in France ; just as the anxiety respecting the French Ministerial crisis, some months ago, was shown in the faces on this side of the Channel. Though, from its very nature,...

THE change which was no longer to be postponed after the divi- sion of Saturday morning has been consummated : the Whig Mi- nisters announced their resignation in both Houses of...

THE ADDRESS. [In the brief outline of the closing debate on the Address, to which we were restricted in our last Postscript, we were barely able to indicate the gist of the two...

party : ill-health had driven him from his post, whether the Ministry which appointed him resigned or not. The fact was made known in a correspondence which has been published,...

THE country enjoyments of the Court have been interrupted by the in- cursion of the important business incidental to the change of Ministry. Even the removal from Windsor to...

A meeting was held at the Thatched-house Tavern on Saturday, to concert proper arrangements for the erection of a monument to Sir David Wilkie's memory. The meeting was marked...

We have authority for stating that there is no foundation in the re- port that Sir Thomas Troubridge is about to have the appointment of Governor of South Australia ; but it is...

In our last paper we stated that Lord Congleton had not intimated his intention of declining the representation of Dundee in proper time. We have since seen a letter from his...

Preparations on the most magnificent scale for the banquet to Lord Morpeth in Dublin Theatre, on the 11th, are in a state of forwardness. Among those who have signified their...

On Sunday night, a special messenger arrived at the residence of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall Gardens, to require his attendance at Wind- sor Castle on the following day. Sir...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. The formation of the new Ministry proceeds apace. Last night's Gazette formally announces several of the appointments enumerated in the list on our...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Aug. 31st, Onyx, Brown, from Ceylon ; Sept. lst, Henry Tanner, Bissett, amp Bengal. At Deal, 3d, Charlotte, —, from Mauridus. Off Torbay, 31st, Delhi,...

Captain Elliot, whose great object appears hitherto to have been to secure the annual export of tea, was still temporizing with the Chinese authorities ; and had succeeded in...

insurrection in Spain in favour of Queen Christina had been abandoned, in conse- Apace of the energetic measures taken by Espartero to suppress any attempt of the kind.

bled at the Foreign Office today, at three o'clock. Most of the new Ministers transacted business at their respective offices this morning. A messenger was despatched from the...

'William Gladstone's reelection for Newark, on his appointment to office, will be opposed by Mr. Gisborne, the late Member for Carlow.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Westminster, 19th August 1841. Srs—Your paper of Saturday last contained an article on the Corn-law ques- tion, in which, as far as my memory...

STOCK SIMARD", FRIDAY AITEILROON. The transactions in the English Stock-market have not been extensive : the improvement in the Foreign Exchanges on Tuesday gave an impulse to...

Consul-General returned on the 12th, and set up his flag at the Con- sulate. On the 15th, arrived the British and Russian Consuls-General. On the 14th, Mustapha Bey, Colonel of...

IcNonAsics appeals to our fairness to publish this letter : we from the first intended to allow him to speak for himself—his first letter was printed, and only omitted by one of...

Westminster. 2d September 1841. SIR—I willingly acknowledge beim' , gratified that you have thought my communication on the subject of the Corn-laws worthy of the notice which...

CONCLUSION OF THE CHAPTER OF THE REFORM BILL. Loan JOHN RUSSELL'S announcement of the resignation of Minis- ters on Monday evening gave occasion to an interchange of com-...

A DOCUMENT has appeared in some of the newspapers, under the name of a " Despatch addressed by the French Government to the Powers of Europe, on the internal situation of...

OF TAXATION ON AGRICULTURISTS. HAVING in our paper the week before last reviewed the general arguments in favour of a restrictive corn-law, we now proceed to those which have a...

Vaaious attempts have been made and plans suggested for supply- ing the Metropolis with pure water, but none has hitherto been found practicable ; and the inhabitants continue...

ONE of the last acts of the late Ministers was to throw open the Regent's Park ; and, that they might gild their setting sun with the lustre of one popular deed, they did not...

THE new farce of the Boarding School, at the Haymarket, is the plea- santest and cleverest of the season : its humour is broad without inde- cency, and its satire pungent...

summer Night's Dream and the Critic; to be followed on the succeeding nights by the Rivals and London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast for afterpiece. No novelties are as...

at the English Opera-house ; where the time for the commencement of the performances is altered from eight o'clock to the usual hour of seven. The tragedy has been pruned of...

POETRY, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. collected by Himself. In ten volumes. Longman and Co. OrcroLoor, On Sex in the World to Come; an Essay. By the Rev. G. D.Ilaughton,...

where he finds in his clever wife a much more sprightly and congenial mate than Mrs. Wen-Err: the acting of the merry pair as a Lady and Gentleman in a Peculiarly Perplexing...

TO COME. THE subject of this volume is one which neither the logician nor the divine can regard with much approval. The whole topic of heavenly existence is veiled in so much...

From August 21st to September 3d. BOOKS. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. By ARCHIBALD...

INVITED lately by M. CLAUDET to witness his method of taking Pho- tographic Miniatures, in operation at the Adelaide Gallery, we had an opportunity of ascertaining in what...

THE ART-UNION PRIZE PICTURES. THE pictures purchased by holders of prizes in the Art-Union picture- lottery form a little exhibition of themselves, filling the large room of...

ALAS, there is no royal road to the knowlbdge even of French genders, and the " versified rule" of M. ACHILLES ALnixis, with its accompanying " histories," is little better than...

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 31st August 1841. SIR — There can be no doubt that a passion for decoration ierapidly getting among the opulent and upper classes :...

On the 21st August. at Stradore House, county of Cavan, the Lady of ROBERT Ban:, ROWES. Esq. , of a daughter. On the 23d, at Bradley Hall, Northumberland, the Lady of PRIDEAUE...

Tuesday, August 31. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Clayton and Co. Middletou Dale, Derbyshire, barytis-powder-manafacturers-Allar- dice and Co. Stokesley, Yorkshire. surgeons-Morgan...

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Owes 07 ORDNANCE, Aug. 27.-Royal Regt. of Artillery-Capt. and Brevet-Major Z. C. Bayly to be Lieut.-Col. vice Dunn. retired on full-pay ; Second Capt. C. R. Dickens to be Capt....