not a little anxiety. Palermo and great part of Sicily are in the hands of insurgents. The King of Naples was so dismayed at the news, that he was struck with illness ; but he...

affair ; not so important in itself as the pacification of Switzerland, but momentous as the overt sign of a deplorable official corruption in France. A practice has obtained of...

the stages of his troubled progress ; but the Bishop of Hereford is not yet out of the wood : Dr. Lee was consecrated on Sunday; but Dr. Hampden's confirmation has been the...

Worm) that we could omit Ireland from our survey of passing affairs ! It is a subject that presents every element of disgust— triteness, revolting crime, misery, and perversity....

acquits Lord Palmerston of thelhconsistency im- puted to him last week, and convicts M. Guizot of falsification. M. Guizot produced a note written by Lord Palmerston to Mr....

Manchester, by the Arch bishop of York, took place on Sunday last, in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. At eleven o'clock a procession of mace-bearers and diocesan officers,...

THE King and Queen of the Belgians have arrived at Windsor Castle. Their Majesties crossed from Calais to Dover on Monday, in the Garland steamer; proceeding thence to London by...

dilemma. Queen Isabella is in a bad state of health, but her conduct is way- ward and imprudent : with an ugly cough, she selects the close of day for her rides, and altogether...

An Anti-Defence meeting was held in Derby Guildhall on Monday. Resolutions, moved by sundry reverend gentlemen, were voted unanimously, deprecating war as at variance with...

The disarming process is in full operation, but not on the whole with very obvious success. The search in the proclaimed baronies of Longford, Granard, and Ardagh, conducted by...

Fnescs.—The threatened debate on the sale of an office in the Finance Department took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday. The sub- ject was introduced by M. Odilon...

To make amends for M. Guizot's scanty supply of information on Swiss affair' to the French Chambers, Lord Palmerston has provided for our Parliament a blue book of 300 pages, to...

A " grand Free-trade demonstration " was made in the Manchester Free- Trade Hall, on Thursday evening, professedly "to celebrate the return to Parliament of those distinguished...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Bank Directors, at the usual weekly meeting held yesterday, determined to reduce their maximum rate of discount to 4 per cent. This step...

a graphic description of the scene in the French Chamber of Deputies after the Count de Montalembert's oratorical attack on Lord Palmerston. The letter, which according to the...

C.B. to be Lieutenant - Governor of Guernsey, in the room of Major - Genera' William Francis Patrick Napier, C.B. A correspondent reports to our weekly contemporary the Church...

from Italy and Switzerland. The National has a letter from Civita Vecchia, of the 20tb, giving as &rumour that General Mago had been killed at Palermo. According to this...

The Anne and Jane, from London to China, was totally lost on the Island of Labuan, at the entrance of Manila Bay, during a gale, 8th Nov. The Samuel Smith, from Penang to...

ACTUAL life in Ireland seems to be conducted on the principle of burlesque. That principle consists in picking out the incongrui- ties which lurk in any handling of a serious...

LET us not be led away from the true point of view in respect of national defence: it is not whether we are to prepare for war, but whether our defences are in such a state as...

PROGRESS OF CHEAP POSTAGE. WE print in another page a table showing the increase in the number of chargeable letters delivered in the United Kingdom in each year from 1839 to...

WHILE most of the Ministerial and Free-trade journals have been mystifying their readers with fallacious statements of the West India question, the Examiner has put forth a...

ANOTHER "scene" was witnessed in the Court of Arches, on Saturday, occasioned by the interminable case of Geils versus Geils. Dr. Addams closed his reply on behalf of the wife,...

SPECTATOR. • 24th January 1848. Sur—There are some historical events cited as parallels, which are very angu- lar illustrations—having one . point in common, the further they...

dressing up a number of young ladies in military costumes has been adopted in a new farce, called Our National Defences. A substitution of pantaloons for pet- ticoats, with the...

be- lief that Miss Glyn, a young lady who has made her &bat at the Olympic as Lady Macbeth, is a very great actress. She has been evidently trained with great care, and well she...

THE week just past has been one of some activity. At the Haymarket, there has been a successful farce, called Dearest Elizabeth. The hero, a lax married man, is in alarm...

Sin—If we could mistake the presumption of ignorance for the confidence of knowledge, the assurances of those who have combated the Duke of Wellington's opinion as to the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sm—I have been a subscriber to your newspaper since the year 1840; and I will not yield to Sir William Molesworth or any other gentleman in the...

Diogine, and turning upon a newly-invented love of Diogenes the Cynic for the re- nowned Aspasia, has - been mercilessly inflicted upon the British public. M. Felix Pyat, the...

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. 8. Semarang, during the Years l843-46 ; employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago ; accompanied by a brief...

Is an attack upon the Papacy and the Jesuits, in the form of a philosophic. history. An Englishman, possessed by a similar object, would have. Written a treatise on the evils...

A WELL-CHOSEN collection of ghost-stories, second-sight tales, fulfilled dreams, and other incidents of a supernatural kind, is a want in our literature ; much more a really...

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, during the years 1848-46 ; employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief Vocabulary of the...

On the 18th January, at Loxweed House, Sussex, the Lady of John Ring, Esq., ofa daughter. On the 19th, at Torquay, the Hon. Mrs. T. C. Sketlington, of a son. On the 21st, in...

Tuesday, Jan. 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. G. and C. H. Featheratonhaugh, Bishopwearmouth, brewers-Brennan and Co. Barge Yard, Bucklersbury, merchants-Ogle and Son,...

Wmt-ornee, Jan. 28.-2d Regt. of Life Guards-Capt. J. S. Dodsworth, from half- pay Unattached, to be Capt. vice R. Blane, who exchanges ; Lieut. the Hon. R. N. Lawley to be Capt....

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