Iron by the troops under EVANS, detailed particulars have been re- ceived. The despatch of General Evarss, though rather long for the room at our disposal, is subjoined, on...

THE Church-rates measure has narrowly escaped destruction even in the House of Commons. After a debate of two nights, a divi- sion took place on the question of' agreeing to the...

10th instant, on the trivial question of whether they should be allowed Under Secretaries or not at the public expense. The numbers were 47 to 39; and the Ministry in a body...

produced in France does not put a stop to political intrigues. There have been several reunions of Deputies hostile to the Ministry. The leaders are GUIzOT, TRIERS, and ODILLON...

Manu- script Gazette, has created quite a sensation at Pesth ; and it is stated in a Frankfort paper, that ataa meeting of tire younger nobility, it was resolved to call a "...

CHURCH-RATES. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. Beaslisr. reported from the Committee of the whole House the following resolution- " That, for the repair and maintenance...

the affair of the Vixen with the Emperor of Russia; that NICHOLAS is about to take a journey into the interior of his vast dominions ; and that Lord DURHAM is expected at...

THE King and Queen have beenprevented by illness from joining in the celebration of the Princess 'Victoria's birth-day. The Queen is better, though still indisposed ; but bis...

Wednesday, the day on which the Princess Victoria completed her eighteenth year, was very generally kept as a festival in the Metropolis. Most of the great shops were closed the...

Lord Harewood, Lord Bradford, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Spiers, Mr. Clive, Lord Worsley, Mr. Lowther, Mr. Craven Berkeley - , Mr/ Buxton, Mr. Thomas Attwood, Mr. Scholefield, Colonel...

Metropolis ; but the Reformers celebrated the day at the Horns Tavern, Kenning- ton. Mr. Clay, Mr. Hawes, Mr. D'Eyncourt, Mr. Sheil, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Wason, Mr. Villiers, Mr....

Stock- dale, the plaintiff in the cause of " Stockdule versus Hansard," applied to Lord Denman to dispense with the certificate of the barrister that he had sued in forma...

at- tend his judicial duties in the Court of King's Bench on Wednesday morning, his Lordship's horse fell, and the learned Judge was thrown on the ground. On making inquiries,...

Mr. Ryle, M. P. for Macclesfield, has written to his constituents to inform them that he does not intend becoming a candidate for the re- presentation of the borough at the next...

Extraordinary exertions were used by the stewards and sporting gentlemen to make the races at Epsom this year remarkably good ; and as far as the running went, they succeeded....

on Saturday, to choose Councillors for the ensuing year. Twenty-one gentlemen were proposed, of whom nineteen were to be elected. The two rejected were Colonel Jones and Dr....

In our second edition last Saturday evening, we communicated from sources of our own, ample information—at that time wanted in Lon- don—on the proceedings of Glasgow for filling...

the 18th; and the intolerant party elected their candidate, Dr. Gardiner, to the Moderator's chair, by the overwhelming majority of 262 to 59 over his competitor, the Liberal...

Meetings of the gentlemen interested in the charitable institutions of Dublin were held by adjournment in the Matisionbouse of that city on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, for...

a magnificent grand pianoforte, made by the Member for Bridgewater, of the value of two - hundred guineas. By the death of Sir Alexander Hope, which took place on Friday last...

Tarragona. The Queen Regent and the municipal authorities of Barcelona have publicly returned thanks to the Commanders of the British and French naval forces, by whose mere...

Sir 'Francis Head, Knight, is promoted to the rank of Baronet, as a reward for packing a Parliament in Upper Canada ; and the Morning Chronicle announees the circumstance with...

the Commons for the greater part of last night. Altogether, thirty five clauses were disposed of. The Liberal Members expressed much dis- satisfaction with the 24th clause,...

SATURDAY. A PRIVY Council is to be held at Windsor to-day, at two o'clock. Oa Thursday the King was worse, but be is said to have rallied yesterday.

resolution. of the French Government to deprive the British residents of the assis- tance of English medical gentlemen. The prohibition is to extend against any English...

Time Tory triumph in Westminster is of course a fruitful theme for HB ; who, however, Conservative as he is, cannot resist the opportu- nity of giving a slap at Sir Fanny. In...

Tin: transactions of this musical society necessarily compress them- selves into a small compass, as the original matter they contain is ex- ceedingly scanty. 1Ve wish it were...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Notwithstanding that tha settlement of the May Account has occur red in the course of the week, the business transacted in Consols, and...

THE P T AINCESS VICTORIA. IF our gracious Kii WILLIAM die to-morrow, the Princess VIC- TORIA will be Queen, without a Regency. It is in this sense, and in no other, that the...

MELBOURNE-Whigs may now see why the question, " How to keep out the Tories?" has been, of late, almost discarded from our columns: they ought to perceive also, why, from Easter...

IN his speech on Church-rates, Sir FRANCIS Buenera. expressed his surprise that there could be " an immemorial and impreperiptilde right, with no means for obtaining that...

THE people of this country have been coming round to the old- fashioned and constitutional notion that the Commons House of Parliament ought to represent the Commons. But on...

MR. BAINES, said Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, "does not carry all the Dissenters in his belly. The expression was coarse and charac- teristic, but implied a truth though it came from...

IF it had been possible to reconcile an established church with freedom of thought, the Church of Scotland would have been a practical solution of the problem. A church-court in...

PEOPLE talk of the esprit du corps which animates lawyers, Dar- sons, religious sects, and the aristocracy. Hit one, they say, and you are sure to have a host upon you. Some...

NATIOn11, ClIARACTFANTICII. E ng l a nd ; With sketches of Society in the Metropolis. By I. fellimore Cooper, Esq. Author of The Pi:ot." In 3 vols. • Bestir y. Yorslss ANS...

'buss volumes are unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not to say philosophical, of any which have been pub- lishtd by an American on England. Mr. COOPER is much...

Is a book of twofold nature ; the first division containing a narra- tive of the author's voyages in the Eastern Seas ; the second, some speculations on the capabilities which...

THE third volume, so far as we have gone, more than sustains the promise of the second. It commences with the removal to Ab- botsford (in 1812); and next enters into the details...

THIS little treatise appears calculated to be practically useful to the student of Greek. The author has selected for elucidation the particles which are in that language used...

THE objects of this American squib are to ridicule General JACK- SON and his friends; to bold up their policy and party manteuvres to odium or contempt ; and to put in a good...

Two weeks ago, whilst we speculated on the effect of Mr. BIDDLE'S bonds in carrying surplus British capital to American lands, another speculator was applying himself to this...

THE tide of publication is again flowing, and a pile of booke,bas accumulated on our table; some of which will require a fuller notice than we can yet give—some may be dismissed...

us than Rome herself left behind her. First of all comes Byron's Works, Complete in One Volume ; which is another of Mr. MURRAY'S bold and therefore safe speculations. It...

Goldsmith's History of England, by Bri.t.eltsmucas, contains in four neat pocket Volumes, a reprint of the original abridgment, which occu- pies two volumes. The other two are...

Tuts volume contains a selection from the multifarious writings and speeches of Lord BROUGHAM, on a multifarious variety of subjects,—as criticism, chemistry, political economy,...

way,—as Mammon Demolished, Politics of Another World. But patience, though a good nag, will bolt ; and if the reader had been in our situation, he would have been off long...

made by Mr. EDWARD SOLLY, to be sold by auction next Wednesday at Foster's Rooms, drew together a numerous assemblage of connoisseurs and distinguished persons. There are some...

THE meeting to be held at the Freemason's Tavern on Monday, at one o'clock, concerns not merely the lovers of art, but the public gene- rally. It is called for the purpose of...

Painting, at the British Institution, opens on Monday. The Exhibition of the works of the Great Masters of Painting, at the British Institution, opens on Monday.

painting the British school holds a supremacy over its Continental rivals. This branch of the art is peculiarly suited to the genius of our countrymen, which is most...

volume of Sketches of Constantinople, are very attractive, and convey a favourable impression of the novelty and interest of the subjects and their pictu- resque style of...

A VOLUME of twenty fac-similes of original sketches by CLAUDE, (never before engraved,) from the collection bequeathed by Mr. PAYNE KNIGHT to the British Museum, has been...