the time of his election to his Glasgow constituents. He is not one who shrinks from answering for his conduct abroad or at home. We wish we could say that the account he...

it could be scarcely expected to have penetrated, is attested by the proceedin gs at a dinner given a few days ago at South Molten, to Lord EBRINGTON and Mr. NEWTON FELLOWES....

law and practice of their own Court. They have been issuing writs of rebellion by the hundred, every one of which was irregu- lar and illegal. They revived for plaintiffs in...

PARLIAMENT is to meet on the 31st of January—not before. Some have expected that the next session would commence a month earlier than usual; and the delay, which will be...

THE boisterous weather has prevented the King and Queen from taking their usual out-of-door exercise this week. On Monday anti, Tuesday, the King sat to Sir Martin Archer Shee...

supposed to be on the wane. Count KOLOWRATH is the Em- peror's favourite ; and his policy is opposed to the close connexion with Russia hitherto maintained by METTERNICH. This...

The Princess LIEVEN is about to give a series of splendid parties, at which old Earl GREY is to be her chief " lion." We should have imagined that the venerable Earl had enough...

States, that the pressure on the money-market there is still severe. The treasure of the Government continued to increase; and measures were in progress to effect its...

The Reformers of Lambeth had a meeting at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Monday evening; and adopted resolutions in favour of a Reform of the House of Peers, and Justice to...

the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, and has sent home a list of new members to he confirmed by Lord GLENELG. The autho- rity for this statement seems at present slight.

of marauders, who can scarcely be said to have constituents, almost equal in length to the American President's message. He speaks- of the success of the invaders as complete ;...

his subjects who had been implicated in offences against the Govern- ment. Among those excluded from its benefit, is General PEPE. The Sultan is employed in various economical...

of the politicians of Paris. TRIERS intends to go into active opposition. He will be supported by the Tiers-Parti, the Liberals, and the Carlists. Guizor, with more pluck than...

rumours and speculations. There are but few facts stated, and most of those are contradicted. Beginning with Spain, it is said that the siege of Bilboa has been raised by the...

There was a public meeting and afterwards a dinner of North Devonshire Reformers, at South Molton, on the 23d ultimo. Lora Ebrington and Mr. Newton Fellowes, the Members for...

on Thursday. The chairman was a Mr. Quantock. The names " unknown to fame" of four squires and tan parsons are then given. The great Man of the evening was Mr. Bickharn &wort ;...

held on Wednesday, being the festival of St. Andrew ; and the Duke of Sutherland was elected President of the Society. In the evening, the friends and subscribers to the charity...

of liberty in Poland, was held at the Crown and Anchor on Tuesday, to celebrate the anniversary of the Polish revolution. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, who was in the chair,...

the jewellers in Bond Street, obtained a verdict with 25/. damages against Lord Alvanley. It appeared that the defendant had ordered plate to the value of 156/. 8s. 6d. as a...

Tuesday evening, on the subject of the turn-out in the Staffordshire Potteries; at which resolutions were passed approving the conduct of the work- men there, and a committee...

Wharf Street, Suffolk Street, Birmingham, were suddenly alarmed by a strange noise ; upon bearing which they rushed out, and in five minutes no less than five or six houses and...

be divided into two Archdeaconries ; one, that of Craven, to comprise the greater part of the West Riding'; and the other, that of Richmond, to com- prise the remainder of the...

'West Riding of Yorkshire. But in order to make this out, they are forced to de- clare that they struck off '2000 from Lord Morpeth's majority by their 3i1CCCSS at the...

between the gamekeepers of Mr. Browning, of Saxham Hall, and a downand houses unroofed. nution is still greater. dressing-room.

with sheets of copper. and scattered in every direction. About fifty of the finest lime-trees in Ken- Twenty-three persons who have received injuries during the star=s sington...

In the Court of Exchequer, on Friday last, Mr. Sergeant Jackson moved for a confirmation of an order of the Court on 'the solicitor to the Irish Woods and Forests, to pay the...

hear the argument of Mr. O'Connell in support of his motion to set aside the writ of rebellion in the ca , e of Green versus Hogan. The ground of the motion was that three...

Lord William Bentinck visited his constituents at Glasgow on Tues- day. He received the freedom of the city, which had been previously voted to him by the Town- Couneil ; and...

9.:Id ultimo, from which reporters for Liberal newspapers were carefully excluded. The renegade Mr. Emerson *ferment and Lord Castle- reagh were the chief orators : Lord...

Dublin papers before it took place,) died a few days since upon his way to Longford. What feeling did the event excite ? Within one hour after the miserable victim had breathed...

Our contemporary now asks, " how it has curiously happened that the Tories have gained a majority " in Brighton ; " whether by the death,. removal, or ratting of the Liberals."...

entertainment in Edin- burgh. The Glasgow dinner is to take place On the It2th of January. The Glasgow Argus says— "'The exact number of tickets to be issued has not been...

experience and high sense of honour in sporting affairs the world will place implicit confidence, have been appointed to investigate the charge advanced against a noble...

some little time, but to which it would have been improper to have alluded at an earlier period, was terminated on Thursday. One of the prin- cipal Joint Stock Banks, with more...

The Honourable Mr. Lamb, only son of Viscount Melbourne, died on Sunday morning, at the residence of his Lordship in South Street. Mr. Lamb had been seriously indisposed for...

not presented before the 30th November, shall be paid after that day at the office of his Majesty's Paymaster-General at Whitehall. This is the first notification to the public...

that the second son of the Marquis of Lansdowne, since the death of Earl Kerry, had assumed the title of Earl Shelburne. Such is not the fact. This young nobleman retains the...

26th ultimo, in his eighty-first year. The Dumfries Courier gives the following particulars of Mr. M'Adam, his family, and fortune- " Mr. M'Adam has left a widow and two or more...

married the daughter of an innkeeper at Constantinople. The affair has made a great noise in that stupid city, and furnished a subject for the correspondent of the Morning Post,...

removing the &pin of the filth of Paris from Montfsucon, is the dispersion it would cause of the myriads of rats which have hitherto found their sub. sistence there, and which...

Portland in Maine, on the 21st of October, with about one hundred passengers, two camels, an elephant, and other animals, forming a me- nagerie of wild beasts. On the 25th, when...

severe, but we state a fact which is notorious to every one who has been in Portugal, when we repeat that his Lordship is utterly ignorant of the language, manners, customs, and...

WE never thought that SHERIDAN KNOWLES would come to rank with dramatists of the Old Bailey school, who cull their materials for scenes of "deep domestic interest" from the...

journals this morning, a reason for believing that Lord MELBOURNE has adopted, or is certainly about to adopt, the policy of "open questions," which we have so earnestly...

SATURDAY NIGHT. AN arrival at Falmouth from Lisbon, brings intelligence to the 26th ultimo. The National Guards have held a public meeting, at which the Civil Governor of Lisbon...

book- seller, obtained a verdict with 1001. damages against Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, for the assault committed by that gentle man on Mr. FRASER in August last.

held this afternoon at the Foreign Office.

Calais.

The Sydney papers which have recently been received show that the people of New South Wales take a lively intet est in the forma- tion of the new Colony of South Australia. The...

Who will have the vacant Colonelcy—a fierce Tory ?

to New South Wales, during the gale on the 29th, cut away her masts to prevent her going on shore in Bovesand Bay, Ply. and has since been brought into Cats ater. Arrived—At...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Consol Market has improved nearly i per cent. during the week, in con- sequence of the great scarcity of Stock. The books of the...

of hand—who touched the guitar and wielded the razor with equal dexterity, and cold!. dance the bolero and deliver a billet-doux with any cavalier in Spain. Figaro, now grown...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 25th November 153G. 3111—They have been acting Othello both at Drury Lane and Covent Garilen : but, besides myself, I do' not know...

to '32: produced at the St. James's on Tuesday. It would not be a flavour, but an injury, to the young compost r, Mr. Hewitt, and the dra- matist, " Hoz," to anticipate its...

a broad farce -filled the Queer Subject : the idea of which is taken from the Mummy, - slily that REEVE personates an ordinary corpse, instead of an,embalmed

Two Slicks, has been produced at Drury Lane. It is a copy of the Parisian original ; but has nothing in common with Le .Diable Boiteux of LE SAGE except the title. The only...

A GOOD illustration of the nature and degree of the unpopularity of Ministers, has been furnished by a great meeting of' electors and inhabitants of Lambeth, which took place on...

THE SPECTATOR AND THE MERE WHIGS. THE curs of the Whig press, throughout the country, seem to have had a signal from Downing Street to yelp at the Spectator. We learned to...

DANIEL O'CONNELL is dead ! The reader starts, and is agitated as if by the announcement of some prodigious event. The death, however, whether slow or sudden, of a man of sixty,...

journal last night, states that "all the London journals "who noticed Dr. Gil- bert's attack on Dr. Hampden, "unaccountably "made the mistake of substituting Dr. Cardwell's name...

THE subscribers to the Metropolitan Churches Fund must have felt no little indignation when the Gloucester Palace job was brought to light. They heard the Bishop of London...

OF LADY MARY WORTLEY :MONTAGU. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU was an unfortunate woman. In despite of vulgar prejudice and interested professional oppo- sition, she introduced to...

BIOGRAPHY, Correspondence of Lady Mary Watley Montagu. Edited by Lord WharuelitTe. In- cludis g upwards of one hundred :ital fifty Letters tower before published : a Me- moir...

IF the reader has an obscure disorder, a chemical friend upon whom he can rely, and a dozen or so of guineas to throw away upon a fancy, he may prove the fiillacy of physic, by...

Is one of the numerous tribe of elegant drawing-room books; but possessing more of that rare but essential ingredient is tb.e fleet- ing novelties of the season, e• macter,...

THE design of this work is conceived in the spirit of another age, when a loosely-regulated state of society naturally gave rise to various adventures among the more stirring...

THE appearance of the Almanacks for 1837, reminds us that the sand of the year 1836 is nigh run out. The advanced guard of the legion has reached us : thus we marshal them- 1....

REFORM OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. TILE Royal Academy, by taking possession of the National Gallery, though but for a time, has placed itself in the position of a public in-...

perfomance : this Ma. LEYLAND, a young sculptor of great promise, whose first work done satisfactorily, he is admitted a student in the Antique School, was a beautiful statue of...