LAST week we left the Reform Bill in the middle of Schedule B ; it has now got through C and D. We rejoice less at this marked acceleration of its progress, than at the...

in this country anticipated, has arrived since our last Number was pub- lished,—CASIMIR PERRIER has resigned, and the French Ministry is dissolved. It was generally understood,...

recovery of Luxembourg. The termination of the armistice took place on Thursday, it having been previonsly announced by General CHASSE, commandant of the fort at Antwerp, that...

not entirely completed until mid-day on Monday. We shall endeavour to describe the whole as distinctly as possible, so that our readers in the country, or at least such of them...

in- telligence is a report of PASKEWITSCH, which states that he had passed the Vistula without opposition—a fact previously known ; and an insidious note from ROZNIEKI, former...

at the villa of the Marquis of Londonderry on Saturday. On Monday they partook of one of a more novel and interesting character, on London Bridge. To this we shall recur by and...

was a very numerous meeting on Monday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, of the members of the House of Commons who have supported the Reform Bill. We understand that Lord...

Int. The sample was good, and fetched 8s. per bushel." The Bath Journal—" All accounts we have received of the crops are of a most sa- tisfactory nature. The ears are full, the...

fire. The w offered by Mr. Scrimshaw, and by the farmers and others in the neieshe the discovery of the author of " Swing" letters which have been sent is well entitled to the...

be another hanging, in the case of the man Gilchrist. Little DA " That from the continued silfferings of the humbler classes in Ibis city, the ne. was hanged to satisfy the...

on the completion of Buckingham Palace, and that it will henceforth form the residence of the British Court. It has been esti. mated by the competent officers that what remains...

and loud. Yesterday the lightning was vivid and threatening, and the peals that followed loud and appalling. The rain, unless on Mon- day, has poured down, not in showers, but...

July, the fifty-fifth anniversary of American independence, in his seventy-second year. It is remarkable, that of four Presidents, de- ceased since the commencement of the...

" 'There well it were done quickly." How long, oh ye Lords in the Commons! RUSSELL, ALTDORP, and Howice, how long Will you quail to the querulous non ones That make up the...

STOCK ExCirANGS, FRIDAY Evaxix o.—Monday, in consequence of the King's visit, was closer than what is called a close - holyday. On Tuesday but little busi- ness was done. On...

SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY. The news from France this morning is of more than usual interest ; as will be seen by the following letter from the Minister of Finance to the...

INSOLVENT. Mortnrs, Riefler:a, Lawrence Lane, wholesale-linen-draper, Aug. I. BANKRUPTS. DAVIS, JOHN REDFOOR.D, Liverpool, merchant, to surrender Aug. 9, Pa, Sept 13:...

ASTRUCT S.-The Rev. L. PtIrbrick, M.A. of Christ Church, has been appointed Chaplain of All Souls' College, in the room of the late Rev. Mr. Gulch. CAMBRIDGE. ORDINATI oN.-The...

r Arrived. In the Downs, Aug. 4th, Medway, Wright ; and Lang, Sutherland, from Van Diemera's Land; and Maitland, Brown, from Bengal. 0th, Bengal Mer- chant, Fox; and Wanstead,...

BIRTHS. On the 24th ult. at Courtown, Gorey, Ireland, the Hon. Mrs. MoaarAornt STOP- Porto, of a daughter. On the 30th ult. in the Close, Exeter, Lady CHARLOTTE MARTIN, of a...

On Saturday last, the Rev. W. Sharpe was instituted to the Vicarage of Cromer, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the Lord Bishop of Ely. On Sunday sennight the Bishop of...

WAR-OFFICE, August 2.-Ist Regt. of Life Guards : Hon. P. A. Gordon to be Cornet and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Angerstein, appointed to the 24th Regt.- 2ad Regt. of Life...

HOW TO CARRY "THE BILL" BY STRENGTHENING THE PEERAGE. FOR the more rapid progress of the Bill this week we are indebted to the renewed courage of Ministers ; and the Ministers...

MR. A. BARING contends, that, under the new Bill, the country gentlemen will be wholly incapable of competing . with the active, intelligent, busy members elected by commercial...

BRITISH. 3ver Cent. Reduced . 3 per Cent. Consols ....... Ditto for Account ........ 34 per Cent. Old ..... . 35 per Cent. New . . . 4 per Cent... B ank Stock .. ....... Ditt o...

IN 1827, France, Austria, and England interposed to rescue Greece from the oppression of Turkey. It is true, the war be- tween the Porte and its subjects in the Morea and the...

FERDINAND RIES, whose visit to this country we noticed in a former SPECTATOR, has been engaged by Mr. ARNOLD to furnish his theatre with an opera; and it was produced on...

A NEW " semi-historical play," as it is somewhat pedantically termed in the bills, entitled Madame the Barri, or a Glance at Court, was produced at this theatre on Tuesday...

IT is very well known that her Majesty gave what was called an English Concert last month ; all the music of which, two pieces only excepted, was by foreign composers, and the...

PERIODICAL LITERATURE, Magazines for August.—The New Monthly, Blackwood's, Fraser's, The Englishman's, The Metropolitan, The United Service Journal, The Asiatic, The...

ON the second day of the month, contrary to the custom of my fore- fathers, I had fasted nearly four-and-twenty hours, in consequence of a derangement of my peptic organs,...

an account of the most valuable fruit and vegetables cultivated in Great Britain, is a very elaborate work ; and inasmuch as it com- prises the result of a great number of years...

Pharmacy, which two of the most enterprising and ingenious phy- sicians of Paris, Mr. EDWARDS and Mr. VAVASSEUR, had originally published in French. It contains a description of...

NEW Prix/qrs.—Costly engravings, on a large scale, are getting fewer in number, in proportion as smaller and less elaborate works are more numerous. The rage for Albums, which...

of sound views in commercial policy, that Mr. WCULLOCH has lent his aid It is a subject of sincere congratulation with the lovers of sound views in commercial policy, that Mr....

that a Col- lege has been founded in Bristol, the preliminary steps respecting which appear to have been conducted with great prudence and foresight. We have now before us an...

THE PANTECHNICON.—This establishment, consistingof two immense buildings, situate at the north-west corner of Belgrave Square, is a vast warehouse and depot for all kinds of...

Srd August 1831. MR. EDITOR—In the last number of yourvaluable paper, I read with surprise that " DE BERANGER is a competitor for the Presidency of the French Chamber ;" and by...

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