the conduct of Mr. Nash the architect of Buckingham Palace, was severely ar- raigned by Colonel DAVIS; who went the length of accusing him of "frauds upon the public purse" in...

"That the duty on all sugars imported into this county from the British Colonies in the West Indies be reduced to 20s. per cwt. ; that the duty on East India sugar be reduced to...

OUR task as historians of the Great Council of the nation draws to a close for the year. The chief business of the last week has been a debate on the currency ; an attempt to...

SATURDAY, TWO O'CLOCK. A German mail which arrived this morning brings papers to the 24th inst. In one of them there is a statement, on the authority of some Russian officers,...

is pleasant to mention, that in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and other places, there are perceptible indications of an im- provement in trade. The demand for manufactured...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—The settlement of the May account took place on Tuesday, and was effected without any great difficulty. Prices on Monday, and on Tuesday until...

party, at his Palace, St. James's. The dinner was in the banqueting-room, which was splen- didly fitted up for the occasion ; and the other preparations for the reception of the...

distribu- tion of prizes and honours in the Medical Classes, the Professors having finished their courses for the session. There had been one hundred and eighty-three stu- dents...

STATE OF THE COUNTRY. MORNING JOUR NAL — The embarrassed condition of the country is beginning to excite alarm among those who are generally the least sensitive in such...

TIMES—The debate on the Pimlico Palace, produced but few friends to the architect ; and yet, perhaps, if the whole truth were known, he is as much "sinned against, as sinning."...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. WHEN a merchant becomes embarrassed, it is not unfrequently diffi- cult to trace the causes that led to his embarrassment ; and in general nothing is so...

DONE IN HUMBLE IMITATION OF THE MORNING JOURNAL. THE Times closes its report of the meeting of the Pitt Club by re- marking that it appears to be in a superannuated state. The...

TIMES—With respect to the small notes now recalled, some bankers of totter- ing credit, looking to the state of their own concerns, have been impudently giving out that they...

page of the SPECTATOR for the year 1829, amongst va- rious morceaux, culled and cooked with our ordinary judgment and taste, appears the following :- " St. James's is...

IT is edifying to observe how difficult it is to obtain an accurate state- ment of the simplest matter of fact. There are seven or eight oracles of truth daily speaking in this...

MR. MATHEWS has acted judiciously in availing himself of the aid of YATES. The variety thus produced invigorates the performance, which we suspect would languish under the...

HAD the John Bull, the Mignelite journalist, beheld the Queen of Portugal at Astley's on Wednesday, he would surely have been touched by the signs of royal adversity. Imagine...

ACT I. Sinfonia MS. (never performed) .... F. Mendlessohn. Aria, Mr. Rosner, " So reizend hold" (Zauberfilite) Mozart. Coucertante Pianoforte and Harp, Mrs. Anderson and Mr...

A CHANGE in the views at this popular exhibition comes so rarely, that on the information of such an event being to take place last Wed- nesday, we travelled with post-haste...

LITERARY SPECTATOR. WE intended to notice Mr. TYTLER'S work soon after the appearance of the first volume ; but we are not sorry that we have delayed until we were in...

A GRAVE matter-of-fact correspondent requested on Monday to be informed touching an announcement which had, he said, puzzled him not a little. The announcement he alluded to was...

Mrs. HALL is an extremely pleasing and ingenious writer. She is a follower, but by no means an imitator, of Miss EDGEWORTH, in a field where, but for the appearance of the two...

THERE are few musicians of the present day whom we are inclined to place before HUMMEL. We should be content to risk our proof of his superiority over most of his contemporaries...

PASTA'S RecErrioN AT VIENNA.—The triumph of Madame Pasta here is com- plete ; it was not imagined that the power of musical sensibility could be carried so far, and this artist...

r PS Di s sows D.—Graham and Redley, Wapping, eoal-merehants-An- drew and Co. Manchester, cotton-spinners-T. and IL Barrett, Little Bolton, chemists- Nunn, Freeman, and Jackson,...

The Rev. George William Steward, L.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was on Monday last instituted to the Rectory of Caister St. Edmund and Trinity, Norfolk, on the...

The arrivals from India this week are of older dates than vessels formerly reported. The Admiral Benbow, Crawford, from London to Madras and Bengal, was plundered by a vessel...

Gyro:mit', May 2 . I...-011 Monday last the nomination of the Rev. Charles Kevern Wil- liams, M.A. and Fellow of Pembroke College, to be a Public Examiner in Disciplinis...

Borrns.—In Arlington-street, Lady Mary Stephenson, of a daughter-On the 26th inst. in Berners-street, the Lady of Capt. John Angelo, of the 3d Reg. of Bengal Cavalry, of a...

BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING NOR PUBLICATION. Gideon, and other Poems. By the Author of My Early Years, &c.—The Hallamshlre Glossary. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. ; to...

CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, MAY 29. We are moderately supplied with English Wheat this week, and though there is not much business doing quite as gond prices are obtained. Barley,...