14 JANUARY 1832

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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THE trials at Bristol and Nottingham have occupied the public at- tention during the week; and in an especial manner the former, which involve questions of a higher interest,...

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O'ComrELL's plan for assembling the Irish representatives— Peers and Commoners—in

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Dublin, to discuss the Reform Bill, the Poor-laws, and every thing else, has signally failed. No Peer has attended at all; Lord LONDONDERRY has given the inviter a scolding, and...

The week has been remarkable for a rapid fall in

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the French Fkinds. To show clearly the amount of the fall, we shall give the highest and lowest prices from Saturday to Wednesday inclusive. They are as follows— FIVE PER...

Clo Court.

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THE King and the Queen have been confined to the Pavilion during the week, but we are happy to find, by the weather only — which, indeed, has offered few inducements to go...

The Globe of Thursday gave a very important document on

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the subject of the disputes between Holland and Belgium,—the answer of the Conference to the remonstrance of the King of Holland against the treaty of the twenty-four articles....

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On Tuesday morning, the payment of the quarterly dividends com- menced at the Bank of England. The dividends now due are on the 3 per Cent. Consols, the New 31- per Cents., the...

OLD BAILEY.—Britket Calkin, the young woman accused of murder- ing,

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by suffocation, a child named Margaret Duffey, on the 3d December last, was tried on Saturday. The facts elicited on the trial did not differ from what had been previously told...

George Potts or Page, who WaS examined at Bow Street

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on Friday, charged with having been concerned in the great robbery of the Glas- gow Bank in December 1830, and ordered to be committed in the mean time as a returned transport,...

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THE COURTS OF WESTMINSTER.

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TUE Judges went down to Westminster Hall on Wednesday, in pro- , -ession, as is the custom on the first day of Hilary Term. The Equity and Common Law Judgas vere followed by the...

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COURT-MARTIAL ON COLONEL BRERETON. THIS important court-martial commenced on Monday, in the Mer- chant's Hall. The members of court took their places a little after eleven...

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BRISTOL SPECIAL COMMISSION.

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THERE have been a number of trials before the Bristol Commission since our last Number, but mostly of trifling importance. That of Davis, accused as a leader of the rioters,...

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Government has agreed with the Directors of the Norwich and

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Lowestoft Navigation to advance the required loan of 50,0001. to com- plete the works, and it is expected that rapid progress will be made with them in the ensuing...

IRELAND.

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A declaration "for the voluntary support of religion, " is now in pro- gress of signature in the parish of the Holy Trinity, Cork. The de- (Aeration . stathit'COnstrained ....

NOTTINGHAM COMMISSION.

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WE mentioned in the second edition of our last Number, the trial and . conviction of a young man named George Beck, as concerned in the destroying and burning of Burton Mill ;...

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PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.

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Newcastle. Gateshead. Jan. 5, Remaining 120 98 New Cases 10 15 —6, 47 8 —7, 19 6 —8, 29 7 9, — 10 11 —10, 13 9 —11, 20 1 Total Cases 268 155 Jan. 5, Recoveries 5 19 —6, 45 22...

The quarantine regulation issued by the ,Spanish Government does not

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epply.to vessels sailing from the West coast of England, but is con- fined to the East coast, including vessels from Yarmouth, to within fifty leagues along the East coast to...

,Ontall EMI. • - Mr. William - Vesey Fitzgerald, by the

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recent death of his mother, the Baroness Fitzgerald, has succeeded to the dignity of an Irish peer- age, the barony of Fitzgerald and Vesey, His Lordship's father, the Right...

SCOTLAND.

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The Carlisle Journal says that the little flaxen-headed Duke of Brie- clorgh is, by his agents, making very strenuous efforts (moving heaven and earth, is the phrase) to get up...

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The examination of Candidates for the degree of Bachelors of

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Arts commenced yester- day minting. The following is an alphabetical list of the first four classes. First Cl«ss—Bromby, Suit.; Cookson, Pet.; Cotterill, Joh.; Hamilton, 'Prin.;...

THE DUKE OF BOURBON'S WILL.

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THE discussion on the suit of nullity was resumed on the 6th ; when M. Lavaux finished his argument for Madame de Peucheetis, and M. Dupin the younger made a powerful and...

THE CHURCH.

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The Lord Bishop of Lincoln intends to hold his next Ordination at Buckden on Sunday the 18th of March. Candidates are requested to send their papers thither to his Lordship...

BURYING ALIVE—DISSEMINATION OF CONTAGION.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 81k—A considerable time since, I was favoured by your inserting in the Spec- tator some remarks on Vaccination, from my humble pen ; and I have...

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MuLtnects and ASTIFORTH. Birmingham, pearl-ornament-makers-Sim and Homes'. Liverpool, hide-merchants-J. WORTHY

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and J. WORTHY, Exeter, merchants-SHEPHERD and Here.:ken:a Exeter, merchants-KNrouv and Noaeost, New Sarum, cabinet-makers -WATSON and CO. Leeds, dvers-HoLe and Ross, Barnstaple,...

BIRTHS, 'MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. On the 8th inst. at Hall

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Grove, the Lady Loctsa Le. or a da , tliter. On the Gth inst. at Farnham Castle, t he Lady of a' WINCHESTER, of a daughter. On the 5th inst. the Lady of the Rec. WILMANT NT:NN,...

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We announced some weeks ago, that the game was up

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with Lord ASHLEY; and that, unless the Cloaks Street people came forward with a second subscription, he would not venture on contesting Mr. PONSONnY'S better title to the seat...

The Standard on Monday forgot its politeness and good humour,

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because, in a Postscript paragraph of six lines, we had jestingly hinted that the tirade against the King, contained in its Peerage leader of last Saturday, bordered on that...

MUSICAL CHAT.

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MEYERBEER'S new opera Robert le Diable is now at the height of its popularity at Paris. Report speaks of it as a composition of more genius than even ll Crociato. 'We understand...

POSTSCRIPT.

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THE nail mail received last • night mentions theacceptance of the Budget by the States-General at the Hague. It also describes the Dutch and the Belgians as prepared at all...

A MERRY NEW YEAR, OR THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON!

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Who comes first in thy dark train, first day of the season? me WINTER, in snowy cloak, so cold, grim, and drear ; To stop tax-plundered, pension-robbed, wretches front—treason...

The Oratorios this year will be at Drury Lane, really

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under Mr. BISHOP ' S direction. We think it right thus to express our- selves, as we were led to believe • that such would have been thd case last year, little dreaming that he...

SUICIDE OF COLONEL BRERETON.

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The Court-Martial OH Colonel Brereton is at an end; that unhappy gentleman shot himself on Friday morning. It had been remarked in Court, that he seemed deeply distressed by the...

THE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.

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The Its;stol Commission drew to a close yesterday. The concluding trials wet',' of no interest. One miserable-looking young man was found guilty of rioting on the Saturday...

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While the columns of the Post register, with scrupulous fidelity,

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the fashionable parties of our nobles by birth, we may be allowed to record a delightful, celebration of a day annually devoted to domestic festivity, by a family possessing in...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols closed on Saturday at 838; Exchequer Bills at 7s. to 9s. prem.; Bel g ian Stock, the contract price of which is now reported to have...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE names of the new Peers are not yet published, nor is the number 'announced. It has been said that the Earl of SCARY heads a list of about sixty, which will be drawn upon by...

In the Harmonicon for December, appeared a letter, from some

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anonymous correspondent, stating that "rumours were afloat of a very tempestuous meeting of the members of the Philharmonic Society; that a member, of the most essential...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Nandi, from Bengal to Liverpool, put back previous to the 4th September totally dismasted. Arrived—Off Mar g ate, Ian. 12th, Lord Eldon, Dawson, from Bengal. Lord Melville,...

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VAPOUR-BATHS.

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AMONG the remedies for cholera, or perhaps we should rather say, attempted remedies, the vapour-bath is conspicuous over all the other means of cure external and internal :...

FINAL EXPLOSION OF THE SINKING FUND.

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THE bubble of the Sinking Fund, which floated so long before the charmed eyes of the anti-economists, was effectually burst by the rude puff that it received from old Professor...

STANDARD COMEDY AT COVENT GARDEN.

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THE regular comedy has this week made its appearance at Covent Garden, in the form of the School for Scandal. He who ought to write comedies, is the man who, of all his...

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NEW DRAMA AT DRURY LANE.

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WHEN a new play is brought to the assistance of' a pantomime at the end of the second week, we augur the declining success of the latter; but the "musical drama" called My Own...

LYELL'S PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY.

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Tins is the history of Nature in its widest sense. Just as the phi- losophical antiquary collects the dubious evidences of the history of a society during its dark and uncertain...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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GEOLOGY, Principles of Geology ; being an attempt to explain the former Chan g es of the Earth` Surface by reference to causes now in operation. By Charles Lye% F.R.S. Vol. H...

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NIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE.

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Tins is a series of stories, connected by the ordinary agency of a family of different ages and pursuits, who are respectively called upon for their experience. The largest, and...

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MARY COLLING'S POETRY.

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MARY MARIA COLLING, of Tavistock, in Devonshire, is another instance of a poet springing from the ranks of servitude. The daughter of a labourer, brought up with the scanty...

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NEW MUSIC.

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Historical Ballads and Songs, embracing the most striking incidents in the annals of the United Kingdom, chronologically arranged, on a plan to con- vey instruction as well as...

BOOKS ON THE TABLE.

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1. Letters on Dancing, by E. A. THELEUR. This is a very splendid quarto volume, on that methodical management of the , muscles which men agree to call Dancing. It might be...

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The Grand National Reform March, for the Pianoforte.

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This is a march, as the titlepage informs us ; but in what way it deserves its characteristic adjunct, excepting that it is a slow march, we are unable to comprehend.

Old Friends with New Faces; a Selection of our most

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popular National Airs, newly arranged Jiff the Flute, with occasional Variations and Embel- lishments. By THOMAS LINDSAY. NO. I. " Opinion," says Mr. LINDSAY in his preface to...

" Our village home ;" a Ballad. By Mrs. Tvitlinui.i.

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' A pretty composition for a lady. In the sixth bar of the second page, the F sharp is wanting both in the air and the accompaniment.

" There's Male in the Air ;" a Glee for

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four Voices. By T. H. SEVERN. This is the first glee of Mr. SEVERN'S we have seen, and it is a clever composition. It betrays some marks of inexperience in this style of...

" 0 yes, I often think of her;" a Ballad.

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The Words by Captain CHARLES a RAT ; the Music by T. REED. A graceful and pleasing melody, judiciously arranged. The first strain of MOZART'S" Colombo, o tortorella," was,...