THE attempt to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon, immediately before the opening of his legislative session, enabled him to take up a position stronger than any he had yet...

At a meeting of the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday, it was unani- mously resolved, on the motion. of Alderman Wilson, seconded by Sir Francis Moon, that a committee of the whole...

Tan festivities attending the marriage of the Princess Royal have be- . All the foreign guests have arrived at Buckingham Palace : on 'day, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg...

After a long delay, the seat on the Queen's Bench left vacant by the death of Judge Moore has been given to Sergeant O'Brien. Mr. Herify George Hughes, formerly...

At a meeting in Leith, on Monday, a memorial to Lord Palmerston, is questing him to vindicate his pledge and bring in a "comprehensive Re- form Bill," and a resolution...

The Reformers of Huddersfield held a meeting on Wednesday, and passed resolutions, calling for an extended suffrage, the ballot, electoral districts, and triennial Parliaments....

from the assassins of the Rue Lepelletier has given universal satisfaction. On Saturday last, the Senators, the Deputies, the State Councillors, the Diplomatic Body, waited on...

The surmise that the grant of the title of Baronet to Major-General Havelock did not take effect because it was conferred after his death turns out to have been correct. The...

SA.T1LOIDAL Death has obtruded into the midst of the arrangements for the cele- bration of the marriage of the Princess Royal, though the ceremony proceeds uninterrupted....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 22. ADM/RALTY, Jan. 21.—Vice-Admiral of the White A. B.. Sharpe, C.B. has been appointed to receive a pension of 150/. a year, as provided by...

STOCK Elea/LIM, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A further reduction in the Bank rate of interest was again pretty gene- rally looked for this week, but the Court of Directors yesterday broke...

Early last autumn there was a panorama of Delhi in the City ; anew and larger one now forms the fresh attraction at Burford's Panorama in Leicester Square. In contemplating the...

The appearance of Her Majesty's Theatre en Tuesday, when the first so-called festival performance" took place, was so utterly different from that which usually belongs to it,...

Tire feelings called forth by the attack on the Emperor Napoleon in France and in England appear to be as strongly contrasted as the character of the two countries. Here we...

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. THE daily journals publish a hugely elongated programme of a ceremonial to be observed at the marriage of her Royal Highness Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa,...

THE recovery of the money market is, as we expected, followed by unmistakeable evidences of reviving speculation, and already men are making their calculations as to the...

OF all the rounds that Folly takes, the most varied and idle is "the round of the press." A report which has been making that grand tour is too absurd to be true—though some men...

Tin Supplement to this week's Spectator contains a tabular view of the Professorships in the Universities of Great Britain and Ire- land, which we have caused to be prepared,...

OONTROVERSY is going on as to "the figure" at which a gentle- man can support a wife and. family ; but, as usual, the discussion is left mainly to persons who deal with the...

IT is proposed to erect a monument to Havelock, and a • corre- spondent of the Daily News suggests for the site "the angle of Trafalgar Square corresponding to that which...

AN amusing illustration of police imbecility is just now played in the very midst of police-governed Germany, the centre of official paternalism. The scene is Augsburg, a...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL MILITIA OF ENGLAND. 16th January 1858. Sitt—By reference to Toulmin Smith's 'work on Local Self-Government and Centrnization, published in 1851, you will find...

12th January 1858. Sin—As a constant reader and admirer of your able paper, I must bear testimony to the general accuracy of your remarks and opinions on the un- happy mutiny...

_London, 20th January 1858. Snr—In my letter of the 4th instant on the subject of "Credit " I en- deavoured to point out, first, how a discrimination might be made between,...

AnfavnitsenTes are useful in proportion as they perpetuate the memory of noble actions ; mischievous, perhaps, in proportion as they perpetuate baser actions ; and the rule is...

SIR —Referring to your very able article at page 40 of the Spectator of January 9th, may I ask the name of any pamphlets or other publications in *Melt he views of the "American...

• On the 26th November, at St. Peter's Church, Senor, Edward Henry Willough- by, Lieutenant - Bengal Alltillery, and Revenue Surveyor, to Fanny Maxwell, eldest daughter of John...

On the 16th October, at the Residency, Lucknow, the Wife of the late Edward Powney Lewin, Bengal Artillery, of a daughter. On the 5th January, at Chateau de Salenstein,...

Some time in July, in the Residency, at Luok Captain now, of cholera, Ctain James William Mansfield, of H.M .'s 32d Regiment, third son of the late Rev. Edward Mansfield, Vicar...

• C. E. Elwyn, H. M. Robertson, J. M. Trail, W. A. M`Pherson Gordon, E. St. G. Cobbold, W. A. Roberts, D. N. Taylor, F. Beresford, T. H. Hazlerigg, J. F. Sande- , man, V. Wells,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 19. Partnerships Dissolved.-The Cleckheaton Iron Company, Cleckheaton, York- shire ; as far as regards J. England-Jenson and Budd, Birmingham,...

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JANUA1L1 23, 1858. BOOKS. .1.0CULLOCH ON MONEY AND BANKING. * Tun Indian mutiny, and the anticipation of stirring work in the coming session, seem to have removed from the...

new volume of the " Hakluyt Society "is rather of a curious and antiquarian than of a living kind. Be - - tween 1420 and the close of the century four travellers visited In-...

"Bengal," and the " mutinies " of the titlepage, have nothing to do with the matter of this agree- able book, except that the fair writers were fortunate in their " timely "...

facilities of rapid (typo- graphic) production, as to increased competition for public favour, the Quarterlies, those once erratic luminaries, keep time with the opening year...

DOING41 AND PROXECTS. The new year opens with a very fair share of work cat out among us for its handling in that comparatively retired, but not. tranzitory depart- ment of...

B00E8. Lines of the Prime Ministers of _England, from the Restorationto the Present Time. By J. Houston Browne, Es q ., LL.B., of the Inner Temple, Barrister- at-law. Volume I....

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