- • PEERS! Tun question, of a creation of Peers has been keenly and ably agitated during the week; by the leading Morning and Evening. Journals, the Times and the Globe. The...

now, for suspected places, from six to twenty days; for infected places, from ten to thirty days, according to the discretion of the officers. Vessels are permitted to perform...

many miscal- culations with the Newspapers, as if Mr. CROKER had been arith- metician-general to the whole of them, will bid good-bye to the Committee to-day—we hope for ever....

con- siderable majority, against the law for abrogating the anniversary of Louis the Sixteenth's death. The difference between the two Chambers, however, will probably be lost...

week we have a White insurrection in St. Lucia. On the 4th January, the White inhabitants met in the Court-house ; when resolutions of a very stiong kind were passed, and a...

York come down to the 27th of January. The number of plantations described as destroyed is 150; the loss of property is said to be 15,000,000/.; of the Blacks, 2,000 are...

1. THE REFoitm BILL. 0mm the Speakel's leaving the chair on Monday, Mr. A. Tituvou rose, pursuant to notice, to move the inser- tion of Stockton-upon-Tees in Schedule D. Ile...

the per- formance of what seems to be the universal political drama — All in the Wrong. Mr. MACKENZIE, late member for the county of York, has, for his attachment to the popular...

of January; but they were not quite so violent as the St. Lucia people. One gentle- man was very earnest for a declaration against taxes ; the motion was not seconded, but it is...

Janu- ary. The only intelligence received from St. Jean de Acre is, that it had not been taken. The Egyptian soldiers are not apt for sieges. lintAxim reckoned greatly on a mine...

The people of Windsor received their Majesties on Saturday, as is well their part, with all heartiness and homage. The streets were lined with spectators to witness their...

The workmen have commenced building the column which is to support the bronze equestrian statue of the late Duke of York, on Callum Terrace, at the head of the steps leading to...

GREAT 'MARLOW Etacriost.—The election for the borough of Great Marlow took place on Saturday ; when Lieutenant-Colonel Clayton was declared duly elected. An immense number of...

The number of cases remaining in London on Saturday last was 64; yesterday the number was 106. From this number, however, we must in propriety deduct the 17 cases of Marylehone...

of prophecy to foretel how the fast-dey, which has been appinted ter the 721st of this month, will be observed. We can, without presump- tion, become its historians by...

Mr. O'Connell made his appearance at the National ITeion on Sun- day last—" the better day the better decd." He delivered a rt;eummendittory of peace awl good fidlowship, of...

of the Trent, 'held the last forty years by Earl Clarendon, will be abolished Oil his death or resignation. It is rumoured that Alajm-General the Honourahle Sir C. (4 reline,...

The correspondence between Messrs. Johnston, news agents, Dub- lin, and the Postmaster-General, of which we gave some time ago a full and particular account, has been printed by...

The French Chamber of Deputies are not yet done with time Budget. In the discussion on the foreign part of it, on Tuesday, M. PERIER entered into a long, elaborate, and...

Lord BEL:tionE, dated January 16th. His Lordship mentions the liberation of Mr. Box. He mentions also the murder of a illr. Holmes, at Belmont estate, said to have been...

At the meeting of the Society on Thursdav the 1st of Man:11,-111s Royal Highness the Duke of SessEx, President, in the Chair,—Lord Viscount Cole and Charles Oetavius Morgan,...

TO TUE EDITOR. 01 TUE SPECTATOR. 23rd January l32. SIR—We have lately heerel much of retrenchment, but it has hitherto pro- dueed but little beneficial efr.er. It mar, indeed,...

The Kath,th e Stewart, Forbes, for Van [1 Loans Land, put into Plyrumlly on the 2nd inst, in eonseipience of two deaths on hoard from cholera. She lms since sailed for...

STANDA Ito— The v;ew of the prospects of the Church, opened by Lord Eldon, is the reverse of encouraging. In this, however, as in all other cases, a clear and manly view of the...

STOCK EXCITANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols on Saturday closed at 827 to 83 for the Account; Exchequer Bills at 7s. to 8s. prem. The Funds have fully maintained their price during...

No people owe less to their rulers, and more to themselves, than the English. Wherever the public are left to their own management, they go on and prosper; wherever the...

THE LITTLE BILLS! THE Anti-Reformers have at length screwed their coUrgge to the sticking-point; a preternatural birth has taken place, in the shape of two little Reform Bills,...

WE are induced to make the following observations by a letter we have received from " One of the Public :" a communication • from so candid and enlightened a person can never...

THE Members of Parliament are for ever clamouring against the Press, and acting on its suggestions. This mock independence and real subservience, while it.amuses, gratifies us....

' TnE West India planters say they are ruined, or very near it. They have said so any time these twenty years, and therefore peo- ple are apt to take their complaints cum...

MR. IRVING, driven by anticipation from his pulpit, has taken his sl and in a magazine: the voice of warning now arises out of Mr. FRASER'S shop in Regent Street. " To warn this...

THE Theatres are becoming picture galleries. Painting and sculp- ture seem to be supplanting poetry and the drama; RAPHAEL, we suppose, will succeed SHAKSPEARE, and the Thespian...

WE noticed, last week, the vast increase of late in the number of Knights. There is one order, however, which bids fair in point of number soon to overtop the whole of the rest;...

THE various annual exhibitions are giving " note of preparation ;" and the artists are hard at work on their respective pictures. The British Institution, which we have already...

WE class these two musical performances of the week together, because the same report will suffice for both. It is our usual cus- tom to look over the schemes of such musical...

THE SE are two of the completest works the press has as yet pro- duced on the interesting subject of our North American posses- sions. Colonel BoucnErres book is almost...

THE Neilgherry Hills, or Blue Mountains of Cohnbatoor, are the retreat of the British invalid whose health the heat and insalubrity of the Madras station have impaired or...

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, A Description of a Singular Abori g inal Race inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills. or Blue Mountains of Cohnbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. By...

THE Life and Reign of George the Fourth is now completed, in the same sketchy but forcible manner in which it was begun and conti- nued. The writer has treated the late King...

THE second volume of Mr. GLEIG'S Military Biography contains the conclusion of the life of MARLBOROUGH and the lives of PETER- BOROUGH and WOLFE. We have already recorded our...

Is a tragedy in "King Ca.mbyses vein." The Hun is a bloody denunciator ; he breathes curses, and lisps death. He never speaks but to order for execution ; he never sters but to...

Four Voices. By T. F. WALMISLEY. This ought to be a very popular glee. Mr. WALMISLEY is well known as a labourer in this delightful school ; and if his glees have not claimed...

Songs of the Seasons. Composed by the Author of the "Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels." Miss FLOWER, the author of this set of songs, has considerable claims to...

MR. SWAIN is an eloquent writer : whether he is a poet or not, may, perhaps, not be so decidedly said. He possesses considerable facility of versification, a gentle train of...

THE author of this book is the same WILLIA.:4 CARPENTER whose political writings, sold and circulated without the newspaper stamp, caused him to be imprisoned. It is only...

in Robert le Diable. By F. KALKBRENNER. The favourite Shawl Dance, from AUBER'S Opera La BayaWre, arranged for the Pianoforte. By H. HERZ. The first of these pieces is probably...

Remembrance; a Song. By W. PATTEN. " Can I forget thee ?" a Ballad. By C. EULESTEIN. We place these songs in the order of their several merits. Mr. No- vELLo's is a flowing...

eminent Composers, with Original Compositions, adapted for Congregational and Private use, with an Organ or Pianoforte Accompaniment. By WILLIAM SHORE, Manchester. The Church...

, If, as the titlepage sets forth, these quadrilles "have been performed at Almack's, the nobility's balls, and every country assembly," what commendation of ours can enlarge...