mittee to report on the Government plan for the abolition of slavery. There will be considerable opposition to several portions of it, especially the compensation clause. In...

THE insurrection in the North of Spain is, for the present, all but suppressed. The Queen's troops entered Vittoria on the 22d, and Bilboa on the 26th of last month. The Duke of...

for a speedy termination of the contest. Don PEDRO gains no ground in the interior, and succeeds principally in disgusting his daughter's best friends in the capital. M....

Spanish affairs ; but do not contain a single fact of in- terest relative to their own country.

relative to the navigation of the Meuse through Maestricht, and the relief of the garrison at that place, by the Dutch and Belgian Governments. The Belgian negotiators appear to...

speculation, as to the affairs in the East. It is said that the partition of Turkey was resolved upon at the late conference at Munchengratz ; that Russia and Austria are to be...

their actions, we should say that his Majesty's Ministers were leagued with Mr. O'CONNELL, to perpetuate agitation and carry the Repeal of the Union. The plain and natural...

and proprietors of the True Sun for a libel, appeared in the Court of Ex- chequer, on Monday, to conduct his cause in person. It was tried be- fore Lord Lyndhurst and a Common...

A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, very nume- rously attended, at which the Lord Mayor presided. A vote of thanks to Sir Peter Laurie was put and carried, after an...

THE King and Queen remain at Brighton, in the enjoyment of excel- lent health; the Queen having perfectly recovered from her late indis- position. Her Majesty walks occasionally...

John Bankes, the Member for Dorsetshire, and Thomas Flowers, a private in the Guards, were tried on the charge brought against them some months ago at the Queen Square...

against Lord Chancellor Brougham, for false imprisonment! was tried in this Court. Mr. Platt and three other counsel were retained for the plain- tiff; Sir John Campbell and Mr....

Mrs. Jennings, a widow lady brought an action against a Mr. Blacks burne, for a quarter's rent of a furnished house in Regent Street, let at 4401. per annum. The defence was,...

name of Morton, was tried at the Old Bailey Sessions, for stealing ten bills of exchange for 500/. each from Mr. Francis Dugdale Astley. The circumstances of the case were much...

cant leave no doubt that an attempt to escape was contemplated by the pri- soners under sentence of death, and who were reprieved the other day by the King, at a Privy Council...

lload, Poplar, were thrown into a state el great dismay on Friday last, by the receipt of a letter from Mr. William Mills, one of the sons of the above gen. demur', who lately...

a fit of insanity, at his house in Sydney's Alley, on Tuesday last. On the same day, Sarah Lee a gold-lace embroiderer, who lived in Watt's Place, Regent Street, cut her...

The approaching vacancy for the borough of Leeds has set all par- ties in motion. Mr. M. T. Sadler is, of course, the favourite with the Tories. Mr. Joshua Bower of Hamlet, is...

Flitton, of Bassingbourne, Cambridgeshire, was set fire to, and destroyed. On Saturday sennight, a haulm stack, the property of Mr. Flitton, of Bassingbourne, Cambridgeshire,...

;_ and there was every appearance that it would be interred with due religious cere- mony. A discovery, however, took place, that it had been conveyed to - the Anatomy Schools....

The Society for the abolition of Church Patronage held a meeting on Tuesday last, at the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, fur the purpose of petitioning both House of Parliament for...

A meeting of the united parishes of St. Michael and St. John was held in Dublin on Thursday week, for the purpose of getting up peti- tions for Repeal and the extinction of...

SATURDAY NIGHT. Complaints of the conduct of the British officers belonging to the squadron now off Lisbon have of late been frequent. They scent to be a set of determined...

The Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Carlisle, and Sir Robert Peel, are all named for the office of Chancellor of the University of Oxford, upon the decease of Lord Grenville,...

the trial, on criminal information, of the printer and proprietors of the True Sun, for sundry libels upon Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Briggs. The defendants were found Guilty.

BIRTHS. Os the 27th ult., at Hanover, the Dutehess of Cestaninoc, of a daughter. On the 3rd inst., at Pimlico Lodge, Mrs. Join( 1.wrrsom Er.mor, of a son. On the 1st must.,...

This Society dined together in the Albion Tavern on Wednesday last ; Mr. M'Kenzie Simpson in the chair, and Captain Shepherd, H. E. I. C. S. Crou- pier. Mr. Simpson was...

the Bank Directors, of the " Average state of the Bank Accounts, for the three months preceding each of the undermentioned months, from April 1832 to December 1833 inclusive."...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The present has been rather a busy week here. The closing of the books of the various Stocks previous to the Dividends, which took place in...

interview, by appointment, with Lord Brougham, for the purpose of presenting the petition of their body, praying his Lordship to take into consideration the law of libel as it...

LANDOWNERS. AT a meeting of the Conservative Club, held last week at Colchester, Mr. ALEXANDER BARING edified the squires and fairness present with the following observations....

THE influence of the Dissenters, which the Reform Act greatly augmented by the enfranchisement of those large towns and districts where they are most numerous, will probably be...

LUCKY TOM MACAULAY—GOVERNMENT WITHOUT PATRONAGE. MR. THOMAS BA.BINGTON MACAULAY has brought his flash speeches in the House of Commons, his essays in the Edinburgh .Review, and...

THE appearance of old Lord ELDON in the Court of Exchequer, as a witness in the absurd cc:ion brought against Lord BROUGHAM by the notorious DICAS, is a notable incident. The...

TRIAL by Jury has not risen in our estimation this week. We say nothing of the notorious and unmentionable case—but what a silly set of creatures they must have been who tried...

IN the Leeds Mercury of Saturday last, we find some remarks upon an article on the state of trade, which appeared in the Spec- tator of this day fortnight. The Mercury says- "...

FEW Englishmen, in time of peace, trouble their heads about Malta. We suspect that Mr. STANLEY shares the general igno- rance and indifference ; and that his Under-Secretary,...

not very profit- ably, occupied during the whole of Monday last, with an animated discussion of the meaning of the word "Fudge !" The speech of the leading orator was throughout...

St Nicholas, Warwick, to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, for suffering Dr. Wade to be a non-resident at his living at Warwick."—Morning Herald. We are surprised at this....

RELIGION used to be the great encourager of the Fine Arts ; but since idol worship has ceased in this country, and the aid of painting, in the splendours of decoration, has been...

barristers and attornies, as to the propriety of attornies being allowed to plead as advocates in the Sheriff's New Courts; and it is announced that the Bar have signified their...

and bar- risters upon the "way they do business at Clerkenwell," and es- pecially upon certain blunders in bills of indictment, the Morning Herald makes the following remarks....

the editor of the Morning Chronicle with the crime of instigating Ministers to remove him by assassination. This morning, our contemporary, with amusing solemnity, asseverates...