Sir Robert Peel's scheme and the discussion of it. Both Houses have sat as usual, this week ; but the work done has been light, and they have risen early. The important novelty-...

left Sir Henry Hardinge at the head of a great army, still fighting the Sikhs, in an engagement that had already lasted for three days, with by no means uncheckered success to...

'THERE has now been time to observe the reception of Sir Robert Peel's measure by the country. It has been met, however, by no rational demonstration—by no well-pronounced...

discus- -sing divers Anti-British propositions about Oregon, foreign inter- Vention, and so forth, the announcement of Sir Robert Peel's new policy, in the Times, was received,...

COMMERCIAL POLICY. - In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Sir ROBERT PEEL announced the intentions of Government with respect to the reductions in the Timber- duties. This...

CLAREMON'T was the abode of Royalty for the greater part of the week. On Saturday, shortly after three o'clock, the Queen and Prince Albert, ac- companied by the children and...

A Court of Common Council was held on Monday. Mr. Hale gave notice of a motion for next Court relative to the establishment of an insti- tution for educating and maintaining the...

The nomination for the West Riding of Yorkshire took place at Wake- teld on Wednesday; but neither Mr. Ferrand nor his candidate, Mr. George Lane Fox, was in attendance. This...

A foolish panic prevails in Cork from. an. apprehension that Sir. Robert Peers measures will produce ruinously low prices for corn and cattle. The Cork Reporter of Tuesday...

Deputies on the address was the discussion on M. Berryer's amendment, which took place On Saturday. M. Berryer proposed to add a paragraph, declaring that, in the event of a...

Various reports have Come out, authentic or conjectural, respecting Ministerial appointments, difficulties, and successes. We subjoin a few of the more substantial among these...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Doe Park, near Liverpool, ad February 1846. Sui-It is well known theta great part of our National Debt of eight hundred millions was contracted...

On the 26th January, at Southsea, Hants, the Lady of Captain Francis Liardet, of a son. On the 29th, at the Rectory, Livermere, Suffolk, the Wife of the Rev. Asgill Col vile, of...

The Cataraque, Finlay, from Liverpool to Port Philip, struck upon a reef off the South-west coast of King's Island (Bass's Straits), 4th Aug. and went to pieces la twenty-four...

" It gives us very great pleasure to hear that the associated millowners of Manchester propose, on Sir Robert Peel's measure becoming law, to reduce the hours of factory labour...

has consented to beceme a candidate for the representation of East Gloucestershire, in the anticipation that the electors will accept the tendered resignation of Mr. Charteris....

Railway was opened yesterday. The distance is about fifteen miles, and the country traversed is fertile and picturesque. The Mayor of Canterbury gave a dinner to nearly three...

believed that the Sikh forces were compelled to recross the Sutlej, on the 24th December," the day following the battle. They had therefore been repulsed.

suggested to Sir Robert Peel in connexion with his new policy, that compensation might be given to the agriculturists by levying the Income-tax on their profits in- stead of on...

of Algeria in a somewhat subdued tone. It is suspected that more bad news has arrived, or is expected.

Robert Peers rree-trade Resolutions take a wide range: at some of the Clubs this even- ing, experienced calculators count upon 130 or upwards, while the lowest estimate we have...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. The most important fact in the proceedings of Parliament last night, was the presentation of extracts from a report made by the Government...

STOCK EXCHANGT., FRIDAY ATIVINOOK. The English Funds have been as buoyant during the present as they were heavy during the past week; the amount laid out by the Chancery-broker...

in a new petite comedy produced at the Haymarket on Thursday, is the nearest approach to the best French acting that we have seen on the English stage for a long time. It...

version of a French piece; the chief characters of which are so well suited to the talents of the company, that it succeeded more by dint of clever acting than from any inherent...

A NEW opera buffa, in two acts, entitled An Adventure of Don Quixote, the music by G. A. Macfarren, was produced at Drury Lane on Tuesday. Gratified as we were with the...

to Shakspere. He played Richelieu on Monday, and is, we believe, to appear in Virginias, and perhaps other popular parts. These representations are deficient in that...

an exciting and amusing piece; but the serious interest is inferior to the comic, and the subordinate parts become principal owing to the talent of the per- formers. Madame...

THE PARLIAMENTARY RESIGNATIONS. SOME Members, recent converts to the Peel views of Free Trade, but mindful of past professions, and substantially as well as ti- tularly...

OF all Sir Robert Peel's measures the one now before Parliament is the greatest ; and never has he been so abused as since its intro- • duction. The fact is anomalous and...

EXTENSIVE preparations are on foot in many parts of Germany to celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of Luther. In most other cases a sense of incongruity would...

THE Dumfries Courier announces the death of the last of the " Buchanites." This was a sect founded in the eighteenth century, by a female of the name of Buchan, who believed...

Wrrniat these few years public opinion in England respecting the United States of America has undergone a great change. Men may regret this, or rejoice at it ; there may be...

in a Tropical European settlement. There is then little probability of combinations taking place for the purpose of raising wages to an exorbitant amount, or for en- forcing any...

CRIMINAL JURIsPRUDENcE, Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials. Translated from the German of Anselm Bitter von Feuerbach, by Lady Duff Gordon Murray. ✓ OYAGES AND TRAVELS,...

Is a very clever work, but, like some very clever people, easily seen through. Everything about it is smart, and designed for effect; but we perceive that the smartness is...

AT the extreme North of Australia, close upon the 10th degree of South latitude, is a peninsula connected with the mainland by an isthmus of about three miles broad. The...

RETIRED from the labour of law-lecturing and the bustle of the govern- ment of India, Mr. Amos last autumn was pursuing some historical re- searches into the case of Sir Thomas...

item January Wan to February 5th. BOOKS. Four Lectures on the Advantages of a Classical Education as an Auxiliary to a Commercial Education. With a Letter to Dr. Whewell upon...

of eight years' standing" complains of our "mentioning books, under the head 'Publications Received,' which have net lamed from the press "; and he states specific instances of...

QUARTET CONCERTS AT CROSBY HALL. DANDO'S first concert for the present season took place on Monday; when a selection of the finest chamber music was performed- Everything given...

Tuesday, Feb. 8. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Barnes and Co. Tokenhonse Yard, merchants ; as far as regards J. Barnes —J'. mad E. Herrman, Manchester, haberdashers—Crowdy and...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Feb. 1846.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—Quartermaster-Ser- geant J. White to be Quartermaster, vice Hendley, retired on full-pay. WAR-OFFICE, Feb. 6.-4th Drag....

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.1 Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. 941 945 911 951 961 964 934 95 951 961 951 954 954 951 97 971 974 974 981 991 104 104 101 101 104 206 2074...