AN electioneering stir is perceritible throughout the country. No- body ventures either to affirm or deny that the Goveinmeitt elm be carried on by any party with the present...

sonic advantages. ESPARTERO has declined a conflict with CA- RRERA, and retreated. The retrograde movement was annOrinced. by CABRERA in a " general order" to his troops,...

both from domestic occurrences and disastrous intelligence from Africa. Many "infernal mac:hines " are in Paris, and one of them exploded on the night. of the 28t1l November, in...

Jamaica to the 28th October, and from other islands .a a few day§' earlier date. Sir CHARLES METCAEPE opened the sec - sion of the Jamaica Legislature on the 22d October, with...

States : has reached us by the Great Western, which left Now York on the ' I 7th November. Mr. Pin - LETT Tito:Nisi - 1.N was expected in Toronto - about the middle of...

by John Edwards against the Each of (Bengali to recover 4001., the amount due on two bills of exchange given by his Lordship in 1826. There appeared to be no doubt that Lord...

of the London Tavern on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of form. ing an Evangelical Voluntary Church Association. Sir Culling Renner Smith was Chairman, and Dr. Cox und Dr....

TEE Queen remains at 'Windsor, taking occasional. walks on the ter- race, mid rides in a pony phaeton ; but her Majesty appears to have given up equestrian exercise. The guests...

connected with the Canadas, waited on Sir John Colborne last Saturday, to congratulate him on his safe arrival, and to present their most cordial thanks fer the eminent services...

The members of the 31arylebone Reform and Registration Society held a meeting at their rooms in Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of receiving...

tile middle classes, actually elle wed the questions to ‘• Presbyterians and other I tissenters" should be ; 'ammittee of MaMlat'liii'dt at permit the et de:pen eel with in...

the me- morable ease of Small and Attwood, has purchased Highlands, the seat of Mr. Ltdemehere, near Chelmsford ; and. the Reformers of Essex, - being on the tint vire, have...

Samuel Munlen, a private in the Forty-fifth Regiment, was charged with de- seriber, on the 2:e1 of November. This nem is said to have beau se- tumid by the Chartists. He was...

The candidates for Newark kept up the canvass with much spirit till Wednesday evening. Sir Robert Heron exerted himself actively ie the Solicitor-General's favour ; and on...

The appli- cations from unemployed frame-work knitters, and especially silk glove hands, to the Board of Guardians, have been so numerous, that the Guardians have been compelled...

Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop.of Dublin, has sent his subscription to the O'Connell fund with this letter to Mr. Power, one of the Trustees- " Dear Sir—I base the...

appear- ance of a placard announcing a Chartist meeting, to elect a new dele- gate, and a lecture on good government, for that evening, by Mr. Richard Otley ; and a torch-light...

to Limerick by Father Matthew, an apostle of " temperance,", who is making it great stir among the whisky-drinkers- " On Saturday evening last this gentleman arrived in this...

In a" sentence at the opening of last Spectator, we inadvertently clubbed Edinburgh with the other places havinq vacant seats where in- teresting contests might be expected. We...

issued from the General Post-office. stating wilt more precision than the former notice. the alteration which commenced on Thursday the 5th instant, in the rates of postage—...

of Queen Adelaide for not going to the Duke of Devonshire's, at Chatsworth. Well, we are authorized to state that her Majesty postponed her visit to another year at the...

Summonses have been issued for a Privy Council to be held at Windsor on Monday next, at two o'clock ; when, it is supposed, the day fbr the meeting of Parliament will be fixed....

officers present at the Ashton dinner (Colonel Thomas, we presume) to state that nothing in his speech "could, or was meant to, apply in any way to her Majesty, except...

Wal- den and Baron R. de Sabrosit have been published in the official Ga- zette at Lisbon ; and the latter of these appeared in print on the very next day after it s as written....

East India nod China Association, t• Lord Palmerston for information respecting the measures about to be taken by Government towards China, the following letters were written...

the Arabs in Africa as very serious. The late expedition of the Duke of Orleans into the interior, so potnpously described in the French official papers, seaved only to harrass...

issued circulars, with the monthly return annexed, November. of its "assets and liabilities." The following culars of this latter doemnent. United Stales" Bank, for the 1st of...

in the Rue de 3Iontpensier. '• Opposite to the Passage Potier, in an angle of the gate leading to the shop of Emerique the money-changer, a portion of the wall was carried off...

at the Royal Coart of Orleans—011e gratifyi:m: to his and pri- vate friends. A father and his children had a latvsuit peadiag be- tween them as to estate , of great value....

28th of October, me particulars of the opening of the legislative session.. Sir Charles Metcalfe mentioned the act of the Imperial Legislature relative-to the govcroment of...

issued last winter, remained in concealment till Sir John Colborne's departure, when he appeared in public at Montreal. He was apprehended, but offered his liberty on condition...

having made the voyage from New York in thirteen days and a few hours. She brings accounts from Montreal to the 13th of November. • - Governor Thomson had convened the...

the state of money matters as improving. There was no longer any fear of the ability of the banks in New York and Boston to continue specie pay- ments. The cotton crop was...

BIRTHS. Oil the fahli ult., at Sandwell, Staffordshire, the Connie:4ot DARTMOUTH, of a son. On dm Will tilt., at Monirettl, near Seventmlis, the Viscountess HOLM END A LE , ofn...

the provinces, they must pay another instalment of their own subscriptions. Mr. Charles Walker insisted upon the necessity of some public de- monstration. Mr. Alderman Brooks...

raised to the Peerage, by the title of "Baron Seaton, of Seaton, in the county of Devon." The Marquis of 13readalbaue has been appointed " Lieu- tenant and Sheriff Principal of...

the new fourpenny postage rate, was 12,000. The average of the General Post delivery for Thursday had been under the old system 36,000 ; on Thursday last the number of letters...

will give rise to a brevet modelled after the plan of the coronation one of the 28th of Jutte 1838, which following its precursor of the 10th of January 1837, in such rapid...

SATURDAY . The Paris papers of. Thursday are chiefly occupied with statements respecting the disasters in Africa. It has been affirmed that the Go- vernment was in possession...

STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. By the recent arrival of the Great Western intelligence of a very favourable character was received from the United States. The dearness of...

Tuts week has presented the curious sight of a Great Theatre supported by two little girls ; the attraction of these two magnets on alternate nights drawing the electric current...

EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY, AND MORE ESPECIALLY BRITISH DIPLOMACY IN THE EAST. THE freaks of European diplomatists in the East are inscrutable. In the West they are at times...

Arrived—None. Sailed—From Gravesend, Dec. 3d, Victor, Ridley, for Madras. From Liverpool, 2d, Currency, Dore, fur Bengal ; Tinannuit, Wilson, for Bombay; and 4th, Juinnia,...

Tim result of an examination of the United States Bank affairs. as they stood on the 1st of last month, is not so favourable as we had been led to anticipate both from private...

FOR STROUD. ONN of the letter-writers in the Times is anxious that the eketors of Stroud should bestir themselves to choose a successor to Lord .lonx RUSSELL; who, he assumes....

2Iforning Chronicle on Thursday called attention to the fol- lowing announcement in its advertising columns- " To PRINTERS AND °Tutus. By Mr. Crook, on the premises, Titch-...

THE present Bishop of' EXETER will be known in history as the " Fighting PUILLPOTTS." And it must be acknowledged that the right reverend polemic is a manly fellow. He prefers...

TO TUE EDITOR OP TUE SPECTATOR. Glasgow, 261.11 November 1839. Ste—In common, I doubt not, with many more of your readers, I have per- used with very great interest the...

Wu are happy to see a new edition of these admirable Le et ures, which, thirty years ago, introduced a new style of criticism into Germany, the effects of which on the...

A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Literature. By Augustus William Schlegel. Translated from the original German by John Black. Second edition. In 2 Vols.'. Tertip/osign....

postage system in England has induced the Austrian Government to foilowthe .example,. and that the Minister of Finance and the Director of the Post Adminia- tratioa are...

THIS is a very able work, the result of much knowledge and much thought ; containing considerable matter, and displaying through- out an animated, and, so fitr as the gravity of...

Tun distinguishing characteristia of Lady BLEssixoTos'a mind is a considerable worldly cleverness, with a sly perception of weak- ness or absurdity. She has also a glib...

FM writers have more contributed to the present and the growing taste for natural hii,tory than Mr. Menu:. Uniting in himself no mean technical knowledge, with very extensive...

A Good Mitch, Ow Heiress of Drosbery, and the Cathedral Chorister. By Lady C aTTERTON, Author of "Rambles in the South of Ireland." In three vols. Chapters of the Modern...

WESTMACOTT'S OUTLINES. Fr appears surpri.‘in; : f that outline should be so popular a style of deline- ation, While sculpture. of which it is but the shadow, interests compa-...