THE Sultan has declared for war, and the Czar has declared for peace,—such are the two announcements which constitute the most important news of the week ; but they must be...

speak for Ireland. An " aggregate " conference of the Tenant League has been held in Dublin, to promote tenant-right ; but what it has pro- moted is strife amongst its own...

own more troubled countenance the increasing gravity of Oriental affairs. The Funds, those unduly watched indicators of a peculiar class of opinion, have undergone severe...

mills towards the end of the present month, and to stand by each other in resisting the demands of the factory hands for higher wages, is a step in many ways important;...

THE same quiet continues to pervade the daily life of the Queen, at Bal- moral. Besides her driving, walking, and riding, the principal recorded event of the week is a visit to...

At a meeting of the Court of Common Council, on Tuesday, Mr. Wallis, the junior Sheriff; was formally summoned, and conducted to his seat in the Court. Mr. Gresham wanted to...

session of an extended territory ; but the active steps taken by the central and local authorities have manifestly checked the virulence of the endemic, and must have saved many...

There was a public meeting at Leicester on Tuesday, convened on re- quisition by the Mayor, to convey to the Government their sentiments "on the necessity of prompt, energetic,...

The Lord-Lieutenant has continued his tour. This week he has been at Athlone and Ballinasloc, and at both places met with a cordial public reception. The Tenant League held an...

The premature death of Lord Anderson, one of the Judges of the Court of Session, is much lamented in the Scotch journals. .Lord Anderson had returned from the Continent, with...

FRANCE.—We hear from Paris that the French Government have re- solved to send 30,000 men to Constantinople under General Canrobert, and that these men are to form part of an...

The diplomatic conferences at Olmiitz have attracted much attention, speculation, and controversy. , The Times of Thursday gives, on "un- doubted authority," a resume of what...

It is some comfort to find that the virulence of the cholera at New- castle has abated ; and that the authorities of London have taken, and are taking, vigorous steps to...

SATURDAY'. Unusual interest attached to the meeting of the Cabinet Council yes- terday; the first which has formally been summoned since the closing of the session. All the...

telegraphic despatch from Paris, stating that "the Tancredi, which arrived at Marseilles from Constantinople, has brought the confirmation of the news that on the 26th ultimo...

the Queen, with the rest of the Royal Family, was 'Resent at a ball given to the tenantry on the estate. It is stated that her Majesty will leave Balmoral on the 13th instant,...

Ad- miralty yesterday , from the Arctic regions, with the unexpected news that Captain M‘Cfure of the Investigator had discovered the North-west Passage! We learn from the...

with every facility of information—conveys to us the following impressions of what he sees and hears. "On the Eastern question nothing is or can be known, I may say any-...

in- dependence against Russia," was held at the London Tavern last night ; Lord Dudley Stuart in the chair. The room was crowded to overflow. The tone of the meeting was...

on Wed- nesday evening, at Gresham College. Mr. BISMurdie was the president of the night ; and among the company were Sir Henry Bishop, Professor Taylor, Mr. Goss, and several...

of Eng- land, WRS charged yesterday, at Bow Street, with writing libellous letters upon the character of Mr. Craven Berkeley M.P., and his wife. The nature of the libel is not...

Fortified by a public dejeuner given in his honour at the Coal-hole Tavern,-fortified likewise by a very successful benefit, on the occasion of which he spoke a sensible...

all hope of seeing Mademoiselle Rachel next year. She has obtained a conge for a twelve- month, which she intends to devote to an engagement at St. Petersburg. Grim and Mario...

RAILWAY SIGNALS. 1 Adam Street Adaphi 7th October 1853. SLA-The fatal collision on the Irish South-western Railway is an exempli- fication of the difficulties arising from the...

erects Exclusion. FRIDAY Arrzaaoow. close of last week, has since on several occasions exhibited strong signs of repe- The panic in Government Securities, which had partly been...

1 Adam Street, Adelphi, 3d October 1853. Sin—Political economy teaches us that the supply of all necessaries, food included, is most safely left to the operations of...

_Dublin, 6th October 1863. San—It has given me much satisfaction to learn from the last Spectator that there is no danger of your being induced to back the project in refer-...

ALTHOUGH the suggestion of making a distinction in international treatment, between offences against law manifestly bad in them- selves, and those which are only prohibited by...

GOVERNMENT AND COUNTRY. ITALF-A-DOZEN meetings have been held on the subject of Turkey, one on the subject of a "Greek Empire," and one is to be held next week on the subject...

" Amain cholera" becomes frequent and conspicuous in the report of the Registrar-General ; and, as usual, it appears to take its abode especially in squalid districts or on the...

"WE want to be governed !"—the claim which Carlyle puts into the mouth of mankind at large—has become the practical and ex- press demand of that peculiar section of mankind...

for the time, been merged in the question of " strikes " • and we have been engaged somewhat more anxiously in the "strikes"; question which has worn rather an ominous...

A warms to whose compilations the Times gives space and a con- spicuous position, has taken more than one opportunity of enlarging upon a competition with which our merchants...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT] OF all the anomalies in the world, China is the greatest. Tracing its origin back through the mists of mythology to the time when the smoke of sacrifice...

SIR CHARLES NAPIER ON INDIAN GOVERNMENT.* Tins posthumous work of the hero of Scinde consists substan- tially of two parts ; one of which relates to his own personal grounds of...

rather than lj proper—constitute the principal subjects of Life in Sweden. There is more in it, too, than " Sweden"; the volumes beginning with a voyage from London to Ostend,...

a new pic- ture of social life was brought before the reader, by the exhibition of the sturdy mechanic and his feelings of caste, his temptations and struggles with Socialism...

Booxs. The Tfietory of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China, and the Si- tuation thereof. Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, end- now reprinted front the early...

RUSKIN'S STONES OF VENICE.* THE reader has not had more than time enough fully to digest the second volume of The Stones of Venice—to realize to his own mind, under the...

The anxiety and uncertainty as to the Eastern question exercised their natural effect upon business at Mark Lane yesterday ; which was un- usually dull. The warlike news in the...

TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNS. The Board of Trade returns, for the month ended September 5, show that the increase in the consumption of Foreign and Colonial produce had not...

One of the standing complaints which Mr. Cobbett was in the habit of bringing against the Stamp-laws was the injustice of making the poor man pay so much higher a rate than the...

the Official I11 urn.] Ten Weeks Week of 1843.62. Of 1963. Zymotic Diseases 2976 .... 306 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable scat, 462 .... '49...

Some of the Lancashire trade circulars, in speaking of the infatuated conduct of the factory operatives, and of the injury they are likely to in- flict on themselves and others...

On the 28th September, at Foulmire Rectory, near Royston, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Savide, of a daughter. On the 29th, at Warley Barracks, Essex, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel...

Fraffy. Spec Cent Consols 33 Ditto for Account 93 3 per Cents Reduced shut 31 per Cents shut Long Annuities shut Bank Stock, 8 per Cent shut India Stock, 101 per Cent...

Tuesday, October 4. - Davis and Amer, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn, law-booksellers-Whitehead and Kerr, Manchester, plasterers-Peskett and Nye, Ilurstperpoint, Sussex, millers-...