THE utter hopelessness of getting through the business of the session of Parliament on the present system of mismanagement and confusion, has at length elicited an attempt to...

STATE OE PUBLIC BUSINESS. In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord BROUGHAM moved for a Select Committee to inquire into and consider the state of Public Business in that House....

and gaining it. On the 3(1 instant, the Duke and Duteliess of ORLEANS made their entry into the capital, in an open carriage, without any escort whatever. In the course of the...

few sen- tences. ESPARTERO entered Pampeluna on the 2d instant, the Carlists flying before him : his subsequent movements, if he has made any, are not reported. The main body of...

star Am's descendants to the throne of Egypt and Acre. The plague is making fearful ravages in the villages on the Sea of 11Iarmora.

THE daily reports of the King's health during the week were as follow. On Sunday—" His Majesty is recovering his strength." Monday- " His Majesty's health continues improving."...

The Conunittee of the City of London Reform Club have published an account of their operutions for the last year. The virtue of the Coeknies, according to the Committee, is of a...

Great exertions were made this year to give importance and spirit to the races at Ascot Heath. "In lb3G, the raccground produced to the fund 3.)(1/. ; this year, it has...

by Shuckburgh Chapman, a currier of Lutterworth, heir-at- law of Wodhull, on the plea that Wodhull was imbecile, and incapable of making a will. The case of the plaintiff,...

importance respecting the construction of the Municipal Act was decided. The Council of the Borough of Stamford had imposed a rate for defraying, among other expenses, those of...

yoolwich ; when a quarrel ensued between them in consequence of jealousy, and they fought desperately together, until one of theta seized on a quart-pot, with which he beat the...

suppose, a course for steeple-chases—was opened to the public on Sa- turday. A large assemblage of sporting gentlemen were present, and the arrangements for seeing the races...

Corney proposed to renew the summer excursions in the City barge, at an expense of 600/. or 750/. a year. Mr. Wire and Mr. Galloway opposed the motion, as an unseemly...

In spite of the jibes and jests of our Tory contemporaries, the requi- sition to Mr. Elphiestone has been forwarded to London ; and at ter passing safely through the ordeal of...

Union steam-packet, which plied between Hull mid Gainsborougls, was lying oft the jetty, about six o'clock, taking in passengers for Gainsburough. The number of persons on board...

be let in the borough of Stockport. In Manchester there was very little business doing en Monday, either in goods or yarns ; the market seemed, indeed, in consequence of the...

a thunderstorm, taking a direction of from North•west to South- east, and apparently following the course of the river Medway. The electric fluid struek the spire of Hoo church....

pro- ceeding to count the House, in consequence of the absence of his chap- lain. 'The circumstance is curious and unprecedented in modern times. The Members who were present...

the l'; iixess Victoria 10,000/. a year from his privy purse, provided the Priocess would allow his Majesty to name the officers of her establishment ; and that her Royal...

Notwithstanding the unfavourable period of the year, and the general depression complained of, the collection of the O'Connell thud in Dublin promises to exhibit a large...

in Yates's Gallery, for the former of which 6,0001, and for the latter t2,000f., had been demanded, have been purchased by the Government for 7,0001., and will be added to the...

of all others, I have at all times deemed the most honourable, that of representing the independent and enlightened constituency of Westminster, 1 shall either labour with Me...

assaulted and kissed a young woman. It appeared that the complainant had been sent by a friend, Mrs. Small, to Shilley, to execute some commission for her ; and that, while...

We are sorry to state, that the number of unemployed weavers in Glasgow is still on the increase ; so that the necessity for raising sub- scriptions in their behalf is greater...

spring ate, we are gratified to state, of a very cheerful nature. The crops have, svithin the last few days, assumed quite an improved appearance. The brief period of heat which...

The following bulletin of' the King's health was issued last night, at a late hour. Windsor ensile. Jane 9. 1837. "The King has suffered for some time from an affection of the...

In a speech full of insolent invective, but which contained not a syllable of new argument, or even of original vituperation, Lord Lventwasr moved as an amendment on Lord...

the in- crease. An American banker, it is said, has applied to :the Bunk of France for assistance to prevent his stoppage. He is called Mr. M—, and he required a loan of four...

Wso.orvier, June 9.-2d Beat. ci Foot -Capt. T. II. natl.:, from the half pay un- attached, to be Capt. vice C. F. Holmes, who exchanges. Gilt Foot W. II. M. Ogilvie, font the...

SToCK EXCHANGE, FR1DAV AFTERNOON. The gloomy anticipations to which the disasters of last week gave birth, have, happily, not been realized. The failures of the various...

THE STATE OF THE CROWN, AND LORD DURHAM'S RETURN. As drowning men catch at straws, so are there some Whigs who imagine that the precarious condition of the Court is favourable...

Arrived-At Gravesend, June 7th, Menton, Hogg, from Bengal ; and (ilk's Branch Stirling. lion, the Cape ; and 8th, Jane, Chttreloward, from Mauritius. Off PI) hi 9th, Moi l...

SUPERFICIAL observers of current events have got the notion that there is some deep-rooted error in the political economy of the country. "We see," they say, "that the...

Loan DENMAN has been in everybody's :mouth this week. He has managed to find employment for both Houses of Parliament, and has supplied a topic of daily discussion for the...

Air. Broadwood by this time must have had enough of Parliament, and will be loath again to tune his instrument to the airs of the Cal ion Club. Ilis bribed electors may defend...

MR. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY has been three years in India and, besides a gratuitous passage and a handsome outfit, has already pocketed 30,000/. of the public money. If he...

THE primal origin of this voluntary volume, is an opinion formally put forward by Mr. WHHWELL in his Bridgewater Treatise, that mathematical and mechanical philosophers are not...

Sir L. Parry presented a petition from a parish in Common, praying, that as the petitioners were by law obliged to understand the Judges and Bishops of Wales, either they might...

CORM NATURAL THIMLOGV, The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, A Fragment. By Charles linkage, Ra g , :array, TRAVELS. 'Ills City of the Sultan ; and Domestic Manners of the Turks...

exhibited a fire-proof dress, in which be enveloped himself, and passed through a small cottage or shed, erected for the occasion, in the grounds of Cremorne House, and set on...

ACCOMPANIED by her father, the fair author of these volumes started • for the East towards the close of 1835, with the intention of visiting Turkey, Greece, and Egypt—and, as...

THE author of these volumes on Germany made the regular tout of that country in 1836; starting from Calais, passing through Brussels to the Rhine, steaming up the river to...

COTTON MANUFACTURE. THIS pamphlet originated in a tour of Mr. SENIOR'S through the Manchester part of the cotton manufacturing districts, with a view to investigate the...

ALTHOUGH studded with too many solemn commonplaces, and mingling with the zeal of an advocate the ipse die-it manner of a pedagogue in his school, Dr. LARDNEICS pamphlet is the...

their Every master mason, every plasterer, every carpenter who knows how to 'porticos are when properly applied, their constant recurrence on a paltry scale a scale—from some of...

and happiest heroes of English freedom, NM and HAMPDEN. The greatest, not only for their own intrinsic abilities, REMARKS ON ANCIENT AND MODERN ART. but for the successful...

has a womanly a- I It will be a reflection on British artists if we do not accomplish a

old masters were above this necessity : indeed it seems never to have ar and look foreign to the person whom he painted. All his male por. than remaining in it. To lay the scene...

TI1E SCULPTURE. THE display of Sculpture may be taken as a fair sample of the talent of the British school ; for though IVEsestacorr has but one figure, and Sievirm and...

To embody the mystical spirit and delineate the vague and dreamy images of that soul-thrilling ballad 77te Rime if the Ancient Mariner, is a difficult, if not an impossible...