THE proceedings in the House of Peers have hitherto been unimportant; but the time is come when the conduct of that branch of the Legislature will be watched with extreme...

town. There probably never was an instance of a public man suffering so little from constant and unmitigated slander, as DANIEL O'CONNELL. Of all the dirt which the conspirators...

has appeared this week. It is a document of extraordinary interest, and contains plans for improving the condition of the Irish population, which, if worked out with the...

instant exhibit an increase over the corresponding quarter of 1835, of 221,6191.: the revenue for the year, up to the same date, is larger than that of the preceding year by...

of 55 to 7, a petition to the King, which embodies a statement of the grievances under which the Colonists labour. This document is temperate, but forcible : it is impossible to...

the indiscretion and ignorance of Count D'ArtGour, the Minister of Finance. Impelled by the representations of the Colonial sugar-planters, and alarmed at the decrease of the...

party in the Spanish Cortes. ISTURITZ, who was elected temporary President of the Chamber of Procuradores, was thrown out on the final ballot; and ANTONIO GONZALES, the...

One record of Royal movements and occupations this week is exceedingly brief. The King and Queen have been residing at Windsor Castle, seeing very little company, and avoiding...

Easter Monday tell. ° his Majesty's Ministers and a large party, at the Mansionhouse. The muster of ladies and gentlemen amounted to about 370: among them were the Marquis of...

tried on a charge of having caused the death of John Mackenzie, a mariner who resided in Ratcliffe, by giving him a quantity of Mon.. son's pills. It was alleged against the...

Mr. O'Connell arrived in Nottingham, to be present at the public dinner to which he had been invited by the Mayor and Corporation, on Monday last. At Loughborough and other...

reached on Wednesday morning. He was met by Colonel Thompson and other friends at a short distance from the town, and escorted through the principal streets to the Old Jail...

Tuesday. Great preparations had been made for his reception, but no account of the proceedings has yet found its way into the newspapers. It seems that the Tories have been...

the old Leeds Corporation, in alienating their funds, was illegal aud fraudulent, and that the seven thousand pounds may be recovered on an application to the Court of Chancery....

bribery at the last elections have been tried and acquitted; in consequence of the indifferent character of the witnesses for the prosecution. At the Liverpool Assizes, on...

William Pullen, farmer of Cold Harbour, near Brentwood, was returning home from Brentwood through a lane which led to his house, he was shot in the neck. The assassin bad...

The Edinburgh clergy are taking harsh measures to compel payment of the odious Annuity-tax. Mr. Russell, a Councillor, and a Mr. Chapman, have been imprisoned in the Calton gaol...

The supporters of Mr. O'Connell in Dublin have subscribed upwards of 2000/. towards the expenses of a petition against the present petitioners against him, in the event of the...

THE Irish Poor-Law Commissioners have published their Third Report ; which is devoted principally to an exposition of their plan for the diminution of pauperism in Ireland,...

Dr. Sparke, Bishop of Ely, died on Monday night. Another windfall for the Lucky Ministry. The revenues of Ely amounted, even on the cautions admission of the money-grub who last...

war, carrying 74 guns, with two Arabian horses and mares, as presents to the King, his Majesty ordered Captain Cargan, of the British Indian Navy, who brought the Imaum's vessel...

letter received by us friend of ours from Lord Brougham on Monday last, that the accounts given in many papers of his Lordship's convalescence, and of his being on his way to...

the Shrewsbury School, was held at the Thatched House Tavern yesterday,—Sir Francis Holyoake Goodrieke in the chair,—to consider the best mode of testifying their respect for...

committed from Hatton Garden Police Office a short time ago on the charge of bigamy, and who was tried and convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to seven years'...

St. Petersburg, mentions that " a return of the pensions and gratifications which the Emperor Nicholas has granted to various individuals in Europe during the year 1835 has been...

[From the Morning chronicle.] Our obituary contains the death of the celebrated William Godwin, in the eighty-first year of his age. Mr. Godwin was neatly fifty years before the...

BIRTHS. On the Ise inst. at Wilton Crescent, the Lady Viattow, of • son. On the 2i1 inst., at Walthamstow. the Lady of the Hon. Gaoler Ilisszv, of a daughter. On the 238...

A report has been circulated in Paris, that a fresh plot had beendiicovcred against Lours Primo, and that the guards at the Tuileries had receivcd an extra supply of ammunition...

has been specially summoned to meet on Tuesday next, at A psley House, to consider the line of conduct the Opposition will adopt with respect to the Irish Corporations Amendment...

triumphal progress ; and in a previous column we have extracted from the Ma Advertiser some particulars of his reception at Hull, and of the dinner eivcn to Mr. Hurr and Colonel...

of votes. Whole days are consumed in hearing arguments, the result of which is a decision to strike off or retain one elector on the list. Flow long this will continue is quite...

was recently issued by the Excise, prohibiting all persons connected with that establishment, in any of its branches, from belonging to the Orange Lodges.

is now so far recovered as to be considered out of danger, though it will be some time before..., he will be sufficiently recruited to be able to resume his official duties. '

The Gondolier, from Liverpool to Madras. is on shore on Robin Island (Cape of Good Hope), bilged with six feet water in her hold. Arrived -At Gravesend. April 7th, Eleanor,...

THE entertainments provided for the opening night of the Lyceum were not of a kind calculated to attract the holyday playgoers, who prefer being addressed through the eyes...

fitting piece of absurdity for the Easter holydays, and capitally well got up. The dialogue, too, promised to be very amusing at first, though it fell off lamentably : the...

as Virginias, at Cot .nt Garden, on Tuesday, with considerable applause, which indeed he merited. His acting was manly and vigorous, and he evinced discretion and feeling ; so...

MOTION. WHATEVER may be thought of the intrinsic importance of the question—whatever difference of opinion as to the expediency of abolishing the practice of military flogging...

THE wrath of the Tories at the appointments of Magistrates under the Municipal Act, proves the high value they set on a partisan bench of Justices as an instrument of political...

WE have been amused by the attempt of ZETA, the celebrated correspondent of the Morning Post, to defend against the Speciutor the "accuracy" of his calculation, made just before...

TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SPECTATOR. 6th April 1936. SIR—In your comments, last week, on some recent objectionable appointments, as you call them, you have fallen into a great...

t11 C It I N Tll E current of public opinion is as eicarly shown by the pnblicatiens of the tinie, as the direction of tin:. wind by the COUrse of a straw. The critic, when be...

in that country, whilst the abolition of the Compam's charter was underdiscussion ; and was first published in the Chinese Repository of December 1833, from which it was...

war, open or concealed," is advocated by every one connected with China, and by all who write upon its affairs, (except Sir GEORGE SrAumrem and the Quarterly Review,) whilst...

FOR the correctness of the statements, the truth of the pictures, or the likeness of the characters in Mr. RANKIN'S excursion to " the White Man's Grave," we cannot hold...

IN announcing its arrival, we observed that this was a most curious volume. A perusal has only confirmed the first impression. Although aiming at the overthrow of every existing...

To produce a good translation of a classic, is nearly the most difficult of tasks. A perfect one—one that should exactly reflect the original—is an impossibility. To compass the...

ROYAL ACADEMY. RUMOUR says that an unusual number of large pictures have been this year received for exhibition at Somerset House—we hope they will prove to be great works. The...

THE Seventh Century of Drawings selected from this matchless collection is now exhibiting at Messrs. WoonatraN's Gallery, St. Martin', Lane. It consists of the works of FEDERICO...

AT the first glance round the room, we perceived the improvement of this exhibition beyond that of last season. The coup d'ccil is rich and harmonious, which before was crude...

JOHN LEWIS has lithographed those two admirable studies of Spanish female character which he exhibited in the Water Colour Society a season or two ago, and which were presented...

H. Mesvitax, have been put forward with a prominence that their merits do not warrant ; being published not merely as embellishments to a new edition of the book, but in a...

one of his comic subjects, "The First Scrape," - a boy learning to play the fiddle. The delighted look of the urchin, and his unconsciousness of the torture his efforts are...

TIIE pressure of more important matters has from time to time excluded notices of this numerous and attractive tribe ; some of which, by the way, figure more frequently in these...

WAR-OFFICE, April 8.-lot Regt. Life Guards-Staff Assist.-Stirg. A. Campbell to be Assist.-Surg. vice F. Goodwin, who retires upon half pay. lot Regr. Dragoon G nerdsCapt. J. A....

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Law and Palmer, Birmingham, cut -nailmnnufactnrers-Andreis and Co. Manchester embossers-Fisher and hlilligan, King's Ly cn. Norfolk,...