ONE might fancy that all the world had been absorbed in the festive business of Christmas, so little activity in the political world does the closing week of the year exhibit....

incident to grace the history of the Irish Bench ; and in this the Lord Chan- cellor is implicated. The tale, which will be found elsewhere, exhibits Mr. O'DaiscoLL as filling...

disas- trous and disgraceful. Statesmen and Sovereign bandy charges of falsehood, neither party commanding belief; for the solemn ad- dress on the recent "deplorable event,"...

message. Something less bulky than usual, it is full of matter, and characterized by all the author's pedantry and self-seeking. The topics of the day are marshalled in their...

opening his Chambers for the session, considered as a programme of Minis- terial "measures," is almost a blank ; as an index of general policy, and still more of feeling towards...

At the close of a poll between contending candidates for the Common .souncil in Cord wainer's Ward, on Saturday, a discussion arose on the con- duct of Alderman Thomas Wood, the...

Tits Court records are almost barren this week ; for nothing that can be called an incident has occurred at the Castle, except that on Christ- mas-day the dinner was grander...

It is reported in North Shields, that it is the intention of Henry Mit- calf, Esq., the Member for Tynemouth, to resign his seat prior to the meeting of Parliament ; physical...

Mr. Valentine Maher, one of the Members for Tipperary, died sud- denly, at his seat of Turtulla, on Monday, from disease of the heart. This of course makes a vacancy in the...

It is reported that the Marquis of Douro will contest the county of Kelso at the next election, in the Conservative interest. On Saturday, the Judges of the First Division of...

FRANCE.—Kin g Louis Philippe opened the session of the French Chambers in person, at one o'clock on Wednesday last, in the Chamber of Deputies. The way from the Tuileries was...

of Granby to be a Lord of the Bedchamber, in the room of Admiral Lord Colvile, who had resigned ; and Lord Colvile to be Extra Lord of the Bedchamber. We have reason to believe...

subscribed to ! ihe Anti-Corn-law League Fund: last year the subscription was about VOL

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. The great pressure of want on the poor in London, and the accuma- lated mud of the streets, have suggested plans for the relief of the desti- tute...

pay what attention we can, next week.

full reliance, that Ministers have determined to recall Lord De Grey from the Govern- ment of Ireland, though he will not leave Dublin till the spring; and it is added, that the...

Cambridge Inde- pendent Press, contradicting a paragraph which has been going the round of the papers, respecting what fell from him at a rentatudit dinner : excepting the words...

srocx EXCHANGE, Roney Arminian/. The English Funds have risen 1 per cent from the closing quotations of last week; hut, as they had previously declined about per cent, the...

its officers. Of the eighteen Chairmen and Secretaries elected by the nine Standing Committees, 10 were Ministerial and 8 Oppositionist. The candidates for the Presidency...

Indian slaves, as well as all other slaves, recover their liberty the moment they set their foot on the territory of France.

citizen of tbn United States, which contains some points of interest. He anticipates that the Pennsylvania will be forced to " pay " "the returning prosperity of the country...

THE most singular and striking, as it is the newest of the sights in London, is the exhibition of a party of Ojibbeway Indians, in Mr: CATLIN'S Indian Gallery at the Egi ptian...

Two different kinds of entertainment are offered to the choice of holy- day playgoers this Christmas : besides the old "comic pantomime," with its grotesque exaggerations and...

The Nabob, Wilson, from Calcutta to Liverpool, went on shore, in Carnarvan Bay, 24th hist ; crew safe. The Meg of Meldon. Bleasdale, which arrived at Liverpool on the 23d inst....

Tue quarterly blue and yellow book of the North, which helped to make the modern reputation of the Whigs for Liberalism, may be taken as an indicator of the leanings of the...

PRESIDENT TYLER'S MESSAGE. THE message of President TYLER is more highly spiced with the commonplaces of devotional phraseology than any previous mes- sage of any previous...

THE accounts which have been published from time to time of destitute wretches rotting alive, exposed to all the inclemencies of the weather, in Hyde Park, in the mews-lanes,...

justicial blundering furnishes occasion for the ready and easy sport of ridiculing "Justices ' justice." At Car- lisle, on Sunday the 17th instant, the officers of Excise...

Ammo the four gentlemen who represented the middle classes of France at the Due de BORDEALTX'S levees in Belgrave Square, was a native of Toulouse, M. RICHARD, a tailor and the...

has been made to the joint-stock com- panies, which, by means of public meetings, speeches, and resolu, tions—committees, correspondence, and subscriptions—keep our little world...

IIEGERTARY LORE. St. Patrick's Purgatory ; an Essav . on the Legends of Purgatory. Hell, and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages. By Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.,...

Tum Life, written for the Aldine edition of the Works of CHAUCER5 supplies a desideratum in English letters,—namely, as particular an account of the great father of our...

THE subject of this volume is the adventures of the crew of the brig Ann, which was wrecked on the island of Formosa, with their treatment as prisoners by the Chinese, and the...

THE Laurringtons are a race of rural grandees, of the higher order of squirearchy ; claiming to rank among the magnates of the county on the strength of a long Welsh pedigree,...

From December 225 to December nth. BOOKS. Journals kept by Mr. Gully and Captain Denham during a Captivity in China in the year 1842. Edited by a Barrister. The Highlands of...

AN infatuated gambler and his amiable family, reduced to misfor- tunes, but succeeding to wealth through a murder—a village, with a gallant landlord, a seduced peasant-girl, a...

or Pianoforte (with Vocal score) by G. PERRY, as performed by the Sacred Harmonic Society, E.veter Hall. THE Oratorios on which the Sacred Harmonic Society has placed its...

C. Potter, Esq., by his Pupil, C. J. Toms, King's Scholar of the Ilogal Academy of Music. The faults of youthful attempts at composition in general are ex- aggerated difficulty...

Wan perms, Dec. 29.-6th Drag. Guards-Lieet. 1. H. Dickson to be Capt. 'by purchase. vice Scott, who retires; Cornet C. J. bumbler lobe Lime by purchase, vice Dickson ; C. E....

THE Honourable 'Miss E. EDEN'S Portraits of the Princes and People of India, of which lithographic fee-similes have been made by Mr. Lowe IticKiNsoft„ is just now completed by...

Tuesday, Dec. 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Bosworth and Parr, Leicester. drapers-Williams and Henderson, Margaret Street. milliners-Mather and Moore. Manchester. calicomriutets...

BIRTHS. On the 10th December, at Copenhagen. the Wife of the Rev. ROBERT STEVENSON ELLIS. A.M.. of a WU. On the 16th, at Chelteuham, the I,adyof Captain J. W. REYNOLDS,...

BRITISH FUN DS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 34 per Ceuta. Reduced New 34 per Cents Long...