SIR ROBERT PEEL made his triumphal exit from office on Mon- day night, in a speech worthy of the occasion. Considered technically, as a matter of mere oratory, his speaking has...

without altering a word, the final proposition made by this Government. That proposition was based on the modi- fied American offer, " the 49th parallel," said by intelligent...

Robert Peel has done for the country, than the remarkable contrast between the last Whig attempt to form a Cabinet and the present completion of one. Then, all was...

manifesto from Mr. O'Connell ; and accordingly the Member for Ireland has done his best to comply with the exigency. Nothing new was expected, and nothing new was produced ;...

New- foundland. It is estimated to have rendered twelve thousand persons houseless, and destroyed property worth a million sterling. In superficial extent it is second only to...

to be evoked at any attempt to revive the Corn-laws. The League celebrates its own euthanasia with a golden chime, voting to its retiring . Chairman a cool ten thousand I There...

Lord Francis Egerton is made a Peer, by the title of Earl of Ellesmere, with the Viscounty of Brackley as a title of courtesy for his eldest son. This tribute is due to Lord...

our African colony have become a standing grievance for years, have now converted them into a regular predatory war. As a sort of " judgment," Sir Andries Stockenstrom, the...

RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY. At the House of Commons, on Monday, it having been generally known that Sir Robert Peel would announce the result of his interview with the Queen...

meeting in the Free- trade Hall, at Manchester, on Thursday, to consider the propriety of dis- solving the League. About two hundred leading members attended front important...

THE Ministerial crisis broke in upon the quiet of Osborne House, and led to the departure of the Court for London sooner perhaps than would otherwise have been the case. Sir...

There has been little stir in the capital this week; the activity being almost limited to Whitehall and the public offices. There, indeed, even the most peaceful transfer of...

The breaking-up of the Peel Goverment, and the return of the Whigs to office, have infused activity into the proceedings at Conciliation The attendance on Monday was unusually...

The Gazette of Tuesday contained the following announcements— The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of...

During the recent excessively hot weather, the Police Board of Glasgow have employed a portion . of the fire-brigade in watering the streets and washing out dirty courts and...

UNITED Stmts.—The Hibernia, royal mail-steamer, arrived at Li- verpool on Sunday, with accounts from New York to the 15th June. The most important intelligence is, that the...

AzarrED—At Gravesend, 27th June, Lydia, Mather, from Maulmain ; 28th, For- farshire, Symons, from Ceylon ; and Star, M'Donald, from the Cape ; 29th, Eliza Kin- caid, 111•Master...

The vast size and importance to which the British Museum has attained within the last few years, has caused it to be regarded with just pride by Englishmen; and it cannot be...

pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Despard, of the Ninety-ninth Foot, and Lieutenant- Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, of the Fifty-eighth Foot, to be Companions of the...

by the ship Silas Holmes, being one day later than those received by the Hibernia. Mr. Allen re- si gned, on the 15th, the Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Foreign...

The day has produced no great addition to the reports about the Minis- terial arrangements. We find the following paragraphs in the Standard- " Summonses were issued this...

; and, since then, about 75,000 quarters of wheat, 4,000 quarters of oats, 3,000 quarters of barley, and 1,800 quarters of beans, have been taken out of bond. This is a greater...

SATURDAY. Master of the Mint Mr. Shell. Secretary of the Board of Admiralty Mr. H. G. Ward. Attorney-General Sir Thomas Wilde. A Lord of the Treasury Viscount Ebrington. Under...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ATTIE/00N. The intelligence of the settlement of the Oregon question, received on Monday, has completely altered the appearance of the Stock Market, and...

RESULTS OF THE LATE ADMINISTRATION. SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE.* AT Christmas 1845, Sir Robert Peel had removed Free Trade from the field of argument, to be the standard of a great...

FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD AND ITS OWN. 1. A STIFF old Tory lawyer in Scotland, long ago, when acting for the Crown in a prosecution for treason, was asked by the pri- soner's...

Ansarrraiussr has been magnified into a monstrous bugbear ; and Mr. O'Connell goes so far in his last letter, as to rest the de- mand for a "Domestic Legislature" on the plea of...

in their modes of transact- ing business much in the same way that many proceed to extract a loose tooth. It is pushed with tongue or finger from time to time, with an intention...

A PARTICULAR duty awaits the next Colonial Minister, and we presume that Earl Grey will be quite equal to it. When Lord John Russell was last in power, as Secretary for the...

IT may at first appear strange that the English should be inte- rested not only in a London Post-office appointment, but in the appointment of a Postmaster-General at Berlin. We...

the Protectionist journals is scandalized at the share imputed to the Anti-Corn-law League, by Sir Robert Peel, and by another paper, in the late legislation. "Shall the British...

A CURIOUS flood of Peel poetry pours in upon us. As the gods have not made the Spectator poetical, we grudge room for more than a couple of specimens; but the fact that the...

Travels over the Table Lands and Corderillas of Mexico, during the years 1543 and 44 ; including a Description of California, the principal Cities and Mining Dis- tricts of that...

A LADY traveller, arriving at Basle, seems to have been struck with its remains of antiquity, and to have remained there, as Washington Irving sojourned at Grenada, surveying...

DR. GEDDES was appointed, in May 1829, medical officer to what is now called the right wing of the Madras European Regiment, and re- mained in charge of it till May 1833. The...

DESCRIPTIONS of American slavery in the form of the autobiography of an American slave have already appeared before the world. The Life of Archy Moore was probably a fiction it...

BOOKS. Notwithstanding the momentous incidents of the week, in the settlement of the Oregon question and the unsettlement of Government at home, the week has been a busy one in...

MOUTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT—JUNE 29, 1846. PAST I. Sinfonia in E Flat (No. 8.) Haydn. Arie, " Liebe tat diee Bliithe," Herr Pischek (Faust) Spohr. Concert Stuck, Ilan , Madame...

MR. ELLA'S society promises to have increased stability and success. Vieuxtemps and Madame Pleyel were the attractions of Tuesday morning; when Beethoven's Quintet in C, and...

THE LATE B. R. HAYDON. THE melancholy fact that a man of strong natural talents and great ability both as an artist and a teacher of his art—who was equally remarkable for high...

WAR-OFFICE, June 26.-16th Light Draga.—Lteut. J. A. Robertson to be Capt. without purcha-e, vice Samoan deceased ; Cornet G. S. Swinny to be Lieut. vice Robertson ; T. C....

Tuesday, June 80. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and W. Wade, Holborn Hill, tallors—J. and G. Barry, White Lion Street, Penton- ville, surgical syringe-makers—W. and H. Bonn,...

On the 24th June, at Gautby Parsonage, the Wife of the Rev. J. Fawssett, of a son and heir. On the 26th, at Hookffeld House, Epsom, the Lady of George Bogle, Esq., of Rime-...

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