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A little crop of " difficulties in Ireland" has just
The Spectatorsprung up; and although they are as yet perhaps difficulties chiefly of news- paper-manufacture, yet they are embarrassing in this, that they all arise strictly within what...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTut condition of the manufacturing-districts is most unsatisfac- tory. Violences, indeed, have been revived in so few instances, Tut condition of the manufacturing-districts is...
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Zbe ifittropolis.
The SpectatorA Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, for the despatch of business. It was stated that the Sheriffs had nominated Mr. Thomas Burdon to be Keeper of Wliitecross Street...
gbe Vrobintes.
The SpectatorThere is little to add respecting the state of the manufacturing-dis- tricts this week ; slight advances in the progress of tranquillity at one quarter being compensated by...
The Queen's progress in Scotland has been smoother than the
The Spectatorvoyage to it ; although the Town-Councillors of Edinburgh have not recovered from the dismay at their own blunders on the Queen's landing. Not that the voyage was dangerous or...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorA petition has been sent in, on the part of the Tories, against the return for Belfast ; but it is supposed to be especially aimed against Mr. Emerson Tennent. One of the...
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SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorBefore carrying on the history of the Queen's progress in Scotland, some notable events of the voyage and the arrival remain to be told. Where the historians are so many, it...
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AllisctIlarceous.
The SpectatorThe Dutchess of Kent left Frogmore Lodge on Saturday, on a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Bushy Park ; and returned to Frogmore on Wednesday. The Duke of Cambridge, who had...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. The news today is particularly scanty and unimportant ; the Queen's tour in Scotland being the foremost topic. At half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday morning,...
The resumption of work by single factories here and there
The Spectatoris re- corded in the manufacturing districts ; but the intimidators still prevail in deterring the people from their employment. A writer at Man- chester explains the evil...
The City article of the Morning Chronicle has a strange
The Spectatorstory- " The strength of Sir Robert Peel's Government in the confidence and affections of the City people will be seen from the following fact. A gentle- man having occasion to...
A letter from Frankfort, of the let instant, states that
The Spectatorthe King of Hanover had followed the example of the ex-King of the Netherlands, and married, towards the close of last month, the widow of the President Benlwitz. We rejoice to...
THE QUEEN'S CONVOY TO SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorTO TEIE EDITOR OF TDB SPECTATOR. Gravesend, 5th September 1842. SIR - The care the Lords of the Admiralty have displayed, on the occasion of her Majesty's first aquatic...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The news from India, reported so incorrectly by the French telegraphic de- spatchlast week, was the chief topic of conversation at the...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived-At Gravesend. Sept. 61.11, Courier, Baigrie, from the Cape; Montrose; Peters, from Bengal; 7th. Strittlieden, Wolf, from Bombay; Woolsington. Pearson ; Arippiutt....
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in the service : built in 1833 - 80 horse - power. THE preponderance
The Spectatorof professional literati among the politicians of No. 5. Fearless, alias Thetis, of the same age and standing as No. 1 ; rather the French capital, if beneficial in some...
another would be attempted on behalf of the Royal Mail
The SpectatorSteam-Packet Corn- the successful result of the voyages of the Great Western, by some large pro- vernment. In vain was it shown to them that they would lose 300,000/. per of...
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CLASSES.
The SpectatorTun Globe, in a fair and courteous tone, demurs to one of the po- sitions in our remarks upon "classes." We advert to the criti- cism in no spirit of controversy, but from a...
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MEDICAL REFORM.
The SpectatorBY A MEMBER OF THE PROFESSION. OUGHT THE QUALIFICATIONS OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS TO BE RE- GULATED BY LAW? THE ABSURDITIES OF EXISTING LAWS. THE NECESSITY FOR UNIFORMITY OF...
SERPENTINE ANGLERS AND MAGAZINE WITS. THESE long-continued rains will probably
The Spectatorput a stop for the sea- son to the field-sports of an amiable and inoffensive portion of the citizens. The parties alluded to may be seen daily during the sum- mer on the banks...
NAUTICAL METAPHOR.
The SpectatorAMONG the class or professional literati of the day, those of the sea-service are certainly the most original, at least in the matter of metaphor. This point might easily be...
EXTREMES MEET.
The SpectatorIT is curious to note the extension of London giving rise to arrange- ments which used to characterize the thinly-peopled districts of Westmoreland. The vallies of that...
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The Spectatorslvatri, Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta ; with some Remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the System of Quarantine as at present con- ducted. By...
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SIARRYAT'S PERCIVAL KEENE.
The SpectatorTHIS fiction narrates, in an autobiographical form, the school and nautical life of the hero until his achievement of the dignity of Post Captain and his marriage. The father of...
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COLONEL THOMPSON'S EXERCISES.
The SpectatorUNDER the title of' Exercises, Political and Others, these six volumes contain the bulk of Colonel THOMPSON'S published lucu- brations, together with a few which now appear for...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,
The SpectatorFrom August 55th to Septens' er 5th. BOOKS. Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta ; with some Remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of...
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FINE ARTS,
The SpectatorMODEL OF ST. PETER'S AT ROME. A MOST superb and complete Model of St. Peter's at Rome, on a grand scale, showing the interior as well as the exterior of the edifice, is now...
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PROGRESS OF WOOD - CUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
The SpectatorSINCE the Penny Magazine set the fashion of cheap publications in which pictorial illustrations form a prominent feature, the introduction of wood-cuts into periodicals at_i...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorBIRTHS. On the 9t1, June. at Calcutta, the Lady of Jam ES DUNCAN Min.r.cvs. Esq., of a son. On the 3, th August, at Farley House, Somerset. the Lady of HENRY BASKEITY/LLE •...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. Pridoy 921 931 1011 1011 249 51 pm. 49 36 pm. FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, Sept. 6. PARTNE.RSHIPS DISSOLVED. Adlington and Co. Bedford Row-II., H., and W. Charlesworth. Huddersfield, card- makers-Bishop and Groves. spirit merchants -E. and...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAIVOYFICE, Aug. 30.-1s1 Drags.-Lieut,Col. Sir A. B. Clifton, K.C.B. from the 11th Light Drags, to be Colonel. vice Lieut.-Gen. Lord Vivian, dec. 11th Light Drags.-Lient.- Gen....