the House of Lords for legalizing the composition of Tithes ; on Tuesday, Lord TEYNHAM called the attention of their Lordships to the many imperfections of the present system of...

THE KING'S HEALTH. WE have not trifled with our. readers by recording the numerous re- ports on this , melancholy subject which the vocations of our daily contemporaries have...

and Mr. HUME, who contended that the petitions of the people should be discussed before their money was voted away) having re- solved itself into a Committee of Supply, The...

We intend to enlarge the size of the SPECTATOR, by one half. Our pages, which are at present 16, will be increased to 24. The form of the paper, however, will not be altered,...

that the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies is fixed ; that Ministers have long been resolved as to the expediency of the measure, and that they have been deterred from...

despatch of general business. A resolution was moved that a bye-law should be prepared, declaring every person eligible to the freedom of the City, upon taking the freeman's...

on Wednesday ; on Thursday, it was read a first, and last night a second time, in the House of Lords. TITH Es.—The Archbishop of CANTERBURY has brought in a Tithe ' Composition...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—ADOther week of inactivity has passed in our Consol Market. The business done has been comparatively trifling, and the variations in price have...

Wednesday, on the subject of the Berkeley Peerage. The peculiarity of this case is, that the claim is vested in the fiiundation of a tenure of land ; Colonel Berkeley relying,...

the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday ; the Duke of Somerset in the chair. From the report read, it appeared, that the total receipts last year, including the balance of 1828,...

against a Mr. Lister, an attorney, on whom the charge of the paper had devolved since the imprisonment of the editors, Messrs. Alexander and Isaacson, in Newgate and the King's...

on Wednes- day, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court. It was at the instance of a Mrs. Tyler, to set aside certain deeds of conveyance, which had been executed by her deceased nephew,...

Borough Road, on Wednesday morning. The fire was perceived about four o'clock in the morning by the man who was going round to extinguish the gas-lights. He immediately raised...

Society for Evangelizing the Natives of the Continent, on Wednesday, at Freernasiins' Tavern, his coachman kept driving furiously up and down Great Queen Street, and finished by...

give evidence before the Parliamentary Committee on the Poor-laws. He is to preach to-morrow morning at the National Scotch Church, Regent Square, which is expected to be...

this session on uncommonly good terms. Sir James grumbles at the parsimony of the Legislature, but promises to husband well the sums that have been voted. In this country we...

Hopeful, Mallors, from the Cape ; ]:;th, Neptune, Cumberledge, from Bengal and Madras ; 14th, Barbara, Dunn, from the Cape. III the Downs, May 13th, Caroline, Fewson, from...

Hall, Nottingham, Lady Lotronnon 0 tr Off, of a son—At Cove, Cork, Lady CHARLOTTE BERKELEY, of a son—At Bath, the Lady of THOMAS UPTON, Esq. of a son and heir—At Dunolly, that...

OUR contemporary, or rather our late contemporary, has finished its career. We hardly know whether we should congratulate or condole with its proprietors. It has, we believe,...

OUR readers cannot have forgotten the notable expedient devised by the ingenious editor of the Morning Journal, for reviving the hearts of the Tories of the metropolis—the...

THE petition from Edinburgh against the inflicting of capital punish-. ment in the case of forgery, was presented on Thursday by Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH. We are happy to observe...

THE TEA TRADE—DEMURRAGE. THE monopoly of the East India Company will be found the less de- fensible the more it is investigated. Departures from principle are sometimes...

THE most perfect union of vocal and dramatic power we have ever yet witnessed, is in the performance of LABLACHE ; who made his first appearance in CIMAROSA'S charming opera...

ONE of the unfortunate peculiarities of our law is, that it is generally superior to a knowledge of circumstances, and maintains its rules in a sublime ignorance of the habits...

THE highly-gifted musician gave his second concert on Tuesday last. There was little variety in his second performance, as compared with the first ; and indeed, if there had...

ME. MACFARLANE, to whose interesting work on Constantinople we owe much of the knowledge we possess concerning the present state of the Turks, has published an address to the...

THIS clever and deserving lad took a benefit last night at the London Tavern ; at which some very excellent standard glees of WEDBE, £'ALLCOTT, HORSLEY, &c., were admirably sung...

SADLER'S LAW OP POPULATION.* Sane among the Prophets ! the Member for Newark among Poli- tical Economists ! Here we have an elaborate treatise to prove that Mr. MALTHUS has...

MORI'S concert, on Monday night, was, as usual, a tremendous squeeze. Why every body should crowd, at the hazard of their limbs, to this concert above all others, it would be...

gallant young highway- man, of those glorious days when gentlemen in laced jackets left Ranelagh for the road, and robbed with good humour and politeness, —when taking a purse...

THIS interesting collection of drawings by modern masters, including many by Sir THOMAS himself, will be sold by Mr. CHRISTIE next week. They consist of studies, sketches, and...

THESE are not only very neat and beautiful specimens of modelling in plaster, upon a small scale, but the ingenious artist has rendered them additionally interesting, by making...

WHEN FUSELI was told that a celebrated modern artist had painted " Christ crowned with Thorns," he exclaimed, " Why will they not let him alone ? He has suffered enough." We are...

MR. LOUGH'S SCULPTURES. WHEN Mr. Lotion's colossal statue of Milo was first exhibited, it was announced as the work of a self-taught artist, and was viewed in that light by...

We like this idea, the plan, and 'the title ; and the designs and their execu- tion are admirable. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK here serves us up sauce piquante wherewith to relish anew...