party," or has been deposed from it, and the Marquis of Granby has been elected in his stead. The fact is not more important than a change in the Mastership of the Odd Fellows...

THE opportunity for agitation against the Jewish Disabilities Bill has produced no great crop of adverse petitions; and the THE opportunity for agitation against the Jewish...

pened in Paris, the situation of Ministers becomes every day more critical. Relying on a banded majority, of which the larger part consists of placemen, the Cabinet does not...

Jambi! DISABILITIES. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day was moved for the second reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Before the debate, several...

Can- terbury is vacant and in the gift of Ministers. Two Bishoprics and two Archbishoprics within less than six months, form a com- bination of luck in patronage such as...

con- quest over the Royal obduracy, and the Absolutist King is the idol of the day ; walking about the streets as our King William the Fourth did after his succession, or King...

of a man for harbouring a criminal has had a visible effect in checking that evil practice. A rescript from the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide at Rome, calls the Irish priests...

THE Duke and Dutchess of Saxe-Cobourg and Count Arthur Mensdorff arrived at Wind or Castle on Saturday, from the Continent, by the South- eastern Railway. The Queen visited the...

In a Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, the plans of Mr. Bunning for a new house of correction, which had been approved of by Sir George Grey, were adopted. The estimate is...

A numerous Anti-Defence meeting was held at Newcastle on Tuesday, under the presidency of the Mayor. The inquest on Mr. Wa'Bingham. Hazen, at Dundry, terminated on Tuesday....

ITALY.—Details have arrived of the circumstances under whioh the King of Naples concedes a constitution to his people. On the appointment of the new Ministry, under the Duke of...

The Dublin Evening Post publishes the following document, as a "cir- cular addressed by the Holy See to some if not all of the Catholic Pre- lates of Ireland." " Illme. ac Rme....

The death of the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury, expected for some days past, took place at a q uarter past two o'clock r esterit y wa i l; I The Archbishop had been...

ARRIVED-At Gravesend, 6th Feb., Sunflower, Forrester, from Sydney: Bindle, Cole- man, from China ; Plantagenet, Bird, from Bengal; and Malcolm, Smith, from Madras ; 7111,...

expended to pro- duce a long straggling piece translated from the French and called Naiada. The heroine is a French girl, who is made literally the goddess of the imaginary land...

The House of Commons devoted the greater part of last evening to the adjourned debate on the Jewish Disabilities Bill. The speakers on both sides reiterated, upon the whole...

in the cathe- dral church of that see; a large concourse witnessing the ceremony. At a conference of the Roman Catholic clergy of the Dublin diocese, on Tues- day last, Dr....

This week has been more fruitful than the preceding one in the article of dramatic production, but we fear that nothing very permanent will be found in the crop. At the Lyceum...

the address still continued. The exasperation on both sides had not been allayed, but no new incident had called it into active expression. Prince Czartoryski has written to...

Steen Rem:mesa Fame: Arraaareer The English Stock Market has been in a. quiescent state; speculators ;Id capitalistseing_reduced to inaction by uncertainty as to the funding of...

TQ THE EDITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOR. ' Lincoln's Inn, fish February 1848. Sin—I have read your article on this subject in yesterday's paper with great sa- tisfaction. Allow me to...

DEMONSTRATIONS. LIKE county meetings, "demonstrations," such as that of the sailors on Wednesday, have become " a farce." Certain gentle- men of the shipping interest, who...

it suits him to enlarge the sense of the original, and to literal translation where the exact Latin word bears a significa- tion which it has lust in England, but which suits...

has likewise been ga med at the Marylebone Theatre. Mr. Knowles's Wrecker's Daughter, long laid upon the shelf, is after all a vain attempt to exalt a common melodrama of the...

the St. James's, in a new drama called La Vicemtesse Lolotte. It has a strong resemblance to the French piece on which ourPride of the Market is founded. A young modiste has to...

Majesty's Theatre for the ensuing season appears in our columns. It does not contain much information beyond that of the demi-official announcement, of which we stated the...

Drury Lane last night. The singers made a creditable attempt, and the accompaniments were excellently played ; but the performance was tame. The smile' nce, however, as usual,...

THE West Indies, Anti-Slavery, Cheap Sugar—where will they be in a few years? Those phrases represent ideas now cur- rent; they have been plentifully used in the contests of...

MURDER rears his blood-stained hand amongst us still, in spite of civilization, in spite of "moral progress, ' or penal laws. The astonishment which always bursts out at such...

TO TRIG EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Dublin, 26th January 1848. Stn—It is the common fault of the generality of volunteer doctors of the Irish commonwealth, to place great...

THE English have caught some notion that art is an influence useful to civilization, and they are very desirous of securing its aid. Their aspiration, and their utter ignorance...

FoTAGra A14D THAVELEI, The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Ent., in his Voyage into the South Sea, in the Year 1593. Reprinted from the Edition of 1622. Edited by C. It....

SWITZERLAND. THEODORE MUGGE is a Prussian literary man and traveller, who passed a portion of 1846 and 1847 in making a tour through Switzerland; not: merely looking at her...

EXHIBITS a considerable falling oil' compared with its predecessor, both in the attraction of the book and the ability of the writer. There are to be found in it all the defects...

Ma. BALL was employed at Canton, in the service of the East India 'Company, when the tea-trade was in its zenith, and the British tea-drink- ing public could rely upon a "choice...

BOOKS. A Pleafor Peasant Proprietors; with the Outlines of a Plan for their Es- tablishment in Ireland. By William Thomas Thornton, Author of "Over - Population and its...

Judas Maccabeus was performed at Exeter Hall on Thursday evening, under the direction of Mr. Mullah. The part of the Jewish hero was sus- tained by Mr. Reeves; who had the...

BERLIOZ IN ENGLAND. M. HECTOR BERLIOZ, the celebrated French composer and critic, who is now in London in the capacity of musical director in Jullien's Drury Lane Operahouse,...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE exhibition which opened to the public on Monday is one of the meet indifferent and uninteresting that has been seen on the walls—one level field of...

Mr. Redgrave gave his introductory lecture on artistic botany, on Friday evening, to an assemblage of pupils in the School of Design, so numerous as to afford a very favourable...

wAR-omeR, Feb. 11.- 7th Drag. Guards-J. Thomson, M.D., tube Assist-Sorg. vice Lock, killed at the Cape of Good Hops. 3d Light Drags--H. F. Dimsdale, Gent. to be Cornet, by...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Kirk and Brown, Spalding, Lincolnshire-Williamson and Co. Ripon, varnish-makers -W. and C. Dudley, Birmingham, jewellers-W. and J. Symington, Market...

On the 3d February, at Government House, Isle of Man, the Lady Isabella Hope, Of a son. On the 3d, at Tetworth Hall, Hunts, the Lady of Charles James Barnett, Esq., of a...

BRITISH FUNDS. (ClosIng Prices.) Sawed. Wooday. Tamdas. Indus. Thum per Cent Consols . Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, spec...