in bursting the veil with which roguery had disguised itself. It has long been understood that the popular desire for advancement in pohtical power had been the means by which...

THE House of Commons spent four nights last week in talking about the Corn-laws, and four nights this week, without the smallest practical result. The three nights spent in the...

THE CORN-LAW DiscussIoN. Mr. HARDY took up the adjourned debate upon Mr. Villiers's reso- lution, on Monday. He spent a good deal of time in censuring the proceedings of u the...

THE purpose for which the Court went to Brighton has been answered, and there has been a visible improvement in the health of the Princess Royal. Mr. Blaker, a surgeon of the...

Several meetings have been held in the country on the Corn question. The Government measure has been condemned at a special meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and by...

A Court of Aldermen was held for the despatch of business on Tues- day. An official account was read of the reception of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs at Windsor Castle on the...

The period within which the ratifications of the new Slave-trade treaty were to be exchanged expired on Sunday, and the Plenipoten- tiaries of the Five Powers met at the Foreign...

The Government Corn measure creates little satisfaction in Ire- land. Belfast has petitioned for repeal of the Corn-laws. A large meeting, principally of working-men, at...

Monday week, Lord Panmure formally made over to the new Mechanics Institution, Brechin, the handsome apartments which he bad erected for its use, together with the fine...

stant. Twelve banks had entered into an arrangement for taking one another's notes and clubbing a large reserve-fund to be deposited in se- cure custody ; and that had...

SATURDAY NIGHT. " A correspondent " furnishes this the first leader of the Standard tonight- " By special invitation of her Majesty, Sir Robert Peel left town this morn- ing...

the most unsubstantial and disjointed that ever occurred; the subject-matter propounded in the question before the House was wholly undiscussed. The question was, a proposal by...

of news from India, China, and the Levant- " Marseilles, 23d February 1842. " The Gorgon packet arrived last night from Alexandria with an Indian mail, landed at Suez by a...

of the Eighty-eighth Regiment was mortally wounded in a duel with Captain Levick, formerly of the Fifty-ninth.

the Princess Imperial of Russia and the Doke de Bordeaux has been finally determined on by the ex-royal family of France and the Emperor Nicho- las. This alliance is said to be...

more Anti- Corn-law agitation : the Peel measure has been duly denounced by meetings at St. John Hackney and Kenilworth, and by the Gloucester Anti-Corn-law Association. The...

Lecky Mills, a young clerk in the Bank of Ireland, has confessed that he has been in the habit of taking from cancelled Ns. notes, corners stamped with the sum, and affixing...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The delay that occurred on Saturday last in the ratification of the Quin- tuple treaty by the French Government caused some alarm among the...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Feb. 22d. Kyle, Fletcher, from Bengal ; and Countess of Durham, Johnstone, from Singapore. Off Margate, 25th, Vanguard, Pepper, frOm Mauritius. In the...

Mr. BER- NARD, that has the merit of brevity at least : the idea, though not new, was worth working out more carefully. The " woman-hater," a Ger- man Baron, shuts his castle...

TEE week has been prolific of novelties : competition keeps managers on the alert, and their activity stimulates the patronizing public. Each of the four principal theatres has...

un- comfortable, but exciting no deep sympathy : the plot is puzzling, the action makes but a limping progress, the characters are inconsistent, and the dialogue is undramatic....

a flight of brilliant, well- rounded periods, rising one after another, and reflecting in the polished surface, with the prismatic hues of wit and fancy, the follies and vices...

more amusing than any that has been brought into a court of law ; and it has the advantage of being repeated as often as the public curiosity to hear it requires. The plaintiff,...

to see PERLET. One of the pieces was Le Comedien d'Etampes ; which CHARLES MaxwEws adapted for himself at the Olympic, under the title of He Would be an Actor. PERLET on his...

MINORITY FOR AIR. VILLIERS'S RESOLUTION, "THAT ALL DUTIES PAY- ABLE UPON THE IMPORTATION OP CORN, GRAIN, MEAL, OR FLOUR, DO NOW CEASE AND DETERMINE." Aglionby, Henry A. Ellis....

LAW REFORM: LOCAL COURTS. Lone Corrmaissi has presented to the House of Lords a measure for the institution of Local Courts, embodied in three bills. The first is a bill to...

MODERN zeal for the sanctification of the Sabbath promises to sup- ply us not only with a number of statutes, but with such a body of judicial precedents as may go near to make...

MEN are too apt to jump at the conclusion that what satisfies them must be equally satisfactory to everybody. This is a fatal error in reasoning. Always keep in mind, that you...

Ix the Gloucester Chronicle we find an ingenious diagram exhibiting to the eye the comparison of the slide and jump in the new and old corn-duty scales. If we had seen it early...

drawn to a discussion in the Scotch news- papers, which involves some important principles. First, the Caledonian Mercury stated a case—" We have heard that a certain Judge,...

TzsvEra, A Ride on Horseback to Florence, through France and Switzerland. Described iu a Series of Letters. By a Lady. In two volumes Murray. HISTORICAL CORRISPONDENCE,...

Terns volumes contain a selection of letters extracted from the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library. They were written be- tween 1646, the period when CHARLES the First escaped...

THE object of this volume is to present the reader with a general view of what may be called the constitutional law of England, or rather of the United Kingdom, in...

Prom February 18th to February 24th. Boors. A Ride on Horseback to Florence through France and Switzerland. De- scribed in a series of Letters by a Lady. In two volumes. The...

WAR-OFFICE, Feb. 25.-8th Light Drags.—Assist.-Surg. I. A. Blake, from the 8th Foot. to be Assist.-Surg. vice Gaulter, promoted to be Staff-Surg- of the Second Class. 32d...

BIRTHS. On the 17th February, the Lady of the Rev. Jesuit BArsiouv, Vicar of Hudders- field, of a son. On the 18th. at Hardwick, Derbyshire,the. Lady of the Rev. W. JET/OW/NE,...

Tuesday, Feb. 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Perring and Rolland, Leeds, printers—Hole and Harrison, Strangeways. Lanca- shire, maltaters—J. and B. Gardner, Baubury,...

BRITISH 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 31 per Cents Reduced New 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per cent, India Stock, 101 Exchequer...