The first is the adhesion of the Ministerialists to Mr. O'Coaregt.t.'s Precur.or agitation : and the second. which we hold to be more important, the establishment of a new...

the 5th ultimo. There had been several meetings to address Lord DURHAM, but they were attended exclusively by the "British" party. The French inhabitants—" freeholders of the...

Toe Municipal elections for England and Wales took place on Wednesday. As yet, comparatively few returns have been re- ceived: but, so far, neither party appears to have much...

com- pleted, and the Tories make out a formidable statement of their successes. The Morning Chronicle, denying that the general re- sult has been unfavourable to the Whigs, has...

upon the extent and object of the military operations in Asia, briefly alluded to in our last Postscript. To make the sub- ; ject intelligible to readers not versed in Eastern...

Lees, two soldiers of the First Battalion of Grenadier Guards, were charged with a violent assault on Mr. Beery Stork, of George Street, Portman Square. It appeared from Mr....

up in a few sentences. The Sugar question in France has been disposed of, for the present, by an ordinance reducing the duty on Colonial sugar one third, and the imposition of...

Clerk of the Guardian: of St. Martin's parish, charged a female pauper with re. fusing to work. The woman was the wife of a sailor, who paid 1Ss. a month to the parish towards...

favourable to Mr. VAN BUREN; and this unexpected success has elated his partisans.

His ward was Walbrook ; and Sir James Duke having declined a contest for the Aldermanic gown, Mr. Deputy Gibbs will surceed Mr. Atkins. Yesterday, being the first day of term....

THE most remarkable point in the official record of the Court gossip this week, is that Lord Melbourne's name is scarcely mentioned. On Sunday afternoon, he is reported to have...

on Monday, with 701. belonging to Mr. Powell, felerk of the Vestry. Three young men, employed as clerks in the offices of the Eastern e7ount'es Railway Company at London Midge,...

Last week, the Western alai Southern coasts of England were visited erith a storm of wind and ruin, which reached the Metropolis on Sun- day night, and has seldom been exceeded...

Savory, Corn- lilt, daily attracts a crowd of spectators. It would seem to be worked ley a magimetic power. Tile hands are placed in the centre of a per- Iataly transparent pane...

tree mendous explosion of gas in " John Pit," a cold mine belonging ets Mr. Henry Curwen of Workington Hall, at Lowca, about four miler- from IV hitehaven. The Mitcham& Herald...

The Liberals claim small majorities on the registration in Reading and Peterelield ; and it is admitted by a writer in the last number cd - Frascr's Magazine, who has made out a...

order which reduced the amount on which the tithe income of c clergyman was rated to the poor. The case is thus stated by the ilErning ChroPi(le-- " The appeal to the...

contemplation; and, if carried into effect, will cause new elections for the Northern division of Cheshire rind the West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Ed- ward John Stantley, it is...

It is rumoured in Dublin, that Mr. John Leely Townshend, the octogeniatian Master in Chancery, has resigned ; and that Mr. Maziere Bredy accepts his appointment. Mr. Richard...

Covi ntry, in which twenty mot belona , ,ing to the Seventh Region at of Hussars and the Fourteenth Regimmit of Light Dragoons, biilet: ii ai Coventry on their way to...

O'Connell says, that be is now engaged in the most important struggle of his life "that of obtaining for Ireland a perfect equalization of civil and religious liberty with the...

was at- tended by many of the principal landowners and tenantry of Meath county. The High Sheriff, Mr. Corbally, was in the chair. Ile urged the people to persevere until they...

Mr. Pierce 11:amity's " accredited ngetit," endeavoured to persuade the good people that nothing could be leAter than the Railway Commis- simmers' line, our evening cuntemporary...

in favour of their late Chaplains is about to be carried into effect, by the appoint- meta of the Reverend Edward Vernon Lockwood to a Stall at Canter- bury, and the Reverend...

civil bill action, a case of bribery against the Liberal party, who supported Mr. 3Iaule at the lute election, was clearly made out. M‘Dermott, an elec- tor of Cailow, required...

A meeting of the working classes was held at Perth on the 19th ultimo, to adopt the National Petition and the People's Charter, and to appoint a delegate to the London...

Despatches, dated the 29th of May, were received on Tuesday, at the India Board, from the Governor-General of India. Sir Henry Ellis, who is spoken of as likely to obtain the...

had an interview in London, a few days ago, in consequence of overtures which had been made to them to join the Ministry ; when, after mature deliberation, both these noblemen...

Dover for the benefit of sea.bathing. His Lordship is constantly the com- panion of the Duke of Wellington in his perambulations about the docks and the harbour.—Morning...

all ex- press admiration at the activity and vigour displayed by the British Government in India.

that DO addition would be made to the public burdens, the King of Holland finds it necessary to ask for a new loan of about a million and a half sterling.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 10th October, state that Mr. the Briti-li Envoy in Persia, bad returned to Tehran ; and that the Shah had forwarded submissive letters to...

Rein, C. B., h is been appointed Governor and Commander.in- Chief of the Bermudas or Somers Islands. It thus appears that Sir A SOREN' LEITH HAY, who had never entered upon the...

represen- tatives—Chairmen or Secretaries—of one hundred and nine Working Men's Associations in England, Scotland, and IVale, has been sent to us. It exhibits, in the following...

America, has been much annoyed by a false report of having intrigued With the wife of a physician in Louisville, Kentucky; and still more annoyed by the receipt of five hundred...

ill, at Brighton, since her last confinement, was pronounced by her medical attendant to be in great danger on Wednesday night ; and we regret to add, this announcement was too...

of frmme de aambre to the handsome Madame de Fulgosio, well known both in Bayonne and Madrid. Madame de Fulgosio inhabited the Hotel St. Etienne, in Bayonne ; and was known to...

parcel, about the siv of a news- paper, by the Birmingham Itailvi ay, .f.r the carrive tgr which 6s. 8d. was asked, this morning, is informed that the parcel was not taken in....

SToCK EXCHANGE, IFRIDAT AFTERNOON, The Money Market is not so firm to-day as it was at the beginning of the week ; some considerable quantity of Stock having been brought to...

BIRTHS. BIRTHS. On the 294 ult.. at Errol Purl:, Lady II Tall ETTA ALI EN, or a still - born son. On the 23.1 ult • the Lady f li stEVI,' Casto, , Esq . or Dumbarnie, of A SID....

A 1.1110VGII the milder opinion Wits otherwise, yet the lover of SUM:MI:RE may take it as it truth, that he will be unable to compre- hend fully all the beauties of the plays,...

The Baj Ranee, from Calcutta to Liverpool. was totally wrecked near the former play , on the lot August. It is Waned all on hoard perished e%cept the elite! nude. Arrived-At...

LETTER I. TO THE EDITOR Ok"PHE SPECTATOR. Gra.■'s Inn, 1st November IR—Lord Durham having suddenly determined to resign his powers ;overnor- General of Canada, the people of...

SELF-DEPENDENCE OF THE PEOPLE. BEING convinced that amongst the causes of obstruction con- tinually operating to defeat the progress of the popular cause, ignorance and...

Tim Sixth of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England classes the First and Second Books of Maccabees among those which "the Church doth read for example of life and...

THE English landlords are in high glee. The bed season and de- ficient crops work well for them. The prospect that for a long period the priee of corn will almost touch the...

in the House of Commons, GEORGE GREY, personifying olli- cial and bembureaucratie spite, went out of his way to misstate We turn to a work on the same subject, but of a very...

MACREADY is rendering the fine and mechanical arts, get spry high wages; but some expected. not merely a " land and the histrionic abilities within his reach, subservient to the...

Co. NATUR AL PHILOSOPHY, . 1CT ION, Bentley.

active pursuits is at a loss to employ his spare time, or if any idler, with a mind not utterly unfitted for intellectual attention, is weary of his profitless life, let him...

As a fiction, this book is almost beneath regard. What little of truth and capability the eletnents of the story possessed, is de- stroyed by the manner in which they are...

circumstan- tial excitement, full of nteident and mystery, adorned with sonic lively yassages of desci iption, and spun out with a quantity of characterless and artificial...

volume,ehher for reference, or for reading as an introduction to the subject. The events of' the world are arranged into three epochs, of Ancient History, Middle Ages, and...

on Transportation, together with a Letter from the Archbishop of Report front the Select 0,mmitlee of the House of Commons on Transportation, together with a Letter from the...

following their instructions to the letter, will assuredly not convert a brute or a booby into a gentleman; but there are many very worthy pe; sons to whom the smattering of "...

to his Standard Library Edition. The two parts before us consist of /lligh's Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty, and the Poeti- cal ltbrItsqf Henry Kirke White. If there are...

NOTWITHSTANDING a pile of printed paper upon our table, fashioned in the likeness of books, sufficient to form a decent collection so far as were bulk and number are concerned,...

collection of information relative to the Scriptures,—touching upon philology, bibliography, criticism, and the manners and customs of the Jews and other nations with which they...

book is an American publication ; and comprises, in two lectures, some succinct arguments in opposition to phrenology, based upon the most convincing species of argument,...

opinions onmat- ter s of eating and drinking, gleaned from the pages of physicann and cooks, and the table-talk of epicures, classed under dif- ferent heads, as " Dietetics,"...

sketch of a coquette, wrought up into an Mu:re:tiler story of a sentimental kind. The evils of self-love an.I vanity are depicted in such a way us to make them felt by the most...

these, the only ones whose presence time and space will allow us to note, are three professional works- 1. A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, aud Diseases of the Ear. By...

a handsome volume corresponding in all points with his single. volume edition of the Poems. The illustrations are a vignette of Newsteacl Abbey. and six portraits of BYRON in a...

rend S. BARROW, has reached a fifth edition, without having fallen under our notice, or we believe that of any other chronicler or literature. Although the Dictionary and its...

most real and romantic of fictions, Robinson Crusoe ; the narrative being made more suitable to the comprehension and en- tertainment of children, the omission of such minute...