THE Parliamentary session closes in a perfect ferment of legisla- tion. All has been confusion and bustle during the week. The Standing Orders have been suspended, and bills...

time for eon- sideriug calmly what has been gained or lost by the legislative proceedings of the last seven months has arrived. We have ex- amined the Votes of both Houses—those...

i. CONDUCT OF THE MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS. Lord LYNDHURST rose, on Thursday, to move for a return showing the fate of the bills which had originated in both Houses of...

though scanty. A military insurrection has compelled the Queen Regent of Spain to give in her adhesion to the Constitution of 1812. The soldiery forced this step upon...

THE King and Queen, on Monday, took a ride to Kew, where they lunched ; and returned to Windsor in the evening. On Wednesday, the King visited the Dutchess of Gloucester, at...

A report has been circulated by the Westminster Tories, that Sir Francis Burdett has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, and been re- fused by Ministers,—who, say they, dread the...

a Bishop to Manchester will destroy Episcopacy, and that any attempt to fasten the repair and support of churches upon the Consolidated Fund, will destroy the Whig...

The Sherborne Journal contradicts a report that Mr. Tynte intends to retire from the representation of West Somersetshire at the next election : and the same paper says, that...

Bristol on Monday. The Council of the Literary and Philosophical Institu- tution, in Park Street, have ordered their rooms to be repaired, and every preparation made for...

the borough of Liverpool. The total number is 10,600, being an in- crease of 1,132 upon the list of last year. The number of persons re- gistered or claiming to be registered on...

our paper last week, were adopted by a rather numerous meeting at the Crown and Anchor, on Monday. Colonel Thompson presided, and addressed the meeting at some length. Mr....

against a merchant named Lewis Augustus Bennet, who had been engaged in several heavy speculations, for having committed forgery by obtaining the dates of bills of lading of...

of education into the Corporation Schools of Liverpool, for reasons which are stated in the folluwing extract from a letter to Mr. Adam Hodgson, who had written to him on the...

that free con- ferences may lead to the establishment of some new balance of power as between the two branches of the Legislature—the merging, perhaps, of the two into one...

Mr. Campbell of Aionzie, a Tory, is canvassing Argyllshire against the present Liberal Member, Mr. Campbell of Islay. Dr. Chal. niers has had the indiscretion to interfere in...

It is said to be decided that Sir William M‘Mahon, Master of the Rolls, is about to retire on a peerage and a pension, and that he has deserted his party to vote with the Whigs...

on the question of Church-rates. Ott the 24 instant, there was a meeting of Dissenters from various parts of the country, at Bungay; and the following resolutions were adopted....

and Lord Panmure at Brechin Castle: Lord Panmure delighted his guest by the exhibition of some remarkably fine cattle; which, how- ever, might have been improved, in the opinion...

Yesterday, in the House of Lords. Lord Lyndhurst reversed Lord Brougham's Chute c • decision :ie.:limit Lord Durham, in the case of Wharton versus Dm mon. To this decision there...

gave so alarm- ing an account of the rescue of the cattle which were sold on account of tithe in Carlow last week, that their owner is a Protestant. But sack is the fact. His...

of want of funds to repair their churches and enlarge grave-yards ; but the Bishop told them he was afraid they should wait for the surplus fund, although very unlikely in their...

on the 17th of July, aged eighty-eight. He had been a Bishop for forty.nine years ; and was universally beloved and respected. His funeral was expected to be attended more...

Lanarkshire , Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, gussex, Essex, Dorsetsbire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, and Hampshire, and also from the South of Ireland, there are most...

PARKER and Mr. BELL were proposed ; but subsequently - it was announced, that Mr. BELT. would not go to the poll, and Mr. PARKER'S reelection is therefore certain.

of Com- mons to-day, Mr. Hume had found means to speak for nearly half an hour on the characteristics of the session—Lord LYNDHURST'S extraor- dinary exhibition on Thursday—the...

of his statement relative to the division in the House of Commons on the 2d of August. He alleges that the only list of Pairs, which he believes to have been published, was in...

SATURDAY NIGHT. PARLIAMENT was prorogued this (lay by the King in person. His Majesty went in the usual state to the House of Lords, soon after two o'clock, and delivered the...

pt.sst been endeavouring to mislead the public into the belief, that a paragraph, reproving the Lords for their destruction of Government measures, was concocted for delivery by...

contained the follow- ing paragraph ; which is therefore reprinted for those readers who did not see the first edition. " A vacancy for Westminster is by no means improbable....

JOHN Busszta.'s relative, Mr. 'Unmans HENRY LISTER, to be Registrar- General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England. The Mornirg .chronicle states that Mr. BLAMIRE is to be...

Arrived—At Gravesend, Aug. 16th, Bracken Moor, Nicoll, from Ceylon. Off Mar- gate, 17th, Larkins, Ingram. from Bengal. Off Falmouth, 18th, Maria, Courton. from the Cape ; and...

The transactiois in the English Funds have not been very extensive, but they have induced a decline in price; and money has been more in demand.. Stock of all kinds has again...

AIR. O'CONNELL'S VIEW OF ENGLISH HOSTILITY TO IRELAND. THE leading Tory organ of the press, by two or three laboured articles this week addressed to the King, places the Whigs...

and gentlemen to meet them on baud the Coromandel, at Blaek wall, on Saturday next ; when they propose to give a dinner of old English fare (roast beef and plum-pudding) to...

THAT great difficulties lie in the way of an effectual measure of English Church Reform, nobody who has paid attention to the subject will deny. It is clear enough that one of...

HISTORY, A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince, and of Various Events connected therewith, which occurred during tho Reign of Edward the Third, King of England. By...

a decree, directing that Jews are no longer to be allowed to use the baptismal names of Christians as their first names. The ground al- leged is, that the police desire to have...

THE character and exploits of the Black Prince tire a part of his- tory, or form a splendid historical episode, rather than a history itself. Prince EDWARD exercised an...

FITNESS is the grand excellence, after all. Out of place, good degenerates, if it does not change its nature. The " gorgeous pall" of tragedy is ridiculous in company with the...

This tragedy, it appears, was written by Mr. DOUBLEDAY at the suggestion of friends. An "amiable and accomplished" actor pointed out to the poet, that if a good story, with...

THE contents of this volume do not sufficiently differ from the twenty or thirty thousand sermons (at a moderate computation) that are weekly delivered in Great Britain, to...

IF you desire to have a vivid idea of the social advancement of the ancient Egyptians, go to Egypt and look about you : for, except in the monuments they have left behind them,...

variety and its superficial character. The author's letters—for he writes in the form of letters—touch upon many subjects ; so that he rarely wearies with sameness; and although...

every one his own or his friend's surgeon, but merely to instruct us how to act as locum tenens until professional assistance arrives. Should a toper or a waiter cut the main...

that this -acienee tends to Materialism, we recommend the perusal of a little -volume by Dr. EPPS, entitled Internal Evidences of Christianity deduced front Phrenology, a second...

of short- hand : and, so fur as we are able to form a judgment from a careful in- Ideayraphy by THOMAS How, is a scheme of the nature of short- hand : and, so fur as we are able...

rather, in every practitioner's pocket. If it cannot be said to be a happy, it is a useful idea, neatly executed. It professes to contain a coniplete list of British flowering...

Church of Christ, is a series of hints, suggestions, and advice for the conduct of domestics : and if the persons for whose use it was written would only obey its injunctions,...

Ancients, by Josue.. ToKI.MIN SMITH, commences with a sketch of the scanty records of tilt philosophy of the Asiatics and Egyptians, followed by a fuller ine . ation of the...

Ma. THOMAS BELL, the lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, has commenced a Ilistory of British Quadriquds. of which the two first numbers are before us; containing...

for many good qualities ; but the chiefest is that he reproduces the old materials he uses, and gives to the very stalest an original air, because he has made them his own by...

or, in the more specific words of the title, " Crispii Sallustii Opera, with an English Commentary and Geographical and Historical Indexes"— is a valuable present to scholastic...

volume of ,clear and readable type, printed in double columns, and embellished 'with engravings from designs by SMIREE, WesrAt.a, CORBOULD, STEPHANCIFF, and %Valour, has...

TIIF: LAWRENCE COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS. TIIE memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying for the purchase of the Drawing's Of RAFFAELLE and MICHAEL ANGELO for the Ni.. doted...

old age, or sonic one has been abusing his name ; for his Tales about Great Britain and lreland are very prosy. The points to be brought out are not selected with judgment ; the...

animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, conducted by . Messrs. Mayan) and BOLL It is well printed ; and embellished with aWry neatly-executed coloured plate of the Swiftfoot,...

41 the Human Teeth, by R. MACLEAN, is to direct the attention of "parents and guardians" to the care of teeth in children and young persons. Many a good mouthful of teeth has...

new comic artist, whose nom de guerre is P111%; an appropriate one, for he hits off a phiz capitally, and in delineating expression preserves the individual charac- ter, which...

the Tales of a Grantyitther. It derive: its claim to preseet attention as at last concluding the series of the Works of WALTER Score, after a consecutive issue of seven years...

WE had intended to give another notice of the exhibition of the works of the great masters of painting, the last and chief attraction of the picture-season ; but, as it closes...