instant, after a vigorous resistance. The besiegers arrived before the walls on the 6th, the breach was opened on the 11th, was practicable on the 12th, and on the morning of...

Second Chamber shall consist of members exclusively elected by the people for a limited period. This is considered a finishing-blow to the Portuguese Peerage. The financial...

THERE are several indications that the Tory Opposition mean to give the Government little trouble in the early part of the ensu- ing session, except by their election petitions....

'with their chief topics of discussion. The question is, whether the quantity of crime has not been diminished since Lord MULGRAVE vent to Dublin Castle. The official returns...

week to the Queen. ESPARTERO has exhibited some energy in following Don Caetos; whom he again defeated, with consider- able loss, on the 14th instant, at Huerta del Rey. It is...

and is about to issue a partial amnesty to the Sicilians engaged in the late insurrectionary movements, concerning which we have so little distinct information. There is a...

ERNEST intends to treat the Hanoverian Constitution of 1833 as a dead letter, and to summon the States according to the Constitution of 181). The same journal represents the...

the Congress of the United States, on the financial measures of Pre- sident VAN Beave. The third reading of a bill to postpone the transfer of the fourth instalment of the...

United States were settled. The Militia of the State of Maine, according to late accounts from Quebec, were marching into the disputed territory ; and unpleasant consequences...

At the weekly meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, the order of proceediegs on the 9th of November, and preparations for the Guildhall entertainment, were the chief...

THE existence of Royalty at Brighton has been rather monotonous this week. The weather has been generally unpleasant ; but every fine morning the Queen rides out with Lord...

sustained 740; the Liberals 1,664, and sustained 430 ; the Tories L6S5, and sustained 523. There is no list of the claims substantiated by either party; so that the statement is...

the Lord Mayor, praying him to forbid the illumination on the night of the 9th of November. The petition was signed by 180 persons, of whom 130 were householders in the line of...

on Wed- nesday with the trial of an action for libel, brought by Mr. Easthope, M. P. and one of the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle, against Mr. Charles Molloy Westmacott,...

Lord Chancellor to appoint a Magistrate who would assist the Vestry in parochial effairs, as at present great inconvenience existed from the want of a cordial coliperation with...

The members of the North Durham Reform Society dined together in Durham, on Tuesday week. Lord Durham, patron of the society, Mr. Hutt, Mr. Bowes, Sir William Chaytor, Mr....

in that town by the last registration is very small, the large number of the con- stituency being taken into account. The Liverpool Telegraph, as quoted last week, stated that...

Dukenfield and Staley Bridge, gave a dinner to Mr. Edward John Stanley, the Member for North Cheshire and Secretary of the Treasury, on Wednesday, at Staley Bridge. Mr. Stanley...

English outrages, headed " State of the Country." This is a thic set-o11 against the long catalogues of Irish offences which the Orange- Tory journals delight to display. At...

In our second edition last week, it was mentioned that Lord Clon. curry Isad replied to Mr. O'Connell's invitation to his Lordship to take the lead at a general meeting of Irish...

last week, but were not marked by any particular change in the trade. Prices remain the same, and the demnrid is expected to be steady. The wages of the miners and others have...

the MU that the Archbishop of York had given a sinecure in Carlisle A correspondent of the Standard, replying to a statement of the MU that the Archbishop of York had given a...

the Fifty- first Regiment of Foot, was charged with robbing and attempting to stab the prosecutor, Francis Salmon, at Dovecourt. The prisoner was stopped by the prosecutor while...

On Thursday week, a meeting of rate-payers and others, desirous of the abolition of the Annuity-tax, was held in Rose Street Chapel, Edinburgh ; Mr. Gillen, M.P., in the chair....

The Journal des De'hats thinks the moderate language of this address, in which his Lordship condemns the unjustifiable demands of the Radical party, extremely remarkable in the...

ins. ariediately recognized " honest Joseph flume" on the Brighton Pier, and "conversed with him in the most affable manner," the Post published a different account of the scene...

on Wednesday. The weather was not favourable, and the attendance of noblemen and gentlemen scanty; but there was a crowd of plebeians, who, notwith- standing the rain, enjoyed...

lie was an his read to Munich. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst are now at Versailles. Lord Howick, Mr. Ellice, and Mr. Poulett Thomson, are on a visit to Lord Durham at Latebton...

population of 60,000, no less than 40,000 persons had already been carried off by the cholera. This is the greatest degree of mortality which has yet been expe- rienced in any...

attracted a good deal of attention,—in consequence, no doubt, of the position which the speaker lately held, as the presumed leader of the earnest and practical Reformers. Some...

resemble the deceased in her great gifts, was to make her debut on the 23th ultimo, at a concert to be given by Signor Gainbati, at the City Hotel, in New York. The French...

to winter in Arragon, not Navarre. It is plain that little is known of his move- ments or intentions from day to day.

SATURDAY NIGHT. A Supplement Extraordinary to the Moniker of Thursday contains a series of despatches from General Vallee, from the 13th instant, when Constantino was taken, to...

Wan-oretex, October 27.-2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Lieutenant•Colonel Benjamin Harding, from the half-pay unattached, to be Lieutenant.Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel James Hay,...

Colonel Moberly, Secre- tary of the Post-office, was to make arrangements with M. Leconte, Directeur- Generalde la Poste, to allow the free introduction to France of English...

interesting report of the proceedings at a meeting held at From. lingliam to petition Parliament for the Ballot. At this meeting, delegates were present from no fewer than forty...

STEVENS having occasioned a vacancy in the Gresham Professorship of Music, the Corporation of London (with whom, conjointly with the Mercer's Company, the election of the...

Ix pursuance of the policy which has ruined most of the mimic mo- narchs in our time, the rival potentates of Drury Lane and -Covent Garden seem bent on injuring each other,...

Mauritius; and Mt; Numa, Gee, from Ceylon. At Deal, 26th. Agnes. from do. Off Dover, 27th, Lewd W. fleutinek. Hutchinson, frotn Ben g al. At Liverpool, Oct. 27th. Thomas Lowry....

STOCK EXCIIANOIC, FRIDAY AFTERNuON. The amount of bullion in the Bank of England, which, according to the statement made public on Saturday last, was upwards of 6,800,0001.,...

No. III. ARMY EXPENDITURE. IN investigating this subject, we shall consider it under three beads,- I. The improvement in efficiency and the saving in expense which might be...

THE Review of principle, as the London and Westminster may be termed, was quickly followed by the two great party organs of Tory and Whig expedients. The Quarterly and the Edin-...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 24th October 1S37. S1R—Can any of your readers, who are well versed in the Spanish or Por- tuguese languages, inform me what is the literal...

SION ERS. BETWEEN the geese in St. James's Park and the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, bath lately arisen a radical difference of opinion on a point...

MR. }TERVE is an artist, who visited the court of Greece, Smyrna, and Constantinople, on a professional speculation, and returned overland by Vienna, performing his home journey...

TitAvxus, A Residence in Greece and Turkey ; with Notes of the Journey through Bulgaria, Survis, Hungary. and the Balkan. By Francis Berle, Esq. Illustrated by tinted...

upon readily and directly with South America, Australasia, China, and which a swift/ is about to found an extensive colony in New Zell- the Spice Islands, and have ready access...

In man, the several classes of the teeth are so similarly developed, so per- fectly equalized, and so identically constructed, that they may be considered as the true type from...

prevails in that city ; for be Las himself also received a commission to

wild Irish girls. The lambent eyes and dark tresses of the Milesian beauties bespeak the Spanish blood that mingles in their veins ; though their arch looks have more of...

as possessiors—are r at the bead of its class ; surpassing even the Keepsake. which is now left without a rival. The increased size and price of the new ones has not been in...

whose literary contents the names of AGNES STRICKLAND and BERNARD BARTON as editors recommend, and whose embellishments consist of well-chosen gleanings from the various...

Songs, Duets, and Trios from the Oratorios of Handel. Arranged by H. R. Bistioe. HEARTILY do we wish that Mr. Iltsnor's talents were more fitly em. ployed than in the mere...

and re- spectability of its pictorial attractions ; which are nicely engraved. It gives us one of LAWRENCE'S grand ladies with an air of assumption, one of PROUT'S picturesque...