THE attention of Parliament has been devoted almost exclusively this week to the condition of Irishmen and Negroes—the two races of serfs whom it has pleased "the Saxon" to...

NEGRO EMANCIPATION. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day having been read for "taking into consideration the matter of the proceedings of the House of the...

of Cemusne's death has been circulated in Paris, but was not gene- rally credited. The accounts of military movements are contra- dictory, and nothing important has occurred.

the woman GROUVELLE, for a conspiracy to murder King Louts PHILIP, terminated on Saturday last, in the conviction of all the prisoners. The verdict against GROUVELLE caused some...

the suppression of the slave-trade ; and Lord HOWARD DE WAL- DEN, who has arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, brought it with him for the ratification of the British Government. It...

THE Queen took her usual rides on Monday and Tuesday, and had small dinner.parties in the evening. On Wednesday, her Maje,ty went to a grand state entertainment Oven by the...

en Saturday, at Ow 1"EL•0111:1-0II . S ; Ali:14111k of Lail.loWile ill tilt! 4:11Air. chief speaker %vas Mr. 'Ilionlas Alocre ; mho was flowery and el, ecttint repiy to :be to...

Piro?... s Hotel, on l'ueselay, after the issue of the last Slavary debate in t'ai House of Conamons Lad been aseertaineid. A.series of TeSi2.'.ilitLIS were passed- " I....

A Coroner's Jury 1 .ii sitting at the Yam k Hotel, Waterloo Road, leimbeth, to it ito the ciremnstances or au extreordi- nary murder, committee; lodging-house in Wellington...

was unusually thin, and the runnine meeellite. The Craven Stakes were won by Lord Stifle-Id's Curio-aim ; the IS'oodeote by Mr. Wor. rail's Peon ; the Shirley by Sir Gilbert...

decided that a leo warrant() should issue, to ascertain by what right the Court of Al- dermen of the City of London refused to admit Mr. Salomons, as Alderman of Aldgate Ward,...

front-room window, which was open, of the house No. 63, E ast Street, Lambeth Walk. A woman, named Landsdowne, her daughter, and a young man named Russell, were at work at the...

dis. charge of a number of workmen, it became necessary to swear in two hundred special constables, and even' to call in the Life Guards, to pre- vent mischief. No rioting,...

Mr. Chisholm has vacated his seat for Inverness-shire, in consequence of illness. The Master of Grant and Mr. Grant of Glemnorriston are mentioned as candidates to succeed him....

Lord Mulgrave has, very properly, removed from the roll of Magis- trates for Carlow, the six persons who endeavoured to pack the jury- lists by striking off 3,55 out of 663...

Among all the occupations of the morning, the Queen still finds time to continue taking lessons in sieging from Signor Lablache, who had the distinguished honour of teaching her...

Bolton was formally opened, by the passage of two trains conveying a number of shareholders and their friends from Manchester to Bolton and back.—Manchester Guardian. The...

..The Tories of Manchester, hating every thing likely to advance the use of popular institutions, are resisting by all the means in their power the proposed incorporation of...

the Baroness Lehzen from a string of calumnies in the Kentish Observer, jesuitically endeavours to fix and confirm some items in the slanderous list. The following is the...

the late Mi.. William Smith, has addressed a letter to Lord Brougham ; wliahi, it we mistake not, will one day draw down on the said Benjamin a severe thump from his father's...

to England, and will be succeeded by Sir Jasper Nieulls in the govein- meta of Madrus.—Beightm Gaulle. Mr. Mettle, Under Secretary of State, has been confined to bed for L the...

G. de Perrey, W110 was twetity-two years private secretary to the late Prince Talley- rand, and left his service in 1826, writes to the Paris joureals that he has moiling to...

Arrived—At Gravesend. May 27t11. Eagle, Patterson; anti Calvpso . Smith, from Malan Ms. Off Itorismout It, .1 tine 1st, Pal nod ha, ---, front ditto. 'At Cork. 23d. Ice...

SATURDAY. London was agitated the whole of sesterday by the reports of dis. turbances of a serious description, oely quelled with a dreadful loss of life, which have occurred...

"for the pro- visional governmeto of Britiell settlements in the island,: of New Zea- heti," after a division, hi which the numbers were 74 and '23. The bill subsequently...

return for the abandonment of the " Appropriation," and which sonic of the Whig newspapers glorified very much, turns out to be precisely of the description we have given of it...

the Bank of England, from the 6th March to the '2.9th May—.• The quarterly average of the weekly lialelities and ussets of the Bank of England, from the 6th March to the '2.9th...

numerous desertion* from the Carnet army, and that the people generally are sick of the war. Perhaps, as the season for farming operations is at band, the deserters are only...

in aid of her pantomimic powers; and in The Mother, a melodramatic piece written for her by JERROLD, and brought out at the Haymarket on Thursday, she speaks her broken English....

an address from Mr. HOOPER, as stage manager. The retrospect is by no means brilliant : but who could harbour other than kindly wishes towards JOHN BRAHAM?

THE leave-taking of VESTRIS and the arrival of TAGLIONI are inci- dents of the week, more interesting to hear of than profitable to record. Vesrnis bade the Olympic audience...

; and w t . hope that, as was the case with The Love. Chase, the public liking will increase. We would hint to Miss FAUCIT, that a quieter and lent forced style of acting would...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Westminster, 31st May 1938. 81ft — I think it of moment to direct your attention in a very few words to the subject of Railroads in behind ;...

visit- ants to her Majesty's Theatre; and the amateurs of ankles and pirouettes are indulging in rapturous anticipations of her appearance on Tuesday. The subscribers have not...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The declaration of the Opposition leader and the proceedings in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, by removing all fears of a change of...

ANOTHER opera—new, we suppose it must in courtesy be called from the pen of D0N1ZETTI, was brought out last night. The title and the story are borrowed from Lord BYRON'S poem...

QUESTIONS. (From the Morning Chronicle.] The proceedings of Tuesday night in the House of Commons afford one more me• log proof that, though the cause of Reform may be tardy...

EMIGRATION TO ENGLISH COLONIES AND THE UNITED STATES. A " Report from Mr. ELLIOT, Agent-General for Emigration from the United Kingdom, to the Secretary of State for the Colo-...

Spoetator of for of August last ; and recall to mind the unmeasured abuse jou: rd upon as for ita anticipations, by all the Alinieterial organs in town and cLuntiy.

IN dealing with practical questions, it is our stupid and old- fashioned custom to base statements and arguments on facts and figures. Thus, in the paper, last week, on the...

LIFE-ASSuRANCE societies have been greatly multiplied of late years, and their increase is symptomatic of improvement in the moral and physical condition of the people : it...

TO THE EDITOR Or THE sereereroa. Edinburgh. 30th May PA SIR—Other correspondents have probably given you the particulers of the grand National Demonstration whieh has been...

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Westminster, 30th May 15:15. Sm —I learn by my private letters, thnt a passage in one of the hauling ankles of the Spectator of 10th May, upon...

To Ton Entron oi Tun srECTAT0a. " I have selle naked thonghts stied' rove about, A iol total! y knock to have their passage out ! A tul. ii ear3 of their laace, do ota y stay,...

THIS is a volume of a better age; the fruit of time, and study, and meditation. The classical records have been examined with a patient minuteness, for which neither learning...

Horrowv, History of Rome. By Thomas Arnold, D.D., Head Madero, Rugby School, Be. &e. Vol. I. Fellowes. STATISTICa. Cermany ; the Spirit of her History, Literature, Social...

teeming with solid information, but planned upon a scale too extensive to be properly completed in a single volume, or perhaps by a single wind. The author's object, he tells...

THE subject of Peter Plymley's Letters is the disabilities under which the Catholics laboured at the commencement of the cen- tury; for attempting to remove the smallest of...

STANDISH, Esq. The principal topic of Mr. STANDISH'S book is the collections of paintings in the different cities he visited, from Amsterdam to St. Petersburg; relieved by notes...

THE only new publications which cannot be disposed of at once are- 1. China, its State and Prospocts, by W. H. MEoneasr, of the London Missionary Society. '2. Memoirs of the Lye...

publication of a Second Letter to Archdeacon Singleton, being the Third of the Cathedral Letters, by the Reverend Svn- NEV Salmi. But " quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore! " The...

kind. The scenes, laid in camps, hospitals, and the convivia of doubtful characters or downright blackguards, seem often taken from llk• the story has been invented by the...

nr Dice, by Sir Ae'rucrey Cs e ■Aste. There is a good deal of plain common sense, and a few valuable hints, in this volume upon the management of children and the diseases of...

title of an " introduction " to two unintelligible attempts at sea- story telling. We have only been able to discern through the fog of verbiage, some shocking incidents and...

is a labour of love and scanty leisure, that requires the forbearance its author modestly bespeaks. The simplicity and homeliness of the originals are felt in the spirit as well...

LEAN, is a collection of plain and popular sermons, neither too lax nor too rigid fur hiiinianitv ; and sensibly appealing to the interests and experience of t he auditor as an...

PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL. WE are glad to find that the promoters of art are stirring in this matter. A ee titiun to the Queen is in course of signature for...

Fisherman and the Genie, (or Jinnee, as Mr. LANE has it,) in the Second Part of the new translation of the Arabian Nights Entertain- ments. The Oriental imagination displays its...

the Ornithological department, is devoted to the Fly- catchers, or Museicapido : which family has been most scienti- fically treated of by Mr. SWAINSON. The minutely accurate...

l. The Eleventh Volume of the Penny Cycloperdia ; com- mencing with "Terra del Fuego," and ending with the letter " H :" a volume containing a vast quantity of matter, treated,...

LUXFORD, though purely local in its interest, and but an insigni- ficant contribution to the stuck of botanical knowledge, will be appreciated by all scientific students of...

of the French Revolution ; in which the hero and heroine are mixed up with the historical events and characters of the time. The facts and names are French, but the incidents...

inculcates the evil effects of overweening self-confidence, and the advantage of relying on "strength from abcve." The characters and conduct of two serious young ladies, under...

Creek Roman, and British Poets, by the Reverend ALEXANDER JAMES Ilowett, B.A. This is a curious rather than a useful book. It dues not elucidate Ilottace, nor does it often...

concise introduction to the science, in a compact pocket volume, illus- trated with numerous wood-cuts,. and coloured engravings, very delicately executed. The account of the...

nature, and history of these ceremonial rites of royalty ; and con- tains much matter in a small compass. The fashion and uses of the regalia and robes, the ditli•rent...

range with the popular works of YARRELL and BELL on British Fishes, Quadrupeds, and Reptiles; for though more purely scientific than they, and not limited to this country, all...

WE are indebted to an amateur for calling our attention to a curious collection of Italian pictures, formed by the Reverend J. SANFORD during a twenty years' sojourn in Italy....

CONSTABLE'S paintings were sold at Foster's, lately; and fetched prices that showed the estimation in which he was deservedly held as a landscape-painter, notwithstanding that...

THE want of a tine collection of casts from the antique, so long felt by artists in the country, and particularly regretted by Mr. Rt. NIE in his evidence before the Committee...