THE second session of the fifteenth Parliament of Lower Canada Was opened on the 27th . of October, with a speech of unusual length and interest, by the Earl of GOSFORD, the new...

the 16th. Unusual interest was excited in Madrid on this occasion. All the galleries of the Chamber of Procuradores were crowded with persons of distinction. The Amhassadors...

THE King and Queen continue to lead a quiet life at Brighton. They take frequent rides in the morning, and generally have a small dinner- party in the evening. Among the persons...

junction with CORDOVA at Briviesca is confirmed. MiNa. was expecting a strong reinforcement of troops from Portugal at Barcelona ; and on their arrival would commence active...

the 29th of December next. There is again some difficulty in the Cabinet of Louts PHILIP. It is certain that the King has been holding consultations with DUPIN and MOLE; but...

The first Court of Aldermen tinder the new Mayoralty was held on Tuesday ; when, on the motion of the Lord Mayor, it was decided to take counsel's opinion as to the eligibility...

at a Council held on the 10th instant, the Queen expressed her disapprobation of the intended march of the Portuguese troops to aid the Spanish Royalists, and finally refused to...

of the province of Texas. It is well known that the Louisianians, and the Americans of the Arkansas territory, have a strong desire to possess themselves of that portion of the...

Mr. Wil- liam Pritchard, Chairman of the Committee of the whsle Court of Common Council, appointed to aid the Commissioners in the reform of the orporation of London. Mr....

Follett ap- plied on behalf of Colonel W. Blennerhasset Fairman for a rule to show cause why a criminal iiiformation should riot be filed against Mr. Joseph Haywood of...

William Kensett, George Glacier, Henry Stewart, Christopher Flood, James Williamson Robinson, and William Davy. The indictment, which is very voluminous, charges the defendants...

Town-hall in Birmingham, to give the Catholics an oppottunity of publicly dis- claiming all belief in the odious and obsolete doctrines of Peter Dens, and protesting against the...

at the (dose of the poll being—for Estcourt 157, 1/ninth's 145. Mr. Esteourt has considerable property in Devizes and the neighbourhood, and is gene- rally popular there ;...

stealing a child, named William Tipping, in order to exhibit him as a show. The mother of the child, , a respectable-looking woman, produced from be- neath her cloak what...

-Aylesbury on Wednesday, to receive the report of the deputies to the general meeting, an account of whose proceedings appeared in the last number but one of the Spectator. The...

boisterous state of the weather, and tine insecurity of the moorings, a tier of colliers and other vessels in (lurch-hole tier, broke loose and went adrift, to the great dismay...

Mr. John rt a, a get email of ver, ler, c fortaae, and turteerly in the Civil service of the East Italia Company :Li .M..dras. It Untamed frown the evidence, that Mr....

Con. tinent, has given directions for the superabundant game on his Lord- ship's estates at Sudburn, in Suffolk, to be killed and sold, and the produce to be given to the poor...

The proceedings before the Dublin Election Commission prove the extreme reluctance of the Orange party to let the truth be known. It is with the greatest difficult) , that...

On Saturday night, the eastern extremity of the town of Greenock and part of the adjacent village of Cartsdyke were intimidated by the sudden influx of an immense body of water,...

recently merle an attempt to foist upon the Magistrates at Ilertterd Mr. S. fIrovePrice as the Chairman of their Quarter-sessions ; but this was too much even for that Tory...

been ap- pointed Sheriff of Banffshire, in Scotland. This is a most fit appoint- ment, to which Mr. Curie's legal attainments and standing at the bar fully entitled...

the Dublin Pilot, lecturing him for using the term " Jew" when speaking of Raphael, in an opprobrious sense. The principal portion of his letter, however, consists of an...

Honourable Sir Robert Peel from accepting the invitation of the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Roden, and other distinguished cha- racters, to a public dinner at Derry.—Morning...

of manslaughter, are stated in our abstract of the proceedings in the Courts of Justice. The verdicts, given under the direction of the Court, are such as we expected and the...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. The rumour of another change in the Portuguese Ministry is fully confirmed. It appears that the officers in some regiments stationed at Lisbon...

servile war bad broken out in Sardinia. The peasantry, it was said, had risen against their petty tyrants, the feudal nobility, and ravaged their estates. The Sardinhut...

rangements. Mr. G. H. SEYMOUR, now Minister at Florence, is to be the new Ambassador to the King of the Belgians; Mr. R. ABER- CROMBY, Secretary of Legation at Berlin, is to...

second- hand the stories invented by their friends on this side of the Channel as to the alleged ill-treatment of Lord Mesuounse and his colleagues by the King. Whatever may...

the clergy to prosecute their claims for tithe in the courts of law. Some of those who undertook last year to pay the tithe due from their tenants themselves, but who have not...

the Maltese against their Government. The readers of the Spectator are aware that the inhabitants of Malta have not been treated with good faith. They have been cheated out of...

of November, there had been a general insurrection of the people in Greece against King. 0 mu ; who, with Count ARMANSPERG, and the Bavarian troops, had been expelled from Athens.

The old Duke of Beaufort, who died on Monday at his seat in Gloucestershire, is succeeded in his title and estates by the ci-devant Marquis of Worcester ; whose eldest son, now...

the apart- ments of the Dowager Marchioness of Satisnuity, in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. The flames were extinguished before midnight, but neatly the whole of the...

RAPIIAEL was rejected by 24 to S, and A LENANDER, a Tory, nearly rejected, Sir WILLIAM MorEswoteru, the Radical, had not a single black ball. This is curious enough, in a...

sive to " ears polite." Sir FRANCIS Buanerr, in his days of "glory," was a notorious railer, always ready to repay abuse with foul language. It amused us, last night, to observe...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Nov. 21th, 'Hinds, Loc. t!ti.in, horn Hem:Tat; and Henry Forcher, Dart, from New South Wales; sod 25 . 11, William Turner, Leitch, from Bombay. At Deal,...

(so-called) new comedy, The Inheritance, produced nt Covent Garden on Tuesday, and ushered in with the customary formula of a prologue, turns out to be a commonplace play by Mr....

best praise that can he given to him is, that its success is owing to the stage-tact with which he has put it together. It is entitled A Dream at Sea ; though " the dream " has...

STOCK EXCIIANGF, FRIDAY A FTYRNOON. Our report to-day of the English Funds will offer a complete counterpart of last week's transactions. The pi ice of Stock had been kept up...

TO THE EDITott. OF THE SPECTATOR. Tuesday Morning, 24th November 15:15. Si a—I read your paper regularly ; and last week, after hat i log done so. sent it to a friend in...

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—In the lengthened, and in many respects commendatory notice of my Random Itee, lerHons of the Honse of Commons, which ;omens iu the...

of thea- trical entertainments—having been twenty years Treasurer of the English Opera-house, and produced twice as many dramatic pieces of one kind or other—is going to...

LETTER SECOND. TO THE EDITOR, OF THE SPECTATOR. Lewes, 17th November 135. SIR — I proceed to suggest several amendments in the present system of Electoral Registration in...

the Olympic cnThursday. The fun of this piece consists in the horror and alarm of Mr. Euclid Facile, a compliant personage absorbed in mathe- matical studies, and Fanny Pepper,...

his Dog, (founded on a tale in " Three Courses and a Dessert,") is composed of such complex incidents and squalid horrors that a happy termination does not compensate for their...

AMENDMENT OF THE ;REFORM ACT. THERE will be no lack of important subjects to occupy the atten- tion of Parliament in its next session ; but we do not hesitate to say that the...

Iss a brief Postscript paragraph la-t week, we asked, "What should the public (whom Sir FRANCIS BURDETT addresses by sending his letter to the newspapers) care about BROOKES'S...

THE facts of the statement of Mr. RoweArr's case, which ap- peared in this journal a fortnight ago, have not been disproved ; although there have been several attempts to...

THE public will soon have the satisfaction of knowing whether Lord DENMAN thinks Colonel FAIRMAN a person of more honesty than Mr. HAYWOOD of Sheffield, or Mr. HAI - wool) a...

THE opponents of Peerage Reform avow their determination to stand by the "good old Constitution of England." This is the language of some who were active in overthrowing the...

To insinuate a lie, is at least as infamous as to tell one outright. The object of the parties who got up the RAPHAEL case was to give the impression that O'CONNELL had pocketed...

TIIESE concerts promise to be very successful. The second, which took place last Saturday evening, was attended by a numerous and highly-musical audience; and the projectors of...

WE have already noticed the first concert of the season, given by this Society. The second took place on Monday last; and has afforded us no reason to modify, in any degree, the...

THE Spectator was one of the first English journals which no- ticed these papers in their fugitive state; neither daunted by the circumstance of their appearance in a Weekly...

TitAims. PencilHags by the Way. By N. P. Willis, Esq. Author of "Melanie," the " Slingsby Papers," &c. Iu 3 cols Mummy. FICTION, Margaret Itavenscroft, or Second Love. By...

MR. ST. JOHN has honourably distinguished himself in literature. Novel-writing, however, is not his forte. He can relate a short talc with force and effect, or give a detached...

THE idea of making the antique fresco paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum available as illustrations to a volume of poetry, is an ingenious and graceful one; but difficult of...

THIS is nominally, but not really, a biographical work. ALEXANDER HENDERSON was an eminent Scottish divine, who took a prominent part in the controversies, negotiations, and...

THIS is not a life, but an (doge, in which the character of the deceased patriot is painted couleur de rose, and without the ad- mission of a single shade which would indicate...

THE object of this Commercial Annual is to preserve the value of the author's original work, by correcting its unavoidable de- ficiencies, adding to its information, and noting...

THE attractive and familiar guise in which scientific knowledge can be dressed, is most strikingly exemplified in this History of Birds, published " under the direction of the...

Is a Canterbury speculation in the periodical line, which exhibits more knowledge of old books than of the probable demand for new ones. The price is threepence, and a number is...

IN a late notice of SOUTH aN'S Life of Caliper, a comparison of the plan adopted by the Laurent and by Dr. Motes in their respective biographies was instituted, with a...

Sketch- Book be not cramined so full of fun and humour as some of the former, it is only less in quantity, not in quality: and we fancy the cause of this slight falling off to...

THE Chimpanzee, who holds such numerously-attended levees in his little reception-room at the Zoological Gardens, has sat for his por- trait to Mr. WATERHOUSE HAWKINS ; who has...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANNUALS. Tire plates of the Book (...; Beano, are the only ones now before us. A fter looking at nearly a score of handsome fiiees, one half of them...

DR. BEATTIE—whose Thar in Switzerland, in which lie journeyed with BARTLETT as his fellow traveller, is still in course of publication— has broken ground in Scotland, whither A...

The Christmas FA te. This work, which in its form, as well as in the time of its appear- ance, seems rather to deserve a place among the Annuals, is designed to suit the taste...

most charming of any: it is a sweet innocent face touched with sorrow, but so gently that its beauty is scarcely dimmed.

Mr. PATTEN has set these words in the form of a Cantata, for which style of vocal composition they are well suited. It is an agreable and effective production.

The Veteran. ' Ballads, by J. P. KNIGHT. Mr. 1'. 11. BAYLY, the author of the words to which Mr. KNIGHT has furnished music, seems to have rhymes and phrases assorted in...

Mars TO FESTIVAT,MONGERS.—The unapproachable grandeur of the Messiah secures it from oblivion or mutilation. But of the other oratorios of Handel, some are wholly laid aside,...

A very good number of this excellent work, though not one of the best. The name of BELLINI occurs twice in the list of contents—that is, twice too often. There is no need to put...