25 JANUARY 1845, page 13

Shakspere At The Tuilertes.

THE Drury Lane and Covent Garden versions of Shakspere are rather in bad odour at present. But the worst of these " adapta- tions" of his dramas to Cockney comprehensions......

The Speaker On Horseback.

LOYALTY works its miracles as well as love. It has conjured the Speaker out of the tenfold panoply of gown and wig in which he sits enveloped in the House of Commons, dressed......

Spectator's Library.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, daring the years 1838, 1832, 1840. 1891, 1842. By Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. Commander of the Expedition,......

A New Grievance For Ireland.

BELGIUM is the envy of-Ireland : it once belonged to Holland ; now it has an independent Legislature, and something more—it has achieved Repeal. Ireland, indeed, achieved the......

Tampering With The Ills Of Ireland.

THERE are arguments that cut two ways, though none are so apt to forget the double edge as those that use them. The Dublin Weekly Register recurs to its old task of proving that......