INSTEAD of rumours, newspaper paragraphs, and anonymous letters, official accounts of the military operations in Canada are now before the public. A Supplement to the Gazette of...

confirm the impression that the Liberal party have gained ground, and the Doctrinaires became weaker. DUPIN was chosen President of the Chamber, on Tuesday, by the votes of...

at Washington, on the 5th instant. The message from the Presi- deut VAN BUREN deals with several important subjects ; in two of which the people of this country have especial...

accounts, were busied in abortive attempts to procure a supply of money. The Cortes will not sanction the desperate projects of the Ministry, and suggest no better expedients.

occa- sioned much alarm among the merchants trading to that country, and the owners of Brazilian stock. On the 7th of November, the garrison at Bahia mutinied, and declared the...

Most Minister of Finance. M. CAsTito Minister of Justice. M. SOMERUELOs President of the Cortes. Count OFA LI A. has been Ambassador at London and Paris, and a member of the...

Colonial Office, Downing Street, 26th December 1937. A despatch has been received from Lieutenant-General Sir John Colborne, K. C.11., Commander of the Forces in Canada, dated...

squadrons of cavalry, and eight field-pieces, have moved upon Arlon, under the command of General Omv tart ; but notwith- standing this warlike demonstration, it is not supposed...

the inhabitants, take part with the seven Professors, of whom three have been banished and four "suspended." On proceeding to the rooms of two of the suspended Professors, and...

to take into consideration the treatment of the Archbishop of Cologne by the Prussian Government. The Pope delivered a speech on the occasion, deploring the " melancholy state...

MonAv being Christmas-day, the Queen attended divine service in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, and received the sacrament from the Bishop of London. In the evening, her...

At a well.attended meeting of the parishioners of St. Pancras, on Thursday, resolutions were passed in favour of Ballot, Short Parlia- ments, and Universal suffrage ; also...

Saturday last with the trial of' an action brought by Mr. Thomas Duncombe M.P., against Mr. T. S. Daniel, a barrister, for a libel published by Mr. Daniel at the time of the...

in the metropolis, broke out about half-past six on Thursday morning, in the premises called Davis's Wharf, on the Thames, nearly opposite the 'rower. The flames were not got...

to Mr. - Spring Rice and Mr. Pryme. Allem 150 gentlemen were present. One of the first toasts was " fler Majesty's Ministers o" which, of course, produced a speech from Alr....

The meeting of the Bath Reformers deserves more notice than time and the space of our columns permitted last week. There were about 1,500 persons present, although the weather...

Lear, of Arundel, to select agricultural labouring end- grants from that district : and we understand that several families from the neighbonrhood are about to leave for the...

Mr. O'Connell continues his attack on the proposed Poor-law for Ireland, at the same time that he strenuously supports the authors of it. He attributes the measure to the Grey...

the address of the Birmingham Political Union, declaring" his cordial assent to the views which it expresses." Mr. Crawford says- " The Irish People are now taught to place...

next month, to petition Parliament for the Ballot and an extension of the Suffrage. A public meeting is to be held in Leeds early next month, to petition Parliament for the...

At a puldie meeting in Peebles, on Tuesday week, a petition for the Ballot was adopted. Mr. Erskine Murray was present, and exhibited Mr. Grote's Ballot-box. The Edinburgh...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Paris papers are occupied with the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies. The electious for Secretaries to the Chamber afford additional proof that the...

immediate neighbourhood of the Palace at Pimlico; the office of Woods and Forests having purchased the houses in James Street and part of Stafford Place for 45,000/. A large...

A letter from Montreal, dated the 28th November, and published in the Liverpool Mail, contradicts a rumour that Browne, the Canadian General, had been taken prisoner, and his...

all-absorbing subject of Canada, to be found in other parts of the Spectator this week, we lay before our readers an interesting letter from a correspon- dent of our own at New...

every regiment stationed in the Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, 1 cap- tain, 1 subaltern, and 100 rank and tile, with a proportionate number of non.commissioned...

of " An Anglo. Canadian," gives a table of the results of the elections iii Lower Canada in 1834 ; showing that the " Papineau" Members were 79, representing a population of...

a short time before from a gentleman settled near York ( Upper Canada). It is evidently from a man, all whose thoughts are engrossed with his farm ; and the passages which throw...

the Useful nowledge Society. Vice-Chairman, Lord Joiria Busse:Lt.. " It must also be admitted that the People of England sympathized with their Government, up to a late...

Sic Exert AWOL FRIDAY APTERNoON. The publication of the official accounts of the disturbances in Canada, and the operations of her Majesty's troop:, has considerably removed the...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Dec. 2f , 'le, Achilles. Duncan, from Cel Ion ; 28th, Hindus- tan, Iteelee:an, from Madras; W. Metcalf, Phillipson; and Sir E. II smelt. Proudfoot, from...

RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN THE RISING IN CANADA AND THE REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. THE Treasury journals say that the insurrection in Canada "must be put down at whatever cost." The Tory...

this country having invaded the right of self•taxation and control over the "public revenue" possessed by the Canadian People. What says Lord Stanley on that specific question?...

IT seems to be understood that the present tendency of the middle classes in England is towards Conservatism. Their Democratic ardour has cooled. During the struggle for the...

THE newspapers this week have been full of misstatements of points at issue between this country and Lower Canada, and facts connected with the contest. Some of these we have...

TATOR. SIR—Seeing the Devil's Walk advertised in the Third Volume of the new edition of Sournev's Poems. I have attempted a sort of continuation of it. If you can find room for...

tile cl arge of the Government was, that the Receiver-General of the province bad been a de- faulter to the extent of 100,000/. ; a circumstance that may ham a under any form of...

eivi! war ; and I do not find, neither have I yet met o ith aliy tme who believes, ti at a singh. American has been engaged in the inenmetion. Doce not this fact prove, even to...

Canadians ; but in a case of extremity, it ventured temporarily to appropriate money lying in the treasury, which the House of Assembly factiously refused to devote to the pur....

Tor 1 .1ristmas pieces proper are of two kinds, those with a hark- a,ie,ale and those without. " In other words," exclaims an impatient ;' , ..tiug reader, " some are pantomimes...

TIIE Sacred Harmonic Society had a performance of the Messiah in Exeter Hall last night. The Hall, as usual on these occasions, was crowded to suffocation, by a most attentive...

the most favour- able accounts do not say much for it, and it has been described to us as being unusually bad. The introduction is not good ; though the Jack-olanterns and...

THESE two volumes are divided into three parts. The first con- sists of letters written by or to the celebrated SARAH JENNINGS, Dutchess of Marlborough, from 1705* to 1710;...

HISTORICAL MATERT•Ls, Private Correspondence of St.rah. nutchess of Marlborough. illustrative of the Court and Times of Queen Anne ; with her Sketches awl Opinions of her...

Tim Sixth Volume, which has just appeared, does not complete the work, as was originally intended and announced : "the publi- cation," says Mr. LOCKHART, " has, from unfortunate...

AFTER a long period of inactivity, the publishers have awakened from their torpor, and sent forth a number and variety of works, sudicient, so far as type goes, to furnish...

Americars economist, the delicacies of whose " Frugal Housewife r we had occasion to exhibit in a small way some years ago. In its nriginal state, her Family Nurse was most...

Teeth is somewhat empirical, but not at all in matter, unless it be in his recommendation of members of families learning to practice the simpler operations on one another. The...

title of a new association, under the Presidency of Mr. BUXTON, the late M.P. for Weymouth, formed last spring by Dr. HonoxiNs. the very able physician, and a few other indivi-...

Children, is a forcible little volume, with the useful aims of rendering parents careful as to the health of their offspring by means of attention to diet, exercise, and the...

animals mentioned in Scripture, for young readers; got up in a handsome style, and illustrated with forcible, faithful, and finished wood engravings of beasts.

three Magazines are before us,—Blackwood, Tait, and Frazer. We have as yet only had time to read the political articles ; which vary much in merit. That of Blackwood is long,...

first time made intelligible to the unscientific visiter, by a familiar account of the contents of each room, entitled a Visit to the Bri- tish Museum. The leading or most...

become more urgent upon every one having property to leave behind him and relatives to provide for. The Plain Directions for Making Wills, according to the new law, by J. C....

Many a young housekeeper has been at great pains to keep an account of her year's expenditure, the only result of which is to show the already well-ascertained fact that so much...

ture of short selections in prose and verse, of a religious kind; but the getting up of the tiny volume is what chiefly characte- rizes it. The silk binding, gilt leaves, and...

MR. LANDSEER'S EVIDENCE ON ART. THE conclusion of Mr. LAND/MEWS reasoned evidence, in this his Fifth Letter, seems a fitting occasion for us to express our hearty concurrence...

truisms and religious precepts, exhorting youth to virtue, that seems to be the work of some maker of sermons for idle parsons, by the vague generality of the matter, the...

RICHARDSON, of the first part of a new edition of GEIGER'S Pharmacy, by Professor LIEBEG—is a useful manual of the elementary principles of chemistry, for the use of the profes-...

quaint title of some elegant verses, by Mrs. ALFRED BARNARD, that may be likened to a garland for the departed, whose flowers, beautiful to the eye, contain instruction within...

the villages and military positions—is published opportunely, It takes in the country about fifty miles north and fifteen south of 3Iontreal ; and shows distinctly the places...

able and informing work, full of new or useful matters, dis- played with the distinctness resulting from mastery. In ad- dition to tables of statistical information, the work...

nar- rate the supposed career of the cadet of a noble Scotch family, from his youth, till, by a series of deaths, he is able to bring his claim to the Peerage before the House...