of the number carried off, we have to reckon Sir William Mob a- worth, Lord Wham:Me, and Mr. Lucas,—all, even the last, remarkable men. Uniting a stout Nonconformist training...

A REPORT, which appeared to announce a comparatively small movement in the Crimea, seems on a second view, should it have been correctly reported, to throw great light upon the...

be- tween Boston and Halifax reports that the American Govern- ment had asked the recall of Mr. Crampton, the British repre- sentative at Washington, who has become implicated...

apprehensions with regard to the effect of dear food during the winter, political as well as moral. A new edict is added to the series of measures. Government had prohibited the...

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has responded to its me- morialists, and to the Little-Shilling interest, by a report ac- knowledging that the Chamber may be called upon to...

by Sir William Molesworth's death has called forth two candidates; Mr. George Scovell, and Sir _Charles Napier. Both attended meetings of electors on Thursday night, and both...

THE Omer received with more than usual state, on Wednesday, the de- putation appointed by the Corporation of London to present an address of congratulation on the fall of...

The Sandon and Marston Agricultural Society had a Cabinet Minister for president at the annual dinner held last week. The speeches at the banquet were not more remarkable than...

FRANCE.—The Duke and Duchess of Brabant still prolong their stay at the Court of the Emperor Napoleon ; but they were to leave Paris today, for Belgium. The French Government...

It appears that Mr. Henry Grattan owns the estate comprising the pro- perty occupied by Miss Hinds, who was all but murdered the other day. That ho has taken a very bold view of...

Mr. William Ewart, Member for Dumfries, paid his constituents a visit last week, and addressed them on the past session; touching on the Scotch Education Bill, his own measure...

In our second edition last week, we announced the dangerous illness of - Sir William Molesworth. For some weeks, indeed, Sir William had been ailing more or less ; but on Friday...

- The public will learn with little surprise that General Simpson is about to return to England. His appointment to the chief command was, ars we-announced at the time, only...

SATURDAY. A Supplement to the London Gazette of last night contains a despatch from Brigadier-General Williams, her Majesty's Commissioner with the Turkish Army in Asia,...

Powerful... Neptune. .. St. George.. Boscawen sent, and about to be sent, to the West Indian and is reported to us, on good authority, as follows- 60 sailed for Bermuda. If...

the Old Bailey dock, on their trial before the Central Criminal Court, and in the Pee - Bence of a very large audience, including many members of the mereantate community. The...

It was Goethe, if we remember right, who once remarked that if he had been an Englishman, and consequently had Shakspere for a prede- cessor in his own language, he would not...

STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A generally improved tone has been observable this week in Government Securities ; and the confidence manifested by the public has been...

Mr. Thillah began his usual series of Choral Concerts at St. Martin's Hall, on Wednesday evening, with an excellent performance of St. Paul. For solo-singers he had Madame Clara...

the Princess's on Monday, with Henry VIII. Each has inaugurated its sea- son by producing a very indifferent specimen of the genus farce. At the Olympic, an unmeaning...

WHAT WE A RR STILL FIGHTING FOR IT the merits of a cause were always- to be estimated by the tem- perond devices of its advocates, men of common candour and in- telligence would...

On the 16th October, at Warmwell Rectory, Dorset, the Wife of the Rev. LP. Cambridge, of a daughter. On the 17th, at Hartley Rectory, near Alton, Hants, the Wife of the Rev....

IT is remarkable that Sir William Molesworth stood in less credit with the great body politic of this country some years. back, when he was most successful, than he did during...

TICE anxiety on the subject of criminal discipline increases with' the suggestion that Government, in some way or other, means to retreat from the comparativel y intelligent...

AN incident occurred in the Central Criminal Court the other day, too common, it appears, to find a place in the reports, and yet of such a character that all in the court must...

THE Salie law in France is not irrevocable like a law of Nature ; and not being irrevocable, we have a right to presume that some day it will be revoked. Nay, we may grant that,...

occupied by idle discussion, but as your correspondent "H." says that I do not show how payment is to be made of the odd 1-6th cent, I have only again to repeat that it would be...

Norwich, 22d October 1855. 8111 — I perfectly concur in the general tenour of your remarks on the Salle restriction upon the inheritance of the throne of France, but by what it...

REFORMATORY SC]IOOLS. Yagley, 23d October 1855. Sin.-The notice in-the last Spectator of the proceedings in Worcestershire concerning Reformatory Schools seems- not quite...

Brentwood, 22d October 1855. SIR—I haveresskin the Spectator of October 20; your indignation article upon the " Red Republican Letter to the Queen." I have not read that I...

4 Clarence Road, Kentish Town, 24th October 1855.: Ent—I have perused with great interest the various, and many of -them very able, communications that have appeared in your...

BLEER''S. WA.NDBEINGE IN CEYLON. * A. ratuinT objeet of this work seems to be to call attention to the capabilities of Ceylon for the investment of British capital, and. to...

Mr. Sullivan has pub- lished have exhibited a successive falling-off in attraction ; not from any deficiency in literary ability, but from a falling-off in the matter of the...

on the business of the book, as it were, than exhibits papers by crack names; nor, for the reasons assigned in noticing the eighth volume some few months ago are we sure that...

a reward. Full 150,000 gallons of perfumed spirits are yearly consumed by British India and Eu- rope in titillating the nose. One French house alone annually uses 80,000 pounds...

THE NATIONAL GALLERY. In calling attention last week to the then forthcoming reopening of the National Gallery, we threw out some conjectures by way of question as to any...

_Messrs. Agnew ' the Manchester publishers who undertook the great photographic enterprise in the Crimea, of which the results, under the cunning hand of Mr. Fenton, are now to...

The Gallery of Illustration reopened, on Monday, with its diorama partially recast and augmented. We have more than once had to chro- nicle the Diorama of the Events of the War...

Wan - ore - we, Oct. 23.-6th Drag. Guards—Cornet F. G. S. Curtis to be Lieut. without purchase, vice Wight, dec. 1st Drags.—M. Hall, Gent, to be Cornet, with- out purchase vice...

Booxs. There are still no books of very striking mark. In fact, it is said that publication of the higher kind is overshadowed by the approach of Mac- aulay's History. Rumour...

Tuesday, Oct. 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLITED.-.T. and J. Belinforth, Halifax, card-makers-The North lietton Coal Company and the Seaton Coal Company.; as far as regards the Earl...

BRITISH FUNDS. ((losing Prices.) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. Friday. S per Cent Consols '871 871 83 88 881 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per...