at this landing-place in the session, it naturally occurs Parliament and Ministers are now enjoying their Easter rest. Arrived at this landing-place in the session, it naturally...

THE novelty of the parliament is Lord Morpeth's Sana- tory Reform Bill. It proposes to establish a central Commission, to be called the Board of Health and Public Works;...

On Tuesday, Lord lifoitra-ra moved for leave to bring in a bill for im- proving the Health of Towns. He glanced at the progress of investigation on the subject of sanatory...

In the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Duvergier de Hauranne has proposed a very moderate measure, slightly to enlarge and amend both the constituencies and the Chamber ; but as...

THE Queen held the first drawingroom this season on Saturday last, at St. James's Palace. Before the drawingroom, according to annual cus- tom, her Majesty received a deputation...

The Marylebone Vestry had a meeting on Saturday. The subject 06. the deficiency in the poor-rates was brought forward by Mr. Daniell— Although the rate made in 1846, amounting...

The Bedfordshire election took place on Monday; and Lord Charles Russell was returned without opposition, in the room of the late Mr. Astell. In returning thanks to the...

The certainty of the near approach of a searching poor-law, according to a letter from Loughtrea in the Ballinasloe Star, is beginning to be felt. The landlords of Kilrecele are...

FBANCE.—The chief event of the week has been the termination of the debate on electoral reform. M. Dnvergier de Haurann&s motion. was re- jected by a majority of 98. Several...

at the residence of the Marquis of Lansdowne; and the Cabinet Council was held at the same place on Tuesday. Lord Lansdowne is still confined to the house by gout. Mr. Lynch...

Edin- burgh on Wednesday evening. Mr. Edward Baines junior repeated his often-expressed objections to the measure; which obtained the concurrence of the meeting in the form of...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Writing on Thursday, the Dublin correspondent of the Times says that "there is considerable improvement in the reports respecting the progress of spring work....

the Cape which represent that Captain Gibson and Dr. Howell, of the Rifle Bri- gade, accompanied by the Honourable William Chetwynd, Seventy-third Regiment, went on an amateur...

" B. T." has mistaken what we addressed to him on the 20th of March. We said that if he would condense " the whole of his observations on the subject of Grand Juries Into one...

STOCK EXCHANaa, THURSDAY ArTERNooW. The appearance of the English Stock Market has undergone a complete change, and the prices during the week have declined more than 1 per...

have received a solution. The first active step was taken by General Oraa, who re- tired on the plea of indisposition. The Times furnishes a list of the new Spanish...

'FORTY-SEVEN AND 'FORTY-EIGHT. IT is now calculated by active members of Relief Committees, and the estimate is said to be admitted by Cabinet Ministers, that the Irish famine...

with Semiramide, and a strong cast, comprising old favourites and novelties. The visiters will scarcely recognize the building. Even as you approach it, outside, the...

At Her Majesty's Theatre, the last night of performance before Easter was appropriated to Verdi's Ernani. This opera had been performed two or three times, with very indifferent...

Two new views have just been completed. One is the interior of St. Mark's Cathedral at Venice. The manner in which the pictures are got up here is well known: to the resources...

the English Theatres is not very various. Drury Lane will have a spectacle; the principal performers of which will be the animals that have been already exhibited in procession...

THE very faulty and perverse working of our criminal law has just been illustrated by a curious case at the Liverpool Assizes. A Mrs. Johnson was accused of poisoning her...

A vseANCY has occurred in one of the senior Masterships in Chancery, by the retirement of Mr. Lynch; and it is rumoured that three or four additional resignations among the...

A NEWSPAPER has been established within these few years in Dublin, for the express purpose of elevating the Irish from their debased condition ; and poetry has been...

IT is not an uncommon practice when a troop of strolling actors or posture-masters enters a town, to make a tour of the place, in order to attract spectators for the evening by...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Lincoln's Inn, 27th March 1847. Sin—As Lord John Manners is proceeding with his bill for the partial repeal of the Mortmain-laws, and as his...

TRAVEL., Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China ; including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: with an Account of the Agriculture al d Hor-...

THOSE who are accustomed to regard public affairs with attention will recollect the name of Knibb, as that of a bold-faced Baptist mis- sionary in Jamaica, who was accused by...

THE object of this work is to present a succinct view of the history of the earth, so far as geology is as yet able to determine it ; to exhibit some of the more remarkable...

BOOKS. IAA of Henry the Fourth, King of France and Navarre. By G. P. R. James, Esq., Author of " The Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth," &c. In three volumes. The Unity...

SECOND PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. The concert on Monday last was, in consideration of the Holy Week, chiefly of a sacred character. The first part consisted of the Overture to the...

SUFFOLK STREET EXHIBITION. The Society of British Artists, now incorporated by Royal charter, opened its exhibition on Monday. On the whole, the collection appears to us to be...

WAS-orerce, March 30.-Royal Regt. of Horse Guards-Lieut. Lord A. F. C. G.Len- nox to be Capt. by purchase, vice the Hon. C. H. Cost, who retires; Comet Lord 0. Fitzgerald to be...

Tuesday, March 30. PARTIMESHIPS DISSOLVED. Aire and Calder, Bottle Company, London ' • as far as regards Whiterbottom-W. C. and J. Ealing, tentham, Norfolk-Hadley and Drake,...

On the 20th February, at Madras, the Lady of MajorG. A. Underwood, Superintend- ing Engineer, Presidency Division, Ma son. On. the 19th March, at Stockholm, the Wilt of George...

ARDIVED -At Gravesend, 26th March, W. S. Hamilton, Duggan, from Calcutta ; 28th, Marie, Laurie, from Mauritius ; 29th, Sea Gail, Langley, from Batavia; and Cressy, Monition,...

BRIT I Slf FUNDS. (Cloning Prices.) gaped. Monday. lluesdsq, Wesisrt, 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced It per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stack, 7 per...

• County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Kunnas "'ALYEA and JOSEPH CLAYTON, No. le, Crane Court, In the. Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London; and...

Copy of a Letter presented to Lord John Russell, with the accompanying Memorial. " 14, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, London, March 31, 1847. " My Lord—We have the honour to...

FOR THE WEEK ENDING N o. cr i SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1847. [GRATIS WITH THE WEEK'S SPECTATOR.

DURING THE LAST TWENTY-TWO YEARS. [From the Colonial Circular, issued bg the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, March 1847.] Australian United Colonies States. and...

we should recommend the legislative Government to seize upon for a period of twenty or thirty years, paying to the proprietors such rent as sworn valuators, taking the certainty...

affairs, and the Ministry certainly foresaw the coming calamity. Inquiries were made as to the substance that would be the best and cheapest substitute for the potato. In- dian...