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The King of France has reinstated the :Njoins .gintiitty and
The Spectatordissolved the Chambers. This proceeants is Otlind important. The Opposition journals reprtigeot 1'-a 'indsteli( desire to follow the example of CHARLES the Tenth ; as there is...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorQrBEN VICTORIA 01)0110(1 the session of Parliament on Tuesday. The contents of the Royal Speech were less remarkable than its omissions. "Foreign powers," her Majesty was...
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The accounts from Brussels indicate a troubled state of affairs.
The SpectatorThe Ministers of Justice and Finance have sent in their resigna- tions ; the Austrian and Prussian Envoys have demanded and re- ceived their passports ; and the Chambers have...
Debates alit protratings in iparliantcnt.
The SpectatorOPENING OF THE SESSION. THE second session of Queen Victoria ' s first Parliament commenced on Tuesday til'.25th instant. The attendance of Lords, and of Peeresses both in the...
The King of Wurtemburg opened the session of his States - Ge-
The Spectatorneral on the 1st instant. He announced that the flivourable condi- tion of ' his finances enabled him to make a considerable reduction of taxation. Is there another King or...
An arrival from Havannah brings intelligence from Vera Cruz. The
The SpectatorI\ lexican Government refused to ratify the treaty between their General RiNcox and the French Admiral IlAtiviN ; but sent SANTA ANNA to take the chief command at Vera Cruz....
Late accounts from New York mention, that a party of
The Spectatorfifteen or twenty armed Americans, belonging to Alburg in Vermont, had crossed the frontiers into Lower Canada, and, after turning the in- mates of several houses into the snow,...
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trlit _Metropolis.
The SpectatorThe City Remembrancer has transmitted to the Lords of the Treasury a statement made by direction of the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee, in reply to Mr. Baring's...
The Finsbury Reform Club will hold their anniversary dinner on
The SpectatorMonday next. Both the Members, 3Ir. Wakley and Mr. Duncombe, have been invited, and will attend. Anti-Corn-law meetings have been held this week in the boroughs of Lambeth, the...
The Delegates of the " National Convention" assemblim in the
The Spectatorroom of the Lumber Troop. Bolt Court. Their business has been chiefly preliminary—relatin g to the appointment of committees, the admission of stran g ans to their meetin g s,...
Z.71n court.
The SpectatorTint Queen held a Court and Privy Council on Monday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Speech to be delivered at the opening of Parliament was finally settled ; and her...
REFORMING MINORITY FOR MIL DENCOMBE'S AMENDMENT.
The SpectatorAlt wood. T. Duckworth, S. IS irmil, II. AN', Ihtke Sir J. Blake, 31. J. Thuolas, t!. NV. D. Blew's% 11. J. Easthope, J. 'Suakin, J. J. Et wols, it. BrioLesuan, II, ii a,...
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ECIIiinco us. There is a rumour that the Dutchess of
The SpectatorSutherland has resi g ned the office of Mistress of the Robes to the Queen. The Mar v is of Waterford is much indisposed at Limmer's Hotel. Earl Grey met with an accident on...
One of the collectors of rates in the parish of
The SpectatorIslin g ton has absconded with a considerable sum of money belon g in g to the parish. A reward for his apprehension is advertised. On Monday mornin g , a hostile meetin g took...
Mr. Ewart is to be the Liberal candidate for Liverpool
The Spectatorin the event of the vacancy likely to be caused there by Mr. Cresswell's acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Globe. [ Mr. Ewart says that he did not au- thorize the insertion...
Tbe 33r obirars.
The SpectatorThe Birmin g ham Anti-Corn-law 'ommittee, thou g h defeated by the Chartists at the meeting in the Town- hall, very properly persevered in offerin:x Ilse inhabitants an...
In the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Charles Sandys Parker
The Spectatorpleaded g uilty to a char g e of attemptin g to defraud .ptessrs. Martin, Stone, and Company, by for g in g the acceptances of Messrs. l:roadwood and Company, pianoforte-makers....
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It is said that Lord Howlett( is to succeed Lord
The SpectatorLENELG. Very wilt: we shall now have a Colonial Minister ousts usable for the neglects and misdeed, of his department. That will be all the change. For during Lord Gnsassuat's...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. bast night's proceedings in the House of Lords possess considerable interest. Lord GLENELG having informed Lord BROUUHAM that all Order in Council had been sent out...
SA [CR 'LAY NIGHT.
The SpectatorThe inteSt rumours this evening give the Colonial t inlet , to Lord NOR- StANItY, Send Lerd Dritii M to Ireland-- Issedl Ii rd CLARENDON from Sladrid, to .-aweeed Lord sass-make...
There Wil:t a capital Anti-Corn-law meeting at Hull on Thursday.
The SpectatorThe CllartISI folk/Wed the sound advice of colonel Thompson, and moved no amendment. I I Co l one l ...'sonipsun and the 17.1a3-er Si. re elected Delesetes from Hull to the...
The Tory papers make severe remarks upon the intrigue in
The Spectatorthe Cabinet fur Lord Gra...sto's expulsion-the perfidy and shabby cow:It - dice with which thwy plotted their collezig■te's destruction behinti his I n k. anti withheld all...
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The SpectatorIn justice to Sir Joint Scow LmmE, we call attention to a very courteous and temperate Letter from that g entleman, inserted at page Sir Ions explains, thinthe report on mach...
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ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATION.
The SpectatorOn Ilfonday 4th February, the following gentlemen met as Delegates appointed to watch the Parliamentary proceedings relative to the Corn- laws. From Manchester, 'Messrs. J. B....
EAST INDIA 'SHIPPING.
The SpectatorThe Dunlop, from eteereoet to 5■.11■..y, was totally wrecked in Table Bay, Cape or Good !lope, on Ow 28th I Noy. CreW ;1E4 1 , 1...l1.1.01's saved. Arched—At Deal, 7th,...
It is understood that Lord CLENELC1 will claim the vacant
The Spectatorretiring pension of 2,000/. a year, of which pension a limited number is fixed by statute as a provision for superannuated Cabinet Ministers of a given term of service. His...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRI.L1V APTERNOIN. Considerable uneasiness and a tendency to depression were manifested in the English Stock Market at the beginning of the week. Consols were...
Letters from Carlow state that Mr. T. Gtsnonxe; will walk
The Spectatorover the course for that borough, if a vacancy be made by the promotion of Mr. 314uts: to the Bench.
Tim T HEATRES.
The SpectatorTHE St. James's has at last found a lessee, in Mr. Hoorm ; who comes from it good school, (the Olympie,) and whose managerial tact is shown in providing "a forest of wild...
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At Covent Garden, King Lear, with the text of SITAKSPERE
The Spectatorrestored, was played on illowlay, 'with the same powerful cast and picturesque groupings that made its representation Sc) effective last season : it is tomminced tbr every...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE DIVISION ON MR. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION TO AMEND THE REFORM ACT. SHOULD the professing Liberals who voted against Mr. DrNeosint's Amendment be hereafter the objects of popular...
HOPACE SMITH'S last novel has furnished the subject of a
The Spectatordomestic tra:ydy at the Adelphi, of which Mrs. YeTes is the heroine, Jane Lwoo.e. The principal incidents of the story are strung together in a ine,igre and disjointel manner,...
BT. AG R E'S QUARTET CONCERTS.
The SpectatorTne first gentle undulation of the musical tide has just appeared—first it the Quartet party of which Moat is the head, and now in that of BLe- leso . s.. March will increase...
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LORI) DURHAM'S REPORT ON THE AFFAIRS OF BRITISH NORTII AMERICA
The SpectatorIs, without any exception, the most interesting state-paper that we ever saw ; and vill prove, we venture to predict, scarcely less ins portant in its consequences. The High...
CORN-LINV AGITATION.
The SpectatorTHE gentlemen delegated from Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and other populous seats of manufactures to watch the progress of the Corn-law question in Parliament, have...
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DON'T I1URT IIIM.
The SpectatorNowise with a particle of natural benevolence but looks forward with feelings of painful interest to the session of Parliament which has just commenced, as that in which the...
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TO rue EDITOR OF TUE SPECTATOR.
The SpectatorKensington ( iv, 7th February 189. Sin—Having perceived my conduct rather severeiy. animadverted on in your paper of Sunday last, for the part I recently took in the removal of...
LORD BROUGHAM'S DISSERTATIONS ON SUBJECTS or SCIENCE CONNECTED 'WITH NATURAL
The SpectatorTHEOLOGY. WHEN we look round upon nature or art, it is a puzzling pan of Lord Ilium/awes main topic, the Origin of Evil, to think how much perishes to enable some favoured...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorPHILOSOPHICAL Qessrrotts, Fierrotz, Dissertations on Stibjeets of Science connected with Natural Theolea concluding Volumes of the New 'Edition of Paley's Work. By Henry 1,...
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TUE PRINCE AND TUE PEDLAR.
The SpectatorTHE scene of this fiction is laid at Bristol and its vicinity, at the time of its first capture and subsequent defence by RUPERT. The story turns upon the love of Roland Eden a...
HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL.
The SpectatorTHE facility of punning which this writer posse.ses, if at first advan- tageous to his popularity, has been injurious Jo Ids &me ; many people, attracted by his verbal jingles...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBOUND BOOKS. : a History of Upper and Lower California, from their first discovery to the present time ; comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions,...