respondence, and has landed his Cabinet in a squabble , as gratui- tous, as profitless, as detrimental, and as discreditable, as he could ve contrived. It was absolutely without...

THE customary lull of the Parliamentary recess is characterized this year by the continued though subdued movement—the rest- less tossing of the troubled waters while the wind...

The Lord Mayor and his lady gave the customary Easter entertainment on Monday to a numerous party. Lord Clanricarde, the Bishop of Chiches- ter, Mr. Justice Coltman, and some...

ME Queen, Prince Albert, and the children, enjoy excellent health; rides and walks in Osborne grounds and on the island beach being the chief in- cidents of the week. Tuesday...

that the King of Sardinia, after very suspicious delays in the field, has receded, and left the Milanese in the lurch ; and the more authentic intelligence that Sicily has cast...

the real business of the election of delegates for the National Assembly, which is to meet in Paris on Thursday next ; and, so far as the result can as yet be surmised, it is...

have pleaded to the indictments against them. The two first simply plead. "Not guilty "; and 'their trials will come on about the middle of next month. Mr. Mitchel pleaded in...

The Bishop of Hereford was installed on Thursday. The Dean was not present; and at one stage of the proceedings, what is understood to have been a protest against the...

A public meeting, called at the instance of 220 of the electors of Edin- burgh, was held yesterday week in the Waterloo Rooms, for the purpose of passing resolutions in support...

Faswea.— On Sunday and Monday all Paris was busy, occupied with the elections for the National Assembly. In expectation of an enormous pressure to the polling-stations,...

Both Houses of Parliament met on Saturday last, to receive the Royal assent, given by Commission, to the Crown and Government Security Bill, and some other routine and minor...

J. Lhatsky, Dootor of Philosophy, representing a case of literary hardship. Biographical MS. sketches of the present Emperor of Austria, in which it was predicted (in 1822) that...

SATUEDAT. This morning we have more complete accounts of a great blow to the Danes, which was reported in London yesterday. In brief, their line has been forced in three...

the late Free- trade agitation met at the head-quarters of that agitation, Manchester, on Thursday night. The meeting was held in the former " Council-room " of Anti-Corn-law...

has been conferred on the Earl of Camperdown, and not on the Duke of Argyll. The new Archbishop of Canterbury was enthroned yesterday, in the Cathedral Church.

General has taken the same course in the cases of Mr. O'Brien and htt Meagher as in that of Mr. Mitchel—the indictments are abandoned and ex officio informations are filed. Mr....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FEIDAY AFTERNOON. The general aspect of commercial affairs is more cheering than it has been since the present political turmoil on the Continent began. There...

A new picture, opened at the Diorama in the Regent's Park, represents Mount Etna. The spectator stands on the Southern declivity of Mount Taurus; the tall peaks of Taormina and...

the Lyceum and the Haymarket bring Messrs. Blanche and G. A. a Beckett into juxtaposition. The Theseus and Ariadne (Lyceum) of the former, and the Castle of Otranto (Haymarket)...

sating the Heir at Law at the St. James's, for the benefit of the "Artists' General Benevolent Institution." Their audience was numerous, and the piece respectably played.

This is the title of a new association, set on foot in opposition to the ori- ginal Sacred Harmonic Society. We lately noticed the dismissal, by that Society, of their late...

The reopening of Her Majesty's Theatre has not yet displayed its highest attraction.--Though4Jenax 141:ksLarrived in.town a week ago, she has been reposing after...

AnaVED—At Gravesend, 20th April, Caroline, Williams. from China ;S. Boddinzton, goes, from Calcutta ; and Roekliffe, Clendon ; and Vibilia, NWan, from Mauritius; 21st, Lord W....

CONDUCT OF PUBLIC DISCUSSION. Wit rely on our readers for remembering that they have their duties as well as their rights ; and we call the fact to mind just now, not so much...

THE state of Ireland seems to change only from bad to worse. It might be more formidable ; it could not be more disheartening. England cannot be afraid of Ireland, but had never...

SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH has notified for Some day after Easter, a motion, "to call the attention of the House to the sub- ject of the Colonies, and to submit to the consideration...

Fifty-one, has not yet issued a programme of the great English Reform movement ; but he has volunteered a programme of Reform for Ireland. It is less re- markable for what it...

allege a defect in the law which is a real grievance. The law of conveyance, they state, prohibits the direct holding of freehold property by benefit societies ; so that when...

Tnn rumoured appointment of Mr. James Wilson to be Vice- President of the Board of Trade has drawn upon him rather sharp attacks : but surely the assailants are too hard ? The...

LAND-TAX NOT RENT. IT is a favourite argument with the defenders of the present revenue sys- tem in British India that the land-tax there levied is in fact only the rent of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 24th April 1848. Sex—In my first letter on this subject, I referred generally to the hindrance occasioned to the Government by the want...

To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Camberwell, April 24th 1848. 8m. — Even at the risk of appearing obtrusive, I am induced again to address yeti: and permit me to remark, that...

Tadvsme, Eastern Life, Present and Past. By Harriet Martineau. In three volumes. • moron. PoirrioAr. Ecomoirr, The Past, the Present, and the Future. By H. C. Carey, Author of...

political economist with a high Transatlantic reputation, which in our opinion is tb, some degree factitious. He seems too ambitions to condense and systematize existing...

in the moral part from overdoing the ethics; the case to illustrate the rule is too extreme to furnish any general conclusion. Mrs. Maberly does not altogether avoid this scarce...

SOON after the breaking out of the war between Mexico and the United States, the latter power determined to despatch a force under General Kearney fiom the Western frontier, to...

Music and Edsoation. By Dr. Mainzer. Da. MAINZER has resided for several years in Edinburgh, where he is pur- suing his musical labours for the benefit of "the million." Some...

BOOKS. Principles of Political Economy, with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy. By John Stuart Mill. In two volumes. Clinical Observations on the Pathology and...

we take it for granted, is a church-organist; a branch of the musical profession eminently favourable to solid attainments in the art; and it is found, accordingly, that in all...

Tuesday, April 25. PAISTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. and J. Bingham, Wigan, cotton-spinners-Cary and Anthony, Cheltenham, mir, germs-Worth and Allan, Oxford, smiths-Thompson and...

On the 17th April, at Harrowden House, Northamptonshire, tha Lady of C. MB, Yam., Si a son. . On the 18th, at Thornton Steward, near Bedale, Yorkshire, the Wife of Ole Rev. J....

WAR-OFFICE, April 25.-1st Regt. of Life Guards-Lieut. G. H. Cavendish to be Capt. without purchase, vice Sir C. W. Kent, Bart. deceased ; Comet G. Viscount DapplIn to be Lieut....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Meatus Prices.) Sairsti. Monday Thssday. Widow. 3 per Cent Consols 821 sair 81 Ditto for Account.. 82 82 82 3per Cents Reduced e el 1321 so 80} 801...