THE proceedings on the opening of the session were calculated to fulfil every reasonable expectation. The Queen's Speech was simple, almost limited to such points as could not...

for the time, and the state of the country, advance in an inverse direction. M. Guizot gains ground. Publio- opinion is with him. The Montpensier match is hailed as a national...

in Switzerland has notified to the Vorort, that the Emperor will not interfere in the affairs of the Federation so long as the republic observes its constitution according to...

The session of Parliament was opened on Tuesday, by the Queen in person. The House of Lords was fitted up in the usual way, excepting a slight change by which the front seats on...

The miseries of the famine have suffered no abatement. The accounts are the same from all quarters. Over-filled poor-houses, with crowds of applicants suing in vain for...

nth Queen and Prince Albert; accompanied by the Princess Royal, left Windsor Castle on Monday morning, ffir•London, and arrived at Bucking - ham Palace a little after 'one. ' •...

Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt has sent a letter to the Globe, contradicting a report that he did not intend to stand again for Lamlrth. A meeting of the Westminster Reform Society...

Lord Ashley has consented to being put in nomination for Bath. Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written another letter to the Liberal electors of West Gloucestershire, entreating them...

• The Glasgow Argus contradicts, on "authority," a rumour that Mr. Lumsden, the late Provost, is to be a candidate at the next election. All parties appear to expect that, in...

Fitanen.—The debates of the session of the French Legislature com- menced on Monday. The address of the Deputies is for the most part an echo of the King's speech; but in...

According to established usage, the Marquis of Lansdowne, as Lord President of the Council, gave a grand entertainment on Monday to the leading Whig Peers ' including the mover...

On the 6th January, at Mortimer House, Clifton, the Wife of the Rev. J. B. Bromby, of a son. On the 8th, at MunnelLan, county of Donegal, the Wife of the Rev. Robert Delap, of...

SATURDAY NIGHT. With diligence unprecedented in our recollection at " this early period of the session," the House of Commons aided Ministers last night in push- ing forward a...

receive the Corn-im- portation and Navigation Bills; which were read a first time, and ordered to be printed. Only about half-a- - dozen Peers were present. The Marquis of...

is de- scribed to be in a worse condition than Skibbereen. An elderly man was sentenced to seven years' transportation for sheep-stealing, at the Quarter- sessions last week; he...

Bombay to the 15th, from Madras to the 18th December. There is little news. The Punjaub was tranquil; and it is reported that the British army was to march out of Lahore about...

issued, shows an excess of income-over expenditure of 2,846,3071. Mr. Charles Lushington has sent a reply to the Secretary of the West- minster Reform Society, consenting to...

re- signed his appointment as Keeper of the National Gallery, was copied into other papers this morning, and among them into our first edition. We have since learned that there...

moderate tome of our Queen's Speech, in alluding to the Montpensier marriage, has caused a strong feeling of relief from the previous anxiety.

STOCK EXCHANGE, DUDA! .ARTERWOOW. ' The Bank Directors have raised their rate of discount still farther—tuuttely, to 4 per cent. The Funds, which had declined about 1 percent...

The lessee of her Majesty's Theatre has put an end to the rumours, sur- mises, and conflicting assertions ' which have been current as to the opera- tions of the approaching...

THE SEATS. THE principal seat on the Opposition side of the House of Com- mons may now be called the Omnibus Bench, so heterogeneous is its tenantry. There seems to have been a...

The manages* seem now to be reposing on the strength of their Christ- mas attractions, and novelties are not forthcoming. The French Theatre alone presents an appearance of...

the references to Ireland, on the opening night of the session, indicated a maturing disposition to extend the English Poor-law to that country ; and in Ireland itself the...

Aasrren—At Gravesend, 17th Jan. Charles Carter, Broad, from Mauritius. In the Moen's, 224, Protector, Graham, from Manila ; Asia, Tremlin, from Calcutta ; Dutcheas of Leinster,...

A GRIEVOUS want of the age is a stock exchange for dealers in literary wares and securities ; not so much for the sake of ar place of meeting, as for the authorized City:...

Wrs are disposed to think that the Repeal spirit has had so much effect in Ireland as to have impaired the knowledge of our Anglo- Saxon tongue ; for the ablest journalists seem...

RUSSELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "Etre paurre sans etre fibre eat le ptre etat on l'homme poisse tomber." nousszao. Sin—Your definition of the state of mind in which...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. THE profound indifference with which the English people usually regard the events of foreign nations, has been somewhat less passive in...

711AvELS, Travels in Pent, during the years 1838-42, on the Coast, in the Sierra, across the cor- derMas and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests. By Dr. J. J. Von Tschudi....

London, 19th January 1847. Sin—I beg_ to inform you, that a letter from the best authority, this day re- ceived from Holland, confirms the report published by the Times, that...

By a codicil to his will, the celebrated Robert Boyle directed that eight sermons should annually be preached in London, on the first Mondays of certain months, to "prove the...

Porarics in petticoats ! Democracy en chemise !—the public morals of Jaeobinism without their pretences of philosophy and philanthropy, or their excuse of revolt against...

BOOKS. Theory of Musical Composition, treated with a view to a naturally consecn five arrangement of topics. By Godfrey Weber, Doctor Ilonorarius, Knight of the first class of...

PAETIMISHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and F. Symonds, Oxford, surgeons—Lenox and Metcalf, Liverpool, merchants-- Webster and Johnson, Sheffield, merchants—Duke and Co., Hastings,...

WAR-mica, Jan. 22.-2d Regt. of Life Guards—J. Cl. C. Hamilton, Gent, to be Cor- net and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Sir M. R. S. Stewart, Bart, who retiree. Light Drags.—Troop...

BRITISH FUNDS. (ClosinsPrices.) Bawd. Monday. -- Taesday. -- Widnes. Thurs. Friday, 3 per Cent Consols 921 92 911 911 911 91 Ditto for Account. • 921 921 921 911 911 911...