have become rather more frequent ; and also, negatively or positively, they have become rather more practical than usual ; the chief subjects being Representative Reform and...

Meanwhile, the proceedings of Russia appear to have excited new vigilance in several quarters. The Government of Denmark is said to have expressed a desire that England and...

in Australia ; nor will it be possible suddenly to out out that diseased part of the body politic : the more reason why every practicable step should be taken to secure perfect...

head, and has burst spontaneously. The last form of the charge was the report that a pamphlet had been written in 1851 disclosing the reasons of Lord Palmerston's dismissal from...

QUEEN VICTORI.& has entertained a numerous and illustrious circle of guests this week at Windsor Castle ; including the Archbishop of Can- terbury, the Earl and Countess of...

The Manchester political gathering was held on Tuesday. Heretofore these meetings have taken place in the Free Trade Hall, in the presence of thousands; but as that room is this...

The City Commissioners have examined this week a great many officers of the Corporation, chiefly those occupying inferior posts; and the evi- dence they have given consists...

The great educational meeting at Edinburgh, postponed on account of the illness of Lord Paumure, was held on Wednesday ; his Lordship pre- siding. Among those who took part in...

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Sir Edward M'Donnell, gave his inaugural banquet on Tuesday. The Lord-Lieutenant and Mr. Shaw the Recorder made speeches: each admitted that pauperism...

FRANCE.—M. de Kisseleff was present at a ball at the Tuileries on Monday ; and, of course, was received with courtesy by the Emperor. The dancing was opened by the Emperor and...

A "suppressed pamphlet," said to contain something dreadful about Prince Albert, has been the subject of a nine-days wonder. A letter from Mr. William Coningham, of Brighton,...

for the Brazils, left the Mersey on Thursday, with a heavy cargo and several passengers. She met a strong head-wind, and, unable to proceed, was driven on the Harry Furlong...

The performance of Elijah by the Harmonic Union on Monday was marked by the appearance of Belletti in the character of the Prophet. Signor Belletti had arrived in London only a...

SATURDAY. The telegraph still flashes news of Turkish victories on the Danube. A despatch from Paris dated yesterday says—" It is asserted that a great battle took place near...

Emperor by the Finance Minister. It shows that, by cancelling credits and by excess of revenue, the apparent deficit of 98,000,000 francs for the current year will be reduced to...

Wednesday, at the house of the Chevalier Bunsen, including Sir John Herschel, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Professor Owen and representatives of most of the Missionary, Asiatic, and...

The appearance of Miss Charlotte Cushman at the Haymarket is an event of some interest, as the time since she last performed has been suf- ficiently long to allow the growth of...

the season. She is to sing only in oratorios, both in London and in the provinces.

time, got a re- gular opera, partly Italian partly German, with which they appear to be much delighted. The company is respectable ; including Madame Cara- don, Herr Reichardt,...

yesterday at the Foreign Office. It was attended by all the Ministers, and sat three hours and a half. The steamer Itaj!di, sailed yesterday from Southampton - with fifty tons...

M. Alexandre Dumas has been unlucky with his three " Jeunessesr (" de Louis XIV," "de Louis XV," and "do Lauzun,") none of which have been allowed to mature themselves in the...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Eastern question anxieties, which were greatly augmented at the close of last week, continue unabated. Consols, which after regular hours...

THE OPENING OF THE SESSION. This time it becomes more than a newspaper commonplace to talk of the unusual interest with which the public awaits the opening of Parliament, and...

IF the aspect of the Continent, with all its brooding wars, agitated potentates, and perplexed peoples, could be portrayed in a picture, the view would be like some of those...

IF any man had a very precious cargo of goods to send from England to the ancient island of Taprobane or Serendib, now called Ceylon, it is not likely that he would seek about...

JUDICIAL INQUIRY INTO SIIIPWRECKS. IxornEn emigrant-ship has been lost, and of nearly 600 people on board not 250 have been saved. The ship started under circum- stances which...

THE " Friend s in Council," whose recorded conversations have been rendered familiar to the public through the Whittingham Press, have been agitated of late by anxiety for the...

Suooesnoss for certain changes in the classification-list's of the Statistics of Representation, published in a Supplement to the Spectator of the 7th instant, have reached us....

Oxford, 24th January 1854. Sin—Allow me to offer a few remarks suggested by the letter of "A Dis- senter" in your last. It touches subjects on which .1 feel strongly, and on...

1, Adam Street, Adelphi, 23d January 1854. Sin—A strange notion has been put forth, that the present strikes are the precursors of the downfall of English prosperity, by driving...

MOORE'S LATIN. 171h January 1854. Stn—The reviewer of Moore's Memoirs in last Saturday's Spectator, refer- ring to Moore's mention of the portrait of Galileo seeming to say,...

London, 26th January 1854. Sra—I remark that in all the speculations put forth as to the results of a war with Russia, it is taken for granted that at sea, at least, we have...

JAPANESE EXHIBITION. The room of the Old Society of Painters in Water Colours in Pall Mall is now occupied by a collection less artistic, indeed, in the English sense, but...

That now long-established denizen of the Egyptian Hall, Mont Blanc, has since this week got Constantinople for its over-the-way neighbour. Mr. Allom, assisted by Messrs....

ADMIRALTY, Jan. 21.—Corps of Royal Marines—Gent. Cadets to be Second Lieuts. —A. Malone, H. Suther, T. P. Newell. ADMIRALTY, Jan. 21.—Admiral of the White J. Carthew has been...

the Official Return.] ZymotIc Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat rct ar iscases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and...

R. Peel, Thirteenth Light Infantry, of a son. On the 20th January, at Marble House, Warwick, the Wife of the Rev. T. N. Farthing, Inner of Christ Church, Denton, Lancashire, of...

WAR-OFFICE, Jan. 27.-4th Regt. of Drag. Guards—H. Ponsford, Gent, to be Cor- net, by purchase, vice Banks, who retires. 3d Light Drags.—Surg, W. 0. Macken- zie, M.D. from the...

BRITISH FUNDS (Closing Prieto.) &Surd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. Thum 3 per Cent Consols 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Ditto for Account Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8 per Cent...

Tuesday, January 24. PARTNEUSHIPS DISSOLVED.-T. and .1. Hartley, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff-manu- facturers-Hartley and Robinson. Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff-manufacturers-Rum-...

Connty of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JOSEPH CLAYTON, NO. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London ; and Published by the...

FANCOURT'S HISTORY OF YUCATAN.. THIS work exhibits considerable ability, with painstaking industry and extensive research, directed to a subject of little general interest. The...

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1854. [GRATIS WITH THE WEEK'S SPECTATOR.

This may be a clever political romance, or it may be an actual autobiography, injured by expansion and over-detail, as well as by the introduction of an Italian love-story in a...

to Odessa is not stated, but it would seem to have been to gather information connected with the corn- trade. That term, however, must be taken in a large sense, including the...

sense of the word was not the purpose of Professor Forbes's visit to Norway. His first object was to ob- serve the total eclipse in July 1851 ; his second, to examine the...

French provincial man- ners at the time of the first Revolution, form the distinguishing feature of this novel, and indeed constitute its attraction. The ma- terial may be...