and altar denunciation ; an epistle from St. Jarlatlfs, asserting widespread destitution, extenuating altar de- nunciations, and rating Lord John Russell ; proclamations of...

INCREASED expenditure with a declining revenue is the untoward financial process proclaimed by documents which we reprint this week. The Revenue-tables, both for the year and...

is one of the most unblushing state papers it has been our luck to The speech of Queen Maria on opening the Portuguese Cortes is one of the most unblushing state papers it has...

still, we think, on insufficient evidence. A coincidence, however, is noted between these reports, the arrival of Lord Minto in Rome, and the continued intercourse of that...

history : the King's sister, Madame Adelaide, has suddenly fallen a victim to the prevailing epidemic; her brother, aged, enfeebled by the same malady, is bowed down by grief;...

Four candidates are in the field for the Aldemianic gown of Tower Ward, vacant by the death of Alderman Lucas,—Mr. T. L. Finnis, Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, Mr. Sheriff Hill, and Mr....

TIIE Queen's " bounty " of food, coals, and clothing, to the poor of Wind- sor, was distributed on New Year's Day, in the Riding-school. The re- cipients, several hundreds in...

The accounts from the manufacturing districts are more satisfactory. The year has commenced with fair prospects; the only drawback being the tendency to a rise in the price of...

The Dublin accounts of the Lord Chancellor's health are satisfactory: the improvement is so great that bulletins have ceased to be issued. A report that the Great Seal was to be...

Fitswcu.—The new postal arrangements with France enabled us last Saturday morning to mention, in our first edition, the death of Madame Adelaide, King Louis Philippe's sister....

The Morning Chronicle has put an end to all doubt as to the existence of the Duke of Wellington's letter to Sir John Burgoyne, by publishing it, as follows. "...

expenditure for the year ended the 10th October 1847 exceeded the revenue by 326,608L, the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt notify that no sum will be...

called news; the novelty being that they have broken their silence about the English controversy on national defence. The Conservateur , a semi-official paper, handles the...

SATURDAY. A very unwelcome, but we hope name announcement, is made by a morning paper, in these words—" It is understood that, at times, the Prince Consort labours under an...

ennaber of Letter* many more he on our table: some of them will be inserted whets we eats snake room.

on Wednes- day was William Ryan alias Puck, for the murder of John Kelly, who had been put in possession of land previously tenanted by Ryan's family, in September last. Ryan...

Co., merchants; W. and A. Taylor, manufacturers; M'Phail, spinners; Gilmour and Kerr, the same; and T. Waddle, merchant. The liabilities of Anderson and Co. are stated at...

The production upon the modern stage of an ancient Greek tragedy, per- formed in the ancient manner, in so far as it can be known or conjectured what that manner was, is an...

from New York to the 18th December, and 45,0001. in specie. In the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Dickenson submitted resolutions indirectly re- commending the annexation of Mexico;...

Alumni—At Gravesend, 1st Jan. Oriental Queea, Lane, from Mauritius; 24, Ja- pan, Be Groot, from Batavia ; and John King, Martin, from Mauritius ; 3d, Banga- lore, Parsons, from...

• STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERN0011. The announcement yesterday that the revenue for the qearter ending on the 5th was deficient only about 1,000,000/. produced a favourable...

STATE OF THE CONTROVERSY ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. THE controversy on our national defences has received powerful accession this week, in the person of Captain Edward Plunkett,...

has made a most successful debfit at the Olympic Theatre, has set a problem before the critics, which the future alone can solve. The style of tragic acting has of late been so...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and =ars ended 5th January 1847 and 1848, showing the Increase or Decrease • /MARS ENDED 5th...

AT last something is to be done towards a revision of the so- called Ecclesiastical Law and its Courts. How they can have ex- isted so long is a puzzle, unless it has been by...

THE Economist last week rushed to the rescue of Mr. Cobden ; seeking- to effect a diversion in his favour, by attacking us for supposing that he can be "astray." Our assailant...

IMPATIENT and grumbling Peers and Members should be sent on a tour among the dusty recesses of the New Palace. Travers.. ing those endless courts and corridors, those galleries...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Cle#, 4th January 1848. Sne—Few questions seem to deserve more serious attention at the present junc- ture than those connected with the West...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 6th January 1848. Snt—The moderate and judicious tone adopted by the Spectator on the subject of the defence of the country, is worthy of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 5th January 1848. Six—In the whole range of subjects which vitally affect the entire community, there is not one of more serious and...

CRILYTHING has its opposite, or, as a herald might say, its counter-charge ; and by this rule, legal fictions present an in- Term which may be called illegal fictions—the legal...

Tun modern is to the olden spirit of chivalry what the com- mercial and civic Knights of the day are to the Knights of the Round Table or the Paladins of Charlemagne. Sacrifice...

TO TILE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. 8d January 1848. Sin—I have taken your paper for so many years, and read it so regularly, that I feel as possessing the right of an old...

been a cure of cholera by ether. M. Bruno Taron surgeon-major of the Ottoman army, was a physician at Marseilles in 1837, during the prevalence of the epidemic. "He was without...

BIOGRAPHY, The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke ; with Selections from his Correspondence, Diaries, Speeches, and Judgments. By George Harris, Esq., of the Middle Temple,...

WILL not increase the reputation of Alfred Tennyson, but rather dimin- ish it. Mr. Tennyson .has here engrafted the weaknesses and affec- tations of the Cockney school upon the...

Exenre exploring adventures beyond the colonial boundaries, such as Mitchell's and Eyre's, the best and freshest books on Australia are Mr. Hood's and Mrs. Meredith's. The...

Booits. Sarawak, its Inhabitants and Productions; being Notes during a Residence in that country with II. H. the Rajah Brooke. By Hugh Low, Colonial Secretary at Labuh-an. The...

On the 28th December, at Edinburgh, the Hon. Mrs. C. Grantham Scott, of aeon, On the 24 January, at Hawardan Rectory, the Hon. Mrs. Glynne, of a son, who only Revived his birth...

Tuesday, Jan. 4. PARTNERED:UPS DISSOLVED. Goding and Co. Belvedere Road, Lambeth, brewers ; as far as regards C. Gocling- S. and B. G. Blore, Birmingham,...

OMWEIE OP ORDNANCE, Jan. 1.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Brevet Major It. W. Story to be Lient.:Col. vice Dowse, deceased ; Second Capt. Hon. 11. F. Handcock to be Capt. vice Story;...

&lard. Monday. 71sesday. 3 per Cent Console Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 35 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 9 per Cent India Stock, 10; Exchequer Bills, 3d. per...