is very busy in Lancashire, endeavouring to set himself right with his constituents, of whom no small portion are Catholics. At the last election, Lord STANLEY crept into the...

THE Registrations being completed, and the Municipal Councils refitted for the ensuing year, there is something like a lull in the political atmosphere. Radicals and Tories are...

suspect that it is not .so scarce as has been represented. From inquiries we have recently made, we learn that there are heavy stocks of good old wheat in the hands of rich...

as President of the United States, appears to be certain. When the last accounts were despatched, six States, having 120 electors, had declared for him, including New York,...

of November, with a speech from Sir FRANCIS HEAD, which com- menced with the following declaration- " With great satisfaction I congratulate you on the loyal feeling which per-...

A meeting of the Court of Common Council was held on Thurs. day ; when the refusal of the Gresham Lecturers to leave the small room in the Royal Exchange and lecture in the new...

Miguelite vessels have been seen near the coast of Portugal; but were chased off by the French brig of war Orestes. It is also certain that the partisans of the banished Prince...

in Africa. The army of Marshal CLAUSEL, whose capture of Constantine was set down as certain, the very day of his antici- pated entry into the city being named, has been forced...

Wednesday night to about sixty Lambeth Tories, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington ; and after hearing sundry speeches from gentlemen who talked largely about the success of the...

Christino victory. According to the following statement of the Military Commandant of the Province of Xeres, who professes to have received his in- formation from Count MIRASOL,...

WE have not a favourable report to make of the state of their Majesties' health this week. The King is suffering from an attack of the gout in one of his legs, and the Queen has...

name has been frequently before the public in connexion with bill At the Bow Street Office, yesterday, John Minter Hart, whose name has been frequently before the public in...

time in the trial of an action'for damages, brought by Mr. Bond, a broker, against a Mr. Douglas for a libel published in the True Sun of the 26th of October last, and written...

Sir William Molesworth has addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Devonport Independent, in explanation of the course he intends to take at the next election for...

Mr. Fraser, the publisher or - "raser's Magazine, had obtained a verdict with 100/. damages against Mr. Grantley Berkeley, for the assault committed in August last. The action...

state of parties in Cornwall, has sent us some particulars of election prospects in that county, which have considerable interest at the present time. In East Cornwall, the...

prospect of their being tilde to return two Liberal Members and oust the Tory " Whipper-in," Mr. Charles Ross, sent an invitation to Mr. Raikes Currie to become their candidate....

votes are to be crippled by his connexion with Ministers, be will not do for Devonport. On the subject of the Ballot, that paper says that Sir George Grey's constituents " will...

the lato hurricane, it is stated that the town of Newport, ir.t.le Isle of Wight, As one among the countless instances of the violence of the lato hurricane, it is stated that...

toge- ther on Monday, at Wakefield. The Morning Post assures us that the banquet was the most magnificent ever given in the Riding; but we only recognize the names of three...

constituents at Pershore, on Tuesday last ; when both gentlemen delivered Liberal speeches, which gave great satisfaction to the company. Messrs. Morrison and Wason had a...

printing-cloth has, this week, been brisk, at fully better prices than could have been obtained a fortnight since. There has been more business doing in hand-loom goods, but we...

cotton- merchants, Manchester, has been fully committed to Lancaster Gaol for trial on several charges of forging the acceptances of Messrs. Lees and Bottomley to bills of...

The National Association on 'Thursday week agreed to the follow- ing resolution, on the motion of Mr. Boyce, a Protestant gentleman of krge fortune in Wexford : it ought to give...

' nell moved that the five prisoners confined in the gaol of Tullarnore, accused of the homicide of Hogan, (the assistant of the notorious Phill. Ryan, at Dunkerrim) be admitted...

riority:on the register. The Dublin correspondent of the Courier says- " Committees will be immediately formed in each of the metropolitan dis- tricts, in which they had not a...

In Mid Lothian and East Lothian, the Tories have been busy for sonic time past getting up requisitions to Sir George Clerk and Lord Itionsay to stand for those respective...

An interesting and important correspondence between Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII and Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN, appears in the True Sun this evening. Our readers are aware that Sir Hussev is...

Euphrates expedition ; which has been broken up, the steamer being transferred to the East India Company. Colonel Chesney and his party return to England.—Glasyow Chronicle....

lady named Hodgson, at Whitebaven lately, only attained his majority last year. As the young Duke of Roxburghe will be of age in July next, the Dutchess and her husband,...

and private letters repeat the report of the probability of the eldest daughter of the Emperor Nicholas paying a visit early in the spring to the French capital ; and it is...

Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, to the 31st of January, with the usual ceremony. The Commissioners were Lords Cotteziham, Glenelg, and Duncannon. As a proof that the...

upon those " sour grapes" the Metropolitan constituencies, which they have till now affected to disdain. The principle of their plan we understand to be this : expecting...

General Evens- would immediately throw up his command and return to England. The houses and streets of Bilboa have been fortified; and it is said that the besiegers have done...

M uch whispering, hinting, hoping, and fearing, has been going forward during the last month in relation to the anticipated disunion of Whigs and Radicals. The partisans of each...

SATURDAY NIGHT. THE accounts from Paris to day rather confirm the report of disasters to the French army in Africa. It was rumoured on Wednesday morn- ing, that the French...

STOCK EXCIIANOr, FRTDAY AFTERNOON. The appearance of the Money Market has been of a firmer character during the past than for several preceding weeks. Money has been, however,...

The llindoo. Driscoll, from Liverpool to Bombay, is totally lost about 30 miles to the soul liward of Bombay ; the chief mate and one man drowned. The Orestes. Shettler, having...

last week, and remarks on the proceedings, appear to have been taken in high dudgeon by the worthy editor of the Morning Advertiser ; who (it is no breach of isourtesy to...

BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Paris, the Lady of the Right Hon. R. CUTLAR FEROUSSON, of a son and heir. (hi the 1st inst., at Combo House, the Lady of Sir DAVID ERSKINE, of...

THE EDITOR. OF THE SPECTATOR. London. 24 December 1836. Sra—In my last letter I showed why the Quadruple Alliance failed : it was Without object from the moment Lours PHILIP...

WAR•OFFICE, Dec. 9.—Royal Regt. of Horse Guards—J. II. Bradford. Gent. to be Cornet. by purchase, vice Lord Fitz 'Ian, who retires. 17th Light Drags—Lieut. W. L. Shedder - 1 to...

TALK OF THE CLUBS. THE well-understood intention of Ministers to dissolve Parliament early in the spring, has been abandoned for the present ; and the change of purpose is thus...

LORD WHARNCLIFFE, in his speech at the Wakefield dinner, claimed for the ephemeral PEEL Administration, the merit of the mock reforms of the Church of England, which Lord...

description of an attack on the house and life of Mr. HouG, the Protestant Curate (not the tithe-owning Rector) of Cloone, in Leitrim, which is also noticed in our depart- ment...

BRAHAM has this week rendered his theatre available to the produc- tion of a legitimate English opera. Last year it was in vain to expect this ; his company was thin and weak ;...

IT is notorious that a section of the Aristocratical Whigs are Whigs in name only—their habits and inclinations having a strong Tory bias. Lord GREY was their Magnus Apollo ;...

MODERN EGYPTIANS. MR. LANE appears to have proceeded to Egypt in 1825, and to have remained there some years, in order to study Arabic. On his return to England, the notes he...

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. An Account of the Manners and Cam m: of the Modern Egyptians; written in Egypt daring the Years 1513, '31, and 1.1. partly from Notes made during a former...

As we lately said, we can pass no opinion upon RAUMER as a Con- tinental writer, but in an English judgment he begins to appear very much like a mere bookmaker. lie goes to...

IN this production Mr. DISRAELI, with extraordinary ingenuity, has combined the somewhat incongruous excellences of Vivian Grey and The Wondrous Tule of Alroy ; for he has mixed...

THE pile of books and pamphlets before us would be overwhelm- ing in the eyes of a novice ; and is almost so to us, who have learned by experience that the promises of modern...

have taken its title from Mr. But.wee's Pilgrims of the Rhine, and to be intended as a kind of sequence to the far-lamed Tom and Jerry. The exact object of the periodical we...

looked into of RAM- SAY On the Distribution of Wealth, it seems a tough morsel even for the most patient of political economists to master. Consider- ing how much has been...

made it a Perennial Annual. Every year it comes forth anew, having, very unlike its subjects, improved upon the past; and here is the sixth edition, with the arms of each...

the service of King OTHO ; and has bought an estate in Greece, the title-deeds of which he cannot procure from the Government. His pamphlet, called the:Hellenic Kingdom and the...

which we must reserve for another opportunity, and merely acknowledge their arrival. The Statistical Account of the British Empire. By J. R. M , Cut. - wen, Esq. (In 2 volumes;...

1. A Satire on Satirists. By WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. 2. The Choir and the Oratory. By JOSIAH CONDER. 3. Flowers and Fruit from Old English Gardens. The Satire on Satirists is...

contains an immense mass of information relative to the past and present condition of that country, collected with great industry from various sources, arranged with much...

Pedestrian Tour through 1347 Miles of Wales and England, inasmuch as be has carried the art of prose-spinning beyond any other previous writer. He has solved the problem of how...

WORKS OF ART IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. THE want of some intelligent account of the various contents of the British Museum, deprives that magnificent assemblage of the works of art...

our present economical condition, with glances at the causes which have led to it, addressed to " landlords, tenants,operatives, and all who think." The naked truth of the...

com- pilation, as clear, perhaps, as such a subject can be made, though not very exact in its definitions. The only approach to novelty we have noted in glancing at it is, the...

lume of a new and neat edition, with illustrative engravings, by Mr. HILL, of the Tales and Sketches by the Ettrick Shepherd. They are to be printed from a copy in the...

ac- count of the peculiar rights of women, whether as infants, spinsters, wives, or widows. The chief uses of compilations of this kind are, at the utmost, limited to giving a...

must be almost as difficult to write a bad one as to say any thing new about one. The points of the Elements of Arithmetic, by the Reverend RICHARD MOSLEY, are two,—the...

PHELPS, is the reprint of an American publication, which has found such favour in Transatlantic eyes as to have reached a se- cond edition. The origin of the book was thus. The...

Is unique among the Annual tribe, as regards its embellishments, which are the grand attraction. They are eleven in number ; and have the appearance of highly-elaborated...

are on our table ; of which we can only note the four most prominei.t. 1. A second and cheap edition, with considerable additions, improve- ments, and modifications, as facts...

defective in its constitution as it is unjust and mischievous in its influence. But, as we have said over and over again, the blame rests not with indivi- duals, but with the...