A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 8TH, 1831. WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? The Bill is rejected—for the present. The King, the Ministers, and the People, have determined upon a Reform ; but......

English National Guard.

At a numerous meeting of rate-payers of St. Marylebone, it has been unanimously agreed, in the event of the Lords rejecting the Reform Bill, that the householders should go in a......

Election Wagers.

At the Dorsetshire election, in the course of Saturday, the vote of A clergyman, named England, tendered for Lord Ashley, Nra 8 rejected on the ground that he had made a bet of......

Gramophone Notes

The Human Voice SOME time ago a series of discs were published of English authors reading from their own works. They were deplor- able : apart from the reproduction being......

Poetry

This Machine Age [" Twenty thousand swallows were carried free at noon to-day to Venice by the Austrian Air Transport Company, lodged in cases specially constructed by the......

The Theatre

s Elizabeth of England.' Adapted by Ashley Dukes from the German of Ferdinand Bruckner. At the Cambridge Theatre. Tuis play is called " a legend in twelve scenes "—by Mr. Ashley......