WHAT will Parliament do in the extraordinary session ? will it be limited to the preliminary routine and the consideration of the Bank Charter Act ; or will it plunge at once...

!great show of concession to the West India interest—he has yielded per- mission for Africans liberated from the slave-ships to be taken direct to the West Indies, instead of...

has assumed such an aspect in a trade so important as to demand the inter- vention of the Government. Flour for bread has been so aclulte-: rated in Leeds, that the eaters of it...

the state of Ireland appeared more devoid of hope. The internal diseases of that ill-conditioned land become worse, with a growth 'Visible to the sight. • Crimes of violence and...

Tim event of the week has been the celebration of the Prince of Wales's birthday, on Tuesday. A number of distinguished guests were invited to the Castle on the occasion; and...

is no incident of great magnitude. Foremost is Switzerland : the civil war has actually com- menced, in a skirmish between the forces of 'Uri and Tessino. Austria, naturally...

The ceremony of swearing in the new Lord Mayor, Alderman Hooper, was performed at the Guildhall on Monday, with the usual ceremonies. The great City pageant of the Lord Mayor's...

Landhold- ers, was held on Saturday, at the Rotunda, with an attendance consider- ably less than on the first day. Lord Cloncurry presided. The fourth resolution was discussed....

During the past week, the annual elections of the Mayors has taken place in the different cities and boroughs. At Manchester, Mr. Elkanah Armitage was unanimously reelected. The...

A great commotion excited in Edinburgh University by the present posi- tion of matters in reference to the Hebrew chair, has reached its crisis. In 1845, the present...

FRANCE.—The loan of 250,000,000 francs was adjudicated on Wednes- day morning. The room in the Finance Minister's official residence was crowded to excess; the Minister took his...

Parliament met on Thursday pro forma, and was further prorogued, by commission, till the 18th instant, "then to be holden for the despatch of divers important affairs." We...

intelli- gence from New York to the 25th October, and from Mexico to the 28th September. It is all meagre. The American army still occupied Mexico, and had been joined by the...

Manchester arrived yesterday; and the Chapter will proceed next week to the election of the Bishop. In the City yesterday, two more failures were announced—that of Messrs....

of the paper on Ireland sent to us by AL N.

have been very energetic rejoicings at Nice, Florence, and Bologna, to celebrated the re- forms granted by King Charles Albert. A Roman journal states that the Archduchess of...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has issued his expected proclamation for the repression of outrage. It is in the form of a circular to the Lieu- tenants of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ArixtMooa. Daring the week some important arrivals of gold from the Continent have taken place, and the position of the Bank of England with regard to...

• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. • Worcester, 9th November 1847. . Sm.—Allow me through your respectable journal to make an observation or -two upon the proposed alteration in...

and spot- less white trousers, and calling themselves " Pyrenean Singers," stand in a semicircle on the boards of the Princess's Theatre, and execute a series of melodies, not...

For a short one-act piece, the mere txhibition of a characteristic pecu- liarity, or of some delicate social position, will often suffice, with a mini- mum of progressive plot....

time since the oPening produced a new piece—a farce, entitled Morning Calls; the hero of which is one of those unlucky men who are dangerous to porcelain and new bonnets, and...

PACIFICATION OF IRELAND. IRELAND is more distracted than ever and unless the new Pai- liament is content to repeat the vain legislation of its predecessors, coercive or...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 10th November 1847. Sin—Should the following suggestions be found worthy of attention, you will perhaps give them a place in your influential...

THERE has been a newspaper discussion on the subject of "seduc- tion and its punishnient," useful so far as all parties to it have agreed in appealing to the judgment of common...

MR. COCKBURN, the new Member for Southampton, who is in every sense, we hope, a "rising man," has been entertained by his constituents at dinner, and has repaid them with some...

Tax case of Count Mortier affords a remarkable illustration of the fallacy which lurks in the dictum laid down by Mr. Justice Erskine, that a person accused of crime cannot...

LETTER IV. SIR —By admitting that the advocates of systematic colonizatioefrom Ireland have not hitherto succeeded in producing a plan which has commanded general assent, I am...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London University College, Otis November 1847. SIR—I have read with pleasure in your columns some intelligent and right- minded criticisms on a...

EIBTORT, • Secret History of the Court and Government of Russia under the Emperors Alexan- der and Nicholas. By J. H. Schnitzler. In two volumes Bentley. 411LUIPZUDICNCE, A...

IT is curious how sharpsighted and censorious a people is in "foreign affairs," while it entirely overlooks the same kind of evil at home. The contradictions and anomalies that...

lit his present fiction Mr. James has left history, or manners that belonged to the past, and come down to the present day ; putting into one piece of goods the materials that...

BOOKS. Revelations of the Beautiful, and other Poems. By Edwin Henry Barring- ton. Hints to the Sick, the Lame, and the Lazy; or Passages in the Life of a Hydropathist. By a...

THE National Gallery has been reopened after the vacation, and lovers of pictures learn with satisfaction that the " cleaners " have not been extend- ing their ravages. "Yeses,"...

DEATH OF IIENDELSSOHN. SINCE the untimely death of Mozart, cut off, somewhat more than half a century ago, at the early age of thirty-aix, no calamity has befallen the art of...

Alum - ED-At Gravesend, 7th Nov. Elizabeth and Henry. Clark, Yrom Sidney ; 6th, Pilgrim, Francis. from Ceylon; Arab, Baker, from Mauritius • and Bolton, Davidson, from the Cape...

On the 26th May, at the Parsonage, New Plymouth, New Zealand, the Lady of the Rev. Bolland, of a son. On the 25th September, the Lady of A. C. Camberbatch, Esq.. Consul-General...

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 6.-Royal Regt. of Artillery.-Second Capt. P. H. Mandy to be Adjt, vice Young, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Nov. 8.-Corps of Royal Engineers-Second...

Tuesday, Nor. 9. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Brown and Martin, Cobham, Surrey, surgeons-Clark and Co. West Strand, lamp- manufacturers-Whalley and Hartley, Trawden, Lancashire,...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation daring the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian 5 – — Massachusetts (Sterling)...6 p.Ct Belgian 42 – 882 Mexican 5 Ditto 21 – —...