Sta, Bone= PEEL'S bold scheme of Finance, of which we gave an outline in our last Postscript, is now before the country ; and our readers are presented in a Supplement with a...

disputed " objection " or " observation " which Lord ABERDEEN has not to make to the occupation of Algiers, M. Gomor has put in a rejoinder. He admits Lord ABERDEEN'S...

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FINANCIAL MEASURES. In the House of Lords, on Monday, presenting a petition against the Corn-law, Earl FiTzwii.i.riet said that he was about to present a...

Several Election Committees have opened their proceedings. The Great Marlow Committee began the inquiry into the petition against the return of Sir William R. Clayton, on...

THE Court ceremonies of the season have commenced with brilliancy this week. The Queen held a Court on Saturday, for the reception of the ad - " dresses ; which were presented...

The surprise which was felt, says the Times, that a gentleman in the position in society of Mr. Hughes Hughes should offer himself as a candidate for the office of Town-Clerk of...

Two other candidates for the representation of Brighton have ap- peared—in the persons of Mr. Nicholson of Fenchurch Street, a Liberal, who vindicates the doctrine that taxation...

Sir Robert Peel has taken a house at Lewes Crescent, in Kemp Town, near Brighton. It is expected that Lady Peel and the family will leave Whitehall Gardens on Monday or Tuesday...

Mr. Hawthorn of Castlewig, having, on the Ultra-Tory interest, com- menced an active canvass of the electors of Wigtonshire, in the hope of the last election being declared...

WAR•OFFICE. March 18.—Ist Regt. Life Guards—Capt. J. O'Meara, from half-pay 3d Magoon Guards, to be Capt. vice Brevet-Ida;or E. C. Fletcher. who exchanges; Lieut. G. Rushout to...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Great anxiety was felt, both within and without the House of Com- mons, to learn from the statement which Sir Robert Peel was expected to make last night, what...

many votes from the Opposition to the Ministerial aide: the Honourable Henry Fitzroy unseats Mr. Summers Harford, for Lewes ; and Mr. Edward Cardwell displaces Mr. Matthew...

servatoire de Musique ever since its foundation during the Republic until 1840, died in Paris on Tuesday.

of exaggerating, as supposed, the reverses and disasters of our troops in Afghanistan, fall far, very far short of the dismal reality—Courier, March 19.

the reception of addresses ; which were presented by the Duke of Welling- ton (Chancellor) and the Members of the University of Oxford, the Reverend Dr. Arcbdall...

TEE revival of The Marriage of Figaro at this theatre, on Tuesday night, taken in connexion with our Dresden correspondent's letter of last week, suggests a little speculation...

STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Stock-market evinced great firmness at the beginning of the week, and on Wednesday the price of Consols for Money was as high as 891,...

that some of our readers will be disappointed in the timely delivery of their Sup- plements along with the Spectator. The Newsmen in town, who have not received their full...

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SCHEME OF FINANCE. THE Speech and Tariff contained in the Supplement which ac- companies this number of the Spectator are two of the most im- portant...

Tuz repeated exposures of bad management in the Consular de- partment, which have recently been made, encourage a hope that some general interest may be awakened to the question...

AMIDST all the talk about the decorations of the new Parliament- houses, there has been marvellously little said about the sub- jects of the paintings with which they are to be...

BrooasPwr, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Michael Thomas Sadler, Esq..M.P., FR. S., &c. E03NOWICAL Hurronv, & eiey and nu-nside. The Poor-laws, and their Bearing on...

WITH the unpromising title of an essay on the Poor-laws, and a pamphlet-looking air with a foreign type, this publication is a va- luable contribution to a particular and...

IT is not easy to say whether Iiiiarma, bad his life been spared, would have turned out a poet after all. His plays contain little of promise. That they betray a want of the...

From March 41h to March 17th. BOOKS. . Cakes and Ale. By Doonras JERROLD. In two volumes. The Slave States of America. By J. S. Bucsitionuf, Esq., Author of " America...

THE MUSIC-SEASON: PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. THE musical season has now fairly commenced. The Italian Theatre has opened, with an opera bearing a new title by DotazEi-m; the...

THE yearly dinner of the Purcell Club took place on Saturday last, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern ; when its members assembled in great force, and with undiminished spirit. The...

THE world of art is in a state of unwonted activity just now : not only are the artists busy in preparing for the several exhibitions that are about to open, but several great...

BIRTHS. On the 9th March, in Eaton Square, the Lady of :Sir JOHN Tuortow, Bart.. of a son and heir. On the 10th, at Lyddial Rectory, Recta, the Ladyof the Rev. CHARLES...

Tuesday, March 15. PARTNEILSHIPS DISEWLYED. Ormond and NeImes, Cheltenham, chemists-Purnell and Bolahaw, Liverpool, eoall-mereharits-Cooper and Evans. Bishop's Stanford. gas...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes, Thurs. Friday, 891 894 891 89. 894 89. 694 69. 90 894 894 894 shut shut - - - - 99 99 991 991 994 994...

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MOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1842. The House having resolved into a Committee of Ways and Means; Mr. GREENE in the Chair; Sir ROBERT PEEL spoke as follows :— Sir, as the...