gance and weakness, which just now characterizes public men and public bodies gene rally. The long debate in the Legislative As- sembly, on the conduct of affairs in the Rio de...

evi- dence that Pio Nono has wholly abandoned administrative govern. ment, and left it all to his Cardinals of the old school. The docu- ment is not only inconsistent with his...

ference from the anticipatory accounts—that the revenue has been nearly stationary, with a decided inclination to rise in the latter part of the year. On the year there is a...

MEETrtics multiply in town and country: while the Gazette for- mally announces the meeting of Parliament for the 31st instant, the platform urges its irregular debates ; and...

Tim Queen held a Privy Council and Court at Windsor Castle on Tues- day. The meeting of Parliament, on the 31st instant, was fixed. The Marquis of Lansdowne had audience before,...

A meeting of the National Reform Association (lately,the Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association) was held an Monday, in the large room of the London Tavern....

of their difficulty in the House of Representatives, by accepting a re- lative in lien of an absolute majority ; and thus, setting aside an impracticably independent band of the...

A Protectionist meeting of the "owners, occupiers, and other persons connected. with land in South Buoks," was held at Great Marlow on Tuesday, "to take into consideration- the...

FRANCE.—In the National Assembly, on Saturday, the adjourned de- bate on the Buenos Ayres question was resumed. In reply to K Em- manuel Arago, who asked if England had not made...

The meeting of the East Lothian Protection Society, held at Redding- ton on Friday, "for the first time for three years," was marked by the appearance of a Southron orator—Mr....

The cross warfare of meetings for and against Protection is waged with unabated activity in Ireland ; up to this time with very discouraging want of success to the...

The Gazette of Tuesday contained the Queen's proclamation further proroguing Parliament to the 31st of January; and summoning it then to to meet "for the despatch of divers...

the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on Frederick Temple Baron Dufferin and Clone- boye, [in the Irish Peerage,] and the heirs male of his body, by the style of...

STOCK EICRAYOR, FRIDAY AMR/MOON. The principal feature in the English Stock Market has been the great pro- portional improvement in Three-and-a-quarter per Cents as compared...

the Royal message had just been delivered to the Chambers. With the speech had been presented a memorial containing alterations which the Ministry propose in the draft of the...

a report previously discredited— "We learn with the most lively satisfaction that the Government has just decided, in a council of Ministers, that it will immediately send an...

Arts in 1851 held its first sitting, in the New Palace at Westminster, yesterday. Prince Albert came to town on purpose to preside, and the assemblage of Commissioners was...

SATURDAY. We have authority to state that Mr. Charles Villiers will move the ad- dress in reply to her Majesty's Speech at the commencement of the en- suing session. That Mr....

the pen of Sir l'dn.atel Cost, on Colonial Policy.

over pantomime which we find in Westminster. Sadler's Wells, the Surrey, Astley's ' and the Marylebone, are all faithful to the harlequinades, and their visiters are not blase...

in As you like it; and the latter, by adopting a tone of sarcasm, gives a new aspect to Jaques. The murky style of decoration seems still in vogue at this establishment...

Mr. Mitchell has begim his season of French Plays at the St. James's Theatre, as he did last year, with the opens comique ; and with a com- pany at least equal to that of last...

Nothing could be easier than to attack Mr. Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi by comparing it to the more highly-finished productions of Mr. Burford; but when the volley had...

OF LANDED PROPERTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 10th January 1850. Sra—This problem includes yours of last week how to gain " Cheap Capi- tal for...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECT ATOR SIR—I have read with interest your comments on Sir Robert Peel's ad- dress to his tenantry. Few people will doubt the truth of your remark, that...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 8th January 1850. Sin—It seems doubtful whether passports are really yet dispensed with in France • and from experience I can well...

The performance of St. Paul at Exeter Hall, last night, may be called a revival ; this oratorio having never been repeated, in London at least, since the appearance of...

OPENING OF THE MINISTERT A T, PROGRAMME. PAnkuismir has been formally convened for the last day of this month-next Thursday fortnight ; and it is hoped that Ministers have...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britaiia, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th January 1849 and 1850, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED...

Om suggestions on "Cheap Capital for Agriculturists," to which the Times, the Morning Chronicle, and other papers, lent their cir- culation, have excited an active interest...

CONTROVERSY carried on like that between landlord, farmer ' and agricultural Free-trader, can lead to no satisfactory issue, because they do not argue upon common terms : on...

Thiers, has come over to Legitimacy. At the Academy of Sciences, on Tuesday, he read an essay on "the Restoration of the Stuarts." There was an unusually large an- dience. He...

THREE cases are before the public just now, which illustrate what we said the other day as to the mischief that the Established Church sustains through the smell conflicts into...

TICKNOR'S HISTORY OP SPANISH LITERATURE. * IT is a remarkable circumstance, and perhaps shows the practical character of the people, that while the Americans fail altogether in...

is not perhaps so generally interesting as most of its predecessors, but in a literary point of view it is as curious as any . . Although "William Stra- chey, Gent., the first...

few followers is that which mostly exists between originals and imitations. How- ever peculiar or discursive Carlyle may be, his principal subject is coherent, forming a...

The Atlas of Physical Geography. Constructed by Augustus Peter- F.R.G.S. With Descriptive Letterpress, embracing a General . 4 31 itr il 'of the Physical Pluenomena of the...

Birt to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Fenwick, who retires. 7th Drag. Guards—Assist.-Surg. J. H. Llewelyn, from 44th Foot, to be Assist.-Surg. vice Thomson, who exchanges. 4th...

On the 19th August, at Sydney, New South Wales, the Hon. Mrs. Keith Stewart, of a daughter. On the 4th January, in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, the Countess of Craven, of a...

Tuesday, January 8. Pairrireastrnii Thasorxen.-Saddington and Keep, St. John Street, Smithfield, dealers in grindery--James and Son, Helston, Cornwall, hatters-Corbould and Mar-...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing, Prices.) 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer...