THE third reading of Lord BROUGHAM'S Canada Indemnity Bill, in the House of Lords, was signalized by the introduction of a question which had not even been alluded to in the...

ant the time for retrospection has arrived. It cannot be said that Parlia- ment has been altogether idle. Though much has been left un- done which needed despatch, something has...

of the Queen of Spain's troops, had defeated a body of Carl- late, after a rather serious action near Morella. ESPARTERO had Cot made up his quarrel with the Spanish Ministry....

be gaining ground, not only in the Rhenish provinces, but in the Dutchy of Posen. A collision, the origin of which is not men- tioned, occurred at Trews, between two infantry...

the King of Holland, by hoisting the Belgian flag in the waters of Flushing. A solemn council was held at the Hague, and it was resolved that the flag should be fired at. This...

up a formidable band of Miguelite insurgents, and to cap- ture the Guerilla chieftain REMECHIDO. This man was put to death; but it seems he has left behind him a son equally...

In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord BROUGHAM moved the third reading of the Canada Indemnity Bill. By accident he had be- come the author of the measure, and therefore had no...

fleet off the coast of Mexico is to be made immediately, and that vessels will be sent from Toulon sufficient to raise the blockading squadron to twenty-two men of war, to be...

In the Court of Common Council, on Monday, the scarcity and high price of corn was the subject of discussion. Deputy Peacock moved a resolution- " That in consequenee of the...

lost their lives by the explosion on the Victoria, Hull steam-boat, was closed on Tuesday. The Foreman of the Jury delivered the verdict in the fol- lowing terms. " The Jury...

THE Queen held a Privy Council on Monday afternoon ; and in tie evening had a small dinner-party, comprising the Prince and Princess of Oldenburg, Duke and Dutchess of...

Mr. O'Connell arrived in Dublin on 'Tuesday morning. He imme- diately issued a requisition to his constituents to meet him at the Corn Exchange on Wednesday. A very large...

was found guilty of embezzling a considerable sum of money belonging to the Bank of Manchester, in which establishment he had been cashier for some years. The Judge, in passing...

A correspondent in the Leeds Mercury states, that " Bowring and Hume are to be brought out in the People's interest for the West Riding at the next election ; and the people are...

Lord Brougham, in reply to an invitation sent to him from the Ra- dicals of 411usgow to strew of a public dinner, has stated that he will fix upon the day after his return to...

the pre- sent season was conveyed by John Nelson, the Assistant Water On Wednesday, the first sturgeon caught in the Thames in the pre- sent season was conveyed by John Nelson,...

Evtey day this week, the Ministerial papers have, in the mass, at- tacked Lord Brougham ; whom, in the climax of spiteful wit, they have nicknamed " 01(1 Puck." This is a severe...

at his son's house in Beuumaris, on Wednesday week. Mr. Jervis was for !rimy years a leading counsel on the Oxford circuit, and distinguished for acuteness and honourable...

THE AMERICAN MINUTE& AND MR. O'CONNELL. 23, Portland Place. 9th August. Sin—My attention has been called to the publication in the last Spectator of a speech which purports to...

St u—In consequence of your letter of yesterday's date, I examined the report of my speech at Birmingham in the Spectator of the 4th instant ; and have no hesitation in say ine...

OFTICE OF OlITNANCE, Aug. 10.—Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieut. C. E. Stanley to be First Lieut. vice W. IL Mould, deceased ; Second Lieut. W.C. Menzies to he First Lieut....

residence, Champlutreux, near Yetis; and out of compliment to his host, dated a Royal ordinance from it,—a proceeding which, in the dearth of mom interesting matter, has...

have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of last evening in answer to the Dim from myself of the preceding day. Presuming that you intended your reply ate a...

so much brulnsm Moen-that is, being interpreted, declamatory nonsense ;° and Ads, that having submitted to the Tithe Bill, Mr. O'Connell's " threatened agitation is neither more...

SATURDAY. The French papers received this morning reiterate the accounts of unsatisfactory and warlike symptoms in the direction of Prussia. It is said that in all the French...

TO TILE EDITOR. OP TIIE SPECTATOR. I look upon the lahours of this Commission as havin g done incalculable mischief in Ireland. They had not contented thernsAves hit reportin g...

Arrived-At Gravesend, A tig. 13th, Royal Saxon, Reimer, from Ben g al. Off Fah, mouth, 17th. Furl of Liverpool, Bailey, from Bombay. At Liverpol, 11th, Ninth:as Van Zeliekait....

times a day at present by those who feel interested as to the course Lord DURHAM will pursue when he is informed of the recent proceedings in Parliament. No doubt, he will feel...

place of chief Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen.

Srocu Exeit 12•1 , 11 , :, Faint, AFTERNOON. The proceedings of the Legislature, with respect to the affairs of Canada, in addition to the reported difficulties whieh beset the...

LEGAVEFFECTS OF THE DURHAM ORDINANCES. Bya proclamation issued by Lord DURHAM in the name of the Q uee n, on the 2Sth of June last, it was ordained, " that no fur- ther...

IT is so common for Deans and Chapters to incur public odium by acts of narrow bigotry mid vexatious resistance to reasonable de• maids,—they are so used to the language of...

THE accounts of the growing grain crops last week were all but universally dolorous. The succession of a few days of fine weather since, appears to have revived the spirits of...

" [licit," says a contemporary writer, "had no notion of' music but as an assistant to pantomime; and he invented a new kind of musical drains, in which, at his theatre in...

IN whatever department of industry the dominant class in the Legislature has a direct interest, we are sure to find a monopoly highly prejudicial to the community. Such is, of...

THE country of Paraguay excites associations of curiosity in th e minds of many, from the mystery which remoteness alway s creates ; the interest attached to the Indian republic...

TRAYore, Letters on Paraguay : comprising an Account of a Four Year's Residence Republic, under the Government of the Dictator Fraught. By J. P, end w 7 Robertson. In 2 cols....

foreigners in France, that an American having lately forgot his lodgings was obliged to go to the Police-office to obtain the necessary information ; when, to his great...

he attended in l645, Evelyn, in his Diary, says, " They held us by eyes and eares till two in the morning ;" and, looking at the theatrical details of the period, we are not...

his civil government ; and though wielding al- once both celebrated and obscure, he has linked his name with most absolute power in Scotland, he took care that every man should...

SEEING that there are probably not two copies in England of this very useful manual, we shall be doing a service to the cause of national education in noticing so concise and...

BYRON'S statue by Tiloawat.oseN, the greatest sculptor of the age!_ little did the people of England dream that a work of art possessing so much interest, and, we may fairly...

ART UNIONS. We have seen, by invitation, the pictures selected from the Exhibitions of the current year by the holders of prizes in one of the picture lotte- ries called Art...