GAIN' it becomes our thankless office to report that the progress f the House of Commons in the real business of the session has een almost inappreciable. The chief part of...

PRIVILEGE. On Monday, Lord JOHN Ilyssmg, presented a petition from Messrs. Hansards, stating that another action, the fifth, had been brought against them by John Joseph...

the chief noticeable fact in that department of passing history. Day after clay we read the same announcement in the foreign: articles of our contemporaries—" We have received...

raving thnuigh icon, (us I-roiher st;t -1) in uctiing op the if was re- manded till he tan its 'it...1. to At Bow Street. on 'ranee - ley. Willhee Hunter, a dal of fifteen.,...

by Viscount Beresford to recove , thee:et:es from the proprietors of time Mutating Cironicle for a libel en Lie Lordships private cha- racter. The libel charged Lord Beresford...

sitting in Chambers in Chancery Lane, to enlarge the term for execut- ing the writ of inquiry in the fifth case of Stoekdale versus Hansards, from that day to the fourth day of...

A Court of Aldermen had been summoned for Wednesday to consider the propriety of presenting the address of the Court to tha Queen on her marriage, without the Sherffs : Only...

THE Queen and Prince Albert have remained at Buckingham Palace during the week. On Tuesday, her Majesty held a Court, for the reception of the con- gratulatory addresses from...

'It 1. 5 ■I th'a Churchwardens of Man- chester for the ;.!: t 12,0007.) imposed by the Town-Onnell 1. - The.e! • l'a)t, bath at tin 'warehouse of Pollard Street. 1Ve believe...

Mr. G. Stewart, a firm and able Reformer, and one whose family con- flexion gives him an additional claim on the county, will, it is under- derstood, stand on the Liberal...

Assembly Room, Glasgow, to take preliminary measures for the erection of a statue or some testimonial in Glasgow to the Duke of Wellington. On the motion of Lord Belhaven, the...

Major Cadogan, of Breuelibourne Priory, Northumberland, is the Tory candidate for Morpeth. Mr. Thomas Farnsomb, of Griffin's Wharf, Southwark, has ad- dressed the electors of...

Almost every corporation in Dublin have met and forwarded petitions to Parliament against this Municipal Reform Bill. The speeches of certain Conservative Members at the other...

liabilities are not considerable. According to a statement in tfie Times, by a Birmingham corresfemdent- " The company consists chiefly of middle tradesmen, about seventy of...

fortunate Churchwarden of Llanelly, for non-payment of costs ias the Consistory Court of Carmarthen, in the proceedings brought against him by the Reverend Ebenezer Morris, the...

'19le spot held utmost sacred in Non h A merica dents of those bold Englishmen who eressed the A thee Lame, is "the Rock of Plymouth . ' in 31::ssacinvaa Is. Nate, new...

destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The property consumed was very large. The insurance effected on it was 14,00:IL

will be appointed Groom of the Stole to his Royal Ilighnees Prince Albert. — Morning Chronicle. A rumour has prevailed that Lord Melbourne is to be created a Marquis, and to...

The Duke of Wellington's serious illness, and partial recovery, were mentioned in last week's Spectator. The Duke's health has since im- proved, though slowly ; and on Thursday,...

in Parliament, that Prince Albert's reply to the congratulatory 111eSSVC of the House of It will be seen from our account of the proceedings in Parliament, that Prince Albert's...

of King Ernest, declaring that the constitution of 1519 ha viiig never been abrogated in a legal manner, he should necessarily still e. tisi.ler it the fundamental law of the...

Court of Ses- sion, by a majority of 3 to I, passed the note of suspension and interdict at the instance of the suspended ministers of the Presbytery of Strath- bogie. It will...

in the House of Commons last night. Amongst the rest—Mr. Ewa ur, on the 3d of March, to move for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the punishment of death ; Mr. Balsas, on...

the East India and China Association, by the President of the Board of Trade- The following letter has been addressed to the Chairman of the East India and China Association, by...

SATURDAY. An extraordinary 'express from Paris brings the important intelli- gence of' the resignation of the French Ministry, in consequence of a signal defeat in the Chamber...

Aker User of December lath, tbat no outrages had recently been committed by the natives. The (Cella returns showed an increase in the imports of the colony for 18:3;., as...

that the Govern- ment intended to pass a measure confirming the title, at present defec- tive, of the Seminary of St. Ealpice to all its property in Canada, worth, it was...

on the 16th of November at Coring°, on the coast northward of Madras, Some particulars of the devastation committed are given in the Madras Spectator, on the authority of...

amount of booty in the citadel of Kelat. The writer, an officer in the army, says be considers his " fortune as made." The liondmy Times of December 7th has some intelligence...

honour of Knialithood on the Solicitor-Geeeral. now .‘sir Thomas Wilde, and on Mr. William Martins, Gentleman Usher of time Sword of State.

of a grand rote which occur:ea yesterday at the Freemason's Tavern. A meeting of the freeholders and electors of Middlesex had been sum- moned by the Sheriffs. to address the...

be heal on Monday next. at No. 134 in the Strand. Mr. Cobden of Si :11, 0 :lest ee, end Mr. J. B. Smith, Chairman cf the Man- chester Chamber o Conunerce, are expected to attend...

A notice from the L.:zoo:11:er appeared cot 15 cdnesti.1:. - . • • • • t,t , t!. : .t m a h p a - t preaching i.:).cban:,,e of Is.Nuthetpacr Bills ; and the preva.. the...

THE society meetings for choral practice and performance in Exeter Hall have opened a new page in the ample volume of choral harmony. The "Music for the People " which they...

Arrived—At Plymouth, Feb. 19th, Europe. Brown, from the Cape. Off Ditto, Diamond, from Bengal. At Liverp. el, 151h, Blair, Newby, from Ben g al ; and Harmony, Douglas, teem...

JUDGE-JOBBERY IN SCOTLAND. A CHAPTER OF THE HISTORY' OF WHIG REFORM IN EDINBURGH: DEDICATED TO MR. MACAULAY'S CONSTITUENTS. IT 19 instructive to contrast at times the way in...

THE following reprint from our last week's second edition is inserted here, in order that those readers of the Spectator who saw only the first edition may understand the...

MINISTERS have managed to put out of the field, for the present year at least, two Tory candidates who were expected to offer severe, if not successful, opposition to the return...

silence — just in time to provoke a notice of his argument to - day, but not to permit a careful exposure of its fallacies. He says that " the Spectator, in trying to prove his...

THE history of Christianity is a perilous subject in a literary sense. If treated too religiously, there is the risk of becoming ludicrously irreverent, from the nature of many...

ECCLESIASTICAL. Timmins The History of Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. By the Rev. H. H. Milmau, Prebendary of St....

IN our last week ' s notice of Mrs. JAMESON ' S exposition of German literature and manners in relation to these Dramas, we indicated that the Princess, waiving the advantage...

THE object of this work is to define, by means of pictures and de- scriptions, the distinctive characters of the most valuable breeds of domestic animals used for draught or...

BOOKS. Travels in the West. Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave- Trade. By DAV ID TonsnuLt., Esq., M.A., Corresponding Memberof the Royal Academy of history at...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE proceedings of this self-constituted body occupy so small a share of public attention, and the selfish apathy of the artists renders the subject so...