in the House of Commons never created so little sensation as those which were issued on Wednesday. It has been held out as a sort of threat to Ministers, that they would have to...

THE change in the relative position of the two great parties in the state proceeds regularly and quietly. One of the first outward signs of its consummation occurred when the...

THE CHANGE OF PLACES. Both Houses reassembled on Monday, after the adjournment of a week, to give time for the formation of the new Ministry. The Lords met at three o'clock ;...

Some quarrel has been going on for several months between the feeble Sultan and a contumacious Bey at Tunis ; and' rance and England, if hints in the Continental papers are to...

The West Middlesex Reform Registration Association gave a dinner at% Wednesday to Mr. Bypg, the Member for the county, in a building which was erected for the occasion in the...

THE Court history has been filled during the week with the dry record of Ministerial movements and arrangements: its proper subject, the daily life of the Royal circle, has been...

Sir Robert Peel's friends in Tamworth held a meeting on Monday, and adopted an address expressing unbounded confidence, and'the gra- tification which its promoters would derive...

At the Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, on Tuesday week, a large and respectable assemblage entertained Dr. Hunter, late Professor of Anatomy in the Andersonian University, on the...

It was understood in Dublin that Earl Fortescue would take his departure for England on Thursday. Earl De Grey is not expected to arrive until the end of the month. A meeting...

CASE. [The following correspondence originated in a question which Co- lonel Napier asked Mr. Roebuck—whether the newspaper reports had not misrepresented his observations in...

Tuesday's Gazette formally announced the appointments of several of the Ministers—namely, of the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Goulburn, Lord Ellenborough, the Earl...

The Dryad. Hard, sailed idea Mauritius for London on 25th February. sprung a leak at sea, and was abandoned by craw and passengers, who have since arrived at the Mauritius....

his sixty-fourth year. He married Harriet Susan, the daughter of Mr. Francis Bateman Dashwood, in 1806 ; and succeeded to the title in 1820. He leaves three sons ; of whom the...

offer himself as a candidate for Sunderland." He was expected in the town yesterday, and was to address the electors at noon.

Thursday, to hear a statement by Mr. James Curtis, of Ohio, on the capability and willingness of America to supply England with corn. Many hundreds of persons were unable to...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. More of the Ministerial appointments are officially announced in last night's Gazette, with a few new names.—Earl Jermyn, the Honourable Dawson...

publishers, as well as an Advertisement in a subsequent page. we learn that the Correspondent who last week mentioned Homers French Grammar with such commendation, was by no...

place on Tuesday next, and the polling on Wednesday. The candi- dates are Mr. William Wilberforce, a Tory, and Mr. Busfield, formerly the Liberal Member for the borough.

THE first night of the season is a sort of theatrical reunion : the pub- lic, as it were, shake hands across the stage-lamps with their old friends the players ; the warmth of...

a com- mercial arrangement between France and Belgium were proceeding ra- pidly. The proposition to suppress the customhouses between the two countries bad been indefinitely...

Chronicle, contradicting in most indignant terms the report of her intention to ap- pear on the stage ; treating it as an insult, and attributing its origin to some party who...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. This has hitherto been a very quiet week ; and if we took the events of each day and analyzed them, both as regards news and fluctuations in...

of three others-at the same time. The crews of two steamers were amusing themselves in a public-house at Bankside ; and with them was Robert Clarkson, a man who is said to have...

week been con- vulsing the audiences in a farcical trifle of the slenderest construction, called the Bump of Benevolence; in which KEELEY plays Guy, a rustic tapster, and his...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 8th September 1841. Sea—I have read in your number of the 4th instant an article entitled " Photographic Miniatures," in which, after comparing...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 7th September 1841. Mn. Enrroo—In the able paper which appeared in your last number on the Alleged Necessity of the Corn-law, you assume that "...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Bungay, 7th September 1841. Sia—I have been a reader of the Spectator from its first publication ; and have never failed to recognize the...

TUE Eau, OF SCARBOROUGH'S RELLEF BILL. WHEN the bill for relieving the Earl of SCARBOROUGH from cer- tain pains and penalties which lie had incurred by voting without taking...

A rum has been presented by Lord LANGDALE in the House of Lords, entitled "an Act for consolidatiug and amending the Laws relating to Attornies and Solicitors practising in...

ON a previous occasion we directed attention to the disgracefully inefficient provision made for the poor in Scotland. We are glad to learn that the Association, formed about...

ONE distinguishing feature of the late Whig Administration was its love of literature. It did not wait superciliously till a man's literary talents were proved by works : with...

Nor long after SCHILLER produced his Robbers, some young fellows of respectable families, having in a fit of boyish folly eloped from school for the purposepf beginning their...

Tuts once fashionable place of entertainment manifests a stronger spirit of vitality in its expiring throes than those who have observed the depressed and languid condition of...

liwrosrv. The Pictorial History of England; being a History of the People as well as a History of the Kingdom. Illustrated with many hundred Wood-cuts of Monumental Records ;...

Miss Muserarre is a follower of L. E. L.; and emulates her pro- totype in mournful sentiments, harmonious but diffuse versifi- cation, and a profusion of elegant imagery....

THESE six volumes contain the Ilistory of Great Britain, from the earliest times of which any historical records exist, down to the close of the reign of GEORGE the Second. It...

IT is unfortunate for provincial history that no great genius has yet devoted himself to the subject, and furnished a model which suc- ceeding writers might follow ; for though...

the Lady of Major GEORGE DARBY GRIFFITH, of a daugh!er. On the 1st September, at More Critehbell, Dorset, the Lady of the Rev. GEORGE SLOANE STANLEY, of a SOH. • On the 2.1, at...

Tuesday, September 7. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Fox and Lowe, Nottingham. solicitors-Richards and Pidwell, Madron, C rnwall, brewers-Hill and Powell. Spa, Gloucestershire,...

BRITISH FUN D S. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. Prato. 895 898 89} 891 891 891 90 90 891 891 891 904 sh ut - -- - - -- shut 931 984 935 934...

WAR OFFICE, Sept. 7. - 2d Regt. Drag. Guards-Lieut. C. H. Key. from the 15th Light Drags. to be Lieut. vice Ede, who exchanges. 1st Regt. of Drags.-Comet C. C. W. Sibthorp to be...