Sir ANDREW LEITH HAY made a statement to the House on into the House of Commons which will give force to the provi- Wednesday, which throws light on the system of managing busi-...

on the *hole its complexion is rather more favourable. General M'DounAL and Colonel WYLDE, who were commissioned by General EVANS to represent to MENDIZ &HAL the sufferings of...

Ministry hung, was decided in favour of M.THIERS on Tuesday, by a large majority of the Chamber of Deputies. It was resolved to accept the compromise offered by the...

ABOLITION ACT. Mr. FOWELL BUXTON moved, on Tuesday, for a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Apprenticeship system in the Colo- nies, the condition of the...

of vessels trading on the Danube at the Sulinski mouth of that river. The first, which is to be a quarantine sta- tion, is on the island of Leti; the second, which is for the...

In our account of Parliamentary proceedings last week, we men- tioned that the Commissioners on Military Punishments appointed by Sir Robert Peel, had reported against the...

Chairman, by a majority of 53 to 38 over Mr. Sergeant .Andrews. The Board of Excise have issued an order for the dismissal of every Orangeman in the employment of the Excise....

in the gas- manufactory attached to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, on the Ux- bridge Road ; which contained at the time 650 inmates. The flames soon reached a building in which...

At the Shrewsbury Assizes, on Saturday, an action against the - editor and proprietor of the Shrewsbury Chronicle, for libel, occupied the Court for some time. The ground of the...

of Common Council was held on Tuesday ; when, after some discussion, it was resolved that the number of Common Councilmen should be reduced from 240 to 160. L Tl,is is a matter...

THE King and Queen arrived at St. James's Peace, from Windsor, on Monday afternoon. In the evening, the c n ten, and several members of the Royal Household, attended a grand...

Tuesday, in his eighty-ninth year. The Morning Post professes to be quite horrified at a rumour that a meeting was held in St. Patrick's Charity School-rooms on Sunday last,...

with the murder of Mr. Walsh, the Catholic priest, last autumn, has been acquitted ; and the two principal witnesses against him, who were either suborned by some parties, or,...

Dutchess of Kent's banquet, on Saturday, is said to have been most flagitious ; and their conflict with the Police such as could only emanate from persons accustomed to an...

Mr. Drummond, Secretary to Lord Mulgrave, has addressed a letter to the Dublin Society, lamenting the refusal of the Society to correct several defects in its constitution, and...

have been close, confidential, and affectionate. The further extracts in the Morning CAronick from the budget of Orange correspondence supply ample evidence of their intimacy....

The Oxford bigots have met with another disappointment. Agree- ably to the summons of the scrupulous pluralist and non-resident par- son of Corpus, Mr. Vaughan Thomas, a host of...

have been put in execution in the night, near the town of Athy, Kildare county. The Dublin Freeman's Journal describes the mode of proceed- ing in these cases- " At midnight,...

come vacant by the demise of Lieutenant-General Sir R. Bolton, G. C. H. He had been Colonel of the corps since December 1822. Frederick Hawkes Hawkes Nottidge, Esq. of' Berden...

who gives his name and address, (but whose communication, though dated the 8th instant, only reached us this week,) an account of the disastrous voyage of the Royal Victoria...

BRUDE- NELL from the Half-pay Unattached to the Lieutenant- Coloneley of the Eleventh Light Dragoons. Setting aside his Lordship's Toryism, this appointment is exceedingly...

tee up to last night is thus stated in the Times this morning— Votes knocked off on account of the Paving-tax 126 On account of the Pipe-water tax 67 -- 193 Tine original...

coach at Penritb, from Edinburgh, directed " Lady Brougham, Brougham Hall, near Penrith ; to be opened with the greatest care." An intimation was given to Lord Brougham of their...

SATURDAY NIGHT. A letter received yesterday from an officer in the neighbourhood of Vittoria, dated 9th March, states that a considerable improvement in the health of the...

of the 22d of November last, and continued to burn till about seven o'clock on the next morning. A letter dated the 23d of November says- " As the foreign facto' ies lay...

Arrived-At Gravesend, March 201h, Esther. Nicholson. from Mauritius. At Deal. 23d, True Britton, Ford, from Bengal ; Alice. Scales, from China ; and Courier. Dixon, from the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock market has been in a tranquil state, and the transactions of the week have been unimportant. The negotiations now said tube...

The Cygnet, of 2.39 tons, the first of tile two vessels intended to be employed in the coast-surveys of the new colony, left Gravesend on Thursday about noon, with one division...

HAVING formerly carried us to Jerusalem and Thebes, the most ancient cities of the Old World, Mr. BURFORD now transports us to the New World, and places his visiters on an...

THE APPROACHING TRIAL OF THE PEERS. SIR ROBERT PEEL gave notice, on Wednesday, that he should divide the House of Commons against tho third reading of the Irish Municipal Bill....

REFORM ACT AND THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT. I. Number of Inhabitants, by the census of 1831 20,454 II. Parliamentary Elections. Registered Voters— New Constituency Ancient...

IF any proof were wanting that Oxford University, in its present state, is unfit in many important particulars for a national semi- nary of education, it would be supplied by...

AMONGST the petitions presented to Parliament last week against the Taxes on Knowledge, there was one which could hardly fail to produce a pretty considerable sensation, though...

WHEN Members complain of the new mode of taking the divisions in the House of Commons, that it consumes too much time, we wish they would consider how much more of the public...

THE Report of the Committee on Military Punishments will not satisfy the country, nor, we trust, the House of Commons, that it is impossible to find an efficient substitute for...

THE concert of the 21st of March 1836, will be memorable in the annals of the Philharmonic Society, for an exhibition of vocal in- competency throughout an entire evening,...

To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 22,1 March 18:16. SIR — The strictures in your last Spectator on this important topic, do not appear to me to be made in your usual...

To THE Enlrolt Ok"ritE SrEcTATOR. .21st March 18,16, SIR — It is a great pity when a man has a gnod cause to support that he should use bad or fallacious arguments for the...

112ILLYNI'5 Beatrice di Tenda was brought out on Tuesday. It has been very little heard of on the Continent ; having, we believe, had very indifferent success even in Italy, and...

Ft cruet., Sevmour of Sudley; or the Last or the Franciscans. By Hannah D. Burden. In A vols Bentley. The Governess : or Politics in haat() Life. By the Daughter o f i the t i...

IN one sense Miss BURDON has not disappointed the expectations which her preface excited. Seymour qf Sudley is the product of care and thought. The story has been thoroughly...

Looxtrea back through the vista of the past, we have an impres- sion that a certain degree of celebrity was obtained among the novel-readers of a bygone (lay by" The Balance of'...

POLITE Letter-writers, as every one knows, are numerous enough : it was reserved for Mr. ANDERSON and the present age to infuse the essence of CHESTERFIELD into a letter of...

WHILST pleasantly pursuing his voyage to the West Indies, in the spring of 1809, Mr. LANoTors was engaged in admiring two men-of-war standing under easy sail. Being a passenger,...

To the Roman antiquary or historian the value and importance af coins cannot be overrated. As Mr. AKERMAN elegantly remarks, "With a foresight which has seldom been evinced by...

DESIGNS FOR THE PARLIAMENT HOUSES. THE architects, tired of waiting for the designs for which premiums have been awarded, have opened their exhibition of the rejected ones; but...

Tint papers composing the olla podrida of' these volumes origi- nally appeared in Fra.ser's Magazine. The framework in which they are set displays no peculiar novelty or...

Tux art of good breeding consists in being at ease yourself, and putting others so too: its object is to produce that state of equable pleasure in society which is defined to be...

Ax elegant little tract on this subject, which has found its way to us, is quite a puzzle. It has neither titlepage nor author's name ; and its publisher—the King of...

OUR second visit to this exhibition, while it confirmed the impression left by the first as to the fewness of its prominent attractions, made us more intimately acquainted with...