THE MINISTRY. THE lists that we published last week, and more especially the list in our second edition, contained most of the names of the new Ministry. We have few...

THE House of Lords have met regularly during the week. The Ministerial changes have disturbed the regular meeting of the Commons ; they sat only on Monday, Tuesday, and...

THE Belgic Notables have at length determined on the form of Government which they consider to be best suited for the wants and the welfareof the country. They have decided, as...

looked on in France as an affair of the highest possible importance. No sooner had the intelligence reached Paris, than an official notice of it was sent to the Stock Exchange,...

THE mass of details. which we have been compelled to wade through, in order to procure e- like a correct accountOf the various riots and outrages that have taken place during...

Their Lordships are summoned for Monday, when the Marquis Of SALISBURY will move for a Committee on the State of the Poor Laws.

more than usual interest attached, it being formed for the purpose of receiving the resignation of the old and the introduction of the new Ministers. The Duke of Wellington and...

of the members of the Government, and requested to know whether his Majesty would, on an early day, confer on his faithful subjects of the City the honour so ardently desired by...

the shop of Mr. Abrahams, pawnbroker, had been entered, Aett Mertes of Skeleton keys, by some expert and experienced thieves, who peeked tip all the articles of value they could...

; but it is expected that Sir Thomas Denman will be elected. A respectable body of freeholders propose his return, free of expense. Mr. Sadler, the Duke of Newcastle's nominee...

open voting commenced on Tuesday. It is a pretty general rule in all such cases, that he who is - the unpopular man with the voters is the popular man with the mob who are not...

a few days since, upon a charge of raising money under pretence of obtaining offices under Government. Many individuals, who had been duped by the prisoner, made their...

name, offering a reward of 501. for the conviction of every participator in the riots, and another reward of 5001. for the conviction Of the authors of the fires in Wiltshire,...

advantage of baying at its head a man long known to the political world for those statesmanlike talents which, though long excluded from power, have reflected lustre on the...

HOUSE OF L CPUS. SCOT CH APPEAL S.—The new Chancellor has commenced his judicial labours in the House of Lords with vigour. He has sat three days, and heard four causes,—!....

DRURY LANE. Saturday—Hofer—Turning the Tables—Deaf as a Post. Monday—Venice Preserved—Popping the Question—The Conscript. Tuesday—The School for Scandal—The - National Guard....

We have perused the whole mass of Election Petitions, intending to give a short analysis of each case. Our space, however, forbids this, as well as indulgence in the...

WAR OFFICE, Nov. 26.-2nd Regt. Life Guards : Capt. , G. Greenwood to be Major by purchase, vice Vilett, who retires ; Lieut. J. Trotter to be Capt. by pur- - chase, vice...

BIRTHS. On the 17th inst. at Aldtvarke, Rotherham, Lady Bouvs RIE, of a son. • On the 17th inst. at Childwall, Liverpool, the wife of the Rev. J. A. Wasore, of a sou. IIIA...

The Company's ship, Duchess of Athol], left Singapore for China, on the 1st of July, and the Thomas Coutts, on the Otis. The Abercrombie, Robinson, left Bom- bay on the 1Sth of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FicxoAv EVENING.—The Account went off better yesterday than wee expected; but exhibited an extraordinary scarcity of Stock, which at one moment was dearer by per...

OXFORD, Nov. 25.—In a convocation holden this day, the following gentlemen, who have been nominated to succeed to the office of Select Preacher at Michaelmas next, were approved...

The King has been pleased to grant to the Rev. Thomas Turton, D.D., the Deanery of his Majesty's Cathedral Church of Peterborough, void by the promotion of Mr. James Henry Monk...

o'cLOtk. *4P1 have . just seen a gentleman who passed through Berkshire and Wiltshire, on his Way from Bristol, yesterday ; and took pains to learn the state of the disturbances...

will still lend his voice to the matured plans of the Cabinet VAux seated in the most honourable place that a subject can oc- of which he is so distinguished an ornament, for...

WE invite the attention of our readers to the hints of an ingenious correspondent,* as to the means of providing permanent employ- ment for those of the labouring classes whom...

A passage in Dr. Thosisores History of Chemistry (National Library, No. Ill) contains an anecdote of Dr. CULLEN and WILLIAM HUNTER, which might be made of very general appli-...

"Silva me from my friends," should be the motto of every aspirant to theatrical fame. The trumpetings which have preceded the first appearance of Miss HUDD /MT on the London...

WE have abstained from taking part in the discussion which has at intervals been carried on in various newspapers and journals on the propriety of dividing a certain portion of...

WE are preparing some new shelves; covering recesses with re- ceptacles for literature, and opening fresh means of entertainment - for the quartos and octavos of the winter yet...

to a Greek gentleman respecting the deficiency of their education. T6 show you," said he, " the eatimatiutt in which they are held, I will relate to you a story current among...

immediately after Mrs. SHELTON'S, by way of contrast. The arrangement is the very reverse of that lady's, containing every harmony that can enrich the air, and disposed and...

COM] posed by H. VON COLBERG. A pretty and spirited song (but not a ballad), made effective, we have no doubt, by Miss BETTS'S good singing. The composer has contrived to render...

There is not much of novelty to recommend this song; but it has a respectable workmanlike appearance with it, and is evidently the pro. duction of one who is capable of...

H. SHELTON. This lady has written several rather pleasing airs, and this is one of her hest ; but, in its present form, no teacher of any reputation could use it. The bass and...

AT the meeting of the Society on Thursday, the President being in the chair, a paper was read, entitled, " On a simple Electro-chemical method of ascertaining the presence of...

"The Musical Forget Me• Not for Mi." Mr. AcKERMANN, the father of the English Annuals, has now en- tered the lists with the 'nude-publishers. His present volume differs from,...

LABOURING POOR. TO THE EDITOR Oi TIIE SPECTATOR. Sin—Notwithstanding your witty remarks upon " Nostrums," a week or two ago, I venture to offer a plan for the relief of the...

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