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CONSECRATION OF PUTREFACTION.
The SpectatorCONSECRATION OF PUTREFACTION. THsE modern Aceldama of Spafields-the field of corruption, not of blood-will be purified. The loathsome trade of the ghouls who claim a vested...
THE MARLBOROUGH DISPATCHES: CONTINUED.
The SpectatorSPECTATOR'S LIBRARY. MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE, The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, flrst Duke of Marlborough, from 1702 to 1712. Edited by General the Right Honourable...
MAKING A PRINCE.
The Spectator3L'KISNG A PRINCE. I The most interesting ceremony of the day was the investiture of the new Rflajah of Jhytpoor-a tall, handsome man, in the prime of life. He was to be...
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[The Lyceum closed last night, for the Easter recess; Mrs. Keeley de-...]
The SpectatorI The Lyceum closed last night, for the Easter recess; Mrs. Keeley de- livering in person a right royal, most political, and politic speech. She declared the prosperity of the...
[Lemaitre's attraction was irresistible:]
The SpectatorI Lemaitre's attraction was irresistible: his surpassing skill compels admiration, and the powerful effect of his performance stifles any sense of the ludicrous created by the...
[THIS would seem to have been a week of woful entertainments, to judge...]
The SpectatorTHE THEATRES. I Tins would seem to have been a week of woful entertainments, to judge from the play-bills; for all the " revivals " have been either ghastly, ghostly, or...
[An important link in the chain of evidence to detect the murderer of Mr. De-...]
The SpectatorAn important link in the chain of evidence to detect the murderer of Mr. De- I larue has been discovered. It now turns out, that on the day after the murder, one Taylor, a boy,...
[Mr. Lover's Irish Evenings are increasing in vivacity and popularity.]
The SpectatorI Mr. Lover's Irish Ereninqs are increasing in vivacity and popularity. The last, entitled Paddy's Portfulio, is an entertaining selange of stories and descriptions...
[Considerable alarm is felt in the City at the non-arrival, up to the date of the...]
The SpectatorConsiderable alarm is felt in the City at the non-arrival, up to the date of the I present advices, of either oftthc missing packet-ships, United States and England; which left...
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[THE Commons have transacted real business this week:]
The SpectatorNEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Commons have transacted real business this week: theI Income-tax is virtually settled for three years-the bill passed the critical stage of Committee...
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TO ILL-CONDITIONED MEMBERS.
The SpectatorTO ILL-CONDITIONED MEMBERS. GEwNEROUS good-humour is the best policy, even in the House of Commons; and its success is so palpable as to surprise us that it is not more...
HUMANE LEGISLATION.
The SpectatorHUMANE LEGISLATION. HUMANE legislation is not quite so easy a task as some of its professors imagine. More than good intentions and oratorical powers of the Exeter Hall pitch...
THE NATIONAL VIEW OF THE SUGAR QUESTION.
The SpectatorTOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NATIONAL VIEW OF THE SUGAR QUESTION. Tz discussion of the Sugar-duties in the House of Commons has been any thing but satisfactory. The financial aspect...
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[The debate on the Secret-service-money-Bill, in the French Chamber of Peers,...]
The SpectatorI The debate on the Secret-service-money-Bill, in the French Chamber of Peas I began onWednesday; when Count Mold opened an attack on Government, by replying to a speech from...
[The Collectors and Comptrollers of the Customs have received directions to...]
The SpectatorI The Collectors and Comptrollers of the Customs have received directions to repare and transmit to the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports, with the Ieast possible delay,...
[Sarim Effendi, the new Ambassador from the Sublime Porte to the Court of St....]
The SpectatorI Sarim Effendi, the new Ambassador from the Sublime Porte to the Court of St. IJames's, arrived yesterday at the Turkish Embassy, in Bryanstone Square.
[The Sugar-duties again occupied the House of Commons last night.]
The SpectatorPOSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY NIGHT. I The Supgr-duties again occupied the House of Commons last night. I On the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair, in order to the Comnittee...
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SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.
The SpectatorMUSIC. SACRED THAMONIC SOCIETY. PURCELL formed the chief attraction of a miscellaneous performance by this Society, at Exeter Hall, on Wednesday. It commenced with the...
How's Illustrated Book of British Song.
The SpectatorHow's Illustrated Book of Britih Song. PICTURE-SONGS have been long in vogue; and skilful lithography has ere now, we believe, helped off a vast deal of expensive but useless...
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[India, we learn by the last mail, is "tranquil"-with excep-...]
The SpectatorIndia, we learn by the last mail, is " tranquil "-with excep- I tions. That venerable cavalier Sir Charles Napier has set off like a knight-errant on an expedition of...
[An Extraordinary Diet is sitting on the two questions that...]
The SpectatorAn Extraordinary Diet is sitting on the two questions that shake the Confederated Republic of Switzerland to its foundations,-the right of separate Cantons to give official...
Debates and Proceedings in Parliament.
The Spectator'Dbatts ant VroQmieings in parliament. SUGA.R-DUTJIES. The House of Commons having resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, on Monday, Mr. GOULBURN moved the...
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The Court.
The SpectatorZbe Tourt. Tim first levee of the season was held on Wednesday, at St. James's Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by their suite and escorted by a party of Life...
The Metropolis.
The SpectatorSFbe ffTettropolis. The annual meeting of the Thames Tunnel Company was held-at the Londbd Tavern, on Tuesday- Mr. Benjamin Hawes senior in the chair. In the yew 1844,...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorIRELAND. The Belfast Chronicle mentions some uneasiness from the Tractarian innovation in the diocese of Down and Connor. " There are strange rumours abroad with regard to...
Foreign and Colonial.
The SpectatorJForrign ant Colonial. SWITZERLAND.-TIec Extr-aordinarv Dict was opened at Zurich oil the 24th Februarv: and its sittings were coutinued with small exception, from day to day....
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THE OLD COMPANY AND THE NEW.
The SpectatorTHE OLD COMPANY AND THE NEW. ON Saturday last the East India Company, in the person of its Governor, dined with the Russia Company. There was something touching in the...
THE GREAT CORONER CONTROVERSY.
The SpectatorTHE GREAT CORONER CONTROVERSY. " THE Hampstead murder" has revived the old feud between the Coroner and the Police Magistrates of Middlesex. Again the progress of judicial...
TEACH WHAT CAN BE LEARNED.
The SpectatorTEACH WHAT CAN BE LEARNED. THERE must be real education, is the cry. Lord Ashley reiterates it in his bill to regulate the labour of children in cotton-printworks; and among...
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MRS. ELLIS'S LOOK TO THE END, OR THE BENNETS ABROAD.
The SpectatorMRS. ELLIS'S LOOK TO THE END, OR THE BENNETS ABROAD. DURING a late tour in Italy, hMrs. Ellis became forcibly impressed with the conviction that a deep sense of the beautiful,...
TRENCH'S TRAVELS IN FRANCE AND SPAIN.
The SpectatorTRENCH'S TRAVELS IN FRANCE AND SPAIN. TnE Reverend Francis Trench, with his wife, his man, and a light open pony-carriage, started for an autumnal tour in the South of France;...
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The Provinces.
The SpectatorZbe JProbinces. The election of a representative for East Kent, in the room of Sir Edward Knatchbull, who had resigned, took place at Canterbury onl Monday. Mr. Wifliam....
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Miscellaneous.
The Spectatorglis tel laneous. It appears certain that the Queen of England will come to Paris, not in the month of April as some papers have stated, but towards the month of August...
