THAT the week has not been of a very stirring character, may be inferred from the fact that the assembling of the " Complete Suffrage Conference" at Birmingham has been the...

Tariff has taken place, and Carmarthen has elected a Con servative, who is an advocate for " protection," but who abstains from giving anything like distinct pledges as to what...

be most benefited by availing herself in full of the aid of powerful Eng- land, instead of relying on her own local agitators, Mr. O'CoNNELL's newest production, his letter on...

about the conduct of the French Consul at Barcelona. According to the latest showing, M. LESSEP8 is utterly innocent of interference in the revolt, and has signalized himself by...

THE history of the Court is destitute of incident. The Queen, weather permitting, has taken her usual daily walks with Prince Albert. The Prince went out shooting near Virginia...

means remarkable among such documents for ability, pos- sesses unusual interest from the topics comprised in it. For instance, it furnishes a key to the recent conduct of France...

At the Mansionhouse, on Saturday, the Lord Mayor explained why a set holyday could not be held in the City on Monday, according to the wish of several citizens expressed in a...

not legitimately matter for triumph, is upon the whole consolatory. We are again at peace with the world—not "armed peace," but peace without its Palmerstonian terrors. The...

On Tuesday, at Llandilo Fawr, Mr. David Arthur Sanders Davies was elected Member for Carmarthen County, in the room of Mr. J. Jones, deceased. Though there was no opposition,...

The Times contradicts all previous reports respecting the leadership of the House of Lords- " A paragraph, which we believe originated in the imagination of the Lon- don...

Mr. O'Connell has issued a long letter to the Poor-law Guardians of the County of Cork, on the subject of the Irish Poor-law • the con- tinuance of which, he says, threatens the...

announ- ces, that " the corn and provision monopoly" will not be destroyed " without a severe struggle." Who ever thought that it would ? There is, however, just as near or as...

we alluded in our last report has completely subsided, and the tone of the market has undergone a decided and entire change : prices have reacted to the point whence the decline...

the Anti- Corn-law League in Manchester, on Thursday, was, that the opponents of the League have began to fight them with their own weapons, the distribution of tracts;...

Arrived- At Gravesend. Dec. 25th, Thunder, Small, from Singapore ; 29lh. True Love, Coultou, from Batavia; 30th, Carleton, Colepeper, from Singapore ; stud Bri- tannia, Hardie,...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The domestic news this wonting is scanty, and the foreign mails have not arrived; but the Morning Herald publishes a letter dated from Black Torrington Rectory,...

annual statement of imports, &c. of cotton during the year, from January to December : from sources at hand, it appears in the imports there has been an increase this year qf...

twelve ad- ditional missionaries to China ; and their Anglo-Chinese College is to be removed from 3lalacca to Hong-kong. A special subscription is to be opened to meet the...

Montreal, Dec. 12, 1842," which says—" Information has just arrived from Quebec of the loss of the English mail on its way to Halifax. The canoe upset in the St. Lawrence...

BIRTHS. On the 7th December, at Florence, the Lady of ALEXANDER GIDEON, Esq., of John- ston. Kincardine, of a daughter. On the 21st, at Wardour Castle, Wilts, the Lady of the...

THE spell of Pantomime is broken : the leaden mace of Dulness frus - trates the magic power of Harlequin's wand ; a»d the shouts of merri- ment that should follow the practical...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—In reading your Number of 10th December, I was surprised to find that you, who are so well informed on most subjects, should be so much at...

CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS TO OUR FRIENDS THE "LIBERALS." Tots is the season at which neighbours and acquaintances are ac- customed to wish each other every thing that is good and...

at Wornum's Rooms; which increase in popularity, as the interest of the subject and the characteristic style in which the examples are sung and the anecdotes related become...

THE opera of Artaxerxes was played at Covent Garden on Tuesday night, ' in deference, said the bills, to the wish of persons who wished to see Mrs. ALFRED Sam in a "a purely...

FROM a Scotch landowner, who says that his own case represents that of five-sixths of the landowners of Scotland, we have received the following statement, intended to show the...

SOME philosophers maintain that every thing has its use, if men could only find it out. There is a difficulty in conceiving the use of that spirit of meddling with what does not...

WHILE one of our correspondents praises, another finds fault with our account of the state of the Poor-law in Scotland, and op- poses to it his own description of the practice...

THE monstrous inapplicability of our retributive system of penal " justice " is often strongly impressed upon the administrators of the law ; and in their well-meant endeavour...

TRAVELS, A Tour in Switzerland, in 1841. By William Chambers, one of the Editors o f " Chambers's Edinburgh Journal." &c Chambers. Eclialneroh. Scenes and Adventures iu...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Blackheath, 29th December 1842. Sin—The Government have at length determined to follow out the recom- mendations of the West African Committees...

SERGEANT TAYLOR accompanied the Bombay division of the Army of the Indus, from its embarkation at the Presidency till its arrivat at Cabul, through the Bolan Pass, Candahar, and...

Is a considerable improvement upon Mr. HawLETT's rather flat at- tempt at poetical humour in " Poems for the Million " ; showing that success in prose and in poetry are two...

BOOKS. A Tour in Switzerland, in 1841. By WILLIAM CHAMBERS. One of the Editors of " Chambers's Edinburgh Journal," &c. (Original Work published in connexion with the series...

Wan-nine:, Dec. 27.-10th Light Drags.-T. T. S. Carlyou, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ferrier, promoted. 2d Foot-Ensign C. Darby to be Lieut. without purchase, vice...

Thesday, Dec. 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Worland and Layton, Russia Lane, Bethnal Greed, brewers-F. and W. Massey, Cheshire, braziers-Beaumont and Wood. Halifax, tea-dealers-...

AVERAGE PRICES ON CORN. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN Per Quarter (Imperial) of En g land and Wales. For the present Week. Wheat 411s. Id I Ityc 10s. 941 Wheat ... .... r0.. ad. 1 Rye...