the Conti- nent. Don CARLOS, having crossed the Ebro, has established his head-quarters at Cantavieja, in Lower Arragon, on the confines of Valencia. He intends to proceed to...

a matter of course, the only public bills which it was desirable to pass, the Lords have rejected. Their Lordships were not asked to consider the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ;...

nounced on the 3d instant, la a letter from the Home Secretary to the Patriarch of Lisbon.

PARLIAMENT will be prorogued by the Queen in person on Tues- day next; a dissolution will follow immediately ; a new Parlia- ment will be summoned; the elections will commence...

deaths being -IGO or 500 a day.

BURY. Sergeant Spank ie. it is said, will be invited by the Tories; Lord BROUGHAM said, that the bill was as much a matter of course .. I am decidedly in favour of Triennial...

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS BILL. Lord DUNCANNON moved the Lords, on Thursday, to read this bid a second time. He stated that its object was— To give facilities to those persons...

The ceremonies observed at the interment of the corpse of the late King were, with slight variation, the same as those described in the Spectator of last Saturday ; but some of...

Captains Ferguson, but who was suppo:ed to be Lord William Beres- ford, was accused, with two other young men, of breaking off door- knockers and assaulting the police. The...

THE Queen came to town from Kensington, and held a Court at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. The Lord Mayor, with a deputation o f Aldermen and Common Councilmen, presented...

The Protestant Dissenters of the Three Denominations, whose mi- nisters bold their conferences at Dr. Williams's Library in Redcross Street, have unanimously resolved to...

At a recent meeting of the Trades Union in Dublin, Mr. O'C,ta nell delivered the following speech. It is more joyous than rule Mr. O'Connell's which we have read for some time :...

a considerable number of passengers, was proceeding down the river, on Sunday morning, she was run against, off Eritb, by a brig of about 300 tons burden. The shock completely...

A letter has been received by the Mayor of Hull from the Earl of Durham, accepting the invitation of the Council to an inaugural (limner to be given to him as Lord High Steward...

sessions against the Marquis of Waterford, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Baronet, the Honourable Augustus Charles Hyde Villiers, and Ed- ward Horner Raynard, Esq. The facts as stated...

of Protestantism, and his confession that he had been hired to traduce the Catholics, were got from him while he was delirious. This, how- ever, is positively denied by Mr....

to a rumour that the Earl of Shrewsbury, with the cognizance of Ministers, had entered into a negotiation with the Irish Earl of Portarlingtou for the purchase of the Earl's...

Lord Cotten- ham is an active canvasser for Lord Teignmouth in Marylebone. The Courier says that the Customhouse and other Government officers in Cuithness-shire are aiding Sir...

eye by the explo- sion of a cannon. His Lordship was superintending the launching of his s;tlendid yacht ; on which occasion he recklessly applied his (agar to this priming. The...

the most nume- rous company, and under such circumstances would give utterance to the feelings of an honest heart. At the time Talleyrand first came over here as Ambassador, he...

Gilt .h,ly 1437. gm—Allow site to call your attention to another pretty instanee of the job- bing practised by the Trustees of our National Gallery, or their agents and...

5th July, to inform his subjects that he inteurla to abrogate their constitution, and restore the government of the country, in form as well In substance, to its uncient...

the Dundee Waterworks Bill proved fatal to that bill; for although it was passed in the House of Peers, with the promise on the part of the Tories, that next year (when there...

SATURDAY. So, Lord MELBOURNE has prevailed upon the innocent young Queen to undergo the ceremony of proroguing the miserable old Pan bament in person. No doubt, a certain...

rations to subdue the Cireassialis.

routine business. The Peers refused to receive a petition from some Quakers against capital punishments, which the Duke of SUSSEX attempted to present : the reason was, that...

of human nature :" the wivice is thrown away, and its disinterested motive doubted. 1'. is wrong in his guess, and will not he gr.ttilled ht the way he wishes : fur further...

srace 1:XCIRNOE, FKIDAT AFTERNOON. The issue of money consequent upon the payment of the Dividends has et. tires reli, vet the pressure under which the market has for some time...

Tot: l ulussctt.n, :::1.11 the temple of Janus, 11.14 tia o fronts—one, stately a n d solemn, wliose pritteipal featioe Collie portico, for the day Visiters ; the other !to iag...

AMENDNI ENT ACT. The Report of the Poor-law Committee has been published. It commences with a statement of the course which the Committee adopted in the conduct of the inquiry;...

VARIOUS READINGS OF LORD DURHAM'S LETTER TO MR. BOWLBY. NOT liking to be quite unfashionable, as " the DURHAM policy" is at present and as " Reform " itself is becoming, we are...

WITH a self-complacent chuckle the Downing Street journalists dwell upon the idea that Ministers have "succeeded in damp. , ing the steam of Organic Reform." The boast of...

FALSTAFF " misused the King's press damnably," but not a whit worse than the Whigs are now misusing the Queen's name. 11 we are to believe the Downing Street journalists, before...

THE circumstance of WILLIAM the Fourth being buried on a Saturday, furnished an opportunity to some penny-a-liner to re- produce a bit of newspaper gossip in the shape of a "...

MR. HORSLEY PALMER is a candidate for the City of London on false pretences. He in a Tory : in private lie will not deny it; every body knows it. Yet, see what lie uttered at a...

LITER/MT CORSR*1•0111115iCK, The Letters of Charles Iamb. n lth n `;ketch of his Life. By Thom ., fooni. Esq . Sergoant•At.I.4w. In 2 vols. 1/•,;,”1. TR1vEl.s, Th.. Spas of...

THE incidents in the life of Cit var.1:ti LAMB are few and conanon- place ; and the circumstance which determined Iris pursuit of lite- rature may probably be resolved into a...

THE impression with which we lay down this volume of Country Stories, is that we have been passing a sunny morning with a charming gossip, in a comfortable, well-ordered...

SOME years since, a facetious " old man " visited some of the lead- ing Spas of Germany, and blew thence a series of bubbles, of such a light and spirited kind as to attract...

of fair- ness, would be a valuable addition to our literature, if' those outbreaks of popular excitement were traced to their origin in the sufferings or prejudices of the...

nursery, written in the style of a novel, and in an unchristian spirit of sectarian intolerance. Professing (honestly choogli, per haps) to be an introduction to the study of...

of Benin, written by himself, has been edited and published by a friend for the benefit of the unfortunate voyager ; who, in addi- tion to severe personal sufferings, by which...

First King of Bavaria. The attraction of this little volume chiefly consists in the royalty of its author ; for the merits of the poems them- selves do not seem of a very high...

MR. YARRELL (who has succeeded the late Mr. BENNETT in the Secretaryship of the Zoological Society) is following up his /its- tory of British Fishes by a History of British...

the present, and the future; investigating the origin and narrating the history of locomotion in former days, describing and criticizing existing vehicles, and promising to...

BENTLEY a narrative of the ill-fated Expedition into the Interior of Africa, by the River Niger, in the Steam-Vessels Quorra and Alburkah ; which will obviously require a...

likely to be popular, are WI'Dialimin's edition of Cowper's Poems, with a plea- sant Life by the editor ; and a pocket volume, containing CAMP- BELL'S Poetical Works, excepting...

Colonies, is, in the first place, too late in the day; for though it advocates an extensive system of emigration, it is very far inferior to the principle of colonization now...

a Cal- cutta reprint of papers which have formerly appeared in period- icals both English and Indian. The subjects are various ; the interchange of verse and prose is agreeable...

of five hundred pages—that it commences with the history of that cotton-spinning town from the period when " Celtic emigrants from the Continent spread northward, and covering...

1. Mrs. E. E. PERKINS'S Elements of Botany, with Illustra- tions, is expressly designed for young ladies ; all equivocal matter being carefully, but perhaps not very wisely,...