11 JULY 1835

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tests has been a week of comparative repose to our Representatives in Parliament. The Tories have not ventured seriously to impede the progress of the Municipal Bill ; which has...

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;Debated ant Prim:timid in Parliament.

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1. CORPORATION REFORM. The discussion of the Municipal Bill was resumed in the Com- mittee of the House of Commons on Monday. After a desultory and dry debate, of which a very...

The Constantinople correspondent of the Times writes,

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"that on the 311 of June, an insurrection had taken place at Scutari ; sad that after a bloody contest the Governor had been obliged to take refuge it the Citadel, which was...

Mr. VILLIERS has concluded a treaty with the Spanish Govern-

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ment for the more effectual suppressisn of the slave-trade. It has been agreed that vessels fitted out fir the trade shall be liable to capture, and to be broken up and sold as...

The army of.the Queen of Spain entered Bilboa on the

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1st instant, and the besiegers retired in dis..nder. MIAs% who suc- ceeded ZUSIALACARREGUY, is said to have died in consequence of a fall from his horse; and several other...

Letters from Paris mention the discovery of a conspiracy to

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assassinate Louts PHILIP. A considerable number of persons have been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the plot; and the courtiers and pub!tc fuctionaries have...

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7. Yesterday week, the following trick was played upon a

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shopkeeper in Fleet Street. A person, well dressed, slipped down, apparently by accident, and put his arm through a pane of glass in the show-window of an extensive...

A deputation of tea-dealers had an interview on Thursday with

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Lord Melbourne, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Mr. Spring Rice, at the Treasury. The object of the deputation was to remonstrate against a recent order of the Commissioners of...

Ear IlictrapaIisi.

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About a hundred and twenty gentlemen dined together at Love. grove's tavern, Blackwell, on Saturday last, to celebrate the triumph of Messrs. Morrison and Wason over the Ipswich...

VW. Court.

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Tin: King and Queen spent the early part of the week at Windsor. On Tuesday, Lord Melbourne arrived at the Castle, had an aui'.ience of his Majesty, and returned to town. On...

In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, the Reverend J.

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S. Blornfield, the Bishop of London's relation, was found guilty of steal- ing a pair of gold spectacles from Mr. Charles Douglas, of Penton-. ville. It will be recollected,...

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Between twenty and thirty persons were brought up on Saturday,

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before Mr. Francis Twemlow and a bench of Magistrates, at Stafford, charged with having been concerned in throwing stones at the military during the Wolverhampton riots. The...

ebt COttlitru.

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The candidates for Oldham were nominated on Friday, the 3d in. stant. They were—first, Alr. John Morgan Cobbett, a person, ap. parentlys of dubious politics, calling himself a...

The catalogue of offences this week is unusually numerous, and

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some of them are of the worst deseription. A clergyman, who recently resided in the vicinity of Leicester, has decamped greatly in debt. Among the cr«lituble claims upon him,...

IRELAND.

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Dr. Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, has been summoned to attend in London, and will take his departure on Thursday next. I have heard that Ministers deem it necessary to confer...

A highly respectable and numerous meeting of the inhabitants of

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Newcastle was held in that town on Friday week, for the purpose of petitioning both Houses of Parliament in favour of the bill now before the Commons for Municipal Reform....

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Notwithstanding the caution of the Lord Lieutenant, the 1st of

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July was not suffered to pass over without Orange out:ages. About fen o'clock on Wednesday morning, a large body of Orangemen ap- peared in the streets of Monaghan preceded by...

StiiltrIlanrou#.

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The Vice-Chancellor is to be appointed Speaker of tic Home of Lords. This arrangement is merely temporary, for the purpose of allowing Lord Chief Justice Denman to proceed um...

The Dublin Evening Post contains a challenge from the Reverend

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T. Macguire, milled familiarly " Father Tom," to the Exeter Hull agitators. He offers to meet them publicly, and hold a disputation, -either in London or Dublin. We give an...

Professor Airy has been appointed Astronomer Royal, rice Mr. Pond,

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Who his resigned the office. The salary is FOC/ a year. Mr. Henry Seymour, the Sergeant-at-Arms attending the House of Commons, will have a retiring salary of 8001. per annum ;...

SULMARINE RESEARCH AND AERIAL NAVIGATION.

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A VISIT to the bottom of the " deep, deep sea," and a voyage through the realms of air, would seem likely to become es easy of accomplish- ment, by means of DEANL'S...

SCOTLAND.

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Lord John Scott, the Member for Roxburghshire, prefers hunting otters to attending Parliament, and spearing eels to the interests of his constituents. He may be seen at these...

On the account of the revenue for the year ending .

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on Saturday last, there is 0 decrease of 1,758,886/, and on the account for the quarter a decrease of 656,407/ In the Customs for the quarter, there is an in- crease of...

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The knaves who under the thin mask of religious zeal

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seek to pro- pagate the most atrocious calumny on Boman Catholic Christians, and the fools who are deluded by them, are this day to hold another meet- ing in Exeter Hall. Their...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK ExCiTANnE, FlitnAr ArTERNOoN. upon the payment of the Dividends having, by affordiug an opportunity for sales, thrown a quantity of money stock on the market. The...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Anglo-Spanish expedition progresses but slowly. Of the "ten thousand" auxiliaries, not more than about 700 have yet de- parted. When, in 1826, the Portuguese...

THE REVENUE.

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Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th July 1834 and 5th July 1835; showing the Increase or Decrease on each head...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, July &h. Duke of NorthnmIwrlaml, Pope. from Bengal; 711, Si. Laareace, Ii ngsup, from Mauritius ; Cacique. Pulliam, Irum the Cape ; and 'Wary,...

Vesrints is fascinating the audiences of the Surry; but it

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is beyond her powers to make them quiet. The last novelty at the Victoria is a melodrama "of preverfel inte- rest," culled the Echo if Westminster Bridge ; founded os the fact,...

At the Haymarket, FARREN'S personation of the Scholar, in BUCK-

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croNE's version of the French piece Le Savant, has been interrupted by his sudden indisposition. In the midst of his performance on Sa- turday night, he was seized with what...

THE THEATRES.

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MR. ARNOLD having relinquished his refiigeratory process of ice- creams, has bad recourse to the more approved method of freezing the blood of his audience by means of a...

THE CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION,

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DESCRIBED BY A VISITER FRO31 LONDON. CA>ruat DOE, Thurvlay, 9th July. MR. SPECTATOR—I sit own, according to promise, to give you some account of what has been doing here on...

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THE EXETER HALL IMPOSTORS.

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[The following Letter, from an able Irish Barrister, residing in Lon- don, and practising in the Courts at Westminster, was received last week, but not in time for insertion.]...

ILLUSTRIOUS PRINTERS, OF THE PITT PRESS, CAMBRIDGE.

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After the musical performance at St. Mary's Church. on Wednes- day, the Chancellor, accompanied by most of the distinguished visiters who have attended him during the ceremonies...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DAYS OF REGISTRATION. As the important 20th day of July approaches, symptoms of ins creased activity are visible in the hostile camps of the Liberals and the Tories. The...

THE COUNTRY, THE COURT, AND THE TORIES.

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AMONG the causes of the national discontent, which was very pre- valent in the year 1770, Mr. BURKE puts prominently forum rd the attempts of a certain party in the state to...

NATIONAI. GALLERY.

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TO THE EDITOR OF TI1E SPECTATOR. Sia—The session is approaching its end, and in spite of all that has been written, all that has been said, notwithstanding the powerful support...

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LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S PATRONAGE OF TORI F.S.

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IT was a frequent complaint against Lord ELDON, and other Chancellors, that their judgments were given according to precedent, rather than on broad principles applied to the...

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THE TEMPORARY PARLIAMENT HOUSES JOB.

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FORTY-FOUR thousand pounds have been expended in . proveding two temporary houses for the Lords and Ctaninons; yet the clim- ber for the Peers is fimnd to have so many...

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES BILL.

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THIS important bill—for hypo:sant it is, though bearing a local title--was read a second time on Monday evening, and committed for the 23d. Its promoter, Mr. BANNERMAN, very...

PROHIBITED MARRIAGES.

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A ems was lately introdueed into the House of Peers by Lord Memo VAST (his Lordship having, no doubt, an eye to some espe- cial ease of hardship, or wishing to serve a friend)...

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TALES OF THE PEERAGE AND THE PEASANTRY.

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As a whole, the new productions whose coming out Lady DACRE I as superintended, are scarcely equal to the former ones; not from cev Jefleieecy of care or any fitilure of the...

C ORTES.

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THE bias of the Americans to substantial things may be detected even in their lighter literature. They seem delighted to invest their historical novels with the greatness of...

SPECTATMCS LiiiltARY.

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Fier rov, fats s of the Peeraee and the Peasantry. Edited b y L a dy M ere . la 3,. ( 4 5 ..B e ek Cutter ; or the Fall of Alex co. By Bird. Amino of " Calmar." lu 3 vol.....

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MISS LLOYD'S SKETCHES OF BERMUDA.

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MISS LLOYD is, apparently, an accomplished young lady, skilful in the handling of her pen and pencil, well read in poetry and history, and possessing a cultivated taste for the...

THE EMPRESS.

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Mr. Barnum informs us in his preface, that his book has been upwards of twelve months in the hands of his publisher; and the object of this statement is to rebut any charge that...

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THE WEALTH OF NATIONS ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR OF ENGLAND

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AND AMERICA. IT might be said with little exaggeration, that the chief utility of modern Writers on Political Economy has been to enable the stu- dent more fully to understand...

THIRLWALCS HISTORY OF GREECE.

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Tilts new addition to the historical series of Dr. LARDNER'S Cyclopredia promises to furnish a very learned, elaborate, and ingenious view of ancient Greece; though as yet the...

HISTORY OF THE ASSASSINS.

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DR. Woon is entitled to the thanks of the historical student for his translation of Von Hsaimsn's history of the Assassins; al- though the learned Orientalist has treated his...

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MISS ROBERTS'S SEA - SIDE COMPANION.

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THE contents of this tasteful little book have balked our expecta- tions. We expected from the title, a volume of directions as to the best means of passing time on the...

PICTURES AND ARTISTS.

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BRITISH INSTITUTION. [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] THE difference between a Dutch and an Italian picture, is that of a matter-of-fact narrative compared with a poetical description....

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PICTORIAL PERIODICALS.

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THERE have been and am marry periodical works with beautiful and accurate delineations of flowers, but they are rather adapted to the botanist than the flutist; as they are...