officially issued, and it is as bad as the worst anticipations. It will probably work us serious injury. But it is not merely as an individual com- mercial question that it is...

THE Parliamentary proceedings of the week need not occupy much space here. The Customs-duties Bill, in which the new British Tariff of import-duties is embodied, has passed from...

of Tuam" has written to Sir ROBERT PEEL, to tell the Premier that vast num- bers in Ireland evade starvation by poisoning themselves with noxious weeds picked in the fields ;...

THE TARIFF. The order of the day having been moved, on Tuesday, for the third reading of the Customs-duties Bill, Mr. JOHN JERVIS moved a clause to grant a drawback on coals...

THE occupations of the Court have varied little from the ordinary rou- tine this week. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council on Wednesday. At the Court, addresses of...

A vacancy has been caused in the representation of Buckingham- shire, by the death of Sir W. L. Young. Mr. W. E. Fitzmaurice has come forward as a Conservative candidate. The...

The Goldsmith's Company gave a grand banquet to the Ministers on Wednesday. Mr. Prime Warden Buttemer presided, assisted by Mr. Warden Hayne, Mr. Warden Halifax, and Mr. Warden...

The Count of Mensdorf and his four sons arrived at Ostend on the 24th, from England, on their way to Germany. The Derby Reporter announces the death of the Earl of Leicester '...

The .Dublin Evening Mail confirms the assertion of the London John Bull that Lord De Grey has not resigned the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, and that there is no difference...

the Privy Council in the case of Escort versus Mastin, on an appeal from the Ecclesiastical Court. A suit had been brought in that court against the Reverend Thomas Sweet...

terday, in Devonshire Square Chapel, Bishopsgate Street ; and a Com- mittee was appointed to convene a public meeting of all religious de- nominations, on Friday evening next,...

Indian mail, which reached Marseilles on the 29th- " On the 16th, General Pollock joined Sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad, reesta- blishing on his march the authority of Thorabaz...

night on the subjects of the session—the distress of the country and Sir Robert Peel's financial scheme : the pretext being six resolutions moved by Mr. WALLACE, as an amendment...

to govern Pentonville Prison: Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, Lord John Russell, the Speaker Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Robert...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The following announcement will create no surprise, although there has been the utmost uncertainty on the subject of it up to the last : we copy the Globe of...

THE publication of a set of ten folio plates, with explanatory letterpress, descriptive of the patent Machinery for Theatres invented by Mr. R. MACDONALD STEPHENSON, will make...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Chinese Collection, Hyde Park Corner, 28th June 1842. SIR—At the conclusion of a very able notice which appeared in your paper of Saturday last...

Wednesday evening, by the Professional Choral Society, in the Hanover Square Rooms ; and yes- terday morning, under the direction of Signor Ganusta, in the St. James's Theatre....

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. We have to notice the unusual circumstance of a fluctuation of per cent in the prices of the English Funds. The recent decline of Columbian...

Arrived-At Gravesend, June 25th. Courier. Scott. from the Cape; Wasdale, M'Kenzie, from Mauritius; Mary Richardsou. Bailey; and Gleaner. GOA, from Ben- gal ; 26th. Stains...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. 11th June 1842. Sue-The following remarks have been suggested by a passage in the Spec- tator of last Saturday, now to be quoted. "Other...

BIRTHS. On the 21st April, at Pernambuco, the Lady of H. Auousros CuWPER, Esq.. her Britannic Majesty's Consul, of a daughter. On the 12th June, at Copenhagen, the Lady of the...

IT is true that the policy of the attempt to replace Snail SUJAH on the throne of Cabul ought not to be judged by the reverses re- cently experienced : that would be to take too...

FRANCIS. THE fate of this miserable creature is still uncertain. * The re- sponsibility of the Ministers, with whom the final decision rests, is so delicate—the public and...

THE French plays at the St. James's Theatre close at the end of next week ; until which time Id. BODFFE'S engagement is prolonged. Before the opportunity has passed for seeing...

Tax season terminated on Monday, with the following scheme: EIGHTH CONCERT—MONDAY, JUNE 27. am I. Sinfonia in E flat Mozsar. Scene. Miss Dom. " Ah perlido" . . Barrnovizre....

MT. WAKLET, and the like, object that the Committee for inquiring into Compromises of Election Petitions is an "inquisition." The objection comes oddly from the last-mentioned...

TRAVEL% My Last Tour and First Work; or A Visit to the Baths of Wildbad and Rippoldsau. By Lady Vavasour. Cunningham. Summarily, The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times....

So far as a chaos can be reduced to form, this publication consists of three parts. The first is an introduction, written by a friend of Dr. MADDEN ' S, consisting of a review...

IN plan and execution this volume resembles Philip Van Artevelde ; but the elements of the story are much inferior, being devoid of the novelty, variety, well-marked character,...

there seem to be but two methods of dealing with disease,—a judicious reliance on Nature ; a confidence in the practitioner's art. By the first, the physician does little,...

From June 23a fo June 30th. Boons. Le Petite Chouannevie ; on Histoire d'un College Breton sous l'Empire. Par A. F. Rio. (This is a very handsomely-printed Paris octavo,...

Church Music published by the Motet Society. No. I. WHEN the prospectus of the Motet Society first made its appearance, it presented, as we then remarked, the rare announcement...

SKETCHES OF THE QUEEN'S BAL COSTUME. A NUMBER of sketches, in 'water colours, of the personages who figured at the Queen's Bal Costume, have been this week exhibited by Messrs....

ALREADY do the artists who are preparing to compete for the prizes offered by the Royal Commission, begin to feel the disadvantages of not having studied anatomy ; their...

Orrice OF ORDNANCI. June 25.-Royal Artillery-Gent. Cadets to be Second Lieuts. : R. B. M'Crea. vice Wilder. promoted; J. L. Elgee. vice D'Aguilar, promoted; J. Desborough. vice...

Tuesday, June 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Turner and Lenox, Mark Lane, Customhouse-agents-Fry and Co. Liverpool, tea- brokers ; as far as regards W. Fry-Draper and Trendall,...