ZIe lorobincrs. The election of Town-Councillors in the several boroughs throughout the country took place on Friday last. In most placs they appear to have excited scarcely...

The Reverend Isaac Williams, of Trinity C&i8*e, Oxford, thus, in a letter to the Times, curtly contradicts one of th.rnany rumours of the dayI understand that it .s stated in...

I A commercial circular sent out to India by the last over-land mail, speaking of the general state of trade, describes the currency measures of last session as acting...

A Mr. Robert Hunt has been shot at, in mid-day, while driving along the road near Crough in Limerick. Ile was not wotnded. A letter from Frankfort states that the mother of the...

I In the Bail Court, this morning, the Solicitor-General applied, on behalf of Mr. Salomons, for a writ of quo warranto, requiring Mr. Mloon to show by what authority lie...

It has been officially announced to the Mayor of Northamptoni that I the Queen will pass through that town on her way to Burleigh House, on Tuesday next. Active preparations...

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY NIGHT. I Nothing in the news of the morning possesses so much living interest I as that from Spain; where events are in progress that seem likely to form...

| The Bank of England, it is stated, is going to charge a commission for transmitting money to different parts of the country by means of its branches; and ittis supposed that...

This is "Lord Mayor's-day "; and it has been distinguished by two I peculiarities-fine weather, and a Lord Mlayor notorious for some fiscal mystery-making. Fogs and rain passed...

The West India mail-steamer, which left St. Thomas's on the 16th 'October, brings papers from Jamaica to the 9th October, and from other colonies of corresponding dates. The...

VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL hIISTORY OF CREATION I Is rather a remarkable work. It exhibits a masterv of astronomv, a considerable familiarity with geology, and a sufficient...

NEWS OE THE WEEK. THE most notable point in the Municipal Elections, that took place .on the 1st instant, is the absence of any remarkable event. Real -opposition seems to...

There has been an alarm of wide conspiracy in Spain. Whether there has really been a plan to assassinate NARVAEZ in Madrid and his Captain-General in Barcelona, and to...

A new appointment to the Judicial Bench has been as univer- sally applauded as it has been, paradoxically, taken exception to. Mr. Justice ERSKINE resigns his seat in the...

Mr. O'CoxNELL'S sidling towards Federalism seems, as a matter .. . . . . - of popularity-policy, to be a failure; and one immediate effect of his move is to throw a...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARtY. TEAVFI S. Ilamles aud Reco.llections If au Iu li-ili (iflicial. l Lieutenant-Colonel \V. IT. Shecitar- . Ol t- ile ltigal Army. In to lumes...

ATUSUllancotts. The Morning Post puts forth this current gossip about Ministerial changes; and the Times thinks it worth while to quote the rumours- I 1' Notwith3tanding the...

LEVER'S TOM BURKE. OF the many issuers of fiction by monthly instalments, whom the success of DicKENS brought into the field, Mr. LEVER is one of the most popular: "h IIiRRY...

SAM SLICK IN ENGLAND, SECOND SERIES. THIS second series of the Clockmaker's adventures in England is varied by a change in the externals of Sam Slick; who, entranced with his...

NORMAL SCHOOLS OF FINANCE. TImE amount of poverty, ignorance, and vice, which have to be dealt with in our day, must be grappled with en masse. They are beyond the powers of...

THE SAXON OR THlE SAVAGE. Tnr " public instructers " of Ireland, like witches who were charged with reading their prayers backwards, will persist in reading a lesson...

abe -fletropofis. A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, for the despatch of business. The Queen's answer to the address of the Corporation, and Sir James Graham's...

ate Court. TIIE record of the Court has seldom been duller. A Privy Council, held at Windsor Castle yesterday, is the public event of the week. The Council was attended by...

IIONV PEOPLE ARE EMPLOYED. IN the " Occupation Abstract " published by the Commissioners appointed to take the Census of 1841, the number of persons engaged in commerce, trade,...

THE TRADE OF AGITATION. MR. MAURICE O'CONNELL recently made known the remarkable and disgusting fact that Riband associations in Ireland are supported by money sent from...

TAXATION AND REPIZESENrATION. MnR. EDITOR-Since SiXty pounds a year from each of the Parliamentary voters in the kinrdomn would raise the sixty millions required by the State,...

POISONS AND) THEIR ANTIDOTE. At tl~e Polytechnic Institution, this week, Dr. Ryan has been lecturing on the nature of poisons, the tests for detecting their presence, and the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. LORD MAYORS OF LONDON: THE CROWNING HONOUR. EVERYBODY knows about the state and splendour of the Mayor of London. Hle rides in a coach-the very model of...

'T'IIE POOR AND TIIEIB SliiKIl. FRII'N'I)S. A CONTLMPORAIIY, While Ilc UstS tilc SMCaiSUi of thle %SwtatrO b(r I)ol[OScS of hlis OM, lr!escS to be scandalized at \Nhat hle...

SCOTLAND. The Municipal Elections in Scotland, which took place on Tuesday, seem to have been characterized by the quiet that prevailed in England. At Edinburgh-the result of...

NOTE ON MR. GRANT S IRISH IMPRESSIONS. MR. GRANT shows adroitness in contriving a second mention of his book, under the cloak of a correction. Well, let him have it: we cannot...

3fortign allb Tolonial. SPATN.-Conspiracies are said to have been discovered at Madrid and Barcelona, to murder Narvaez and others, and to overthrow the GoverDnient; but the...

IRELAND. The Belfast Northern Whig has this brief report touching some movement of leading Federalists- As some contemporaries at a distance have been asking about a Federal...