FLAT as the last half-hour before dinner, the last week of the re- cess presents little in the way of substantial movement for notice, still less that bears directly on the...

England ; though the heart still beats with anxiety for the next turn of events, and with hopes for the gifts of the year 1849. The election of M. Boulay to be Vice-President of...

in Ceylon. That colony has received a full ratification of the Tor- rington regime, in Lord Grey's unqualified approval of the Go- vernor, his policy and conduct. The colonists...

The City Commissioners of Sewers held their first meeting under the new act of Parliament on Tuesday. Mr. Simon was elected medical offi- cer for the City, during one year, and...

Tax Queen gave an audience to Lord John Russell on Monday morning. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and the Reverend Dr. Cook- son, terminated their visit at the Castle...

Lord Lewisham is a candidate for the representation of South Staffordi shire. He has issued an address avowing himself to be against Roman Catholic endowment in Ireland; opposed...

At the prize-distribution meeting of the Royal Dublin Society, on Saturday last, the Lord-Lieutenant, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Roden, Sir William Hamilton, and a numerous...

FEINCE.—The election of the French Vice-President terminated in fa- vour of M. Boulay (de is Meurthe). The numbers were— M. Boulay 417 M. Vivien 277 M. Baraguay d'Ililliers 37...

It is rumoured that a new Lord Ordinary is to be added to the Oater House of the Court of Session. The pressure of business in the Bill Chamber is alleged as the reason of this...

We have reason to believe that the Queen and Prince Albert are likely to pay a visit to Manchester some time during the next summer; in all probability immediately after the...

SATURDAY. This morning appears a circular to the Superintendent of her Majesty's Dockyards at home, signed by Mr. H. G. Ward, Secretary to the Admiralty, and dated " Admiralty,...

in Tamworth, yes- terday, Sir Robert Peel appeared in the character of a liberal promoter of middle class education. He presided at the meeting, and took the oppor- tunity to...

It Is due to our readers abroad to make them aware that we have been compelled to adopt the rule of not taking in unpaid letters or packets by foreign posts, from correspondents...

Zealand, dated 7th October 1848, reporting the successful arrangement of differences between the New Zealand Company and the settlers at Wellington who had claims upon it. The...

of Queen's Bench, for liberation on bail, was refused after argument on Thursday, both on formal sind general grounds. His trial is to proceed in the week after next.

at Brighton, under the presidency of the Duke of Richmond; the other at Chelmsford, under that of Mr. Robert Baker of Writtle. Resolu- tions to petition Parliament for restored...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has experienced a very considerable improvement. Daring Monday and Tuesday there was an evident tendency to advance:...

the Court theatricals, and consequently no novelty is produced. The Stranger and Twice Killed are the component parts of the last programme that has been transferred from...

the Italian Opera season has drawn so near, the town remaining so completely in the dark as it now is with regard to the prospects of the season. Neither of the great houses has...

the audience by dressing all the female supernumeraries of the company in brigand dresses. The expedient of exhibiting a bevy of young ladies in picturesque male at- tire, is...

delivered a lecture on the genius and writings of Purcell, illustrated by specimens of his compositions both sacred and secular. In describing Pur- cell as an artist, the...

At Mr. Mitchell's Opera Comique, the pieces with which the theatre opened on Monday sennight were repeated during the week, and also on Wednesday. last. Le Domino Noir is an...

London, 23(1 January 1849. Sin—I endeavoured in my last letter to show, that the Probate and Legacy Duties are in reality the equivalent of an annual tax upon realized...

THE SESSION, 1849. ANOTHER session opens on Thursday next : one more added to the list of immense long sessions with scanty fruits, or first in a new series to be measured by...

THE higher the officer at present engaged in the military opera- tions of the Punjaub, the more disastrous the blunders. The latest transactions on the Chenab are deplorable....

AT length we have a clear practical sample of what Colonial Go- vernment would be if Earl Grey, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, could succeed in...

"HONESTY is the best policy," even for men of strictly honest intentions. Truth has the considerable advantage of being solid and consistent throughout, so that you can...

A CONTEMPORARY, more inclined to criticism than to exposition, spins a longish lucubration upon a text taken from our last num- ber. We observed—"It may be a question whether...

[The subjoined paper is furnished to us by a correspondent who has had reculiar means of obtaining full and authentic information on the subjects of which he treats, and is well...

RANKE'S HISTORY OF PRUSSIA. * THE formation of Prussia is a curious political phtenomenon; an aggre- gation of principalities, shires or districts, and tribes, in an age too ad-...

this volume are a selection from the papers of the historian, bequeathed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh by his nephew Baron Hume, which papers furnished the basis of the Life...

a species of supplement to the standard works on British ornithology. Where birds frequenting Great Britain are found in Ireland, the differences are mostly local ; and consist...

ON EDUCATION. * THE annual publication of the Minutes of the Committee for directing the disbursement of the Parliamentary grant in aid of education, acquires in- creasing...

BOOK8. Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, KB., Duke of Brontg, 4-c. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c. In two volumes. Visions of the Times...

Tuesday, January 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Lidgett and Shepherd, Miter Street, ship-brokers-Whitehouse and Sons, Dudley, canal-carriers-Freeman and Co. Stanley Place,...

WAR-oence, Jan. 26.-10th Light Drags.-Veterinary Burg. T. Bidden, from the 70 Light Drags. to be Veterinary Surg. vice J. Robertson, who retires upon half-pay. 4t.b Foot-Lieut....

On the 16th January, at Cheltenham, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Slade, of a son. . On the 16th, at the Rectory, Ickleford, near Hitchin, Recta, the Lady of the Rev. Richard...

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tusichiy. Wads,., Thurs. Irridog. $ per Cent Consols 891 I 901 90* 901 1 9 ) . 04 91 Ditto for Account 891 90* 906 906...