11 MAY 1839

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The resignation of Ministers was not the only one. On

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Monday, Mr. Speaker AlIERCROMBY announced, that, by reason of failing health and strength, he should not resume his laborious duties after the Whitsuntide recess. Lord JOHN...

There was some fighting between the Carlists, under NIAnoTo, and

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the Queen of Spain's troops, commanded by ESPARTERO, on the 27th and 30th of April, before the fortified village of Ramales. The Carlists were defeated with the loss of between...

Accounts from Barbadoes to the 24th of March, give an

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unfa- vourable representation of the prospects of the West India Islands and the conduct of the Negroes ; whose " utter listlessness" ren- ders the importation of Swiss and...

Letters from Lima, dated the c..13d of January, memion that

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SANTA Cutz had nearly destroyed the remnant of the Chilian in- vaders, in a battle fought on the 6th of January, near Huaras. His plan is said to be not to force on another...

The Royal proclamation issued last week against illegal assem-

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blies has had a good effect, and appears to have been generally obeyed. In Bristol and the neighbourhood, though the " Physical Force men" use menacing language, the midnight...

The negotiations for reconstructing the French Ministry are completely at

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a stand. Soria . , on Tuesday, assured several mem- bers of the Chamber of Deputies, that he had no powers, and therefore was not responsible for the delay ; and the...

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The following intelligence was received yesterdalt.oydiffitTd - kf Bombay. It is given simultaneously in the Globe a the -Cagrie in the same words. 7 - • :',.:' ._ , . ..... "...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Mum - mime Ministry has been destroyed by a vote of the House of Commons. The political calm in which the last week closed was deceitful. The Tories mustered in full force...

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an tirortaings in Varliamtnt.

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GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA. The discussion on the bill to provide for the temporary government of Jamaica, was resumed in the House of Commons on Monday; the question before the...

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Ebe Actropolis.

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The Lord Mayor issued a proclamation on Saturday, forbidding Chartist assemblies in Smithfield; but nevertheless a few persons were collected there. on Monday evening, and one...

It is said that Mr. Hervey is canvassing for the

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appointment of City Police Commissioner, under the bill now in Parliameat, with a fair chance of success. The other einalidates are Colonel Cox and Captain Cotton. The City...

Zig (Court.

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Titer Queen gave an audience to Lord Melbourne on Monday ; and afterwards rode out on horseback, accompanied by the Baroness Lehzen, the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Alfred Paget, the...

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The line of the Midland Counties Railway, from Nottinghain to

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Derby, will be opened on the 4th of June to the public ; but a large The line of the Midland Counties Railway, from Nottinghain to Derby, will be opened on the 4th of June to...

Lord Chancellor Cottenham gave notice to the suitors in his

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Court; on Wednesday, that he should dispose of the cases which bad been heard before him with as little delay as possible— There were, however, some very heavy cases, which...

Accounts from Llanidloes state that most of the persons actively

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em- ployed in the riot mentioned last week have been arrested, and that tranquillity had been restored. Arrests of Chartists have been made at Manchester, Ashton, Trou- bridge,...

gbe Vrobinces.

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inhabitants of Leeds, to explain his vote on t 79 h E e at J on am s Sir William Molesworth has addressed the following letter to the q a u i tt e r a e , B et i t i ■ . q a...

At the Mansionhouee, on Tuesday, three mechanics were remanded on

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a charge of exciting a disturbance in Cheapside on the previous night, by seditious harangues. David Evans was brought before the Lord Mayor, on Thursday, charged with stealing...

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Mr. Barrett, editor of the Pilot, has been fined 201,

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and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment for a libel on Messrs. Bateman and Fitz- Patrick, relative to an affray with Policemen at Blackrock. The &ntlemen libelled had...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell has sent' to the Aforning Chronicle an address "to the People of Ireland; " for which he holds himself responsible, but which, he says in a note to the editor of...

Stlistrilaneous.

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The resignation of the office of Lord Chamberlain by the Marquis Conyngbain was announced on Monday ; and Tuesday's Gazette con- tained the appointment of the Earl of Uxbridge...

A considerable quantity of half-farthings and quarter-farthings have been coined

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at the Mint for Ceylon, with a view to supersede the cowries or small shells used there as a medium of currency. These coins have the head of the Queen on the obverse, and the...

SCOTLAND.

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Mr. Alexander Humphreys, who calls himself Earl of Stirling, was tried last -week in the High Court of Justiciary, on the charge of forging documents to support his claim to...

The Queen has granted permission to the brothers and sisters

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of the Earl of Essex to bear time same rank and precedency as they would have enjoyed had their father succeeded to the title. Lord William Bentinck is ill at Paris. Prince...

The Tyrone election commenced on Saturday, and terminated on Monday

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; at the close of which day's poll, the numbers were— For Lord Claude Hamilton 223 Major Humphreys 80 Mr. Boyle (Precursor) 1

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On Cabinet authority we correct the preceding paragraph to this

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ex- tent—Parliament will meet on Monday, at the usual hour, for Court explanations; and will reassemble on the Friday following, for a pro- gramme of measures. Some say that in...

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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Lord MELBOURNE and his colleagues held a meeting this afternoon as Cabinet Ministers, having resumed the offices which they re-signed on TueSday ; the Tories being out of the...

Sir ROBERT PEEL is cunning and adroit, but not sagacious.

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A poli- tician's instinct would have shown him the folly of disagreeing with the Queen about her Household before he had secured a large majority in the Commons. If he had...

Colonel THOMPSON is again before the electors of Hull, anticipating

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an early dissolution of Parliament. Success to him. Time and space forbid more than a simple reference to the Colonel's address to the Liberal portion of the Hull constituency,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. • At the meeting of the House of Lords last night, the attendnke of Peers was unusually large. The galleries and avenues, and the space below the bar, were crowded by...

The interesting and ever-sllifting.seeno of Polities has necessarily this mock

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.engroseti 'so Mitch of 'attentiou and space, that we lialW been compelled to omit many' articles of a literary turd miscellaneaus character; mid - timoug them, a notice of Mr....

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A meeting which was attended by about thirty Liberal Members

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of the House of Commons, among whom were Mr. Hume and Sir W. Molesworth, was held yesterday afternoon at the Reform Club, to con- sider the course to be adopted in the event of...

Lane - end in the Potteries has, we are sorry to announce,

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been the scene of riot and bloodshed. A Chartist missionary having been taken into custody, while delivering a violent revolutionary discourse on Tuesday, a mob assembled on...

MONEY MARKET.

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firoex &SMARMS, FRIDAY AFIIRNOOR. The general character of the American intelligence, both political and finan- cial, received on Monday and Tuesday, produced a favourable...

LORD DURHAM'S REPORT IN AMERICA.

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A multitude of American and Canadian newspapers have come to us by the Great Western. They abound in extracts and notices of Lord Duan.am's Report, which seems to have produced...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, May 4th, Wild Irish Girl. Tooker, from the Cape: 6th, Sybilla, Knowles. from Mauritius ; and 10th, Dryad, Beard, from New South Wales. tiff Cork. 5111,...

TILE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION.

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The following intelligence from Plymouth, of the arrival at that port of the barque Tory, will he read with interest. The aim and prospects of the expedition were fully...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Rita 1. 0:1 the sot ;lea., in upper Grosvenor Street, the Lady of the non. Toox.ts BARN.- WALL, of a daughter. Ou the 20th of February, at Mexico, the Lady of Catni.ss T....

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wart-ovnex, May 10.-6th Regt. of Drag. Guards-Capt, J. R. Lmyth, from half. ray unattached, to be Capt. vice 11. P. Browne, who exchanges. 2d Drags.-Lieut. Lo rd W. F. A. M....

Daslitroigl, 0. II. Hurst. R. H.

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Lister, E. C. Roche. Sir D. Ds Dyneuurt, C. 'f. James, W. Rundle, 3. TORY AND RADICAL MINORITY-289. Blandford, Marquis Estcourt , T. (Dcv.) Blennerhassett, A. ; Farnham, B....

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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DREADFUL WRECK OF A COCKBOAT. [PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] People's Isle, Tuesday, 7th May 1839. A boat, which had long been drifting about in sight of this island, went...

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THE WHIGS, risliE TORIES, AND THE PEOPLE.*

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WHEN a patient enters the hospital with a complication of mortal diseases, his end is not the less certain because one cannot name the hour or point out the bed on which he will...

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THE TRIUMPHANT TORIES.

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Ax amusing scene presented itself to the stroller along Pall. Mall and St. James's Street on Wednesday afternoon. The exul- tation of the Tories was irrepressible. Sir ROBERT...

LAST WEER'S LIE.

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gullibility of Liberals is unfathomable; otherwise the impu- dent pretence that the creation of Peers, announced last week, was for the purpose of strengthening the Reform...

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THE DESERTERS FROM " FURTHER REFORM."

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THE following paragraph appeared in the Examine;' of last Sunday, in explanation of its argument that the Liberal Members who voted against " further Reform " had no alternative...

PETITION FROM A CONVERT TO THE JAMAICA BILL.

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WHAT the Radicals would have proceeded to do next, had the Ministers stuck to office, we cannot precisely declare. Some say one thing, some another. Some say, that Mr. THOMAS...

A " POWER BEHIND THE THRONE."

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" Or course," says the Morning Herald, " Lord MELnouaNE must hire a cook, now that his dinners are stopped at the Palace." Not quite "of course." Lord MELBOURNE ma n y be the...

" To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, " The humble Petition of [we suppress the name, as we understand the gentleman now means to go over to the Tories.] "...

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Sir Eardley Wilmot declared his determination to support the Govern-

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ment measure, (the Jamaica Bill,) and admirably did he redeem his promise, by not voting at all. But then it will be said he paired off with Sir Edward Kerrison. Noble support...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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Timm concerts, as they approach their termination, discover not only indolence, but palpable haste in the selection of their emnponent parts. Three pieces by one composer, (two...

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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AT length we have something on which to write emanating from the Italian Theatre. PAULINE GARCIA made her first appearance on Thursday , night ; and the manager, well practised...

THE AYRSHIRE ELECTION.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Sin—In your last paper appeared a letter from a correspondent in Scotland, on the subject of the late election in Ayrshire. I have taken the...

THE GRESHAM MUSIC LECTURES.

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THE Gresham Professor of Music this week concluded his review of the works of the early Italian masters, on which he had been occupied during several preceding terms. Of the...

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LIVES OF WELLINGTON.

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THE high position the Duke of WELLINGTON just now occupies in the political world—the publication of his voluminous despatches— and the mature age he has reached, with, perhaps,...

SPECTATOR'S. LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, Life and Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. By the Rev. G. N. Wright. Vol. I. Feiher and Co. The I.lfe of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington. K.G., &c. &c. By...

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DR. HOLLAND'S MEDICAL NOTES AND REFLECTIONS.

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THIS volume is the result of the observations and reflections of twenty years, drawn up from notes made day by day upon suggestive facts in Dr. HoLeami's practice. The subjects...

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MRS. BROUGHTON'S SIX YEARS' RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS.

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MR. BLANCHLEY, the father of Mrs. BROUGHTON, was Consul at Algiers from 1806 to 1812. Mrs. BLANCKLEY had the habit of journalizing, and daily wrote down every occurrence, from...

FINE ARTS.

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ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. To judge of things by too high a standard, is in some sort unjust ; and to this fault we plead guilty in reference to the Academy Exhibition. We have...

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HATTER ' S CORONATION PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN.

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MESSRS. HODGSON and GRAVES have been exhibiting during the week 'a whole-length portrait of the Queen, as she appeared when receiving homage at the Coronation ; painted in oils,...