a. great number of priests and women have been thrown into prison, charged with being parties to a conspiracy to assassinate the Em- peror and effect a revolution.

TERRE have been Tory meetings and dinners, and Radical gatherings, in different parts of the country ; but what are the Whigs about ? where is the Juste-milieu? The scrupulously...

Switzerland. It appears that Louts BONAPARTK did not and will not quit Switzerland ; having taken up his abate in the canton of Thurgovia, where he has the right of citizen-...

sterm in the Black Sea and the Bosphorus on the 27111 of quly. htire than 130 dead bodies had been picked up on the banks of tht Bosphorus.

of thirteen days from New York to Bristol ; at which port she arrived on Wednesday night. Such, however, is the dis- graceful manner in which the Post-office commuilications are...

hav- ing taken the town of Morella, bad lewn repulsed from the fort with severe loss, and retreated. The attack upon the enlists at Estella, by ESPARTERO, if intended, is still...

Stopford, Miss Pitt, Miss Murray, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Torring- ton, Colonel Cavendish, and Mr. Charles Murray, heard divine service in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on Sunday...

A public meeting of the working classes of London is to be held en the 17th of next month, in Palace Yard, Westminster, to petition for the People's Charter. The revision of...

resumed specie payments on the 13th of August. The Bank of the United States had done more than was necessary, and taken up notes not due for ten months to come. Some obstacles...

Mr. Cresswell met a large body of his constituents in Liverpool on Friday last week. He congratulated them on the result of the session just concluded. He thought that the...

Henry Myers were tried on a charge of giving gin to Thomas Pow, husband of the first.named prisoner, in such quantities as to cause his death. It was proved that the deceased...

week before last at Boner, North Britain. At a recent battu her Ladyship killed twelve brace. It will be recollected that her Ladyship was the stiliject of an extract from the...

dismissal of Mr. Richard Oastler by Mr. Thornhill, of Fixby Hall- Ma.Erwroa. Sir—H iviog seen a printed paper this day, which invites persons to join in a pro- cession to...

incessant showers of rain. The accounts which have beers received from the adjacent agricultural districts confirm the reports already cir- culated as to the ravages which the...

Pease relative to the absence of the latter gentleman from the House of Commons on the occasion of "counting out" the House when Lord Ashley's motion respecting labour in...

day; when there was a general meeting in the Central Exchange, the Duke of Northumberland in the chair. Several new members were elected; and it was announced that the next...

of Macin. tosh and Company, Manchester, patentees of the waterproof fabrics. A very large amount of property was destroyed ; five workmen lost their live, and many others were...

Mr. O'Connell dined at Cork on Monday with a large party, ire eluding the two Members for the city, Mr. Beamish and Mr, Callaghan Mr. Garrett Barry, and Mr. William Crawford ;...

Russia. The Duke of' Se ssex is about to resign the °lice Prosidnit f be Royal So icy; a id Sir John Herschel is spo'tn of as his suc- cessor, The following appointments, row...

On Tuesday last, Mr. Wallace, M. P., met the Magistrates and Council of Greenock at a mceting in the Town-hall. lie briefly ad. dressed the Cetincil, in reference to some of the...

aceouchement of the Dutchess of Weans- " At one o'clock on Friday morning, the first pains of Ithour began to he felt by her Royal Iligbn. as ; anal Dre..Moreau and Charnel were...

seated on Lord Morpeth on Tuesday, and complained of the inter. ference in their line recommended in the Second Report of the Rail- • w ay Commissioners. Lord Morpeth had...

has demanded of his Royal brothers and sisters the restoration of the Crown jewels and regalia of Hanover, which at the death of George the Third that Monarch's children chose...

Dutch Minister, has been set at liberty, " the Chamber of Accusation declaring that there is no occasion to prosecute." Perhaps all the documents were not forged, and some...

Mr. O'Connell and the Irish Nlinisterial members form the grand barrier against the return of the 'Furies to power, to look a little more closely into what has actually been...

the island of Konack in the Persian Gulf, which the British expedition from Bombay had teken possession of. The island commands the entrance into the harbour of Bushire.

SATURDAY. The Paris papers, received this morning, have no state news o f greater interest than the following bulletin of the health of th e Dutchess of Orleans and her...

death on a 'maw woman of Thionville, who was found guilty of successive acts of ffifuntieide upon seven of her own children. The Greenock Advertiser has a long account of a...

Cruise landed a quantity of ammunition for the Circassian:: on the coast, and escaped. The Ituseian agents, it is added, spread a false report of the capture of the Cruise, to...

"Friend after friend departs." Whilst last Saturday we were quot- ing from English, Scotch, and Irish newspapers, passages indicative of dissatisfaction with the Ministry, our...

STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Consol Market had given way about per cent, in the course of the wee k; •, tbe pressure of Money Stock on Tuesday, the day fixed for...

A rtivell—At Gravesend, Aug. 28th, John Knox, Swan. from Singapore. At Liver- pool, 26th, Earl Grey. Adams, from Bengal. Aliquis, 5PFee, from Bombay ; and 27th, Gulnare,...

Re- forming on the Ballot, and has occasionally censured the conduct of Government in language not usually found in Ministerial papers, di- rected ;attention on ;Tuesday, in a...

dif- ferent and opposite putts of the country, hearing witness that the con- duct of the Melbourne linis try has fully confirmed I he Spectator's am. ticipations host summer and...

LETTER III. SIR—Intimately connected with the two main lines described in my lastletter, is a cross line from Limerick to Waterford ; with regard to which, one at kot, if not...

SPECTATOR. Slit—As it is by no means improbable that Lord Dr ItTi.% at may return to' England, and as, in that event. there will be a great outcry among the Whigs howl againet...

OUR industrious and well-informed correspondent, ANGLO. H IBERNUS, has dissected the Second Report of the Irish Railway Commissioners in a masterly and searching manner. We have...

PROGRESS OF THE H A RVE ST : THE PRICE WHEAT. op THE time is approaching when the truth of statements ea ti fid e no • made by supporters of the Corn-laws, that the great...

CRISIE and immorality of every species and degree flourish in the Penal Colonies of England. It is not merely that a certaio portion of wickedness is transferred from one part...

WE WiSil to offer a few observations on the subject of literature regarded as a profession, and on the moral circumstances attend- ing its pursuit. If in doing so we have...

Tits; Church party boast that the wealth of the country is prin- cipally theirs ; and that theirs also is the learning. We are not going to dispute the truth of either...

TO Tilt F.DITOR Or Tilt SPECTATOR. SIR—People have been puzzled to find a precedent for Lord Dr errast's Ordinances; but a case very similar to that of Wor.raen NELSON occurred...

REVIEW. IN the September number of the Monthly Chronicle there is an article on "Lord Durham's Mission," treating ii a loose, lumber- ing, and roundabout way, 01 almost every...

Ihsynav, The life and TiMPS Of Louis the Fourteenth. By G. P. R. James. Esti , Historin- g raphin in Orainary to tier Olajesty,Aiithorof " Richelieu." Sze. Vols. III.ana IV....

TEENTH—CONCLUDED. WHEN we noticed the first and second volumes of this work, we remarked, that they embraced but a small portion of the subject ; that, at the close of the...

IN this volume Mr. Lansss has successfully accomplished 7e7gla important ends. He has furnished the student with an outline of the science , perfectly intelligible in its...

Tits latter part of the week has produced what we dare say will turn out an interesting narrative, if not an important addition to geographical knowledge in the most extensive...

Tins work is without doubt the best of Mrs. TROLL one's fictions. There is not, indeed, much probability in its conduct ; no very striking regard is paid to Austrian usages; the...

CARR, Hitherto the smaller histories of Greece have been mere compilations from the classical writers, not properly under- stood, or from modern historians, who read their...

M.A. The object of this book is to defend Mr.CsAusts SON'S reputation from the covert attacks made upon it by the two reverend sons of WILBFRFORCR, in the Lire of their father;...

tract is written in a shrewd, searching, observing spirit; and points out clearly the duties of a lady's maid, or at least what the writer con- ceives a lady's maid has to do....

PRATER. STONE, is an attempt to give a new interest to the antiquities ( ' the town, by legendary tales connected with them and the ? historical events. Thus, a description and...

Excepting the masterpieces of literature, which, being based on the principles of nature or instructing us in matters whereon ignorance is discreditable, have a universal...

THIRNING MOILE, Esq. This volume has disappointed us. On its announcement we looked for what is really wanted—a selec- tion of state trials, the most remarkable for the light...

Esq. When we were favoured with a copy of this se. lume printed for private circulation, we intimated a wish* that it had been given to the world. The reply of Mr....

Days of Aurelian; for it carries us back to the legendary his t , of Greece, when Messenia, under the hero Aristome es, struggled so valiantly against the power of Sparta. The...

is a romance by the author of Zenobia, to which it forms a sequel; and, like most sequels, it exhibits a considerable falling off. The story, or rather the collection of scenes,...

the best popular introductions to the science of nature, has ap- plied her peculiar faculty of explaining natural phoenomena tothe instruction of' children. Conversations on...

table; among which, these two may he specially noted — 1. The Sixth Volume of Mr. MURRAY'S edition of the Decline and Fall. The map of Europe towards the end of the fifth...

four thousand engravings of crests, which illustrate that crowning heraldic emblem in a hundred thousand families in Great Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the Colonies....

treatises on comprehensive subjects, and which LOU DON has so admirably adapted to rural and MACCULLOCH to commer- cial pursuits, is now to be applied to mining and...

cannot pronounce a learned judgment upon Mr. AMBROSE ELAGELOGE'S Treatise on Sheep. All we can undertake to affirm is, that in ten chapters the author di.cusses the history,...

of books from the oflicina of CHARLES KNIGHT. The frame- work is the common enough contrivance of an old uncle telling his travels to some young nephews and nieces, assisted by...

THE GERMAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING : MR. HENSEL'S PICTURES. THE descliptions given of the magnificent galleries of painting and sculpture erected by the King of Bavaria at Munich,...

of as great a variety as well could be,-1. A general exposition of the Human Body ; 2. The Materia Medical, and its application on ienerally-adopted principles; 3. A view of the...