but important as symptoms of the chronic disease. Nothing appears to do well in that unlucky land. If it were at a distance from England, its weaknesses and tribulations would...

THE incendiary still maintains his reign of terror in the agricultural districts; and, fortunately, under the pressure of the evil men be- gin to take broader views of the...

mystified, and uses the ,'pectator as an agent in the process. He quotes the Bu^k,s He, ald, which assumes that Sir ROBERT PEEL will stand by the present Corn-law without a jot...

A Court of Common Council was held on Monday, for the despatch of business ; and the debate on the proposed scheme of Corporation Reform was renewed. The original motion before...

ancient sun of Greece, with its freedom and intellectual vigour, twain is dawning. The National Assembly to model the constitu- tion sets about its task with energy and dignity....

but has been kept alive in the Cortes by an interminable debate, the course of which has been seriously detrimental to the Ministers. S. LOPEZ, the Minister who was displaced by...

tchess of Gloucester is convalescent : the last bulletin was uesday. e of Cambridge left town for Kew on Wednesday. THE most striking event this week has been the visit of a...

A public meeting was held in Birmingham Town-hall, on Monday, to consider means for the redress of grievances during the next session of Parliament. At noon, when the Mayor took...

Tait's Magazine having said of the Landlord and Tenant Commis- sioners that they were good landlords, the Freeman made a series of charges against one of the Commissioners, Mr....

A number of friends to the Free Protesting Church of Scotland met in Canonmills Hall, at Edinburgh, on the 14th, to hear reports from the deputations that had recently visited...

Parliament met on Tuesday, pro forma; and the Lords Commis- sioners—the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Haddington, and the Earl of Aberdeen—declared it to be further prorogued to...

Seas:v.—The long debate on the Queen's declaration against S. Olo- zaga continued in the Cortes at Madrid on the 14th. On the 9th, S. Lopez made an energetic speech against the...

been going on for a week or two. The object of it can only be guessed, but it looks like some electioneering trick. The Bath Chronicle lately put forward a report, which it...

BIRTHS. On the 5th December. at Earleigh Castle, Somerset, the Lady of H. BASEERVILLE, Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th, the Honourable Lady LEGATO), of a son. On the 10111, at...

SATURDAY. The morning papers report "a great Anti-League movement in Es- sex "; the overt sign of which is a meeting of the Essex Agricultural Pro- tection Society, at...

mourning for his Majesty King William Frederick, Count of Nassau, father of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands : the mourning to commence on Sunday the 24th instant; to...

the tedious debate in the Cortes still went on. Efforts making by the mutual friends of General Serrano and Gon- zalez Bravo, to settle in an amicable manner the difference...

of his Ambassador, 50/. to M. Vouillon, President of the French Philanthropic Society, for the use of that benevolent institution.

The visit of the Queen of England to the King of the French, at the Chateau d'Eu, was too remarkable an event to be overlooked by Mr. BURFORD as an attractive subject for a...

an- swer to the numerous inquiries yesterday at the mansion of Lord Pon- sonby, brother to the Countess Grey, in Stanhope Street, it was stated that the accounts from Howick...

who died at Lyons on the night of the 11th instant, in his fiftieth year, took place at Paris on Wednesday, with great pomp. The funeral-car was followed to the church of Sr....

from a correspondent "— " It is confidently stated that an intimation has been "conveyed to the Duc de Bordeaux, that holding of levees for the reception of an many persons,...

OP past doings, since our last mention of theatrical matters, there is little to be said. Al Drury Lane, The Bohemian Girl appears to be running a prosperous career; and at the...

Altman—At Grateseld, 17th Dcc. Helen, Dunn, from Calcutta ; 19th, Africa, Bax- ter; and Marquis of Bute, Lamont, from Ditto; 21st, Robert Stride, Supurgau, from Ditto; and...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The proceedings of the week have becn of more than ordinary interest, in consequence of the resumption by the Government Broker of his...

SPECTATOR. " Now my weary lids I close, Leave me. leave me, to repose." I Will copy from the Report of Mr. AUSTIN part of aletter written by one resi- dent in the county, who,...

EMPLOYMENT? TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 1st December 1843. Sra—Why, I ask, should the people of this country not have constant em- ployment ? It is not from...

THE LATE KING OF HOLLAND. TnE death of the Count of NASSAU, Ex-King of Holland, leaves Louis PHILIPPE alone in his glory, the only royal personage in Europe who had come to...

THE recent disaster in New Zealand has set moralizers at work to deplore, animadvert, and condemn : but its proper moral is neglected. As one of the harshest censors has...

Ona lively neighbours are preparing a most formidable visitation to China. A 50-gun frigate and a steamer of 220-horse-power are to carry out a special mission ; and to be...

poor always flourishes to- wards Christmas; and this year it is marked by more than usual solicitude. The thought for the wretched consecrates the festivi- ties of the wealthy....

THERE are moods in which the announcements of amusement for holyday idlers, which at this season meet the eye everywhere, are any thing but conducive to mirth. It is a sad...

The Lite, Voya g es, and Exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, Knt. ; with numerous Letters from him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of State;...

poetry of The Nation newspaper, the repre- sentative of the best-educated advocates of the Repeal of the Irish Union, challenges attention more from peculiar circumstances than...

THE object of this seasonable and well-intentioned little book is to promote the social festivities and charities of Christmas, by show- ing the beneficial influence of these...

The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground ; which...

BOCKS. A Christmas Carol, in Prose ; being a Ghost Story of Christmas, By CHARLES DICKENS. With illustrations by JOHN LEECH. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer. By Sir HARRIS NICOLAS....

MADAME DULCKEN ' S SOIREES MUSICALES. THE third and final performance of the series took place on Wednesday. Instead of MOZART'S Quintet in G minor, as announced in the first...

Tuesday, Etee. 19. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. and W. Eversfield, Gravesend, sail-makers—Robinson and Co. Norwich, drapers —Capel and Co. Pope's Head Alley, stockbrokers—Gurney...

WAR.OFFICE Dec. 22.-7th Regt. Drag. Guards—Lient.-Col. W. M. Mills. from half-pay unattached, to be Lieut.-Col. vice Brevet-Col. A. K. C. Kennedy. who ex- changes; Major R....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes Thera. shut - - - 951 ex d 951 951 93 951 961 961 961 96t 961 964- 961 1021 102f 102+ 1021 1021 1021 shut...