THE pressure of Parliamentary matter is lighter this week than usual, in consequence of there having been, in technical phrase, no House" of Commons on Wednesday, and an...

the smoot,le, courteous, and diplomatic form of the writing—that all the venom lies. The following letter fkom a well-informed and intelligent mem- ber ofthe Assembly in Lower...

various descriptions, which had been secretly deposited in a house in the Rue de l'Oursine in Paris, has created some alarm among the faithful subjects of Louts PHILIP, who...

even than Lord Gomm, and the Canadian House of Assembly. It appears that the newly-elected Representatives of Jamaica passed and sent up to the Council a Police Bill, framed in...

to be de- plorable. Both parties suffer dreadfully ; and the British auxiliary corps, unprovided with the commonest necessaries, and without pay, is rapidly dwindling away, by...

1. IRISH CoRpoRATIoN REFORM. The House of Commons went into a Committee on the Irish Muni- cipal Bill on Monday. Forty clauses were agreed ID, most Of thew without oppositiou....

the account of the slave insurrection in Tennessee, mentioned in the last Spectator, is without foundation. The letter containing it was a forgery.

out of office. The Queen had sent for the Duke of TER- CEIRA, and commisioned him to form a new Administration. SILVA CARYALHO has refused, for the present, to return to the...

man to supply the place of Mr. Rotch. Upon a ballot and scrutiny, it appeared that Mr. Sergeant Andrews and Mr. Sergeant Adams had each 38 votes. It was decided that the...

THE unsettled state of the weather prevented the King and Queen from leaving Windsor Castle during the early part of the week. On Wednesday, his Majesty came to town, and held...

The Committee of the Middlesex Reform Club have published an account of their operations. Through the exertions of their agents in the Registration Courts, they have expunged...

fifteen, calling hem- self Henry O'Connell and a natural son of the Metnber for Dublin, with a female pretending to be his mother, who says her name is Ellen Courtenay, applied...

dinner on Thursday, at the Freemason's Tavern. Amone the dis- tinguished persons present, were the Duke of Li-meter, Lori'Morpeth, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. 0•Loghlen, Lord Ripon, Mr....

labourers. The Morning Chronicle continues to supply curious and entertaining specimens of the Orange correspondence. Lord Kenyon and Fairman are still the chief scribes. The...

cence the conscientious Mr. Fitzroy Kelly guaranteed so warmly, have pleaded guilty to the charge of corrupting voters. It is now pretty evident on which side the witnesses were...

The Orange Lodge of Trinity College, Dublin, has met and re. solved, " that no legal or moral force should be conceded to the recent determination of the King and the House of...

The Liberals of Nottingham intend to invite Mr. O'Connell to a public dinner. On the 7th instant, a large meeting was held at Leicester,—the Mayor, Mr. Paget, in the chair,—to...

de- stroyed by fire on the night of the 11th instant; and the Major him- self, a fine old soldier, with two of his daughters, one twenty-two and the other sixteen years of age,...

WE have seen a model of a Fire-escape, so simple and complete, so portable and so readily usable, and moreover comparatively inexpensive, that we cannot fancy any objection to...

SATURDAY NIGHT. If the telegraphic despatches received in Paris from Bayonne are to be credited, the Queen of Spain's troops gained considerable advan- tages over the Carlist...

the morning of the 8th instant, " Mr. Hotian, the correspondent of the Morning Herald, was sent from Madrid to Badajoz, in a carriage, and accompanied by some officers of...

caused much surprise and dissatisfaction ; and a correspondent, who calls himself " Are OLD TORY," inquires what we " think of his con- duct in deserting his post ?" Our reply...

of the fleet now at Toulon is destined for an expedition against Tangier, to punish the Emperor of Morocco for the aid indirectly afforded to ABDEL KAnea in his efforts to annoy...

the Dundee Steamer, last week, the hour of sailing from Hore's Wharf was said to be "ten o'clock afternoon "—it should have been "forenoon ; " and the last two lines, stating...

STOCK EXCH kTIOE. FR1D4Y AFTERNOON'. The English Funds have continued in a depressed state during the whole of the week ; and the market has not been relieved by a purchase of...

meet yesterday, and to put their veto on the discussion of the propositions respecting Dr. HAMPDEN, intended to be brought forward in Convoca- tion. The Doctor has delivered a...

week, but has not made very rapid progress in the business before it. The general tenor of its reported decisions continues to be of an ex- traordinary character; and we shall...

majority of 151 over Mr. AYTOUN ; the numbers being 680 and 529.

TO TUE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 236 February 1836. SIR—I request your insertion of this letter, at your perfect convenience, upon the three...

Arrived—At Gravesend, March 18th, Miranda. Hopper, from Mauritius. Off Margate, 16th, Lady Kennaway, Bolton, from China. At Deal, 14th. Scotia, Randolph, from Bengal. 011 Dover,...

TO TIIE EDITOR or TIIE SPECTATOR. Lewes. 801 March 1936. SIR—The Attoreey. General's Bill for the more effectual Registtation of Voters, will certainly do away with many...

SAYING TOO MUCH. THE Duke of NEWCASTLE has given the public an honest, old- fashioned, Tory opinion of the House of Commons. He told the Marylebone Conservatives, at their...

THERE are some men, it seems, whose consciences compel them to perpetrate what they admit to be grievous injustice, rather than run the risk of disobeying a legal enactment of...

THE rapid progress and vast extent of the British cotton manu- facture has created a very general belief, that we not only are, but must always continue to be, unrivalled in...

WE have been reading a pamphlet on this subject, by Mr. HAUT s, the Member for Lambeth,—one of those useful, act ive, and intelligent men of business introduced into the House...

THE fourth concert was graced by the presence of their Royal High- nesses the Dutehess of KENT and the Princess. VicToatis. While the mobles of our land, almost with one...

TRAVEL!, Spain Revisited. By the Ault °rot' "A Year in Spain." In 2 vols. Batley.

COMMEND us to the author of A Year in Spain for a master in the craft of pleasant bookmaking. Duthie three weeks in London and a week at Brighton, he contriveS to accumulate...

the young practical botanist, who is compelled to confine his scientific trips to the neighbourhood of London. It contains lists of all the plants that have been found by the...

fore us- 1. Another of MARY ELLIOTT'S volumes of moral and religious stories, entitled Tales of Truth ; which are simple, short, and contain sufficient of adventure to interest...

Library" an abridgment of Robertson's History of Charts' the Fifth. The introduction, containing the historian's eloquent and luminous view of the Progress of Society in Europe,...

to the uninstructed eye presents nothing picturesque in its homely ex- terior, would at first sight seem to promise little of interest. To the architect and the antiquary,...

THE booksellers seem at last to have profited by experience, and consulted in their practice the eternal fitness of things, their own profit, and the convenience of the...

be- ginners, Mrs. Barbauld's Lessons, printed with the same bold type as the original edition, but in a larger and fuller page, musk- ing a more compact volume. It is...

an American publication. Its direct object is to criminate the Ca- tholic priesthood of Canada; its indirect purpose, perhaps, to lower the Catholic religion. Taking the...

trans- plant—a catalogue of flowers, with brief notices, stating their genus, class, and order, and some passages from the poets illustra- tive of the sentimental...

Tuts exhibition will reopen in a few days, with a eliange of the Land- scape; an Alpine scene of the village of Alagna, in Piedmont, over- whelmed by an avalanche, being...

of the new issue in weekly numbers of the Waverley Novels. The humour and spirit of his etchings more than compensate for their comparative slightness. His sketch of Baillie Mac...

combined their talents to produce a graphic monument to the memory of one William Sniff'', a Waterloo hero, which will spread the fame of this humble soldier wider than that of...

and other Poems, from the German. Translated by JOHN CAMPBELL, Esq., B. A. National Songs, and Vagaries in Verse. By J. W. LAKE, Esq. Mr. CAMPBELL'S little volume contains...

any dis- tinct enumeration— The Twelfth Volume of' the Naturalist's Library ; for its agree- able life of JOHN 'lustre% prefixed to the second part of Rand- mating Animals. The...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS, SUFFOLK STREET. THE Spring Exhibition of Pictures by living British Artists, at the Gallery in Suffolk Street, opens to the public on Monday. The...

JOHN LEWIS, whose pictures of Spanish life and character have brought his name and talents very prominently before the public of late, is pre- paring for publication a selection...

of which may defy criticism, for the first has run through -Seventy-five editions, and the others have been frequently re- printed. This popularity is doubtless owing to the...

CRAMER, ADDISON, and BEALE are pursuing their intention of fur- nishing the public with a complete edition of the Pianoforte works of BEETHOVEN, under the able supervision of...

It is unnecessary to say more of this Duet, than that it is one of Smuts's most successful compositions ; and that it has been repeatedly sung at the Philharmonic and the Vocal...

This song has some striking passages ; but it is rather a piece of musical declamation to an elaborate accompaniment than a specimen of tine vocal writing.

MOORE. Mr. Moon': has here again united in his own person the characters of poet and musician, like his ancient predecessors the bards. In his former attribute lie has no...

A pleasant little record of the musical events of the week, inter- spersed with anecdotes and gossip connected with the art. The cri- ticisms seem to be written in a candid and...

A composition highly creditable to Mr. BEALE'S talents both as a composer and player.

classic design, a pair of elegant candelabra, and a superb salver, presented to Sir FRANCIS FREELING by the members of the Post-office Establishment, have been neatly...

adapted to English words by H. R. BISHOP. " BELLINI," says a late writer in the London Review, had a genius for melody." This Song may be taken up as an apt illustration of the...

"Meet again." Duets for Soprano Voices. " And cans't thou, mother." > By H. R. BISHOP. " 0 thou soft evening breeze." A composer like BISHOP usually contrives to throw some...

Harmonious Colouring, it behoves our picture-painters to look about them, lest the hangings of the apartment should shame the pictures on the walls. Mr. D. R. HAY, of Edinburgh,...

does not bear it out : indeed we never met with a book whose results were more utterly at variance with the intention of the author. Mr. Pa- SIX opens with the startling...

G. F. HARRIS. The favourite music of the Vienna fashionables just now are the Waltzes of JOIIAN STRAUSS. To one of these Mr. flatlets has ap- pended an appropriate introduction...

PYNE junior. This Glee, the production of a young writer, has some good points, and discovers the ability to produce something better of its kind— that is, if Mr. PINE will...