As the session of Parliament draws towards a close, the conviction strengthens that we have " too much Church" in this country. As the session of Parliament draws towards a...

proceeding rather more favourably for the Ministers. Some rioting took place at Madrid on the night of the 17th, in conse- quence of a foolish interference of QUESADA with...

of Algiers : but no particulars of the affair have been received.

discovery of an extensive conspiracy to assassinate the King, and the members of the Royal Family who were to accompany him at the grand review in celebration of the Three Days...

The House of Commons assembled on Saturday, when the Dropped Orders of the Day were proceeded with, and the adjourned debate on the Established Church Bill ordered to be taken...

THE health of the King is said to be improved ; and his Majesty was well enough to attend the exhibition of the Eton Scholars on Monday. He has also taken rides in Windsor Park...

for a burglary, escaped from his prison on the evening of' the 22d. He was allowed to walk in the yard assigned to condemned criminals; and having been a chimney-sweep, managed...

The Directors of the East India Company gave Lord Elphinstone a splendid entertainmeut at the Albion, in Aldersgate Street, previously to his Lordship's departure to assume the...

of the City, have reported, "That it is expedient to provide means for the separate confinement of prisoners committed for trial before the Central Criminal Court. That for...

The nomination of candidates to succeed the late Sir Matthew White Ridley in the representation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne took place on Monday. Hr. fleadlain proposed Mr....

cause of Malin versus Taylor excited great interest. This was the second time the case had been brought before a Jury. At the previous trial, the defendant, Mr. Taylor, accused...

siderably at the next registration. The Tories of West Somerset were to have a grand dinner at Taunton yesterday. Sir Robert Peel is expected to be present at a Tory dinner at...

the fund for build- ing a church at Guildford. A very important improvement has lately been made in the silk- loom, in the application of steam power, and by dispensing...

Education Commissioners for Ireland is occupied with a defence of the system and of the Commissioners from the attacks of the Bishop of Exeter. Dr. Philpotts is charged with...

An investigation is on foot in Dublin into the conduct of Alderman Smith at the last election. The allegations against the Alderman are substantiated on oath ; but he declares...

number of crimes in Ireland is decreasing. At Antrim, Chief Baron Joy con- gratulated the Grand Jury on the state of the calendar : but it is not merely in the North that the...

1 r The Tories are very active in registering their votes in the Scottish counties. The following account of their doings in Pebles- shire is a specimen of the way they go to...

The Reverend Mr. BP Ghee, the demigod of Exeter Hall, who calls forgery and calumny "ingenious devices," has cried peccavi at last int very humble strain. In a letter to the...

a tour through the South of Ireland. He has been everywhere received with enthusiasm by the mass of the people, and generally frowned upon by the squires and squireens, who are...

Belfast, quotes the remarks of the Morning Chronicle, the Examiner, and the Spectator, on the subject of Mr. Sharman Craw ford's declining to vote with AIr. O'Connell on the...

infant twenty weeks old, was shot by her brother, a lad twelve years of age. He was left in the care of his sister, and whilst amusing himself with a loaded gun, it went off,...

Washington on the 30th of June, in the 86th year of his age. Mr. Rothschild is suffering from a surgical complaint at his brother's house in Frankfort.

of Great Britain,' has completely demolished the Reverend Mounteford Longfield, who had the impudence to deny some of Mr. O'Connell's statements re- specting his services to the...

David Brewster and Mr. James Ivory, have, we are glad to hear, been raised to SOUL a year. Miss Stewart, the daughter of the late Honourable James Stewart, who was, a few months...

in the Euphrates expedition, foundered in a tremendous hurricane, while descending the river, on the 21st of May, off Nuha. The following particulars are given in a letter...

SATURDAY NIGHT. In addition to the compliments of Dr. PIDLLPOTTS last night, the Premier of the " Whig-Radical, O'CoNNELL-ridden Ministry," re- ceives this evening the praises...

Lord CLANRI- CAIiDE, for the Disfranchisement of the old Stafford Burgesses, recites the " notorious and systematic bribery of the burgesses and freemen." This fact was indeed...

the discontent of the National Guard still continues. It has been in- creased by a foolish letter of the Minister of Justice and Public Worship, announcing a mass on behalf of...

pardonable blunder committed by the parties who had the charge of the recent negotiations with the French Post-office. It appears that Mr. -HENRY FREELING did not ascertain the...

His Majesty's Ship Buffalo, fitted up at Portsmouth expressly for taking emigrants to the new colony of South Australia, sailed from St. Helen's on Wednesday last. This large...

the Agricultural Committee being brought up, ( Thursday, July 21,) took occasion to boast of the effective aid he gave to Ministers in the discussions on the Poor-law Bill in...

Cal- vinistic Methodists, was indicted for administering to Catherine Ed- wards a decoction to procure abortion. The prisoner read to the Jury an eloquent appeal, in the Welsh...

in our summary of foreign news, bad many attached friends in England. From one of them we have received this testi- monial of his virtues and tribute of affection to his...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The financial proceedings of the week have afforded an instructive comment upon the recent measure of the Bank Directors, by which the rate of...

THURSDAY was a day of great interest to the lovers of cathedral music. It had long been the wish of some ardent admirers of the genius of HENRY PURCELL, to celebrate his memory...

A EEW weeks' secession from theatricals, superinduced by the dearth of novelties of any mark or likelihood, having improved our languid appe- tite for playgoicg, we cast about...

The Premier, from Madras to London, was destroyed by fire at Ascension, on the 30th May. Arrived—At Gravesend, July 28th, Bombay, Routh. from China ; and 29th, William, Clark,...

TO THE EDITOR Of THE SPECTATOR. Freemen. Mr. Hodgson, the Tory, polled 949 Captain Blacken, the Liberal 468 Majority of Freemen 481 for the Tory: Hodgson won the election by...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Cross, Somerset. SIR-During an important survey in which I have been engaged in the West of England, I spent a Sunday at the village of Cross....

THE SPECTATOR AND ITS READERS. THE conductors of an independent political journal have peculiar means of ascertaining the bent of the public mind. It is their business, if...

THE policy of LYNDHURST is that of the French Doctrinaires. To repress the Movement is the aim of both. The Tory Ex-Chan- eellor never loses an opportunity of avowing his...

AN examination" of the Pluralities and Non-residence Bill has satisfied us that it does not contain a single provision calculated to effect a substantial reform of the abuses,...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL has had small success in his attempt to lay upon Mr. HUME'S shoulders a share of the blame which attaches to the supporters of the Established Church Bill. Ile...

THE Standard sneers at the Dissenters for complaining that their particular and exclusive grievance of Church-rates has not been removed. The Marriage and Registration Bills,...

the House of Commons, that the Record Commission is, as far as can be ascertained, in debt to the amount of 24,000/. The Committee there- fore recommend that the amount of this...

CONSIDERABLE ingenuity has been exercised by Ministers to give the Tory minority in our towns an undue weight. It is proposed that the number of Charitable Trustees, under the...

THESE volumes contain as complete and finished a picture of the outward forms of a city, and of the manners and habits of its citizens, as we ever met with. The most striking...

TWITS—MANNERS AND CUSTOM, Madrid in 1833: Sketches or Spain and its Inhabitants, and of Society and Manners iu the Peninsula. By a Resident Officer. In 2 cols Saunders and...

So far as information is concerned, the chief value of these volumes consists in their bringing to a focus the facts which have hitherto been scattered in various publications,...

IN nature all rare and precious things seem to be the result of many efforts, the majority of which wholly fail, or only partially succeed. Countless pearls are too misformed to...

RAILROAD SCENERY. NOT the least interesting feature of railroad locomotion to the traveller, will be the new and striking features of the picturesque that will be disclosed in...

Miss LANDON here presents herself in the new light of a writer of juvenile literature. Her object has been " rather to interest than amuse—to excite the imagination through the...

THOUGH partaking more of the nature of annals than history, Mr. GILBART'S History of Banking in Ireland is a useful hook, for those who are anxious for practical information...