language of the officials is 5nite monarchical. General Espinasse, despatched on a special mission to Algiers, assures the colonists that "the Prince who sent him desires to...

'TILE present, - which political quidnuncs call the dead season, is 'perhaps the season in which a discerning eye will recognize most readily the vitality and efficiency of our...

nau demonstrations, in emulation of Barclay and Perkins's dray. men. Haynau has been east aside by his Imperial master;. but perhaps, as he has been hooted for acts done while...

hope of being able to blow up the Fishery dispute with Great Bri- tain into a serious quarrel, have turned their encroaching ener- gies in another direction. Some uninhabited...

planters, has reached this country, and been received in full divan by the Liverpool Jamaica Association. The time selected would seem to intimate that the deputation has been...

Tire Queen, Prince Albert, anti the Royal children, have remained at Os- borne since their Continental trip, enjoying drives in the adjacent country and short excursions in the...

The British Museum will be closed on Wednesday next, for the pur- pose of being cleaned and receiving additions. It will be reopened tq the public'on Tuesday the 7th September,...

The annual show meeting of the Royal North Lancashire Agricultural Society was held at Preston, on Wednesday and Thursday. It is re- ported as a good average show, both as...

ar- rival of the Queen. She is expected to reach Edinburgh on Tuesday afternoon, pass the night at Holyrood, and start again on Wednesday morning. Her intended route is...

The Earl and Countess of Eglinton returned to Dublin on Saturday ; visiting the iron bridge over the Shannon, at Athlone, by the way. Lord Monteagle hasbeen at Tarbert,...

FirAms.—Public attention has been directed this week to the results of the deliberations of the Councils of Arrondissement and the Conseils- , Generaux, which were elected under...

likened the state of France, deprived of liberty and political life, but amused by shows and festivals, to the lower Roman Empire ; and thus put, the parallel has at length...

SA_TITRDAY. An American mail, brought by the steam-ship Hermann, was landed at Cowes yesterday morning. The news came down to the 14th, three days later than the Europa's. It...

August was cele- brated at Gibraltar ! The fleet of Admiral Dundas, says the Moniteur of yesterday, were dressed out with flags (pavoisee) at the same time. "The French flag...

• 'The new Parliament, it is expected, will be opened by the Sovereign in person, on her Majesty's return from Scotland, in the second week in November.—Norning Herald. M. de...

Bolton station, has since died. On Thursday afternoon an inquest was held on the bodies of Bancroft the pointsman and Greenhidgh. The facts deposed in evidence sub- stantially...

on the improved rifle-musket. He narrates the experience of the firing of four French regi- ments, who expended 300,000 balls of the new and old make. Both sets of balls were...

pro- bable that considerable damage has been done to the crops in the Southern and Eastern counties, by the heavy rains which fell at the end of last and the beginning of this...

STOCK E TCHANGE, FRIDAY ATTE:MOON. In the English Stock Market., Government Securities, which closed at an improvement of 1 on Saturday last, exhibited continued firmness on...

RAILWAY BOARD. The annual report of the proceedings that have taken place in respect of railways in the year 1851 has been laid before the Committee of the Privy Council for...

DERBY WATCHING THE BAROMETER. PARLIAMENT is to meet in November, and after a short session it will be adjourned for the Christmas holydays : such is the report current in the...

It is not so much the verdict of the jury in the inquest at Six- mile Bridge which challenges reprobation, as the acceptance of that verdict by those who did not share the local...

THE subject of railway amalgamation on a gigantic scale is entering upon that sort of discussion which usually precedes some practical conclusion : it is argued for and against...

No candid man, considering the instinctive jealousy which churches have always exhibited towards education that was not under their own control, and also considering the...

DEVELOPMENT OF TIM RAILWAY "ACCIDENT." WHILE the public is discussing the general question of railway administration, there happen s the most flagrant instance yet known of that...

GENTLEMAN of eminently Saxon name, who professes that his family "hail" from a maritime Saxon county, who has purchased land in that county rather than settle after his travels...

THE Sheffield Guardians continue their experiment in reproduc - tive employment, in spite of serious obstruction ' with much per- tinacity, and very cheering results. Since we...

Tin Guardian declines to continue its controversy with the "Li- beral " journals on the expediency of reviving Convocation be- cause it and they view the subject from opposite...

London, 23d August 1862. Sra—The letters of your correspondents "A Whig" and "F. T. C.," in favour of Convocation, have done considerable service towards the clearing up of this...

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD: MOAB LAST WORDS. 23d August 1852. Sra—Mr. Freeman's original charge against the Commissioners was that they "were not ashamed to refer to a transaction...

ON that memorable morning, in March 1712, when our esteemed namesake, Mr. Spectator, attended Sir Roger de Coverley, at his lodgings in Norfolk Buildings, to accompany the...

Sr—In fulfilling my duties of late as an elector of Diocesan Proctors, I proposed to myself these two objects-1. Whilst we rendered the elective process more than a sham, which...

for bringing out clearly the real and very considerable difficulties which beset the revival of Convocation. The position which I took up last week was that what was required...

obscured by party views and irrelevant discussions, that perhaps I may be allowed to at- tempt to clear the subject a little. It appears to me that on one theory alone can the...

23d August 1852. Sniersion—You have been wisely asking what the Church wants. If you will allow me, I will briefly explain to you. First, the Church certainly wants— (a) A...

LALOR'S MONEY AND MORALS. * THIS work is distinguished by vigorous and vivid literary power, by a high and generous spirit engaged on matters of vital concern to the British...

THE author of these travels fairly meets at starting the "bilious" question, what more can the public want to hear about Egypt, Palestine, the East of Europe, and Italy P He as...

is a story. So essential is this, that if there is a succession of incidents striking in themselves and eliciting passion or force of character in the dramatis persons°, the...

Books. A Tramp to the Diggings; being Notes of a Ramble in Australia and New Zealand in 1852. By ,robn Shaw, M.D., F.G.S., 8re. The Ethnology of the British Islands. By R. G....

MART'S SCHOOL OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION.• Tins is a very valuable work, from the pen of one of the most learned German musicians of the day, who holds a high academical situation,...

During the summer of 1847-the last summer of Mendelssohn's life- he spent several months at Interlacken in Switzerland. He had left "England in a state of health which alarmed...

On the 15th August, at Brighton, the Lady Katherine Evans Freke, of a daughter. On the 21st, at Chilton Rectory, the Wife of the Rev. F. V. Thornton, of a daughter. On the...

[From the Official Return.] Zymotic Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves,...

WAR-OFFICE, Aug. 24.-lst Regt. of Drags.-Lieut. A. H. de Trafford has been allowed to retire from the service by . the sale of his commission; T. K. Fitzgerald, Gent, to be...

Tuesday, August 24. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED. - Paterson and Elliott, Fenchnrch Street, hair-cutters -Thomas and Sons, Chester, printers-Scott and Lush, Warminster, seedsmen-...

BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) )rt e t r o for t A C ccO it Account 3 per Cents Reduced st per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8 per Cent ........... India Stock, 101...