11 JANUARY 1840

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Lord MELBOURNE may rely upon support from the Irish janis-

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saries for any proposal of' money for Prince Ammrer, howeve. travagant. Their chief, O'CONNELL, has announced hi:; to vote for the highest sum that Ministers may require. lIai...

Members of Parliament will find plenty of work store for

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them. The recess has been unusually prolific of neol, for legis- lative investigation. The Privilege question, the ttacien's mar- riage-settlements, Chartism, the state of comm...

An overland mail from Bombay brings important intelligence. The British

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and Chinese are in open hostility. It appears that in a fray at Macao, between a party of seamen belonging to her Ma- jesty's ship Volage and some Chinese, one of the latter was...

" A letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight,

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may now be sent front any part of the United Kingdom to any other part, for one penny if paid when posted, or for twopence if paid when delivered." This is a "Post-office...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Momnouthshire trials, Corn-law meetings, Postage, O'Cost- NUL in Dublin, the Revenue, and the meeting of Parliament next Thursday, claim each a few words of notice in our...

The schism between the middle and the operative classes on

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the Corn question, prevails to a greater extent than it did last year ; although the Government journals boasted that the Chartists were returning to their senses and would...

The revenue returns for the year and the quarter ending

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on the 5th instant appear in this paper. On the year there is an increase in the ordinary receipts of 782,038!.; and on the quarter a decrease of 212,357/. The increase is...

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t ' s . " . 4 - 4 4; 1 7 4 4c t ' s . " . 4 - 4 4; 1 7 4 4c 4. 1 1,O.Canueels ' ' : Light

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Drik,Kootni;, . , .7 .,. . , anded in person, with twenty-four European seamen on board, and three Soon after her arrival at the Palace, the Queen gave an audience to '

At the Marylebone Office, on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Theed, a

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tier to Mr. Theed ' s house. attended by a Policeman. They saw merchantmen off the Nore, and ordered to quit the English domi- By a tire which broke Out in Newport Street, St....

ordered them to be released, saying that " though he

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detested his poli - tics lie had a personal regard ' for Brough. Cross - examined by Sir Frederick Pollock -" There are iron - works near the place where we were first taken "...

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dress was to comnience on Thursday. thoro lights after we

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had pas.:ed the iron works."

siderable loss. They threaten another attack. and we then walked

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on.

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The Liberal electors of Devoeport have made an amicable arrange-

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ment, which, it is thought, will insure Mr. Dawson's defeat. They were to hold yesterday a piddle meeting, and a ballot was to be taken fie• each of the Liberal ennui Imes, Mr....

The tickets for the Manchester Anti-Corn-law Festival, 3,000 in number,

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have been all issued, and it is now difficult to obtain one at a high premium. Many of the principal merchants, shopkeepers, and tradesmen of Liverpool, assembled on Thursday...

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The Liberals of Carrickfergus, now represented by a Conservative, intend

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to start Mr. E. Bruce at the next election. The Whigs have been amazingly ready to pour in Tory Magistrates upon us. During their short reign they have added seven or eight...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell delivers almost daily speeches in Dublin, consisting in great part of abuse of persons connected, as he says, 'with the Times newspaper. . We subjoin a specimen...

A vestry was held at Romford on Thurs.lay last, to

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consider the pro- priety of rebuilding the present dilapidated church, and of raising the sum of 3,000/. upon the church-rates towards the expense of the un- dertaking. After...

SCOTLAND.

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The Chartists have succeeded in defeating - the Corn-law Repeaters, at a meeting held in the Waterloo Rooms, Edinburgh, on Tuesday night. It had been arranged that admission...

At the Public Office in Birmingham, on Monday, Mr. Edmonds,

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Clerk of' the Peace, said be ltnl heett informed, and W:1S prepared with evidence to prove, that Brown mid Fussell, two ot' the most violent speakers at Chartist no - clings,...

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The Christian population of Constantinople is said to have increased

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to such an extent, that two new villages in its immediate neighbour- hood—one at the junction of the roads front Pero and Tatavla, the other on the hills between Thcrapia and...

'flue report. current about the Clubs of an extensive Brevet

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promo- tion, on the occasion of' her Majesty's marriage, is not eutitled to much confidence. It is felt probably that a third milikwy brevet, within the short period that has...

The Glasgow Chronicle announces, that a number of Glasgow mer-

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chants have resolved "to found an association under the title of The Scottish Colonial Society, on the model of the ColJnial Society of London, so as to afford an opportunity to...

The curious machinery employed at Edinburgh for the manufacture

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of Whig Members of Parliament, is exposed in a letter of great spirit and point, addressed by Mr. William Tait to the Edinburgh Observer, headed " The Aggregate Election...

It is said tItat Mr. Cavendi,h, M. P. for North

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Derbyshire, will move, and Sir William Somerville, M. P. for Drogheda, sveond the address in the !loose of Commons. Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Sir William Somerville, Sir William...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The examination of witnesses for the Crown against Zephaniah Wil- liams was continued yesterday, and was not concluded when the Court rose. The prisoner's active...

Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the

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Bank of England, from the 15th ef October 1839 to the 7th January 1840— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation X16,366,000 Securities £22,913,000 Deposits 7,136,000 Bullion...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—Off Cork, .1;nt. 31, Alice, Autwyl, frein 11.1'11.10ns. At I,eitli, Ian. 3,11, Courier, Smith, from Ilenisti. At Boinhay, Nov. 2(1, thattia, Notthes, from Liver , pool...

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THE THEATRES.

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Favonarre comedies and operas have been the preludes to pantomime at bolls the Great Theatres, which are nightly filled—Covent Garden to excess ; and at the Haymarket the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCRANGE, FRIPIT AFTERNOON. The tendency of the Government Funds to advance, which we noticed last week, has continued with but it very slight cheek, given yesterday upon...

INDIAN MAILS.—The mail despatched from London on the 16th September

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arrived at Bombay, per Berenice, on the 29th October. The mail despatched on the 14th October arrived at Bombay, per Zenobia, on the 23d November. A mail was to be despatched...

The debate on the address in the French Chamber of

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Deputies com- menced on Thursday ; but nothing of interest occurred. The arguments were confined to very small points of difference.

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THE LATE SHEFFIELD MEETING.

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TO TILE EDITOR. 01' THE SPECTATOR. Sheffield, 8th .Tanitary 1840. Sin-You will have seen by the papers, that on this day week the Whigs and the Chartists in Sheffield bad a...

THE REVENUE.

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Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th January 1839 and 1840, showiug the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof....

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ROYAL MARRIAGE-SETTLEMENTS. WHILE persons are found obnoxious to the penalties of treason for "levying war" against the Sovereign—while many families, it is to be feared, are...

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THE CURSE OF PARTY.

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As every naked man that comes into time world is shuffled into clothing of some kind—rags or robes according to destiny—so every born truth has its particular lie "made to...

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SMOOTH SAILING: LUCKY TOM MACAULAY.

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" WEIAR' are ye gaun, Sawney ?" said the proprietor of a Clydesdale orchard, to a schoolboy whom he confronted crawling into it through a gap in the hedge. "Back again," replied...

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TIIE NEW POSTAGE PLAN.

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THE best service which the friends of Post-office Reform can now render, is to aid in making the new plan complete, convenient, and economical in its actual operation. The grand...

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the question of prison discipline ; and as he possesses

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considerable P. hamentary influence, and withal is a discreet and trimming politician, job, Dutchess of Portsmouth. During the war of the Spanish Succession, Under the old...

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Inhospitable sieppe ; for the privations and sufferings to which

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the then, for several seasons, and did indeed get within sight of the wails of * "There was a regiment of Irish dragoons, Chive, but in such a miserable condition that the...

tia only important historical event in wh MM ieli Lord

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IS was Now let us see in what predicament the Duke of Richmond and Lord l' Nichol), with no other interest than his own good conduct, and such friends as that conduct...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Amerwa. the West Indies. and India. By the Right HMI. S. R. Lushingtou. Pri- vate Secretary to Lord Harris, and late Governor of madras. Against the decision of the French...

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WILLIAM HOWITT'S REMARKABLE PLACES.

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THE disposition of mankind to visit the scene of any remarkable event, or which has been connected with any remarkable person, has been too frequently noticed, and is rendered...

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MR. STERLING ' S POEMS.

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Tins little volume (a considerable part of which was originally published in Blackwood's Magazine) contains a collection of poetry distinguished by peculiarity if not...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Correspondence If Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Edited by WILLIAM STANHOPE lAYLOR, Esq , and Captain JOHN BERRY PRINGLE, executors of his son, John Earl of Chatham; and:...

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FINE ARTS.

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PANORAMA OF VERSAILLES. MIL BURFORD has opeued a sunny spot in the midst of the 'wintry gloom ; and those who in their passage through Leicester Square step aside and enter the...