... The season is suggestive of question :-HoW I ar stands the Europe of 1850 P In any coup d'wil bi at the general position of European politics, our th attention is naturally first attracted to our home th prospects. And here, if the vista, in the year upon la: which we this day enter, fail to reflect the sunnv to hues of an unmixed prosperity, it is, at least, un- ca dimmed and undarkened by ...

... S3fituftenrwt, axc. 1211 I to tea CREIV3 op THiN WOnoDSIow STRAM1ER.-Afl effort is being made to present some substantial articles of Warm as;teamers. This generous testimonial is by way of acknsow. 2'to ledgment of that sobriety and civility for which the :1131 c-iptaios and crows of these steamers aro generally noted. irl- Cntslidering ltoe many thousands Of Passengers, whose snd own live, ...

... 5, i- us ;FThe Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert he remain at Windsor Castle. re. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her reai- of ?? Saturdaymarning, ka for London, for the purpose of taking leave of her Serene ful Highness the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, previous to their by departure for the Continent. The Ducheet of Kent was I attended by the Baroness de Speth. k The Cabinet ...

... The psntornime, so far from being, as is comrnolly imagined, an invention of modern times, wag ancient even among the Greeks. The term in derived irrne. diately from pantomimes, which signified one wrho could relate and imitate by gestures. They indisputably ex. isted in the time of Plato, who encouraged there per. formance?, and upheld them. They constituted a con. siderable part of the ...

... SIR R. PEEL AND HIS TENANTrRY. The following is a copy of a letter which has been addressed by Sir Robert Peel to his tenantry:- To ?? Tenant-Farniars on the Estate of Sir Robert Peet. I wish to communicate with you on the present state and the prospects of agriculture, so far as thev concern our relations of landlord and tenant, and I know not that I could select any better mode of ...

... LiI WILLIAM WILSON, yTRE PHILANTHROPIST OF BRADFORDq icr Three weeks ago, we rccorded the death ot WVn! Wo Wilson, Esq., a member of the Society of Friends, at Bradtilrd, and inl a brief paragraph noticed some cs. of his claims to public velneration. A memnoir of ull him at considerable leniztih has sinrce appeared in the lie Bra(dford Observer, anud the facts it reveals are so striking thlat ...

... I -. . . at h The still small voice of truth and soberness from th t Drayton Manor will strike more terror to the souls tu of Protectionists than the loudest trumpet-note of ?? y defiance. Sir Robert Peel's letter to his Tamworth Ps e tenantry will be attentively scanned by every far- on Y. mer in the kingdom; and a study of the plain leB- of w ~r -sons which it inculcates must, we ahould ...

... I >n7'N'TWTr II -I , -. FM 1. TIt - Add- . .- I !I; II n, OPEN\ING OF 'THE NEW ORGAN. tht v This insirument, wh-ch is being erected by Mr. Jack- cb son, of B;lAtor', wak nnnounced to be opencd, by two . raind organ perftraiancer, on the evenings of Thursd iy ind Siturdaay lait ; the organist on thece ccasi oos being a Mr. Smart, of London. fr. It in gfnprally the case with large organs that ...

... asuLTUM IN sARVO. I ,lot Gteneral WNdakly Averdge of the price of grain, for the me week ending bec. 22: Wheat, 38s. 9d.; Barloy, 25s. 9 i.: Oats, Der '15 Dd-; Rye, 22s 9d. Beans, 27s. Oi; Peas, 2S. Ild. ?? The average price of brown or Muscovado elsgar, computed from tlhe returns made in the week ending Dee. 25, 1849, is as 'On follows: - The produce of the British Posiessions in America, 26s ...

... No. IV. tb FEMALES EMPLOYED ON MILLINERY a AND IN DRESSMAKING. b - ii The age at which females enter into the millinery d and dressmaking business, generally speaking, is b that of fourteen. This is on becoming apprentices for two years, and then they become approvers in the large houses. A large number of girls, from h sixteen to seventeen years of age, go to London is from the country for ...

... Xtraft furtrilip-race. COUNqCIL MEILETrNGS -To dtay, a special ineeting, of the Council will be held, to talke into imiosji'rtilion the following buinittss :-'rhe nlppoitttitt'nt, of a t' usteti of Mrs. Anon MOlyvneux',s chzatiliiis. 'Pt ptmitttment of three ?? dr St. Jamei's (I'meerv. The ipp.int- ment of two mpembers to execute tlhe po;wers gi en to the( Mavot' nnil Aldermnen relating to ...

... LATE~ST NEWVS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) hav ?? ?? ?? ?? it Ir beeii London, Monday Evntciny. aloo Sumivonise were issued for a Cabinet Council to be be ?? held on the IG.h of Jasnuarcy. TlI The Archbishop of Canrterbuiry had an intorview with -110 Lord John Russell, at his official rellidenoc in Downing- voWO street. rood C014blelCIAL Nmvs.-Very little news ot importance for, arit x stirring ...