POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.
SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. The contents of a private express which has been received from Paris not having yet transpired, we are quite destitute of news this morning.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—It has been arranged that the House shall meet every day, at least on which the Reform Bill is under discussion, at three o'clock, and that precisely at five o'clock the Committee shall commence. The only other question of importance that stands for discussion next week, is Mr. HUNT'S Corn Law question,
for Friday.
NEW Meaniens.—The following returns appear in the Gazettes of the
week.
• William Cavendish, manon. sir R. It. Vyvyan, Okehampton.
• James Brougham, Winchelsea. Viscount Grimston, Newport.
• C. C. Pepys, Ingham Ferrara. • H. F. Stephenson, Westbury. * P. L. Crampton, Milborne Port. • T. H. Villiers, Bletchingly.
• Lord Palmerston, Bletohingly.
Those marked * are Reformers. Lord PALNEasrox was improperly stated last week to have been returned for Westbury. There is also a substitution' in the case of Monmouth, of the Marquis of WORCESTER for CaptainHALL, who has been found not to be duly elected. Ton LONDON Tnzarans.--The only novelty of the week is a clever little piece by Mr. BERNARD, but with every appearance of French origin, called the Old Regimentals, which was brought out at the English Opera with deserved success. The story is that of a misled young prince, the reigning Duke of Baden, who, by the persuasions of an artful Italian favourite, is induced to lead a life of thoughtless dissipation, and is made the instrument of oppression to his subjects, whose petitions and remonstrances he does not heed. In this career he is suddenly stopped by an attempt to assassinate him, made by his favourite, who avails him- self of the opportunity offered by his sovereign's pursuing the flight of a young girl, who had escaped the snare laid for her honour, to follow him into the woods with two ruffians, and there murder him. The prince, however, escapes, and takes refuge from his pursuers in the cot- tage of a veteran soldier, and a faithful follower of his father's, whose daughter is the very girl upon whom the prince had a design. As the girl has received no injury, the old soldier forgives his sovereign; and as the only means of saving him from the now open and renewed attack of the ruffians, disguises him in a suit of his father's " old regimentals," which had been given by the late Duke to his faithful follower, as a token of his esteem. The circumstance of putting on his father's habit, coupled with the discovery of the conspiracy, the unexpected meeting of the girl in the person of his preserver's daughter, and the know- ledge at which Ise arrives of the evils of his government and past life, induces the young Duke, like another Prince Henry, to forsake his evil courses, and, with his father's dress, to put on his father's conduct. He walks through the town, to the consternation of some and the surprise of all, and announces to his people his intended change of life and go- vernment. Ile then, as in duty bound, marries the girl, and takes the veteran. into favour. BARTLEY, in the old soldier, added another to his list of excellent characters; and HARRIET CAWSE delighted both the eye and the ear.
Mr. ARNpLu announces a new opera of FERDINAND Rias, with H. Pnit,Lirs as the hero ; and he also advertises Mr. COLLINS, " the Eng- lish Paganini," who, the bills expressly inform us, is no imitator. Ile must then be a rival of the Signor. The circumstance of 31i. Arnold's announcing this violin-player, may, we hope, be taken as an assurance of his possessing some merit to bear out his puffing title. At the Haymarket, Mrs. GORE'S comedy is attracting good houses : it is played as a second piece,—we suppose for the express convenience of the fashionable world, who are thus enabled to see it after dinner with- out altering their arrangements. At the Surrey, they are playing opera and tragedy alternately, with the addition of Miss PELHAM as a tragic heroine. This young lady pos- sesses considerable talent, and will be an acquisition to the company.
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