decree suspend- ing the constitution of that country, was briefly mentioned last week. It appears that the constitution thus set aside by the ipse dixit of King ERNEST, was that...

Fsw nuisances last for ever ; and the PEEL Parliament came to an end on Monday. First, the Queen went in state, and closed the session; and then an Extraordinary Gazette,...

vernmad with Lind Gosfordws pop-gun proclamation. The tiroclamatio a

The House of Lords was crowded, on Monday, to witness the sere. mony of prorogation, by the Queen. At twelve o'clock the doors of looking very pale, but not at all flurried, and...

BATii. The Whig Captain Scobell, finding he has no chance, and having done all the mischief in his power to the popular candidates, has retired. BIRMINGHAM. The Tory friends of...

Just before the Commons were summoned by the Black Rod, on Monday, Colonel THostesom asked Mr. Poulett Thompson, whether the proclamation of the King of Hanover, declaring that...

the advice of our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tha . rsday the tenth day of August next ; we do for that end publish this our...

The Common Council yesterday agreed to invite the Queen to a grand entertainment in the Guildhall. It is supposed that the 9thsf November, the Lord Mayor's day, will be fixed...

THE Queen went in state on Monday to prorogue the Parliament. The procession left Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes before two o'clock. The Royal state carriage was drawn by...

Mr. Buckingham has been visiting his friends at Sheffield, previously to his departure for "Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows wbere." On Wednesday evening, he met his late...

Mr. O'Connell has made the letter of Lord Durham the subject of three motions, first, that the political creed of Lord Durham is the political creed of the General Association ;...

fought near Chalk Farm, between Mr. Hugh Dalton and Captain Thomas Reid, R.N. Mr. Dalton was accompanied by the Honourable Mr. Price, and Captain Reid by Mr. Kennedy. On the...

Duncombe, to prevent the holder of one of his accep- tances for 1.000/. from taking legal measures to compel payment of the name. Mr. Duncombe bad paid into court all that be...

Duk e of Sussex from the list of Lords Justices to act in case of the Queen's death while the heir presumptive is abroad, and also against the appoint- ment of the Lord Chief...

entered the capital on Saturday last, amidst firing of cannon and the acclamations of the people. Mr. Planta and Lieutenant Gordon (query, the saintly Tory of Exeter Hall, once...

of Nor- thumberland with her compauy at Sion House, previous to their de- parture for Alnwick Castle. Her Grace, who was especially invited to Buckingham Palace, was received by...

In Tuesday's Gazette, numerous appointments of Ministers of State and O ffi cers of the Household were formally announced. Lord Mel- bourne, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. More O'Ferrall,...

been opened with the Duke of Marlborough for the sale of the borough of Woodstock ; adding, that the story had not been contradicted. It turns out to have been founded on fact ;...

WAR•OFFICE, July 18.-Brevet-Col, Sir W. Tuyll, on half.pay of the 25th IAA* Drags. to be Major-lien. in the Army ; Lieut..Col. C. P. de Boatel, on half-pay 50d1 Foot. to be Col....

blockheads would have a "blow out" on the 12th of July. In many places they walked in procession, and in some there were violent collisions with the police. The Marquis of...

George's, Hanover Square, are using threats and intimidations to procure vote, for Sir George Murray, as Lord Nor:nanton and Mr. Henry Baring can testily ; and to the...

SATURDAY. The intelligence brought by the Continental mails this morning is insignificant. Some stir has been made in Paris by domiciliary visits of the Police to the houses of...

" Every misfortune " say the optimists, "is attended with some advan- tage to the sufferer." An undeniable proposition, supposing that you extend indefinitely the meaning of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR, London, July 1837. tin—I have been highly gratified by the perusal of some sensible remarks in the Spectator of the Orb instaut, relative to the...

ST.CIC EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The prices of English Funds have continued within Ath of those of List Sa- turday. The settlement of the Account for July occurred to - day ;...

Arrived — At Gravesend. July 15th. Conlelia. Crighton, from China; 17th. Enter- prise, Roberts from Bengal; sod Europa, Brown. from Mauritius; 18th, Zambia. Owen, from Bengal;...

Ia the 'Whigs were really all that they affect to be at Court, would Lord H I LL be permitted to remain at the Horse Guards? The Com- mander of the Forces has more patronage...

THE rough style in which the Times lately spoke of the Queen and her mother, was an error of the Leading Journal in which the Tories generally did not participate. On the...

POLITICAL GOSSIP OF THE WEEK. REFORM having been made unfashionable, and that " supineness or apathy," which Lord DURHAM at once deprecates and pro- motes, being the order of...

Ins limitation to " honest" and " sensible " is made advisedly : we have nothing to say, at present, to those who yield up their souls to the self-delusions, the hypocrisies,...

THE announcement contained in the following paragraph of fashionable news, in the journals of Monday last, of that illus- trious foreigner the renowned Baron MUNCHAUSEN being a...

THF. Germans are about to erect a monument to their illustrious countryman BEETHOVEN, in his native city, Bonn. They have a feel- ing towards the arts, which we, as a nation,...

" The Preston and Glasgow Railway passes through Gretna Green; and it will be possible to travel from London to the forge matrimonial, and back again, on the same day. The...

THE lighter entertainments at the Haymarket have been agreeably varied by a pleasant petite comedy, culled A Tale of a Tub, written by Mrs. GORE. The scene is laid in Paris, in...

A NEW opera, called Ildegonda, composed by M ARLIANT, was produced at the King's Theatre* on Tuesday. MARLIANI is one of Rossini's satellites—pursuing a regular prescribed...

BIGIMAIPSY , The Life of John Thelwall ; with Notices of his Times and Contemporaries, and Remarks on the State of Society during the State Trials in 1794 Macr ne Tsav ,...

ALTHOUGH his abilities were not so great, nor his influence so extensive as his friends have fondly imagined, Citizen THELWALL was a remarkable man. He emerged from obscurity...

THE real value of any thing diminishes with the facility by which it is done or acquired. When, in travelling, the delays on the road were considerable, people, it is true, were...

THE form of this admirable work is that of letters to a lady. Its object is to popularize the stupendous wonders that have been discovered in astronomy, (and chiefly by the...

the poem. We hardly know which among the bevy to as they get old. fling the handkerchief to : so bewildered are we amongst veils, scarlet It has long been known that the...