the activity of the Daily Press, we are now overwhelmed, that MiGuEL . and his officers have at length determined on a serious attempt at getting rid of the invading force;...

Petticoat- trimmer quietly gathered to that goodly cOtiamunity of which QUEVEDO was indulged with a peep, in his visit to the lower world; and speculation was on the stretch as...

SOME movements have taken place, which indicate an intention in the Government of Louts PHILIP and of WILLIAM the Fourth to bring the long-disputed question of Belgium to an...

from Mr. O'CONNELL, the first of a series to be addressed to the Reformers of England, in which he attacks the Administration with more than his usual bitterness, and less than...

pointment of General GOBLET, have been officially announced. The bulletin of the General's appointment is dated the 17th. He is Minister of State, and holds the Foreign...

through his dominions with the warmest welcome, and nowhere better than at Gottenburg, notwithstanding the complaints of its inha- bitants. The memorial to which we lately...

have as many lives as FERDINAND the Seventh. He was dead and alive again, and then dead a second time; and now we find him con- demned to twenty years' imprisonment and hard...

on Mae- stricht, with a force of from12,000 to 15,000 men; and every thing in Holland betokens warlike activity. In the west, 10,000 men are said to have passed the Scheldt from...

changes in contemplation in the Ministry. Lord ALTFIORP is about to retire, and Mr. STANLEY is about to take his place. The Herald adds, very judiciously— Whatever the proposed...

The London Sheriffs, Mr. John Humphery and Mr. Richard Peck, entered on their offices yesterday. The Reform festival of Bishopsgate Ward took place on Thursday, at the City of...

the Court Newsman does not say, nor have we the means of supplying the omis- sion. He returned to Windsor in the evening. This is the one only event of the Court week. As...

Lord and Lady Howick received a warm welcome from the folks of Alnwick on Monday. They took the horses from the carriage of the noble pair, and drew them into the town ; and...

Levens, was ridden over, and killed, near the Red Cow, Hammer.. smith, by a gig driven by a Mr. Mullins. The gig was passing on the wrong side of the road, at a furious rate ;...

The Duke of Richmond, as Postmaster- General, has granted to the Scripture Readers' Society, as well as to the other religious and charit- able institutions in Ireland, the...

owing to some disagreement between the trustees of the Pres- byterian Chapel, Gosport, and their Minister, the Rev. Joshua Bryan, that chapel was shut up by the trustees. On...

of the resident Irish in Bolton to present Mr. O'Connell and the female branches of his family with some of the choicest specimens of our manufactures, as a tribute of respect...

The following is a summary of the returns for the week— New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries. Saturday 313 119 300 Monday 508 177 504 Tuesday , 321 97 285 Wednesday 237 86 279...

OBJECTION To VOTERS.—The Tories in various quarters have ob- jected to the Reform voters. Where the objection is a known and valid one, of course they only exercise their legal...

ABINGDON.—The Conservatives have been playing a deep trick here. They made a rate two or three days before the 20th of July, and took special care to call upon all the Antis,...

Reformers. Anti-R,Armers. Probabk Represent. Aberdeen' ... • . . Sir M. Bruce lion. W. Gordon ....Doubt Cul. Argyle ..... . . Mr. Callender Ayr Mr. Malcolm Mr. Oswald Mr. Blair...

as to the admissibility of the votes of lodgers. The lodger's claim is held good in cases where the bare walls of the apart- ments he occupies, exclusive of furniture and...

LAST week, a letter appeared in the Globe, charging the Duke of Cum- berland with having very nearly ridden down two young ladies on the Barnes road, and with having laughed at...

is said to be quite certain.— Clonmel Herald. Conic, COUNTY AND Cerv.,The Cork Coneitution says—" The period for the registry closed last night, but the notices continued to be...

the Tem s id this - morning, with a solemn and it half of' more hest words on this pitzling subject, in the shape of it letter from Mr. Jell, a 'Ater froi» Sharp, au It of Mr....

A CRITI M in the Quarterly Review on Lord NUGENT'S Memorials of Hampden, has called forth a letter from the noble Lord to Mr. MURRAY, in which the author, with point as well as...

t, VETS event, which had been long foraTen, and - which, indeed, from the sufferings of the patient, had become almost .desirable, took place on Friday last week. It is thus...

SOME very vigorous efforts have been made by the friends and ad- mirers of Mr. Irving at this borough, to follow up their extrajudicial exploits by a little legal persecution....

which has been not merely the absorption of all the literary gains of the mighty deceased—and no author ever gained so much—but the destitution of his family, is given by Sir...

WAR-OFFICE, Sept. 94.-7th Foot : Major-General Sir E. Blakeney, K.C.B., to be Colonel, vice Field-Marshal Sir A. Clarke, G.C.B., deceased. Sept. 28.--15th Regt. of Light...

Earl Grey and the other Cabinet Ministers are expected in town about the middle of next week, to attend a Cabinet Council W-hich is summoned by direction of Lord Palmerston. The...

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Yourrn and Co., Parliament Street, attornies at law ; as far as regards Brztorr- P., 3. S., W., and II. KENWAY, Bridport, twine-manufacturers; as far as...

not favourable. It is believed, however, that there will be a handsome surplus for the quarter.

to the reported death of FERDINAND. ID the time of CASIMIR PERIER, the command of the telegraphs, which had belonged to the Minister of Commerce, was transferred to the...

agents is not going on well. It is believed, however, that Sir 3oici will go out on his own account immediately, with 500 men. Colonel EVANS is going out as Chef d'Etat-Major.

to be no coercive measure against Holland in the first instanee. The King sill be told of his danger; and if he persist, it will be intimated to him that the Belgians shall not...

Newcastle, says my next Register will in all probability be dated from Edinburgh.

SPECTATOR OITICE, Two o'et.ocx. There is no arrival of the slightest interest to-day at the Foreign Office, or at either of the Embassies.

s-rocaExcriAlynE,FittnivEyi:alxc. Dining the week, Consols have fluctuated between 84* and 831, for the Ac- count,—having reached both extremes on more than one occasion ; and...

• Arrived—At Bristol, Sept. 28th, Maria Louisa, Barford. from Mauritius. Off Liver- pool, 27th, Livingstone, —, from Bengal. In the Clyde, 22d, Camilla, Wilson, frOin Van...

IF any class of men in the humbler ranks of life—if the mer- chants' clerks, or the mechanics of London, for example—were to display such lamentable ignorance of their...

WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE POOR GERMANS? THE accounts from Germany lead us to believe that the Despotic Powers will not for the present - at least, encounter any very for-...

DEEPLY as the world will feel the drying up of the fountain of instruction and delight which flowed from the mind of WALTER SCOTT, still more deeply will his loss be felt by his...

AMONG a parcel of election squibs from Perthshire, which a friend has handed us, there is a Gaelic song, with an English translation. We favour our readers with the translation,...

THE theatrical Winter Season has commenced, in an Autumn wearing the aspect of a second summer ; but the inconvenience of heat has not been very severely felt at Drury as yet....

nom the modernness of the literary profession, its votaries have no rank—no place in society. The French are in advance of us : the designation homme de lettres is as well...

THE history of LAFAYETTE, during the last two or three eventful years, by a competent authority, cannot but prove an important work. .M. SARRANS was the editor of a newspaper at...

. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. • • • 10, Ed g eware Road, ratit September I32. Sin—Being fully persil ailed that a much more bereficent code of laws might be nstituted for...

POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY, Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830. By H. Sar , rims, Secretary to General Lafayette. 9. vols. Heaney, ANTIQUITIES, Oral...

THIS is a very pleasant, gossiping little work, the composition of which is creditable to the author ; and will not be unacceptable either to the antiquary or to the visitor on...

TITIS, it will be at once discerned, is a history of the Bank per sonified by an old lady of much wealth. The idea is far from new ; neither had it a brilliant origin : and all...

ROBERT MILLHOUSE is known to the reading world as a man of poetical genius, who has had few of the so-called advantages of modern education. Of lowly birth and humble...

Specimens of Modern Sculpture, to which we alluded two or three weeks ago, merit a separate notice, for the elegant verses they contain,—bearing, indeed, but slightly on the...

This book, under a very taking title, contains, according to the author, "an account of those institutions which have been the means, under God, of rendering this empire happy...

THE plan of this little work is good, and we trust it will meet with encouragement. It is a sort of Child's Magazine—cheap, various, and instructive.

Sir HARRIS NICOLAS has taken WALTON and Corrores Angler in hand ; and PICKERING is adding to the thousand and one edi- tions already published of this dainty book—the delight of...

THIS is an able and well-written treatise ; the object of which is to show that the phenomena of geology, as they have been hitherto observed, are not inconsistent with the...

THE loss of one whom we loved or revered, renders sacred for the time every thing that reminds us of him. Nay, the more rude and humble the memorial, perhaps the greater is its...

tains the "Holy Family" and the "Puck" of Sir JOSIIUA REYNOLDS— two of his best pictures. They are boldly engraved, with a good general effect; preserving also the expression...

fine picture by VANDYKE, the whole-length portraits of the seventh Earl of Derby, his Countess and their child, has been admirably well en- graved by J. H. ROBINSON. It is just...

THE LANDSCAPE ANNUALS.. THE Tourist Annuals bid fair to prove perennials, for their attractions are as great as their field is boundless. Our landscape draughtsnien, those in...

Two Parts of a series of colossal Illustrations of Anatomy, selected from approved originals by Professor SEEING, have been sent to us for inspection. We do not profess to be...

its embel- lishments. It has this month an excellent engraving of a-pleasing prik- trait of the Marchioness of Sligo, from a miniature by Mrs. 1 Ro- BERTSON ; and in addition, a...

and various incidental effusions, penned during that un- happy period of his life, the separation from his lady ; in addition to Lara, the Hebrew Melodies, the Siege of Corinth,...

The Seventh Part of the Landscape Illustrations of Byron is not so rich in pictorial beauty as some of the former; though it contains the two imaginative vignettes, by TURNER,...

This ballad is \veil put top_ tiler : the melody is graceful, and the ac- companiment skilfully arranged.

GUYLOTT. There is nothing offensive in this ballad, but it possesses no feature sufficiently striking or beautiful to induce us to extend this negative degree of praise.

On the 24th inst., at Goodwood, the Countess of MOUNTCHARLES. of a son. • On the 21st inst., the Lady of Sir THOMAS FELLOWES, of a daughter. • At York. the Lady of J. Woo....

ORDINATION.-The fidlowing Gentlenten Were ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln, at Eueltden. on Sunday last. Dmetnis -W. Acworth, B.A., Queen's College, Cambridge ; T. T....

graphed and brightly coloured, has been sent us ; but we are at aloss to define its object.

" Do you ever think of me?" i Songs by N. J. SPORLE. " Do you think I can forget?" What can induce this gentleman or his publisher to request our no- tice of these? We have...

pretty.

Friday. 84 84 91i 91¢ 1391 2044 15 16 8 FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quota ion during the Week.) The Dividends on Stocks printed preceded by an Asterisk the Dividends are...

ones which came under our notice. It is an excellent shilling's worth.

of parents and instructors a Cours &Etudes du Dessin, for the use of learners; as we shall take occasion to make the very sensible letter which accom- panied them, the text for...

and Published by him at No. 9, Wel- lington Street, Strand.

DISCHARGE. THIS Country has now obtained the object of its wishes for many long years, the Representation of the People ill Parliament. Hither to, Representation has been a...

WORKING OF THE HOL SE OF COMMONS. DELEVERED, AS AN .H.PENDIX, WETH THE SPECTP.T0a, NEVITSPAPEZt, No. ))2, for the Week ending 2ith Se,ptemb2r, I L.

HAYING endeavoured to give a general view of the great and complicated duties of the House of Commons, we come next to consider its methods of procedure in reference to those...

IN order to tale a view of the House in motion, we shall beg our readers to accompany us to the Gallery on a night of great public interest. The public, by the theory of the law...

served, that, on the evening of the 14th March, 59 separate pieces of business were before the House; one of which, the SUPPLY, consisted of 34 distinct items. That the first 29...

THE motion for a Committee may be made by any member of the House; but, in the greater number of instances, it is made by some member connected with the Administration. It is...

latter in that they labour longer, and for the most part to less purpose. With Committees, however numerous the witnesses or complicated the sub- ject of inquiry, there is one...

THE following Table contains a full and particular statement of the business, of every description, performed during the last ses- sion, with the time spent each day in its...

ONE of the great evils of the present system arises from the ob- structions and delays which measures meet with during their progress through the House. A measure, the merits of...

IN 1606, an order was moved and settled for the meeting of the House at eight o'clock in the morning. In 1614, seven o'clock was made the hour of' meeting; and all second...

THE mode of proceeding in the House of Commons in respect of its various business—Bills Public and Private, Petitions, and Motions—is as follows- 1. When a member purposes the...

has been constructed. The six bills, the progress of which is here traced, were those introduced by Mr. J. CAMPBELL. They were all of that kind which, it might be supposed,...

One is the general incompleteness of the machinery of the House. The members are occupied, as a body, in doing, succes- sively and imperfectly, a great many things, which, if...

THE Members of the House of Commons may be divided into three classes,—the Active Members, the Idle Members, and the Jobbers. The ACTIVE MEMBER iS a man who considers that he...

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COMMITTEES, as we have seen, are instruments for transacting an immense quantity of imprtant business which the House collee- . tively could not possibly accomplish. All the...

consider whether there is a demand for this enormous production, beyond all moderate bounds by unmeaning 'verbiage ; are contra- wish to vote on the question according to its...

remarkable example occurred during the discussion of the first and second editions of the Reform Bill ; when the Returns under the Population Act in 1821, which had been in the...

greatest nor to finish the goods with any care or accuracy. Of all things obstacle to the despatch of Parliamentary business. In a thirty or on earth, an Act of Parliament,...

THE Public and Private Bill department was not increased in corre- spondence with the increased time consumed by the House in public and private business. The following table,...

Or file increase of business in this department, a judgment may be formed from the following table of the number of public petitions re- ceived by the House during each of the...

THE first Reports of the Debates—those which figure in the older Magazines, where fictitious names were employed to designate the speakers, to which it key was at intervals...

OF all checks to misconduct, and incitements to good behaviour, publicity is the most powerful. But the House of Commons has never sanctioned the promulgation of their...

THE following Table is intended to give an idea of the compara- tive ACTIVITY of the different members of the expiring Parlia- ment. The People have very imperfect means of...

No. 1.—Lord EBRINGTON'S motion for an address to the Ring on the state of Public Affairs, 10th May 1332. Numbers for, 958; against, 908. Majority marked A, Minority N. No....

TOOK PLACE DURING THE SESSION. Ho. 1.—Division on the motion for retaining 30 boroughs in Schedule B, 23d Jan. 1832. For, 210 ; against, 112. Majority marked A. No. 2.—For the...

LISTS of Divisions form no part of the Records of the House ; divisions in Committee, even the numbers are not recorded. We notice the latter fact with reference to the...

Acheson, Vie,-13. Adam, C.-9. Adeane, IL J.-2,4. Agnew, Sir A.-10, 20. Alexander. J. D.-13. Althorp, Lord-14, 15, 21, 29, 33, 34. Anson-38. Ashley, Lord-6, 10. Astell,...

THERE are, we doubt not, many ways in which the Machinery of the House may be improved, and the defects we have pointed out remedied. The following Suggestions, we trust, would...

AT present, Committees meet at eleven, twelve, one, two, three o'clo(k, and they rise at four o'clock. Their average sittings are about two hours. Let all Committees meet, in...

MEMBERS must attend; and their constituents must have the meant of ascertaining their rate of attendance. Every day's transactions should commence with a list of the members...

re- spect to Private Bills, we think it is possible, by a general measure, to render the future application for them, unless under peculiar circum- stances, unnecessary. When...

WE have shown how the House may best husband its time, and carry forward its labours by a judicious apportionment of them among its nu- m erous members ; and how, by the...

THE materials of legislation furnished to the House, and the means of efficiently operating upon them laid before it, there remains but one subject more in order to finish this...