WHITSUNTIDE finds the Corn Bill further on its anxious way through the Lords than might have been expected a little while ago; the House having passed the second reading by 211...

strikes the first blow ; crossing the Texan frontier, and inflicting on the American General something very like defeat. General Scott and reinforcements of men and treasure are...

THE CORN BILL. Monday being the day appointed for the second reading of the Corn Im- portation Bill by the Lords, great anxiety was displayed by the public on that day to gain...

Ham ; and is now, it is said, in London, seeking a passport for Italy. The French seem in general to rejoice at his escape ; and it is even surmised that King Louis Philippe is...

Queen Victoria's fifth child—a daughter. The guns fired ; Parliament have passed addresses to the Queen ; but the fourth Priocess's entry on the scene created no sensation equal...

A meeting of Liberal Peers took place on Saturday, at Lansdowne House. The result of their deliberation was in every respect what the country would most wish. About seventy...

THE Queen's accouchement took place, at Buckingham Palace, on Mon- day. Shortly after two o'clock her Majesty became ill, and at five minutes before three o'clock a princess was...

The talk here is, that Mr. Bramley Moore and other gentlemen from Liver- pool, have been in London as a deputation, the object of whose going; had refer- ence to the admission...

The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland commenced its annual session, at Edinburgh, on Thursday last week. In the forenoon, the Marquis of Bute, the Lord High...

FivarcE.—Prince Louis Napoleon, after a captivity of six years, made his escape from the fortress of. Ham on Monday last. The Morning Post supplies the following details—amusing...

At the weekly meeting of Repealers at Conciliation Hall, on Monday, a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, announcing his confident hope that at five o'clock of that day, "the...

SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, the Cliatreurzort of the EraUX- QUER made his financial statement- " The House has already been informed by my right...

We have what we think authority for announcing that their Majesties the Xing and Queen of the French, attended by some of the junior branches of the Royal Family, contemplate...

meeting which took place in the City yesterday. The Directors of the New Zea- land Company met the Proprietors, to consider the expediency of "wind- ing up." After a long...

The Gazette of yesterday notifies the following appointments—The Honour- able Charles Augustus Murray, to be her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt; Lord Napier, to be...

of the Costra Cabral Ministry appears to have been the signal. The Count Villa Real was intrusted with the formation of a Cabinet; and on his failure the Queen oent for the Duke...

STOCK ETIELLE0754PRIDAT APTERNOOK. The Stock Market has been in an elastic state during the whole week; the certainty of the successful passage of the Corn Bill through the...

ARRIVED -At Gravesend, 234 May, Abbotsford, Buckland, than Bombay ; 27th. Ma. dura, Smith, from Manilla; 28th, Bangalore, Cuttings, from Calcutta; and Tory, Row% from Madras. At...

PECULIAR BURDENS ON LAND. TER Committee of the Lords have tacitly given up peculiar burdens on land as a plea against Corn-law repeal. They say in their Report*—" The Committee...

It is nothing new to see politicians all of a sudden affect to take a deep interest in persons or classes for whom they had before evinced the most perfect indifference. Lord...

IN the complaints raised, and the jealousies sought to be inspired, regarding the policy pursued by the Dutch Government in re- spect of English interests in the Eastern...

You can scarcely do an unkinder thing than iuggeat a plan for the improvement of the Metropolis ; for it not only result! jn opening the door to disfigurement, but provokes a...

Tun railway traffic of the country is in such a state, growing so rapidly, and shaping itself so differently from every calculation, as to baffle guessing. A witness before one...

our desire to remove, by calling public attention to, the defects in the management of the Library, we . shall now notice the regulations by which Readers obtain printed books....

BIOGRAPHY, The Lite and Letters of Thomas A' Becket, now first gathered from the Contemporary Historians. By the Rev. J. A. Giles, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi Col-...

SINCE the experiments of Dr. Kellie, and Dr. Monro's observations upon them, in 1783, it has been a theory generally held by most British and some foreign physicians, that the...

Tins volume of Duffy's Library of Ireland contains the fugitive verses of Thomas Davis, with elaborate notes illustrating the historical allusions, and a preface of many...

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. WE were on Friday last week transported ill some degree to the anni- versary festival of Haydn's Creation, celebrated in the Riding-school it Vienna,...

From May 22d to May 28141. Books. On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; and on the Connexion be- tween Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. By George...

. Tuesday, May 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISMILVED. Simpson and Co. North Andley Street, cheesemong'ers-S. and•E. Ebrall, Shrews- bury, gunmakers-Hewes and Jones, Bath Place, New Road,...

On the 30th April, at Naples, the Lady of Alfred Hamilton, Esq., of Gidea Hall, Essex, of a daughter. On the 19th May, at Liscard, Cheshire, the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, of a son. On...

WAR-orrice, May 22.-let Drag. Guards-Major J. S. Smith, from 5th Foot, to be Major, vice Schonswar, who exchanges. 2d Drag. Guards-Staff Surg. of the Second Clam, .A.. 0. Home,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closin g Prices.) Soho-d. Monday. Made" Wass* a. — 5 per Cent Consols set 961 964 Se Ditto for Account . 961 9 3 per Cents Reduced 95 951 93 33 per Cents 973...

Caunty of Middlesex; Printer, at the Mike of ROBERT Pstuea and Josira CL•iT024, NO.10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, In the City of Leedom ; and...

The debate having been resumed on Tuesday, the speakers were— the Earl of WILTON, against the bill; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, against; the Earl of GRANVILLE, for ; the Marquis of...

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PROPERTY. By the Lords Committees, appointed a Select Committee to inquire into Burdens on Real Property, and the impediments to agricultural transac- tions, caused by the...

ZEALAND COMPANY. You will have seen, from the correspondence of which a copy has been transmitted to every proprietor, that we lost no time, after Mr. Secretary Gladstone...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 1911s May 1846. Sin—My attention has been particularly called to the inconclusiveness of the arguments used by your correspondent "A...