week from 7 to 15 per cent. interest was given for temporary loans on undoubted security, the 4th of this month, being the day on which the principal mercantile bills are to be...

war in Spain was drawing to a close, have been confirmed by accounts since received from Biscay and Navarre. The Carlist General Manor() has deserted to the Queen, with the...

on the subject of Lord Baotfanam's panegyric on the Duke of VirE L- LI NOTON at Dover. The Aratiored considers Lord BROEGIIAM'S speech as an insult to France, and talks of...

which Whigs and Ministerialists may coalesce with Repealers. Of course he must have something of the sort to keep his constituents in good humour, and preserve the semblance of...

and Constantinople. It is generally understood that .Menneterr Am is intractable, and suspicions arc entertained that he is carry- ing on a secret negotiation with Russia.

Welnesday, by the Virginian, which left New York on the 14th of August. The commercial and monetary difficulties of the United States were still considerable ; business was...

and it may be said from day to day. The question now asked is not as to an abundant, but whether there will be an average crop of wheat. Hain and sunshine are intermingled as in...

Tan Metropolis being new empty—not more than a million and a half of nobodies remaining to wear out a stupid existence in town— for interesting events we turn to the provinces....

Sir F. Roc has resigned his situation as Chief Magistrate of Bow Street ; and Mr. Hall, of llatton Garden Office, who officiated for many years at Liverpool, has been appointed...

some in- teresting information concerning Sweden; a country whose affairs attract little attention in England at present, but which on the death of its present sovereign will...

Sheriffs Court, Red Lion Square, to ascertain the state of mind of Mr. Richard Estcourt Cresswell, of Pinckney Park, in Wiltshire. This gentleman had been arrested for debt in...

TIRE Queen takes rides and walks in the neighbourhood of Windsor Castle, when the weather is tolerably fair ; but the rain and clouded sky have compelled her Majesty to remain...

number of gentlemen, who have been in the habit of angling in the Thames on some poor fishermen, who were punished for using illegal nets illi c omplained that gentlemen broke...

We mentioned last week that Mr. Robert Hyde Greg had been no- minated by the influential Liberals of Manchester as their candidate to succeed Mr. Poulett Thomson. 3Ir. Cobden,...

the burgesses of Manchester, calling upon him to offer himself as a candidate, on the Reform interest, at the next election. This the honourable gentleman has refined, declaring...

through at the Guildhall ; and then both parties adjourned to Parker's Piece, where the hustings were erected. Mr. Sutton's party, with crimson and white favours, occupied the...

day's—was given most week. Thursday was deplorably wet ; and all the gayety was confined to tine Castle, where the dames, knights, and squires, contented themselves wide dancing...

Manchester ; and Mr. Burgess, a barrister on the Midland Circuit, for Bi r mingham. The Royal Adelaide steam-packet, bound to Dublin from London, into Portsmouth on Tuesday ;...

An address from Mr. David Greig, the new 'Member for Perth, to his constituents, appears in the Perth Chronicle of Thursday. It is chiefly devoted to the correction of some...

Viscount Ebrington, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, was taken seriously Ilion Friday. The nature of tine attack is not stated; but the Lord- Lieutenant required the assistance of...

I hauled and stonel in capital condition. On Thursday the barometer indicate Earl Monteith, Adant Anderson, Graham Spiers, Frederick Hill, and deed the scarcity of...

anticipated. The greater portion of the Lent grains have been safely h ew s , and it must be borne in mind, that the weather, at the commencement and the crops are full an...

busi- ness of similar institutions with time advantages of Sick Clubs or Bene- fit Societies, is about to be established in London, under the title of " The General Life and...

More Perhaps than on the great man himself: When, therefore, Mr. Polka Thomso n was made Governor-General and Captain-General of the Brits ' h Provinces in North America, " who...

Tuesday's Gazette announces the appointment of " the Right lIonour- able Charles Poulett Thomson to be Governor-General, Voce - Admiral, and Captain-General of all her Majesty...

last week by the Ministerial papers, " upon authority, " as having then been fully determined on, have encountered consider:lilt , di llienities and undergone some material...

Park, but is now better ; his Royal Highness has been proressionally attended by his physician from London.—lbonpshire Trlegraph. Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassa,lor, bas...

the more . ment in favour of Lord Durham ' s Report and " Responsible Go,,, m " ment " gains strength in the Upper Province. At a meeting of freeholders, held in the township...

London from that place on the 2Gth ult. having on board 659 hogsheads of tobacco, worth there 197,700 dollars. The Indian war has again broken out in Flo7ida. A party of...

was so far improved that no apprehensions of a fatal result were any longer en- tertained. The negotiations between the French Government and the Texian Envoy, General...

to various religious denominations in the Colonies. His Grace told Nor- manby, in the House of Lords, that sects ought not be be put upon an equality with the Church. In so far...

thymus and by a larger majority than he obtained on Thurs- day. The following numbers were announced during the progress of polling. Greg. Murray. Ilalf-past nine tun 744...

OTWAY Ctrs: the Braze Barony. Sir JACOB ASTI.EY, with all his services to the Whigs, is cast off 1;n. Mr. SToxott, a Catholic. The Irish and Catholic influence is all-powerful...

his lucrative Exchequer sinecure, the income of which is now, it seems, to assist in supporting the new baronial dignity of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir John is, we...

somewhat contra- dictory, but upon the whole fitvourable. To the New York Produce Stakes, which close on the 1st of January 1810. there are already five subscribers at 5,000...

pre- sent during the delivery of Lord !Notion AM'S last speeds of the session, when he abandoned (in a modified sense, as he himself expressed it) his Education Bill to Lord...

contain the welcome intelligence of the termination if the drought. The Sydney .Gazette of the 11th of April announces copious showers of rain- s We believe we may at length...

SATURDAY. Paris papers of Thursday evening contain a telegraphic despatch from Madrid, announcing the opening of the cession of the Cortes on Sunday. In the Queen Regent's...

this morning. In the Jamaica Standard of the 27th of July, we find a statement, that in some parts of the island the Negroes had declared their determina- ti o n to fight . for...

TO Wens. At Pierronn.nt, 'Charlet, the Lady EttANcEs FLErritElt, of a daughter. On the 26111 ult., iit Oehertyre, Seotland. Laity KErrit Mu mt.ty, of it non. Ott the 28th...

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SPECTATOR. Rall or Science. City Road, 6th September 1839. Sin — I am directed by the St. Luke's Charter Association to express their surprise at the...

even that is not certain—her measures are producing the consequences always to be dreaded from them, of almost paralyzing trade, and putting a stop to all commercial operations...

the Cape; Sept. 5th, W. S. I bouillon, Brown, from Singapore. At Deal, 4111, Mary 'ratio, Willion16.,nom Bengal ; 5111. Youn g , from Bombay ; Harlequin, B;iberison. aunt the I...

&runic EKCITANGE, FSMAYArrEattoott, The week opened very gloomily; and during Monday, the pressure wise * Stock Market was heavy : Consols receded,, per cent., the price...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Behold ! another notch for the Tory score, already formidable enough. The party at Cambridge who espoused Mr. GIBSON'S cause must tax their ingenuity...

Is to break their little toys, If you try to make them strong, Silly toy-men, you arc wrong. Front your betters counsel take : EGLisTotoes are made to break.

WING NOTIONS OF INSOLENT PRESUMPTION : A. O. 1839. TDB daily press throughout the week has teemed with a contro- versy arising out of Mr. POULETT THOMSON ' S appointment as...

little consequence now, but there can be no doubt that Lord NORM txmm T ww«s expected to cut a figure as Colonial Minister. Appointed to the office at a time when the politics...

Ties embarrassments of the Money-market have made many Corn- law repealers. Men of property are terrified with the prospect of frequently-recurring periods of commercial and...

Tins " tournament" has proved such a comical as well as unlucky piece of business—has been so roared at, and so rained on — so pinflilly handled by gods and men—that we can...

Tim Haymarket, on Tuesday, was besieged by the adorers of ELLEN TREE Oil this side the Atlantic, eager to get a glimpse of their divinity through any loophole : their prolonged...

Is a narrative of the military events of the last war ; beginning with the attack upon Twroo, and coming clown to the battle of Waterloo, but omitting the important campaigns of...

but Tragedy seems out of place at the Haymarket. The Lady if Lyons is the favourite : it is acted twice a week. ; MACREADY and Miss 1'I BEEN FAUCIT being the hero and heroine,...

MILITARY MISTORIL The Victories of the British Armies, with Anecdotes illustrative of Modern Warflue, By the Author of Stories of Waterloo," " Captain Blake," Ike. /i.e. In 2...

SUM is the comprehensive title of this book as it stands in the titlepage ; but it appears from the introduction, that the author's design is to give a view of the literature of...

Tuts is a curious pamphlet, and in essentials a clinching reply. Curious, for the light it throws upon Sir WALTER SCOTT'S charac- ter,—his keen selfishness; his close attention...

Boons. The Victories of the British Armies; with Anecdotes illustrative of Mo- dern Warfaie. By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. In two...

The Gresham .Prize Composition, .2Vo. 8. Anthem for Five Voices. By E. J. HooleeNs, late of leer Majesty's Chapel Royal. The Gresham prize is, we believe, the . yearly donation...

ROSS'S MINIATURE OF THE QUEEN. 44 Astovunu portrait of the Queen ! " exclaims the impatient reader ; " when will there be a likeness? " Here is one, at last, we are glad to say...

IT is so long. since we took a " peep at the print-shops, " that instead prying through a pictured. pane here and there,We have the whole es . of shop-windows from Threadneedle...

Two Songs from the German of Schiller and By Joust Taostsox. In all that MK Trromsosr writes we are sure of finding some of the ingredients of a good vocal composition. To a...

with Organ Accompaniment. The attempt to introduce chanting and other parts of the cathedral service into parish churches, we regard as of very questionable ex- pediency....

Wa have been gratified with a view of the marble bust of CLARKSON, the liberator of slaves, sculptured by BERMES for the Corporation of London. It represents a venerable head of...