and dangerous Spanish intrigue. Proceedings of the kind were of too underhand a nature to be distinctly avowed, or even distinctly exposed by hostile parties before their...

Mr. WEST, the successful opponent of Mr. O'Cos- WELL in the representation of Dublin—a prominent member of the majority of ninety-one—was set down by the Irish Tories for...

TnE voluminous Brevet, which swells the Gazette this week, tells of long-expected advancement to many, and of some addition to the huge military expenditure. In regard to the...

in the way of exposing foreign intrigues, and now it unveils not the least curious or important. The anomalous relation of Greece and Turkey,—Greece, a revolted Turkish...

At a Court of Common Council, in the Guildhall, on Thnrsday, the City Chamberlain, with the usual forms, presented the freedom of the City to Major-General Sir Charles Felix...

THERE has been no change reported in the favourable progress of the Queen towards renewed strength ; and the infant Prince, by all ac- counts, is among the best specimens of...

A meeting of Chartists was held at Bolton on the Mb, to con- sider the state of the country. The following resolutions were all passed unanimously- " That the distress in the...

The Conservative electors of the county of Wicklow entertained Colonel Acton, their representative, at a dinner, on Thursday last, in Tommy's Hotel, Dublin. Nearly a hundred...

The Nonintrusion Committee of the General Assembly have submitted a report to the Commission of Assembly on certain nego- tiations which have been carried on with the...

Tuesday's Gazette notified the appointment of the following Royal "Commissioners for inquiring into the best mode of promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom : " Prince...

Arrived - At Gravesend, Nov. 26th, Duke of Norfolk, Goss; and Ariadne, M•Leoct. from Bengal ; Scaleby Castle, Johnson ; Ivanhoe, Simpson ; and Duke of Lancaster. Hargreaves,...

ing defendant in the Braintree church-rate case, has paid his rate and the expenses ; thus stultifying all his past resistance. It is understood that the Churchwardens will now...

Justice gave two judgments which have been looked for with some interest. When Sir Alexander Grant was a candidate for Cambridge, a local paper attacked him in a very violent...

space to an important trial in the provinces. M. Ledru Rollin, in presenting himself as a candidate to succeed M. Gamier Pages, the Republican Deputy for Mans, delivered what is...

serious nature of the differences between Turkey and Greece. The irritation in the Turkish capital was extreme. One important fact is added : a ,despatch had been received at...

Masons' Strike, although cre- ditable to the writer, is not of a kind to advance the discussion, or to exercise a favourable influence with the readers of the Spectator: our...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON: The following notice was yesterday issued from the Bank. It will be seen that it is, as usual, cautiously worded, to provide for the possible...

SATURDAY NIGHT. A deputation from the inhabitants of Plymouth waited upon Lord John Russell, on Thursday, to greet him on his arrival to reside in the neighbourhood, at...

on the gui vice to recall him to the boards be so long graced, notwithstanding the credit that he gained for judiciously retiring before his powers were on the wane. No doubt,...

THE ARMY AND NAVY PROMOTIONS. THE long-deferred hopes of many veterans of the Army and Navy have just been realized by their promotion, in consequence of the birth of the...

THE Haymarket has this week made another successful hit with a new farce, called Love Extempore; and Covent Garden has had another nar- row escape from failure in the revival of...

Tas rumour of the intention of Government to bring forward a comprehensive measure of Emigration has naturally excited au& given activity to all the prejudices against...

AMONG the closest neighbours, occupying in many respects parallel positions in the civilized world, no two nations could be more dis- similar in political conduct than France...

" THE clergy are humanely endeavouring to meet the distress by the distribution of books showing how to make a meal out of a mere trifle." For this valuable information we are...

A CONSIDERABLE sensation seems to have been excited among the diplomatic circles by the brusque manner in which the King of Holland has backed out of the treaty by which his...

"KNOWLEDGE is power" says the proverb, but where is the seat of knowledge ? The disciple of MESMER will tell you that he can communicate to his patient "a higher, fuller life...

Titavms, Account of Konawnr, in the Himalaya, &c. fcc. Ikc. By the late Captain Alex- ander Gerard. Edited by George Lloyd. With a large map Mad e . o ad C o . Ma/11MM. On the...

THE object of this work is to endeavour to prove "that epidemic diseases are not only produced by volcanic action, but also that the immediate cause of their production is the...

editions of SHAKSPERE, at various prices and in various forms, from the simple text in double columns, where the utmost effects of cheapness and compression are reached, to the...

WE have received a letter from the "real author of Cecil," well- tempered and fair enough, and not altogether deficient in the happy self-confidence only proper to the hero of...

THE DEATH OF CHANTRET. WriwrN a short time British art has lost two of its chief ornaments 1 but lately we had to record the loss of WILKIE, and now we have the painful duty of...

THE new art called Lithotint, by which impressions are taken from original drawings made with the brush and liquid ink on stone, just in the same way as on paper, is at length...

THE BREVET. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 23.—Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following of. Stems to take rank by brevet as tulderffieutioned; the commissions to be dated Nov....

BIRTHS. On the 12th September, at Toronto, Upper Canada, the Lady of FREDERICK CHAP- awl, Esq.. of aeon. On the 17th November, at Wellington. Norfolk, the Lady of E. G. H....

Arelsrewrr, Nov. 23d, 1841.—This day, in pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, the following Flag Officers of her Majesty's Fleet were promoted, viz.— Admirals se the White—Sir...

BRITISH FUN D S. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Atonday. Theselay Wednes. Thurs. Fefday. 881 884 884 881 891 894 881 881 884 881 891 891 871 8 71 88 881 881 884 971 971 9 71 9...

Tuesday, Nov. 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. IT. and W. Penne, Canterbury, surgeons-H. and H. Jarvis, Bouverie Street, book- binders-Haddock and Heald, Nottingham....