REFORMERS are to have no respite from political activity this autumn. The Registration Courts have only just been closed, and the time is already at 'hand for making...

Myth-taut intelligence ; and the correspondence of our ; own daily journals has been equally uninteresting. The Journal des Debuts, now that it has been disowned by the French...

to the Carlist insurgents, has been captured off the coast by the Queen of Spain's steam-vessel of war th414i1g t Au r- andom. This is a heavy loss to Dolt CARIps j whb, kik ....

the Judges went, as usual, in procession to Westminster. In the King's Bench, almost the first business that occupied the attention of the Court was the challenge of Mr. Rotch...

The Court of Common Council assembled on Tuesday; when Mr. Wire, after an eulogium on the conduct of Lord Mayor Winchester for refusing to accept a challenge from Mr. Rotch,...

carpenter, obtained an order against Mr. George Rawlins, a solicitor, Secretary to the Conservative Club, and supporter of the Tory objec- tions before the Revising Barrister,...

SINGH had not been defeated by the Affghans ; but that, on the contrary, his assailants, the Sikhs, had been driven back. It is to be hoped that the last report is the true one....

THE King and Queen, with the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, Prince George of Cambridge, and Prince Ernest of Philippsthal, left Windsor Castle on Monday, for Brighton ; and...

to the 23d instant. It is surmised that their High Mightinesses have been found unmanageable by the Court. The proposed corn-duty is the source of much dissatisfaction, and will...

the reso- lution to let all their proceedings, in the choice of Councillors, &c. originate in the wards rather than with any meeting of a more general nature ; and in compliance...

Holland. She was boarded by the Revenue-officers ; who seized tobacco, tea, and cigars on board, all interded to be smuggled. The cigars were found in places to which the...

The noted Mr. Holton was Chairman, and Mr. M‘Ghee the principal spokesman. There was a Tory dinner at Rochdale, in Lancashire, a few days ago. It is intended shortly to feast...

pro- gress of the Registration furnished by the country newspapers ; but before giving the few additional particulars we have gleaned, we must refer our readers to the letter of...

A meeting of the Agricultural Association of East Suffolk was held at Framlingham on Tuesday, and was very numerously attended. The object sves to consider the propriety of...

tained their Member, Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, at a public dinner at Ding- wall ; Mr. Roderick Macleod, M. P., in the chair. Mr. Mackeezie deli- vered what may be called a very...

church, now erect. big at Dorking, Surry, took place a few days since. The Bishop of Winchester was present at the ceremone, and laid the stone. Lord Francis Egerton has given...

by an explosion of gunpowder, which occurred on Wednesday week, on the premises of a fireworks-manufacturer, named Wood, at Holbeck, one mile from Leeds. Wood employed three...

dwelling-house of Griffiths, a masen, in the parish of Beguildy, Radnorshire. Every article of household furniture was destroyed, and a little girl of five years of iaa: was...

The Commissioners of Supply for Haddingtonshire met on Tin-- day week ; the Marquis of Tweeddale in the chair. The only topic a discussion was the Land-tax Collection Act ;...

has re- minded us of the claims of the Squire-Magistrates on public attention. It was an appeal with regard to the licence of a public-house. The Bench divided ; when there...

Mr. Cutlar Fergusson a public dinner on the 26th of last month. The principal guests, besides Mr. Fergusson, were Lord Dudley Stuart, and Prince Czartoryski. Mr Fergusson...

have visited various parts of England and Scotland, and they are unanimous in describing the general state of the country as prosperous beyond any thing known in the course of...

The Dublin City Commission for the trial of uffonders was m last week. The 'wales who charged Mr. Mareus Costello with her) before the Election Commissimi were discharged, as...

his seat as Chairman at ten o'clock, but mad.. servation of any moment. The oath, as required by the Act, s ministered to him ; and a very serious responsibility it imposes. It...

Dr. LAMB inn the nomination of candidates for the Vice-Chancellorship. Last year it was Dr. LAMB'S turn to serve the office ; but his Liberal principles rendered him...

ship of the King's County, to the second or Deputy Rementhrancership. Mr. Acheson Lyle has been promoted from the Assistant Barrister- ship of the King's County, to the second...

with a copy of Fairman's denial of treasonable talk to the Yorkshire Orangemen ; and this the silly Lord, of singularly short memory, thinks quite suf- ficient to clear himself...

sioners of the City of Dublin, was examined Oil Wednesday by the agent of the sitting Members before the Election Commission. It will be remembered that the non-payment of the...

the gate at Henley Bridge, by Bolton, the gatekeeper. Immediately the circumstance was known to the Commissioners, they met and passed a resolution, regretting that they had no...

WAR -orrice.. Nov. 6.-hit Regt. of Life Guants-Assist.-Surg. W. Brernet. M.D. to be Snrg. vice M. L. Este, who retires upon hilt-pay; Assist.-Surg,. F. Goods in, from the 10th...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Tories committed a blunder when they descended from vague boasting of their success in the Registration Courts, to figured state- ments of gains and losses....

belonging to Messrs. Bowers and Co., at Levenshulme, near Manches- ter, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. William Worth, who was employed in the gas-works belonging to...

Arrived-At Gravesend, Nov. 31, Tamerlane, M'Kellar, from Bengal ; and 4th, Claudine. Bentham from Madras. At Liverpool, 5th, Ranger, Guy, front Bombay. At St. Helena, Aug' Pith,...

pro.. duced at the Olympic on Thursday. Its materials are slight, and some- what improbable; but the spirit in which it is written, and the feeling with which the principal...

THE most noticeable incident of the week is the re-reduction of the prices of admission to the Lyceum ; which are now just half those of Covent Garden, the Olympic, and the...

and the Contrabandista, is worth sitting out, if it be only to see a superb set of Spanish scenes, painted by PITT and GORDON, from LEwts's Sketches of the Alhambra and ROBERTs...

STOCK Exciisxor, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. STOCK Exciisxor, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The recent pressure for money has now entirely passed away : the last mea- sure of the Bank of England, bv...

the neighbourhood of Vittoria, between the Carlists and the Royalist troops commanded by CORDOVA. The latter gained the advantage on the field of battle ; but Alms unable to...

sarcasm of the vaudeville. Nothing worth seeing is to be seen at the theatres ; but the Datchess of R— (her name is not given in full) has converted her saloon into a theatre,...

OF TINE SPECTATOR. The British Constitution, as settled at the Revolution of 16'39, has often been cried up as a model of perfection : and if carried out in its true spirit, and...

TO TINE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—I would gladly join in a public subscription for the statues recoil]. mended by your eorres,iondent J. H. T. in the Spectator 31st Octohe :...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.. London, 5:11 November 1933. Sin — The other day I got a printed paper handed to me, calling upon all good citizens to lend their aid to...

Tim society was established, avowedly, to support the school of Eng- lish music—really, to perform the compositions of its members : a me- ritorious object as far as it goes,...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—Mr. W. News. st., in his letter from Edinburgh last week, does not inform your readers where his printed thoughts can be purchased in...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Bristol, 4th November 1 9 135. SIR—A constant and gratified reader of the Spectator, I had intended to have transmitted to you at the earliest...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 3d November 1833. Sin—Your report in the last week's Spectator of the speech of the Earl of DA it LINcToN, at Bridgenorth, encourages me to lay...

at Drury Lane, continue to be the nightly attractions : to which have been super- added, at Covent Garden, Jonathan Bradford, as acted at the Sorry; and at Drury Lane, two...

THE MONARCHY AND THE PEERAGE. IF any reply has been made to the arguments by which we endea- voured to controvert Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S assertion, that to re- form the House of...

A LARGE majority of the House of Peers are resolute Tories : this no one disputes. But the Tories maintain that the King is on their side, and that the Registration has given...

THE author of an article on the State of Parties, in Fraser's Maga- zine for November, has made ample use of Lord Baounnesi's " important contribution to the Conservative cause...

Tue person who styles himself Co/oed Fentateer has found what is vulgarly called " a rough customer " iii Mr. Joseen Heswoon of Sheffield, now or lately Grand Master and Grand...

the "absolute power" of the Catholic priesthood. Their power of taxation is declared to be "snore than Royal." " They frame the scale of each impost at their leisure, and read...

FROM the evidence given before Sir GEORGE GREY'S Intimida- tion Committee, we showed, last week, that if the Catholic priest- hood were active partisans in Irish elections, the...

LORD DARLINGTON told the Shropshire farmers, the other day, that although a majority of the Members of the House of Com- mons were disposed to relieve the agricultural interest,...

good humour and honesty of the Mayor on her late visit to Oxford. On time Queen's arrival, the Mayor was observed driving at a quick rate in his little open carriage to the inn...

HERE is another American novel—a class of literature in which our Transatlantic brethren are exhibiting considerable strength. Norman Leslie is by an author (THEODORE S. FAY)...

P0 V. Ma!mond. I n 3 vets. Norman Leslie; a Tale of the Present Times. fly Theodore S. Fay. In 3 vols. The English Boy at the Cap.. An AngloAfrican Story Poems and Lyrics. By...

Is the autobiography of a Greek adventurer, and may perhaps have been designed by the author for a sort of Turkish Gil Bias. The time of the story takes place sonic sixty or...

THE author of Keeper's Travels enjoys a high reputation among the useful labourers in juvenile literature, nor will the present work diminish his character for ability and...

WE learn from the last number of Tail's Magazine, that these poems are the production of a very young man, whose years are considerably less than those of BURNS were when he...

THE subjects of this volume are more extensive than the title- page would lead one to imagine : the author not only handles coal, but all its relations,—commencing with the...

THE appearance of a new edition of this admirable little work— which is not known as it deserves to be—is peculiarly well-timed. The building of the new Houses of Parliament is...

sons of WILLIAM COBRETT are about to raise to the memory of their father. It is intended to present the public with the cream of the hundred volumes of political polemics which...

Flom the number of publications of one kind or another on our table, we infer activity in the publishing world. It seems, how- ever, to be more in the trading than the literary...

and comprises the conclusion of his Domestic Life and the whole of his Years of Tuition. In merit the present volume equals the first, and surpases it in point of interest....

reference, containing a great deal of various information respecting a country but little known in detail. It is also a great curio- sity,—a book written in English by SIMON...

for the Advancement of Science, held in Dublin in August 1835, is a quarto pamphlet, which will tell the curious in such matters much about the Dublin doings—how some lectured,...

rather perhaps to expand, the mysteries of the Creation, the Fall, and the Re- demption, in a series of dialogues, in which various texts of Scripture arc commented on, and...

addition to what Messrs. SCOTT and WEBSTER call their " Eng- lish Classic Library ;" and it appears to us to contain the best life of NAPOLEON which has yet been published in so...

to the public by his Dictionary of Modern Greek Proverbs, and an edition of HERODOTUS. He has now published a School Edition qf Xenophon's Anabasis, with Various Readings and...

appearance of an endowed edition of GEORGE COMBS'S Consults- lion of Man considered in Relation to External Objects. The result shows that Mr. HENDERSON was not only a man of...

New Testament,—containing eight engravings on wood, with descriptions, —has just appeared. They correspond in style, execution, size, and price, with those of the Old Testament,...

Aldine Poets, commencing the Poetical Works of Pam, may be noticed, for Mr. MITFORD'S biography of PRIOR and its appendix,— the first pleasantly telling us what is known of the...

AN exhibition of the powers of two new additions by Mr. CARY tO his Gas Microscope took place at the Adelaide Gallery on Thursday evening. The highest magnifying power hitherto...

nuaN, in reissuing his cheap and handsome republications of Commis Novels, in weekly parts, at a shilling each. Each story is to be completed in five parts. The series begins...

" THE Pirate's Isle, or the Parting of Conrad and Medora," engraved by DAVID LUCAS after a painting by HARDING, is one of the largest and finest specimens of mezzotint applied...

THE portrait of RAFFAELLE, in the last number of the Gallery of Portraits, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- ledge, will set aside ninny of the...

ROYAL ACADEMY. DANIEL M.CusE and Sow:km*1 Haar were elected Associates, and SAMUEL COUSINS Associate Engraver, of the Royal Academy, on Monday last. These elections do honour...

edition of Dr. BUTLER'S admirable Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography for the Use of Schools, and the accompanying At- lases, with their elaborate tables of the latitude and...