THE speechmakers in the House of Commons, judging from their inactivity during the past week, appear to be almost exhausted, and glad of an opportunity to rest from their wordy...

hand, it is asserted that the terms of peace between the Sultan and ME- HEMET ALI are concluded upon, and that the Egyptian army com- menced its retreat on the 10th of April ;...

same cordiality as their brethren of Bourdeaux. It appears tole- rably certain, that if the impolitic restrictions on the commerce Of France and England with each other are...

1. Limn CHURCH REFORM. On Monday, numerous petitions were presented against the Irish Church Temporalities Bill, from the Irish Clergy, and a few from the English Clergy. Lord...

the murmurs of his half-ruined subjects, the threats of his powerful opponents, nor the absolute hopelessness of succeeding in any one of his irrational prospects, can move him...

submitted to the Chamberof ,Deputies. a project relative to the sinking-fund. The object of the measure, which has been looked ior with a considerable.degree of interest, is to...

who are to attend the Cortes was going on. Count ALrAmIRA, a nobleman of Constitutional principles, had been returned for Madrid. It was hoped that the Cortes might yet become...

in the little court of Don PEDRO, the members of which seem to have nothing better to do than to fabricate calumnious reports against each other, and to sow dissensions between...

THE King and Queen arrived at St. James's Palace, from Windsor, on Wednesday, about one o'clock. Soon after two, his Majesty held a Levee ; which was very numerously attended....

A meeting of the Committee for conducting the reelection of Sir John Hobhouse, was held at Richardson's Hotel on Saturday evening last. Mr. De Veer was called to the chair. The...

Faou THE LONDON GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, 3d May 1933.—The King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Reverend HUGH KEN, of -Norton in Hales, and of Bellaport, in the county of...

the Vestry, to take measures for the repeal of the House and Window tax. Resolutions pledging the meeting to use every legal means to obtain the repeal were passed unanimously....

discuss the report of the Committee upon Alderman Wood's bill for establish- ing a day and night Police in the city of London. The Committee had struck out a clause which gave...

land and British School Society took place on Wednesday morning, in Exeter Hall ; Lord Bexley in the Chair. From the report it appeared, that the receipts of the Society for the...

which had beert obtained by the Earl of Lonsdale for a criminal information against the proprietor of the Cariisle Journal, for publishing several libels against him, was made...

to con- sider the propositions of Government for the emancipation of the Negroes. The impression of the meeting was, that if the plan is executed, the _Colonies. must cease-to...

'Messrs. Dennis Scully and George Lynch, two gentlemen of Lime- rick, were brought up for judgment in Dublin on Monday last, the former for writing, and the latter for sending,...

On Monday evening, a meeting was held at the Red Lion Inn Yard, Coventry, to consider the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers. Mr. John Robinson took the chair. Several gentlemen...

resided at No. 17, Wellesley Street, Chelsea, was found murdered, in her bed- room, on Saturday last. She had not been seen since the previous Thursday night, when she went to...

with selling seditious publications among the crowd assembled before the hustings in Covent Garden. One of the papers was filled 'with rigmarole like the following. "Alas! poor...

BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., at No. 9, Lower Berkeley Street, Portman Square, the Hon. Lady IIEATHCOTE, of a daughter. On the 2d lust., the L. of Sir CFIARLES 'WITHAM, of...

Arrived—At Gravesend, May 7th, Duke of Buceleugh, Henning, from Bengal ; and Robert Qnavle, Bleasdale, from Bombay; and 9th, Cresar, Thompson, from Bengal. At Deal, 8th, Duke of...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Turning over the first volume of the new and very beautiful edition of Sir Wal- ter Scott's Poetical Works, which has just made its appearance,...

Margaret had a meeting last night, at which it was unanimously resolved to call upon Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to resign his seat for Westminster; and to convene a public meeting on...

reducing the expenditure of the Army. It is understood that the patronage system of keeping up so many skeleton regiments of Cavalry will be altered, and that permission will be...

aside the election of Colonel EVANS, on account of some informalities. Should another election take place, would not the result be the same — or worse ? But the threat of a...

TO 3t. LE RED ACTEUR OF THE SPECTATOR. May 8th, 1833. SIGNOR—Vill you grant leave to a poor student of St. Luke's, at Rome, to ask to the great Sare MARTIN SHEE, vy he always...

SATURDAY. Authentic letters from Paris state, that the secret societies there now reckon more than 2.5,000 members. The Government is greatly alarmed. Young LOUIS NAPOLEON...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. purpose of providing the necessary funds for the compensatory emancipation of the slaves of our West India Colonies, has been again revived ;...

SIR JOHN HOBHOUSE—THE CONTEST FOR `6 WESTMINSTER. IN commenting last week upon Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE'S resigna- tions, we took it for granted that they were both bond jide,—that...

WE have before alluded to a charge which has been brought against the new members of the House of Commons, and those who have found their way into it in consequence of the...

THE evidence given before the Bristol Eloetien Committee has just been published ; from which it appears, that in this instance, as in so many others, the difficulty of...

SWARMED at that little hive of a theatre, the Olympic, on Wednes- day night. Previous to the performance of SHERIDAN KNOWLES'S Wife, an address written by its author was spoken...

WHEN 'the present Speaker was reelected, he particularly dwelt, in his inauguration speech, on the information respecting the forms of the House of Commons which he should be...

found that the youngest of their children had been strangled by its eldest brother, seven years old; who, on being interrogated as to his induce- ment to commit an act so...

NOTHING can more strongly evince the sinking- condition of the Italian Opera, than the exhibition of Tuesday evening. In the very height of the season, with a company consisting...

THOSE of the present week have been HANVES, on Monday even- ing ; Nicitoesost and WILLMAN'S, on Wednesday morning; and Mrs. ANPERSON'S, on Friday morning. The first was...

WE have been unable, until this week, to report on MALIBRAN'S appearance at Drury Lane. We regard her as the first singer in Europe : her range of voice and of style is more...

Hrwronv, History of Europe dining the French Revolution. Advocate. 2 Vols. 8vo TRAVEL% Sketches in Greece and Turkey ; with the Present of the Turkish Empire FICTION. The...

THIS is a charming volume, for it embraces both the useful and the beautiful. It is rightly named Sketches : we are favoured with outlines and a few glowing colours—details only...

THIS is the best history of the French Revolution, in English : we should, however, be very sorry if a better were not in the womb of our literature. Mr. ALisoN's history is the...