of so peculiar a kind as to tell little of the real position of parties. There was to be a contest between the Ministerial party, who are for maintain- ing the present state of...

been made by France towards the abolition of slavery in her colonies. With characteristic philosophy, our neighbours did not set about the work in the same blind...

AMONG the utilitarian recreations of Easter, is usually an increas& of political agitation about the country ; and this week has not proved . an exception to the rule....

to England, as if to convince us that he is not the intelligent man we took him for when he visited this country : the restrictions on the press are to apply to foreign papers,...

The usual Easter dinner was given at the Mansionhouse on Monday. Among the company were, the Earl of Jermyn, Lord Nugent, Lord Montford, Lord Dudley Stuart, the Bishops of...

THE illness of the Duke of Sussex cast a gloom over all the Royal Households this week, and the Court has known no other event than the mournful termination of that illness....

death of the Duke of SLSSET ; many years labouring under mortal ail- ments, and often forgotten by the world, from which his infirmities more and more withdrew him. He was a man...

The nomination of candidates for East Suffolk, in the room of Sir Charles Broke Vere, took place at Ipswich on Tuesday. The candi- dates were Lord Rendlesham, Conservative, and...

The Moderates still obtain new majorities in the election of Com- missioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. " The belief continues to gain ground," says the...

The Wesleyan Education Committee have issued a series of resolu- tions against the Factories Bill. They have come, they say, "reluctantly and painfully to the conclusion, that...

The removal of the mail-contract from Mr. Peter Purcell and his partners keeps up a sensation in Ireland, which has spread far and wide. The papers of the most opposite parties...

SATURDAY NIGHT. All the newspapers today teem with matter respecting the Duke of Sussex ; whose death is thus offichlly announced in last night's Gazette- " WHITEHALL, Amur,...

some barges out of use, caused a riot on the 11th. The military were called out, and the disturbance was not quelled until they had fired; one man being shot dead, and many...

There was a private view today of the new picture to be opened on Monday,—or rather, we should say, pictures, for each scene presents two different phases, and is in itself a...

April 22. LORD CHA5IBERLAIN . 8 OFFICE APRIL 22. — Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Sunday next, the 234 instant, for his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex,...

March ; but the only news has found its way into Galignanis Mes- senger of Thursday- " Major Frazer, who is one of the passengers, bears magnificent presents to her :Majesty...

East Suffolk were—for Rendlesham, 2,654 ; Adair, 1,643; Lord Rendlesham's ma- jority, 1,011.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has undergone a decided change during the whole week : the sellers have predominated, and the result of their...

Earl of Rosebery Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of Linlithgowshire, in the room of the Earl of Hopetoun, deceased.

ARRCVED-At Gravesend. 16th April. Pandora, Cothay, from Manilla; Indian, Mackie, from Ceylon; 17111, Planet, Thompson. from Mauritius; 20th. Florist, lInggrip, from Calcutta;...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Brompton, 17th April 1843. SIR—Although I am what is generally called a High Churchman and Tory, yet I believe I am by no means singular in...

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 135, Sloane Street, 17th April 1843. SIR—The very just observations contained in your weekly summary of Sa- turday last on the remarks which...

FAIRS. THE picturesque gayeties and rural delights of Fairs have well nigh passed away. Greenwich Fair, in the crowd of its hundred thou- sand souls, has become almost a...

IT was boasted the other day, that the great mass of the people of England " detest schemers and quacks " ; that "they in- stinctively see through jobbery and selfishness." Is...

A CORRESPONDENT in Washington, who shows that Lord BROUGH• AM'S view of the convention of 1824 between Great Britain and the United States, as opposed to the assertions of...

A NEW smuggling-trade seems springing up in North America. To the book-pirates of the United States, the prohibition to import reprints of English publications into the British...

THE Foreign Secretary of the Morning Chronicle, silenced on the subject of the Ashburton treaty, silenced on the subject of the Afghan war, has betaken himself to the French...

EASTER is the midsummer of the dramatic world, when life is at its prime: audiences have grown to their proper dimensions ; the theatres mark with some novelty the completeness...

corupanied with other attractions than those customary at this season : a new Amphitheatre of enlarged dimensions and improved construction, erected on the site of Astley's, was...

BROOKE, was announced to appear at Drury Lane, as Othello, on Wednesday ; but not coming to time, his debut is postponed. KNOWLES'S new play, The Secretary, also, which was...

MILITARY ADVINTCIIri, A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2. By Lady Sale Yerray. TaAvst.s. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. By John L. Stephens, Author of"...

: Les MI- moires du .Diable, a melodrama compounded of love law, and diablerie, which created a furor among the Parisians, preceded VERRET'S inimit- able personation of Le Pdre...

IT may be remembered, that on the return of Mr. STEPHENS from his mission to Central America*, he passed through Yucatan, visiting some of the ruined cities of the aboriginal...

WHEN the Physician of the Queen and of her Consort publicly ad- dresses a Secretary of State on Medical Reform, it may be predi- cated without much risk of error that some...

From April 14th to April 20th. Boons. A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2. By Lady SALE. The Pastor Chief, or the Escape of the Vaudois; a Tale of the, seven,...

BIRTHS. On the 12th April, at Portsmouth, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel MicHraz, of al, 5011. On the 14th, at Emma Parsonage. Norfolk. the Lady of the Rev. W. C. La Baerear....

Dtranici the last two or three weeks a great deal has been written and a great deal talked about a charge made against Professor TAYLOR. of Gresham College, of having gained a...

WAR-MICE, April 18.-44th Regt. of Foot-Lieut.-Geu. the lion. P. Stuart, fromthe 60th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General G. Browne. dec. 60th Foot-Lieut.-Gen. Sit W. C. Eustace...

P0 (Last Official Quotation Alabama (Sterling) 5p. Ct. Arkansas (1863) 6 — REIGN during the — FUNDS. Week ending Friday Evening.) Mexican Sp. Ct. Ditto (Deferred) 5 — 29i st...

Tuesday, April 18. PARTNERSHIPs DISSOLVED. J. Reynolds and J. Dods, Boston, merchants—S. A. Liebert and Co. Manchester. merchants; as far as regards G. Fiudeisen—Barlow and...