THE KING. THERE is nothing in the Bulletins of his Majesty's health, since our last publication, that would warrant a decided opinion on the progress of the disorder. They are...

the increased dimen- sions of THE SPECTATOR, to develop fully the important topics which have engaged the public mind this week. It was our intention that the ADvERTISEMENTS...

in Parliament. On Monday, both Houses received a Message from his Majesty, requiring them to relieve him from the pain of sign- ing public instruments. A bill has since been...

great sensation has been caused at Paris by the popular excite- ment which exists in Normandy. A gang of incendiaries, or- ganized, it would appear, have been laying waste the...

Royal Highness enterea her twelfth year. In co:Ise:pence of his Majesty's in- disposition, the members of the Royal Family were not entertained, as usual, by the Ducbess of Kent...

punishment of death finr forgery was agreed on; only one band—that of the sturdy stickler for every thing that is or has heen, 3Ir. Samuel Dixon—being held up against it Mr....

has addressed to his "old and familiar friend," Henry Brougham, a challenge to defend the plan of Law Reform of which he is the author, against that of which Mr. Bentham is the...

Lords, the i thee ,1:.y, lv tlie Governors of the Birmingham Grammar School ; in -.chl •'1, without the slightest hint being conveyed to the inhabitants, who e•-- • ) deeply...

a ches •e cumstances appeared e the fellow who robbed ther is acquitted. n:'.—These Sessions commenced on Thursday. at' importance or interest. A female was tried childenerder,...

a sharp thunder-storm. Amidst the terrific peals, one was distinguished from the peculiarity of its sound, which resembled in its commencement that of a quantity of rubbish shot...

this important case on Monday. His Honour went over the evidence with great minuteness. With the transactions of 1807-8, he observed, Mr. Wilde had apparently very little...

alive, occasionally, to what used to interest him before his illness, in- quired what portrait was placed opposite to his own, at the exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence's...

was brought out on Tuesday evening. It is a dull and tedious affair; the dialogue vapid, and in the extremes both of familiarity and inflation; the characters had no character...

the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, of his pocket-book and a fifty-pound note. What specially marks the irregularity of the procedure is, that the thieves did not wear either...

person who styles himself author of the Guide to France, the demerits of which we last week did our duty to the public by ex0osing. He accuses us of inconsistency, in first...

Vi r atx Mr. Maberley took these races in hand, there were but three days of indifferent-now there are four of capital sport ; the Grand Stand held but forty-now it holds four...

BOK On the 22d inst., at Grove Park, 'Warwickshire, the Right. Hon. Lady Boa atEit. of a son and heir. On the 24th inst., at his house In Harley Street, the lady of Jou&...

CAMBRIDGE, May 28.—At the congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred. Masters of Arts—Thomas Turner and Valentine F. Hovendon, Fellows of Trinity...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EYENING.—The favourable aspect which our Stock Market wore during last week, has been materially altered, and prices have given way in the whole nearly...

to Batavia, was ashore near Java Head on the 21st December. H. 111.8. Success was ashore at the entrance of Swan River on the 1st December. Crew and passengers saved. The...

Wz take credit to ourselves for having opposed, at a time when no other journal in London gave itself the trouble to consider it, the project of involving Great Britain in the...

THIS young Princess completed her eleventh year on Monday. Her personal qualities we shall leave to others, who may think them an edifying topic it is to the political part that...

THE SIGN-MANUAL. A MESSAGE, we have seen, was brought down to both Houses of Parliament on Monday, stating that his Majesty's continued indis- position rendered it painful and...

"The time will come, when if a man shall tell his son, that in a community rich in all the arts of life, although the people had learned and profound judges, to whom they...

AN affair of honour, protracted through the finer punctilio' s of which such matters allow, is perhaps the most exquisite example of human folly. A rich case has lately occurred...

OUR rulers at one time enforced a licensing system to check our tippling propensities ; and they still enforce a licensing system to prevent the growth of a taste for plays...

THE subjoined narrative is a fine example of the manner in which a story may be dressed up so as to elude the moral judgment to the utmost possible degree. A lady, dissatisfied...

WE regard LINDLEY as the first player of the age ; not merely as compared with other performers on the violoncello, but absolutely and positively as having attained a more...

IN spite of our most affectionate remonstrances, Mrs. DAVENPORT has actually quitted the stage ; leaving a blank in her department which there is not a single actress qualified...

MISS KEMBLE made her farewell curtsey for the season on Friday night, in the character of Lady Townly—her first appearance in genteel comedy. She selected a trying character,...

THE "decline and fall" goes on. The Directors have published a foolish manifesto, in which they talk about "injurious reports," &c. which they beg "officially to contradict,"...

FOREIGN report attributed to LABLACHE an excellence in tragic opera equal or superior to that which he displays in comic. The .estimate may be just, but as yet we want the proof...

EPSOM Races were thinly attended ; but more persons would have visited the scene, had they been aware of the remarkable pheno- raena there exhibited. The reporter of a Morning...

i won three musical prizes n succession,—at the Catch Club last ' Star; rittlieVee Club this year, and now at the Catoh Club again We certainly do not regard the decision of the...

SIR WALTER RALEIGH.* THE name of RALEIGH is familiar to Englishmen as a household word; yet few, we believe, have studied his character unless in the pages of HUME or in...

THE third volume of this work closely resembles its predecessors : it carries on the history of DT. DODDRIDGE'S courtships, his preachings, and his studies. The main difference...

WE are not sorry that Miss MITFORD has gathered together her various contributions to the Annuals, and printed them in a volume ; but we regret, in taking up this fourth series...

1. Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cycloptedia— 4. Greek Exercises ; or an Introduc- The Cities and Principal Towns of the tion to Greek Composition. By the World, Vol. I. Rev. F. E. J....

but simple, if simplicity mean that which is within the comprehension of youthful minds. But in narratives designed for the intelligence of children, there are More things...

The Battle of Muta ; a Bass Scena. The Music by GEORGE HARGREAVES. We believe Mr. HARGREAVES is a music-seller at Manchester ; and this composition bespeaks him no mean...

Songs in English and German. The Music by C. WALTHER. This publication has an imposing appearance, and some very elaborate decorations ; yet we suspect it will not yield great...

T. MARTYN. The simplicity of this ballad is marred by the perpetual introduction of the chord of the diminished seventh. Young composers, who think that an air of learning is...

the Pianoforte, by C. H. QUARTERMAN. These variations require a snore skilful pianist than the piece above. mentioned ; but though brilliant and rapid, the passages lie well...

by Lord BYRON; the Music by G. HARGREAVES. This is a much better specimen. of vocal writing than the preceding song. The melody is striking, and highly characteristic ; and the...

by H. R. BISHOP. We noticed, in a former number, the mutilated versions of this air; and it is right to inform our readers that the present one is the real Tyrolien of the...

The Words by the Rev. W. SHEPHERD. Maid, in these flowers of various hue, Which twine thy brow, thy tresses shade, An emblem of thy beauties view, Like them they bloom, like...

Ballad. By T. H. SEVERN. A pleasing melody, set to very indifferent words, and charged at an exorbitant price. The purchaser has to pay two shillings for eight pages ; three...

from CARAFA'S Opera" Le Solitaire." By C. W. GLOVER. This trifle we can recommend to those young ladies who may wish to possess something new for their pianofortes which is...

Pasta in Musiea da FINLAY DUN. " 0 tell me bow to woo thee, love ;" a Song, by the same author. " Softly sleep, my dearest ;" a Serenade, by the same author. These are...

There is nothing to find fault with ir. this ballad, but we think it might have slept in Mr. WanNE's portfolio without any great loss to the world. Judging from the author's...

Mus. Bac. Oxon. Mr. HORSLEY has felt and expressed the poetry of his author like a true musician. This, and other distinctive features in the present song, mark the difference...

PORTRAITS BY THE LATE SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, EXHIBITED AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. IT is impossible to contemplate these beautiful works without feeling that they not...

(co.:Tv:Lisa.) Mr. JACKSON has not been fortunate in his sitters, if we may judge, from his portraits this year. His whole-length of the Marquis of Chan. dos is well treated,...

find at the same time so characteristic of its original, as this. FRANCIS JEFFREY is here before us : his restless eye kindling into fire—the lips curling into sarcasm—the high...

SIR,—The nines declines publishing the following letter, on the ground of having,done more for me than any other correspondent. I admit it with gratitude, but now was not the...

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TO TI1B *latttator. LONDON: SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1830.