House of Representatives with a view to its modification. On the last motion, the majority, refusing to refer the consideration of the subject to a Committee, was so great (122...

and quarter ended on Monday, has elicited gratulatory observations from all parties—except those whose obliquity of vision sees the advancement of ruin and demoralization to...

Vienna papers to the 30th ult. announce that the Porte is making great preparations for the Spring campaign, and that several ves- sels laden with grain have entered...

LORD ANGLESEY did not resign the government of Ireland ; it was taken from him. His frank intercourse with the Irish appears to have wrought, at a very early period of his vice-...

satisfied with all that has been done to redress the grievances of which they complained ; but it seems the remedial measures stop far short of their desires. In a set of...

a little on the offensive, but without success,• in. the neighbourhood of Varna. Marauding parties venture from time to time to make in- cursions on the left bank of the...

failed ; the Emperor continuing decidedly averse to what are sup- posed to be the wishes of the British Court in regard to the settle- ment of the Government of Portugal. A...

revolt (as it is called) in Catalonia and Valencia. The line of troops towards the frontier of Portugal is to be strengthened. Prince Miguel's physicians have announced his...

his Ma- jesty are principally composed of Whigs. Thus, for instance, at the royal entertainment, on the last day of the year, were the Dukes of Devonshire, and Dorset, Lord and...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. -The opening of Consols and the payment of the Dividends have caused a great deal of business this week, but the transactions upon the whole have...

service of Mr. Stephenson the fugitive hanker, were on Monday examined at Hatton-garden, on the charge of stealing wine from their toaster's cellar in Bartholomew's Hospital....

TIMES—On looking over the lately published distribution of our military force, we observed—what indeed we could hardly be unprepared for—that an enormous proportion of it...

MORNING CHRONICLE—The Duke of Wellington cannot complain of any disposition on the part of the people of this country, or the press, to be unjust towards him. So far from it,...

TIMES —.The sentence passed upon Lord Anglesey by the Cabinet court- martial has been dismissed from that service to which he was an ornament and honour. The publication of...

GLOBE—We wish most heartily the Government would take the people of Jamaica at their words, and allow them and the other West India colonists to govern themselves, and to...

MORNING JOURNAL—Our contemporaries are perplexing themselves sadly to account for the increased productiveness of the revenue at a juncture when the manufacturing and...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. SOME weeks ago, we enjoyed a laugh at the coxcombry of those newspapers that undertake-the guidance of people in the conduct of their own private business....

WE last week remarked with regret on the disposition of a part of the press to add stimulus to the public excitement on the subject of the Edinburgh murders. The Chronicle,...

" Look not the gift horse in the mouth."—Sancho Panza. THE performance of FARQUHAR'S piece of iniquity, which men censure as they read, and read while they censure, is, for...

THE man who desires to write fine nonsense with good accepta- tion, should turn the pages of certain articles in the Edinburgh Review with a daily and a nightly hand. There is...

WE have recieved the following communication respecting our notice of Mr. BARCLAY'S hook on the West Indies. " TO TIDE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "24th December, 1828. " SIR—I...

MR. SPECTATOR—I should be much obliged to you, or to any of your correspondents, if you or they would inform me whether a Roman Ca- tholic can fill the post of Geveriti in...

Naval Sketch Book a very amusing production ; and Sailors and Saints*, like its predecessor, has nothing belonging to it better than its title. Pages half occupied by dammees...

is a collection of the portraits of the King's Wild Beasts, drawn by Mr. HARVEY and engraved in a curious style of excellence in wood by Messrs. BRANSTON and WRIGHT. The life...

" La Conspiration, ou Van mil huit cent vingt un."—This is the title, or rather the first part of the title, of a new Parisian novel, by the Duke de LEVIS, which at the moment...

George Ferris Whidborne Blortimcr, B.A. and Scholar on the Michel Foundation, Queen's College, was appointed Head Master of the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle.upon-Tyne,...

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFER51F.NTS. The Rev. C. W. Eyre, ALA. of Brazen-Nose Colle g e, Oxford, to the Canonry and Prebend of Strensall, vacant throu g h the preferment of the Rev....

We have no arrivals from the East since our last, except the Caroline, Hare, from Batavia. The first Company's ships of the season have been despatched this week as...

War-Office, January 9. Hospital-Staff—Staff-Sur. Donald Macleod, M.D. to be Deputy Inspector of Hos- pitals, vice Ebenezer Browne, deceased.

BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Tractatus Varii Integri ; a Selection of the mdst valuable Productions of the Fa- thers of the Church during the first four...

Br ItTfl s.—On the 3d inst. at Bishop Thorp-palace, the Lady of Sir John B. John- stone, Bart. of Hackness, of a son and heir—In Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, the Lady of...

Tuesday, Jan. b. PARTNERS HI /'s DIsSOLVED. T.; T, and T. R. Cobb, Banbury and Shipston-upon-Stour, bankers—H. Donald- son and J, and M. Wotherspoon, Liverpool ; as far as...

We continue most abundantly supplied with Foreign Wheat, having had this week upwards of 67,000 quarters ; and of English Wheat and Flour coastways the arrival is also tolerably...