spared to render a pageant upon which so much depended as that of Louis Napoleon's entry into Paris at least equal to any that preceded it ; and ac- cordingly it was a military...

of Good Hope, if no great advance has been made in the Caffre war, the Burgher guards have made some progress in the good opinion of Ge- neral Cathcart. The worthy General has...

No longer possible to be put off, the meeting of Parliament is now fixed for the 4th of November, and Ministers will have to face their new House of Commons within a fortnight....

At the meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Thursday, a re- port from the Committee appointed to consider a petition against the choice of Copenhagen Fields as a site for...

of Convocation; but it is necessary to plain that the report on the subject is in active controversy. It Rrst disrenctly new light in the columns of the Times on Monday last....

Lord Raglan, Master-General of the Ordnance, was sworn of the Privy Council, and took his seat. It was ordered that Parliament be prorogued from the 21st October to the 4th...

Lord Granby, announced as chairman of the annual meeting of the famous Waltham Agricultural Association, which was held on the 15th, honoured the gathering by his absence. Not...

The Scottish Press of last Saturday states its belief, " that in a few weeks a vacancy will be declared in the representation of the city of Edin- burgh, and a new election take...

The Evening Mail of Dublin reports—" An activity and spirit that has for a long time been unknown has begun to animate all classes of our countrymen. From various quarters we...

FRANCE. —Louis Napoleon Bonaparte closed his Empire-canvassing tour on Saturday, with the grand tableau of a public exhibition in Paris. The day selected for the purpose was the...

A "proclamation" was published in the Gazette of Friday, further pro- roguing Parliament from the 21st October to the 4th November ; and giving order that both Houses should...

SATURDAY. The Convocation of the Province of Canterbury was yesterday pro- rogued, by Mr. Hart Dyke, the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Can- terbury, until Friday the 5th...

'Vas - antes, Oct. 22.-14th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. H. Townsend to be Capt. by purchase, vice Archdall, who retires ; Ensign C. S. Conte to be Lieut. by purchase. vice Townsend....

man who was killed by the bite of the cobra at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, had, accord- ing to the evidence'of his fellow-servants, been spending the night in com-...

Hermann, from New York, which she left on the 9th instant. "The mail-steamer Crescent City was compelled to leave Havanah without landing passengers or mails. This has excited...

in the City on the life of the President of the French Republic. Whether a clause is inserted providing for an increase in the premiums on revival of the Empire is not stated ;...

Hall at Hertford, under the presidency of the Mayor, in behalf of the Literary Institu- tion and Mutual Instruction Society of the town. The - prominent speakers were Sir Edward...

of the funereal procession- " We have reason to believe that the funeral procession of the late Duke will be marshalled on the parade-ground at the back of the Horse Guards,...

meet at Manchester on the 3d November ; Lord Goderich to preside. The deliberations of the Conference will be confined to the two following propositions— • " 1st, To collect and...

permanent charter of incorporation on the closing of the Great Exhibition, have made some large purchases of land for National Galleries, "in com- bination with Museums such as...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTEENOON. In the early part of the week the English Funds presented a very firm ap- pearance. Consols rose to 100a 1 at the opening on Monday, but...

railway "accident "—a passenger-train ran into a goods-train—which we last week erroneously reported as having occurred on "the nets Wont and Birmingham line," belonging to the...

Sat—The thanks of every lover of his country are due to you for the able article in your last number, on " The Empire and its Contingencies." You will at least have the...

"L'EMPIRE, C'EST LA PAIX!" 19th October 1852. Sm—To some people it may appear strange that, while the inheritor of the Empire and of the ideas of the greatest . professor of...

list of Eng- reg. Winter Theatres. To any one who should object that _Drury Lane, after one or - two spasmodic efforts to open, is again closed, we would re- ply, that it has...

London, 10/11 October 1852. Sax—As soon as the funeral is over, we shall hear of a Wellington Testi- monial; and if a proper direction be given to the unanimous feeling of Eng-...

Six—Like Dickens in the case of the "Manchester School," I have been much puzzled with the matter of "Convocation." The etymology signifies a calling together, and it has...

Oxford, 19th October 1852. Snc—I should have been content to leave unnoticed the objection of your correspondent "Q." to an expression in my former letter, had his own ver- sion...

WHAT WOULD BE AT STAKE IN A GENKR A T. WAR. CorivEnsmoii in Vienna as well as in London and Paris, in Berlin, Brussels, and Rome—in New York and Washington—to say nothing also...

FRUI is hypocritical, not only towards others, but towards itself. A. Correspondent learns " with a mixture of astonishment and dis- may," that, as we said last week, " the most...

Parturiunt Ministers, et nascitur the customary Speech from the Throne. An able and much-in-earnest contemporary anticipates that Ministers will have rather a bad time of it,...

AMONG the ideas long before the public but newly assuming a place in general discussion, is that of a machinery to represent the Colo- Ides in the Metropolis of the Empire. The...

Ix is a public desire to erect a monument commemorating the na- tional esteem for the Duke of Wellington ; and having made up its mind that the thing should be done, the public...

Tan railways are indulging just at present in such a superfluity of accidents, and are so ably illustrating the searching discussion on the subject in which the whole press and...

speak out as the Duke of Newcastle did at Sheffield on Schools of Design, and would master the subject as he did, they might do great work in other fields besides those of...

to cast granite at the English, suggests to Mr. Hadley of Leeds the announcement of a more terrible destructive ready to the hand of "the astute chemist" He describes it with a...

AT last the Conservatives have entered the field as founders of Freehold .Land Societies. It is only surprising that they have suffered the Liberals to be so long in exclusive...

DIXON'S LIFE OF BLAKE.. OF English naval worthies after Nelson, Drake is perhaps the most popularly famous; for he was, as Southey , has remarked, the last hero to whom...

and critical character of the present age bids fair to disenchant history both of its fable and its romance, to the great loss of rhetoricians and rhetorical moralists. The...

feature of these travels among the Western and Tibetan ranges of the Himalaya. Dr. Thomson was the medi- cal member of a mission sent to those regions in 1847 by Lord Horologe,...

Flanders, during the wars that sprung from the religious persecutions of Philip the Second and the insolence of his officers. Public events, and the feelings that originate in...

Boone. The activity of the publishing world is slackening a little after its late re- vival, though not more than might be expected from the time of year. Of the books reserved...

On the 3d September, at Mnssoorie, Bengal, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Wel- lesley, H.M. Tenth Regiment, of a son. On the 13th October, in Wigmore Street, the Hon. Mrs. R....

Tuesday, October 19. PARTNE33SHIPS DISSOLVED.-W. and T. Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, drapers- Giesler and Co. Manchester, wholesale druggists ; as far as regards A. Gluier-...

I3RITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Widow. Thum. Friday , 31 per Cents 3 per Cents Reduced Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent India...