THE last few days of the session were employed in the usual bustle of the breaking-up for the autumn, with the customary flurry of legislation. Among other measures, Lord...

question is, what effect has it had on the state and interests of the country ? Since the reconstruction of Parliament by the Reform Act, the greatest Importance has been...

agitation. It is a prospectus of the restored Irish Parliament ; and is in fact nothing but one more placard in the series of advertise- ments that are issued to keep up the...

in Lon- don. His reception by our Government has been one of marked sympathy and respect. It is said in reproach, that had efficient moral support been extended to him before he...

they are pecu- liarly mischievous. Just now it is most desirable to keep on a friendly footing with France ; yet some French sailors—pigheaded men perhaps, blundering mariners,...

LAW REFORM. In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord BROUGHAM moved for returns relative to the state of appeal business before the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of...

WHAT with the arrival of visiters at Windsor, the journey to town to be present at the prorogation of Parliament, and the ceremony itself, the proceedings of the Court have been...

On a requisition presented by a deputation of Common Councilmen, the Lord Mayor has appointed the 1st September for a meeting of the Council to auapt an address of welcome to...

Mr. Cobden, with Mr. Bright and Mr. Moore, as a deputation from the Anti-Corn-Law League, addressed a meeting of Berkshire people, at the Town-hall in Reading, on Saturday. The...

At the usual meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, the rent for the week was announced to be 1,130/. Mr. O'Connell was not pre- sent, and the meeting adjourned till next...

A dangerous accident has happened to the venerable Lord Lyne- doch— " Though now in his ninety-fourth year, his Lordship is a keen sportsman, and, while following his favourite...

SPAIN.—The Revolutionary Ministers carry all before them in the capital. The Queen gave a grand banquet at the Palace of the Prado on the 11th instant, in commemoration of the...

Espartero has arrived in England. The Prometheus, Lieutenant Frederick Lowe Commander, with the Spanish party on board, entered Falmouth on Saturday ; but proceeded to...

SATURDAY NIGHT. This morning, Prince Albert's birthday, opens auspiciously, for it clears up rumours which sufficed yesterday to create alarm, if not " panic," on 'Change....

witch and Wutchica, the " favourite aversions " of the Russian Em- peror, bad positively refused to quit Servia. They mention reports posterior to those transmitted by Colonel...

received in Paris yesterday. It appears that on the 20th Prim, the Barcelona Junta, and the local authorities, had an interview, at which a com- promise was come to : it was...

-eounter-revolution in that city. General Arbuthnot, the commander of the citadel within the town, had been beaten off in an attack on Atarazanas, made at Prim's suggestion.

outrage at Llanon, on Tuesday. A party of rioters, many hundreds in number, headed by Rebecca, beset the house of Mr. Edwards, agent to Mr. Rees Goring Thomas, who is a lay...

Times, was, that a French merchantman had been brought into that port, captured by the Cyclops war-steamer, and having on board a quantity of fire-arms, with which she was...

holders of the accountable receipts or certificates given by Captain Charles Elliot, R.N., late her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, for the British-owned...

THE Haymarket is fulfilling the functions of a summer theatre in a very agreeable manner, by the production of light and elegant enter- tainments, that enliven the spirits by...

STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Funds were firm at the beginning of the week ; the improved prices of Saturday being fully maintained. A reaction of nearly 1 per cent...

pain of A Night of Suspense; which Mrs. STIRLING passes in the torments of jealousy, compressed into a short half-hour. It is one of those slight but clever French pieces, a...

as we predicted : his leave-taking was not half ended ; his hundred nights will have in- creased to half as many more before he has well done celebrating them. What we in our...

LONDON FIRES IN IdDCLXVI AND MDCCCXLIII. SEVERAL circumstances about the fires of Saturday last have conspired to carry us back in imagination to the Great Fire of London in...

THE SPECTATOR. 23d August. Sin—It appears to me, that both in the Parliamentary discussions on the subject of libel reported in your last number, and in your own remarks upon...

One remarks upon the position of the Church of England at the present time, in the paper on Education for the Mining and Manu- facturing Districts which appeared in our last...

ON reviewing the coarse of things called new operas, produced chiefly on the English stage within the last ten years or so, one might be almost tempted to inquire whether there...

THE municipal authorities of France will be the death of the Prince de Hi:moults. M. Tnouvt-CneuvEL, the Mayor who lectured him at Mans, and was dismissed by Royal ordinance,...

Is you travel by railway, in stage-coach, steamer, or omnibus, be sure two-thirds of your companions are reading. If you breakfast, lunch, or dine, in coffeehouse or club, the...

The History of Etniria. Part I.—Tarchun and his Times. From the Foundation of Talquinia to the Foundation of Rome. By Mrs. Hamilton Gray.... Hatchard. Tustin", Austria. Vienna,...

TH IS subject of this work embraces a good deal more than many May understand by its title ; treating, in fact, of the different pro- vinces or states that make up the...

DR. JOHN CHEYNE was a Scotch practitioner, who after passing through the routine duties of an Army surgeon, and some Edin- burgh practice in conjunction with his father, took...

THE period chosen by Mr. STERLING to exhibit the fate of Suter- FORD, and the character of his times and contemporaries, opens with this Earl's arrival in London from the North,...

LAKE PRICE'S VIEWS IN VENICE. THE name of Venice calls up a host of recollections, historic and poetic, architectural and pictorial : the glories of "the sea Cybele" have...

The Sovereign. Main, from the Clyde to Batavia. put into Stranraer, 20th August, with loss of eutwater, bowsprit. &c. hav ing been in contact with a Schooner. ARRIEED-At...

WITH the impressions left by Mr. LAKE PRICE'S sketches fresh on the mind, we visited the Model of Venice, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and took a bird's•eye view of the...

WAR oFFICE, Aug. 25.-3d Regt. of Foot-Brevet-Col. R. Wallace, from half-pay un- attached, to be Lieut.-Cul. vice H. G. Smith, who exchanges ; Major J. 0. Clouie to be...

BIRTHS. On the 10th August. at Odra:tar. the Lady or Licutennut-Colouel Baorae, Com- manding First Battalion Royal Regiment, of is slaughter. On the 10th, at Anglesea,...

Tuesday, August 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. IV. and J. Braid, Watford. Herts, butchers-Winkel) itad Dobson, Liverpool, ship smiths- Latham and Mitchinson. Wigan, Lancashire,...

CURRENT. BR IT ISM (Closing Tuesday. Prices.) traduce. Thurs. PWday, Saturday FUNDS. Monday. 3 per Cent. Consols 941 944 941 949 949 949 Ditto for Account.. . 3 per...