THE two sets of State trials have exhibited the usual contrast. The English Chartist trials, conducted in quiet, are over, and THE two sets of State trials have exhibited the...

been catechized, is their position in Italy. M. Ledru-Rollin tried, by dint of insidious questions and taunts, to force them into a de- cidedly belligerent policy of attack on...

they should be drawn into the vortex of political moderation, and swallowed up by M. niers and his friends. In taking a stand against all parties—and in France, at present, each...

as opposite : while Major Edwardes is pursuing his chival- rous career in the Punjaub, the Anglo-Dutch Boers at Natal are again suffered to brave British:authority ; while the...

According to ancient custom, the new Sheriffs were presented by the Recorder to the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, on Saturday; with an eulogistic resume of the chief...

The Queen arrived in London on Sunday; not by sea, but by railway. After the embarkation at Aberdeen on Thursday evening, the weather be- came so heavy, that the sea voyage was...

Europe, the state of the relations between the Imperial Govern- ment of Austria and Hungary is one of the strangest. The Em- peror, of course at the instance of his Ministers,...

F. Young, late Member for Tyne- Mouth, has been requested to offer himself as a candidate to fill the vacancy in the representation of King's Lynn, caused by the death of the...

The trial of Mr. Smith O'Brien proceeded, at Clonmel, on Friday; rais- ing increased interest, and drawing together a crowd of eager spectators. The prisoner was perfectly calm...

The Premier has prolonged his stay in the North. On Friday last week, Lord John left Inverary Castle, the Duke of Argyll's seat, for Dan- oily Castle ' on a visit to Mr....

FnexcE.—A Democratic and Socialist banquet at two francs a head, was held on Saturday, at a wine-house at the Barriere de Sevres, by 1,000 or 1,200 guests ; among whom were MM....

Major-General Thomas Banbury is to be Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, with the chief command of the troops, in the room of Major-General John H`Donald, C.B. A long...

SATURDAY. in the Commission Court at Clonmel, on Thursday, Mr. Whiteside resumed his dissection of the evidence. The assertion that his client had used the military privilege...

Southwood Smith, M.D., to be the Medical Member of the General Board of Health. The Gazette also contains a notification on the prevention of cholera, is- sued by the General...

the mode of electing the President still undetermined. Disturbances occurred at Lyons on Tuesday: the disbanded Gerdes Mobiles assembled, and riotously demanded their pay,...

the deceased Queen-Dowager of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies—to commence on the 8th instant, to change on the 22d, and end on the 29th. The camp at Everton has been finally...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The week has been barren of events, and the fluctuation of the English Funds as limited as usual. The only variation in Consols for Account...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—I proceed to explain some of the legal characteristics and usages of a Forest. With the exception of the New Forest, which was made...

The Lyceum is the only theatre that has opened without alteration or improvement,—and, be it added, is the only theatre that did not stand in need of them. In the place of...

ago, an inge- nious philanthropist wrote a pamphlet in which he tried to demonstrate that nearly all the maladies incident to humanity could be prevented by eating a crust...

AN EUROPEAN CONGRESS. THE rumours of a Congress still continue ; and although we do not attach too wide a meaning to the phrase " general pacifica- tion " in the diplomatic...

FEW subjects have given occasion for more copious or curious commentaries than the sentences on the principal Chartist rioters. One writer exults, as if at some unexpected...

BEFORE an order issued from the General Post-office in March last, two mails a month used to be sent to India by the overland route, on the 3d and on the 20th of each month :...

THE employment of spies by Government, both in England and Ireland, causes a feeling of dissatisfaction which finds vent in persevering controversy, and receives an impulse from...

STowB still resounds to the hammer of the auctioneer ; the sale being endless. The catalogue of curiosities, works of art, furni- ture, &c., reads more like the inventory of a...

SIR JAMES DIIKE ' the Lord Mayor elect, has satisfied the pub- lic opinion of the City by the pledge which he has given, and which we find reported in these terms- " If his...

Ting defences upon which theatrical managers are put are extraordinary. It seems that any actor who has the face to de- mand a very exorbitant salary, conceives that he has ipso...

HISTORICAL ME110111.14, The Fairfax Correspondence : Memoirs of the Reign of Charles the First. Edited by George W. Johnson, Esq., Barrister-at-law. In two volumes Bentley....

Paris, October. 5th. The spirit of centralization is the ruling spirit of France. It had grown for centuries under the Kings. The work of Richelieu and Louis the Four- teenth...

Ma. BABHAM appears to be one of those learned men of whom a great country can afford to maintain a few, among its " curiosities of literature," but of whom the multiplication...

IT seems singular that those persons who are most exposed to the hard realities of life and undergo the lowest extreme of fortune often have the untruest and narrowest ideas of...

Boma. The Bale Revised. A carefully corrected Translation of the Old and New Testaments. By Francis Barham, Editor of the "Hebrew and English Bible," "Collier's Ecclesiastical...

On the 27th September, at Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk, the Lady of Henry Wilson, Esq.. of a daughter. . On the 28th, at Whitmore Hall, Staffordshire, the Lady of Captain Rowland...

WAR-OFFICE, Oct. 3.-1st Drag. Guards--Capt. R. J. Hanley, from half-pay Unatt. to be Capt. vice Ilammersicy, appointed Paymaster ; Lieut. J. S. S. Stuart to be Capt. by...

Tuesday, October 3. PARTNEESEIPS DISSOLVED. Donley and Goodwin, Blackman Street, chemists—Sinclair and Facey, Banner Street, auctioneers—W. and W. Bennett, Horwick,...

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