FOREIGN affairs monopolize thepolitical interest of the week, and niest prominenily - the affairs ' o France; for - events which have occurred both - in England and Germany...

the political stagnation. An election pending at Poole, to be con- tested by a Tory of the most retrograde order and a Liberal of the most advanced, scarcely makes the sleeping...

Mr. M'Christie, the Revising Barrister, has appointed Monday the 16th of September on which to commence his registration of voters for Mem- bers to serve in Parliament for the...

QUEEN VICTORIA, on leaving the kindly shores of our Belgian neighbours, first passed to Dover, and anchored there for an hour or two. The plans Of Dover harbour were submitted...

Friasicx.—We left President Bonaparte pursuing his journey from Be- sancon to Strasbourg ; and our Postscript indicated the increased Repub- licanism, but diminished personal...

The death of Mr. George Richard Robinson the eminent merchant and shipowner, makes vacant the Parliamentary seat for Poole, which he represented in the Free-trade-Conservative...

Le Pelican, man-of-war steamer, commanded by M. de Montagnac, ar- rived in Leith Roads last week, bringing over the members of the Com- mission appointed by the French Assembly...

The _Dublin .Evening Post announces definitively, that the statutes which- constitute "the Queen's University in Ireland" have received her Ma- jesty's sanction, and are now in...

Louis Philippe, the deposed Ring of the French, expired at Claremont on Monday morning. The declining health of the Count de Neuilly has been well known to the public for some...

The Dutchess of Gloucester has arrived at Phis Newydd, Anglesey, on a visit to her Royal Highness the Dutchess of Cambridge.—Court Circular. Field-Marshal the Duke of...

attracted much at- tention among connoisseurs and dealers. It began on the 12th instant and closed on the 30th. Dealers attended from all quarters, even from America. The...

early in the next session be found at his post in the House of Lords hearing appeals.—Times.

SATURDAY. An electric message from Edinburgh states that the Queen and Prince Albert, at an early hour yesterday morning, ascended to the summit of Arthur's Seat. The Prince at...

mourning for his late Majesty King Louis Philippe, to begin on Sunday the 1st, to change on Sunday the 8th, and to cease on Wednesday the 11th of September. We are requested to...

d.e Lechner, at Ashinunham House, on the night of Tuesday last "This amiable and accomplished young lady, ' says the Morning Chronicle —she was in her twenty- fi fth year—" was...

factory to him. At Verdun, the streets were transformed into a garden, and the enthusiasm of the people seemed greater and more sincere than in any other town. At Rheims, he...

issue on the 13th of September, for the election of a Member for Poole, in the room of Mr. George Richard Robinson, deceased. Besides Mr. Denby Seymour and Mr. Savage, a third...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERS:OM The English Stock Market has been firm nearly the whole week at our last quotations. The fluctuation of Consols for Money have been from 961...

Her Majesq's Theatre closed its doors last Saturday night ; when, among the mWfitnde of entertainments, planned to bring forward all the leading performers, Madame Fiorentini...

LOUIS ,PHILIPPE. Loris Purrirrn has left this mortal Scene, ,in which hp played so busy a part, and all the world is analyzing his works. - Yew men have earned more respect;...

THE SPIRIT OF MONUMENTS. Beaumont Street, Marylebone, 25th August 1850. Stn-In your article in last Saturdays paper on the " Spirit of Monu- ments," you say that habitual bias...

the leading resident members of the University during the long vacation, it may seem premature to re- cur to the question of who is to be Mr. Law's successor in the House of ,...

pean reftitation. ' WRY did the Anglo-American Peace Association go to Frankf ort? g It was a long way to go for the elaborate display of a fallacy, which the members might...

Thurles has been formally opened with . a grand Serio-comic spectacle, in which, we are informed by jour- nalists, " everything was exactly copied on the model of the ope's...

WICETHER it take effect or not, the general strike threatened by railway drivers and firemen ought to be a warning to the public. The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway...

DIE affinity , between trading and colonizing may have been run- ning in the head of a facetious public writer, who also helps to administer the driest part of government, when...

preparing for publica- tion two curious works, of which the manuscripts are in the h of that establishment. One is a translation in Hebrew verse of the Divina Comma- dia of...

BARON Batasicow off to St. Petersburg, the Chevalier Bunsen back to London ! " What do these exhalations portend? " Active pro- tocolling of late, and manifestly abortive ; much...

TIM electric telegraph is laid down across the Channel between England and France; the salt sea is traversed by instantaneous communication. We stand on the threshold of an...

NEWMAN'S LECTURES ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF TICE "ANGLICANS." MESE lectures are not addressed to sceptics, or Protestants, or zea- lous members of the Established Church ; and...

book thin its title would imply ; for who wants notes about Nineieh, when he can read La yard's . story of his discoveries day by day as they were made, and receive an ocular...

of the poems of Keats, (his poetical genius, which was insufficiently developed at his death, is another matter,) it must be allowed that Keats revived if he did not originate...

Boots. Louis Kossuth and the Last Revolution in Hungary and Transylvania. Containing a detailed Biography of the Leader of the Magyar Move- ment. A Lay of Hero- Worship, and...

On the 21st August, at Rise Rectory, the Wife of the Rev. William Whitely, of a son, still - born. On the 22(1( at Raithby Hall, Lincolnshire, the Wife of the Rev. Edward...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Sahird. Monday Meador Medan. 961 'Cl 97 961 9 116 71 r o t 97 97 39/ 99 99 Sei 81 81 81 213 214 2141 214 266 264 264 68 pus. ea ea...

nesday, August 27. Parawswsurre IhssovrED.-:,T. and W. Burroogh, 1)onyatt, Somersetshire; farmers -Barclay and Friend, Abelwpali Lane, merchants-Battye and Clay, Huddersfield,...

OPyICE or ORDNANCE, Aug. 26-Royal Regt. of Artillery - -Eirst Lieut. the 110¢. W.' C. Yeh - erton to be See. Capt. vice M'Queen, dec.; Sec. Lieut. R. H. R. Rowley to be First...