13 JANUARY 1838

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A rebellion is said to have broken out in Athens,

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with ramifi- cations all over Greece.

According to the last accounts from Circassia, th n at-

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t'etpt to subjugate the innuutainera had fade( t. The invading army had retired beyond the KA sian garrisons dared not go beyond the rear forts on the cost.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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FURTHER news of the civil war in the Canadas has been rec!ived since our last publication. The tenour of this intelligence is ad- verse to the insurgents: For the present, the...

There is a rumour of a project on the part

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of Austria to esta- blish a Confederation of Italian States, similar to that which now exists in Germany : there would be an Italian Diet, in which Austria would have the...

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The Continental intelligence this week is not important. The French

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Chamber of Deputies is occupied in discussing the adde,s. In the course of the debate on the second paragraph, Ministers were charged with influencing unduly the late elections....

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CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO LOWER CANADA.

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THE Papers presented to the House of Commons "by her Majesty's command," and ordered to be printed on the 23d of December, have at length been delivered. They consist of...

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Cbr Court.

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THE Queen remains at Windsor, in good & health : how far the news from Canada may have affected the Royal spirits, we have no means of ascertaining. Her Majesty has enjoyed the...

Cbr girtropolitt.

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It was stated by Mr. Leader, at the Crown and Anchor meeting, that the Dissenters were opposed to the prosecution of the war in Canada, and wished that a system of conciliation...

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The Royal Exchange of London is now a heap of

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ruins. A de- structive fire has laid waste this celebrated building. The flames were first discovered on Wednesday night, issuing from that portion of the edifice called Lloyd's...

Is the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, Sir William Follett

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showed cause against a rule, obtained last term, to prohibit the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from giving judgment 'in a cause brought before them by way of appeal...

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An alarming fire broke out yesterday morning, about half-past three

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o'clock, at the mansion of Lord Cowper, in May Fair. Several en- gines arrived ; and by their joint exertions the fire was subdued, after destroying a considerable part of the...

Mr. Hawley, an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, has issued an order,

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prohibiting even the smallest donation to paupers in the Cheshire Westharn Union Workhouse, from their friends or relations. There appears to be no su ffi cient reason for thus...

Cbe COOntrna

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About 270 Tories of Cumberland gave Sir James Graham a dinner, at Carlisle, on Thursday week. Sir James entertained the company with a long speech on the subject of his own...

The weather, which till lately was so unusally mild, has

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within the present week changed its character, and gone to an opposite extreme of unusual cold. During the greater part of Wednesday and Thurs- day, snow fell more or less. The...

On Thursday night, a meeting of the Court of Aldermen

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was held a the Mansionhouee ; when the Lord Mayor stated that the City sea had been lost in the fire. This instrument was of great importance, as documents of various kinds,...

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SCOTLAN D.

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Upwards of I500 persons assembled in the Cowete Chapel, Edin- burgh, on Monday evening,—Mr. Gillon, M. P., in the chair,—and passed a series of resolutions respecting the...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell, highly to his credit, has been exerting himself with even more than ordinary vigour to put down a reckless and injurious system of combination among the...

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The undermamed officers, appointed to u particular service inCanada, sailed from Liverpool for that colony on the 8th—Lieutenant- Colonel Cox, Majors Williams and M'Phail, and...

The trial of theGlasgow cotton.spinners, for conspiracy, (the capital charge

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having been abandoned,) was proceeding in Edinburgh at the date of the last accounts, and was not expected to close till Wednesday or Thursday. The Court prohibited the...

Mr. Hume has addressed a letter to the Slut, citing

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the recorded opinions of Sir James Mackintosh, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Huskisson, and Lord Stanley, in justification of the Canadian revolt. It is said that Doctor Wolfred Nelson,...

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The New York Express publishes a letter from T. S.

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Brown, de- scribing the hardships and adventures of the flight from St. Charles into Vermont. If this is a genuine document, it proves Brown to possess some of the qualities...

Mr. Denison, Governor of Vermont, has issued a proclamation di-

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recting the people of that State to observe neutrality between the con- tending parties in Canada. A meeting of the inhabitants of Buffalo was held in the Theatre of that town...

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The pregnancy of the Dutchess of Orleans is announced. A

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rumour was circulated in the beginning of this week, that King Ernest of Hanover bad been murdered. It was premature. Captain Liot, commanding one of the Queen's hired English...

The frequent representations made to the Postmaster. General the Earl

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of Lichfield of the abstraction of newspapers from their enve- lopes during their transit, has induced his Lordship to issue an order, permitting the name and address of the...

The following account of the death of Lieutenant Weir is

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taken from the Montreal Transcript. How it was communicated, does riot appear ; for neither of the parties implicated in the homicide could have given such a description of the...

We observe that in Mr. Roebuck's tour of agitation from

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lIreatmin- ster to Marylebone, he is not in his itinerancy followed by the Parlia- mentary joints of the tail which he flourished so successfully at the Crown and Anchor. Is it...

A correspondent of the Times informs us " show, when,

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and where " the young Lord Audley established his claim to a pension- " Does the editor know (says Lord Audley's waggish defender) there was once a battle names! Poictiers? Did...

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Average Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from

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17th October 1837 to 9th January 1838 published in last night's Gazette. LIABILITIES. •EarT S. Deposits 10,992,000 Citeulation £17,900,000 Bullion 8,895,000 Securities...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. After a good deal of preliminary skirmishing, parties in the French Chamber of Deputies . have at length come to close quarters. On Wednesday, the fourth paragraph of...

In the paper " A Canadian Campaign," in our last

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number, there was a transposition of the words " zero" and "freezing-point," which marred the sense. The best mode of correcting it will be by reprint-. ing the passage as it...

The other news received by the Continental mails this morning

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is unimportant.

When JEREMY BENTHAM was made a citizen of France, be

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acknow- ledged the honour, not in a fulsome compliment or a flaming liberty When JEREMY BENTHAM was made a citizen of France, be acknow- ledged the honour, not in a fulsome...

Private letters from Berlin since the new year state that

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the bowel complaint from which the King of Prussia has for some time been suffering, has assumed a fresh degree of intensity, so as to cause frequent giddiness, and even to have...

MONEY MARKET.

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SfOCE EICSAW011. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The quotation of Coastal@ is to-days per cent. higher than last week ; and the price has been steady, the fluctuations not having exceeded J...

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PACIFICATION OF CANADA.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SLR—The interests of the British settlers in the Camino excite a just consider- ation at this moment ; and your contemporary the Examiner goes...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Hemulean, from Liverpool to Calcutta, was dismasted in the Iloogley, about the lOth Oct. A steam-boat had been sent to tier assistance. Arrived—At Liverpool, Jan, 7th,...

THE SHABBY MINISTERS.

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[From the Times.] There is sometimes great force, great character, in a single word. The forci- ble word that characterizes the present Government, is the homely English...

TILE CANADIAN REVOLT.

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When wrongs, long urged, by wrongs ore still replied, When a whole country's lawless made by law, All hope of peaceful justice dashed aside By Power's strong arm, that...

GENERAL NAPIER'S OBJECTIONS TO THE BALLOT.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEC:TATOU. 4th January le38. SIR—I confess my surprise that so eminent and thoughtful a patriot as General NAPIER should have been ensnared by the...

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The strongest objection against the acknowledgment of Canadian indepen- dence,

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consists in the fact, that a large minority of the Canadians are British; who, it is said, settled there in reliance on the protection of the British Govern. meat, and still...

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WHY SHOULD THE ARMY BE RECRUITED?

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Weir has been said about the tranquillity of Ireland. The peaceful disposition of the " seven millions," under Lord Mut : GRAVE'S government, is a theme of endless exultation...

UNION OF "MODERATE" MEN.

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THE Tories will support the Ministry against Radicals and Cana- dians ; but by no means from motives perfectly pure and patriotic. They begin to be impatient for their reward in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHAT BUT SEPARATION? Two things especially are to be remarked in the progress of opi- nion on the Canada question,—first, much inquiry into the causes of the revolt, with a...

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THE REFUGE FOR THE HOUSELESS.

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THE setting-in of a frost puts the skaitere and schoolboys in high spirits, and is welcomed as a seasonable change by those who are well to do in the world ; but it brings...

ARE TIIE CANADAS A GAIN OR A LOSS?

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le the Canadas are a gain to us, they can only be so in the matter of trade, of military strength, of finance, or as necessary vents for emigration. We shall show—what all who...

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Powsa and Ilasera have been playing together this week at

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the Haymarket, in a nitce de circonstance, with the title of Coufbanded Eweiyners ; and Mr. litxmtLEY cremes much merriment at the Add. phi. ill the character of a Dancing...

THE THEATRES.

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Tim reception of the young tragedian at Drury Lane, on Monday, was most tlatterine; and if the tumultuous npplauses of an overflowing lion:e were sufficient evidence of a...

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WELLSTED'S TRAVELS IN ARABIA.

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LIEUTENANT WELLSTED was attached to one of the East India Company's vessels, which were appointed in 1829.30 to survey the Red Sea and its adjacent waters, with a view to the...

SPEC'TATOR'S LIBRARY.

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r Tr v a l vl in Arabia. By Lieutenant J. E. Wellsted, F.R.S., Indian Navy, In 2 vols. Murray The Miseries and Beauties of Ireland. By Jonathan Blum Assistant Agriculitoat...

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BINNS . MISERIES AND BEAUTIES OF IRELAND. THE author of these

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volumes was an Assistant Agricultural Core. missioner on the late Irish Poor-law Inquiry ; and travelled through the Northern half of Ireland in the exercise of his voca. Lion,...

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SIR JOHN HARROW'S LIFE OP HOWE.

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THE great exploits connected with the name of Howe, are the victory of the let of June 1794, and his pacification of the two muti- nies at Spithead. Although embalmed in naval...

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PRINGLE'S POEMS AND LIFE.

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THE name of THOMAS PRINGLE, the late able Secretary of tit Anti-Slavery Society, and his various literary productions, are tot . , well known to the readers of the Spectator to...

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DIARY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TIMES OP GEORGE THE FOURTH.

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THIS work has been the occasion of a correspondence, from which it may be inferred that our annonee of it last week, albeit con- temptuous and slighting, was not sufficiently...

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M •LISON ON SIR JOHN MOORE.

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We received the following letter at the period of its date, but an accident dropped it out of view, as another accident restored it. The subject is none the worse for keeping....

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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on t ltefith irot.,at 1,11■4011D I IRS', Yorkshire, the Hon. Lady ISSOA Par An, of a SO S MM. on the 5; 1, inst., at H entrant Satchville, Devon, the Ri g ht lion. Lady Cr.::...