THE Parliamentary week was opened auspiciously, by the second reading of the Irish Municipal Bill without a division. The Tories profess unabated hostility to the principle of...

for the French army at and near Algiers. Marshal CLauset. bad taken a fortress called Tremesen, on the Barbary coast, and left a garrison in it ; but on his return to Oran, he...

GUIZOT is supposed to have no inclination for a conflict in debate with TRIERS; while ODILLON BARROT and SAUZET are at least equal to any of the second-rate orators of the...

Ministers, who are also unpopular with the Cortes and incapable in the Council ; so their speedy downfal is anticipated. CAM- POs, the Finance Minister, has met with little...

national property and the reduction of debt. It seems to have given much satisfaction, and restored his popularity, which had lately been rather on the wane. The property is to...

King of England's offer to mediate between France and Arne- riea has been accepted ; and all idea of war is given up by the mercantile community,—although some of the Jackson...

command of the Austrian General VON TRAUENSTEINBERG, took possession of the city and territory of Cracow on the 17th of February, to enforce, as the General declares in a...

1. REFORM OF THE IRISH CORPORATIONS. Several petitions were presented to the House of Commons, on Monday, for and against the Ministerial bill for amending the collar)• rate...

A meeting of the Court of Common Council was held on Wednes- day, and a petition to both Houses of Parliament adopted, for the re- peal of so much of the Act of the 9th George...

TI 1E King arrived at St. James's Palace, from Windsor, on Wednes- day afternoon : the Dutchess of Gloucester was at the Palace to re- ceive him. Soon after his arrival, the...

owners interested in the East India trade, met together at the City of London Tavern, and formed an association for the protection of the trade. It was determined to use every...

rary and Scientific Institution, was held on Wednesday evening, in the theatre of their house in Aldersgate Street ; IV. G. Prescott, Esq., in the chair. The report of the...

at the late registration, as to have, according to a careful canvass of the voters, a clear majority of more than a hundred votes in favour of a Liberal candidate ; so that Mr....

were tried on a charge of shooting at and wounding Lord Exeter's gamekeeper, in one of his preserves near Stamford. The evidence was sufficient to prove the charge ; but the...

The new Town-Council of Leeds have discovered that the old Cor- poration, on the SOth of May last, (six days before the Municipal Bill was brought forward,) " absolutely...

the original correspondence of the Orange chiefs, some of which are very curious, and prove that the disloyal designs which have been imputed to certain members of the body were...

; • and Dr. Longley, Head Master of Harrow School, and son-in-law of Sir Henry Parnell, is to succeed to the Bishopric of Chichester. For both these appoint. moos, but more...

Convo- cation held a tneetiog at Oxford on the 24th ultimo, and adopted a re- quisition to the Vice- Chancellor of the University, praying him to coavene a meeting . of the...

Mr. Speirs having resigned the representation of Paisley, Mr. Archibald Hastie, of West Street, Finsbury, a highly-respected mer- chant, and a determined supporter of Lord...

resign his seat for Kildare, and that a writ for a new election will be applied for within a few days. There are already two Whig candidates, Mr. Frederick Ponsonby,...

In consequence of the recent proceedings in Parliament for the sup - pression of Orangeism, the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Bandon, the Marquises of Ely and Thomond, Colonels...

SATURDAY NIGHT. The Times of this morning comes within a step of placing the Irish Municipal Bill in its most favourable light. Let us help hint to a per- fectly clear view of...

we give a copy, to the Orange Lodges of England and Scotland, recommending them to follow his example and dissolve the Orange Institution. "TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LOYAL ORANGE...

of York and John Pixie) left the Thames in the course of last week ; and we understand the Commissioners are fitting out two other vessels, the Cygnet and Rapid, for the...

The Committee has prohibited the publication of the evidence ; but it can scarcely be considered a breach of this order to state the fact, that not a shadow of a shade of...

by the Way, have been figuring lately in the columns of the Times, and very nearly fought a duel. The quarrel began in a remark on some of Captain Marryat's writings, which...

of the proceed- ings of the Dublin Election Committee during the past week, they are of a most extraordinary character. One of the reported decisions attaches a penal...

Arrived—At Bristol, March 3d, Elizabeth, Cuncly, from Mauritius. Sailed—From Gravesend, Feb. 27th, Princess Victoria, Marshall, for China ; and Glory. Gaynor, for the Cape;...

STOCK ExcilANOR, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Consol Market has shown symptoms of heaviness, without experiencing any material decline; for although the quotations of to-day are lower...

com- menced on Tuesday, and closed yesterday afternoon. The quan- tity offered for sale was 4,000,000 lbs. ; consisting of the following variety,-600,000 lbs. of Bohea,...

and on the first night of his appearance he took occasion to address the audience on the injustice and injury inflicted on him in the matter of the Strand Theatre. The Lord...

THE third concert was on Monday last ; and it wss, taken as a whole, the best concert of the season. This was the scheme- s. Coronation Anthem. " MA heart is iuditiug" 2. Glee,...

THE principal novelty of the week has been the chivalric spectacle of Chevy Chase, at Drury Lime; which is described as surpassing the Jewess in splendour, though it lacks the...

re- preksezion of JERROLD'S pretty little piece The Schoolfellows, originally Tile Adelphi entertainments have been varied this week by the re- preksezion of JERROLD'S pretty...

Theatre opens to.night, with La Straniera ; in which Mademoiselle COLEONI- CORTI, mud it new basso, Signor CARTAGENOVA, both front Milan, will appear, with Wix - rea, the tenor...

indispo- sition, reappeared at the Olympic on Thursday, in a new burletta, (adapted from the French, it is said, by Havees BAYLY,) called Forty and Fifty,-we suppose from the...

always including Ireland, a stepinothen—noverca, niaratre,madrasta,— land to bestow good gov y ernment on these mi sruled provinces, that the contest for good government here...

THE rage of the Ultra-Tory clique at Oxford, and of their London organ the Standard, at the refusal of the " Dons " to sanction the attacks on Dr. HAMPDEN, is very ludicrous....

SINCE the discussion of this subject in last week's Spectator, an additional way of saving time has presented itself for considera- tion. Is there any real necessity for...

Tile Attorney-General's Bill " for the more effectual Registration or persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members t9 serve in Parliament for England and Wales," will do...

of a house situated in the street of Mercury- The exterior is not remarkable, though it has some paintings of Narcissus and Endyinion ; but the house contained four vases of...

TO TUE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Wooler's dill, Pershore. 15th February 1836. SIR—Your readers are indebted to you for the manner in which you have fre- quently called their...

'the Civil War In Portugal. and the Siege or Oporto. fly a British Officer of Hus- sars, mho served in the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War ..... Mozart. FICTION, The...

THIS volume is rather a narrative than a history: a lively account of a series of events that fell under the gallant author's own ob- servation, or concerning which he was well...

IF this novel was really written by Lady CHARLOTTE BURY, it is a considerable improvement upon her former productions. There is indeed no invention in the story, and very little...

THE poems in the second and concluding volume of this judicious selection are not so long, or perhaps so weighty, as those in the first ; nor are the authors as a body...

popular of his little books, both with the juvenile reader and the teacher ; for besides the exciting nature of the subject, the clear, forcible, and lively manner in which...

the family, political opinions, and influence of every Member of the Lower House: it is rather larger than the Parliamentary Companion, but does not contain half the matter of...

the Scriptures in all that relates to the history, natural produc- tions, and climate of Eastern countries, and the habits, customs, manners, dress, and peculiarities of the...

On the character of Professor Ewsen's most elaborate He- brew Grammar, which has passed through three editions, or rather undergone three successive transmutations, gaining in-...

Knight of the Hierring Dragon, is of course an imita- tion of the original Quixote. It is also without doubt intended to be humorous; but, after looking through the volume, we...

THERE seems to have been a sort of Lenten pause in the activity which characterized our friends the publishers a few weeks since : nevertheless, we see spread out, of all sizes...

Profane History. In the three earliest copies of the old Testa- ment, there is an extraordinary chronological difference; and what is equally singular, the differences are...

upon the memory of the little learner the elementary rules of grammar—for only the parterre of Etymology, to adopt the meta- phor of the title, is entered upon—by enlisting the...

that showed his talent in design—has been engraved in mezzotint by EGAN. Two French girls have brought their offerings to the Virgin : one, a simple peasant girl, lays a posy at...

field of political and social improvement, has commenced a cheap weekly paper of a politico-literary kind, called The London Journal; not in rivalry of LEIGH Hu NT . S,—for...

Marquis of WESTMINSTER — has been engraved in line, or rather etched, by F. C. LEWIS, with a clear brightness of effect that trans- mits vividly the glowing brilliancy of the...

the least felicitous of the designs of EDMONSTONE, — an artist lately deceased, of modest pretensions, but of sterling merit, though of a humble order. There is no offence in...

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THE THREE CARACCI. THE Drawings of LEDOVICO, AGOSTINO, and ANNIBALE CARACCI, twenty - five of each of the two first and fifty of the last, form the sixth...

through his letters; for even if the child could not comprehend the ideas embodied, the images are so ludicrously intelligible, that they cannot fail to strike the fancy. The...

JOHN LEWIS'S clever and characteristic picture of " Highland 'Hospitality" has been engraved in mezzotint, with fidelity and spirit, by GILLER. The subject is agreeable, and it...

son ALFRED; who has engraved the two last of his father's pictorial imaginings with great !den ty, smoothness, and force. The effect is evidently true to the originals ; for it...

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