A PRINCESS has been added to the number of Queen VICTORIA'S children, now multiplying into a respectable little family. The event does not possess the political importance which...

United States, according to present appearances, has expired. A new batch of diplomatic correspondence has just come over, about that and other topics ; in which Mr. WEBSTER...

M. MAUGUIN has been exposing the state of the landed interest in that country. It appears to be melancholy in the extreme. The land pays about half the revenue of France, or...

after play, doing little, and that languidly. The passing of the formal addresses to the Sovereign, of condolence and congratula- tion, helped to swell the list of deeds without...

ADDRESSES TOP THE QUEEN. In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the Duke of Wellington moved, " That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, congratulating her Majesty on...

THE event of the week at Court is of a more joyful character than the last recorded : the Queen has given birth to another Princess. The occurrence had been delayed beyond the...

A meeting, convened by the Churchwardens on a requisition, was held in the parish of St. Luke's, on Friday evening, to take into con- sideration the educational clauses of the...

Tuesday's Gazette announced that the Queen has appointed the Mar- quis of Bute to be High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The Marquis of...

The ceremonies incidental to the death of the Duke of Sussex con- tinue to occupy a good deal of attention. A Supplement to Friday's Gazette, published on Saturday, contained an...

The Dublin Evening Mail, with some courteous compliments to the Spectator as " among the best-informed and most intelligent of our Saxon brethren," demurs to our right...

At the close of the poll for East Suffolk, on Saturday, the numbers were—for Rendlesham, 2,952 ; Adair, 1,818 ; majority, 1,134. On Monday, Lord Rendlesham was declared duly...

We observe another Lincolnshire meeting against the Canada Corn Bill, at Stamford; Sir John Trollope figuring as chief spokesman. There was a meeting at Hammersmith Baptist...

the Mint is prepared to change old sovereign and half-sovereign weights for new, without charge to persons effecting the exchange.

last night, in support of Mr. Elphinstone's Marriage and Divorce Bill, for placing di- vorcewithin the reach of the poor. Mr. Vernon, the Chairman, expressed an opinion that...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The report of the Queen's health is still all that could be wished : the bulletin issued today says—" Her Majesty has again slept well, and con- tinues to go on...

broke on Wednesday. The vessel is 225 feet in extreme length, 33 feet in breadth for tonnage, 22 feet deep in bold. Lord Adolphus Fitz- clarence is appointed commander.

The operations of the week have not presented any circumstance worthy of remark. The price of Consols had fallen * per cent below the quotations of last week ; but the purchases...

BURIAL-PLACE OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. EVERY nine days has its wonder : the present is the Duke of SUSSEX'S choice of a burial.place. It has eclipsed even the infant Princess : a...

ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 221 Medora, May. from Ceylon ; 23d, Abbotsford, Davison. from Mauritius ; 24th, Cadet. Curliug, from China; and Mary Dugiale, Bucklaud, from Calcutta ;...

THE impression produced in the House of Commons by Lord ASHLEY'S picture of the mental darkness of the manufacturing- districts, led many to entertain the hope that something...

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Fourth Month. 25, 1843. RESPECTED FRIEND—•AS a reader of the Spectator, and an admirer of the independence and impartiality by which it is...

THE King of Prussia has thrown a sop to the Duchy of Posen, whom he has recently offended by refusing to perform certain promises which the Duchy supposed to have been made to...

THE Morning Post seems much chagrined because it thinks we have praised certain Conservative Members- " Our contemporary the Spectator, (no doubt by way of exalting its repu-...

of animal spirits—served on Thursday to exhi- bit FORNASARI in a `part totally different from those in-which he had hitherto yet appeared before an English audience—Figaro; and...

of musical talent upon record—the most entire unfitness of means to accomplish a given end—was witnessed on Wednesday night at Covent Garden. The object to be attained was the...

THE announcement of a new play, written by the most successful dramatist of our time and produced by one of the most popular of managers, failed in creating the excitement usual...

Da. HOWRING proposes that candidates for the Consular office should be examined to see if they understand the language of the country to which they are sent. Mr. GOULBURN...

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. narrow, Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle Chapman and Hall. The Rambles of the Emperor Ching Tih in Kean Neu ; a Chinese Tale. Trans- lated by Tkiu...

THE chief feature of Monday night's concert will be seen by a glance at the scheme. THIRD CONCERT—MONDAY, APRIL 24. ACT I. Sinfonia in C Major (Letter II) HAYDN. Aria, "Voi...

increase : on Wednesday a new performer made his debut, M. LEVASSOR, a mimic a-la-Mathews. in addition to VERNET and Madame DOCHE. Us Bas Bleu, in which M. LEVASSOR appeared, is...

this Chinese novel originated in a wish of the Pre- sident of the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, to publish "an edi- tion of the ' Four Books and Five Kings,' the Gospels, as...

European Regiment is as good a subject for regimental history as could well be chosen, as it not only formed the germ of the Madras army, but was for some years, and dur- ing a...

Fro., April 21st to April2;th. BOOKS. Past and Present. By THOMAS CARLYLE. The Rambles of the Emperor Ching Tih in Keany Nam; a Chinese Tale. Translated by Tens Sara, Student...

ONE of the mediei remonstrates against a passing remark in our last week's notice, in the following letter. 26th April 1843. Sta—In your review of Sir JAMES CLARK'S pamphlet,...

NEW WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. THE ninth annual exhibition of this young and growing Society of Water-Colour Painters opened to the public yesterday, at the Gallery in Pall Mall....

on Monday. The dinner at the Royal Academy, which was to have taken place today, and the opening of the Exhibition on Monday, are postponed, in consequence of the death of the...

Wee-on - roe, Apri128.-93th Regt. of Foot-Lieut.-Col. A. C. Gregory, from half- pay Unattached, to be Lieut.-Col. vice H. Eyre, who exchanws.

Tuesday, April 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. I. and C. Steelton, Nottingham, builders-West and Simpson. Newark•upon•Trent. timber•merchants-J. and W. Rowatree, Scarborough....

BIRTHS. On the 10th April. at Naples, the Hon. Lady PEARSON, of a son. On the 19th, at St. Andrea 's, the Lady of Major PLAYCAIR. Provost of the City, of a daughter. • On the...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. IVednes. 3 per Cent. Consols 964. 961 Ditto for Account... 961 961 3 per Cents. Reduced 951 95} 3} per Ceuta. Reduced...