degree of interest. There are no prominent events in France, except a run upon the Paris Savings-bank ; but speculation is rife. Some of the Opposition papers endeavour to...

regard for truth. No "national" party seems to possess it, least of all the soi-disant national party. The prevailing want has been dis- played in a variety of ways this week....

WE have lost the good Earl Spencer. He has died, it may almost be said, at a premature age ; for in a life of rural ease sixty-three is early. But he is among the many victims,...

Important annual business gathered the citizens of London in Common Rail on Saturday and Monday. The business of Saturday was to swear in the new Sheriffs,—Mr. Wil- liam James...

THREE has been scarcely anything to note at Windsor Castle this week, ex- cept a rather untoward event. The Queen and children have improved every interval of fine weather in...

A vacancy has been created in the representation of South Warwiek- shire, by the death of Sir John Mordannt. Three or four weeks ago, Sir John was out shooting with his friend...

In reply to one of the countless rumours about meditated resignations, which are perpetually afloat, Mr. Baron Pennefather has addressed the following quaint letter to the...

FaxacE.—The Constitutienne/ contends that the recent elections to sup- ple - the place of the Deputies elevated to the Peerage were a check to Ministers; M. De Belleyme, the...

The monument to the memory of Muir, Palmer, Gerald, Margarot, and Skir- sing, the Scottish political mai ty is of 1793, which has lately been in the course of erection in the...

known to labour under serious illness, had expired on the previous morn- ing, at Wiseton Hall, his seat in Nottinghamshire. The statements as to the nature of his illness are...

battle in which the Russians were defeated by the Gircassians. In the retreat from Daghestin ' Corot Woronzoff's army was hotlyy pursued by Schamil,the Circassian .Abd-el-Bader....

state of disputa- tion among the ministers of justice in the Bombay Presidency. The letter is addressed to the Chief Secretary to Government ; it is signed by the Clerk of the...

dinner of the Irish Agricultural Improvement Society, on Thursday. "The Press" having been toasted, there were loud calls for the Commissioner; and accordingly Mr. Foster rose....

of M. Ronge at Heidelberg. The authorities had formally forbidden him to preach in any of the churches, or to pronounce any discourse in public. The Havre journals state that...

. Admiralty, 1st October. " Notice having been given in the London Gazette of the 1st of August last, to the effect that all Captains of the Royal Navy desiring to be placed on...

On the 10th September, at Gibraltar, the Wife of Joseph London Bosch, Esq., and daughter of Colonel Michell, R.A., C B., of a son. On the 23d, at Nonsuch Park, Surrey, the Lady...

This is an ingenious contrivance foe supporting an open book, independ- ently, of a table, in aposition convenient to the reader; who is thus ena- bled to lean back in a chair,...

from New York to the 18th September; and the West India mail-steamer Clyde, which left St. Thomas's on the 15th September, brings advices from Vera Cruz RI the 1st of that...

THE theatrical world is bursting into song: the scenic groves become vocal just as Nature's " bare ruiu'd choirs " are hushing; and stage sun- shine gladdens the long chilly...

At the meeting of the Botanical Society of London held last night,—E. Denbleday, Esq., V.P., in the chair,—a communication was read from H. 0. Stephens, Esq., of Bristol, " On...

it is generally re- ported in Lisbon that Queen Victoria will pay a visit to the Queen of Portugal in spring next. [Portugal, hire Ireland, must be quieter first.] The Augsburg...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The operations of the t he week in the English Funds have been so similar in character to those of the last, that our remarks then made might...

AusivEn—At Gravesend, 29th Sept. Charles Jones, Clarkson, from-China r 30th, Oriental, 3PFie, from China ; and Isabella, Myth, Lane, from Mauritius ; 1st Oct. Prince of Wales,...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 1st October 1845. Sta—I am a clergyman, a subscriber for some years to the Spectator; and moreover, I have taken some trouble to understand...

Mysterieuses at the New Strand Theatre; the nearness of the spectators to the stage being no disadvantage to a master of sleight-of-hand who performs his feats close to the eyes...

and every one laughable, though they all differ in kind and degree of drollery. The best, incomparably, is A Cabinet Questi , m, at the Haymarket: a capital adapta- tion, by...

RAILWAY FINANCE. How many dabblers in railway shares ever bestow a thought upon the railway itself? The early speculators in railways con- templated the development of a new...

THE renewal of monster-meetings in Ireland has sufficed to sug- gest to a Liberal contempory some reflections on a new political power—" Popular agitation is one of the...

TRH inquiry at Andover Workhouse, it seemsy is closed, and the Poor-law Commissioners are about to prosecute Mr. Maedougal —on charges, it is to be presumed, of peculation and...

is our Government doing in the Rio de la Plata ?—Going to war to enforce peace, answer the accounts just received ; but they are so inconsistent with what has gone before, that...

LAST week, detachments of the Seventy-eighth and Seventeenth Regiments of Foot reached the Invalid Depot at Brompton, from India. "The whole of the men of the Seventy-eighth are...

TICE Act relating to what are called " Outstanding Terms" does not come into operation until the 1st of January 1845; but the Acts giving Short Leases and Short Conveyances*...

A17TOBIOGHAPHY, The Dispatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson ; with Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G. C. M. G. The Fourth Volume—September 1799 to...

A. De Bode appears to have been attached for some time to the Russian Embassy in Persia. According to the usual requirements Of that astute Government, he was acquainted with...

is work is too comprehensive, and at the same time too minute in its details, to be critically analyzed within such space as we could afford. Our occasional notices, however,...

From September 26th to October 2d. Booths. The Dispatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. With Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G. The fourth...

Sin—The "Bromsgrove Greek Grammar," reviewed a fortnight ago in your paper , is by the Rev. G. A. Jacob, M.A., late Head Master of Bromsgrove Gram- mar gchool, now of the...

WAS - OFFICE, Oct. 3.-16th Light Drags.—,Surg. J. Burt, from 78th Foot, to be Sutg vice Sandham, promoted; Assist.-Surg. J. E. Stephens, M.D., from 63d, to be Assist.-SUrg....

B R I T I 5 H FUND S. (Closing Prices.) &slued. Monday. Tuesday. Weduts. 2 per Cent Consols 98 971 98 9E4 Ditto for Account . 984 98 984 981 3 per Cents Reduced ..... ... . •...

Tuesday, Sept. 30. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Jones and Stephens, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, mercers—Leavers and Brown, New Basford, Nottinghamshire, machine-smiths—W. S. and J....