THE conduct of the present week in the House of Commons has been even more than usually incoherent and disjointed ; and yet it has its moral, one and indivisible, besides the...

town ; but all that has reached the public is a scrap of intelligenee through the Van Diemen's Land papers--satisfactory as far as it goes. Governor Grey, it appears, has not...

STATE OF BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT. In the House of Peers, on Monday, Lord BROUGHAM, in moving for re- turns connected with the importation of corn from foreign places and from...

ing Spain to keep up a tumult. Whether the new movement was deliberately intended to cooperate with an abortive con- spiracy that has just failed in the neighbouring kingdom, or...

what we have is merely in continuation. A Senator has conceived a bright idea, rediscovering some exploded claim to the Oregon territory founded on the treaty of Utrecht ; but...

Exeter Hall was filled to overflow on Wednesday by the opponents of death-punishment. On the platform were—Lord Nugent, Mr. William Ewart, M.P., Mr. John Bright, ALP., Mr....

THE Courtly incidents of the week are more numerous and diversified than they have been lately. On Saturday, two birthday anniversaries occurred—of the Princess Alice, and the...

The iron and coal miners of Wednesbury have Struck work, in conse- quence of the masters reducing wages 3d. a day. The former rate of pay- ment was 48. The employers-have been...

The representation of the Falkirk district of Boroughs is contested by Lord Lincoln, the Secretary for Ireland, and Mr. Wilson, a gentleman con- nected with the locality. The...

The weekly Repeal meeting at Conciliation Hail, on Monday, was very thinly attended. Rent, 80/. Mr. Smith O'Brien, imitating O'Connell, had sent a letter to be read, reporting...

FRANCE. —The congratulatory address by the British residents and visitors of Paris was presented to the King on Saturday, by the Duke of Montrose and the Committee. His Majesty...

The name of Prince Albert appears the first in a recently published list of the Ranchers of Lincoln's Inn. The Queen Dowager has taken Cashiobury Park, Harts, the seat of the...

for the purchase mons last evening; its first reading having been carried by a large major- of the house at Stratford-on-Avon in which Shakspere was born. ity-274 to 149....

his age. The Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen left Marlborough House yesterday afternoon, for the Continent. The Times states that pensions of 5,0001. a year to Viscount...

the carriage in which the King and the Royal I really were riding when fired upon by Lecomte was brought to Paris on Wednesday, and deposited in the Palace of the Luxem- bourg....

Hildyard, the Member for South Nottinghamshire, and Mr. Thomas Herbert, the Chairman of the Nottingham Free-trade Committee, relative to a charge made by Mr. Hildyard on the...

was again ex- amined at Bow Street today. The house-surgeon of King's College Hospital stated that Blewitt had recovered from the shock, but was not yet free frm. danger. The...

One would think that the town had nothing else to do but seek amuse- ments, and were never tired of those that have so often delighted them; judging, at least from the quantity...

tions for leading the Protectionist Peers in their approaching campaign against the' Government Corn Bill, tells the following anecdote- " Some weeks ago, a deputation from...

he has been " let down" by the Commons. He expected there would have much more "to do" about his affair—at the very least, a Committee appointed to con- sider his case....

STOCK EMMA/4GS, THURSDAY APTERNOON. As tomorrow will be a holyday both at the Bank and the Stock Exchange, our preliminary report—such as it is—must terminate this afternoon....

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sue—I have read your remarks, and those of your correspondent "Z. A.", on the subject of the Pit at the Opera. I quite agree with "Z. A.", that...

TO TFIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Lincoln s Inn, April 27. Sui—Will you allow me to say, that your strong sense of the evils of our pre- sent prolix system of conveyancing ba.s...

DEATH-PUNISHMENT. THE speeches at the meeting to promote the abolition of death- punishment, on Wednesday last, were for the most part stronger in facts, and general just...

MR. DISRAELI got up a "scene" the other night, and manifested a considerable desire to have a shot at Sir Robert Peel. it is not every private gentleman that aspires to have a...

THE two objections urged by a correspondent, in aprevious page, against what we shall for the sake of brevity call with him "Lord Brougham's plan" for securing a system of short...

Ix is curious to reflect on the materials out of which a people makes, for the most part, its political leaders and regenerators. Without looking beyond our own country, let us...

MAT-DAY, even in London ? is still celebrated, or partially cele- brated, by a few. The chimney-sweepers walk their rounds. Knots of ribbons are attached to the heads of the...

SONNET, ON READING THE APPEAL FOR WILDERSPIN, IN LAST SPECTATOR. The "leading men" in science or in art, Those whom the giddy thoughtless world deems great— The merchant...

Volume AND TRAVELS, Discoveries in Australia ; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivera Explored and Surveyed during the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle, in the years...

THE late Robert Forsyth, a Scotch advocate of eminence, was a very re- markable man. In a brief autobiographical fragment, included in the Memoir prefixed to this volume, he...

Tan object of Mrs. Ogilvy in this handsome volume is to illustrate the dead or decaying superstitions and manners of the Highlanders in a series of ballads, each heralded by a...

THE WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITIONS. BOTH the exhibitions of Water-colour Paintings opened this year on the same day. The New Society used to open a week before the Old, and thus the...

from April 24th to April 30th. BOOKS. Discoveries in Australia ; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Ex- plored and Surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the...

On the 19th April, at Knoekmullen Clorey, the Lady of Captain Richard Owen, R.N., of a son. On the 23d, at Coughton Court, the Lady Vans, of Harrowden, of a daughter. On the...

WA.R-OFFICE, April 28.---10th Light Drags.-Major H. F. Bonham to be Lieut.-Col. by purchase, vice Wallington, who retires ; Capt. G. A. F. Quentin to be Major, by purchase, vice...

The Seringapatam, Funaell, for Madras and Calcutta, has put back to Gravesend, with loss of bowsprit, &c. Alunives)- At Gravesend, 27th April, Currency, Wainwright, from...

PARTNERSHEPS DISSOLVED. Pearson and Co. Oakenshaw, Lancashire, druggists-Hoole and Co. St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell, ironmongers ; as far as regards E. Parker-J. and G. Wylde,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. 71tesdati. Irednes. Ditto for Account . 965 961 961 3 per Cent Consols 965 965 :1 951 965 965 3 per Cents Reduced 95 95 945...

County of Middlesex, Printer, at the oMee f Rosins PA licit and JOMPII ClArros, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstau's in the West, in the City of Leaden; and...

Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners in favour of _National Uniformity of Railway Gauge, with Extracts front the Evidence of the Witnesses. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, We,...

FOR THE WEEK EYDING No. 93 1 . J SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1846. '.[Gaerrs wrrit THE WEEK'S SPECTATOR.

[Nova.— The evidence of the witnesses fills 346 folio pages. Our selec- tions are necessarily those which are the most important and interest- ing to the public at large.]...