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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorCOURTLY Conservatism is the order of the day in bath Houses of Parliament. The People may be thankful that the Ministers did not ask their munificent Representatives to grant a...
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SD tinetc4 snit pratrain0 lit Vartiantritt.
The SpectatorTHE CIVIL LIST. The report on the Civil List Bill was presented to the Commons on Saturday. On Tuesday the bill was read a third time. Aftet which, Mr. Hesse moved to reduce...
The session of the French Chambers was opened on Monday,
The Spectatorby King Louis PHILIP. The royal speech was a commonplace affair. The country was declared to be happy and tranquil, and the reve- nue increasing. The mention of the Queen of...
There bare been two arrivals from New York this week,
The Spectatorwith important news from Canada. The first portion of the intelli- gence indicated the alarm of the Government at Quebec, and the boldness of the Canadians. On the evening of...
The British Legion has been finally broken up, and before
The Spectatorthis has probably left St. Sebastian. The treatment of the troops, who were badly fed and almost naked, had become intolerable.
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Cbt fartropotia.
The SpectatorAbout seven hundred electors and other inhabitants of Lambeth assembled at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Monday, to petition Parliament for the Ballot, Suffrage-extension,...
rbr Court.
The SpectatorTHE Queen has not seen much company at the Palace this week. On Thursday, there was a dimmer-party, including Lard Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Holland, Mr. Spring Rice,...
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Cllr Country.
The SpectatorA meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield was held at the Town- hall on Thursday week, to petitions Parliament for the Ballot. Mr. Ward went to Sheffield to meet his...
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, Mr. Frederick
The SpectatorDodsworth, of Turnham Green, was charged with a violation of the Reform Act, by voting at the last election for Middlesex in virtue of a qualification which he did not possess...
The proceedings at the Staines dinner to Mr. Byng were
The Spectatorvery briefly reported in the newspapers last week ; but the Morning Chronicle has since published a fuller account, especially of Mr. Warburton's speech, in which the following...
A meeting was held on Saturday, at the Thatched houseTavern,
The Spectatorto receive the report of a Committee appointed at a former meeting to communicate with Government on the subject of throwing open various public buildings and institutions to...
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Two meetings have been held in Liverpool, to considt r
The Spectatorthe treat- ment of the Negro apprentices in the West Indies. The statement of Mr. Sturge and others, who contended that the apprentico hip system was only another name for...
Sir William Molesworth has been invited to a public dinner
The Spectatorof the Working Men's Association in Leeds, on the "2.6th instant. In reply to the invitation, Sir William wrote as follows- .. Though it would ba excessively inconvenient for...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe Dublin papers contain a long letter front Mr. O'Connell, reiterating many of his objections to the proposed Poor-law 'or Ireland, and the opinion that to the Repeal of the...
POSTSCRI PT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. It WOS announced last Licht, by Lord MeLeornse in the House of Peers and Lord Jolt>: Russet in the Commons, that Parliament is to reassemble on the kith of...
The expectation of more room this week for Communications from
The Spectatorecrrespotplents I, is been Oisuppointed. These favours upon tra 11.111 , 1 to a very extent. We wish that volunteer writers would conlne thems,ivp, to ue:'• authenticated facts,...
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in aaditien to the particulars of the Canadian insurrection, given
The Spectatorin raw, secuial page, we have mei% ea from Liverpool the following, ex- in aaditien to the particulars of the Canadian insurrection, given in raw, secuial page, we have mei% ea...
Tke Globe of this evening says- " Aria() the contradictory
The Spectatorrumours that have arrived from America, it is not am I) form a clear conception of the circumstances and issue of the encounter • mstsvten the Royal forces and the Canadians....
The Queen went this morning, in state, to the House
The Spectatorof Lords, so thank Parliament fur her Civil List. The number of spectators was but small, and there was little cheering. Both Houses met about 4weive o'clock. In the House of...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorThe operations of the week have been su trilling as scarcely to afford scope for any remark till to-clay the fluctuation of Consuls had not exceeded per cent., and the other...
A Vestry meeting, summoned by the Churchwardens of Lambeth, was
The Spectatorheld this morning, at the Boy's School, Lambeth Green. The opponents of the rate anticipated the Church party, and filled the room. They put one of their own friends in the...
THE FIRST BATTLE IN THE AMERICAN WAR or INDEPENDENCE.
The Spectator"General Gage having received intelligence that a quantity of stores was col- lected at the town of Concord, about twenty miles front Boston, thought it ex- pedient to detach...
The war in Canada has already had the effect of
The Spectatorbringing the Whigs and Tories in Parliament into a still closer union. Last night Minis. ters were backed by the riff.raff of the Tory party. This righteous combination will...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorACTUAL POSITION OF THE WHIGS AND RADICALS. SomE Liberals cling to the hope that Ministers will not only " keep out the Tories: but abandon their own Conservatism ! They trust...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived — At Gravesend, Dec. 21st, Coromandel, Chesser, from Bengal ;and 221, Meg Merrillies, Skinner, from the Cape. At Liverpoo1,15th, Imogen, Riley ; 17th, Gunga,...
THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorTHE week before the Holydays is usually balm) of novelty at the Theatres : they are so busy behind the scenes, concocting the magical changes to be wrought by Harlequin's bat,...
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FURTHER TESTS OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S CIVIL LIST. IT has been
The Spectatorsugeested, that our general tests of the extrava- gance of the Civil List might have been extended by a reference to the expenditure found sufficient in the case of a rival...
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AN UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE.
The SpectatorGRUMBLERS the English have always been—'twere idle to deny it ; but never till lately was ingratitude reckoned ameng their sins. We are fallen, however, upon evil days. In vain...
WHIG POPULAR MEASURES.
The SpectatorTHE bill for relaxing the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act, now on the table of the House of Commons, entitles the Govern- ment to little credit with the parties for whose...
THE SHOPS AT CHRISTMAS.
The SpectatorOF all " sights of the season," that of the shops atChristmas is the most seasonable. This week the Metropolis has assumed its holyday aspect : the streets are thronged with...
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THE LAST VOLUME OF MR. COOKE'S HISTORY OF PARTY.
The SpectatorTHIS volume opens with the accession of Lord BUTE to power in 1762, through the favouritism of GEORGE the Third, and closes 'with the passing of the Reform Bill. The...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorThe Hisfory of Party • from the Rise of the Whig and Tory Factions in the Reign of Charles II. to the Passing of the Reform Bill. Ity George Wiogrove Cooke, Esq. Bin...
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:AXE LOMAX, OR A MOTHER'S CRIME.
The SpectatorTHIs fiction has been written some few years: it was planned with the intention of offering a contrast to the " fashionable novels," which were then the rage, by introducing the...
MOIR'S LIFH OF MACNISH.
The SpectatorROBERT MACNISH was known to the literary world as the author of the" Modern Pythagorean" of Blackwood, as well as some other fugitive pieces, which are all characterized by...
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FINE ARTS. NEW PORTRAITS.
The SpectatorWiersosr GORDON'S whole-length portrait of Dr. Cam.strus the Scottish preacher, exhibited at the Royal Academy last season, has been engraved in mezzotint, by Lenox, with great...
ItCUT. LOCH'S READING-BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE point which distinguishes Mr. M'Cutaocn's educational books from others that fall under our notice, is their originality. By which word we do not mean, a mere novelty of...
PANORAMA OF NEW ZEALAND SCENERY.
The SpectatorTHE New Zealand Association have been fortunate in the alliance of Mr. BURFORD'S talent : a more eloquent appeal in favour of their colonizing project cannot be conceived, than...
