centres in the floods, which have inundated wide tracts of country, devastating property and destroying life. The sudden thaw has had no pa- rallel for many years. The high...

IRELAND during the week has exhibited in an unusually strong light the displeasing picture of a great nation wasting its energies on random and conflicting efforts. Indeed, it...

Parlia- mentary candidates are now trying their strength. Canterbury is to be contested by two very modest gentlemen : the Whig candidate, Mr. WILSON, pronounces himself to be...

to have another little revolt. Two Cantons, Soleure and Argovia, whose people have recently adopted new constitutions proposed by the Government of each, have been disturbed by...

At a Court of Aldermen held on Tuesday, the allegation which had been urged against the validity of the late election of Common Coun- cillors for the Ward of Farringdon Without...

THE Queen and Prince Albert attended divine serv ice on Sunday in the private chapel of the Castle, and received the sacrament. On Tuesday, there was a slight return to the...

the inconsistent position into which the random belligerence of France has forced its public men. The expense of public works, civil and military, for the whole period from 1842...

It has been asserted that the Porte, in deference to the swishes of its august allies, had given MEHEMET Am the hereditary Pashalic of Egypt, upon condition of the evacuation of...

The two parties at Walsall are in as active a state of election-warfare as if the polling-booths were already up. Meetings continue to be held, and abuse bandied about without...

Great alarm was created in Brentford on Sunday morning, by an overflow of the Brent River and the Grand Junction Canal. The canal joins the river Thames southward of New...

The Lord-Lieutenant invited some of the principal members of the Ulster Reform Association to dinner at the Viceregal Lodge on Sa- turday. On Monday, the Lord-Lieutenant paid a...

It is now finally arranged that her Majesty will open the session of Parliament on Tuesday next. Orders for erecting seats in the Painted Chamber, and making other necessary...

In consequence of an invitation from the electors of Kirkcaldy, to stand as a candidate for that district of burghs, Dr. Bowring arrived there on Saturday last. On the afternoon...

22D JANUARY. Lord Great Chamberlain's Qfflee, Jan. 23, All Peeresses, on announcing their intention of being present on the occasion of her Majesty opening Parliament, on...

received, but their contents are unimportant. No new fact is mentioned respecting the Douro question ; but it was still the general opinion in Madrid that the affair would be...

the refusal of Mehemet Ali to surrender the Turkish fleet and comply with the other terms required by the Sultan.

O'Connell's visit to Belfast. On Tuesday evening, he presided at an entertain- ment for the benefit of St. Patrick's Orphan Society. The room was crowded, but nothing occurred...

on the fortification project commenced that morning in the Chamber of Deputies, and proceeded to the hour the post left Paris 'without any remarkable incident. Marshal Soult,...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The meetings at Leeds, of Further Reformers and Chartists, which have been looked forward to with much interest in the North of Eng- bind, took place on...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Jan, 20th, Earl Grey, Surflen. from Bengal. At Deal, 22d, Premier, Keith; Arabella, Jackson; and Gloucester. Brooks. from Mauritius. Off the Wight, 224,...

Ma. WEBSTER, the lessee of the Haymarket, needing no relaxation from his managerial labours, so light has success made them, and covet- ing no " recess " for the purpose of...

love and murder, horror and merriment, for which it is famous, in cele- bration of the return of that prince of cut-throats 0. SNITH to his con- genial vocation. We had been...

the splendour by which the christening of the Princess Royal is to be attended, and the assem- Wage of illustrious guests who are to assist, or will be present, at the ceremony....

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Money has become more scarce ; and several sales of Stock were made in the early part of the week, by which Consols were depressed to 89t1 for...

th lovers of pantomime, whom dulness cannot daunt. True, the splendour of the spectacle—the Midsummer Night's Dreant having preceded the pantomime four nights in every week, the...

SOME CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING REPEAL. "THAT is your doing,'.' say the Tories to the Whigs when the Repeal cry is raised in Ireland. "They are only half in earnest just now, but...

EVERY reader of the daily papers must have perceived that there is some great act contemplated by the Cabinet, which is to set it all right with the people ; but none can be...

THE Manchester Guardian contains a long article on our last week's observations, and promises another. Its present paper is confined to finance; the next is to deal with general...

London, 21st January 1841. Sr—Yon have performed a most useful and important service, by the pub- lication of a digest of the Evidence given before a Select Committee of the...

IN the year 1741, a few mechanics—chiefly Spitalfields weavers—were congregated together at the Twelve Bells in Bride Lane ; (music has generally received its best impulses from...

TRAVELS. The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland, with Descriptive Sketches of other Parts of the Continent. By Mrs. v Author of" Letters from Normandy," "The Borders of the...

THIS novel exhibits Mrs. Goan's usual characteristics of easy, buoyant, and pointed composition ; a felicitous skill in depicting manners ; and a smart rather than a bitter...

SOME time previous to the meeting of the great Anti-Slavery Convention which took place last summer, the Committee trans- mitted to the United States a string of more than...

distinction between essential and secondary properties is Often used as a puzzle to the vulgar,—for example, the merit of the organ bellows-blower in producing music ; and...

DRAWING CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO PAINTING. THE conversation reported last week was subsequently resumed ; and the discussion having excited some interest, we are induced to...

joke is spoiled in the telling, while an indifferent one produces a roar of laughter if cleverly related : now the New Tale of a Tub is a capital story, admirably well told ;...

BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., in St. James's Square, the Lady STANLEY, of a son. At the Right lion. J. W. Croker'e, West Molesey. the Lady of GEORGE BARROW, Esq., of a son. On...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Bush and Co. Bath, surgeons; as far as regards Steele—Garrett and Coveney. Can- terbury, chemists—J., J.„ and R. J. Bristow, Dockhead, coopers—Jordan...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Jan. 18.—Royal Regt. of Artillery.—Second Limit. F. B. Ward to be First Lieut. vice Popham. deceased. Erratum in the Gazette a the let inst.—The Christian...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. !Vedas*. Thurs. rnday. 90 90 893 894 891 90 901 901 901 893 90 90/ 901 904 904 90} 901 901 984 983 983 984...