THE state of Belgium is still without a head ; and we would almost conclude that its Managers are without the material that gives a head its chief value. That an assembly which...

termed "the groans of the Po/es.' It is the manifesto (of which, last week, we had only the concluding paragraph) issued by the Diet to vindicate the conduct of their unhappy...

A plot is hatChing, our contemporary says, for the purpose of putting down reform. It will not be opposed in principle—the resolutions will pass—but every detail will be...

no news of in- terest respecting France itself, save the mutiny—shall we call it ? —of the schoolboys. Our excitable neighbours pay great atten- tion to the vagaries of these...

this week in a more tangible character—not as a conspi- racy to evade, but as an actual breach of the law. The indictment consists of thirty-two counts ; the only count,...

has issued two proclamations to the people of Gottingen and the stu- dents, which are conceived in a spirit of much moderation and good sense. The course of the public schools...

and a large party of military officers on Friday last week. The Duke left Brighton on Monday. His visit is said to have been con- nected with his office of Constable of the...

for promoting Emigration, which it is understood that his Ma- jesty's Government intend to submit to Parliament, we were about to lay before our readers some account of the...

On the right of the Mayor sat Prince Talleyrand and Mr. Hume, and on the left the Bishop of Landaff and the Master of the Rolls. On the health of Talleyrand being given, his...

for sheltering the homeless—namely, in Playhouse Yard, Whitecross Street ; Globe Street, Wapping; and Castle Street, Lei- cester Square. COUNTET afrararnaos.—A few more...

Sailors, marched from the City to the Admiralty, where it was•thefrintention to deliver a petition for redress of griev- ances, partlgelit flagging and impressment. They excited...

house in Grosvenor Square, for the purpose of taking, as was sup- posed, a customary walk in Hyde Park. He never returned. An alarm was given ; and on Tuesday the Serpentine was...

objection taken by Mr. Ball to the indictment against Withers, who was tried at the Special Commission at Salisbury. The Chief Jus- tice of the Common Pleas held a similar...

at Marylebone Office, that her husband had abandoned her. Ile was a Medical officer • had been two years in India ; was now in England, but on the eve of returning to the East ;...

Opera, composed by an Irish gentleman named Monck Mason, will be performed at the King's Theatre, during the ensuing season. Here is another Dilettante to be added to the...

this piece closed on Tuesday. Mr. Harrison continued his address on Monday, for the Drury Lane lessees. He was followed by Mr. Adam, who spoke to the same effect for Covent...

twelve &clock, a thick cloud of smoke was perceived to issue from the vestry-room window at the back of this beautiful edifice In a few minutes the engine of the Birmingham...

University was conferring the usual B. A. degrees in the Senate-house, there occurred—no unwonted affair—a stamping in the gallery among the Under Graduates on the presentation...

and useless force was brought forward on Tuesday, by Mr. Charles Pearson, in a speech of great length and humour. In the coarse of it, Mr. Pearson read an extract from the...

[Front the Lady's Jlayazine.] COURT DeEss.—Owing to the announcement of so many Drawing- rooms, ingenuity has been diligently at work in devising novelties suit- able to the...

DRURY LANE. Saturday—Roh Roy—Davy Jones. Mondoy—Williant Tell—Davy Jones. Tuesday—Jealous Wife—Deaf as a Post—Davy Jones. Wedncsday—Werner—Turning the Tables—Davy Jones....

MonNix . G CHRONICLE—All jurists have agreed, that if two ship. Wrecked men are seated on one plank, which will not safely hold them both, the stronger may (we say he will) push...

STANDARD—The Ministerial circular is couched in terms extremely pressing—the friends of the Cabinet are invited to a meeting, on the 3rd of February, when it is understood that...

OXFORD. JAN. 27.-In a convocation held this day, it was agreed to accept the bequest contained in the will of the Rev. Robert Finch, M.A. of Balliol College. On the same day,...

A return has just been printed, by order of the House of Commons, of the Money expended for the maintenance and relief of the Poor, in every parish in England and. Wales, for...

The Rev. H. Fardell, M.A. prebendary of Ely, has been instituted, by the Bishop of Ely, to the vicarage of Wisbech. The Rev. P. Fraser, M.A. sen. Fellow of Christ's College, has...

SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two o'CLocs. The German mail which arrived this morning, brings accounts from Cracow, stating that the Emperor of Russia is disposed to accede to...

W AR -O FFIcE , Jan. 25,-2nd Regt. of Life Guards: Major G. Greenwood to be Major and Lieut.-Col.-1A fleet. of Dragoons : Car. W. H. Desboreuth to be Lieut. by purchase, vice...

WE were enabled in a ihrmer Number, by the assistance of Lord EL LENBOROUGH, and of Dr. KELLY, to show that the nation was paying to the East India Company a million and a half...

The Company's ship Marquis of Huntley, Hine, for Bombay and China, was de- spatched last Saturday. The Thames, Forbes, for Madras and China ; and the General Kyd, Nairne, for...

sToCK EXCHANGE, Fit /DAV E vEXING.—There has been very little business here this week; but prices are about three-quarters per cent. lower than they were at the date of our...

PROPOSAL FOR UNITING ENGLAND AND IRELAND. O'CONNELL is said to intend that meetings for the repeal of the Union shall be held in a steam-boat, to be moored without the...

THE Scotch nation are in a sort of ferment about Mr. JEFFREY. Sonic are indignant at the means by which he has obtained the tem- porary occupancy of a seat in Parliament,...

IN the Times last week, there appeared, "from a correspondent," (the technical mode of circulating a plan on which, however much approved, a newspaper does not choose to risk...

As a literary and critical journal, the Quarterly Review occupies the very first place ; but in politics and political economy it is be- low the level of that Twopenny Trash it...

ONE of our readers in Kent has put into ourhands anumber of an ancient namesake, called the Universal Spectator. It bears to be edited by " HENRY STONECASTLE, of Northumberland,...

ABOUT two years and a half ago, Mr. BUCKINGHAM began a paper called the Argus; which lived, we believe, an entire month, and then sunk to rest in the arms of the Globe, where...

PERIODICAL I Review . I ,, ( No: 1 , The Quarterly Revi LITERATURE I LXXXVII. J Murray. BIOGRAPHY. Lives of the Italian Poets, by Stebbing 3 Vols. Bull. TRAVELS .... Nei g h's...

pupils of an establishment in which we take great interest. Hazle- , wood had the merit of being one of the first schools which de- parted from the old and worn-out track of...

POMPEIANA. No. VI. of this interesting work contains, among other plates, a head of Achilles, copied from a picture on the wall of a house, representing Achilles restoring...

all the merits such a work can pretend to. Its language is precise, clear, and neat ; the compartments appear well b divided and ar- ranged, and the descriptions of external...

is a creditable publica- tion: it is compiled with industry, and written with elegance : his fault is feebleness of conception and faintness of expression. The subject is...

Songs, which at least are exquisitely bound, and bear on their back the stamp of a very graceful gilt harp ; so that, if the interior is deficient in beauty, the exterior is...

have been a very acceptable publication, when we knew less of these countries, and before the press had been inundated by simi- lar ones. His work is not only posterior in...

We noticed this work in an early stage of its progress ; and it is to discharge ourselves of a debt of gratitude that we record its advance as far as the 46th Number. Every...

of Abydos ;' the Music by T. F. WALmisLEY. Mr. W.thsusi.sx is better known as a glee - writer than a composer of songs; but, judging from this and some other - specimens of his...

Mr. LEWIS has just completed a beautiful fiw-simile, the size of the original, of the crayon sketch by Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, from which the late President painted the full-length...

NOS. VII., VIII., and IX. of this cheap, pretty, and useful little work, contain reduced outlines of various modern and popular pictures, which have been engraved, from Honmurn,...

to English words by G-. LINLEY. Of the original air with its vocal variations, we expressed our opinion some time since. Stript of these excrescences, and, as we think them,...

THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. Tar first trial-night was on Monday last. The band mustered nume- rously, and presented the same faces in all the principal departments as last year....

THE Third Part of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S SCRAPS and SKETCHES is highly amusing, and full of drollery, with some good sketches of cha. racter and "points of humour." His shafts...

- Pythonse, 26thJannary 1831. Sia—Your Paper of the 8th January has just been put into my'hand by a friend ; and I am induced to notice your misrepresentation of my conduct...

AT the meeting on Thursday, January 27, GEORGE RENN/E, Esq., V.P., in the Chair, the following books were presented :—" Connoissance des Temps, 1833 ;" presented by the Board of...

to Music for font' voices, by VINCENT NOVELLO. This very agreeable and lively quartet shows how a man of real genius can turn "from grave to gay, from 'lively to severe." The...