10 MARCH 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tins week opened with preparations for the Parliamentary con- flict on Sir WLLLIAM MOLISWORTH'S motion on the Colonies. Ministers summoned a meeting of their friends at the...

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flebatrt anit Pruteettingit in Parliament. COLONIAL MISGOVERNMENT.

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The attendance of Members in the House of Commons on Tuesday was unusually numerous. It was an "order of the day" that the House should be "called over ;" but Sir WILLIAM...

The Continental intelligence, this week, is so insignificant as scarcely

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to require a line of notice. It consists almost entirely of contradictory reports of what the French Chambers may or may not do respecting the vote of secret service money, and...

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The numbers at the Alarylebone election, officially deci, .ed by

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the returning officer, and mentioned in our second edition last aa t k, were— for Lord Teignmoutb, 4,166; Mr. Ewart, 3,762; Cokla I Thomp- son, 186, A correspondence between...

trbr Court.

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LENT keeps the Court in a state of outward dulness. The Queen rides out generally in the morning, and has small dinner-parties in the evening. On Thursday, her Majesty held a...

C'bc Country.

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Sir Edward Filmer was elected Member for West Kent at Maidstone, on Monday. There was 110 opposition to the Tories. The election of a Member to serve in the room of Sir Gerard...

the aftctropoTitt.

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A meeting, numerously attended by the friends of religious liberty, was held on Wednesday at the City of London Tavern, to receive a Deputation from various bodies of Scottish...

Alderman Winchester, whose domestic calamities had deprived him of reason,

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died last night at the Asylum to which lie had been renam d. His death occasions a vac a icy in the ward of Vintry, of which he %las Alderman.—Globe. A fire was discovered...

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Sir Edward Codrington made a complaint in the House of

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Commons, on Monday , against the Spectator. He complained of a misrepresen- tation of his remarks on Lord Brougham's speech- " The mistake bad appeared in the 'Spectator...

Among the reasons which induced the Tories to shield Lord

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Glen- elg, and direct their sham attack against the Ministry as a body, was the personal esteem and friendship for the Colonial Secretary, enter- tamed by many members of the...

Dr. Lee has made over to the Astronomical Society, of

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which he is the Treasurer, the perpetual advowson of Hartwell, in Buckingham- shire. The Bury Town-Council have received the opinions of the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals,...

SCOTLAND.

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Sir Henry Parnell's constituents are not taking any notice of his ab- sence from the Ballot division; and in the mean while, Sir Henry is doing his best to keep the monied men...

A correspondence between the Bi i shop of Exeter and Lord Howick

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has appeared in the newspapers, relative to the opinions expressed by Lord Howick in Parliament on the Irish Church, and commented ea by the Bishop in his speech last week on...

Lord Brougham was elected Lord Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen,

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on Thursday. His competitors were Lord Lyndhurst and Mr. Colquhoun. The numbers were—for Brougham, 97; Lyndhurst, 84; Colquhoun, 84.

The Berwick fishermen have had no occasion to go to

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sea this week ; the fish, singular as the fact may seem, having actually come on shore to them--glad to take shelter, it is supposed, from the fury of the storm. We understand...

Mr. John Maurice Herbert, a barrister, has been appointed an

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Al- sistant Tithe Commissioner. Mr. William Cowper, Lord Melbourne's nephew and private secre- tary, was thrown from his horse on Thursday, while on his road to Buckingham...

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A correspondent, who has read the explanation in Colonel THUMP-,

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SON'S letter, of the manner in which the small number of Radical voters prevented the election of the IVItig. Radical candidate, suggests the following as a more simple method...

Then whip" for the division of Thursday was severe on

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both sides. The Tories, though eschewing foreign aid, determined to make a formidable demonstration of their own strength ; and that zealous cripple, Sir WATKIN WYNN, came down...

1 Four Members-..." a Radical quartett "—say the too facetious

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Minis. terial scribes, comprise the total number of those who were prepared to vote for the censure on Lord GLENELG. How has that point been ascertained ? We happen to know,...

POSTSCRI PT.

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SATURDAY. There was some amusing conversation in the House of Peers last n ight, which exhibited the hnowledyc and industry of Lord GLENELG, as Secretary for the Colonies, in a...

MONEY MARKET.

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srock EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The firm appearance which the Morley Market recently exhibited has ripe- rienced a change, and the promised rise in public Securities a check,...

nscessary to repeat IAAiCo. fiet i tumll) made that e will not

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be answer a ble for the safe ciemuly and return of unused 'Al a misciipts. Neither is it our p r slice to answer Coirespoudents. unless lit peculiar cases. These rules rcoco...

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EPIGRAM.

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The first VA E X failed, as gossips tell, And history records ; The second V.AU X succeeded well In blowing up the Lords. H. C.

CHARLES KEAN played Sir Giles Overreach on Saturday. We did

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not think it worth while to see the performance; feeling sure that, a an intellectual point of view, it would be nothing worth. That we were right in such anticipation, has been...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived--At Gravesend. March 5. Sir .1. Beresfordi Mitchell, from Singapore : 7th A mwell, Hesse. from Ma. rr i t Ms; George Canning. wian. from Ceylon ; and Aurora; ('oz. from...

Coriolanus is to be performed at Covent Garden on Monday,

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with* strong cast, and with the same care in the scenic effects as has dints. guished the representations of others of SHAESPEARE'S plays there. 4 POWER has made a jump from...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 27th ult., at Park Street, Grosvenor S q uare, the Lady of the lion. W. FRASER of a son. At Derwent Lodge, Keswick, the lion. Mrs. J. R. CURZON. of a daughter....

THE THEATRES.

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A YOREMNEft might arrive at a pretty correct estimate of the musical taste of the English public, from listening to the performance of A USER'S music in The Ambassadress at the...

COLONIAL MEASURES.

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CANADA. Coercion's warlike arm was bared, But not a soldier sent to move it; Conciliation is prepared, And new-raised armies sent to prove it.

DIVISION ON T II LI CANADA QUESTION.-Maacit 8. TORY ISI1NORLTY

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FOR LORD SANDON'S ADDRESS. Ackland, Sir T. D. De Horsey, S. H. Houldsworth, T. Perceval, Hon.G. J. Acland, T. D. Dick, O. Houstoun, 0. Peyton, IL A'Court, Captain D'Israelt, B....

THE ARMY.

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WM1.0E/ICE, !Coma Regt. of Light Drags.-Cortiet A. Scudamore to be LieM. without purchase. vice Knight, dee. ; Cornet 51. M. French, from the half pay of the 3d Dragoon Guards,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PARTY STRUGGLE OF THE WEEK. Now that the party hopes and fears excited by Sir WILLIAM MoLEswoam's motion have passed away, a few calm reflections on the event may not be...

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STRENGTH OF PARTIES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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• 'THE division on Thursday morning tested the actual strength of parties in the House of Commons, for the first time in the pre- sent Parliament. Six hundred and eight Members,...

GOVERNMENT PACKETS: A LITTLE " JOB: CONSIDERING the great variety of

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ways in which a Minister ee l help his friends and thwart his opponents, it does not appear sin. prising that every Government has its stanch adherents ass ung the middle...

UNMERITED HONOURS.

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Ire a note to the remarks on Colonel EvAreis appointment to the Order of the Bath,* we referred to the nominations of Lieutenant. General Sir HENRY GREY, and Sir HERBERT TAYLOR,...

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THE MODERN WHIG STYLE OF CONTROVERSY.

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Wilms affect to eschew personalities in political discussions. They w ain] opinions, not with individuals. To the " oracle of Pod- dledock," and the " vile Tory weekly press,"...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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THE musical season may now be said to have be g un. The g roups of wanderin g minstrels, who, wider the g uidance of MORI, BOSCHA, and others, have been scourin g the country,...

At the masked ball at the Opera Comi q ue on Tuesday

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week, young man appeared in the dis g uise of a nun, and attracted g eneral notice, not only by the sin g ularity of his costume in such a scene, but by the extreme modesty and...

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MEMOIRS OF FLOOD.

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ACCORDING to our biographer, "the period comprised in these Memoirs is the most interesting portion of the constitutional his- tory of Ireland. We begin when the dawn of freedom...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPRT, Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Flood, M.P Colonel of the Volunteers; containing Reminiscences of the Irisli Commons. and an Account...

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MR. DEVON'S SELECTIONS PROM THE RECORDS OF THE EXCHEQUER.

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NEARLY two years ago, * we noticed a very curious publication by Mr. DEVON, containing a selection from regal payments made during the reign of JAMES the First. The present...

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HR. BANTU'S HIT 0' WRITIN'.

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THESE volumes contain some score of tales, which will form an agreeable relaxation for spare hours, as many of them possess considerable melodramatic interest, and some of them...

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A !AIMS CHAEMBB.

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Musha Merry first retired behind a wicker partition Or screen, which ran half sr cross the waste Apar tment at its upper end, expressing modestly an inten. to charm away his own...