THE Peers have done their worst on the Municipal Bill. All that ingenuity and spite could suggest in the way of mutilation has been accomplished. Certain Lords boasted that they...

1. CORPORATION REFORM. The House of Peers resumed the consideration of the Municipal Bill on Monday. Previously to going into Committee, numerous petitions were pre- sented by...

Ministers relative to the Court of Assize, by 212 to 72. In the discussion on this bill, PERSIL, the Chancellor, plainly declared that Ministers would not respect the Charter if...

Dis- turbances in Arragon, of a very serious nature, form the burden of the week's rumours ; but there is no authentic intelligenceas to their immediate cause or extent. Some...

THE King held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter, at Windsor Castle, on Saturday ; when Prince George of Cambridge was knighted in due form. Prince George of Cumberland was...

Tuesday, to petition the House of Commons to abide by the Municipal Bill, and resist the mutilation of any of its essential provisions by the House of Lords. On this occasion,...

and Bethlehem Hospitals, of a deficit in the accounts of Mr. Hudson, the Receiver, of 80001. Suspicion was excited by some irregularities in the cash-account, and an examination...

Several public meetings have been held in the Metropolis during the week, to pass resolutions and to petition the Legislature in favour of the Municipal Bill ; but there is...

The Orangemen in the North of Ireland are becoming very turbu- lent. The Dublin correspondent of the Times says- " For many years, with the exception of occasional disturbances...

Municipal Reform Bill, as far as relates to Portsmouth parish, will not leave above one hundred and thirty persons eligible to be Common-Councilmen, and the lowest rating of...

Pelagie, at Paris, arrived at Brighton last Sunday, in a French fishing-boat, having put to sea at Fecamp. The master of the boat, by way of doing a double stroke of business,...

in Glasgow, Kelso, Stirling, Perth, and Haddington. Very complimen- tary resolutions to Lord Melbourne were adopted at Haddington. A meeting was held in the Cowgate Chapel,...

The Commission of,the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land met on Thursday week in Edinburgh ; and after the despatch of some preliminary business, proceeded to the...

the Durham Assizes, before Chief Justice Tindal and a Special Jury, of a libel on the Honourable Mr. Trevor, M.P. for that city. That gentle- man having attacked Mr. Lambton,...

to Friday next : whether it will receive the sanction of the House of Commons on that day, is n:ore than doubtful. If tits Lords persevere in their present determination to...

ration Commissioner who visited Liverpool, has addressed a letter to Lord Melbourne, most completely refutin g all the char g es and insinua- tions a g ainst the correctness of...

the ap- pointment of Lord Auckland to the Governor-Generalship of India. Lord and Lady William Bentinck have left town for the Continent. Lord William's health is happily much...

BIRTHS. Ott the 19th inst.. at niester Terrace. Regent's Park, e 1.34 of Wit:LIAM Goon Xxorou Hawse, Esq., of a sort. On the 14th inst., the win. of T. M. WATT., EALIL,...

the attention of oar readers to the nil's. government or MALTA ; a subject which must be brought before Pattie mont early next session. We have received a letter from a...

SATURDAY. The arrivals from the Continent this mornin g have brou g ht no in- telli g ence of interest or importance.

from a rumour having prevailed that it ;s the intention of Lord Hill, the Commander-in-Chief, to order all officers and privates to be brought to a court-martial who may figure...

and evinced a determination suitable to the crisis, thus concludes a striking article, this morning, on the practical question " What have the Lords done ?" "The Lords have gone...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Money Market has evinced considerable firmness ' and has been marked by a decided improvement, within the last few days. As we...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 17th August 1835. DEAR SPEC.—" ET TU BRUTE!" so it seems you must have a passing sneer at the Liberals, and help...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Aug. 18th, Merinos. Patterson, from Mauritius ; Henry. Bouncy; and Olive Branch, shurley, from the Cape. At Deal, 20th. Runnymede, Wildridge, from China;...

CARLTON CLUB DOINGS : THE REGISTRATION. FROM the Country newspapers we learn that the Tories are and have been more active even than last year in raising objections tO Liberal...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 15th August 1835. SIR—It is; not of the abuse only of the institution of the Royal Academy that we artists (not of that body) complain, but of...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Macclesfield, 24th June 1835. SIR—Being an admirer of your independent and comprehensive manner of reviewing political events, literary...

ACCORDING to Lord LYNDHURST, a real Representative of the People best performs his duty when he acts in disregard of the wishes and instructions of those who elected him. One of...

that the privileges of the members of Corporations are equivalent to " freeholds," of which they crannot legally be deprived; and yet they assert the entire Innocence of such...

his own petard l."--•tis edifying to see the crafty LYNDHURST ensnared in his own toil. In discharge of the duty assigned to him by his noble clients and employers, Lord...

THE constitution of the CoOtnissi°n for inquiring into the affairs of the Church, and the means of religious instruction, in Scotland, has given dissatisfaction and occasioned...

THIS is a thankless subject to enter upon, inasmuch as it places our national as well as our musical character rather low in the scale of intellect and taste. It is mortifying...

"A knot or traitors."—Standard, August 8. "O ken ye what it is that wad wanton me?— To see gude corn upon the rigs, A gallows built to hang the Whigs, And right restor'd...

TILE Reverend VERE MUNRO must have the organ of locomotion well developed. He appears to have visited Spain, Italy, Greece, Egypt, and Ethiopia, without any other perceptible...

at twelve o'clock, and were 0:copied more than an hour and a half in discussing whether the public should be admitted to hear the examination of witnesses. The Committee had...

TRAVELS, A Summer Ramble in Syria, with a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul. By the Reverend Vere Munro. in 2 vols Bentley. ARTS Or LIVE, The Adventures of a Gentleman in...

" THE Three Perils of Man," according to Hon°, are, " Wine, Women, and Witchcraft :" if the Shepherd had added Horse-flesh, it would have spoiled his alliteration, but increased...

Tan present volume opens with the succession of CHARLES the First, and closes with the battle of Nasehy. It generally presents the reader with the point and pith of the matter...

WITH Ernesto, the Library of Romance closes its career; and in point of literary merit, with a work by no meows the worst of the series, though, like Mr. SMITH'S former...

MR. STIRLING is rather late in the day with his Considerations on the Political State of the Countries between Persia and India ; for a variety of travellers have traversed the...

PANORAMA OF ELEPHANT-HUNTING. Ma. DANIELL, whose paintings of Indian scenery are so well known and appreciated, has fitted up the Gallery of the Society of Water- Colour...

Ova neighbours of Paris, enlightened on the subject of English "national taste," doubtless by accounts of the crowds that thronged to the scene of WEARE'S murder and of the...