13 SEPTEMBER 1834

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE members of the Spanish Cortes persevere in their labours with all the zeal of men to whom law and speech - making have the zest of novelty. They evidently take delight in...

The Parisian creditors of Spain have presented a very pressing

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petition to Louis PHILIP, praying him on behalf of twenty thousand families, to interfere for the full recognition of their claims. The petition was signed by three thousand...

The subjects of King LEOPOLD are looking forward to the

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ap- proaching celebration of the Three Days of September, which is intended to be unusually brilliant. The organization of a new order, called the " Croix de Fer," will be the...

Don PEDRO was elected Regent of Portugal, in the Chamber

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of Peers, on the 25th ultimo, by a majority of 9 to 4. Ile lost no time in creating twenty-four new Peers; and now that the re- fractory section of the Legislature is...

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ebt Court.

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THEIR Majesties gave a grand dinner in St. George's Hall, Windsor Castle, on Monday, the anniversary of their coronation. More than a hundred persons sat down to table. Among...

Trials have been going on during the week at the

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Old Bailey: The offences have not been very heavy, and the proceedings for the most part were uninteresting. Captain Charles Knatchbull was put to the bar on Tuesday, charged...

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A meeting of merchants, shipowners, and others having claims for property confiscated by the King of Denmark during the war of 1807, was held on Thursday, at the London Tavern....

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On Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, a fire broke out

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at the sugar- house of Messrs. Watson and Co. in Pump Yard, Rateliff Cross. The premises were recenly stocked with an immense quantity of materials, from their combustible...

Mr. Cuthbert Rippon has addressed a letter to his constituents

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at Gateshead, in which he canvasses the proceedings of last session, the errors of the Ministry, and the abortive attempts to satisfy both Peers and People. He warns the new...

ebt Cottntnj, A Court-martial, appointed to try Lord John Hay,

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the Captain, and the other officers of the frigate Castor, which ran down the Canieleon cutter, off the South Foreland, on the 27th of August, as- sembled on Saturday the 6th,...

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The Defiance coach, on its way from London to Exeter,

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last week, took fire in the course of the night, in consequence of a passenger drop- ping his cigar. Some damage was done to a few of the parcels, but not to any great...

The "sylvan resort" of a band of thieves has been

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discovered in the neighbourhood of Salisbury. The following description of it is taken from the Times. It reminds us of the days of Rubin Hood, Dick Turpin, and the other...

The new Poor-Law Act was put into operation at Lewes

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on Wed- nesday last, upon the visiting Justices inspecting the prison, and finding a prisoner confined there for want of sureties under the late bastardy- law. He was...

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IRELAND.

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A meeting of the Protestant Conservative Society was held in Dublin on Tuesday. The Reporters generally were excluded, but the Lr< aiag Mail devotes twelve pages to its account...

SCOTLAND.

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Lord Brougham visited Inverness on Wednesday week. The Magistrates and a large body of the inhabitants, and the Trades Incorpo- rations, with their banners waving, went out to...

The hall for the Grey banquet, on Calton Hill, is

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upwards of DM feet square, and will (line about 1700 persons ; bat after dinner, the passages for waiters being instantly converted into sitting-room, about 2000 itolividuals...

Some unnecessary alarm has been occasioned by the statement that

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the sight of the Duke of Sussex is worse than it was when he left town. This was expected by his Royal Highness's oculist ; but no operation will take place until the cataracts...

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There is a camp of 20,000 men now assembled near

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St. Omer's, preparatory to a grand review. It has attracted a vast number of Eng- lish visiters of distinction. Great distress and loss have been recently occasioned in several...

Another Parisian Journal, the Charivari, has been added to the

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hundreds seized since glorious July. Its offence, which it has not been informed of, appears to be a sarcastic letter supposed to have been written to the Prince Royal by...

The Commissioners appointed to administer the Poor-Law Act are preparing

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a circular, contailling several intcrro;;nturirs touching the manner jut which the paupers in every parish recover relief limn the I:Irish-officers at the present period. An...

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A correspondent of the Times, who accompanies the Queen's army

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in Navarre ' gives the following description of the convent of Aranzaza, which was lately burned. " This convent has been from time immemorial held in reverence as the sanc-...

A mooting was beld is Calcutta on the Sth of

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April. to consider a suitable manner of commemorating the late 11 , 1 . jali Rammolom Roy. The Rajah's family have performed his funeral obsequies there accord- ing to the...

At a public meeting held on the 30th July, at

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the Market-house in Tonga°, Upper Canada, twenty-eight persons were either severely bruised or killed, by the breaking down of a gallery: among them were some of the most...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The only foreign news received to-day is given in a late edition of the Times.. The Spanish Chamber of Procuradores decided, on the 5th instant, to establish...

All the Russian Ambassadors to Foreign Courts, excepting that of

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France, are now in St. Petersburg. This reunion is not supposed to be accidental ; and the German politicians connect it with certain movements of the Russian troops in the...

PART OF A LEI TER FROM PARIS.

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The balloon scheme is not abandoned. I was yesterday at the ateliers of the proprietors, and ascertained that they had got a taw thou- sand francs subscribed, with which they...

A considerabe time has elapsed since Sir JOHN NEWPORT made

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the approach of old age and infirmity an excuse for retiring from public life. It was therefore with some surprise that we saw his ap- pointment to the Controllership of the...

OpiniOnti of tbe Prrid. THE ONE GREAT TOPIC—IAMB illtoUGHAWS PUBLIC

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CHARACTER AND CoNDUCT. STA NDA ItI)—If Lord Brougham were not so extremely versatile a politician. we could have much pleasure in referring to his speech at Inverness. At all...

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(Vp erprrit from elitnbuto).)

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SUBSTANCE OF A SPEECH, BY HENRY LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX; TO BE S!'0KEN AMR DINNER, IN' TUE PAVILION, CAL' ON BILL, EDINBURG1t, ON Tut: lard 18:31. I THANK you, my Lords and...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Sept. 11th, Norval, Coulson, from New South Wales. At Bombay, April 28th. Clyde, Kerr, from the Clyde; May 6th, Hellas. Scallem. and 9th, Gipsy, Highat,...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK E CILA NOE. ATTE R7COON. Although the English Money Market showed a disposition to improve on Wedar,day, when Consuls for Account were quoted at 90,:f that price his not...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHO IS TO BE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA? WHEN JEFFERSON was elected President of the United States, b e was of course pestered with applications from all quarters ti,z places...

LORD BROUGHAM'S INVERNESS SPEECH. " Ego et Rex met's." THE

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press and the public have long been habituated to watch and report the actions and words of Lord BROUGHAM. At the present In the opening sentences, Lord BROUGHAM assumes that...

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THE CASE AGAINST WARWICK FAIRLY STATED.

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AN attempt was made in the Scotsman, the other day, to defend the conduct of Lord BROUGHAM in regard to the Warwick Bill. Lord BROUGHAM, it is said, " was bound to view the...

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CONSEQUENCES OF THE REPEAL OF THE NEWSPAPER STAM P TAX.

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FEW or none of the sticklers f rr taxes on usfsrmatien will deny, that in a contest between truth and error, the latter must be dis- ecomfited. "Magna est veritas et...

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Strange things happen occasionally in our courts of justice. On

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Malay morning, a man was tried before Sergeant ARAH1N for stealing some wainscot. Before the trial commenced, Mr. CLARK- soN, the prisoner's counsel, urged the Court to postpone...

Mr. Roaster OWEN told the assembly of small tradesmen in

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Suathain Bindings, on Tucsdas last, that " every one of them would be a monopolist to-morrow it he could." Scarcely a day passes without a contirination of the truth of this...

A hypocritical howl of lamentation has been sent forth this

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week, by the Tines and the Herald, on the cruel operation of the new Poor - law Bill. The refusal by the Thames Street Magistrate to order out-door relief to three female...

We call the attee.: L. lITULGRAVE to a case of

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the week whieh gees to illost;„ management of the Peat-office. GOOD- WIN, a le:ter-ea: , .•etenced to death at the Old Bailey on Wialnesda, fur ia a bank-mole from a...

A mistake was made yesterday, by an unfortunate suitor in

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the Court of Requests, similar to those illusions which, from the days of Pesunts to the present, when people go to laugh at WRENCH iu My Twin Brother, have furnished writers...

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CIUTZLAFF'S CHINA.

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IN the opinion of Sir 'Incas !VI M.0 IMMIX', there was but one way left for a man to signalize himself, after the exploits which the world had witnessed up to the Elizabethan...

EDINBURGH-WHIG SONG cult THE GREAT OR EY MEETING.

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Te, , oii — " nou. tier Ainy's cone!" Blythe Sewn-% s gather'd a' her clans, Aut.]) BEEKIE's wash'd her face and Lao's, Wi' joy, atnaist has " coup'd the exalts "- Carle, now...

Spain may be a very barbarous and uncivilized country in

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the opinion of Englishmen, but in some matters Spaniards take the lead of us. We talk a vast deal about education ; but treat the young gentlemen of the country, the future...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ANTIQUARIAN ItssEARCIL thirrontr, A Sketch of Chinese !fide*, Ancient And Modern ; corriptds;ng a Retrospect of the past resident in that country. vids • Sailla and Eithr....

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LANGS VIEW OF THE POLYNESIAN NATION. "How was America peopled?"

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was a question that employed the quidnuncs till the discoveries of Coorc in the South Sea. The mode in which New Zealand, the Friendly, the Sandwich, the Society Islands,...

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SPAIN YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY.

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THIS is not exactly the kind of work which the title would lead one to expect. There are no political accounts, no financial spe- culations, nothing about the Spanish Cortcs or...