aro understood to be proceeding between Austria and Rus- sia, and in which Austria is supposed to be acting with the consent of the Western Powers. The reports, however, reach...

that of Omar Pasha. Anxiety respecting the fate of General Williams is terminated by the certainty that he is now with his troops a prisoner of war. In the mean time, Omar Pasha...

An= all, a treaty has been concluded by the Western Powers with Sweden. It takes its origin in one of those moyemente on the part of Russia which have so modest an appeeeenee...

are the events that specially charatterize the news of the day at home. In the Metropolis, we late been arranging our own municipal or- ganization; we have lost tere men whose...

The new Metropolitan Board of Works met for the first time on Wed- nesday, in one of the large rooms of Burlington House, which for the present has been assigned to their use by...

Tam records of the Court newsman are unusually brief this week. The Queen, the Prince, and the children, drove and walked out as usual on Tuesday, in the grounds of Osborne. On...

Mr. John S. Trelawny, formerly Member for Tavistock, has been again invited, by some of his old and influential constituents, to come forward for that borough in the event of a...

FRANCE.—On his way to the Crimea in the summer, Kr. Augustus Stafford took passage from Marseilles in the Etna, on board which were some French soldiers. During the voyage they...

Mr. Craufurd, Member for the Ayr Burghs, addressed the electors and non-electors of Ayr, on Monday night. He presented his "balance- sheet"; touching upon and vindicating the...

Major Stuart Knox, Member for Dungannon, about to join his nee ment in the Crimea, has informed his constituents of his departure. He trusts to be only a short time absent, and...

The memorial of the Guards to the Queen, the existence of which tran- _ spired last week,, has been printed thisweek in the newspapers, occupying a full page of the largest...

STOCK EXCHADOZ, FRIDAY Arrzaima. The pacific construction of Count Esterhazy's mission to St. Petersburg with the Austrian ultimatum, has created confidence among the...

in tile 'City of London for the election of Common Councilmen. There were - only' five changes, and one contest. In the Cornhill Wardmote, Mr. Harrison stated that the Court of...

one offence. After they were acquitted of embezzlement, on Wednesday, Mr. Ballantine renewed the prosecution ; indicting them for obtaining goods under false pretences within...

SATURDAY. In the absence- of more striking topics, the contest for the Chairman- ship of the Metropolitan Board of Works, which seems likely to be a sharp ono, occupies...

come to an agreement with the Turkish authorities, by virtue of which the Allied troops are to have a right to contribute to the repression of crime and outrage in Constantinople.

The French are celebrating the season by the production of their annual " revues" ; which, however, are not admitted into the temples of the higher drama. Chiefly renowned for...

Another great performance of the highest music was enjoyed on Mon- day evening, when Madame Goldschmidt Lind appeared at Exeter Hall in Elijah. It was in this oratorio that she...

Although the Christmas holidays are so close at hand, Mr. Webster has given some importance to the week now terminating by a revival of Mr. J. Oxenford's almost literal...

The second season during which the Architectural Exhibition appears in the Gallery of British Artists in Suffolk Street opened on Tuesday ; and the show indicates an...

Harlequin having utterly driven his old rival, Burlesque, out of the field, so that the latter has not place of sojourn except the Olympic Theatre, which belongs to him of...

THE GUARDS. Tin Memorial of the Guards burst upon the public this week in its full magnitude of length ; but by this time the public has extracted from the mass of words the...

Sir Winter is coining across the wide sea, With his turbulent vessels, so bold and so free : He has called for his banner, his sword, and his spear ; And Day shrinks before him...

Is certainly is from no disposition to injure the Army that the public has expressed some jealousy of the abuses that have crept an during a long . peace. On the contrary, those...

SHOULD peace be restored upon anything like the terms asserted to have been proposed to Russia, in what state would it leave us ? What would be the effect of the war upon the...

HOT controversy proceeds in print upon the actual state of hotel- keeping in this country, and the improvements that are praotioabki. Hot controversy also proceeds about the...

TAKING the whole of England and Wales, accommodation for at- tendance at religious worship is afforded only to a portion of the community ; and of all our counties the...

THE new Board of Works with its City representatives has the op- portunity of signalizing itself by pronouncing judgment on the Smithfield site question. Wonderful is the lack...

THE 'WAR WITH RUSSIA. Clevedon Court, Somerset, 17th December 1855. Sin—The writer'of a letter headed "The Objects of the War" expresses hiniself with an apparent honest warmth...

BANK OF ENGLAND? Gateshead, 19th December 1855. Sin—What would the late Sir Robert Peel liave done ? is a question which has already in more than one case been asked and...

" IL correspondent, who forgets to sign his communication, addresses the following note to the Editor. "In page 1289 of the Spectator of the 15th instant, it is said,.. that...

Wife of the 3ov..39.C. Barnes Flint, of two boys and a girt; the latter sines dead. - On the 11th, at Leamin g ton, the Wife of Captain Robert Tryon, R.N., of a sea: On the...

WAR-OFPICE, Dec. EL-Brevet. -The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent upon the death of the following officers- Gen. Sir John Brown, died Nov. 16; Major-Gen. F....

[Prom the Official Iteturn.] Ten Weeks 'Week Zymotle Maims Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseasesef uncertain or variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal...

Tuesday, Dec. 18. Partnerships Dissolved.-The Staffordshire Sanitary Pottery Company, Pickard Street, City Road-Holden and Co. Walsall, corners-B. and C. F. James,. Truro,...

BANK OP ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria ,esp. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 15th day of Dec. 1836. maul DISPLITYINT. 434,187,985...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the offic e Of JOSEPH Cuirrox, No. 10, Crime Court, to the Parish of St Dunstares in the West, in the City of London; and Published by the...

MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, VOLUMES THIRD AND FOURTH. * Ti is probable that these two volumes, which have been so widely: and eagerly looked for, may disappoint the...

DECEMBER 22, 1855.

a lady's point of view, Mrs. Duberly's " JOurnal kept during the Russian War" has a strategy and campaign of its own. The lady had obtained permission from the Horse Guards to...

collection of tracts on current - events, but more especially on the war, or rather on a peace, is a singular instance of a man carving out a channel and creating an influence...

course to notice a periodical miscellany for the sake of one article only,but with respect to the paper which Heinrich Ritter has furnished to this year's number of Raumer's "...

Browning offers to the public under the title of Men and Women, were the production of a young and unknown poet, no hesitation need be felt in pronouncing the work to be of the...

BOOKS. Tau event of the week is of course the long-expected appearance of Mac- aulay's History ; of which some account, with copious extracts, is given in preceding pages....