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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHERE have now been four registrations under the Reform Bill. Ample opportunity has therefore been given for bringing out the advantages as well as defects of the system ; and...
There is a partial improvement in the Money-market. Mr. SPRING
The SpectatorRICE, after much urging, has raised the interest on Ex- chequer Bills to 21d.per diem, and those securities are now at a small premium. The price of wheat is lower than it was...
The intelligence from Spain is of the same dark complexion
The Spectatorail we have been now for some time in the habit of receiving. RODIL and ALA1X, having proved themselves unable or unwilling; to cope with the few soldiers and the numerous band...
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ir be Court.
The SpectatorTHE King and Queen appear to be living in a very retired manner at Brighton. They ride out occasionally, but :see little company. Among the few who have have the honour of...
The necessity of remodelling the French army occupies the at-
The Spectatortention of Louis PHILIP. SOUL? IS in communication with the King; and so are THIERS and GERARP; Of course.their consul- tations have given rise to rumours of Ministerial...
We have had no news from Portugal this week, except
The Spectatora report in the Paris Courrier Francais, said to have been received by the telegraph, that Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN and VAN DER WEYER had been forced to quit Lisbon in consequence...
trbc gittroptats.
The SpectatorA Court of Aldermen was assembled on Tuesday—the first since the election of the new Lord Mayor. Lord Mayor Kelly expressed a hope that he should be supported by his brother...
The members of the Finsbury Conservative Association had a meeting
The Spectatoron Thursday, to receive the annual report of the Committee. The only point worth noticing in that document refers to the recent registration. The Commitee state, that "They...
A Montreal correspondent of the Times gives, in the following
The Spectatorletter, what that journal calls an "interesting view of the present State of affairs in the Canadas." "MONTREAL, Oct. 12, I836.—We are at length going on quite quietly in Upper...
The Dutch Government has admitted its inability to discharge its
The Spectatorpecuniary engagements regularly. The difficulty of its situ- ation, and the existing embarrassment in the Money-market generally, are alleged - as . extuses for the defalcation....
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In the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, the rule
The Spectatornisi for a cri- minal information obtained by Mr. Dyer against the proprietors of Bell's New Weekly Messenger, was discharged ; a declaration having been inserted in the paper...
rbr Country.
The SpectatorWe gave, last week, a long list of' towns in which the Tories are almost sure to lose at least one Member at the next election ; but we are reminded by correspondents that we...
In the Court of Chancery, on Tuesday, Lord Cottenham stated,
The Spectatorthat the officer of the Court had not been able to lay hold of Mr. Lech- mere Chariton; and that he should therefore subtitute service at places where that person might be...
The northern wing of the sawing-mills of Messrs. Esdailes and
The SpectatorMargrave, Regent's Canal Basin, City Road, was destroyed by tire on Sunday morning. The loss is considerable, but covered com- pletely by insurances. An awful statement of an...
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The opposition to Church-rates is kept up in many parts
The Spectatorof the country. In some places the rates are carried, in most rejected. It is difficult to say whether the Church party should rejoice in the one case more than in the other....
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An important question was decided in the Town- Council of
The SpectatorLiver- pool on Wednesday. Mr. Birch, who seems to be a half-and-half Reformer, proposed that additional schools should be erected by the Corporation, wherein education on the...
Trade in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Liverpool, anil Norwich continues dull.
The SpectatorIn Yorkshire, men are beginning to talk seriously about the abolition of the Corn-laws. The Leeds Times says— C' Corn cannot be admitted at a low rate of duty under this...
Mr. Charles Austin, the eminent Radical barrister, has been ap-
The Spectatorpointed Recorder of Hastings ; very much to the annoyance of the Times, which sagely opines that a Tory Town- Council ought to have had the nomination of a Recorder out of its...
A reverend Mr. Maberley, Curate of the parish of Bourne,
The Spectatorin the diocese of Ely, has taken it into his head to become an itinerant agitator against the Poor-law. The Mayor of Bury St. Edmund's complained of Mr. Maberley's conduct to...
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I RELAN D.
The Spectatorel meeting of the General Association was held On the 17th instant, at which Mr. Sharman Crawford brought foi it ard iris Tithe resolu- tions. I le ennInleneed his speech by...
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In the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday, a conditional order
The Spectatorwas granted for the appointment of a receiver over part of the estates of Mr. Otway Cave, M. P., in the county of Tipperary, on account of tithes due by certain of his tenantry...
Many new members were added to the Association on Tuesday.
The SpectatorMr. O'Connell was present ; though a report had been spread in the course of the morning that he had left town for Kerry to see his son Maurice, who was represented as being in...
Mr. Charles Fox. (what a name for a Tory !)
The Spectatora nephew of Lord Farnham, is to be the Tory candidate for Longford. Mr. Samuel Barrington, brother of the Crown solicitor for Mun- ster, is mentioned as likely to receive the...
An address from Mr. O'Connell to the People of Ireland,
The Spectatoron the late run on the Banks, has been published in the Dublin Evening Post. Mr. O'Connell says that, as Governor of the National Bank, be had been requested to use his...
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Alittellantout.
The SpectatorThe Marquis of Douro has been this week on a visit to Eail Grey, at Howick. He is expected, we understand, to pay a visit to the Duke of Northumberland, at Alnwiek...
The war against Dr. Hampden has been renewed. The following
The Spectatornotice has been set up in Brasennose College, Oxford, by Dr. Gilbert, Principal of the College and Vice-Chancellor of the University— " Alter long and anxious consideration, I...
The banking-house of Messrs. Connell, established in DM, at Car-
The Spectatorlisle, has stopped payment. Its liabilities are very limited, and the stoppage is therefore of little importance.—Courier. We announced in our last the intention of the Glasgow...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorMr. Murray, the Lord A dvecate, met the electors of Leith on:Friday, end addressed them on the proceedings of last session—attacking the Tories, and defending his friends and...
Sir Robert Peel has accepted an invitation from the Glasgow
The SpectatorTories to dine with them on some day in the month of January, when lie will repair to Glasgow to be installed Lord Rector of the University. On the subject of the Rectorial...
Some farmers calculate their loss on wet soils at one.third,
The Spectatorand others in drier situations at one-sixth of their entire crop. These cal- culations, however, we should fain hope, cannot have a general appli- cation. In the mean time, the...
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It is reported in theCiti this morning that anothr r
The Spectatorbank in the North of England has stopped payment ; but the City waxim, in times like the present, is to believe nothing but the Gazette. The failure, ho ever, of the eminent...
The Globe has had a peep into what is going
The Spectatoron at head-quarters-- tate the following passage in a leading article of that journal this evening. " Some of the questions on which Reformers differ, perhaps hardly admit of a...
The Orange. Tories have got into a sad scrape about
The SpectatorArchbishop WHATELEY and their neophyte, NOLAN. It was positively asserted, that NOLAN was the Archbishop of ARMAGH'S curate, and that he was " inhibited " from preaching in...
The Chronicle this morning publishes a letter from "An Inhabitant
The Spectatorof Dundee," contradicting a statement of the Times, that Sir Henry Parnell owed his election to the influence of Lord Panmure. It was perhaps scarcely worth while to notice this...
It is rumoured in Paris, that BERNADOTTE is very ill,
The Spectatorand that in- trigues are on foot among the Swedish nobles to set aside his son OSCARR, nd restore Legitimacy, in the person of Prince VASA ; to whose claims Russia is favourable.
The General Association of Ireland assembled again on Thursday afternoon
The Spectatorand within forty hours after the breaking up of the meet- in", the darning Advertiser presents us in London with a report of their proceedings, occupying three columns and a...
By an arrival at Falmouth from the Mediterranean, we learn
The Spectatorthat GOMEZ and CABRERA were within eight miles of Malaga, which they would certainly pillage. The steam-boats plying between Cadiz and Seville were stopped. Gosisz, it was...
POSTSCRIPT • SATURDAY NIGHT. IT appears from the Paris papers
The Spectatorand letters of Thursday, that Bil- boa still holds Out; although Count D'APPONY, the Austrian Ambas- sador, had despatched a special messenger to Vienna with the joyful...
The Letter of AN ELECTOR OF EAST CORNWALL AND A
The SpectatorREFORMER . ' was received this morning, only as our pages were being closed. We entirely agree with the writer in his object, which Is UNION : the first of our Topics this week...
The King will bold a Privy Council at Brighton, on
The SpectatorThursday; when it is expected that the day for the reassembling of Parliament will be fixed upon. Lord BROUGHAM attended a meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived—At Gravesend, Nov. 19th. Childrens, Durochier, from Bengal ; 20th, Tho- mas Snook, Baker ; and Palliot, Dunn, from the ('ape; 93.1, Andromache, Andrews, from Bombay • At...
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THE RICARDO SCHOOL.
The SpectatorTO THE E DITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sunday, 20th November 18311. Sza—In your article on " Prosperity and Distress ' of this day, you have fallen into so strange a mistake of the...
SECOND LETTER ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 25th November 1836. Si ft—The result of our foreign policy is—DonICARLOS on the eve of overthrow- ing the throne of our ally the Queen...
A mail has arrived from Mexico, by the Linnet packet,
The Spectatorwhich sailed from Vera Cruz on the 16th October. The nature of the advices has not transpired.
Within the last fortnight, insurances to the extent of half
The Spectatora million have been effected at Lloyd's on sovereigns shipped by steam - vessels to Dublin for the Bank of Ireland. The orders for bullion intended to be sent to the Continent...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. and although at one period per cent, continuation was given upon stock till the 13th of January next, the supply fell short of the demand ;...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE COMING ELECTION—WHIGS AND RADICALS. A CIRCUMSTANCE has just occurred, which confirms the opinion so often expressed by us lately, that without a speedy revival of the...
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MR. O'CONNELL'S " POLICY."
The SpectatorCONSIDERING that the Irish Tithe Bill of last session would re- establish upon a firm basis the grand grievance of Ireland, enabling the clergy of a small minority to obtain...
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ELECTION TALK.
The SpectatorTHE electioneering activity displayed in almost every part of the Three Kingdoms shows the general expectation that a dissolution of the present Parliament cannot long be...
RESURRECTION OF PEEL THE REFORMER.
The SpectatorAMONG the "signs of the times," to which we pointed last week, was the ostentatious patronage of Sir ROBERT PEEL by the Morn- ing Post. The "Leading Journal,' as it used to call...
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THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorNOT content with the overflowing audiences drawn by King John, Othello, and Julius Ccesar, the management of Covent Garden has hit upon the bright fancy of gilding the refined...
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.
The SpectatorABOUT four months ago, a meeting was held at London House to set on foot a subscription for building fifty new churcl.ei in the Metropolis, in order to provide spiritual...
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Vesta, in his drowning despetution, catches at any straw. He
The Spectatorhas now put forward BOOTH, the shadow and foil of KEAN in a bygone age, who is come back from America. BOOTH'S Richard seems to have been a wretched failure ; and so be is to...
In connexion with theatrical matters, we give the following para-
The Spectatorgraph. which has not yet gone the round of the papers. " The lessee of one of the Great Theatres, accompanied bfthe stage manager, an eminent scene painter, and a distinguished...
THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER.
The SpectatorTHERE are two kinds of novels. One is the successor of epic and dramatic poetry, and represents the more inquiring, refined, and level times which give it birth; as the epic or...
Aensa's sprightly and pleasant opera, Fra Diavolo, has been played
The Spectatorthis week at the St. James's, with undiminished effect. We need not say sword about BRAHANI'S Brigand. Miss RAINFORTH makes an interesting Zerlina : she acts the character with...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The Spectatorthrriow. The Merchant's Daughter. By the Author of "The Heiress." "Agnes Serie." Sce. Bentley. MILITARY A draleTURI, The Adventures of Captain John Patterson. with Notices of...
t the Olympic, a laughable little piece, called The Emigremts,
The Spectatorgives °MERRY an opportunity of developing his peculiar humour. He per- sonates Mr. Shears, an unfortunate tailor, who embarked for America with his wife ; but the vessel being...
Mr. RICE'S Jim Crow continues to attract at the Adelphi.
The SpectatorVictorine has been revived thit week, with the original cast ; its popularity is everlasting.
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CAPTAIN PATTERSON'S ADVENTURES.
The SpectatorTHE Fiftieth Regiment has had a good many names, and sxn a good deal of service. At the beginning of the century, it was called the "West Kent ;" soon after the first quarter...
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RAUMER'S POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
The SpectatorTHE work, of which the two volumes before us are the commence- ment, forms one branch only of the author's yet unfinished His- tory of Europe since the End of the Fifteenth...
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NATURE CONSIDERED AS A REVELATION.
The SpectatorTint subject of this volume appeared to possess considerable pro- mise, although there was a necessary infelicity, not to say contra- diction, in the title. Revelation, in...
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NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.
The SpectatorGrand Duetfor Pianoforte or Organ. By SAMUEL WESLEY. On the authority of the ritlepage, we assume this composition to be the work of the elder WESLEY; and we are happy to see...
Supplement to the Singing Master.
The SpectatorThe author of this novel and useful work has availed himself of the publication of a Supplement to notice some of the objections which have been made to his plan of elementary...
Congregational Hymns, No. IX. By E. MERRIOT. This work quite
The Spectatorsustains its original character. The same good taste and correct arrangement appear in this as in every preceding number.
Characteristic Tribute to the Men Ti) ty' Malitran ; a
The SpectatorFantasia for the PiJnofrte. By I. 3I0sarELEs. C' Thou art an angel now ;" a Tribute to Me Memory of Madame Malibran De Beriot. It WilS to be anticipated that such an event as...