alterca ; tion between the Emperor of RUSSIA and Lord DURHAM ; but they are not credited. His Lordship, with the Ambassadors of some other powers, has been presented to the...

from Madrid of the 16th instant. It is said that MENDIZABAL has given up the Finance Department to Senor FERRER, taking the department of Foreign Affairs himself, in addition to...

Alge- rine exredition. A body of French tro.ps, about 7000 in num- ber, defeated ABDAL KADER and his Arabs in two engagements; after which, they entered the fortified town of...

WHILE the Premier of this time twelvemonth keeps aloof from the world of politics in haughty or in sullen state at Tamworth, refusing even to ride as far as Birmingham to grace...

on the 16th instant, to provide for the payment of the interest of the debt due on the 31st. The Belgian share of the interest was included in this sum. The Belgian Parliament...

report to the King respecting eight prisoners capitally convicted at the two last 'Sessions; all of whom were respited during the Royal pleasure. At the last sessions of the...

Master of the Horse, complained that one of the toll-keepers on Hammer. smith Bridge had taken the sum of three halfpence from Sir George Quentin, Equery to the Duke of...

the frost ; and several accidents, some of them attended with loss of. life, have occurred in London and the vicinity. On Thursday, a boy was drowned in the Regent's Canal ; and...

The election of members of the Common Council has been going on during the week. The nomination of the candidates took place on Monday, which was St. Thomas's Day. Most of the...

THE King held a council at Brighton on Monday afternoon ; which was attended by Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Lord Minto, Mr....

late Empe- TOr ALEXANDER in the Citadel of Warsaw, with this inscription- " Alexander I. Emperor of All the Russias, Conqueror and Bene- factor of Poland. Raised upon the...

constituents within these few days. Yesterday week, about a hundred of the principal electors of South Durham dined with Mr. Pease at Stockton ; Mr. Bowes, the other Member for...

recently bought by a person engaged in the French 'trade, began taking in a general cargo of hops, pepper, tobttoeo, and .brandy, ostensibly for ex- portation, and was moored...

It would be seen from the result of the first day's polling in Northamptonshire, which we gave last week, that the supporters of Mr. Hanhury had not the least chance of gaining...

Brighton is not to take place ; and the " Protestant Committee" have backed out from their challenge to prove that religion was en- dangered by the conduct of the Roman...

for between 200,000 and 300,000 tons of iron for railroads on the Continent, in the United States, and other parts of the world. Such an extraordinary demand from a new source...

Peerage Re- form, has been published in the Leeds Times. Mr. O'Connell commences by insisting on the necessity of doing something with the Lords. Ile them in part restates his...

the worthy corporators of that town preserved to the last the reputation which they have obtained by many years of jobbing and misapplication of the public money. At a meeting...

in further proof of the gross bribery practised by the Tories. The Chairman, Mr. Chambers, has quite lost his wellies" at the reiterated proofs of corruption on the part of...

The Earl of Mulgrave has liberated Mr. Reynolds from the prison to which he was consigned by the Orange Court and Jury (as they hoped) for nine months, without any application...

invitation to join the Royal Agricultural Association. He assigns his reasons for his refusal, in a published letter to Mr. Montgomery Martin, the Secretary. Mr. Spiers thinks...

Leinster' at Carton the Duke invited a party of Ministerial supporters to meet the Lord. Lieutenant and his Lady. While staying at Carton, Lord Mulgrave went over to the...

The absence of Sir Robert Peel from the grand Tory muster at Birmingham, last week, is a source of extreme annoyance to the party. Two gentlemen were deputed to wait on him at...

Another example of the deplorable spirit which animates so many of the office bearers of the linrch towards the Dissenters has come to our knowledge. Mr. Ferguson, of Raith, the...

Spring Rice, in favour of establishing freedom in regard to Educational Honours. He remarks, that if the proprietors of the London University had obtained the charter they...

" un- questionable authority," of the statement that Prince George of Cam- bridge was at the O'Sullivan meeting in Brighton, we mentioned that the Times and other Tory journals...

to his son, recently deceased. This will render it necessary for Lord Stowell, as his legal representative, to administer to his son's effects ; by which he will be compelled to...

to Dr. Bow- ring on the 17th, on the termination of his mission in Switzerland. We regret that Mr. Wilson, the vocalist, who has had a very success- ful engagement in Dublin,...

POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. In consequence of the prevalence of adverse winds, the packet which was to leave New York on the 8th, with the President's Message, is not expected...

been prevalent ; but they are probably premature. We question whether Mr. Bickerstetb, who is generally looked upon as the fittest person, all things considered, for the Chief...

powers on the subject of the imaginary Ministerial difficulties and negociations. As a fitting conclusion to the lies of the week, we are gravely told that Lord MELBOURNE and...

Vittoria. The Spanish garrison marched out and niet them on the very field of the memorable victory of 21st June 1813. The corre- spondent of the Morning Chronicle thus...

The Sicilian arrived at St. Ilelena on the 4th ultimo, ' sailed from the Cape the 19th, October ; reports that the Cape Breton, Atlantic. and Ulania, were totally wrecked in...

On the 19th lust., at Roehampton, the lady of the lion. J., T. LESLIE MELVILL E, U a sun. On the 17th inst., at Doddershall Park, Bucks,the Lady of the Bev. JOHN R. PIOOTT of a...

of TWEEDDALE in the chair, for the purpose of forming a Protestant Association. The Reverend Mr. CUNNINGHAM was one of the prin. cipal orators : he accused the Papists of "...

The transactions in the English Stock Market have been so few and unim- portant as scarcely to require notice. The trifling fluctuations which occurred were attributed to the...

a melodrama called The 4ifinerali—the name seems familiar to us in the bills, but we bad not seen it before—in which DENVIL acts a principal part very creditably. Miss...

Theatres. Harlequin figures in the civic legend of Whittington and his Cat at Drury Lane, and as Grey Faux at Covent Garden. We trust the Licenser has exercised a reverend care...

Mucri novelty is not to be looked for at the Theatres the week before Christmas ; but the present has not been without its share ; and our theatrical chronicle being somewhat...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Leamington Spa. 20th December 1835 . Ma. Ems - on—Perceiving by an article on Mr. O'Connell's Peerage Reform, in your Spectator of yesterday,...

an- pounced— was at last produced on Monday ; and turns out to be un- worthy of the expectations it raised, and the pains and expense be- stowed upon it. It is a clumsy English...

AT no fortear period has the Tory party displayed greater activity than during that which has elapsed since the last prorogation of Parl iament. In almost every county and in...

TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SEECTATOR. Dover, 9.1th December IS35. SIR—As there is no doubt that in the ensuing . Session of Parliament, some amendment will be made in that portion...

THE resignation of the excellent and independent Mr. COLIN DUN- LOP, which has been rendered necessary by ill-health, will cause a vacancy in the representation of Glasgow ; and...

THE conduct of the British Government in regard to the Un- stamped Newspapers is similar to that pursued in China towards the sellers and buyers of opium. The use of opium is...

THE ministers of the Scottish Kirk appear desirous of rivalling the Church of England parsons as thoroughgoing political agents. They profess that their Church is in danger of...

THE difference between an imaginative conception and a commonplace mechanical work of art, is this—the one conveys to the mind a feeling correspondent to what would be excited...

WE strayed into Westminster Abbey the other day, to look at CHANTREY'S statue of WATT ; and having paid the admission-shilling to the ecclesiastical raree-show kept by the poor...

journals of this country are conducted with extraordinary talent ; with more, in fact, than was ever before applied in any nation to the same function of public teaching....

FICT7ON, Rienzi. the Last of the Tribunes. By the Author of Eugene Aram," " Last flays of Pompeii," &c. &e. In 3 cols Saunders and Orley. Fables and Moral Maxims, in Verse and...

Tuouce by no means secure against rigorous criticism, and pos- sessing less completeness than several of Mr. BULWER'S former productions, Rienzi is without question a great step...

SEVERAL numbers of that gigantic undertaking the Encyclope- dia Bcitannica have accumulated on our table ; and we have also received a l■mrth volume of that microcosm of...

OUR last week's gratulation as to the probability of having looked our last upon the Annuals, was premature. The ink of our lo triumphe was not dry (for most probably the types...

of fashion to " the eternal fitness of things." Following the order of nature, an Angler's Annual should have appeared in the spring, when the "gentle craft' were preparing for...

A NEW fable is a boon to mankind ; and Paonieus, who, we are told, travelled through Greece on the strength of his fable of the Choice of Hercules, which he repeated to crowds...

A SLACKENING of' activity in the publishing world was to be " looked for," as FRANCIS MOORE has it, in a holyday-week; and it has taken place. But although there is a...

Hoon this year hands his Comic Annual down to us from out the fog of a mountain in Germany ; whither he was driven, he tells us, by the smoke of the people below. HOOD following...

PREPOSSESSED us in its favour from the first. The idea is good; the title inviting ; the time of publication seasonable ; the out- ward appearance of the volume, in a livery of...

Ma. DEAN, of New Bond Street, has sent us two valuable sets of Organ music-1. "A Studio for the Organ, exemplified in a Series of Exercises in the strict and free styles ;...

Cau.corr's Pianoforte Grammar, arranged by his Son, W. H. CALLCOTT. 2. The Juvenile Pianist, by ANNE RODWELL. 3. Familiar Dialogues on Thorough-bass, by J. JoussE. Treatises on...