22 JANUARY 1831, page 10

Topics Of The Day.

THE Poles have saved the French from the . machinations of Russia, and therefore it is argued, the French ought to save the Poles from the vengeance of the despot. Sounder......

The Spirit Of Reform, When It Once Gets Infused Into

our institu- tions, will have abundant changes to work. Adapted for a totally different state of manners, the progress of time has destroyed the utility of many of them ; and......

How True It Is That One Half Of The World

does not know how the other half lives I What misery, what wretchedness occurs in the very next street to that in which those dwell who would gladly relieve it if they but .......

East India Shipping.

The Company's Ship Lady Melville, Clifford, for Bengal and China, was des. patched on Thursday ; and the Buckinghamshire, Glasspoole, for Bombay and China, yesterday. The......

At One Of The Recent Executions Of An Incendiary, It

is reported in the newspapers, that "great numbers of people attended the execution ; and because the execution was delayed a few minutes over nine o'clock, they began whistling......

The Army.

WAR.OFFICE, January 17.—bIernorandum—Ilig Majesty has been pleased to declare Ithnsell Colonel-in-Chief of the Household Brigade of Cavalry, consisting of the 1st and 2nd......

Births, Marriages, And .deaths.

BIRTHS. - The Lady SUSSEX LENNOX, of a son. On the 13th inst. at Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire, N.B., the Hon. Mrs. PRASE a, of Lovat, of a son. At Brighton, on the 16th......

The Money Market.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Ec Ext xo.—Yesterday was the day fixed for the public opening of the books for the transfer of Consols, and also for the settlement of the January Account......

Postscript To The Week's News.

SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. An Irish gentleman—a Protestant, a large landowner, and by family an aristocrat—thus writes on the state of his native country, and......