THE event of the week, though one about which comparatively little has been said at the time of its consummation, is the first Municipal election under the new Irish...

" Conservative " Ministry might do sound service in the advance- ment of the country, by bringing the practice and administration of government to a level with the point...

have suf- ficed to develop and cresh as reckless and base a civil war as ever disgraced the history of nations. The excitement over, we.are in a position to take a retrospect of...

the proceed- ings of nearly three days have reached us. They extend no, further than the address of the prosecuting counsel, Mr. WILLIS HALL, the Attorney-General of New York...

THE loyal public have throughout the week been tantalized by reports relating to the birth of a Royal infant. On Monday, all was bustle at the Palace and expectation abroad; and...

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Thomas Campbell, and other gentlemen connected with the Lite- rary Association of the Friends of Poland,...

A meeting was held in the Court-house at Wakefield, on Wed- nesday, to consider an address to Lord Morpeth. The large hall was crowded in every part. Earl Fitzwilliam took the...

On the 21st, the Lord-Lieutenant received addresses of congratulation upon his arrival in the country from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin, and from the Provost,...

of the gout as to be enabled to leave the house. He transacted business on Tuesday at the Colonial Office, in Downing Street, for the first time since his illness. Tuesday's...

At a meeting of the Edinburgh Town-Council, on Tuesday, a letter was read from Sir James Graham to the Lord Provost, dated October 13th, declining to establish a new...

state of busi- ness in the Court of Chancery ; of which, lest it should be altogether missed by many of our readers, we extract a considerable portion- " Let there be a real...

been re- lease % by order of Fir Richard Jackson, administrator of the Govern- ment, on the application of the United States authorities. He was handed over to an Inspector of...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT, The mail-steamer Acadia, which left Halifax on the 18th instant, brings papers from New York to the 10th, and the termination of the proceedings in...

BIRTHS. On the 4th August, at Gya, in the East Indies, the Lady of the Hon. EDMUND DRUMMOND, of a SOD. • On the 20th October, at Hampton Court, the Viscountess GUILIAMORE, of...

the pacification in Spain as proceeding rapidly and favourably ; although General Alcala had thought it prudent to proclaim martial law in the Basque Provinces. The Castellano...

able to au- thenticate, that another person, besides Mr. Smith, has been placed in custody on a charge connected with the Exchequer Bill fraud ; and that Mr. Smith has...

Knight Bruce and of Mr. James Wigram to be First and Second Vice- Chancellors under the Administration of Justice Act. Also, the appointment of Albert William Woods, Portcullis...

STOCK EXCHANGE, PRIME AFTERNOON. The discovery of an extensive fraud in the issue of Exchequer Bills has engaged the attention of the monied public almost to the exclusion of...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. RoscommonStreet, Liverpool, 27th October 1841. Stu—Considering the subject of railways and any important occurrence re- lative thereto...

Arrived—At Gravesend, October 25th, Julius Ctesar, Mitchell. from China ; 27th, Plativa, Wycherley. from New South WAles; John Horrocks, Bleasdale, from Singa- pore; and 29th....

THE Canadian politicians, among whom the present mode of govern- ment according to the received etiquette in Great Britain has not been the growth of centuries but has been...

THE EXCHEQUER BILL FRAUD. OM readers may remember, that at the time of the NEWPORT-. MONTEAGLE ,job we exposed the braggings of thellIG/obe about the wondrous doings of the...

THR art of painting has advanced as far in this country as it can advance so long as its productions are merely called for as an article of domestic luxury. The scale of...

WHEN the Grand Jury were about to be sworn at the last City Sessions in Norwich, one of the gentlemen intimated to the Court, that he did not think it right to take the oath ;...

FOR fine writing we entertain a disinterested love, that enables us to relish it even when employed in the advocacy of views which do not entirely coincide with our own. Hence...

7's tVEIJ, Fragments of Italy and the Rhine-Land. By the Rev. T. FL White, M.A.. of Ifni. versity College, Oxford; Chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marquis of Down. shire...

Tins volume completes Mr. CATLIN'S work ; and differs in form from its predecessor by the greater number and extent of the author's excursions. Amid all the different accounts...

THE two volumes of this unfinished publication contain about eight hundred and twenty pages ; of which only the odd score or thereabouts are devoted to RICHARD the Lion-heart,...

From October 15th to October 29th. BOOKS. A History of the Life of Richard Cceur-de- Lion, Ring of England. By G. P. R. Jaarcs, Esq., Author of "The History of Charlemagne,"...

WAR-OFFICE, Oct. 26.—Ist Regt. of Life Guards—Lieut. Hon. W. H. S. Cotton, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Brooke, who exchanges. 2d Drag. Guards—Capt. W. N. Custance, from...

Tuesday, Oct. 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Crawley and Gear& Hitehin, general iromnongers-Deaville and Co. Heaton Nor- ris, candle-cotton manufacturers-Grimmer and Redfern,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 'Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. 77tues. Friday: !per Cent. Consols 871 871 881 88k 881 88 Ditto for Account 881 881 88t 88t 881 881 3 per...

AmuntaLvv. Oct. 26.-With reference to the Gazette Extraordinary of the fith inst. and to the Gazette of the 15th lust. the following additional Naval Promotion of Of- ficers who...