converted into certainty ; though, owing to a real or pretended incomplete- ness in Marshal CLAUSEL'S telegraphic despatch, the full extent of the disaster is not yet...

FROM the North and from the South, Lord MELBOURNE has this week received fresh intimation, that, on its present policy, his Cabinet cannot stand. Lord DALMENY, a Lord of the...

had been some alarming riots at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 14th and 15th of November, on the occasion of the election of members to the House of Assembly. Several of the...

A Court of Aldermenswas held on Tuesday ; at which Alderman Harmer brought forward'a motion to allow the sum of 8001. a year to the Aldermen who sat as , . Magistrates in the...

: he distrusts not only the Neapolitan troops, but also the Swiss guards, and considers himself safe only when surrounded by German bayonets; of which, if he will pay for them,...

dictory. GOMEZ is flying, suo more, before the Queen's troops, under NARITAEZ, in the direction of Murcia. He seems to meet With no resistance ; and entered and quitted Osuna—a...

THE report from the Brighton Palace is that the King and Queen are both better. The King has taken two short rides ; and given audiences to the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis...

the habit of receiving occasionally pecuniary assistance from the King of. Sardinia ; but a series of bills of exchange drawn from Portugal upon Genoa have been recently...

copy was published some months ago, has at length been formally transmitted to the Earl of Burlington, the Chancellor, with the following note from Lord John Russell....

by the Northern and Central Bank specially to London, with bills to the amount, we believe, of about 1.50,0001. for discount. On arriving at his destination in London, he...

validity of a codicil to the will of the late James Wood, banker of Gloucester, was commenced. The following is given as a copy of the codicil. "In a codicil to my will, I gave...

Tues- day, at the Crown and Anchor. Mr. Ormsby Gore was in the chair; Mr. 1Vilks and Mr. Richards also attended ; and the three Members of Parliament were the only persons of...

The correspondence between Sir William Molesworth and Sir Hussey Vivian, respecting the representation of East Cornwall, has been published at length in the London and several...

a dinner on Wednesday, at Totnes. The number of the company was restricted, by the size of the largest room that could be procured, to five hundred. The nominal price of the...

Leeds, elected to submit to the constituency the names of proper persons to represent that borough in Parliament, was held on the 6th instant. A resolu- tion that Mr. Baines was...

here on Monday evening last. A number of his friends met him at the London Tavern, when he entered into an explanation of the cause of his absence from the late dinner. His...

notice as bearing on the important subject of the administration of justice by the Unpaid and Local Magistracy. At the Stourbridge dinners to Messrs. Cookes and Holland, the...

very little business doing, either in the' raw material or in the goods market. People in business have for some time been desirous to do as little as possible, until the money...

Sir Robert Peel has declined the Edinburgh invitation to a public dinner; for the reasons given in the following letter, handed by himself to the deputation who carried the...

rister for Cavan ; Mr. Finlay goes to Kerry, and Mr. Kane is to be appointed to Leitrim.—Dublin Paper. Mr. Richard Eames, Filacer of the Irish Court of Exchequer, died on...

arrived there on the 8th, by the mail, and immediately called a public meeting of the electors • who accordingly assembled in the i church. His Lordship delivered a long speech...

on Monday, at the Castle, for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the Government plan of Irish Poor.laws. Mr. O'Connell headed the deputation, and stated to his Lordship...

of court by the expedient of filing enormously long an- swers to the plaintiffs' "bills," are getting up a memorial to Lord Morpeth, requesting him not to meddle with the tithe...

chance of being returned, but with the determination to present a peti- tion against Mr. White, and take the chance of having a Tory com- mittee. This design is openly avowed by...

an- nauncing his intention of again becoming a candidate for East Lothian in the event of a dissolution, and his resolution not to trouble them with a personal canvass,...

the British Critic, the organ of the High Church party, labours to prove that there is really but little difference between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches ; and is...

Mr. Ellice has gone to Paris—with a flea in his ear. Earl Grey is entertaining a select circle of friends at Howick ; and is not on his way to visit Paris, as stated. The Count...

produce of the Edinburgh Annuity Tax has been annually diminished since 1830. The Town-Council and University of St. Andrew's have trans- mitted petitions to the Treasury,...

within the last few days, that the present Ministers are not in office on the last day of March.—Correspondent of the Standard. I The Standard pru- dently prophesies under cover...

the Reform Club —" Lord MELBOURNE must make up his mind either to move on or to move off."

and assets of the Bank of England, from the 20th of September to the 15th of December inclusive, appeared in last night's Gazette, as follows— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation...

" Catholic Hatred of Irish Protestantism ;" and, in reply to the observation that the Protestant religion is not to blame, but the system by which the Church is upheld in...

in our Postscript last week,was the occasion of a rather amusing bit of controversy between the Globe and the Constitutional. The Globe opened its leading article on Monday with...

conclu- sion of Marshal CLAUSEL'S melancholy bulletin. " The operation (of cannonading one of the gates of Constantine) was conti- nued on the third day ; and the gate was...

much fun in the House that we almost regret his inevitable rejection at the next contest, is very angry with the Morning Chronicle for publish- ing a report of his speech at the...

has recently occurred respecting the liability of the acceptor of a bill of exchange to pta• a forged acceptance of the same amount due on the same day, whiel was presented at...

ArrivedAt Deal, Dec. 15th, Minerva, Gray, from Ben,gal. At the Cape, Oct. 14th, Broxbornotry, Chapman; and Carnatic, Brodie. from London. At Batavia, Au g . 47tb, Tarsi°,...

SATURDAY N i ons,. Accounts from Madrid, to the 7th, mention that GOMEZ had 11,000 men under his command when he entered Osuna. He had given NAL. VAEZ the ; arid,...

as a volunteer in the bigot's ( Carlos) ranks ; and much admiration has been bestowed upon his Lorship's excellent letters in favour of the patron of the Jesuits and friend of...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions of the week in English Stock have been of less importance than those which have occurred during any similar period for some...

Mn. MITCHELL, of Bond Street, has opened the Lyceum Theatre for the performance of Italian comic operas. He has obtained a licence, we understand, for the period previous to...

THE REFORMERS' CHEVAL DE BATAILLE. MINISTERS may or may not adopt some new plan of Whig-Radical union ; there may or may not be an early dissolution of Parlia- ment ; the...

Butweit's play, The Dutchess of La Valldre, is postponed, after al, till the New Year.: SHA KRPEARE'S plays, as they are now acted at Covent Garden, derive increased power of...

WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 16.—Royal Regt. Horse Guards—Lieut. R. S. Oliver to be Capt. by purchase, vice Pigott, who retires ; Cornet Hon. C. Maynard to be I.ieut. by purchase, vice...

LAST week, the Standard warned its Conservative friends, that every day the Whigs remained in office, they strengthened their party by the distribution of patronage among their...

SOMEHOW or other, Cabinet secrets will ooze out, and more espe- cially if there happen to be division in the council. The account which we gave last week of the disposition of...

EPISCOPAL tinkering of the Church is pleasant and profitable to the right reverend operators, but causes the patient to writhe and rage, kick and growl. The Deans and Chapters...

VIEWING election expentbte re as a profitable or losing investment of money, it may be doub.ed whether the Tories greatly misappre- hend their interest in pas itqr extravagantly...

IF a genius equal to that of the Athenian satirist were to arise, and be devoted from his youth to the study of surviving Greek art in- stead of the nature around him, he would...

CLASSICS/. TRANSLATION, Tlw Comedies of Aristophanes, translated into corresponding English Metres. By Itebjamin Dann M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 3 vols. Vol....

THE author tells us he is fifty-five. He seems to have passed most of those years in reading, cogitating, observing, and writing. His reading has been extensive, but desultory...

THE reader, when informed that the time of this fiction is laid in the year 2036, and that the subject of it is merely a com- mon novel love-story, and a picture of commonplace...

EVERY one acquainted with that part of the history of JAMES the Second which embraces the Western insurrection under the Duke of MONMOUTH, is familiar with the report of the...

HINTS FOR A REFORM OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. IN presenting the following list of artists not belonging to the Royal Academy, we repeat what we distinctly stated last week, that the...

THE large size and price of HARDING'S Sketches at Home and Abroad, debarred many from being purchasers who would have liked to possess that beautiful and unique work of art. Its...