Loan Josue RUSSELL has accepted office: the fact was announced yester- day morning, and not till then. The imperfect attempts to guess at the distribution of offices in his...

Unable to resist the ravages of disease, and desirous of escaping a winter's impilio.nicent at a distance from the medic's' resources of London, he has come away, by permission,...

by the country to the news of Sir Robert Peel's definitive resignation and Lord John Rps- sell's accession. From the provincial papers but little information can be gathered:...

Dublin: it was "a great day for Ireland," and Mr. O'Connell made a flaming spew.h.. His whole plans are altered, though he keeps up a show of similarity in. his language. "...

the English Ministerial crisis; which was indeed foreseen in Paris six weeks ago, as we heard at the time. The minute and generally correct understanding of the matter which the...

The Free-trade meeting of the London Livery was held in the Guildhall on Monday. Long before one o'clock, the appointed hour, the large building was crowded. At that time, the...

THE Queen returned to Windsor Castle on Saturday, to be nearer town during the Ministerial crisis. Her Majesty arrived before two o'clock; having travelled by the South-western...

The Anti-Corn-law meetings rapidly multiply in number. Most of them have been held on requisition to the local authorities. The list now com- prises Kendal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,...

The Waterford Freeman gives, on the authority of a correspondent hi, Dublin, a distressing account of Archbishop Murray's health- " His Grace the most Reverend Dr. Murray is at...

We have already mentioned Lord John Russell's acceptance of office: it remains to narrate the progress of the Ministerial crisis during the week. Lord Johu has held daily...

Public meetings to demand the opening of the ports and repeal of the Corn-laws have been held, at Glasgow, Edinburgh, (Chamber of Com- merce,) Perth, Kirkaldy, East Anstruther,...

of the Council- General of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, on Monday. M. Cunin-Gridaine gave a flourishing account of the state of French trade, internal and external....

SATURDAY. "From our first announcement of the resignation of Sir Robert Peel we have not ceased to impress upon the public how many and how serious were the obstacles to the...

Coun- cil, calls Mr. John Stuart Wortley to the Peerage, and thus occasions s vacancy in the House of Commons for the West Riding of Yorkshire. A. more important trial of...

On the I 1 th December, at Iford, Sussex, the Wife of the Rev. William Edward Allfree, 'Rector of Southease, of a daughter. On the 14th, at the Ranger's Lodge, Wychwood Forest,...

Aaaivzo-At Gravesend, 16th Dec. Clipper, Perelle, from the Cape ; and Caribbean, Fleming, from Mauritius ; and 17th, Curraghmore, Ball, from Calcutta. In the Downs, 16th, Thomas...

postpone his in- tended visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at Deene Park, Northampton, in consequence of symptoms of rout having seized the Royal Duke. On Thursday his Royal...

of the Cham- ber of Deputies. Ministers will, however, make the election a Cabinet question. M. Sauzet will, consequently (in all likelihood) be reelected.—Paris Correspondent...

The second Ministerial crisis has this day terminated in Lord John, Russell's resigning the task of forming an administration; and Sir Robert Peel has again been summoned to...

housie to be Clerk of the Registers and Rolls in Scotland; Colonel the Honour- able Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., to be Assistant-Master of the Ceremonies to the Queen, and...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERHOow. The week commenced as brightly as the last closed gloomily. The delay in the formation of the new Ministry being taken as an earnest of the...

RESULTS OF THE LATE ADMINISTRATION. THOUGH the period of its rule has not been eventful in deeds of war, nor disturbed by revolution, Sir Robert Peel's Administra- tion has bad...

The French Plays continue to keep the even tenour of success; and as the engagement of M. Lafont draws to a close, the attraction of his perform- ances and those of Mademoiselle...

The tribes of tourists who take the railway journey to Paris via Rouen, induced Mr. Burford to make sketches for a panoramic view of this picturesque old city: and, with the...

THE leading journal of the Whigs is inclined to agree with the Spectator in thinking that the retirement of Sir Robert Peel is calculated to hinder the repeal of the Corn-laws ;...

" WHERE there is much smoke, there is some fire." The fre- quent stories of brutal abuse of power on the part of masters in the merchant sea-service, shows that neither acts of...

OUR relations with the United States are not the least fruitful sources of anxious thought at this time of recommencing turmoil. Still Mr. Polk has given no sign. The Government...

Too much of the time of Magistrates in Police Courts is taken up with a kind of business which, properly speaking, has no bu- siness there. The duty of the Police Magistrate is...

1r would appear impossible to persuade people, however highly vilized, that Nature works by general laws—that what has happen- ed once may and perhaps will happen again. One...

THE friends of peace in the manufacturing districts have com- menced an agitation of a novel character, but not the less praise- worthy on that account. They invite the...

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, Viet to the Portuguese Possessions In South-western Africa. By G. Tams. M.D. Translated from the German, with an Introduction and Annotations, by H. Evans...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London,18th December 1845. SIR—Were it possible to divert public attention for a moment from the present all-engrossing Ministerial " crisis "...

THIS work was originally written in French, and in 1842 was printed for distribution among Lord Mahon's private friends. The approbation it received stimulated the writer to...

AFTER the silence of a twelvemonth, amid almost incessant attacks, and a demand for five editions of a book on a topic abstruse and unattractive, the author of The Vestiges of...

Tars work consists of an inquiry into the physical and mechanical laws which have regulated the development of the numerous family of lan- guages named in the titlepage. There...

THE loss and recovery of the title and inheritance of an ancient Scottish family, by " the young Baronet," form the subject of this novel. Sir Renault, the lineal descendant of...

From December 12th to December 18th. BOOKS. The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, from 1702 to 1712. Edited liv General the Right Honourable...

WAR-OFFICE, Dec.:10.-2d Sleet. of Life Guards—Ensign E. F. Wingfield, from the 56th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Langley, who retire& 10th Light Drags.—T....

Tuesday, December 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Stevens and Alexander, Clement's Inn, civil-engineers-Mutt and Johnson, I.eyton, Essex, bricklayers-James and CO....

SHARES. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Mixes— DANE,— Bolanos — Australasian Brazilian Imperial — British North American . .... . Ditto (St....