an accident, I did not get the Spectator containing your notice of the re- moval of the seat of Government in Canada. However, you...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTEBROOR. The English Funds have been in a state of almost continued advance- and though trifling reactions have on more than one occasion occurred, the...

THE FREEHOLD LAND PROJECT MEASURED. Mn. COBDEN'S Freehold Land scheme is a great improvement on Mr. Feargus O'Connor's, but it is quite as little of a national movement....

The logo of Mr. Macready, being a character more popular than his Othello, attracted a large audience on Monday.

one we have been just describing,—a little piece, with the certificate-of its Gallic birth visibly attached to it, and written on - the principle of employing as few personages...

of our dramatic Collections are revived with eclat; Mrs. Glover being an important addition to the company.

we have long been without that commodity the real "Adelphi piece." The Sons ctf Mars looked like an attempt to introduce a milder, and we may add a weaker sort of article, among...

DEPARTING from its usual course of self-relying reserve, the Times went so far, on Tuesday, as to enter into an elaborate de- fence of its-position in Colonial affairs. This...

but they may be abused, and they may prove too much. They show quantity and quan- titative ratio ; they mark the area and boundaries of things ; but do little towards...

"A FIRE1" is a cry that we hear not with unmixed alarm but also with some curiosity : and truly, the other night, s e t" a fine spectacle is fire like the one which we...

ABSOLUTE truth may be beyond the reach of the best tribunal; proximate truth is the very object of any judicial tribunal, and to that end the different parties engaged should...

A MATCH is under negotiation for a race of English horses with the Arab horses of the Pacha of Egypt, to be run-in the Desert ; and the 'contest excites no small interest - hot...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 2eth November 1849. 16 in—...4.s the gentlemen who are kind enough to agitate the country upon lite- p rinciples rumples have for...

utilitarian in its devices, but not inferior . t ip () LENE neces r ity m i a n y fe - r e ti. ity of invention. If free to roam, the mind bjects of engagement, and in its...

WISE'S WANDERINGS. * Is the simmer of 1846, Lieutenant Wise, of the United States Navy, departed from Boston in a "large vessel of war" bound for the Pacific; and there he...

England, as we remarked in noticing Mr. Foss's first and second volumes, are not so favourable a subject as the Chancellors, from the less striking and generally speaking the...

monsoons and the trades, or the seemingly irr pests, drawn from Reid's Law of Storms ; the world and of Europe complete the meteor sion of Natural History contains the most n...

Boosts. Ancient Coins and .11feda1s; an Historical . Sketch of tire Origin and Progress of Coining Money in Greece and her Colonies; its - Progress with the Ek- tension of the...

Coll. to be Ensign, vice Wyatt. 974h Foot—Brevet Majo,i4W- liamo" - " , Cron , D. Wyatt. to be Lieut. vice Campbell. Gent. Cadet R. A. II. Tod, from the Royal MIL half-pay 67th...

On the 4th November, at Corfu, the Wife of the Rev. James■Skinner,Chaplatneasher, Majesty's Forces there,of a. daughter. On the 1.0th, at Corfu, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonl...

• rassocvar. • Nicoi—Acaster and Hayes, York, MIMI. PANIVE111111 Haigh and•Co. joiners; as far as rega drapers—Ellington and Sons—Pickles And Wilkinson, Leeds, cut-nail-nu=...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &shard. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes S pec Celt Consols 841 95 911 951 Ditto for Account 911 951 951 931 3 per Cents Reduced • 931 54 941 941 31...