Corn-law agitation even to the stage of completion, may be traced in the fresh tumult among the journals. It was provoked by the declaration of the Times, on Saturday last, in...

It might be observed last week that we had no sanguine expectation they would. Salisbury is precisely the kind of place where the influence of the League would be at its minimum...

AT length, after a fortnight spent in delays, Mr. O'CONNELL and his associates have actually pleaded to the indictment, " Not guilty," and the case must come before a jury for...

Tin stay of the Duke of Nemours at Windsor, so far as what appears in public, has been principally distinguished by his assiduity in field sports. On Saturday, Prince Albert and...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tnesday. On taking the chair for the_ emit time slim his eleetien, the b i nd Ms) , or shortly addressed the Court; expressing his ousurance...

to the capital. The counter-revolution is expiring : Barcelona, the first and principal place to join it, falters; and its last adherent, Vigo, yields. In Madrid, these few days...

The nomination of candidates for the representation of Salisbury, in the room of the late Mr. Wyndham, took place on Wednesday. The scene was the area opposite the...

The State trials drag their slow length along. At the end of last week, Dublin was fall of rumours—such as that the Attorney-General was ill, and that there had been some new "...

Mr. Duncan M'Neill, Lord Advocate of Scotland, has been elected Dean of the Faculty, by a large majority. This is said to be the only instance of such an honour having been...

SPAM — There has been a "Ministerial crisis" in Spain. After Abe ceremony which gave a Parliamentary confirmation to the Queen's majority, S. Lopez and his Cabinet somewhat...

An extra Gazette, issued on Saturday, contained the following notifi- cation, dated from Whitehall on that day- " The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be...

Globe, Queen Victoria intends to visit the King of Prussia after the end of the approaching London season ; and subsequently to proceed from Berlin to Paris, on a visit to the...

gational Dissenters has issued an address to the several congregations, recommending the establishment of several more daily and evening schools, to be "excellent of their...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. 'With no very striking occurrence to relate, there is a not uninterest- ing medley of news and gossip this morning. The Irish Attorney-General gave...

Wood, of the Oxford Circuit, (a near relative of the honourable Members for Brecknock and Middlesex,) has been appointed by Lord Stanley to succeed the late Mr. Villiers, as...

WAR-OFFICE. Nov. 24.-31 Regt. Light Drags.-- Lieut. J. E. Dyer to be Caps,with- out purchase. vice Bond, promoted iu the 15th Light Drags.; Cornet 3. H. Travers to be Lieut....

lately, one of the best occurs this morning, on the state of the law, or rather the law-making of Parliament. It is suggested by the fact that the great Irish indictment was...

Court of the Tuilleries had received despatches by the Neptune steamer, an- nouncing that an application of the Duke d'Aumale for the hand of Princess Marie Therese, sister of...

Wllax with Anglo-Italian operas, Anglo-French vaudevilles, and ballets that need no Anglicizing, the British stage is almost denationa- lized. Beyond an absurd farce or a trashy...

19th; both parties having made fresh concessions in the wish for peace. The Government troops entered the town on the 20th; the Captain- General appointed a new Municipality on...

series of public meetings in the manufacturing districts to raise a fund for the pur- pose of liberating Mr. Richard Oastler from the Queen's Bench Prison, and pensioning him...

part of the Reverend Sydney Smith. His friend the Reverend James Tate, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's and Vicar of Edmonton, a most emi- nent scholar, died lately. He had held...

It is now generally understood that the purchases on account of the Savings Banks, which have been so long continued, will cease for the present ; and this circumstance has...

ARRIVED-At Gravesend, 224 instant, Morley. Evans, from China. In the Downs. 21st, Asia, Davis, from Calcutta; and Dartmouth, Jacobs. from Bombay; and 224, Glenbervie, Russell,...

ABOLITION BE THE MEANS OF KEEPING THE PEOPLE IN CONSTANT EMPLOYMENT? TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 17th November 1893. Sin—In my letter contained in your number...

SUPPRESSION OF DISCUSSION AT THE INDIA HOUSE. THERE was something very discreditable and also very suspicious in the proceedings at the India House last week. _ A General Court...

THE besom of improvement is at work in the Metropolis, sweeping it clean. Spacious thoroughfares are opened on both sides of St. Giles's, and encroaching upon it ; and a broad...

AT times in the streets of some Italian city—say Florence, you may see the passengers step aside to make way for a strange group of men in black gowns, each with a peaked hood...

the world can be done to save one of our venerated insti- tutions, which seems likely to expire of mere inanition ? It appears that the College of Arms is on its last legs; and...

The noble mansions which arose along the Northern bank of the Thames, called "the Strand," were placed on the sites of despoiled episcopal residences and ecclesiastical grounds....

IMITATED FROM THE SPANISH. " No oso pensar el dia y hora quando His ojos comengaron a mirarte."—Boscaw. When first with all a lover's pride I wooed and won thee for my bride,...

Brooasput , Life of Gerald Griffin, Esq. By his Brother. Pravisvics, Simpkin and Marshall ; Cumming. Dublin. A Geography of Pennsylvania : containing an account of the...

THIS American importation is remarkable for its generic character. It is not that we have nothing like it in England as regards sub- stance, buts we have nothing presented to us...

HAVING exhausted all that was outward in "the Great Metropo- lis" of England, Mr. GRANT paid a visit to Paris, to subject the French capital to the process which enabled him to...

BOORS. Paris and its People. By the Author of "Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons," Soc. In two volumes. Greece under the Romans; a Historical View of the condition...

MR. Roanrsox, of Stonegate, York, has lately exhibited a new and highly-interesting musical experiment in the Blind School of that city. Having conceived the idea of forming a...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Loudon. 19th November 1843. Sea—I have just been reading your article on Deborah, and find some "historical recollections" in it which are...

MADAME DULCKEN'S sondes MUSICALES. Tax first of three entertainments, at which the rarest and best cham- ber-music is to be the constant attraction, took place at the residence...

BIRTHS. On the 6th November, at Aberdeen, the Lady of the Rev. Sir WILLIAM DUISBAH, of Darn. Bart, of a daughter. On the 8th, at the Rectory House, Cheriton2Fitzpaine, the...

Tuesday, Nov. 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Edmondson and Spence. Bradford, accountants-Panting and Holloway. Malmes. bury, brokers-Smith and Robins, Strand, printers-Richardson...

CURRENT. BRITISH S per Cent. Consols ........ Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 3* per Cents. Reduced New 3* per Cents Loug Annuities Bauk Stock, 7 per cent. India Stock,...