about the island of Tigre; and if the dispute is to go forward according to rule, those great countries must come to war. What is the island of Tigre to them ?—Properly nothing....

CLOSING in peace, as it opened in war, the year 1849 has wit- nessed events second in importance only to those of 1848; though it has not brought us to that European settlement...

Meetings of the " Protectionist - party," and of Protectionist agricultural societies in different districts, continue a leading feature of provincial events. An "unusually...

THE Royal Family returned from Osharne to Windsor Castle on Saturday; travelling by railway from Gosport to the terminus at. Windsor. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the...

On Christmas Day, the festivities of the Metropolitan Workhouses were observed with suitable generosity. Roast beef and plum-pudding in weighty rations, extra beer, tea, and...

FRANCE.—We copied a statement that the President of the Repub- lic bad announced to the English gentlemen who waited upon him on the occasion of their experimental trip to show...

A paragraph has been going the round of the newspapers with regard to an asserted narrow escape of the Prince of Wales at Osborne. We are authorized to state that there is not...

receive a letter from the Honorary Secretary of the Carmarthen Literary and Scientific Institu- tion, giving expression to a nice sensitiveness, characteristic of the Princi-...

a Lieu- tenant in the Royal Artillery, was remanded to prison for six calendar months, in addition to two months of imprisonment already endured, for "obtaining money on checks...

Amid the general deluge of pantomimes and burlesques which this week inundates the theatrical world, two events stand out prominently as being of more than merely holyday...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FZIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have been steady, in the face of some very large transac- tions. The sales of Stock have been very general, in some...

SATURDAY. We understand that at the next Council the order authorizing trans- portation to the Cape will be revoked.—Times. The Queen has presented the Reverend William Corbet...

in Leicester Square. It is a moving panorama; and is painted from drawings by Mr. S. C. Brees, late chief Engineer to the New Zealand Company. We shall speak of it for ourselves...

for contradicting an erroneous statement of his opinion upon agricultural protection, to address a lengthened communication to the Sheriff of Kildare, containing his opinion on...

BANKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 17th December 1849. Sur—Perhaps you will allow me, through the medium of your influential jour- nal, to offer a...

TO TAE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Cheltenham, 22d December 1849. Sin—As there is going to be a strong effort for the reestablishment of " pro- tection," it seems to me that a...

LETTER II. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, December 1849. SIR—A tank fall of water, and a country full of people, will hold no more ; increase of any kind in such...

LETTER III. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—! shall now complete my promise of noticing seriatim a few of the moat glaring instances in which accused parties in Scotland...

THE NEW YEAR—ITS HOROSCOPE. BORN of Revolution and Reaction, the New Year cannot but have a strange and eventful history. Some portion of its destiny is written in the past :...

Ovnit-ABUNDANCE is the prognostic that begins to alarm watch- ful economists. The Bank is gorged with gold, and the Morning Chronicle lifts up a warning voice interpreting that...

the process to which we said Mr. 'Sidney Herbert's.scheme for carrying off 'the superabundant nee- dlewomen—superabundant and therefore starving—might be likened ; and this...

THE undertaker's business will not be permitted to rest in peace, unreformed. One who is "Not a Mute" writes to the Times making two suggestions for the curtailment of idle...

DRINKING makes head in some of the rustic parts of France. An Angevin farmer writes in alarm to the Corsaire, complaining that a Parisian practice of "drinking by the hour" has...

A SAVAGE with a watch—that is a type of the authorities of the National Gallery with the pictures intrusted to their keeping. The savage cannot comprehend the triumph of art; he...

HUMPHREYS ' S ANCIENT COINS. * THE first book that treated of " coins " in a distinct and separate form was Bude's work on the Roman As or As, which was originally published in...

for paradox, who had managed to take a leaf out of Mr. Disraeli's last book, might have written one part of The Pillars of Hercules at school. The phtenomena of the...

Tars book professes to be the journal of a planter in Guiana, kept during eight years succeeding Emancipation ; the object of the work being to show the inevitable ruin to which...

is the most appropriate to the season of any of the various books that have been devised since Dickens first set the fashion of Christmas stories ; for it is based upon the...

BOOKS. The Historic of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; expressing the Cosmo- graphie and Comodities of the country, together with the Manners and Customes of the People....

On thelOth, In Bruton Street, Lady Burghley, of a eon and heir. On the 21st, et the Earl of Crawford's, Berkeley - Square, the Lady Sarah Lindsey, or a daughter. On the 21st,...

Was-Orrice, Dec. 28.—Royal Regt. of Horse Guards—Capt. 2'. Sutton, from the 6th Drags. to be Capt. vice Brevet Major Reamer, who exchanges ; Cornet A. Massing- herd, from the...

ADMIRALIT, Dec. 20. — The following promotions have this day taken place conse- quent on the death of Rear.Admiral of the White Sir F. A. Collier, C.B.—Rear Admiral of the Blue...

Tuesday, Dee. 25. PARTNERI:MIPS DISSOLVED. Evans and Prig% Liverpool, joiners—Steuart and Day, Stratford. patent-hydrange- manufacturers—Rood and Co. Baltoosborough,...

BEITISli FENDS. (C30aIng Prices.) &Nord. . Ifissdap.i Weems. I per Cleat Consols.... .. Ditto for Amount 11}ser Cents Rade/mid al per Cants Long Ann dies Bank Stock, 7...