with this country are in a vety unsettled state, though one not unpromising if opportunity be improved. The British Govern- ment, it is said, offered to submit the Oregon...

finds time and money for unremitting assiduity in political agitation : the Orange Society is reorganized, and the" O'Connell Tribute," collected on Sunday last, is estimated as...

ties: it is ill-used and angry, as badly off in its friends as in its foes ; and it takes pains to expose its weaknesses no less than its wrongs, at an agricultural dinner....

Tan fever of curiosity to know what Ministers are going to do as a provision against scarcity, has abated with the mere lapse of time. No Order in Council has issued, there is...

The grand ball in aid of the Ward Schools took place at Guildhall on Wednesday, and passed off so well as to fulfil every expectation. The company was estimated at 2,000 in...

SOME public business has engaged the Royal attention, at Windsor Castle, this week. On Thursday, the Queen held a Court and Privy Council. The Bishop of Bath and Wells had an...

The Somerset County Agricultural Protection Association met at Yeovil on Friday, for their annual dinner. Mr. George Harbin, of Newton House, presided; many country gentlemen...

The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle explains the objects of a recent appointment— "Lit connexion with the appointment of Mr. Twisleton as the fourth Poor-law...

UNITED STArns.—The Great Britain steam-ship and the Hibernia mail- steamer have arrived at Liverpool. Both had been delayed by accidents. The Great Britain left New York on the...

Mr. Rutherfurd was reelected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, on Saturday last. An opposition had been threatened by a section of the Free Church party, who were dissatisfied...

The Archduke Constantine of Russia arrived at Plymouth on Saturday morning, in the line-of-battle ship Ingermanland, 74. The large ship was accompanied by the corvette...

that Parliament will be prorogued from the 27th instant to the 16th December; from the Speaker, that a writ will Dime for the elec- tion of a Member to represent the County of...

for the 27th December. The Minister of Agriculture has issued a circular to the Prefects of the several departments, intended to allay the popular fear* respecting the harvest....

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Dublin " Mansionhouse Committee" on the potato disease have adopted the draft of a memorial to the Queen. They assert that one-third of the potato crop has...

6th instead, arrived in the Mersey yesterday morning. It brings little additional nem, The Great Western steam-ship, which left New York on the 6th instead, arrived in the...

in August last, a numerous population of Arabs, (3,000,) with their tents, camels, and flocks, shut themselves in the grottoes of the lbeat of the Dahra, and tha4 Colonel St....

have been received; by way of Sydney and Calcutta. The narrative is imperfect, especially in not connecting the present occurrences with the past; but of the main incidents,...

THE new opera, Maritana, produced successfully at Drury Lane on. Saturday, has held its place with undiminished attraction during the pre- sent week. Mr. Vincent Wallace, the...

been brought to London by the express of the daily papers. The interest entirely centres in the Punjaub, the scene of new troubles. The tale, related in letters from Lahore of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. During the early part of the week, the English Funds revived, and prices were s, little m advance of those of last Saturday; but as Thursday...

THE new comedy by Mr. Richard Brinsley Knowles, a son of the veteran • dramatist, was produced at the Haymarket on Wednesday, under the title of The Maiden Aunt; and owed its...

Cumosrrr had been so strongly excited by the flattering reports of a private performance, at Miss Kelly's Theatre, of Ben Jonson's comedy Every Man in his Humour, by a party of...

TO THE EDITOR OF ME SPECTATOR. Sin—I have read with much pleasure the article on "National Defence" in your publication of the 15th instant. It relates to a subject which has...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 19th November 1845. Sue—I extremely regret the tenour of your remarks on this subject I have been so long accustomed to look for...

TO THE EDTTOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Paternoster Row, 17th November 1845. Sin—I was somewhat struck with your notice of James's Arrah Neil in your last number, particularly with...

REMODELLING OF THE STAMP-LAWS: MATTER FOR NEXT BUDGET. BY the Acts for giving the public Short Deeds, the Legislature has expressed its intention to facilitate the sale of...

THE Times and Mr. Spackman have brought the Railway public to book, with a gigantic statistical synopsis of the railways con- structed, constructing, and contemplated. Presented...

THE American journalists and orators have materially modified their tone in relation to Oregon. The newspapers received by last packet swarm with projects for settling the...

A CORRESPONDENT, belonging to the Society of Friends, re- proaches us with a bellicose inconsistency on account of the paper in our last number on "National Defence." In order...

JUST before cutting the first sod on the Trent Valley Line, Sir Ro- bert Peel talked of the birthplace and seat of his family. The noble inmate of Stowe, who quarters on the...

THE vis inertia of official habits, it is generally known, has suc- ceeded in preventing the introduction of Rowland Hill's reforms in their integrity. If we assume, for the...

No special revelation is needed to foretell what is about to hap- pen in India. The Nizam's territory is about to be incorporated into the British dominions ; which are,...

THEOLOGY, The Gospel Narrative, according to the Authorized Text of the Evangelists, without Repetition or Omission. With a continuous Exposition, marginal Prooth In full, and...

soon after Mr. H. Jesse's publication on the same subject, there is, thus far, no kind of clashing between the two books. Mr. Jesse compressed the two Pretenders and their...

THE design of Miss Costello is to present specimens of the Persian poets, with critical and biographical notices of their lives ; a task so dif- ficult that it may be doubted...

Is an attempt at reviving the genuine broad comedy, where the follies and prevailing vices of the day were exposed, both in the higher and lower walks of life. The two principal...

volume is a tribute to the monomania of the day ; since railways are not more conspicuous in its pages than many other subjects. Mr. Samuel Salt's publication contains a vast...

Is a didactic novel, aiming to inculcate ethics by example and religion by putting phrases into the mouths of the persons. One purpose, and a very good one, is to show the...

From November 14th So November 20th. BOOKS. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. By Mrs. Thomson, Author of " Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth," &c. Volumes L...

COPYING OLD PICTURES AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. YILL11 after year the walls of the British Institution are hung with copies of fine pictures that want all the qualities for...

Mr. LEONARD W. CoLLstaxs has written to us, desiring to remove an impression that the specimen of decorative painting sent in by him as competitor for the decorations of the New...

On the 22d October, at the British Consulate, Trebizond, the Lady of Frans* tar Stevens, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul, of a son and heir. On the 10th November, at...

Tuesday, November 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Green and Co. Halifax, woolstapiers-LIndon and Co. Plymouth, merchants ; as far as regards J. W. Linden-Clay and Barrett, Sloane...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. 3 per Cent Consols 969 Ditto for Account . 969 3 per Cents Reduced ........ 959 39 per Cents 97 Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per...