stirring incidents; though none is of a kind to claim lengthened notice. The United Diet of Prussia is actually convoked, to meet on the 11th of April. In Spain, Don Enrique,...

LORD George Bentinck's Irish railway scheme has come to its anticipated end, and the "Country party" has mustered its LORD George Bentinck's Irish railway scheme has come to its...

LORD GEORGE BENTINCK'S RAILWAYS BILL. BeTore the adjourned debate was resumed in the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord GEORGE RENTINCR put a series of questions to the Chan-...

The efforts of the "Irish party " to limit the operation of the Govern- ment measure of poor-law relief have led to a counter-movement in Ireland. The Catholic clergy of the...

Tip Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. The mem- bererof the new Council for the Dutchy of Lancaster took the oaths of office. Seim Toro, Minister for the...

A meeting of merchants and manufacturers, in Manchester, convened by the Mayor, was held in the Town-hall on Tuesday,. to promote the reduc- tion of the Tea-duties. A memorial...

The City fend rages. The Court of Aldermen, the Court of Common Council, and a Committee of that Court, all had meetings on Tuesday. The Lord Mayor still declined to put the...

Fnaieco.—The address in reply to the King's speech was carried in the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, by 248 to 84 votes. M. Sauzet pre- sented the address to the King on the...

The Destitution Committee of the Free Church has just issued a second report; from which it appears that the destitution is spreading. It is now calculated to embrace one third...

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the Foreign Office: the - sitting lasted two hours and a half. Another Council assembled at the Foreign Office on Tuesday. The...

Theatre, on Thursday next, in aid of the fund for the distressed Irish and Scotch. Everything pro- mises a large subsidy: the patrons are, the Queen, (who will be present...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ASTERNOON. The fluctuations during the week have been more important than usual: un- certainty as to the Government ' s mode of providing for the Irish...

levee on Wednesday _next. It also contains this announcement— " Her Majesty has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Earl GREY avowed that Ministers were pledged, after the equalization of the Sugar-duties, to carry out every practicable relief of the Colonies from...

" Her Majesty's Theatre "—long, but no longer, the Italian Opera, since a rival is making mighty preparations for taking the field—opened on Tues- day evening, and thus gave the...

The Aristides, from Calcutta to the Cape of Good Hope, was passed between the latter place and Madagascar, waterlogged and abandoned, by the Senator, 'Wilson, arrived at St....

Charles Young, we believe, once took it into his head to exhibit himself as Wadi- ,.ciare in the character of Macheat h ; and Mrs. Glover.is recorded on an oc- casion of the...

Second Month 1847. RESPECTED FEnnsiD—In reference to an article in a late number of the Spectator on the subject of religious endowments, treated at greater length in a sub-...

TO ' THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 17th February 1847. Sin—In corroboration of some of your remarks on Lord Grey in the last Spec- tator, I should be glad to be allowed the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Camberwell, 9th February 1847. Sra—Having the opinion that religious State establishments are detrimental to the propagation of truth and vital...

THE IRISH QUESTION. WHAT is it in the Irish character which makes the Irishman al- ways miss the point, and turn to collateral incidents ? The recent debates have furnished...

BENTINCK'S IRISH RAILWAYS BILL. FEBRUARY 17, 1847. TILE SECOND READING. Hussey, T. Osborne, R. Ingestre, Visct. Packs, C. W. A. JoUlfre, Sir W. G. H. Plgot, Sir R. 0. Kelly,...

THE chief of the new Railway Commission has produced a mea- sure to shape the powers and functions of his own Board ; and the scheme is at once so extensive and so complicated,...

Satia communications as the two letters which we publish today, calling in question our remarks on the " Voluntary principle " in the financial arrangements for religious...

Por.firical, CORRESPONDENCE, Letters of Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, to the Chevalier de St. George, and some of the Adherents of the House of Stuart. From the...

Ow Friday night " a stranger" was found in the House of Com- mons; and the incident created almost as much sensation as a blue-bottle in a girl's school. Why this alarming cry...

Ova uncritical ancestors were willing to take the celebrated outlaw Robin Hood as early tradition and the ballads represented bim,—a true English yeoman, with an open band, the...

from Scripture and from religious writers, as well as with the author's own theological reflections, Chemis- try of the Four Seasons is an instructive and interesting book. Mr....

a man of one idea ; and, unnatural as the fact may seem to some wearied reader of the Debates, there is upon record a Parliament-man of a single speech. The man of one book is...

Boors. The Jesuit in the Family; a Tale. By Andrew Steinmetz, Anther of " The Novitiate, or the Jesuit in Training. Omindiyestion and certain Bilious Disorders often conjoined...

On. the 6th February, at Heidelberg, the Right Honourable Lady De Tabley; of a daughter. On the 10th, at Ewell, Surrey, Lady Maria Brodie, the Wife of the Rev. W. Brodie, of a...

Tuesday, Feb. 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Parkinson and. Chadwick, Great Bolton, Lancashire, waste-dealers--Raine anti Co. Bradtbrd, Yorkshire, worsted.apinners-Crux and...

WAR-OFFICE, Feb 19.-8th Light Drags.-Major F. G. Shewell to be.LienL-Col. by purchase, vice M'Call, who retires ; Capt. R. De Salle to be Major by purchase, vice Shewen; Lieut....

BANK OP ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday the 13th day of Feb. 1847. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. £25,471,265...