26 MAY 1838

Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Spectator

MINISTERS are again in a sad taking; being outvoted, and caught in the meshes of their own poliey on the Slavery question. Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, who has contrived to make himself...

Page 2

The talk about changes in the French Cabinet continues ;

The Spectator

but the session of the Chambers is drawing to a close ; and the Ministers retain their power, regardless of Parliamentary defeats, with which they have become as familiar as the...

There are rumours in letters from Hanover, that Prince GEORGE

The Spectator

is to marry a Russian Princess; and that one of the articles in the marriage treaty is that his wife shall sign official documents for hittiwthe poor Prince being hopelessly...

According to the last accounts from Spain, Don CARLOS had

The Spectator

endeavoured to conciliate the people of Biscay and Navarre, by offering to guarantee all their privileges. Some activity had been exhibited lo the Queen's Generals, ORAA,...

Berates; mutt Protretringd in Valli/Merit.

The Spectator

THE IRISH POOR. In the House of Peers, on Monday, after several petitions bad bee n presented against the Irish Poor Bill, Lord MELBOURNE rose to move that the bill be read a...

The ports of Mexico having been blockaded by French vessels,

The Spectator

inconsequence of the refusal of the Mexican Government to make oompensation for outrages committed on French,subjects, and for the seizure of their property, open hostilities...

Accounts from the United States represent Mr. VAN BUREN'S cabinet

The Spectator

to be in a very uncomfortable plight, in consequence of the loss of strength in the recent Connecticut elections. It is not supposed that they will be able to carry their...

The statement that the bodies of LOUNT and MATTHEWS, banged

The Spectator

by Governor ARTHUR at Toronto, were dissected, is con- radicted in the latest accounts from Upper Canada, and it is to be hoped .% as not true. SUTHERLAND has been sentenced to...

Page 7

Clo Court.

The Spectator

TI1E Queen rode on horseback on Sunday afternoon for about three hours, and again on Monday evening for more than two hours. Her Majesty's companions were the Dutchess of Kent,...

Page 8

(le ifIrtruptail.

The Spectator

Sir Francis Burdett appeared in the scene of his "old glory," the Crown and Anchor Tavern, on Monday; but not with his ancient éclat. Ile had engaged to preside at a meeting to...

A meeting of the Anti-Slavery Delegates Was held at Brown's

The Spectator

Hotel, Palace Yard, on Tuesday, after the vote on Sir Eardley Wil. snot's motion was made known. The circular report sent to the daily papers states that "A deep fctlirg of...

The Court of Aldermen met on 1Vednesday, specially summoned by

The Spectator

the Lord Mayor, to consider the following letter from Lord John Ilue sell to Sir Matthew Wood. 17th Muhl?. Dear Sir Matthew—Having received the resolutions adopted l. the...

The British ( - Owen, an immense steam-ship, intended to carrygoods and

The Spectator

passeimers between London and New York, was launched oil Thursday, Innis the dockyard of Messrs. Curling, Young, and Ca, the builders, at Limehouse. She belongs to the British...

Page 9

Earl Grey has declared himself favourable to the immediate termi-

The Spectator

nation of the Apprenticeship —Leeds Mercury. The averaion of the Whigs to patronage and jobbing is known to all the world; and we are therefore stterly at a loss to accoaa for...

bc Countril.

The Spectator

The Gloucester election terminated on Tuesday, as we anticipated, in the return of Mr. Hope ; whose majwity over his opponent, Colonel Webb, was 666 to 379. It is said that Mr....

Th e Directors of the East India Company have just ordered

The Spectator

their museum to be opened to the public every Suturday, from eleven to three, free, and without tickets. Yesterday, at a meeting of the parishioners of Lambeth, a church- te of...

aiWcrIlattraitd.

The Spectator

The most interestiug events of the week are the arrivals of the Sirius amid the Great Wt stein steam-ellipe, alter a successful navigation of the Atlantic. 'Fbe Sirius reached...

SC( 111...1N1).

The Spectator

The Illeei:ng ill Glasgow to petition for Universal Suffrage, and its coacemitatas, was held on IlIonthay last. '1 he trades marched in procession to the Green. The weather was...

IRELAND.

The Spectator

Private letters and tha Weterford pnpars contain ecco nts of multi- tudinous meetings in the counties of Kilkenny and Wexfurd, upon the longeagituted question of Tithes. These...

Page 10

POSTSCRI PT

The Spectator

SATURDAY. • There was a monstrous quantity of palaver in both Houses last night, on thoroughly exhausted subjects. In the Lords, the Bishop of EXETER set to work on his old...

On the night of the 27th of April, a fire

The Spectator

broke out in Charleston, South Carolina, which destroyed 1,300 buildings, and property esti- mated at five millions of dollars, including a new and splendid hotel, the new...

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord, Prince of Benevento, died on

The Spectator

the evening of the 17th instant. His disease was a gangrene, which carried him off in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Some time before his death, he bad thought proper to...

--_—c " A CONSTANT READER," who writes to NE On

The Spectator

time subject of Church Establislimrots,k informed, that we did not, in praisin g Mr. WARD'S speech or his" troth and mai& nese," intend to express approbation of the ptinciple...

Page 11

ELEGIES ON A DECEASED STATESMAN.

The Spectator

"Smut lacrymm return, et mentem wort/Ilia tangent." Prince TA Nn dead !—Yes, pray for truth receive it : He does not say it, so you may believe it. It. The bones Of TA LTEv...

MONEY MARKET.

The Spectator

th e fret of the sale : as that operation was on account of the Court f Chancery, 1 1 is not probable than any but ordinary inducements have pre( iled on It. Money is rather...

The French papers of Thursday contain little news. Ti e

The Spectator

Monterur his a telegraphic despatch frosts Bayonne, confirming the statement of the evacuation of Estella by Don CARLOS, on which some doubt had been thrown. Gangs of...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The Spectator

Arrived—In the Channel, Sir I. R. Reid, Cumming ; Mary Ann, Anderson ; At.tb, Spatkes; and Gloece,ter, Itrooks, from Nlaurit ins ; Bestow,. Smith. from t Cape ; thissa, Anderson...

Page 12

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Spectator

WHIG ADMINISTRATION OF THE FINANCES. THE Exchequer Accounts exhibit a decrease in the produce of taxation, comparing the last with the preceding year's, of upwards of two...

Page 13

GROWTH OF TORY INFLUENCE IN SMALL TOWNS.

The Spectator

THERE is reason to apprehend that the operation of the Muni- cipal Act, in some of the smaller towns, is very different from that which the Liberal supporters of the measure...

WORKING OF TIIE CORN-LAWS IN UNCERTAIN SEASONS.

The Spectator

THE price of the best wheat in the London market is from 66e. to 73g. a quarter; and the last average price being 39s. I Id., the duty on foreign corn i 27s. 8d. God foreign...

Page 14

POWER is now at the Haymarket. 'rime farce called The

The Spectator

Irish Bar- rister, in which he has been playing, is stupid and gross in itself, and POWER does not make it the medium for any very refined humour. He is the hero of another...

CHARLES MATHEWS, before quitting England for America, has been giving

The Spectator

a fresh taste of his quality as a mimic. In a smart, lively, and alliterative vehicle for personification, called Patter versus Clatter, he first appears as a loquacious...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

The Spectator

Sinfonia Pastorale Aria. Signor IVANUFF, " Fri Iwo a me" di /simmer- mow) Fantasia, Pianoforte, Mr. Dllm,m It, On Thenws front °sit- Maine Tell) Caratina. Mrs. li. It....

THE THEATRES.

The Spectator

Tits tide of sums.; seemed ebbing from Covent Garden,.—TALFOURD'S tragedy vunishing with the last renting wave : but the tumultuous roar of public apprimbati (((( swelling the...

Page 15

MUSICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEASON.

The Spectator

So dull a musical season as the present we do not remember. The music-shops, to be sure, present their usual array of bills set off with the accustomed diversity of type and...

The Minister for Public Instruction in Egypt has fallen into

The Spectator

dis- grace, in consequence of having bastinadoed a poor water carrier to death. The correspondent of a German paper notices, as a proof of advancing civilization in the country,...

Page 16

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

The Spectator

STATISTICS, The Proaress of the Nation, in its various Social nod Economical 'Relations. from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Present 'Time. II y G. R. Potter,...

itt R. PORTER'S PROGRESS OF THE NATION. '

The Spectator

IN tl.e fulness and distinctness of its facts, as well as in the com- pleteness of the conclusions to be drawn from them, the present volutne is perhaps inferior to the first....

Page 17

MADAME TUSSAUD • S REMINISCENCES.

The Spectator

MADAME TUSSAUD is the niece and adopted daughter of M. Curt- T ies, a Swiss medical man, celebrated some seventy years ago, for his skill as a modeller in wax, and invited by...

RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS, SECOND SERIES.

The Spectator

THE public is " obliged with this second series, in consequence of its admiring patronage of the first ; but we question whether it will be regarded with the same favour. The...

Page 18

THE PALMER'S LAST ',Esselte. Some seven years have elapsed since

The Spectator

we welcomed Mr. CALDER CAMPBELL'S Lays of the East, as " really a volume of poetry." In the time which has passed, he has improved, but ret advanced; at all events be has not...

POETRY.

The Spectator

To perceive the elements of difference, would not appear to be a difficult thing: but the absurdities which people are constantly com- mitting show that it is. Not only readers,...

Page 19

THE COSMORAMA.

The Spectator

Tins popular exhibition, a series of miniature dioramas, has reopened with a change of views ; in some of which we remark a greatly im- proved style of execution, and more...

FINE ARTS,

The Spectator

LORD FARNBOROUGH'S BEQUEST TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY. SINCE the munificent bequest by the Reverend Ilotweti. CARR of his entire collection, the National Gallery has not been so...

Several other volumes of verse are before us, but they

The Spectator

require nothing more than a passing word. Poem., by JOHN SCHOLES, is a collection of occasional pieces, commonplace in subjects, of no particular merit, and dashed by an...