Monday, Mr. Speaker AlIERCROMBY announced, that, by reason of failing health and strength, he should not resume his laborious duties after the Whitsuntide recess. Lord JOHN...

the Queen of Spain's troops, commanded by ESPARTERO, on the 27th and 30th of April, before the fortified village of Ramales. The Carlists were defeated with the loss of between...

unfa- vourable representation of the prospects of the West India Islands and the conduct of the Negroes ; whose " utter listlessness" ren- ders the importation of Swiss and...

SANTA Cutz had nearly destroyed the remnant of the Chilian in- vaders, in a battle fought on the 6th of January, near Huaras. His plan is said to be not to force on another...

blies has had a good effect, and appears to have been generally obeyed. In Bristol and the neighbourhood, though the " Physical Force men" use menacing language, the midnight...

a stand. Soria . , on Tuesday, assured several mem- bers of the Chamber of Deputies, that he had no powers, and therefore was not responsible for the delay ; and the...

The following intelligence was received yesterdalt.oydiffitTd - kf Bombay. It is given simultaneously in the Globe a the -Cagrie in the same words. 7 - • :',.:' ._ , . ..... "...

THE Mum - mime Ministry has been destroyed by a vote of the House of Commons. The political calm in which the last week closed was deceitful. The Tories mustered in full force...

GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA. The discussion on the bill to provide for the temporary government of Jamaica, was resumed in the House of Commons on Monday; the question before the...

The Lord Mayor issued a proclamation on Saturday, forbidding Chartist assemblies in Smithfield; but nevertheless a few persons were collected there. on Monday evening, and one...

appointment of City Police Commissioner, under the bill now in Parliameat, with a fair chance of success. The other einalidates are Colonel Cox and Captain Cotton. The City...

Titer Queen gave an audience to Lord Melbourne on Monday ; and afterwards rode out on horseback, accompanied by the Baroness Lehzen, the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Alfred Paget, the...

Derby, will be opened on the 4th of June to the public ; but a large The line of the Midland Counties Railway, from Nottinghain to Derby, will be opened on the 4th of June to...

Court; on Wednesday, that he should dispose of the cases which bad been heard before him with as little delay as possible— There were, however, some very heavy cases, which...

em- ployed in the riot mentioned last week have been arrested, and that tranquillity had been restored. Arrests of Chartists have been made at Manchester, Ashton, Trou- bridge,...

inhabitants of Leeds, to explain his vote on t 79 h E e at J on am s Sir William Molesworth has addressed the following letter to the q a u i tt e r a e , B et i t i ■ . q a...

a charge of exciting a disturbance in Cheapside on the previous night, by seditious harangues. David Evans was brought before the Lord Mayor, on Thursday, charged with stealing...

and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment for a libel on Messrs. Bateman and Fitz- Patrick, relative to an affray with Policemen at Blackrock. The &ntlemen libelled had...

Mr. O'Connell has sent' to the Aforning Chronicle an address "to the People of Ireland; " for which he holds himself responsible, but which, he says in a note to the editor of...

The resignation of the office of Lord Chamberlain by the Marquis Conyngbain was announced on Monday ; and Tuesday's Gazette con- tained the appointment of the Earl of Uxbridge...

at the Mint for Ceylon, with a view to supersede the cowries or small shells used there as a medium of currency. These coins have the head of the Queen on the obverse, and the...

Mr. Alexander Humphreys, who calls himself Earl of Stirling, was tried last -week in the High Court of Justiciary, on the charge of forging documents to support his claim to...

of the Earl of Essex to bear time same rank and precedency as they would have enjoyed had their father succeeded to the title. Lord William Bentinck is ill at Paris. Prince...

; at the close of which day's poll, the numbers were— For Lord Claude Hamilton 223 Major Humphreys 80 Mr. Boyle (Precursor) 1

ex- tent—Parliament will meet on Monday, at the usual hour, for Court explanations; and will reassemble on the Friday following, for a pro- gramme of measures. Some say that in...

Lord MELBOURNE and his colleagues held a meeting this afternoon as Cabinet Ministers, having resumed the offices which they re-signed on TueSday ; the Tories being out of the...

A poli- tician's instinct would have shown him the folly of disagreeing with the Queen about her Household before he had secured a large majority in the Commons. If he had...

an early dissolution of Parliament. Success to him. Time and space forbid more than a simple reference to the Colonel's address to the Liberal portion of the Hull constituency,...

SATURDAY. • At the meeting of the House of Lords last night, the attendnke of Peers was unusually large. The galleries and avenues, and the space below the bar, were crowded by...

.engroseti 'so Mitch of 'attentiou and space, that we lialW been compelled to omit many' articles of a literary turd miscellaneaus character; mid - timoug them, a notice of Mr....

of the House of Commons, among whom were Mr. Hume and Sir W. Molesworth, was held yesterday afternoon at the Reform Club, to con- sider the course to be adopted in the event of...

been the scene of riot and bloodshed. A Chartist missionary having been taken into custody, while delivering a violent revolutionary discourse on Tuesday, a mob assembled on...

firoex &SMARMS, FRIDAY AFIIRNOOR. The general character of the American intelligence, both political and finan- cial, received on Monday and Tuesday, produced a favourable...

A multitude of American and Canadian newspapers have come to us by the Great Western. They abound in extracts and notices of Lord Duan.am's Report, which seems to have produced...

Arrived—At Gravesend, May 4th, Wild Irish Girl. Tooker, from the Cape: 6th, Sybilla, Knowles. from Mauritius ; and 10th, Dryad, Beard, from New South Wales. tiff Cork. 5111,...

The following intelligence from Plymouth, of the arrival at that port of the barque Tory, will he read with interest. The aim and prospects of the expedition were fully...

Rita 1. 0:1 the sot ;lea., in upper Grosvenor Street, the Lady of the non. Toox.ts BARN.- WALL, of a daughter. Ou the 20th of February, at Mexico, the Lady of Catni.ss T....

Wart-ovnex, May 10.-6th Regt. of Drag. Guards-Capt, J. R. Lmyth, from half. ray unattached, to be Capt. vice 11. P. Browne, who exchanges. 2d Drags.-Lieut. Lo rd W. F. A. M....

Lister, E. C. Roche. Sir D. Ds Dyneuurt, C. 'f. James, W. Rundle, 3. TORY AND RADICAL MINORITY-289. Blandford, Marquis Estcourt , T. (Dcv.) Blennerhassett, A. ; Farnham, B....

DREADFUL WRECK OF A COCKBOAT. [PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] People's Isle, Tuesday, 7th May 1839. A boat, which had long been drifting about in sight of this island, went...

WHEN a patient enters the hospital with a complication of mortal diseases, his end is not the less certain because one cannot name the hour or point out the bed on which he will...

Ax amusing scene presented itself to the stroller along Pall. Mall and St. James's Street on Wednesday afternoon. The exul- tation of the Tories was irrepressible. Sir ROBERT...

gullibility of Liberals is unfathomable; otherwise the impu- dent pretence that the creation of Peers, announced last week, was for the purpose of strengthening the Reform...

THE following paragraph appeared in the Examine;' of last Sunday, in explanation of its argument that the Liberal Members who voted against " further Reform " had no alternative...

WHAT the Radicals would have proceeded to do next, had the Ministers stuck to office, we cannot precisely declare. Some say one thing, some another. Some say, that Mr. THOMAS...

" Or course," says the Morning Herald, " Lord MELnouaNE must hire a cook, now that his dinners are stopped at the Palace." Not quite "of course." Lord MELBOURNE ma n y be the...

OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, " The humble Petition of [we suppress the name, as we understand the gentleman now means to go over to the Tories.] "...

ment measure, (the Jamaica Bill,) and admirably did he redeem his promise, by not voting at all. But then it will be said he paired off with Sir Edward Kerrison. Noble support...

Timm concerts, as they approach their termination, discover not only indolence, but palpable haste in the selection of their emnponent parts. Three pieces by one composer, (two...

AT length we have something on which to write emanating from the Italian Theatre. PAULINE GARCIA made her first appearance on Thursday , night ; and the manager, well practised...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Sin—In your last paper appeared a letter from a correspondent in Scotland, on the subject of the late election in Ayrshire. I have taken the...

THE Gresham Professor of Music this week concluded his review of the works of the early Italian masters, on which he had been occupied during several preceding terms. Of the...

THE high position the Duke of WELLINGTON just now occupies in the political world—the publication of his voluminous despatches— and the mature age he has reached, with, perhaps,...

BIOGRAPHY, Life and Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. By the Rev. G. N. Wright. Vol. I. Feiher and Co. The I.lfe of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington. K.G., &c. &c. By...

THIS volume is the result of the observations and reflections of twenty years, drawn up from notes made day by day upon suggestive facts in Dr. HoLeami's practice. The subjects...

MR. BLANCHLEY, the father of Mrs. BROUGHTON, was Consul at Algiers from 1806 to 1812. Mrs. BLANCKLEY had the habit of journalizing, and daily wrote down every occurrence, from...

ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. To judge of things by too high a standard, is in some sort unjust ; and to this fault we plead guilty in reference to the Academy Exhibition. We have...

MESSRS. HODGSON and GRAVES have been exhibiting during the week 'a whole-length portrait of the Queen, as she appeared when receiving homage at the Coronation ; painted in oils,...