once a rebuke and an encouragement to Ministers. The Earl of The surprise created by the new Eastern appointments was at once a rebuke and an encouragement to Ministers. The...

ALTHOUGH the elections are not literally half over, a large and important section is by this time pretty well completed, in the ALTHOUGH the elections are not literally half...

Republic into a series of adventures of which the end cannot The possessors of Federal power in Switzerland are precipitating the Republic into a series of adventures of which...

has been thrown upon the reports, but the main facts ap- pear to have been ascertained. It is not surprising, however, that Incredulity should have been the first feeling ; so...

MEMBERS ELECTED. AbMgdon Sir F. Thesiger. Andover H. B. Coles. W. Cabin. Arundel Earl of Arundel. Ashburton CoL T. Matheson. Ashion-under-LyneCharies Hindley. Aylesbury...

THE Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal suite, returned to the Isle of Wight, from town, on Saturday morning. On Tuesday, the Royal couple visited Sir Charles Napier's squadron...

The Court of Aldermen was engaged on Tuesday in considering a re- port of the Court of Common Council and the draft of a bill for limiting • the power of the Court of...

Goodwood Races commenced on Tuesday; but the rival attractions of the hustings seriously diminished the attendance. The quality of the sport on the first day was indifferent,...

At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, " Cap- tain " Broderick announced, that the Union will assuredly be repealed in the next session of Parliament. The...

been spared a revival of the Sicilian Vespers. For some days there were ru- mours of a conspiracy to restore the old system by a coup de main. So absurd, however, did the whole...

Tuesday's Gazette announces the appointment of Lord Arthur Marcia Cecil Hill as Treasurer, and of the Right Honourable William Sebright Lascelles as Comptroller of the Royal...

than either cities, boroughs, or counties. Of this privilege the candidates both at Oxford and Cambridge are availing themselves in the present con- test; and at each the week...

D'Eyncourt, 3,708; Hawes, 3,344. In Lambeth, the poll was officially declared today-for Pearson, 4,614; D'Eyncourt, 3,708; Hawes, 3,344. In the Tower Hamlets, the numbers...

Aazuvon-At Gravesend, 24th July. Walmer Castle, Thorne, from Sydney ; and Pun- jab, Palmer, from Calcutta. In the Downs, 28th, GurU, Lothman, from Semarang; and 29th, Henrietta,...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The election intelligence received this morning does not differ in com- plexion from that already noticed: there is the same comparative tran- quillity, the...

Bristol F H. Berkeley. Launceston Admiral Bowles. Carder P. Miles. Dr. Nicholl. Lyme Regis Ludlow 1' N. Abdy, H B. Clive. Carlisle W. N. Hodgson. Colonel Sainfey....

anticipation of the overland mail from India. "The Bombay papers of the 29th Jane state that a new reduction had been effected in the army. The Goomsor was on fire from one...

grant re- ceived the sanction of Parliament, had under their consideration representations made to them in memorials and by deputations as to the mode of carrying their recent...

The classical opera is now in the ascendant at Covent Garden. Verdi and Donizetti have given place to Mozart and Rossini; and the theatre, to all appearance, profits by the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. People's International League, 84, Hatton Garden, July 26, 1847. Sin—Will you allow me briefly to point out an important error in the article...

Banbury. Pembroke. Chichester. Southampton. Falkirk Burghs. Thirst. Berefoni (City). Wilton. Northumberland (N.) Mohday, August 2. Dumfries Burghs. Paisley. Dundee. Tuesday,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ArfERNOON. The transactions of the week have been of a very unimportant character, and the fluctuation trifling. The tendency, however, has been...

maintains its brilliance even amidst the unexampled career of Jenny Lind. The depar- ture of Carlotta Grisi stopped the "pas de quatre"; but it has a worthy successor in the...

• THE PARLIAMENTS OF 1841 AND 1847. THE late Parliament began a career—not foreseen, not univer- sally understood at the time—which will be continued by its successor....

with the Lon- don public that they draw by their own sole power of attraction almost irrespectively of the piece in which they may act. This position by no means implies that...

to the public. The next novelty will be the ifitlaridate of Racine, which she will perform at her benefit.

THE long Parliament has witnessed extensive and decisive changes among the crowd of public men ; time and events com- bining their mutations. We do not mean the mere disintegra-...

WHNN we attempt persuasion, we seek means that accord with our notion of motives in those to be persuaded ; a rule which proves that candidates have very odd notions of the...

WHILB we were noticing, last week, the flaws in the law of com- pensation for injuries to women, Chief Justice Wilde was bring- ing the vigour of his legal intellect to bear in...

TRAVELS, Travels in Central America; being a Journal of nearly Three Years' Residence In the Country. Together with a Sketch of the History of the Republic, and an Account of...

Is a picture of Irish manners and social opinions, such as they existed towards the close of the last century, when "the first flower of the earth and first gem of the sea" was...

of the first Mary; commencing with the death of her brother Edward, and ending with her own. The interme- diate events are, as they ought to be, strictly historical, without any...

Books. Gisella. By the Author of "Second Love." In three volumes. Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago. A History of Sergio, and the Servian Revolution; from Original MSS. and...

OFFICE OP OILENANCE, July 23, 1647.—Corps of Royal Engtheers—Second Lieut. B. Warren to he First Lieut. vice Hickey, resigned. WAR-OFFICE, July 30.—lot Life...

Tuesday, July 27. PANTNELSHIPS DISSOLVED. Jackson and Anderson, Middlesborough, Yorkshire, Iron-ship.buliders—Smith and Jones, Duke Street, Manchester Square,...

On the 225 July, at Chastleton Rectory, the Lady of the Rev. Horatio Westumeott, of a daughter. On the 23d, in Grosvenor Square, Viscountess Stopford, of a daughter. On the 23d,...

(Last Official Quotation R uawire- Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties Great Northern Great North of England. Great Western... ... Hull and Selby ....... Lancaster and...