THERE have now been four registrations under the Reform Bill. Ample opportunity has therefore been given for bringing out the advantages as well as defects of the system ; and...

RICE, after much urging, has raised the interest on Ex- chequer Bills to 21d.per diem, and those securities are now at a small premium. The price of wheat is lower than it was...

ail we have been now for some time in the habit of receiving. RODIL and ALA1X, having proved themselves unable or unwilling; to cope with the few soldiers and the numerous band...

THE King and Queen appear to be living in a very retired manner at Brighton. They ride out occasionally, but :see little company. Among the few who have have the honour of...

tention of Louis PHILIP. SOUL? IS in communication with the King; and so are THIERS and GERARP; Of course.their consul- tations have given rise to rumours of Ministerial...

a report in the Paris Courrier Francais, said to have been received by the telegraph, that Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN and VAN DER WEYER had been forced to quit Lisbon in consequence...

A Court of Aldermen was assembled on Tuesday—the first since the election of the new Lord Mayor. Lord Mayor Kelly expressed a hope that he should be supported by his brother...

on Thursday, to receive the annual report of the Committee. The only point worth noticing in that document refers to the recent registration. The Commitee state, that "They...

letter, what that journal calls an "interesting view of the present State of affairs in the Canadas." "MONTREAL, Oct. 12, I836.—We are at length going on quite quietly in Upper...

pecuniary engagements regularly. The difficulty of its situ- ation, and the existing embarrassment in the Money-market generally, are alleged - as . extuses for the defalcation....

nisi for a cri- minal information obtained by Mr. Dyer against the proprietors of Bell's New Weekly Messenger, was discharged ; a declaration having been inserted in the paper...

We gave, last week, a long list of' towns in which the Tories are almost sure to lose at least one Member at the next election ; but we are reminded by correspondents that we...

that the officer of the Court had not been able to lay hold of Mr. Lech- mere Chariton; and that he should therefore subtitute service at places where that person might be...

Margrave, Regent's Canal Basin, City Road, was destroyed by tire on Sunday morning. The loss is considerable, but covered com- pletely by insurances. An awful statement of an...

of the country. In some places the rates are carried, in most rejected. It is difficult to say whether the Church party should rejoice in the one case more than in the other....

Liver- pool on Wednesday. Mr. Birch, who seems to be a half-and-half Reformer, proposed that additional schools should be erected by the Corporation, wherein education on the...

In Yorkshire, men are beginning to talk seriously about the abolition of the Corn-laws. The Leeds Times says— C' Corn cannot be admitted at a low rate of duty under this...

pointed Recorder of Hastings ; very much to the annoyance of the Times, which sagely opines that a Tory Town- Council ought to have had the nomination of a Recorder out of its...

in the diocese of Ely, has taken it into his head to become an itinerant agitator against the Poor-law. The Mayor of Bury St. Edmund's complained of Mr. Maberley's conduct to...

el meeting of the General Association was held On the 17th instant, at which Mr. Sharman Crawford brought foi it ard iris Tithe resolu- tions. I le ennInleneed his speech by...

was granted for the appointment of a receiver over part of the estates of Mr. Otway Cave, M. P., in the county of Tipperary, on account of tithes due by certain of his tenantry...

Mr. O'Connell was present ; though a report had been spread in the course of the morning that he had left town for Kerry to see his son Maurice, who was represented as being in...

a nephew of Lord Farnham, is to be the Tory candidate for Longford. Mr. Samuel Barrington, brother of the Crown solicitor for Mun- ster, is mentioned as likely to receive the...

on the late run on the Banks, has been published in the Dublin Evening Post. Mr. O'Connell says that, as Governor of the National Bank, be had been requested to use his...

The Marquis of Douro has been this week on a visit to Eail Grey, at Howick. He is expected, we understand, to pay a visit to the Duke of Northumberland, at Alnwiek...

notice has been set up in Brasennose College, Oxford, by Dr. Gilbert, Principal of the College and Vice-Chancellor of the University— " Alter long and anxious consideration, I...

lisle, has stopped payment. Its liabilities are very limited, and the stoppage is therefore of little importance.—Courier. We announced in our last the intention of the Glasgow...

Mr. Murray, the Lord A dvecate, met the electors of Leith on:Friday, end addressed them on the proceedings of last session—attacking the Tories, and defending his friends and...

Tories to dine with them on some day in the month of January, when lie will repair to Glasgow to be installed Lord Rector of the University. On the subject of the Rectorial...

and others in drier situations at one-sixth of their entire crop. These cal- culations, however, we should fain hope, cannot have a general appli- cation. In the mean time, the...

bank in the North of England has stopped payment ; but the City waxim, in times like the present, is to believe nothing but the Gazette. The failure, ho ever, of the eminent...

on at head-quarters-- tate the following passage in a leading article of that journal this evening. " Some of the questions on which Reformers differ, perhaps hardly admit of a...

Archbishop WHATELEY and their neophyte, NOLAN. It was positively asserted, that NOLAN was the Archbishop of ARMAGH'S curate, and that he was " inhibited " from preaching in...

of Dundee," contradicting a statement of the Times, that Sir Henry Parnell owed his election to the influence of Lord Panmure. It was perhaps scarcely worth while to notice this...

and that in- trigues are on foot among the Swedish nobles to set aside his son OSCARR, nd restore Legitimacy, in the person of Prince VASA ; to whose claims Russia is favourable.

and within forty hours after the breaking up of the meet- in", the darning Advertiser presents us in London with a report of their proceedings, occupying three columns and a...

that GOMEZ and CABRERA were within eight miles of Malaga, which they would certainly pillage. The steam-boats plying between Cadiz and Seville were stopped. Gosisz, it was...

and letters of Thursday, that Bil- boa still holds Out; although Count D'APPONY, the Austrian Ambas- sador, had despatched a special messenger to Vienna with the joyful...

REFORMER . ' was received this morning, only as our pages were being closed. We entirely agree with the writer in his object, which Is UNION : the first of our Topics this week...

Thursday; when it is expected that the day for the reassembling of Parliament will be fixed upon. Lord BROUGHAM attended a meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Nov. 19th. Childrens, Durochier, from Bengal ; 20th, Tho- mas Snook, Baker ; and Palliot, Dunn, from the ('ape; 93.1, Andromache, Andrews, from Bombay • At...

TO THE E DITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sunday, 20th November 18311. Sza—In your article on " Prosperity and Distress ' of this day, you have fallen into so strange a mistake of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 25th November 1836. Si ft—The result of our foreign policy is—DonICARLOS on the eve of overthrow- ing the throne of our ally the Queen...

which sailed from Vera Cruz on the 16th October. The nature of the advices has not transpired.

a million have been effected at Lloyd's on sovereigns shipped by steam - vessels to Dublin for the Bank of Ireland. The orders for bullion intended to be sent to the Continent...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. and although at one period per cent, continuation was given upon stock till the 13th of January next, the supply fell short of the demand ;...

THE COMING ELECTION—WHIGS AND RADICALS. A CIRCUMSTANCE has just occurred, which confirms the opinion so often expressed by us lately, that without a speedy revival of the...

CONSIDERING that the Irish Tithe Bill of last session would re- establish upon a firm basis the grand grievance of Ireland, enabling the clergy of a small minority to obtain...

THE electioneering activity displayed in almost every part of the Three Kingdoms shows the general expectation that a dissolution of the present Parliament cannot long be...

AMONG the "signs of the times," to which we pointed last week, was the ostentatious patronage of Sir ROBERT PEEL by the Morn- ing Post. The "Leading Journal,' as it used to call...

NOT content with the overflowing audiences drawn by King John, Othello, and Julius Ccesar, the management of Covent Garden has hit upon the bright fancy of gilding the refined...

ABOUT four months ago, a meeting was held at London House to set on foot a subscription for building fifty new churcl.ei in the Metropolis, in order to provide spiritual...

has now put forward BOOTH, the shadow and foil of KEAN in a bygone age, who is come back from America. BOOTH'S Richard seems to have been a wretched failure ; and so be is to...

graph. which has not yet gone the round of the papers. " The lessee of one of the Great Theatres, accompanied bfthe stage manager, an eminent scene painter, and a distinguished...

THERE are two kinds of novels. One is the successor of epic and dramatic poetry, and represents the more inquiring, refined, and level times which give it birth; as the epic or...

this week at the St. James's, with undiminished effect. We need not say sword about BRAHANI'S Brigand. Miss RAINFORTH makes an interesting Zerlina : she acts the character with...

thrriow. The Merchant's Daughter. By the Author of "The Heiress." "Agnes Serie." Sce. Bentley. MILITARY A draleTURI, The Adventures of Captain John Patterson. with Notices of...

gives °MERRY an opportunity of developing his peculiar humour. He per- sonates Mr. Shears, an unfortunate tailor, who embarked for America with his wife ; but the vessel being...

Victorine has been revived thit week, with the original cast ; its popularity is everlasting.

THE Fiftieth Regiment has had a good many names, and sxn a good deal of service. At the beginning of the century, it was called the "West Kent ;" soon after the first quarter...

THE work, of which the two volumes before us are the commence- ment, forms one branch only of the author's yet unfinished His- tory of Europe since the End of the Fifteenth...

Tint subject of this volume appeared to possess considerable pro- mise, although there was a necessary infelicity, not to say contra- diction, in the title. Revelation, in...

Grand Duetfor Pianoforte or Organ. By SAMUEL WESLEY. On the authority of the ritlepage, we assume this composition to be the work of the elder WESLEY; and we are happy to see...

The author of this novel and useful work has availed himself of the publication of a Supplement to notice some of the objections which have been made to his plan of elementary...

sustains its original character. The same good taste and correct arrangement appear in this as in every preceding number.

Fantasia for the PiJnofrte. By I. 3I0sarELEs. C' Thou art an angel now ;" a Tribute to Me Memory of Madame Malibran De Beriot. It WilS to be anticipated that such an event as...