having, according to its own account, done nothing practical except putting Government in the wrong. Ought not the very re- spectable and intelligent gentlemen, who composed at...

THE proceedings in Parliament have now run down to the dry tech- nicalities of le g islation and the dregs of debating ; a few officials - and a few pertinacious enthusiasts...

those in Nottingham and Southampton being in actual pro g ress. Ipswich awaits the writ which is withheld while the House " considers" whether its most recent acts of bribery...

Chambers does not augur well for the Ministers. An allied section have se- ceded from their side; the Opposition have found a standard of contention without any indecorous...

BRIBERY. When the report on the Bribery at Elections (No. 2) Bill was taken into further consideration, on Monday, Mr. HAWES, in the absence of Mr. Charles Buller, moved...

news is, that in India the position of affairs remained, on the sur- face at least, almost unchanged ; and that in China there had been more fighting—if the word " fighting "...

at Windsor. The Queen and Prince Albert and the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha take out-door exercise daily ; now walking in the grounds, now riding on...

The Lord Mayor gave a splendid banquet on Friday to the Governors and Directors of the Bank of England, the East India Company, the East and West India Dock Companies, the...

By Saturday evening, Nottingham was thrown into all the excite- ment of a contested election, by the arrival of Mr. Walter ; whose ap- pearance in active canvassing and...

It is now understood that Parliament will be prorogued on Thursday next, by the Queen in person. In a Committee of Privileges, on Thursday, the House of Lords de- cided that...

It is said that the Countess De Grey meditates a short tour of visits to the North of Ireland ; and that her Ladyship purposes passing some time at Florence Court, with her...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The business in both Houses yesterday was varied, but it consisted for the most part of mere routine work. The only thing like a debate was the continuation of...

Arrived—At Gravesend. Aug. 35, Louisa Heinle. Scanlan, from China ; and 5th, Earl Grey. Idolisou, from ditto. At Liverpool, ad, Glasgow. Hildreth from Bombay. Off Cork. July...

and several measures were forwarded. The report on the Newfoundland Bill was received, and the motion for its being engrossed, opposed by Mr. BAriteo WALL, was carried, by 64 to...

[Communicated by a West-end Correspindent.) The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the West Coast of Africa having closed their investigations, and being engaged on...

Herald, is promoted to the office of Principal Garter King of Arms, vacant by the death of Sir William Woods ; and Mr. Edward Howard Gibbon, Mowbray Herald Extraordinary, is...

Metropolitan news ; but the subjoined extract from the London correspondence of the Glasgow Argus is a fair echo of reports and feelings which prevail just now among a busy and...

giving Walter, 1,885, Sturge, 1,801; majority for Walter, 84. The town was in a state of great disturbance ; but from the complaints of in- jury to clothes and the like minor...

the Cathe- dral of Notre Dame, on Thursday, for final interment at Dreux ; with less pomp than on their translation from Neuilly, but followed by the four Princes and an...

Halifax, Nolo Scotia, 18th July 1842. Sin—I wish to correct a statement in your correspondent's letter, inserted in your journal a short time since—" On Contract...

un- expected announcement— 'We have just received an extraordinary express from Paris, bringing the important intelligence of M. Sauzet's election as President of the Chamber....

STOCK EECNANGE, FRTDAY AFTERNOON. The gross fluctuation of the English Three per Cent Stock during the week has been per cent, and the actual improvement from to a per cent....

MINISTRY. [Fro,' Blackuvod's Magazine fur August.] Restorations are proverbially attended with more or less of disappointment ; and, in the nature of things, they must ever be...

[From the Times of August 5.] There bas been some more fighting at Ningpo, in which from five to seven hundred more Chinese have perished, with the loss of three killed and...

AND THE OPIUM WAR. [From the Peroration of Lord Brougham's last Speech on the Slave-trade.] Cease to protect the slave , monger, by whatsoever name he may call himself, or his...

THE POLICE AND SEDITION. Wrrnix the last fortnight there have been two discussions in the House of Commons arising out of the interference of the Police with political meetings...

WE have to announce another revival at her Majesty's Theatre—some- what late, it is true, but" better late than never ": on Thursday, for the benefit of Signor COSTA, we had the...

AT the entertainment given at the Mansionhouse to the great Trading Companies of London, the Duke of BUCCLEUCH " trusted " that the present unfortunate condition of several...

TILE Latin Dictionary of AINSWORTH has long enjoyed a fair repu- tation; but it is on the eve of being eclipsed by the English dic- tionary of his namesake. The accurate nicety...

A LATE Garter King at Arms was, we believe, illustrious for his fertility in the art of design ; and indeed Conservative purists of the College rather quizzed the redundancy of...

STATISTICS, Report to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor-law COLIMASSiCHICTS, on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the...

"A HEAVY sorrow which had preyed on mind and body" directed 14r. MiLroma's thoughts to foreign travel, with a view of dissipating hal grief by occupying his attention with...

MRS. CLAYERS is favourably known as the author of A New Home, or Glimpses of Western Life ; a work in which she gave an account of her experience as a new settler in a new...

Tait author of this work, we learn from the preface, was an Irish barrister, who was born in 1808 and died in 1840. His religion, according to the same authority, was of a rare...

ATKINSON'S SKETCHES OF AFGHANISTAN. Lrrima more than three months since, we noticed a series of charac- teristic Sketches of Afghanistan, made during the first campaign of the...

BIRTHS. On the 25111 July, at Treace, Scilly. the Wife of the Rev. Crum*, of a son. On the 31st, in George Street, Hanover Square, the Lady RA daughter. still-born. WOIAT....

PARTNIRSHIPS DISSOLVED. Nivoley and Co. Regent Street, foreign-importers-H. anrllJ. Aste, Tietenham Court Road, corn-merchants-Dayson and Line. Flaccid: Street. Soho....

WAR-OFFICE, Aug. 2.-3d Regt. of Drag. Guards-Cornet W. Squire to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Brydges, who retires ; -Second Lieut. A. R. Robinson, from the 87th Foot. to be...

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