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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE Parliamentary Registration proceeds in the manner antici- pated from the lazy indifference of the Liberals and the hopeful realty of the Tories. With scarcely an exception,...
The French Government have gained their point in expelling Louts
The SpectatorBONAPARTE from Switzerland. The Prince has addressed a letter to the Executive of the Canton of Thurgovia, abandoning his claim to citizenship, on the ground that he cannot...
Meetings of the working classes continue to be held in
The Spectatorvarious parts of the country,—at Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Brighton, and the populous district round Trowbridge in Wilt- shire. Of these, the Liverpool gathering was the...
The duty on foreign corn has again advanced to 10s.
The Spectator8d. per quarter. But it matters little now what the duty is : it cannot be said that the Corn-laws keep foreign wheat out of the country, for there is none, or very little, to...
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The Sydney papers mention the employment of a considerable number
The Spectatorof Hill Coolies in the colony of New South Wales. They are represented as a delicate race of men, not qualified for bard work. Many of them have absconded from the masters to...
It being the universal opinion that the new Spanish Ministry
The Spectatorcannot stand, already lists of persons likely to be their successors are handed about Madrid. The apprehension that the Queen's Government is on the eve of dissolution from want...
rbe Court.
The SpectatorSINCE the departure of the King and Queen of the Belgians, Windsor seems to heve been very dull. The Queen generally rides on horse- back in the morning, and dines with the...
There is a good deal of dissension in Newfoundland. The
The SpectatorHouse of Assembly is at variance with the Executive and the British party; and the people are harassed with constant squab bles on religious as well as political questions. The...
It'be
The SpectatorMr. Harvey, M.P., dined with a party of his constituents, pa- rishioners of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, on Monday. The health of the Members for the Borough having been...
Intelligence from Persia is given in the Augsburg Gazette, to
The Spectatorthe effect that there had been several rencontres between the British and Persian troops at Bushire, awl that the Schah had been compelled to raise the siege of Herat,...
According to accounts from Paris, the French Government con- sider
The Spectatorthat the Hollando-Belgic question is assuming a very se- rious aspei t. Large bodies of troops had been moved in the direc- tion of the Belgian frontier, but the policy and...
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Colonel Thompson delivered a lecture on the Corn-laws on Tues-
The Spectatorday evening, to a crowded assembly at the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton Buildings. Long before the hour appointed for the lecture, the room was quite filled. We extract...
It appears that Messrs. Young and Webber, found guilty of
The Spectator"wilful murder" for aiding in the Wimbledon duel, are to he imprisoned twelve months, and kept to hard labour, in the Guildford House of Correction—the last month in solitary...
Messrs. Mylne and Craig, Revising Barristers for the City of
The SpectatorLon.. don, opened their Courts on Thursday. The Liberals have made 23 claims, and P20 objections; the Tories, 170 claims, and 470 objections. The Middlesex registration, as far...
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Irby erttuttrn.
The SpectatorThe working men of Manchester, Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham, Ash. ton, Stockport, Macclesfield, Prestwich, Middleton, and other places in Lancashire and Cheshire, assembled on...
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A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Trowbridge, bit,
The SpectatorBrad find, and other villages and towns, took place on the ie2d instart, upon Truwle Common, a convenient spot of ground situate midway between Trowbridge and Bradford. The...
Another Universal Suffrage meeting was held on Tuesday at Liver-
The Spectatorpool. According to the accounts in the Whig newspapers, only from 1,060 to 1,500 were present ; and the only Liverpool gentleman of any mark who attended was Mr. Lawrence...
A more important meeting wits held at Sheffield, on Tuesday,
The Spectatorfor the same purpose ; Mr. Ebenezer Elliott in the chair. The Self& ins says that 20,000 persons were present. The proceedings com- menced with singing the following hymn,...
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Dr. Bowring addressed the Operative Association at Blackburn on the
The Spectator20th instant, 011 things in general and the Corn-laws in particular. The Doctor is inclined to give the present Ministers a longer lease of office than they are likely, we...
THE HARVEST.
The Spectator(The following notices apply for the most part to last week, not to that which is closing upon us.) Durham,—" We see no reason, either from our own observation, ec from the...
The Yorkshire West Riding revision, thus far, gives the Tories
The Spectatora gain over the Reformers of 200 on the objections, (of which 163 are in the Sheffield district,) whilst the new claims on both sides are exactly equal. The Tories are at their...
The Hull Magistrates held three lads to bail on Monday,
The Spectatorfor sht6 in the Methodist chapel and smoking cigars during the service of previous evening. In order the better to enjoy themselves, the L o w e youths had not forgotten a...
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The Duke of Sussex has been able to enjoy the
The Spectatorsports of the field ; as last Saturday he was (WWII shooting rabbits in the beautiful park of Colonel Wildman, at Newstead Abbey, in company with Lord John Churchill, Sir Hussey...
Lord and Lady Holland have arrived in Paris.
The SpectatorIt is said that Government has taken up the large steamer Sirius, which lately made a trip to New York, for the purpose of conveying the Marquis of Clanricarde to St. Petersburg...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe Mid Lothian Tories are much chagrined by an unexpected de- cision in the Registration Appeal Court, on Monday last, by which, they say, that nearly two hundred fictitious...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorA meeting was held on Sunday at Kingstown, near Dublin, to form Precursor Society. Mr. T. O'Meara, who is connected with Mr. O'Connell's family through the Fitzsimons, presided...
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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorBIRTHS. On the 221 inst., at Slanmer, the Countess of ClileitHYMM, of a son. Ou the vlst ins: , at her house at Clifton, near York, Mrs. Caere BOWER, of a daughter. On the...
ARRIVAL OF THE BAVADERES.
The SpectatorWe have the satisfaction to announce the safe arrival in London of these Minion divinities. They landed at London Bridge, from the Magnet Boulogne steamer, at half.paat four...
The daily papers have filled some additional scores of columns
The Spectatorwith accounts of Milan mummery; which hsppily came to an end on the 14th, when there was a " eorso notturao " or nocturnal promenade, amilst a heavy rain. The original genius...
" One of our Ministers " says the Journal de
The SpectatorParis, "has the sin guitar mania of venting his ill-humour by throwing his hat on sin , ground ; and as his irritation increases, the unoffending castor get: kicked all round...
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Wbo•fer his borrowed the First Volume of Major MITCHELL'S Three
The SpectatorExpeditions into tte ider i„ o f E a stern Australia, will oblige the Editor by immediately returning the same: it being wanted for a temporary purpose.
The French papers are still occupied chiefly in discussing the
The SpectatorLours DONACARTE affair ; but no new facts are mentioned. It is said that the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg has received a gross affront from the Emperor NICHOLAS ; who...
The Chronicle this morning published a second edition, containing some
The Spectatorscraps of American news forwarded by its correspondent from Philadelphia. The latest date is the 2d instant. Sonic excitement bad been occasioned in New York by the clandestine...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. By an arrival at Liverpool from the West Indies, papers and letters have been received to the 24th of August. The Negroes in Guiana were generally behaving well and...
We are informed that the demand for labour of various
The Spectatorkinds was never greater, in the Metropolis and the neighbourhood, than at pre. sent. A considerable number of men have been brought up from the .country. In some large...
FIGHTING SHY.
The SpectatorTile folowing (printed amongst the leaders) is all that our whilont loquacious neighbour, the Examiner, can find to say in answer to our exposure of his fallacious falsehood...
THE MINISTERIAL PRESS AND THE SPECTATOR.
The SpectatorIt is rather humiliating to Ministerial papers, publishing six times for our once, to be obliged to put off their replies to the Spectator for successive days, and weeks even,...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSToCK EXCHANGE, FII:OAT AFTERNOON'. The business of the Stock Minket generally has been very unimport tut, and noticing has I:recurred in the English Funds to call for retna: k...
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The Olympic corps has received a few additions ; but
The SpectatorMrs. NESBIT is the only important acquisition : albeit not a vocalist, a better substi- sute for YESTRIS could not be wished for.
Opera, speetticle, and ballet are to be the grand attractions
The Spectatorat Drury; aided by the quadrupeds from Astley's, including, we suppose, M. VAN ADELTRGII and his wild beasts, as well as Decitow and his horses; and varied by fits of tragedy—or...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived—At the Cape, July 16th, Asia. Gillies, from Madras; and 18th, Ida Currie, from Newcastle. At Mauritius, June 14th, Sterling. Burnett ; 16th, W. Allen, Valeria(); 17th....
YATES has reinforced the Adelphi company very judiciously : Mrs.
The SpectatorKEELEY, F. MATTREws, and J. WEBSTER are powerful aids; and the showy qualities of Mrs. HONEY and Mr. COLLINS will doubtless prove attractive. But the Bayaderes, for a time, will...
The Tempest is to be the next revival at Covent
The SpectatorGarden; the cast is a strong one. A tragedy, an opera, and other new pieces, are la preparation. Kr:owt-Es's new comedy approaches nearer, as appears by the increas - ing size...
THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorTHE season of the Winter Houses has fairly set in : Covent Garden, foremost in the field, disclosed its array last Monday ; Drury Lane opens next Monday, and the Adelphi also,...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorARE THE TWENTY-FOUR ARTICLES NOW BINDING ON BELGIUM? Tar Conference of London, it seems, has been, or is about to be called together, upon the interminable Belgian question....
MR. HARVEY IN OFFICE.
The SpectatorWHEN Mr. HARVEY'S appointment to the Registrarship of Hack- ney Carriages was first announced, we expressed regret that he should have condescended to serve under men...
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MR. ASHTON YATES—THE IRISH OF the personal respectability and good
The Spectatorintentions of Mr• A YATES there is no doubt: his consistency and independence j ects of discussion. In a paragraph under our division of l public man, and the wisdom of his...
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POPULAR MONUMENTS.
The SpectatorTHERE may not be thought to be much philosophy in monuments of any kind : it may be said, they do but make a fruitless struggle against the operations of Time, which in the end...
EDUCATION OF THE MULTITUDE.
The SpectatorTHE Report from the Committee of the House of Commons "on the Education of the Poorer Classes in England and Wales," ap- pears at a seasonable time. Public attention is forced...
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NATIONAL ENGLISH MUSIC.
The SpectatorTO Tile EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 54., New Hood Street, 23th 3ept 'Tuber I , A3S. Sin—Allow me to reply to a request contained in the following passage from the Sp:eta:or of...
" WII0 IS THE TRAITOR
The SpectatorTO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR, Loudon. 27th September 1535. Si—lo a recent number of your journal, Mr. WA an, the able and indepen- dent Member for Sheffield, was reminded,...
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CHINA OPENED.
The SpectatorMR. GUTZLAFF, the author of these volumes, is a missionary to China, already well known for a narrative of his personal adven- tures in two coasting voyages along that country,...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorMANNERS AND CUSTOMS, China Opened ; or a Display of the Topography, History, Ctistome, Manners, Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, Literature, Religion, J urispruilence, 8:c. of the...
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JOURNAL OF A TOUR BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
The SpectatorFROM the last boundary line of American settlement to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, is a distance of from 1,500 to 2,000 miles. The first part of this space is an exten.4ive...
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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
The SpectatorAs the first peeping of the primrose foretels the approaching though far-off spring, so aft Almanack and an Annual for 1839 speak of the declining year. I. The Oracle of Rural...
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A Manual of Mental and Moral Philosophy, by the Reverend
The SpectatorJOSEPH JONES, consists of selections from LOCKE, I3UTLER, RE ID and BROWN, dovetailed together with very remarkable skill,5 055 to form a compendious system of metaphysics and...
NVe are glad to see a second edition of Mr.
The SpectatorTueratt's Proverbial Philosophy, to which we called attention on its first appearance, as the product of much good reading, meditation, and a careful comparison of things. The...
Another edition of ROGERS'S Poems ! If these frequent re-
The Spectatorprints be the result of a demand for the volumes, it is a favourable sign of the popular taste for poetry. The effusions of a naturally delicate and sensitive mind, refined by...
Besides Mr. PARKER'S Exploring Tour, already noticed, we have received
The Spectatorfrom Messrs. WILEY and PUTNAM a lot of their im- portations. 1. History of the Revolution in Texas. By the Reverend C. NEWELL. 2. Conspiracy of the Spaniards against the...
FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANNUALS FOR NEXT YEAR. FOLLOWING the course of the tourists of the Landicope Annual, we leave Spain, to which four volumes have been devoted, and enter...
The Medicaster and the Mortgagee form the first volume of
The Spectatorthe "Edinburgh Cabinet Novels ;" a work which is undertaken with the view of supplying the public with original fictions at a low price, so as to put the dearest class of...
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The embellishments of the Friendship's Offering include designs by ALFRED
The SpectatorCHALON, JOSEPH NASH, J. BONINGTON, (not R. P. BONING. TON,) J. M. WRIGHT, RIcH ran, JENKINS, and 1VEsraLt., and one of BARRETT's classic compositions, with sunset : this last is...