at the Bank of England would be raised from 2 to 24' per cent, is followed this week by a further rise to 3 per cent. The first fact to suggest and to account for this...

oppo- site of the prudential action on our own money-market. Here the vast bulk of our transactions are genuine, and our great banking establishment is seen exercising its...

Ix spite of early appearances, Ministers have not lost any English or Scotch seat—not even that one in England which was supposed to be imperilled ; but they have sustained a...

sagnac, that his master is going to make new conquests by Stilals navigation in America, is met by the resolution which General Cass has moved before the American Senate,...

Tan QuErs held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter on Wednesday, in the Throne-room of Windsor Castle, for the purpose of electing Knights to fill the vacant stalls. The...

A deputation from the Protestant Alliance, consisting of the Earl of Cavan, the Honourable A. Kinnaird M.P., the Reverend C. Kemble, the Reverend Dr. - Steane, Colonel...

The contested election for Oxford University closed on Thursday ; when Mr. Gladstone was returned by a majority of 124. During the last five days, the polling was very languidly...

The contest at Carlow began yesterday week on the part of the Tenant- Leaguers and Religious-Equality men. A deputation, among whom were Mr. Frederick Lucas M.P., Dr. Kearney,...

Fasime.—Louis Napoleon has at length found a bride ; not a princess, to be sure, but a beauty and a countess. He is going, we are told, to marry for love. Our readers may have...

The Duke of Argyll is working some "home diggings" near Inverary, where, two years since, while the land was being drained, a rich ore of nickel was discovered. At the present...

As considerable misapprehension appears to exist regarding Lord John Russell's position in the present Government, and as it has even been stated, in quarters usually better...

the won- ders of history. Efforts have not been spared by Louis Napoleon to ob- tain the submission of the old Republicans ; but in general he has notoriously failed. The...

SATilltDAY. - The French Funds yesterday recovered in a great degree from the de- pression of Wednesday ; Three per Cents rising to 79f. 95c., and the Four-and-a-half per Cents...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Armaroonr. Considerable excitement has this week been exhibited in the English Stock Market, combined with depressed prices and close attention on the...

by which all foreign officers in the service are placed on the retired list, by a majority of 79 to 3. [A new effort for national independence.] The Vienna Presse says, that at...

Court of Queen's Bench, were not finished yesterday. The Attorney-General and Mr. Bram- well were heard ; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins addressed the court today on the same side,...

public dinner given In his honour by the merchants and traders of Birmingham. Mr. Muntz M.P. presided ; and around him were Lord Calthorpe, Mr. Spooner M.P., Mr. William...

nople on the 6th instant. Chamil Bey had forced the Russians to aban- don all the positions they had gained last year ; and Mehemet Anim, his Naib, amongst the Circassian tribes...

some gossip from the Tuscan capital : though his letter was only intended for our private benefit, we make free to print an extract. "Ilaynau is still here ; at least I saw him...

The first :French dramatic version of Uncle Tom's Cabin saw the light of the lamps on Tuesday last. The happy theatre is not the Gaith, but the Ambigu-Comique ; and the happy...

marked by the first appearance of Mr % Weiss in the character of the Pro- phet. He performed his arduous task very successfully ; singing with more energy than Philips, and with...

The "fact" of the week is the appearance of Miss Anderton, a young Manchester actress, at the Olympic Theatre. Not only has she made a successful debat in a character of "strong...

is a new society of amateurs, established for the purpose of giving concerts on a large scale at Exeter Hall, under the direction of Mr. Benedict. Their second concert was...

at Freemasons' Hall. The company, under the presidency of Lord Saltoun, was as numerous as usual, and enjoyed the madrigalian feast with undiminished gusto. Peculiar interest...

THE MONEY PANIC IN PARIS. THE present Government of France is not only incapable of giving security to property under its influence, but its influence actually menaces the...

La its practical illustration of the mode in which a peculiar species of constituency works, Oxford has made a valuable contribution towards the data for a new Reform Bill. A...

AUSTRALIA. is steadier in the development of her resources than we who observe her are in our opinion. Mankind will never get over the propensity to hasten to conclusions ; and...

A CONTEMPORARY opportunely palls Mr. Milner Gibson to his duty in reviving the subject of agricultural statistics. For several suc- cessive years Mr. Gibson has worked...

Tire progress of Law-reform in India has been obstructed and perverted by difficulties inherent in the country, and in the na- tural as well as artificial discrepancies between...

"Iv was never supposed that a man so cold and calculating as Louis Napoleon would have made a love-match," says not only one contemporary, but that peculiarly babbling fellow...

Tin recent fatal accident on the Buckinghamshire branch of the North-western Railway, the verdict of the Jury fastening a charge of manslaughter on one of the servants who at...

A FZW very ugly cases of murder have been before the public lately : the criminals have been tried, convicted, and hanged ; and the indiscriminate efforts of the humanitarians...

Sia—Allow me to suggest to your correspondent Mr. W. J. Linton, that the end of English laws is to protect and regulate society id England. A crime perpetrated in France, though...

1 Adam Street, Adelphi, 15th January 1853. Sin—The knowledge that gold exists in greater i quantities than was for- merly supposed, bids fair to work greater changes n the...

20th January 1853. thait—.1. have just seen the Supplement to your paper of the 1st of January, and the letter of your correspondent who signs himself "G. D. B." I am not the...

Chichester, 1 Mo. 18, 1858. RESPECTED FRIEND—The attention of railway companies being again di- rected to the subject of some means of communication between the guard and...

10th January 1853. SIR—I have for years been of opinion that an immense revenue might be raised if every receipt for sums amounting to one pound sterling and upwards were taxed...

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Tuesday, January 18. PARINERSIIIP8 DISROLVED.—Golden and Son, Huddersfield, gun-makers—Imperial British Wine Company, Manchester—Cook and Co. Bury, cotton-manufacturers -...

Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. G. Burrell, C.B. dec. 1st Regt. of Drag. Guards—T. L. Hampton. Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bolton, appointed to the 5th Drag. Guards. 11th...

On the 1st January, in Dublin, the Hon. Mrs. Hewitt, of a daughter. On the 5th, at the Rectory, Carlton-Colville, Suffolk, the Wife of the Rev. William H, Andrews, of a son. Oc...

BRIT,I13.11 FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tsitsday. Wednes Thurs. Friday. 3 pen °ant Oomph 991 091 891 981 90 991 Ditto fur Account . .. 991 991 991 Mt 991 951 3 per...

the County of Middlesex. Printer, at the office of JOSEPH CLAITOH, 14' o:10, Crime Ceurt, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London; and Published by the...

SPENCER'S FRANCE AND ITALY. * This tour of inquiry through France and Italy contains a good deal of fresh and striking matter, accompanied by heavy draw- backs. Mr. Spencer...

No. 1282.] POE THE PEEK ENDLNG SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1853. [GRATTEI WTCH THE WEEK'S SPECTATOR..

lw the Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament Professor Mau- rice has a theme peculiarly suited to his genius. Though a con- ', Proplaeas and, Kings of the Old Testament : a...

SARI'S Gulistan belongs to aperiod as remote as the middle of the thir- teenth century. Its author, who lived to extreme old age, seems to have been an amiable,...

Tam purpose of this novel gives it an advantage over some pre- vious fictions of the authoress. She is more at home among the scenes to which the story gives rise, and is better...

Wirm may be called the novel of mystery was fashionable among the last generation. Marriage, which usually: terminates the story of a common novel, led to the distress in the...