THE Queen's Speecb, at the opening of her first Parliament, was as innocent of specific meaning as any speech ever delivered by the most hackneyed of her Majesty's predecessors...

QUEEN VICTORIA opened her first Parliament on Monday the 20th instant. The appearance of the House of Lords on this occasion was very brilliant. The number of Peers and...

Chancellor of the Exchequer brought before the House of Cotillions on Thursday. They whoexpected any material reduction from the exchange of an old King with a large family for...

the ru- moured reduction of the interest on the Five per Cent. Debt. This measure is demanded by the people in the provinces; but the formidable body of stockholders, residing...

usual. According to one statement, Don CARLOS has an army in fine condition; another describes him as a fugitive, whose troops have deserted him. He has quarrelled with MORENO,...

to the numerous addresses presented to him in approbation of his re- cent proceedings. It is said that between two and three hundred such addresses have been sent to his...

the- United Kingdom was held on Thursday, at Exeter Hall. Soon after ten o'clock, the great room was completely filled. The chair was taken by Sir Eardley Wilmot ; and on the...

The Working Men's Association had a public dinner on Wednes- day, at the White Conduit House. There were about four hundred working men present. Among the guests, were Mr....

appointment, on Saturday afternoon ; and during the same evening every account outstanding of the late election for Finsbury was di-charged. Mr. Duncombe has, during the last...

THE Queen went in state on Monday to open the session of Parlia- ment. Four carriages and six, with the chief members of the Royal Household, preceded the state.coach, in which...

It is lain to pretend that the Orange Society was ever actually dis- solved. The Grand Lodge in Dublin lots been in the habit of meeting regularly; as appears from the following...

story about the Queen coins; inctgnita with Lily Barham to St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, to hear n sermon from the Honourable and Reverend Baptist Noel ; mid the Post...

The correspondent of the Chronicle, who under the signature of to A True Reformer" suggested the plan of defeating the Spottiswoode conspiracy by petitioning against all the...

The Kent Liberals of the Blackheath district dined together at Greenwich. on Saturday, to celebrate the reelection of Mr. Hodges, for West Kent. In the course of the evening,...

an attempt to introduce the Poor-law into that town and neiehbourhood. A correspondent of the Times has furnished that paper with a detailed account of the affair, evidently...

bonding tobacco to the port of Yarmouth, 5,0001. worth of manufactured tobacco was immediately deposited in the warehouses.—StyAlk Herald. [The'Lords of the Treasury only did...

SATURDAY NIGHT. A second edition of the Times this morning contained intelligence from Lisbon. The Ministry has at length been reconstructed. The Viscount SA DA BANDEIRA Is...

cr ORDNANTE, Nov. 17.—Royal Pent. of Artillery—Second Lieut. lion, F. "Far:lle to be rust Lieut. vice Ceekhuro, deceased.

after the remarkably quick passage of fifteen days, brings accounts from Lower Canada, that the agitation is every day becoming more formidable. The inhabitants of the Five...

that they are the masters. Last night, the LORD CHANCELLOR introduced the hill to abol; it prisonmerit for Debt ; and Lord A BINGER significantly told the Peers that the real...

their quarrel. Lord Edward, in a letter to the former, begs pardon ; and says that he acted under misconception when be adopted a hostile course towards Mr. Duncombe. He also...

several articles prepenel for this week's paper. We regret that Mr. LANDSPIER'S continuation of his Evidence on Art must again be interrupted ; his Fourth Letter shall appear in...

The Andromeda, Latin:Pr, from Calcutta to Mituritus, was totally lost on the 28th Ilk—Mester and three of the crew drew tied, The Iedian Chief, NI' Donald, Liveipool to...

state that the Government have given permission to build a quay for steam- vessels at that port, for which purpose it will allow 30,000/. British to be raised. —Mill Popes. The...

11.e 171h i. st., at Sotitharuleon, ViveNtiet ss Coenv, of a daughter. On the 11th i,. .t , :it Duman Street, Ethu Lui g i:, the Lady of Sir JUIINI1Ali, Bart.. Advectte, Sit....

are they doing in Glasgow " Ain't the Ballot, the Glasgow Argus, received this morning, mentions that the editor of that journal has received a model of Mr. Guam ' s ballot-box...

promotive of the mutual intelligence and united action of the People's Party in the House of Commons- " All people of common sense are sick of the irregular, desultory, skimble-...

a Ministry to succeed the present. It is conjectured that old Lord Game nmy be applied to by the Court to construct a sort of half-Whig half-Tory Government. But this is...

THE managers of the two patent hou s es seem to be following the course that lowered their predecessuis to the condition of rival show- meet at a fair, .ind ended by milling the...

meeting, on the summons of the Westminster Reform Association, to consider Lord Joux Resseee ' s manifesto nguinst the reform of the Reform Act. Similar meetings will probably...

Exen1Not, FRIDA• AFTERNOON. The deelarstioa made by Lord .1,ei N :it; ,s1.:1.1. in the Ilouse of Commons, ha , completely changuil the appearance of the Motive-market. ' cite...

Members, was held at the Reform Club, to receive the answer of the deputation commissioned to represent to Lord JOHN RUSSELL the necessity of postponing the trial of election...

MINORITY Ton xv, FritAcE.EXTENsION MOTION. l lame, J. I\ te, A. Ltalon, Lord White. S. I G. W. 1 e W T. !I (:, M mill, Sir W. MOT! IN. S:1. W. Lord I). O. Ileid,..iv I....

SINCE our last notice of tbis entertainment, ROSSINI'S Italian in Al- gieri has been brought out with two new performers, Madame &mat- LIN and Signor SANQUIRICO. The former...

QUEEN VICTORIA ' S CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS. THE first " Practical Measure " was brought forward on Thurs- day night, by Mr. SPRING Rice, in a speech of voluble confi- dence,...

IT was a consolation to the Liberals for their defeats in the agri- cultural districts at the late elections, that the large towns with scarcely an exception had returned...

LORD BROUGHAM has put himself, as a Reformer, far ahead of his old colleagues. On a petition to the Peers, from Sheilield, for an amendment of the Registration-clauses in the...

THE extinction of the Whig nobles, as a powerful party in the country, appears to be inevitable. Their intermediate position, not sympathizing with the masses yet aloof from the...

SOLDIERS are no longer to walk the streets armed. When drunk Or passionate, they must fall to fistycuffs, like true John Bulls, and give and take thumps upon equal terms with...

SPECTATOR. f22,1 November IR.17. Sin—I do not know the precise period when the Liberal Ministry resigned ; nor do I recollect having seen this circumstance distinctly pointed...

BIOGR•PTIV, The Life and Times of the Reverend George Whiteneld, M.A. By Robed Philip, Author of the Experimental Guides." &c, Sm. Virtue. ItteToRY, Au Abridged Ilistory of the...

"Date ()holm Belisatio." TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. 224 November 1337. Sin — The grant lately made by the East India Company to the Marquis of Wsr.f.rst.Ev, is a...

ALTHOUGH DOW only familiarly known to certain religious sects, the Reverend GEORGE WHITEFIELD was one of the most conspicuous characters for a considerable part of the last...

A GOOD abridgment of the principal European Treaties would be highly useful, as a work of reference, to the politician and to the historical student. It might also be made to...

BY CIVILIZATION. THE object of this essay is to show that civilization is an affair of physiology, and that the tissues of the human body change with the advancement of the...

of the Royal stud : "tee tent" moistened with tears at the sad event. It may he some ceand lotion to them to know, therefore, that an admirer of !Jesse. tle‘h, ‘sLuse initials...

THE members of the London Mechanics' Institution met on Monday evening, in their Theatre in Southampton Buildings, to petition the Queen and both Houses of Parliament, that all...

Another Portrait of Wellington ! " Another and another still suc- ceeds." This last is a mezzotint, by Plumes, of the whole-length painted by SIMPSON for the Junior United...

A NUMEROUS collection of French and Italian Bronzes, imported for sale. are exhibiting at No. 16, Old Bond Street, aml will repay the trouble of inspection. They consist of...

possess humour and vigour, though his style is coarse and homely. He has been very happy in the choice of a subject for his first effort. But we should have liked it better had...

Mozart's Ttvelve Grand C. , ncertos Haydn's Grand Sitgeonias. '} Arranged by Resister.. These publications are a kind of joint legacy : the works of the fathers of modern music...