the orators of the French Chamber of Deputies with ample scope for the exercise of their debating powers. The practice in the Gallic House of Commons is to discuss and vote upon...

THE battle is not always to the strong, and seldom to the braggart. When the Duke of WELLINGTON reads the reports of speeches delivered at Conservative e;nners by the men whom...

THE accounts from Brighton arc more favourable this week than the lust. The King is quite well, and the Queen much better. The Dutchess of Gloucester has also rallied, and hopes...

A meeting of the Common Council was held on Thursday. Mr. Richard•Taylor advanced to the table to take the usual oaths ; and expressed his wish to be sworn by holding up his...

to intended movements of the Queen's forces. ESPARTERO is about to direct his operations towards the French frontier, in order to cut off the supplies which the Carlists are...

in the eastern part of the island of Cuba, and that the Con- stitution of 1812 had been proclaimed. Troops had been sent from Havannah against the insurgents ; and it was...

Lord Cottenham, that by order of Lord Clive and Mr. Clive, the deeds of the old Ludlow Corporation, the delivery of which had been refused at the instance of Mr. Lechmere...

been introduced into Malta ; mentioning, however, no date. This is probably a mere repetition of a report, circulated with some pains for months past in Italy, apparently with a...

Protheroe, who is supposed to be too Whiggish. The Leeds Times recommends them to discard that gentleman, and invite Colonel Charles Napier. But they would do well to consider...

in Broad Street, and the proceedings of the Carlist Inquisitors, turns out to be a fabrication ; as we intimated at the time we gave the woman's story. The girl who accompanied...

refusal of the Town-hall having obliged the Liberals to separate into small parties. The principal party assembled at Mr. Cresswell's rooms in Old Square ; and there Mr. .11maz...

In conveying to Sir William Molesworth the resolutions by which the Leeds Reformers pledged themselves to support Mr. Baines and Sir William at the next election, Mr. Goodman,...

Parliament praying for the total abolition of Church-rates, but repudi- ating Lord Althorp's plan of making up the deficiency out of the na- tional income. —North Derbyshire...

constituents in South Northumberland, assuring them that the Irish Catholics are very fine fellows, with a keen sense of the " point of honour," and that it is a shame for the...

closed against their workpeople ; and on Monday a number of the master cotton-spinners of Leeds added to the extent of the disastrous affair, by causing a turn-out of their...

After two days' discussion, the National Association, on the motion of Mr. O'Connell, agreed to the following resolutions on the Poor-law question, instead of those brought...

few miles from the town, he was met by a procession of the varioes trades, with banners and music, and escorted in triumph to the Cour- hems , : where at numerous hotly of the...

We mentioned last week, that after the delivery of his inaugural ad- dress to the Glasgow students, on Wednesday, Sir Robert Peel dined with the Faculty of the University. The...

was immensely rich. It is supposed that Baron O'Loghlen will suc- ceed to the Rolls, and perhaps, Mr. Attorney-General Richards to the seat in the Court of Exchequer. But...

Perth at the next election. Poor Mr. Ross ! when will he be once more a Mem- ber He has surely been a candidate long and often enough. Had he not better try Dundee—where be is...

Ministers have prevailed on the King to make three new Lords, and to give three who are already in the House of Incurables a step in the Beale of promotion. The three new...

of the Bishop of London. Some time ago we noticed a protest of the Dean and Chap- ter of St. Paul's against the Bill for transferring Cathedral patronage to the Bishops, by...

in the Bois de Boulogne, between Major Andrews and Lieutenant Barker, Loth in his Majesty's service. The meeting arose out of a discussion on 'intim: y tactics. After three...

James Graham's scat, Netberby Hall. His house in Privy Gardens is ordered to lie ready for his reception by the :3Ist. Lord Lyndhurst left Paris on Wednesday night, for...

continually dropping into his hands. Not long since the Duke of Gomm>: went to his lust home ; then the Puke of MONTROSE ; and now (to say nothing of the Irish Rolls) we have to...

two great Reform dinners—to Lord Morpeth mid Sir George Strickland at Leeds, and Mr. Ewan at Liverpool. Among the speakers at the Leeds dinner, there were no Ruth . call, but...

Thursday, Mr. 0' CoNNELL announced that "Sir MICHAEL 'LOGHLEN was now Master of the Rolls; and would, if any thio to Lord PLVN- KET, (which the Lord forbid!) make an excer llor !

r of Deputies by a greater majority than was expected even by t air most sanguine friends ; the Spanish paragraph in the address being adopted, on Thursday, by a vote of 231 to...

... ... a! T■ino ■ Lane Theatre on Monday next. We are no ignorant or what has Leen .golttg tin in that quarter : but we prefer silence on the subject this week—we shall not MA...

conse- quence of the appointment of ALAIX by ESPARTERO to the chief command in the Basque Provinces. This proceeding of ESPARTERO has raised a commotion in the Cortes.

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. A NELTINC. of Independent Members of the House of Commons was bell at the Reform Club this afternoon. It was attended by most of the Metropolitan...

have in the Tory papers of the morning :a long report of a Conservative dinner at Totries; where Sir John Yarde Buller, Sir Thomas .Ackland, Mr. Montague Parker, the Earl of...

Hos- pital, amongst a variety of information on the objects, resources, and advantages of the charity, contains the following analysis of the cases of " Accident and Emergency"...

to se- lect a candidate to oppose Mr. HODGSON HINDE at the next election, it was unanimously resolved that Mr. WARD should be invited. It would be impossible to point out a...

ties ; one broker alone Stork. The invest extended to the Fore Dutch Stock, and sli yesterday may be att a part of the Termi the year 1823, technically known by the name of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—You have in a recent paper given the public some excellent comments on the shameful abuse of the Brevet. I wish you would enlarge on the...

Arrived—Off Penzance, Jan. 16th. Ambassador, Attwood, from Madras; and 17th Maria, Palmer, from Mauritius. At Liverpool, 13th. Mary Ann Webb, Lloyd, from Bengal. At St. Helena,...

BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., at Coalstottn, Lady SUSAN RAWAy, of a daughter. On the I ith inst., at Canaan Lodge, near Edinburgh, the Lady of Erman RANALD- SON MACDONELL. Esq.,...

MINISTERS AND HIS MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION: THEIR PLAN FOR THE SESSION. WHEN, in 1835, the Lords showed a disposition to reject the English Municipal Bill, PEEL, who had taken...

WHILE the laity are meeting in all parts of the country to peti- tion the Legislature for the absolute and unconditional abolition of Church-rates, the clergy, with their usual...

ONE of the most consiatent and independent Reformers in the House of Commons, Mr. H ALL, Member for the Monmouthshire Boroughs, has announced his intention of retiring from...

BREVET PROMOTIONS. Mist sults acknowledge that they are responsible for the general conduct of the War Department, though not for each individual appointment. They are...

of the part left to the stage, and the best of his personations of the characters of SIIAKSPEARE. It has the frankness, the gentleness, the refinement, the sensitive melancholy...

NOTWITHSTANDING the homely proverb of the silk purse and the sow's ear, we went to Covent Garden on Tuesday to see the effect of Mr BULWER'S endeavours to patch up his...

stage of CoventGarden on Thursday. Its purpose is to demonstrate the extraordinary truth, that a dandy is not of necessity either a milksop or a scoundrel. The Country Squire is...

Fart years have passed since a Dissenter was considered not only a very unfashionable and vulgar sort of person, but one who deserved to be mulcted in pocket—to have the profits...

EXCEPTING one mind, which has hitherto exercised itself on fugi- tive productions, Mr. HALLAM is the only writer of the present day who entertains a due sense of the importance...

THE Madrigalians had their annual Festival on Thursday, at Free- mason's Hall. On this occasion, the members not only assemble in great force, but it is their custom to invite...

Iltsvontr. Intiodnetion to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth. Sixteenth. AO Seven. teenth Centuries. By Henry Hallam, F.R.A.S., &c. Vol. I. Hurray, BIOGRAPIIY, The...

THE entire copy of this delightful work, which we have at last received, enables us to state, that its value consists in complete- ness, and the guarantee which it affords of...

Is the story of a squire, who, in a moment of opportunity, stabbed his knight when he was lying disabled from wounds inflicted by his vanquished enemy. To this crime he was...

of short tales, poetry, and miscellaneous papers of different kinds; some of which having been deemed of sufficient merit to be sur- reptitiously reprinted by editors in lack of...

Woon, Esq., are a proposal for a new and popularly scientific nomenclature of birds, by which the present discrepan- cies and contradictions in their names shall be avoided, and...

of the ADDISON: he was born in 179'2, became private Secre- tary to Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES, and died in 1815. It would also seem that he conducted or projected a periodical called...

of the 11 ` Dublin Penny Journal," professes to contain an authentic ac- count of the various places of pilgrimage and penance that are visited by the Irish peasantry, as well...

a species of allegory. The scene of it is a "serene leaf-latticed chamber," where a " (lying poet calmly slept ;" the human figures are, we conjecture, his mother, three...

of the author, expressed elsewhere, the moral of this piece is, " to show how intractable and ungovernable natures are often better subdued by love and piety than by force." The...

the composition running in the author's head ; but with this unfortunate difference—that he attempts to weave wild inci- dents into a connected story, instead of presenting a...

THE dulness of the week has only been broken by one publication of any promise—Captain C. ROCHFORT SCOTT'S Rambles in Egypt and Camila : and that arrived at too late a day to...

miracles, the Pocket Guide to Modern Geography is quite a wonder. In a smaller compass than that of many card-cases, here are thirty-three maps, consisting of the world, its...

praise- worthy object of showing the irrationality and injustice of the prejudices too commonly entertained against stepmothers, and the mischievous influence of ignorance and...

whom has made a tour to Constantinople, through France and Italy, and thence by way of Malta; and is questioned by the stay-at-home as to what she has seen on her journey. The...

tale for young persons. Its object is to exemplify " the use of talents" in contributing to the means and enjoyment of life, and the hollow- ness and instability of worldly...

Ma. Harnom delivered his concluding lecture on Painting, at the Mechanics' Institution, last evening. It was a recapitulation of the lead- ing points of the course; and was...

with delight the appearance of a new and successful labourer in the nursery-gardens of literature. Miss Louis thaws:, the au- thoress of the Stories of Aunt Alice, evidently...