THESE are the days of short speeches and manifold legislation. The near approach of the 12th of August has been producing its usual effects on British senators. Bills are...

opening of the session of the Cortes (a brief sketch of which was given last week in our second impression), is in the most approved style of Royal harangues, vague and pompous....

to convert the paper currency into a metallic one ; and it would seem that the arrangement is likely to be made without difficulty. The holders of Government paper are to...

more important business. The politicians of the Bourse and the salons think, write, and talk, of nothing but Spanish news and Spanish stock; by the rapid fall of which many have...

Messrs. ROMER, LEBEAU, and DUVIVIER, the Ministers of Justice, the Interior, and Finance, have been replaced by Messrs. ERNST, DE THEUX, and D'HUART. It seems to be considered...

out into a formidable insurrection. IBRAHY M PAC HA, with his usual activity, was preparing to repress it, according to the last accounts received.

July. They contain accounts of some serious riots which occurred in that city on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of last month. It seems that much excitement has prevailed among the...

in procuring a supply of dollars and gold for the State Banks which he patronizes. The United States Bank has a large amount locked up unprofitably in its vaults.

1. PooR-LAw BILL. The House of Peers resolved itself into a Committee on this bill on Monday ; when the postponed clauses were taken into consideration, and most of them...

THE King has been visited at Windsor by several persons of distinction during the week. Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and Sir Andrew Barnard, arrived on Saturday, and...

A Court of Directors was held at the East India House on Wednesday; when Mr. Robert Grant took the usual oath on being appointed Governor of Bombay. Mr. Grant afterwards dined...

The nomination of candidates for Gloucester, took place on Thursday; when the show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Tracy Leigh, and a poll was demanded for Mr....

was held at Leeds, on the body of John Beckett, a cloth-dresser, who died in consequence of injuries received on Sunday evening, in an affray near the barracks. A private...

An accident happened on the Paisley Road last week, caused by the breaking down of one of the wheels of the steam-carriage front Glasgow. The vehicle had gained the summit of...

According to present arrangements, his Majesty will prorogue the Parliament on Thursday next, in person, pro forma to the 19th of September.—Globe. It is rumoured that the blue...

and obscurity of the law, has been communicated to us by Mr. John Epps, who resides at 1.57, Holborn. He has been fined 20/. at Bow Street, on the information of the notorious...

BIRTHS. Oa the 31st ult., Lady MART VYNER, of a daughter. At Blount court, the Viscountess DUNGARYAN, of a daughter. On the 3e1 inst., at Blackheath, Lady BARBARA NEW DIOATE,...

No details have been received in Paris relative to the defeat of the Carlist insurgents in Navarre by Et. Pasron. It appears that the French force on the frontier is constantly...

Lords at this critical time, Lord TEYNIIAM professes to be the leader of the Reformers. In this false character he has uttered much ignorant, violent, Cobbett-like abuse of the...

assumed the grotesque and variable but marked and characteristic semblance of Lord BnouGnam ; in which he certainly appears much more at ease. lit his letter to the Duke of...

on Thursday. We hope that next session due inquiry will be instituted into the charges against General DARLING. Why should that person shun inquiry ? Why should his friends at...

Wednesday next, to consider the amount of compensation to be awarded to the maritime officers of the Company. We have seen some account of the surns it is proposed to give these...

a tradesman of Little James Street, Bedford Row), has sent us a letter complaining of the want of protection to independvet voters. Ile states that he was applied to by one of...

precedence between the Attorney-General and the Lord Advocate of Scotland. His Lordship decided that the Attorney General had the right of precedence, not only in the House of...

STOCK ACK ARCM, FRIDAY A VEER NOW/. The Como! Market has been heavy and money scarce during the week ; chequer Bills have also declined. The sales which have occurred of the...

SATURDAY NTORVI • Arrived—At oravesend, Aug. 7th. Sherburne. Dorhyn, from Bengal ; Emma. Eugenia. Taly, ;rem Mauritins ; and Eliza. Harris, from New South 011 Nlargato, Stli...

Or f ITT 0E 0 tt ON A NI' f', Aug, 0.— Royal Beet. or A rii llery —Lieut-Col. A. Media to be deeea,- , 41; Capt. and Breed Majer S. Kirby to be Lient..Col. vice Bin-in `Mtn 1...

Tr is hard for a man of rank and wealth to avoid being deceived by his parasites. l ' heir unceasing object is to please hint ; an object which can be accomplished only by...

Facial the time of the Revolution of 1688, the practical waking of the British Constitution has been oligarchic. The destiny t f the nation has been committed to that small...

AFF.afits or SPAM. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SI'ErTATOR. 601 A terpt.ot 1834. Suit—Verily, Time is a great resolver of doubts, a great clearer up of uncertainties, and a great...

THE brief but emphatic speech of the Marquis of WESTMINSTER, on Wednesday, administered a seasonable warning and reproof to Ministers and the Peerage. With reference to the vote...

THE High Church party will be sensible next year of the error they have committed in refusing to pass the bill for admitting Dissenters to some of the advantages enjoyed by...

SOME facts have lately transpired relative to the prosecution of the Brighton Guardian, which put that proceeding in an especially odious point of view. It will be recollected,...

IT suits the purpose of the Post-office functionaries, to represent the charges brought against them of mismanaging their department, as resting simply upon the ipse disit of...

[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK'S SPECTATOR.] THE expenditure of the Ceylon Government, for 1832, is stated at 310,364/.; the civil charges amounting to 195,921/., and the military...

THE Watermen's Company are attempfibg to put a stop to steamboats plying between London anti Woolwich, Greenwich, Putney, and other places at a short distance from London...

ANOTHER of those lively and graceful vehicles of pleasantry and satire, the mythological burlesques which VESTRIS naturalized on the stage, has been brought out at the Victoria,...

only novelty at the English Opera ; but others are announced as forthcoming. The new farce is only musicalinasmuch as Mrs. IV AYLirr introduces a ballad or two in the course of...

TIIE Committee on the Inns of Court have laid their report before the House of Commons. It entirely exculpates Mr. Harvey from the charges on the ground of which the Benchers of...

AN amusing document has appeared among the Parliamentary Papers of the week, in the shape of a " Report of the Select Committee of Inquiry on Drunkenness." It commences with a...

THE first edition of this work was published several years since.The second has reached us (we know not through that chan nel) from Naples, where it has been reprinted, with...