14 APRIL 1838

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There is both variety and interest in the foreign intelligence

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this week. The French Ministers have defeated the united opposition of GUIZOT, THIERS, BARROT, LAFFITTE, and BERRYKR. on the ques- tion of an additional grant of four millions...

The break in the session naturally suggests a memorandum of

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what has been done since its commencement, and what remains to be accomplished before its close. Parliament met on the 15th of November, and sat till the 23d of December 1837;...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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BOTH Houses of Parliament adjourned on Wednesday, for the Easter holydays; the Lords to Friday the 27th, the Commons to Wednesday the 25th of this month. Those—if there be ang-...

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All the accounts from Constantinople speak of the warlike pre-

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parations of the Porte. It is expected that the Sultan will attack the forces of MEHEMET Ant in Syria, contrary to the advice of the Ambassadors of all the Great Powers. In the...

Additional intelligence from the Canadian frontier and from the 'United

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States has been received during the week. The British troops, commanded by Colonel JOHN MAITLAND of the Thirty- second Regiment, have sustained some smart skirmishes ; an offi-...

Advices from Madrid, to the 4th instant, mention that the

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Re- presentative Chamber of the Cortes had sanctioned the Ministe- rial bill for a loan or five millions sterling, by a majority 120 to 6. Part of the security for the loan was...

A vessel which bas arrived at Falmouth brings news from

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Lisbon to the 3d of this month. The Queen is again in difficulty with her Ministry ; and, regardless of the strong protestations of the Ultra party in the Cortes, has dismissed...

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According to accounts from the West Indies, reaching to the

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25th of February, those colonies were in an unsettled state, and the planters very irritable. The Mayor and Council of King- ston in Jamaica had refused permission to Captain...

iBeltatee anti Procreninge in Parliament. LAWFULNESS OF SLaveae.

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In the House of Peers, on Monday, Lord DENMAN presented a peti- tion for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship ; and took the oppor- tunity of reiterating the opinion he had...

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C.br 5ictropoli6.

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A meeting of Liberals r,.sident in the borough of Alarylehone was held on Tuesday evi :deg, fur the purpose of establishing a " Reform and Registry Association." The main object...

Mr. Rothman, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has beer elected

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Registrar to the Senate of the London University. The aw- ',ointment is a good one, with a salary of 600/. a year. At a Court of East India Director, held on Thursday, Sir...

Clir Court.

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Tut: Queen, accompanied7by the Duteltess of K' 'it, Baroness Lebzeu, Loud Falkland, Colonel Welnyss, Miss Cavendish, and Mr. Rids, took a lung ride oil horseback on Monday, in...

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In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Simon Marryatt was

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tied on a charge of causing the death of Mary Warner, by starvation sled cruel treatment. He was found guilty of" manslaughter." Robert Miers was convicted of arson. His trial...

IRELAND.

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A good deal of attention has been drawn to the conviction, at the Cork Ass:zes, of James Burke, a Catholic priest in the county of Cork, and three men named Crean, for a...

Orb, Cauntrp.

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The Duke of Norfolk has sold the Worksop estate and mansion to the Duke of Newcastle, for 370,000/. ; the income of the property just *weeds 10,000/. a year, and the value of...

who for

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The Manchester Guardian has a strange story of a woman, in seventeen years has passed for a man, being married, and having fi e several years carried on the business of a...

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The Paris National complains that people care nothing for politics

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and are entirely absorbed in stockjobbing, and adds this piece of ad-. vice—" Become rich, but take care not to be hanged." Laffitte's bank in Paris seems to be a thriving...

Lieutenant-Colonel M , Gregor, at present commanding the Ninety- third Highlanders, has

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been appointed Inspector-General of the Irish Constabulary, in the place of Colonel Shaw Kennedy, resigned. Mr. Costelloe's appointment is Clerk of the Rules in the Queen's...

Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris, and is staying at

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the HOW Brighton, Rue de Rivoli. The Duke of Wellington has, we are assured, consented to conduct the new military commission, to which the success of the late motions of Lord...

The Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation on the subject

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of the coronation. All the "ceremonies that have heretofore taken place in Westminster Hall" are to be dispensed with ; and " such part only of the solemnity and ceremony as is...

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A correspondent of the Times this morning asks, what has

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become of a large sum of money, subscribed thirty years ago for the erection of a monument to Nelson? The amount subscribed, he sap, w ig "many thousands."

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, THURSDAY AFTERNOO.,. The Consol Itiarket has improved about A per cent. ; the price having reached 901 on Tuesday, when the settlement of the Account caused a...

The Morhing aronicle states, that the Judges REDDIL and LAF1TTE,

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suspended in St. Lucia by Colonel BUNBURT, are to be reinstated; instructions to that effect having been sent out by Lord GLENELG ; also that St. Lucia has been brought within...

Mr. Hart Logan, one of the Members for Suffolk, died

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last night, st his residence in Pall Mall. He took cold in the City, on the 5th instant ; inflammation of the windpipe followed ; and yesterday Me, Laurence performed the...

MINISTERIAL JOURNALISM.

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An article in the Courier solicits, or rather " challenges," our atten- tion. In case we should fail of doing it justice in other respects, we shall at least let it tell its own...

A banquet upon the most magnificent scale is to be

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given to Sir Ite. bert Peel on the 12th of May, by the Conservative Members of tiee House of Commons. It is a very few days since the design was erns " mentioned, and already...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Letters from Bayonne, received this morning, mention a defeat of the Carlists by the Queen of Spain's troops at Ondoneda. The num- ber of killed was considerable, and...

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The Earl of Gosford has been received with marked attention

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by the municipal authorities in New York. An inquiry has been made into the conduct of the Phoenix Bank, one of the principal banks in New York ; which has disclosed a series...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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On the Elth inst., the Countess of GUILDFORD, or a daughter. On the 701 inst., at the Craig, llownees, Windermere, the Lady of Sir THOMAS SABINE PASLRY, liart., or a SOIL On the...

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PANORAMA OF CANTON.

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MR. BCRI'011D could not have catered better Or the amusement of the holyday visiters to his panorama, than by giving them a peep at the Chinese. Unless it were a view in the...

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All the theatres—the forlorn Lyceum excepted—will be open on Monday,

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with divers novelties to attract the Easter holyday-folk. The Haymarket, which has been newly decorated, commences its season with a numerous company for the performance of...

THE THEATRES.

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Its producing the Two Foscari for his benefit, MACREADY has con- nected the name of BYRON with the stage by another link : we are not sorry it is the last. Lord BYRON'S...

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THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION.

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TO THE ED/TOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, April in. MA. g la —Your article on the Copyright Bill, in hat number, is the nearest ,ap. .1 I have seen to a reasonable view of the...

Topics OF THE DAY.

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WHAT IS LORI) DURHAM'S REAL CHARACTER? Tit I., test i igence received from Canada or concerning it, is of a . kind to augment the iliterest :ittaehed to Lord DURHAM . 3 !MS.....

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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS.

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IT is seldom that a Minister fails to discover something "highly satisfactory" either in the actual or prospective condition of country whose affairs are committed to his...

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SIR HENRY PARNELL PAST AND PRESENT.

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SIR HENRY PARNELL presents the most conspicuous instance in recent times of the break-down of a public man who had once main- tained high character for political honesty. And...

THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION.

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Ir on a subject of no very immediate necessity—where a pro- posel change is contrary to the practice of all civilized nations, its public good or evil results vary doubtful, and...

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MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON.

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CONTAINING much that is of an every-day or of a trivial nature these volumes are at the same time a valuable addition to class of works which throw a light upon life and man....

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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MetliGif, of Sir William Knienon, Bart. G.C. II., Keeper of the Privy pu rse Z4 i the Rehm of his Majesty George the Fourth. [nein hug his Correipowlence4 many tiktimptished...

We can give Lord Aberdeen a curious piece of information,

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of which he had no chance to hear a syllable from Dr. M‘Leod. When the Se- cond Report was prepared, there were twelve endowed and fourteen unendowed churches in Glasgow...

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DR. HANTELL'S WONDERS OF GEOLOGY. DR. HANTELL'S WONDERS OF GEOLOGY.

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b. MANTILL was a Brighton practitioner, with a strong gusto for geological pursuits, and a propensity for being a member of Let the reader suppose centuries to elapse, and...

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PLANCHE'S CORONATIONS OF THE QUEENS.

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ANTIQUARIAN researches into ceremonial pageantry, would seem to he the most trivial and unprofitable of that species of labour which many account to be but industrious idleness....

LORD BROUGHAM AS A HISTORIAN.

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THE current number of the Edinburgh Review challenges atten- tion, not merely as showing that the most extraordinary mind of the present day is yet unimpaired in its powers,...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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T HE approach of the Easter holy days has infused some energy actions of the booksellers. Besides the picture of the into the v est world, furnished by the Memoirs of Sir...

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FINE ARTS.

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Twer portion of the Tunbridge toy in Trafalgar Square appropriated to the national pictures, was opened to the public on Monday. The suite of rooms corresponds with that...