IN Parliament (as in every society out of Parliament) the Catholic question takes the place of all other subjects of public interest. The actual business performed in relation...

the Chamber of Deputies, on the administration of communes and de- partments, which have given unbounded satisfaction. The effect of these will be to lessen the influence of the...

There are no arrivals to-day of importance from the Continent. The German Papers of the 8th contain no later accounts from Constantinople than the 10th of January, at which time...

in some of the states of the Union. Mr. Maddison had taken the field in its support, and begun to defend it with his pen ; while the States of Georgia and South Carolina had...

member of the French Academy. This popular writer was expelled from this same academy for his political conduct during the Hundred Days, on the second restoration of the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EvEmmo.—The slight advance in Consols which we noticed at the close of our report on Saturday last, was sus- tained at the opening on Monday morning, and...

public were ex- posed to great plunder from a gang of swindlers, who were in the habit of sending circulars about to merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen; and others, stating...

HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, February 9.—The Earl of Shaftesbury presented the King's answer to the Address on the Royal speech. Catholic Claims—Petitions against, presented by the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. Ir is generally supposed that the question will be carried in 1 he Commons by a majority of one hundred and twenty, and ill the Lords by a majority of fifty....

La Donna del Logo is not an opera that we admire, and we went to hear it. «ritliout any expectation of pleasure ; but. PISARONI and DoereeLLI S0011 t urned our indifference to...

THAT there is one place under heaven where a man can be rationally amused, is well known to all who frequent the French play—from love and not for fashion. It is now somewhat...

IF we were asked to name one of the greatest peculiarities of this overgrown town, we should perhaps say, that it was that of pos- sessing sights that only require to be known...

THESE three tales are properly called Tales of Passion, at least of the passion of love. The first is the passion of a young lady for a monk, the second of a nobleman for a...

volumes ; and after the feverish excitement of the Tales of Passion, the perusal is a whole- some relief: it is like passing from the heated and imbue atmo- sphere of a theatre,...

A SMALL book of Geography, containing its first elements, has just appeared under the auspices of Mr. MURRAY : it is to Mr. CROKER. When men of undoubted talent and established...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—It is almost a national religion with Britons to delight in every in- vention which tends to benefit humanity : a feeling altogether...

LONDON ILLUMINATED FROM THE COUNTRY.—Illahnost all the countries of Europe, the capital is the centre of civilization, whence proceed the beams which enlighten and civilize the...

WE are often too rash in deciding on the quality of soil adapted for trees of different kinds. On the confines of the Dutch province of Guelderland, in the Prussian contiguous...

GREAT RESULTS FROM SMALL. BEGINNINGS.-17112 possibility of a great change being introduced by very slight beginnings, may be illustrated by the tale which Lockman tells of a...

A duplicate of the overland despatch, to which we alluded in our RI st Number, has been received this week from Bombay, and a private letter by. the same convey- ance, reporting...

The Rev. Arthur Clive, M.A. of Brnsennose College, second son of Edward Bolton Clive, Esq. M.P. for Hereford, has been presented by his father to the valuable Rectory of...

BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR. PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. The Second and concluding Part of Cresy and Taylor's Illustrations of the Archi. tecture of the Middle Ages at Pisa. Margaret...

War - Office, February 9. Gth Reg. of Dragoon Guards—Cor. Henry Hayhurst France, to he Lieut. by pur- chase, vice Daintry, promoted; Thomas Edward Taylor, Gent. to he Cor. by...

CAstna won, February 11.—At a congregation held this day, the following degrees were conferred. Doctor of Dirinity, by Royal mandate, Rev. Hodge Mile, M.A., of Trinity College,...

WITH THE NAMES OF THEM CAPTAINS AND STATIONS DUltING TUE LAST YEAR, BROUGHT UP TO JANUARY 1829.* [From the United Service Journal, No. H.] Ship. Guns. Captain. Where Stationed,...

Ttwalfty, Feh. 10. PAttrNmesIttps IttssoLvED. W. Baldwin and .T. Dienes, stuff-warehousemen-Maw and Barker, Doncaster, inercers-J. and W. Chapman, Liverpool, silk-mercers-T....

11: nrits.-At Burlington-house, Lady Charles Fitz-Roy, of a daughter-At Mill- brook, the Lady of Sir Charles Dalrymple, of a daughter-On the 2d inst. at Car- di ' oati, the Lady...

CORN EXCHANGE, FutnAv, FEBRUARY 13. Though we are very moderately supplied with English Wheat and Flour this week, of Foreign Wheat we have a good arrival, and the Bleating...