Tns two nights of' Parliament this week have brought forth four practical measures. First in importance is the Government bill for amending the Irish Parliamentary franchise. In...

Easter recess presents few deeds for remark. Everybody might have known that the announcements of the Queen's Speech could not be meant to apply to the first half of the...

satisfactory aspect which they have of late assumed : on the year, there is a cansiderable increase in the two chief items, Customs anti Excise ; and on the quarter, there is an...

is peaceful. Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S unpopularity is waning; an effect of his unquestioned zeal, and still more of his personal kind- ness to the soldiery. In China, all on the...

IRISH PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord ELIOT rose to move for leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the laws which regulate...

say why ; but the smouldering volcano casts up smoke, and who knows what may follow. Actual information is of the obscurest. There has been disturbance at Cocenza in Calabria,...

THE circle at Court has received an important accession in the King of the Belgians. His Majesty left Ostend at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, in the Princess Alice steamer ;...

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the despatch of busi- ness. A petition was presented from Mr. D ivid Williams Wire, setting forth that he was practising as a...

The weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Monday ; Mr. Smith O'Brien in the chair. Mr. O'Connell, who had arrived in Dublin on Friday, was present ; and he began...

The official declaration of the poll at Hastings took place on Satur- day; when the Mayor announced the numbers to be—For Brisco, 513; Moore, 174; majority for Brisco, 339. Mr....

FRANCE.—At Paris, on Thursday 28th March, the Princess of Saxe Coburg (Princess Clementine of Orleans) gave birth to a son. In the evening, the Archbishop of Paris christened...

A public meeting, called by the Lord Provost and Town-Council of Edinburgh, was held at the Music Hall, on Friday, to pass resolutions condenming the sentence of death passed by...

A Supplement to Saturday's Gazette announced that the Queen will hold a drawing-room on Thursday the 18th instant, and also on Thurs- day the 25th, to celebrate her Majesty's...

Even should Lord Abinger ' s illness not prove fatal immediately, it is believed that the Government must appoint his successor—Sir Frederick Pollock. Sur William Follett will...

he is ex- pected to return to town next Thursday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer remains in town during the Easter recess.

new Irish Registration Bill. " At a meeting of the Committee of the Loyal National Repeal Associa- tion of Ireland, held at the Corn Exchange Rooms, Thursday 4th April 1844,...

Bury St. Edmund ' s this morning, state, that although at intervals be ap- peared somewhat conscious of what was passing, he had not in the least rallied, but on the contrary...

SATURDAY NIGHT. All the journals today are deficient in political news ; the great Times itself being filled up with long extracts from several Parliamen- tary papers and such...

Honourable John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, now Secretory to the Embassy at St. Petersburg, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of all the...

ARRIVED.—Ofr Falmouth, 1st instant. Speed, Wheelwright, front Mauritius. At Bristol. 1st. I udian, Mackey. horn Mauritius; and 3t1, Eagle. Sewell. from Chi tut. or Liverpool....

BIRTHS. - Ora the 18th March. at Rome, in the Palauo Lozzano, the Lady of CHARLES limn Eq., of a son and heir. . 011 the 26t1r, at Lynn Regis, Dorset, the Wre of Major MASTER,...

some days back, to the anxiety and consternation of those who had friends in the immortal city, it was with great satisfaction that we this day received letters from Rome of the...

29th March, mentions a bold and delicate undertaking- ". The Literary Society of Madrid propose to publish the life of the Queen Dowager, Christina of Bourbon. Toe edition will...

SPECTATOR. A new club-house is to be beat, or a new public building erected !—thcae are events which often happen iu our days. It is then a question of no little in- terest...

standing Committee, to examine the New Tariff Bill; which was generally ap- proved. At the public sitting that followed, M. Chapins Montlaville developed a proposition for the...

This marvellous exhibition is again open, with a new illusory picture— Interior of the Abbey Church of St. Omen, at Rouen. That beautiful church is remarkable for its lofty...

STOCK EXCHANGE. THURSDAY arrsaetooti. The public, as we anticipated, are becoming every day more desirous of in- vesting money in Terminable Annuities ; and the...

EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 26th March 1844. SIR-In the article entitled "Legislative Interference with the Hours of Labour," which appears in your parer of the 23d, the...

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th April 1843 and 1844, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED 5th...

Tim Income-tax produces 5,356,887/.; which shows, says the Morning Chronicle, " that the whole of the incomes of 1501. and upwards, the limit of the tax, amount to something...

EASTER. EASTER has come once more ; and still finds the world alive, in spite of the prophets who are continually predicting its last day. Still the world goes on, and in many...

MIL SENIOR must have the toothache : not only had the dentifrice been so liberally applied that the gilt was rubbed off some days ago, but the tooth itself decays—the very...

UNFORTUNATELY, the time has gone past when a sonorous Greek or Latin quotation was received in the House of Commons as a conclusive argument. Were Sir ROBERT INGLIS, as...

IN a series of letters on Criminal Jurisprudence, by Mr. M. B. Sampson, printed in the Spectator two or three years back, our readers were startled by an assertion, supported by...

Ona attention has been called to the following statement in the Scottish Episcopal Times, a journal which we are not otherwise acquainted with. A. boy of six•een years of age,...

REGARD to appearances is a part of taste : as taste advances, men become more careful in bringing their looks, gestures, and habili- ments into accordance with the business they...

'GEORGE Ruxnvert, the Bow Street runner, has, like other greater men, been called to his account. GEORGE had kept a tap in Chandos Street, Covent Garden, since 1839; and now...

Uric-Haar Herron?, Cardinal De Beta. A Literary Curiosity. From the Ori g inal Memoirs, by the Author of " The Maid's Husband" and "The Smiths." Newby. TRAVELS. The Three...

FROM ARISTOTLE to BACON, natural philosophy was pursued by books and brain-spinning, instead of observation and experiment. The truths originally collected by the great Grecian,...

third edition of a work of established reputation, comes before the public with some features of novelty: it has been recomposed by the author, who has incorporated in the...

From March 29th to April 4th. BOOKS. The Twins; a Domestic Novel, &c. Heart ; a Social Novel, &c. By MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Author of "Proverbial Philosophy." In two...

Tuesday, April 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Youug and Co. Limehouse, sail-makers-Hull and Whittaker, AruGeld. Cheahire, griuders-Alliott and Sharp. Nottingham drapers-Walker and...

WAR-OFFICE. April 5.-2d Regt. of Life Guards-R. B. Ilesketh, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Montgomery. whose appointment has been caucelled. 24...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closiug Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday Wedges. 3 per Cent. Consols 981 991 991 991 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 34 per Ceuta. Reduced shut shut...