THE rapid progress of more than eighty clauses of the Income-tax Bill"through the Committee of the Commons on Monday was a fitting sequel to the vast amount of talk on defects...

INCOME-TAX BILL, The Commons resumed in Committee, on Monday, the consideration of the Income-tax Bill in detail. Clause 2 was agreed to ; with the ex- ception, that, instead of...

had witnessed no renewal of the winter's visitations; and if the British had made no progress, but merely maintained their ground, their enemy appears, from probable accounts,...

that three more towns have been taken, at the expense of a bruise on a mid- shipman's foot. Sir HENRY Porrrronnt has undone what some of his colleagues had done, and forbidden...

THE occupations of the Court have not varied much this week. On Wednesday, the Queen held a Levee, at St. James's Palace ; whither the Queen and Prince Albert repaired from...

May is noted in London for its religious and philanthropical meetings, and accordingly Exeter Hall has been in a continual bustle this week. The Wesleyan Missionary Society had...

The nomination of candidates for the seat which Mr. Newton Yrigney has vacated took place at Brighton on Thursday. The candidates pro- posed were, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr....

The Merchants House at Glasgow have adopted resolutions approv- ing of the Income-tax, as a temporary measure ; expressing much satis- faction at the important and comprehensive...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Coromandel. Ryan ; Ellen. Rogers; Stork, Scott; General Kyd, Jones; Greyhound. —; John Bartlett. Bartlett; Albatriats. ; and Mauri- tius, Hewlett, from...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The House of Commons was startled, last night, from the monotony of its ordinary occupations, by Mr. ROEBUCK, who tore aside the veil, from several private "...

which we insert, that the Select Committee on Africa are deterred by some considerations from pushing their inquiry to the bottom of the subject. Lord Sandon the Chairman, had...

votes ; Mr. Harford having 640, Mr. Brooker 16, Mr. Nicholson 0.

to-day. He seemed at first a little better ; but the proceedings were again interrupted by his illness.

invited Mr. Joseph Stnrge to stand in the room of Sir George Larpent.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The causes to which we alluded in our last report continued to operate to the depression of the Money-market during the early part of the...

THE NATIONAL PETITION. TEE presentation of the "National Petition," and its attendant circumstances, have in nowise modified the views respecting "the Movement" expressed in...

THE first panic-fit having blown over, our political quidnuncs here and in India are debating what is to be done with the Afghans ? SHAH SUJAH is shrewdly suspected of having...

THE concert of Monday night sustained the character of the preceding one, and evinced due care in the choice as well as the arrangement of the pieces. The presence of two...

"Os all the six points of the Charter," said Mr. MACAULAY, "there was only one to which he had an extreme and unmitigated hostility." In regard to universal suffrage, "he felt...

" THE sale of opium is such," so run the last accounts from China, "and the price so remunerating, that it has been proposed to station vessels in different places to serve as...

IT may be imagination—the effects of the sunny weather we have enjoyed—but it does strike us that the annual fancy balls of the sooty fraternity have been this year on a larger...

short time previous to paying a flying visit to America. Her company ap- pears to consist of her stage-pupils, chiefly ; but Miss KELLY herself plays some of her favourite...

THE concert of Wednesday night was under the direction of Earl HOWE, Mr. TURLE being the conductor. The selection indicated the excellencies and also the defects which attach to...

COVENT GARDEN closed its regular dramatic season on Saturday, with an extra night for the benefit of Madame VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, being the last of their management :...

made her London debut at the French Plays last night ; and she ap- pears to have been received with rapture. We hope to see her in Richelieu on Monday.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE TAN BETWEEN FINED PROPERTY AND INCOME. When a direct tax is laid on the resources of the community at large, one of two methods may be adopted for...

to indicate an early termination to MAcaEartv's first and (we regret to hear) unprofitable season. VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS are said to be engaged here, but no official...

Haymarket; where Mrs. Nisnerr enlivens the audience with her joyous laugh and arch vivacity. She has been playing Neighbour Constance in the Love Chase, which will be repeated...

the light come- dians of Covent Garden, and other actors, for farce and melodrama.

for the German opera. We had some fears that the support of the last season was scarcely sufficient to induce the reimportation of the com- pany : in fact, it was generally...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Blackheath, 4th May 1842. Sin—In a letter of the 24th March, which you did me the favour to insert in the Spectator, I expressed a fear that...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. —, 30th April 1842. Sin—In common with many, I have read with regret the Chancellor of the Exchequer's reply to Mr. RICARDO'S appeal in behalf...

TILATZLII, A Journal of a Residence in the Ramanla of Abd-el-Kader, and of Travels in Mo- rocco and Algiers. By Colonel Scott, K.S.F.. K.C. Whittaker. Brottuaray, Biographia...

THE Royal Society of Literature, under whose superintendence this volume is published, was just such a body as might be expected from its founder GEORGE the Fourth, who built a...

From April= to May 5th. Rms. Cabool : being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to and Residence in that City, in the years 1836, '7, and '8. With numerous illustrations. By the...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. THE display of the Royal Academy this year is below the average in merit and interest, and deplorably deficient in those higher qualities,...

BIRTHS. On the 26th April, at Woolwich, the Lady of Captain J. H. CADDY, Royal Artillery. of a daughter. On the 30th, at Dalton, near Ulverstone. the Wife of the Rev. Jolts...

Lieut, C. T. Du Plat to be First Lieut. vice Cookson, resigned. WAR-OFFICE. May 6.-4th Regt. of Drag. Guards-Lieut. J. R. J. Coles, from the 9th Light Drags. to be Lieut. vice...

Tuesday, May 3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Gilford and Jones. Camberwell, g lass-dealers- Bowser and Balls. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, auctioneers-Wilson and Rose....

3 per Cent. Consols • • Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 81 per Cents Reduced New 34 per Cents Long Annuities Bank S•ock, 7 per cent. India Stock, 10} Exchequer Bills....