'THE projet of the French Ministers for the abolition of the He- reditary Peerage, has passed the Upper Chamber, by a majority of 36. The division took place on Tuesday ; and,...

It is now said that NICHOLAS will not refuse his sanction to the treaty of the twenty-four articles, but that, as soon as the King of Holland has accepted it, he will have the...

in con- sequence, been incapable of lending to his Colleagues the adVan- tage of his counsel and tongue in the recent disputes concern- ing the riots . at Lyons and the Peerage...

instant, contains the names of the fifty-three individuals, including their General TORRIJOS, who were executed at Malaga on the 1 1 th instant, by virtue of a royal decree...

which a lame attempt is made to explain away the narrative of the tyrant's doings in Poland, which we noticed last week. The facts are not denied; but the scythes are taken from...

of Pre- sident JACKSON to the Congress. The matter of the message is im- pOrtaat; the manner is not quite so good as- that by which the state papers of some of General JAcesox's...

t from the example of those who now decry A- n Who told us," exclaimed he, at a meeting of the National, on Monday, " to agitate? About two and a half, or three years ago, when...

THE most remarkable incident which has happened to the metropolis since our last, is the extraordinary fog that has visited it. It first came on on Saturday evening, and...

coun- try, on its eastern shores, as a prey to the most frightful distress. Scurvy, fever, and cholera morbus rage there. The cholera was particularly dreaded, as the strongest...

No news, says the adage is good news. Of our good King, we • have this week nothing to announce. We could wish that we could be equally silent respeeting the Queen ; but lye...

S EVERAT. additional documents I ',tee been printed, by order of ti I a I To eee of Commons, for the inf,neeati on of the Committee. So tie- a, tile public contempt and...

THE SPECIAL COMM/SSIONS. — On Wednesday, directions were issued from the Secretary of State's Office to the Commissioners of the New Police, to send down to Bristol proper and...

weeks ago with a strange act of murder, in the case of a child named Duffey, was at last, on Thursday, fully committed to Newgate. The miserable woman, against whom, previously,...

THE Cho' 2ra has made fearful progress in the Newcastle district since our last Neenber. Gateshead, a town of not more 12,000 11111/11A-• tents, figures in our tables for the...

HULTON, speaking of the unhappy affair of August 1819, says, in his letter t3 Lord Althorp-- his letter t3 Lord Althorp-- Two peop13 were killed in St. Peter's Flea — one, a...

It has been communicated to the Irish Members, that the provision of the English Reform Bill, which preserves to freemen, by birth or servitude, the right of voting at...

THE DUKE OF BOURBON'S WILL. 31. LAI - Aux, for the Baroness de 1"euch6res, commenced the defenceorr Friday, last week, and was to resume it yesterday. The ease has no-. thing...

Mr. George Joseph Bell, an eminent advocate at the Edinburgh bar, has been appointed a "clerk of session," in lieu of Mr. Hamilton, deceased. Has not this office been repeatedly...

Captain Charles Buller, C.B. of the Royal Sovereign Yacht, is. appointed Superintendent of Chatham Yard, with the same rank and. authority as a Commissioner of the Navy. The...

Thrum and Bnowx , Birmingham, builders—S•rnwawr and SCHNIBEEN, 'Whitecha- pel, sitgar-retiners—Buctivx AN and A.nneean tram, Liverpool, brokers—Cu:iv - Assn and. Swirr;...

..71frwiting and Carriage Dress — A dress of pearl - coloured gros de Naples, ligh corsage, with a pelerine collar, which falls over the shoulders in points. Gigot sleeve. The...

WAR-Orsics, Dee. 30.-15th Regt. of Light Dragoons : Lieut. P. Ives, to ls. Capt. by purchase. vice Bain, who retires ; Cornet 1'. H. C. Terry, to be Lieut. by pure: iase. Ives ;...

Poor the benefits of the Medicated Vapour Bath of Mr. Whitlinv was held last week. From the report read by the Secretary, it would appear that the following list of formidable...

s of Brandy. TUNE-.Droi If yon credit the stm it's Of Whigs or of Torivs, Our riches and glories Are all gone to pot ; Town, county, and village, Are destined four pillage-...

WE not unwillingly give insertion to the following letter : we asked " questions," and must expect answers. We cannot be ,justly accused of persecuting any individual : Captain...

Jr appears from the French journals of Wednesday, which bring us the particulars of the debate and division on the Peerage question of the former day, that the majority, which...

capital, of se- rious disturbances in Rome, the issue of which had been no less than the deposition of his Holiness. A comparison of the date of this pre- tended intelligence,...

time Mr. WAKEFIELD came to town to print his history of the notorious Captain, the corn-stacks, 87.c. of one of his own farm-yards were burnt. While the writer was illuminating...

transmission of the Anatomy of the Peerage, which accompanies this Number, should address them to the News-agents through whom they usually receive the Spectator NOT TO US :...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EYENING.—Consols for the Account closed on Saturday at 84t to t, and Exchequer Bills at 0.9. to 7s. premium. The sup- posed failure of the intended...

on Monday afternoon, at the Palace, by the Bishop of Worcester, in the presence of the Court. Their Majesties were the sponsors. The King has been pleased to grant a charter to...

THE SPECTATOR AND HIS CONSTANT READER TETE A TREE. THE Almanac, if necessary, will inform our readers that this is the last day of the year 1831. It is the very heart of the...

OXFORD. Dcc.31.—On Thursday, the followingdegrees were conferred. Doctor ta Dirinity—Rev.E. Cardwell, Camden's Professor Ancient history; Grand Componuder—Masters of Arts —...

BIRTHS. On the 24th inst. at Eton College, Mrs. G1FFORP COOK ESLEY, of a son. On the 18th inst. at Scarborough, the Lady of FREDERICK ROBERT CROWDER, Esq. of a daughter....

The following Gentlemen were ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln, at Buelnien, on Sun- day, the 18th instant. Deacons—T. Furnival, Queen's College : R. W. Whitford, St. Edmund's...

THE ORDER, A CORRESPONDENT in Paris has kindly forwarded to us some very elaborate papers on our " Peerage Anatomy." They appeared in the London and Paris Observer, a weekly...

WE have been assured. by an old playgoer, that he saw the famous pantomime of Mother Goose sixteen times. As we have not been favoured even with a sixteenth in such a grand...

B101:11 APRS', The Life of Frederic the Second, King of Prussia. By Lord Dover. 2 vols. Longman and Co. Plutarch. Translated by John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne,...

IT would be difficult to select a subject more favourable for the display of the talents of an accomplished writer.than a Life of FRE- DERIC of Prussia. It presents the...

THE Classical Library is now proceeding with its translation of Plutarch. Nearly every day furnishes us with occasion to lament that we were not born a quarter of a century...

THE author of this work is Mr. CHENEVIX the chemist, who resided chiefly in France, and is most popularly known as the author of certain articles in the Edinburgh Review and the...

THE new Number of the Westminster is the most various, and on .the whole the most masterly, that we remember in the course of its existence. The literature and the politics are...

No two works afford a more striking contrast than Birrv's Cities o r Europe, and Ti it La's England and 1-I ales ; the latter feeble, fiat, mo- notonous, and literally exact;...

.WE cannot too strongly recommend a little volume which is published under this title. It is a. description of Annual, and. this is, we believe, its second appearance. We last...

Mental Recreation, or Select Maxims, is about one of the best col- lections of Sayings we remember. They are selected from writers of all ages and all countries, and...

Academy. Mr. GnEEN's course on Anatomy is jUSL concluded ; Mr. Piin.mes's on Painting tool Mr. WiosTmacorr's on Sculpture follow. In these Lec- tures, similar subjects are...

every little breeze in the political atmosphere, that we have been some time in doubt upon what tack he was standing. Ile now appears no longer to steer a middle course, but...

Current. FUNDS. BRITISH. Tuesday. Trednes. Thurs. Friday. Monday. 3 per Cent. Reduced 83 1 1 3 831 83 1821 83 821 3 82k 3 2k 83 21 3 par Cent. Consols Ditto for...

Strand ; at the Office of Mr. Cr.owes, Stamford Street and Published by him at No. 9, Wellington Street Strand.

CHAPTER I. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE PEERAGE. THE rude shock which the late decision of the Lords against the second reading of the Reform Bill gave to the...

4retatar:6 natomp OF TIlE PEERAGE. COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS NUMBERS OF THE SPECTATOR NEWSPAPER ; WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS, AND A NEW ARRANGEMENT. MESE:1TED,...

The Public have now before them the result of much and various labour on the great subject of the Peerage, its history, its quality, and its hold upon the State. At the same...

SPIRIT OF THE PEERAGE AT DIFFERENT EPOCHS. A CLOSE examination of the history of the House of Peers will greatly enlighten the student of our Constitution as to the compo-...

PERSONAL CHARACTER OF THE PEERAGE AS IT NOW EXISTS. OUR society is of too mixed a kind to permit any very essential distinctions to exist between the Peer and the Commoner; and...

HOUSE OF LORDS, TN THE ORDER OF CREATION. THERE MUST RS • PERIOD AND AN END OP NAVES AND DIGNITIES, AND IMATFORrErt Is TEREIIITE ; AND Wilt NOT OP DE NESS? FOR MITERS IS...

MATRIMONIAL CONNEXIONS OF THE PRESENT PEERAGE. Titter Born DUKES. NORFOLK 1765 SOMERSET 1775 RICHMOND. ..... ..• 1791 GRAFTON 1760 Beaufort 1766 Married. Eldest Sooner...

AND OFFICES AMONG TIIE PEERAGE AND ITS CONNEXIONS. TILE following Lists will show how the country may be said to have been occupied by the Aristocracy. The relatives and con-...

BOROUGH LORDS AND THEIR BOROUGHS. Places. Patrons. ANGLESEA, M..... MilbOrtie Port Aylesbury, M. Marlborough B Great Beclwin Bath, M. Weobley, A Bathurst, F Cirencester...

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE PEERAGE, WITH NOTES AND ANECDOTES, PERSONAL, ANTIQUARIAN, AND POLITICAL. . "TRE NOBILITY OP TIIR SpEscERs a.s5 BEEN miosTRATED AND ENRICIIED ISV TIM...

We have taken some pains to view the House of Lords under its various aspects. It presents itself in the way of the Nation's wish ; and it is natural that the Nation should seek...