are contradictory and indecisive. Some of them state that the campaign is begun ; that various skirmishes have taken place on the fortified points be- tween Varna and the Danube...

by a considerable majority, decided against the introduction of trial by jury.

The Roman Catholic Relief Bill received the Royal assent on Monday, by commission; and becomes operative as a law on the 23d of April. The Duke of Norfolk, and the other six...

which the Spanish province of Murcia has been desolated. The continu- ance of the shocks led to fearful presages of what might still hap- pen; and we now find it stated this...

THE domestic politics of France have lately taken a new turn, and there is considerable lamentation for the loss of the law of depart- ments and communes. This law would have...

SIOCId EXCHANGE, THURDAY EVENING.—The settlement of the Ac- count, which took place on Tuesday last, was effected without any diffi- culty or incident worth mentioning, save an...

more or less currency this week :—1 st, That a very specific and decided outline of the British policy in regard to the affairs of the East, has been sent to the Russian...

SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. German papers to the 11th instant havC arrived in town this morning, but their contents are uninteresting. Letters from Paris, dated on Thursday,...

for the burning of his house in Phosnix-street, Soho-square. It will be recollected that a woman lost her life in the flames ; and that a considerable prejudice had been...

one of these terrible convulsions. Front half-past six in the evening of the '21st March, when the first shock of earthquake was felt, till six o'clock next morn- ing....

murder of George Ansel!. aged time years. The prisoner and the boy were servants to a harmer at Milden. On the 4th of November, the boy was found in a field quite dead, with his...

Thomas Hilmore, and James Smith, were indicted for hating conspired to rob and murder jonathan Brown; and in another count Hihnore was charged with having incited John itay to...

was last \reek committed from Queen-square-ollice;for insulting and threat- ening the Duke of ■Vellington, has long laboured in11110r an aberration of in- tellect. He served...

the ()Id Bailey, on Saturday, till the hour of her execution, on Altinday morning, mani- fested the most hardened impenitence. \Viten slue received sentence, she exclaimed, in a...

nouse of LORDS. MO:N:1)AI-, April 13.—The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, the Irish Disfranchisement Bill, and about forty private...

THE Roman Catholic relief bill has become a law since we last addressed the readers of the SPECTATOR. The Royal assent was given by commission on Monday ; and so little bustle...

THERE are two distinct powers at present exercised by our police- magistrates,—they hear and determine, as judges, a numerous class of petty offences ; and they I ake...

SCARCELY had the Catholic question been disposed of when the Silk question made its appearance, connected with the hopes and wishes and fears of indeed a smaller but still a...

HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE trembles in all his joints every time a double knock comes to the door of his chambers. He rejoiced, 'doubtless, in the affair at Battersea, as well...

IT has been often objected against the law of England, that it is a law of caprice,—now all rigour and severity, and anon all lenity and indulgence. A striking example of this...

SOLOMON confessed ignorance of three things, and there are certain appearances which have puzzled the wise of all times. LAZARILLO de TORMES tells us that no philosopher can...

WE congratulate you and ourselves, gentle readers, that thin-ribbed Lent is in his last agonies. Let him go,—a surly, parsnip-faced fellow ! Like a miser he has been hoarding up...

IN our 17th Number, we introduced our readers to some exquisite specimens of the modern French ballad. We have reason to be- lieve that the old ballads of France are not less...

LITERARY SPECTATOR. TUE LIFE OF NAPOLEoN BONAPARTE, VOL. T. WE are disappointed in this the commencement of a series of publi- cations of which we nevertheless augur good...

PASSION-WEEK is a mere blank, musically speaking. Our profes- sors are escaped from the smoke of London, and are recruiting; their strength and health for the approaching...

PART I. TIIE ME.NAGERIES. Tins is another popular library, the plan of which is equally worthy of our approbation with the Library of the Family ; and we are far better...

THIS is an attempt to sketch the life of the English in Paris. We dare say that it is tolerably just : it is certainly very dull. Gambling- houses, duels, intrigue, and prison,...

THOSE who were interested in the first two volumes of VIDOCQ'S Memoirs have been looking with anxiety for the continuation of the work : another volume has just made its...

Ox Font), Arr:113.—On Saturday the 11th inst. being the last day of term. the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred, in full convocation, on Thomas Pyeroft, Esq....

Of the Chinamen mentioned in our last, the Abercrombie Robinson alone has arrived. In the course of her voyage she has suffered severely front sickness, and has lost, we...

The Edinburgh Musical Album. No. I. * THE design of this work is thus expressed in the preface:- " Few of the Scottish Songs have been arranged by those whose know- ledge of...

Tritr - Office, 13. Memorandum—His Blajesty has been pleased to approve of the 62d Reg. being' permitted to retain on its colours and appointments the word "Peninsula," in com-...

BOOKS IN THE. PRESS, C: PKEPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Beatrice; a Tale founded un facts. By Mrs. Holland. A Volume of Poems by Sforza. The Chronicle of Geoffrey de Villehardouin,...

BIRTHS.-At Paris, on the 1st inst. the Lady Viscountess Pereeval, of a son and heir-On the 11th inst. at Branch-hill-lodge, Hampstead, the Lady of Thomas Wentworth Beaumont,...

Tnexday, April 14. paa-ren.,nirs or esol.v C. Duplock and 'I'. .14 Southwark, watch-makers-Naylor and Craven, Bowden, joiners-J. Peecoek and It. Wood, Illakenhant, Suffolk,...

CORN EXCHANGE., FRIDAY, APRIL 13. We had a fair supply of Wheat this morning from Essex, Rent, and Sufffilli, :tad the arrival of Foreign (luring the last week having been...