'X I IN reporting the progress of Parliamentary business this week, we find no fresh subjects of exposition. The Legislature has been cccupied with questions exhausted by...

exhi- bited to the Cortes at Lisbon on the 26th of January, as legitimate heir to the throne : his present title is Duke of ALCANTARA. There was but a thin attendance of...

the Queen's troops over the Carlists. In Madrid, the Ultra - Liberals openly threaten a revolution in the spring. The Ministry seems to be very unpopular, but to have the...

AFFAIRS OF CANADA. In the House of Lords, on Monday, the order of the day having been read for going intoCommittee on the Canada Bill, Mr. Roebuck, on the motion of Lord...

The French Deputies have not yet resolved finally whether they shall adopt any costume to distinguish them from the commonalty. They have decided that 240/. is a sufficient...

Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop, has addressed a letter to the Catholic portion of the working tradesmen of Dublin, admonish- ing them against the recent abuse of the...

of Stanton, was tined 3/. for a violent assault on Mr. Dimock, postmaster of Broadway, against whom he fancied he bad some cause of complaint respecting the non-delivery of...

The birth. dot?' of the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master of the Free- masons, was celebrated on Tuesday, by a dinner at the Freemason's Tavern. Lord Durham presided ; eupported by...

Cbe Court. THE record of Royal movements presents little variety. Lord Melbourne continues to pay visits to the Queen almost every morning, and scarcely an evening passes in...

with stealing a truss of hay. The prisoner received a good character, but the evidence against him was strong. The , Chairman, Mr. Ser- geant Adams, was about to sum up ; when...

A meeting of delegates from the various branch Societies of the North Lancashire Antis Poor. haw Association, was held on Monday, at Maechester. Delegates attended from...

of Mesta. Atkinson, perfumers, in Old Bond Street ; but did not extend beyond the attics in which it was first discovered. On the same night, another fire destroyed the shop...

Mr. Ellice junior, it appears, offered to resign his seat for the Omar :Borsht, in consequence of his intended departure with Lord Durham to Casuals; but his supporters have...

Durham bus had a difference with Ministers on account of the premature pub- lication of Lord Glenelg'a instructions. But though it is probable etiough that Lord Durham was vexed...

the conduct of Colonel EVANS. The gallant officer spoke in favour of Mr. Dowcomse's motion to abolish the Rate-paying clauses in the Reform Act—his " principles" obliged him to...

Arrived-OS Mezgate, Fels. atli. John NI . Lellatel. Domild, from Bengal. Off Fal- mouth, 6th. Alarms, Cox. from ditto; Ilehe, Galloway, from New South Wales ; stud Daimon....

Jou sr Ressesi. about the recommittal of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; which Mr. Jenvis moved, in order that he might introduce a clause for the abolition of the...

• SATORD•Ir. There has been no arrival fram the United States d:iring the weak. The New York packet, which sailed on the 16th of January, is daily expected.

Bank of England from the 14th November 1837 to the 6th February 1838— trsertirias. Circulation £18,206,000 Deposits 11,266,000 ASSETS. Securities £22,569,000 Bullion...

' The course of the British troops in Canada was marked by desola- -1 lation and slaughter. They shot flying peasants, and set fire to private dwellings and churches, careless...

THE half-yearly meeting of this Club was held on Thursday, at the. Sussex Hotel; when a strong party of those English musicians who are not in profession merely, but in truth,...

prising more than sixty columns. One of the difficult things attempted to be proved in one of them is, that the timber monopoly is an advantage to this country. We are charged,...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—The Parliamentary powers are sending abroad to ascertain the na- tional expenses of the foreign Academies of Art severally ; which indicates...

party committed a blunder in allowing the Canada Bill to pass. They will not soon have such another opportunity of defeating Ministers on Liberal ground. To the discovery of...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 5th February 1839. Sur—General NAPIER will derive but little aid in his crusade against the Ballot from an ally whose best thrusts tell upon...

STOCK EXCHANGE, Fat Day AFTERNOON. The Consol Market has evinced a tendency to decline, and was at one period per cent. below the quotation of last week, but then, as on every...

TO THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR, January 1839. SIR-T have read with attention your re it irks on the Army and the possible savings ii, that hranell of the pitblic esoeu 'mire,...

OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 9th Feb-wary 1838. Sin-in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday is a letter signed " A Cana- dian," and backed in the leading article of that...

HOUSE OF COMMONS MINORITIES ON THE GOVERNMENT TREATMENT OF CANADA. A small section.”-All the Downing Street Juternals, passim. Ie large majorities could supply the want of...

BESIDES numerous approving notices of the papers on Military Expenditure which appeared in the Spectator during last autumn, several attacks on their feasibility and correctness...

Ltnerr has been thrown upon Lord JOHN RussELtes view of the Reform Act from an unexpected quarter. There has been much misapprehension on this subject. It was supposed that in...

WHATEVER may have been the intent of the authors of the Re- form Act, or the principle of that measure, one thing is certain— that the landholders have a vast predominance in...

long lapse of eighty years, the influential classes of this country have made surprisingly little advance ill their opinions on these two important questions. War, except in...

THE "rebel" MACKENZIE, according to newspaper authority, failed in business a good many years ago, somewhere in the neigh- bourhood of Dundee; and when the Whigs and Tories were...

A PARAGRAPH in the Globe announces that the Senate of the London University propose to settle the dilemma in which they involved themselves, by a decree of this kind : "That...

A SINGULAR change in the character of our French neighbours appears to be in progress. Formerly they were eager after glory, and military men were the idols of all classes. But...

Pope ir- tended to raise two foreign prelates to the dignity of Cardinals at the next Conclave. The Archbishop of Cologne is mentioned as likely to be one of the elect. The...

at the St. James's, entitled 'Tis She! in which Mrs. STIRLING plays three sisters, whose resemblance to each other gives rise to some equieokes, less stunting than indelicate....

Ma. CHARLES KEAN'S Richard the Third is a palpable imitation of Cie imitable in his father's personation of that character ; and rendered not the less evidently so by his...

Ativerroses , Narrative of the Ilesidenee of the Persian Princes in London. in 1835 and 1838; with an Account of their Journey Hum Persia, and subsequent Adventures. Be James...

ALT110110H occasionally displaying a little of the art of a prac- tised craftsman, these volumes are a very delightful publication,— vivacious, characteristic, curious, and...

DR. BROWN is the minister of a large congregation of the Seces. sion Church of Scotland, whose public declaration that he would no longer pay the Annuity-tax created...

If the last work was intended for the many, this is addressed to the few. It is (though not so announced) a continuation of its author's former Studies for the Pianoforte ; more...

THIS little volume contains a pleasant intermixture of prose and poetry ; the prose tales for the most part descriptive of scenes and characters in humble life; the poetry of...

is a collection of forty popular Scottish Melodies, newly arranged for the voice and pianoforte. The want of a new collection of this kind is not very apparent to us in the...

First Lessons in Singing and the Notation of Music, as adapted for Childrin. .Designed for the Use of Schools. Large is ihe sum expended in what is called "learning to sing" in...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE annual exhibition of the works of British artists at the Gallo) , of this Institution opened to the public on Thursday. The display, this year, is...