NEWS. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. America-President Jackson's Message to Congress. 25: convention to consider the Tariff, 1034. Algiers-Defeat ol'a column of the French, O&; the Dey...

IN our last Number, we related the dangerous appearance of the French capital on the night of the 22nd December, and the spirited manner in which the storm which threatened to...

No year ever expired with a more honoured memory than the year 1830. In the secular calendar it must be always marked with a red letter. It has been great in deeds, and it is...

their PERSONAL and SOCIAL RELATIONS, willbe published in our next Number. Though scarcely less important than the portion of the "Anatomy" which crowds our present Number, the...

as the journals say, vigorously; that is, he is proceeditra b in the same path as his predecessor did. On Monday last, it was in- tended that there should be a grand assemblage...

that the live Powers have finally agreed to recognize Belgium. M• LA.FITTE alluded to this fact on Tuesday, in a speech to the French Chamber .of -Deputies, when he declared the...

the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE quitted the neighbourhood of 'Warsaw on the 4th December, at which time he had still about 9000 men with him. The Polish army is gaining rapid...

of the King to have the whole of his family about him on Christmas Day, the marriage of Miss Fitzclarence and Viscount Falkland did not take place until Monday. The celebration...

Park, Baron Rolland, and Sir John Pattesson. Mr. Justice Park delivered the opening address ; which will probably be printed, as Baron Vaughan's in Hampshiee has been—at least...

made by Mr. Stanley's Committee on Thursday night, last week. Mr. Hunt was chaired on Monday. The validity of the return will now be left for a Committee cease House of Commons...

Horse Guards, calling upon all pensioners of the Royal Artillery throughout the kingdom, to present themselves to the chief magistrates of their district, and be sworn in as...

chine, about thirty bags of unthrashed barley, and a couple of cottages, were burnt down, on the farm of Mr. Thomas Elliot, near Newton Abbott. The labourers, says the Western...

attended on Thursday at Marlborough Street Office, to support twenty-six informations, which he had laid, principally against the nobility and gentry, whose servants had strewed...

to the Duke of Hamilton, the Hereditary Keeper, to have Holyrood Palace put in order for the reception of the King and Queen, who in- tend to visit Scotland in the course of the...

SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two o'ctoca. We have accounts from St. Petersburg this morning, which state that the Emperor of Russia has given orders for extensive military...

An accident prevents us from giving this week our usual report of proceedings at the Stock Exchange. They have been, however, of a very commonplace character. We subjoin a list...

The Company's ships, Astell and Canning, from London to China, arrived at Anjier—the former on the 10th, and the latter on the 14th of August. The William Fairlie was at...

• BIRTHS. On the 23rd Dec. in Wilton Place, Belgrave Square, the Hon. Mrs. E3IERY, of a son and heir. On the 22nd Dec., the Lady of Joux TOLLEMACHE, Esq. of Tilston Lodge,...

WATZ-OFFICE, Dec. 28, 1830.-2nd Rest. of Drag. Guards Cornet H. R. Addi- son to be Adj, vice Chariton, who resigns the Adjutancy only-2nd Regt. of Soot: Staff-Assist-Sorg. T....

The Duke of WELLINGTON is a grave subject: he probably never made a joke in his life ; and it is dangerous, it seems, to make a joke upon him. A poor carpenter, who was...

WE lay before our readers this week, the first part of the corrected tables of our" Anatomy of the House of Commons." Since the first publication of the tables, we have been...

the great number or poaching atrocities this week. No sooner has one rural enormity somewhat subsided, than another, an old one, springs up. It would seem as if the bad feeling...

PART FIRST—THE MEMBERS EXHIBITED IN THEIR RELATIONS TO THE CONSTITUENCY. I. TriE PLACES ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. II. THE MEMBERS ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. III. THE PARLIAMENTARY...

0 u R. Tables would be incomplete without some notice of the anomalous varieties of the elective suffrage, and of the methods by which a few persons have gained the ascendency...

Our notices on Ireland are more meagre than we expected. A gentleman well versed in its local poli- tics, andpledged to supply us very largely with infortna. tion on that branch...

If we could reject from our estimate the costliness of elections, we should pronounce the Counties of England open, with very few exceptions. The smaller freeholders are too...

AT the commencement of a new year, we feel disposed to take a cursory glance at our Musical prospects and projects. There is not much to excite any extraordinary expectation—no...

It would be unsatisfactory to notice in detail the defects of a system where there is no compensating good ; we shall therefore give a general outline of the state of Scotch...

THE trials under the Special Commissions are so similar in their features that they want even the small recommendation of ordinary crimes—variety of folly. Looking at the whole...

THE BOOK OF THE WEEK. Moon's second volume of his Life of Byron is published ; and since we received it, we have been reading it night and day : it has kept us out of bed, and,...

THE Pantomimes this season have one grand fault—want of con- nexion; and it has been the capital defect of all the performances of this' kind which we have seen with critical...

NEW PRINTS. The Dutch Girl. Mr. NEwrow.s works possess such integrity of character, and his style is of so excellent a quality, that we cannot fail of being gratified by his...

Ascalon. Battle pieces are at best uninteresting pictures, but we always seem to have seen Mr. COOPER'S before : his sleek horses and glossy heroes, of the same satiny texture,...

This is Mr. WrixtE's "Diploma Picture"---as the painting is called which an R. A. presents to the Academy on his election. We had rather it had not been engraved, for it will...

This is the portrait prefixed to the second volume of Mr. MoottE's Life of Lord Byron. It represents the noble poet in a sailor's dress, standing on the sea-shore, in an...

One of the forcible and spirited etchings of the late Joins SCOTT, which has lost none of its brilliancy or vigour under the graver of Mr. WEBB. It is a fine specimen of the...