MR. MANNERS SUTTON has announced his intention of retiring from his arduous duties as Speaker of the House of Commons ; and his retiring honours have been the subject of brief...

Nova, though report had placed' them censiderably in advance on the road to Coimbra. From the intelligence that has since reached town, it appears that on the 19th, Count VILLA...

same unde- cided condition in which they have been for so many months ; and, but for the obvious fact, that the longer any such state remains, the nearer of necessity must its...

over in the utmost quietness, with the exception of a row rather than a riot at its close, between some young men, who had been dining together, and the Police. Such at least is...

ilgure, we suspect, more formidably in London than they do at .Prussels—were it not that the Times, whose word goes somewhat farther than that of the Courrier Beige, or even...

1. RETIREMENT OF THE SPEAKER. Intimation was given on Mon- day morning, that the Speaker meant in the course of the afternoon to announce his retirement from the Chair ; and in...

yesterday, 4,000/. was votecT on the motion of Mr. Charles Pearson, for the purchase of a piece of ground without the city, for the interment of persons dying of Choler, and as...

Northumberland's fate at Sion House with his presence. The entertainment is described 'as of the most superb description. On Wednesday, his Majesty hada Levee at St. James's ;...

It is not generally known that the Reform candidate for St. Alban's, Mr. H. B. Ward, is the author of the very able work On Mexico which has already gone through two editions,...

the road be tween Lawtongate and Warrington, met some covered carts, which they ascertained contained natives of their own country. A parley ensued ; and, without much ceremony,...

new oats, and the wheat harvest began in that neighbourhood last week. In the Northern as well as the Midland counties, the harvest has fairly commenced. There have been several...

died on Thursday, at his house in Drogheda. His Grace is another victim to cholera, but he died full of years, at the age of ninety-two. A better ' a more virtuous, and few...

Jury at Derby, he was seized with a sudden illness which appeared to deprive him of memory. He was unable to conclude his address, and had to be removed to his lodging, where...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—I feel sincerely grateful to you for inserting my last letter. You have proved your journal to be what the Press in general ought to be,...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 26th July 1831 Sui — In consequence of the remarks on Temperance Societies in your paper for Saturday the 21st, I am induced to send you the...

The last Speaker, Abbott, on retiring, was created a Peer, with a pension of 4,000/. a year, for his own life and those of two others. The places actually held by the late Mr....

Mr. Abercrombie made a grand entry into Edinburgh the other day. There were two carriages and four, and thirty other carriages. Mr. Abercrombie afterwards harangued the people...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sra--In your remarks upon the circumstances connected with the enactment of PEEL'S Currency Bill, and the consequences of its operation, there...

which that diplomatist declares that the Belgians neither can nor desire to go to war. It was on this assurance that the Con- ference acted when they consented to accept the...

SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. No further intelligence has been received from Portugal. We find, however, that no doubt is entertained by Government as to the total...

desertion in which the House of Commons has been left during the week, al- though there have been at least 300 members still in town. Repeatedly, in order to prevent the House...

Wan-Oevree, August 3.-12th Regt. of Light Dragoons: Lieut. E. Sievwright to be Capt. by purchase, vice Elwes, who retires ; Cornet ll. Chaloner to be Lieut, by pur- chase, vice...

resolutions of the Diet of Frankfort will be far from meeting with ready or willing acceptance. At Manheim, great fermentation is said to prevail, and meetings have been held...

Arrived—At Gravesend, July 29th, Constitution. Lucas, from the Cape. Off Pen- zance, August 2d, Margaret, Biddell, from Mauritius. At St. Helena, June 6th, Colombia, Kirkwood,...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols closed on Saturday, after a day of comparative activity, at 83t; 11. The increased activity is attributed to the statement of Lord...

that, after a lapse of fourteen years since the event took place, a distribution, "on account," of the "booty" acquired by the combined operations of the army of the Deccan is...

BIRTHS. On the 26th ult., at Lord Wharneliffe's, in Curzon Street, Lady EMMELINE STUART WORTLEY. Of a son. On the 3Ist ult., the Lady of jonx CURRIE, Esq., M.P., of a...

which was announced by the Messager des Chambres last week, turns out to be more curious than true : at least we have heard no More of it.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S INCOME. Is not the Chancellorship the high reward of the greatest ability and integrity conjoined, to be found at the Bar at the time the Woolsack happens...

THE Morning Post gives us to understand, that all the Conser- vatives are of opinion that the Lord High Chancellor should be cudgelled ; and that at the Clubs, the odds are five...

HIGH rank and great wealth have a tendency to unfit a man for appreciating the feelings of the great mass of the community in which he lives. Lord ALTHORP, on Monday, made an...

THE best of all the cheap publications, CHAMBERS'S Edinburgh Journal, in a very sensible paper on the Decline of the Dranta, professes astonishment that writers should be...

THE -discussion respectino . Booksellers' Profits, which has arisen out of a statement by MI BABBAGE in his work on the Economy of Manufactures, relates to a question of...

of the Birmingham Union, at which .much was said OE the subject a the distress of the country; and, in particular, a most painful picture was exhibited of' the miseries of the...

THE death of Young NAPOLEON, the heir of so many hopes and disappointments, should not be passed over without a word. When the infant was born, the cannon was to fire so many...

BLACKWOOD has in his last two numbers been endeavouring to get up a scheme of exclusive dealing for the punishment of the Radicals. His argument is, that all the wealth of' the...

THE German Opera, for the season, terminated last night, and the Italian Opera closes this evening. The season, altogether, has been of a most extraordinary description, and...

the Haymarket and the English Opera will fill better. The new pieces that Mr. ARNOLD has brought out at the Olympic have attracted good audiences. REEyE'S Jack Rag, in the...

which he owes - chiefly to the attrations of the unrivalled Mans. This great aCtress Seeing to have felt as much at home and to have been almost as well understood on the boards...

most expert in the world. • A traveller accustomed to be robbed in Europe would scarcely think it possible that a sheet should be stolen from under him without his discovering...

PERIODICAL LITERATURE, The Magazines for August. PUBLIC RECORDS, A Letter tothe ,Right Honourable Lord grotigham Vaug, Lord High Chan- cellor, on the Constitution and...

IT is curious to observe the distinctive character bf all these publi- cations. The body of contributors is not very different : there are many writers in common, and in the...

SIR HARRIS NICOLAS is again at work with his sledge-hammer: he has broken once more into a job-shop, and the fragments and ruins of the prettiest little sinecures in the world...

THE praise which we have given to each successive number Of this work must be understood as applying to the tale before us ; in which the authoress, on wholly fresh ground, and...

WE do not well know how to speak of this book. Professing to be a philosophical treatise, it is a perfect farrago, without plan or method, that we, at least, can trace. Though a...

contains (with the addition of two vignettes that have adorned one of the volumes of the world)) engravings from three drawings by STAN- FIELD, after sketches by PAGE, an artist...

PICTORIAL PERIODICALS. THE Second Part of the Engravings of Pictures in the National Gal:- lery, by the Society of Engravers, is an improvement upon the First, and brings the...

Tun Eighth Volume of Lord Byron's Works contains Childe Harold, or Childe Burun, as its author first called it, entire. Although the four Cantos were written and published at...

old church in every number. We know of no class of objects of humble beauty, that possess so much interest and awake so many pleasing asso- ciations as a village church, mossed...

every species of practical information upon the subject of Cottages, Villas, and Farm Buildings, with numerous li- thographic plates and wood-cuts of elevations, sections,...

in the first number were limited to the Lake Scenery among the Western Isles, are now to be extended over the whole of the country North of Edinburgh ; and the publication,...

a capitallike- ness of Lord Nugent "in his habit as he walks." We prefer H. B.'s whole-lengths to those in Somerset - House, because they show the true character of the outward...

Surry Zoological Gardens, by W. H. KEARNEY, is a good specimen of a successful at- tempt to delineate the various animals in a mode of lithography very little employed,-viz. pen...

of letterpress album and scrap-book, consisting of choice bits of prose and poetry, original and select, printed on tinted paper, and embellished with a finished line engraving....

Magazine enables us to form an idea of its contents as well as of its wood-cuts ; which are numerous and excellent, and include an elaborate and effec- tive one of ROBERTS'S...