THE chief subjects of discussion in Parliament this week have been Ireland under Lord MULGRAVE, the trial of Controverted Elections, and the Education of the People. The Tory...

eiee. 0. : The Earl of Ptont:N, ..•:. • the attention of the !holq: of Peers to the tit,: Q.:, it', Six, eh which spoke ot . the " tettanal peace Old do:nest:I. " ut the...

19th November, by a speech from the Queen Regent. Her Majesty had nothing satisfactory to tell her Parliament ; and could only express hopes of the improvement of the finances,...

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I.t.t 1.. I •• .4 . 1 . her .1 .....1 that the • .-, i that the lti,• ,1: .1',..idabh: to the lilt', ai . , e,or to be in the tity • , 1 to , ney and jewels has been we...

Prussia, by the arrest of the Archbishop of Cologne, for disobedience to the Prussian Marriage-law. It appears that the Prussian Govern- ment has issued a decree that the...

and Anchor, on Monday evening, it was unanimously resolved to call a public meeting of the in- habitants of Westminster, at twelve o'clock on Monday next, at the Crown and...

Wednesday, at the Grove Hotel, ('amberwell Grove, to celehrate the return of Mr. D'Eyncourt and Mr. Mantes. Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Clay, and Mr. Charles Lushington were among...

THE chronicle of the Court this week is little else than a record of dinner-parties. The company at the Palace is not numerous, but select. The Queen confines her invitations...

the subject of the Ludlow Charities, his Lordship, to-day, confirmed the Master's appointment of Trustees of the Municipal Charities, with costs against the CI.IVES and other...

Pension- list should be unreservedly referred to a distinct Committee after the Civil List Committee had finished its labours, must be in the recollec- tion of everybody, for it...

ration of Leeds acted illegally in making over the sum of 6,500/. to three members of their own body in trust to pay certain sums to the Recorder, Deputy Recorder, and towards...

opinion in the country, there is an all but universal feeling of disgust and dis- appointment among the Liberals at the Anti-Reform policy of the Government, declared in Lord...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Irish Poor-law of last session, slightly altered, was again brought forward in the House of Commons last night, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Rejecting the...

speck? It is scarcely necessary to say that it was inserted without the precious kidt• ledge of the Editor. An oLjectionahle advertisement, in the Italian language, appeared in...

in the chair, it was resolved to set on foot a subscription to defend the seat of Sir Samuel Whalley against the Tory petition. A meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor on...

Measures, which stands corrected in the whole of the unstanmed impression. The Countess of Strathmore, who has two pensions, is not the wile of Mr. Hutt, but of the present Earl...

The Reformed Corporation of Hull have adopted a petition to Parliament, praying for Household Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot. The Earl of Durham is to...

of the Earl of Cavan, has been conferred on Lieutenant- General Sir W. H. Pringle, and that of the Sixty-fourth, vacant by the transfer of the last-named gallant officer, has...

ail who are to tell us what we ought to (hi, if not they? Suppose the Earl of Durham were a general, awl it were proposed to him to leave the "initiative " of all his military...

To take as a criterion of the public appetite for theatrical enter- tainments, the prevailing character of the successful performances this season at the Winter houses, Majors...

" Moderates" in the Cortes are bent upon following a very . immoderate policy. They seek to restore a Conservative :Ministry, with Mawrfamz DE LA RosA for President of the...

ST0CR EECRANOE, FRIDAY AFTER:100N. Considerable sensation has been excited in the Money Market by the sudden and unexpected depression of Bank Stock. which has experienced a...

upon the Chief Magistrate to convene a public meeting, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of Vote by Ballot, and against the Corn-laws. This is encountering...

The Isabella, Munro, for Calcutta, has been toned back to the River. having been tidally dismasted in a sudden squall, oft' Dungenes , . Art tved —At Gravesend, Dec. Sal, Sarah...

evening, L'Inganno Felice by ROSSINI, and I 1 Campanello by DoNizLTTI; both of them in one act. ROSINI wrote his little piece when he was hardly more than a boy; and yet it...

the audietwe at the St. James's, in the character of Angeline; a lovely, lonely, and larmoyante young lady, %vho is perpetually bewailing her dead father and lover ; and who is...

Thursday. Mr. Buss's playwright seems to have been of the opinion we have just expressed, that the drama is a workof supererogation in such cases, for be has not encumbered his...

TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. 3IY LORD—As one of the authors and principal supporters of the Reform Act. the people owe you a debt of gratitude, which nothing but your own con- duct...

OBSTACLES TO THE PROGRESS OF REFORM. THE heirs of the two rival factions of the last century are now avowedly leagued together in defence of the psceint parts of the Reform...

LIBERAL MAJORITY. Adam, Sir C. Aglionhy, H. A. Archl mid, it. Attwool. T. Bainbridge, E. T. Baines, E. Ball, N. Bannerman, A. Baring. F. 'I'. Barnard, E. G. Be:finish, F. B....

LORD JOHN RUSSELL declares that he is bound in honour to oppose the Ballot. When the Reform Bill was passed, he en- tered into a compact to resist "such large measures of recon-...

FROM all sides Mr. WAKLEY is snubbed for his independent con- duct in the Address debate. It was very wrong to bring forward Radical questions on the first night of the session....

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—Our half countrymen, the Republicans of North America, will have renson to complain of the English press, if Mr. O'Cossretes burning words...

THE first Reform Bill was carried by the pressure of the People upon the Parliament ; and so must the second be, if at all. Nay, a more vigorous and forcible demonstration of...

A THIRD edition of Mr. ROWLAND HILL'S " Post-office Reform," petitions in favour of his plan from the most important mercan- tile communities, and the appointment of a Committee...

with some exquisite morsels of pastoral description; and affording to the curious student of mind the power of comparing the prose reality. as it first struck the poet, with its...

MRS. GORE would have better consulted her reputation by sup- pressing these volumes; for they are obviously written on the spur of the moment, and display craft rather than art....

Flortow, Mary Raymond, and Other Tales. By the Authoress of "Mothers and Daughters.'' &c. Sze. In 3 vols. a' Cuiburn. POETRY. Scenes and Shadows of Days Departed ; a Narrative....

TIRED of doing nothing, and of (hiding nothing to do at Toledo, the late Mr. Ixnus, excited by their vicinity determined 1.‘, make a pilgrimage through La Mancha and into the...

NUMBER rather than novelty is still the characteristic. 'New editions of old works, or new works put into newer shapes, foam the bulk of the publications on our table. The only...

So far as the externals of type, paper, and decoration are con- cerned, this Annual may vie with the best of its tribe. The margin of the page is ample ; the embossed silk...

MR. HOOD seems to have borne in mind our last year's hints as to the utility of making his Annual a satirical reflector of annual follies. The work as a whole possesses more...

the tenth edition of DISRAELI'S Curiosities of Literature ; which Mr. Moxo:e has brought out in a single volume, and in the style of MURRAY'S single-volume edition of BYRON. The...

Art of Miniature-painting useful, notwithstanding that they are rather judicious than novel. Though slight and few, they are clear sad concise : and as they are not intended to...

JOHN WALKER. This collection consists of two bulky octavo volumes, containing upwards of twelve hundred closely printed pages, principally consisting of divinity and epistles....

useful information. The abstracts of Acts of Parliament and chronicle of the last session is a principal and permanent feature: among the peculiarities for the present year, we...

Esq., seem to have been prompted by a long study of the author, and a sufficient, though a somewhat unspiritual per- ception of his style and character. But the qualities of the...

I3URNET'S ETCHINGS OF THE CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL. IN noticing the Reverend R. CATTERNIOLCS Book Idle Cartoons, we re- gretted the want of faithful and spirited engravings of these...

Memoirs of a Smuggler is an autobiographical curiosity being a compilation from the Diary of a noted smuggler still living, JOHN RATTENBURV, of Beer, a fishing-village on the...

Practice, is an abstract of the author's former work, True Plan of a Living Temple ; the object of the abridgment being to reconcile the believer to his mingling with the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR-1N was a strangely mistaken species of patronage which induced the mistaken author of the American War virtually to say to the starving...

miration of the Royal guests at the City banquet, are exhibited by the manufacturers, Messrs. HETHERINGTON, of the Quadrant, together with other specimens of this new and...

quite equal to the first in humour and point. The onslaught of the Uncivil List threatens to annihilate the unhappy Mr. RICE; who, with his back against the closed door of the...