THE Times, at this critical juncture, sustains its reputation for being the first to announce " great facts ": it assures the public that Sir Robert Peel, with the concurrence...

A deputation of Common Councilmen waited on the Lord Mayor, at the Mansionhouse, on Monday, and presented a requisition to him for «tiling a special Court of Common Council, in...

in respect to the Oregon question, it has assumed a somewhat altered aspect. The official organ at Washington, though still in a vaunting tone, abates its assertion from one of...

THE Court news is almost a blank. The Queen and Prince Albert re- main in strict retirement at Osborne House in the Isle of Wight. The bad weather has often hindered their...

Meetings to memorialize Government for the immediate opening of the ports have been held at Gloucester, Stroud, (both attended by the League deputation—Mr. Cobden and Mr....

The Pilot gives a synopsis of the information on the potato d'seese re- ceived by the " Mansionhouse Committee" in Dublin; which we quote, with some curtailment— The following...

Meetings to memorialize the Government for opening the ports have been held at Edinburgh, Leith, and Paisley. The Edinburgh meeting was brilliant in its attendance rather than...

the domestic news, except a contest between M. de Salvandy, Minister of Public Instruction, and the celebrated M. Quinet. The story is this— M. Quinet is Professor of the...

Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday and Thursday. The former sat for three hours and a half; the latter two and a half. Oil We have already mentioned...

in the case of the Felicidade invalid on two grounds,—first, that it is not piracy for the Brazilians to carry on the slave-trade until they have made it to be so by Brazilian...

_ SATURDAY NIGHT. Instead of greater certainty, the utmost possible doubt is cast upon the actual state of the Corn-law question in the Cabinet. We shall lay the supplemental...

duty of Com- missioner of the National Board of Education in Ireland, and is, we believe, a Member of the Charitable Bequests Board, has received, and accepted, the ap-...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ArrEalcooN. The English Funds were improving, and during the early part of the week prices had advanced; Consols for Money having reached 95, and for...

THE MONEY-MARKET AND THE " DEPOSITS." Tax English are a commercial people, and a commercial people only. Banking and currency are, and have been for the last twenty years,...

Jr the tone of the speeches and newspapers received by the last American mail may be taken as a criterion, the warlike spirit is abating in the United States. Mr. Webster's...

APROPOS to the warlike uneasiness of the times, Lord Dundonald has reminded the public that he has a tremendous secret of de- struction—some unknown power, which no present...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—With every respect for the station, character, and acquirements of Pro- fessor Buckland, who has recently tlivoured the public through the...

ONE class of speculators or projectors whose wits have been set to work by the failure of the potato crop merit a separate notice. l'hey are the philosophers who undertake to...

HITHERTO, country gentlemen, though much addicted to grum- bling, have led on the whole as comfortable lives as any class of the community. Their chief troubles have come from...

Brocuarinr, Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations. By Thomas Carlyle. In two volumes Chapman and Halt. Mums, liambles in the United States and Canada...

C AN Al) A. RUBIO is evidently a none de guerre; its assumer is a middle-aged per- son, who has seen a good deal of the world, having visited all our co- lonies and made the...

to Miss Martineau, that the apparently im- pending change in the Game-have " might be made in a more wise, easy, and amicable manner, if a clear knowledge of the operation of...

" TnE O'Donoghue" is the head of an ancient decayed family, whose inheritance, dissipated by successive heirs, has dwindled away through process of law into the possession of a...

from November 28th to December 40. Boosts. The Dispatches of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, during his various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low...

THE NEW MILT, 4.EMONIC CONDUCTOR. THE devious course of the Philharmonic Society since Mendelssohn re- signed the baton at its concerts, confirms the opinion that if the...

PROFESSOR TAYLOR'S second series of lectures on the Italian School of Music attractednumerous audiences to the College on each occasion. The first was chiefly historical;...

Tuesday, December 2. PAETNIMBUIPS DISSOLVED. Calvert and Procter, Bradford, smiths—Husband and Co. Kingston-upon-Hull, ship. brokers—Neuens and Fonseca, Bread Street,...

On the 5th August, on board the ship Alfred, on the passage to Calcutta, the Leery, Captain Deacon, Sixty-first Regiment, of a daughter. On the 27th November, at Bowood, Lady...

AzaivEn—In the Downs, 4th Nov., Madagascar, Weller ; one Aohne, Hemet, from Calcutta. At Liverpool, 2d, Lady Mary, Scott, from Mauritius. In the Clyde, 3d, Ida, Campbell, from...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &Mud. Monday. &saw Wednot. a per Cent Consols 941 95 941 941 Ditto for Account . al 1 es/ 95 1 95 1 3 per Cents Reduced 931 9311 931 93 31...