THE intelligence from France is this week more than usually interest- ing. By a royal ordinance, dated St. Cloud, August Sth, the Ministry has been changed. The shiftings of...

by the Spanish Government has turned out far more injurious to the commere of Gibraltar than the merchants expected. A letter says—" This place is but the shadow of itself. The...

in Asia, under General Paskowitsch, and two corps of Turks ; in which the latter were defeated, and their commander in chief taken prisoner. At the period of the last accounts...

parted great contentment to Orangemen, without dissatisfying thei r opponents. "Dublin Castle, 5th Aug. 1829. " Whereas, it bath been represented to the Lord Lieutenant, that...

STOCKEXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNING.—The news from Paris on Monday, of a change of Ministers and a considerable fall in the French Funds, caused a considerable sensation in our...

King was cele- brated on Wednesday (when his Majesty attained his 67th year) with more than usual demonstrations of rejoicing. About two o'clock, his Majesty, attended by the...

Inn, in Holborn, on Satur- day last committed, first murder ou her infant, and then suicide.. Both the bodies were found quite deadt the throats dredfully cut, and a slip of...

burgh Observer of Tuesday, continue to pour in upon us, from all sides, of the in- Guar Fumes IN SCOTLAND.—The most lamentable accounts, says the Edin- burgh Observer of...

. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND MR. PEEL. STANDARD —What are the motives, we ask, which ought to determine a Minister in associating himself with, or in recoiling from, a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. Wg expressed an opinion, when the rumour of accessions to the Cabinet first began to circulate, that there was nothing in it. We had not, like the Courier,...

IT curiously exemplifies the spread of English influence on the Conti- nent, that the new French Ministry is designated, both by its friends and its enemies, as a Tory Ministry....

SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY. We have received Lisbon Gazettes and letters to the 3d inst. The former announce that Don Miguel has been proclaimed King in the Portuguese islands...

WE remember to have controverted, in the Atlas, Sir WALTER SCOTT'S position, that the world is more susceptible of comic than of tragic impressions. Two singularly striking...

THERE are now two sources of the drama,—the French, and the popular novels. The only question regarding the origin of a new piece is, whether it is translated or derived....

THE settlement of the genders of things is whimsically capricioui. The neuter, the law of grammar, is very impatiently borne by the vulgar ; and we may observe that in the range...

LADY MORGAN, in her Book of the Boudoir, makes this remark- " I suspect that the current admiration for the mathematics, as an in- strument of mental discipline, arises much...

THERE is perhaps nothing in which the wealth of England is so faith- fully portrayed as in the splendid collections which artists or manu- facturers are enabled to make, in...

LITERARY SPECTATOR. M JACOTOT is a Belgian, who has introduced some new ideas into education, which, it we may believe the witnesses who speak of their results in practice,...

THIS is a portrait of antique loveliness—beautiful but severe, noble and pious, affectionate and devoted ; a pattern of a wife, a mother, a woman; enduring all hardships with...

MR. HORACE SMITH has deserted the historical for the moral romance Tired, as it would seem, of gathering his materials from old chronicles and books of history, he has ventured...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. DEAR Sia,—I am as much convinced as your correspondent deg:varies, of the injustice of the new regulations at the Inner Temple. I do not indeed...

" Night—blooming flowers." The poetry by Mrs. Hemans, the music by S. Cadman. THIS is a very clever canzonet. The melody is graceful, and has suffi- cient originality to...

TO TI1E EDITOR TIIE SPECTATOR, SI11,—Pens and ink to a considerable amount, much good paper, and many , valnabIe columns of the public journals, have been wasted on the subject...

PARALLEL BETWEEN THE SULTAN MAIIMOOD AND THE CZAR PETER. —There is no doubt, much ifs the character and history of Mahmood which may remind us ' of the Moseuvite reformer, Peter...

; MORTALITY On TI1E RICH AND THE POOR.—M. Benoiston de Chateauneuf, to !whom science is much indebted for his curious statistical researches, has lately submitted two memoirs to...

The Rev. Dr. Burton was installed Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on Saturday last —The Rev. J. Manley, M.A. a Wadham College, is presented to the Rectory of Upton Hellion,...

BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. A new literary and scientific monthly publication, called the London University Ma- gazine, is to appear on the let of...

WAR.OFFicE, Aug. 10, 1529.-let Reg. Dragoon Guards : Cor. H. S. Thompson, to be Li eu t. by purchase, vice Dick, who retires ; Hon. W. D. Irby, to be Cur. by purchase, vice...

Some anxiety is felt in consequence of the non-arrival of the Company's Ship Rose. She left Bengal on the 22d March, was seen by the Coldstream near the Mauritius on the 24th...

Tuesday, August 10. PARTNERSHIPS DissossvEn. - T. and C. Atkinson, Upper Stamford-street, archi- tects-Bell and Hodgson, Solihull, Warwickshire, maltsters-Glover and Dixon,...

Brains.--On the 6th inst. at Edinburgh, the Lady of Capt. Basil Hall, R.N. of a daughter-On the 8th inst. at Fintray-house. Aberdeenshire, the Hon. Lady Forbes, of Craigievar,...

20s. 8d tOats . ...... 12s. 3d. 1 Beans I4s. Barley • ..• ,• • 13 10 I Rye •••• • •• •■•• t 11 5 Nazi •e. ...... 41 CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, Ann. 14. Our supplies of Grain in...