Naomi can complain that the Parliamentary proceedings of this week have been deficient in interest or importance. An atone- ment has been made for the listlessness which...

IRISH CORPORATION REFORM: CONDUCT OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT. - In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after the paragraph in the Royal Speech relating to Irish...

le always a wonderful falling off in the Foreign news. One would; suppose that the inhabitants of the Continent were under a spell,. which palsied their movements during the...

of Cuba to England. This is not true ; but we should not be sur- prised at the confirmation of a rumour mentioned in the last papers received from New York, that intrigues were...

The Finsbury Reform Club have resolved to give a public dinner tO the Representatives of Finsbury, some day next month. Mr, B. Hall e Metnbet for the MonmonSissbiee ,Boraughs,...

THE Brighton Palace is as dull as usual. In the morning the King rides out with General Thornton or the Countess of Mayo; and a few military officers occasionally dine with him...

brought by Mr. J. J. Stockdale, the well-known publisher, against Messrs. Han- sard, printers to the House of Commons, was tried before Lord Den- mau. Mr. Stockdule complained...

peti- tions were presented aeniust the introduction of the new Poor-lew into the City of London. They were laid on the table, and the consideration of the subject postponed,...

The reaignetion of Mr. Justice Gaselee is announced; and Sir Robc . ..t Rolfe, the Solicitor. General, is mentioned as his probable sueciasoi.—Sir John Cana:'..all aiming at...

LL:ra &trey, one of the Senator; of the College of Justice, died • li'xidey ; in Edinburgh, after a short but severe illness. Lord Bal. rey's eppointmemit dates 1511,...

The Evesham electors have returned the Tory, Mr. Rushout Bowles, by a majority of 165 to 140, over the Liberal and Ballot-pledged Lord /Marcus Hill. A cone:pm:dent has supplied...

Soma species of influenza seems to have infected not merely actors and audiences, but managers : an epidemic dulness reigns in the theatrical world. We never remember the...

I - . - .Gable meetings were held throughout the country on Sunday Laa, saant to the resolutions of the Association. Those parishes aZa' h "'10 not already met are to assemble...

SATURDAY. THE Foreign intelligence received this morning consists chiefly of ru- mours. It is plain that matters are in a very uneasy state in France. The Court party use...

hull is a close, si.-lfselected, irresponsible, and cotieeluently, exceedingly corrupt corporation. Its members re- fused, no doubt with very good reason, to give any evideace...

The Courier of this evening announees, that Mr. FERGUSON of Raid, is to be the Lord- Lieutenant of Fileshire. Thus, our original sug- gestion. of the ultimo, is realized ; and...

a Bill introduced by Mr. Hum, for placing the financial affeirs of Counties under the control of Boards to be elected annually by the rate-payers. Mr. Hum proposes that these...

present system of open voting at electioes, we have now to add the announced retirement, OR a dissolutimi of Parliament, of :the Ilowenn Et.eitIN- erose, from the representation...

the Bank of England, from lath November 1830 to 7th February 1637, is as follows. LIABILITIES. assErs. Circulation X17,868,000 Securities £:31,085,000 Deposits 14,230,000...

of this day in the trial of tbe libel case, at the instance of Lord DE Roo against Cummileo, adjourned from yesterday. Thirteen other witnesses were examined ; the...

who wish to give the tone to the public taste, are old-fashioned and unattractive. The best reply to this was, the crowd that flocked to the performance of Le „Maze di Figaro,...

TO THE EDITOR. Or THE SPECTATOR. SIR—The Ballot, Extension of the Suffrage, and Repeal of the Corn-laws, it will he remembered, are the three main points which the...

STOOK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTF.REOON. The variations of the Stock Market have not been extensive ; the only pe- riod at which it has evinced any agitation having been yesterdat.,...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Feb. 6, William !tetras, Norrie, from Mauritius ; and Mar caret, Tayler, from ilw Cape ; 7th. N'augnard, Walker, front Singarre; 911., Asia, Biddle; from...

THE representation of the Scottish Counties is already materially less. favourable to Lord MELBOURNE'S Government than it was to Lord Game's. The Representatives of the counties...

IN TI1E MANNER OE ANACREON'S INSTRUCTIONS TO A PAINTER. [Frau the Mites of sum July Pm] " The end of the clause, as (molded by their Lordship:, makes it imperative to build n...

PRESENT POLITICS.. LAST week there were suspicions and rumours of' some coalition) between Mere Whigs and Conforming Tories, with the view of forming a Government likely be...

Tim members of the Vocal Society have rarely presented a more in- teresting selection of pieces than the following scheme exhibits : but where there is industry to gather and...

WHEN a Member of the House of Commons says that he is him- self opposed to the Ballot, we folly credit his assertion ; for the chances are, that with the Ballot he wculd bs left...

IN attempting to justify the refusal of Municipal institutions to Ireland, the Standard supposes the following case, and seems to consider it analogous to that of the...

between two well-known jurisconsults of the Law School, on account of a passage of the Pandeets. The one who contended that the passage in question ought to be concluded by a...

La the course of last summer we recorded a commemoration of PIM. CELL; and it seems that out of this has grown an association intended to perpetuate the cultivation of that...

Ix despite of an amiable leaning to one side of the question, Mr. WING'S volume contains a very complete digest of facts and opinions relative to the Factory System, together...

STATTSTICS, Evils of the Factory System, demonstrated by Parliamentary Evidence, By Charles Wing. Surgeon to the Royal Metropolitan Hospital for Children, 84..c. Saunders and...

this work contains the lives of the two great rivals for Court favour, and two striking instances of its insufficiency to procure safety, happiness, honour, or self-respect—...

THE framework of this novel is neither happily conceived, nor has it any relation to the stories which it is made the vehicle of pre- senting ; nor, so far as we can conceive,...

THE object of this book is to inculcate the fallacy of looking for salvation to "good works," and the absolute necessity of re]) ing on justification by faith alone, us well as...

MR. MURRAY has gratified the wish of the Standard and all good Tories, by transplanting the Inatusural Address and the other Orations of Sir ROBERT PEEL at Glasgow, from the...

THE name of ALcutal is venerable as the most learned man in an age of the grossest ignorance, and as one of the first assistants in the revival of letters, which the successive...

of sunlight with all the vividness and intensity of' nature, that his splendours begin to pall upon the eye, and the mind craves something more satisfactory than a glare of...

JIB has opened his graphic battery of ridicule, and commenced the campaign with u shot at Plausible Bob, which tells admirably. Peel, in his last new character of pedagogue to...