16 APRIL 1836

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE House of Commons met again after the Easter recess on Monday ; and immediately proceeded to the discharge of what Ministers are apt to consider its most useful function—the...

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It is still a matter of uncertainty whether MENDIZABAL will

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be able to maintain his ground in the midst of the difficulties which press upon him on all sides. He admitted, when attacked in the Chamber of Procuradores, that his efforts to...

Count D'Aaaour obtained a committee of the French Chamber of

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Deputies favourably disposed towards any Ministerial project ; but the report even of this committee is expected to be un- favourable towards his scheme for taxing beet-root...

laebatest atilt 3roceellings1 in Parliament. 1. THE IRISH POLICE.

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In the House of Peers, on Tuesday, Lord DUNCANNON moved the second reading of the Iri sh Constabulary Bill. He explained the chief provisions of the measure very briefly, and in...

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ebr Caurt.

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THE King came to town on Wednesday, and held his Levee at St. James's Palace. Among the company, which was not large, were the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Anglesea, Earl...

A meeting of three hundred gentlemen, convened by private circular'

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was held on Thursday in Exeter Hall, for the purpose of giving ex- tension and increased efficiency to the Protestant Association formed in June 1835, and whose existence has...

tic ifirtrapaItt.

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The members of the City of London Conservative Association, with a considerable number of invited guests, dined at Covent Garden Theatre on Wednesday. For nn hour or two the...

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There was a contest in the parish of Bishopsgate on

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Thursday respecting the election of an Organist ; when the Church party succeeded in appointing Mr. Cope, by a majority of 89 to 73. In the parish of St. Mary, Newington, the...

A meeting of the -Court of Common Council wa§ held

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on Monday when petitions to Parliament, against the bill for removing the market now held at Smithfield to Islington, were adopted; after a long speech from Deputy Hicks, who...

At the Taunton Assizes, on Saturday, an action for a

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libel, brought by Mr. Peter Borthwick, M.P. for Evesham, against the proprietors of the Bath Guardian, was tried before Baron Bolland and a Special -Jury. The libel was said to...

In the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Robert Salmon, whose

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conviction on a charge of improperly administering Alorison's pills was mentioned last week, was sentenced to pays, fine of 200/. to the King ; which was immediately discharged,...

the Countrn.

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Mr. O'Connell dined at York on Thursday, the 7th, with a party of 300 "Reformers. After dinner, he addressed the company with his accustomed eloquence and success on the topics...

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lhatlinick Browne has he , it ilini!er at Peer, with die

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title of of Lord Oratittiore ; and hums a Varallry is created to the representa. tier of the county of Mayer. Several candid:les have beets hauled; entente them, Air....

SCOTLAND.

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As the messing of the rooks portends a storm, it is worth while to mention that the cunning baronet (Sir George Clerk) has come down from London, and commenced a cativess in...

The Tories were much chagrined by the refused of the

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Duke of Wellington to attend their grand dinner on Wednesday : they stated that public business was the cause of his Grace ' s absence; but while Mr. Hoare and Mr. O'Sullivan...

The Brighton Guardian states that there is not at present

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a single pauper in Horsham Workhouse, although this is the house for the reception of the able-bodied paupers oldie whole union, comprising ten pari , lies; nor is there within...

IRELAND.

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The'' powder " has been " kept dry " in Dublin to some purpose. The statue of William the Third, in College Green, was blown up early in the morning of the 7th ; to the great...

f+lidrellaticatt1.

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It is stated positively in the Ministerial papers, that Dr. Allen is to be Bishop of Bristol, Dr. Butler Bishop of Lichfield, and Dr. Shut- deworth Bishop of Ripon. We presume...

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The commencement of the Exeter Hall Festival of llandelian Music

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is treated of in another page. At the chess or yeinco perform- ance, last night, something was dune to obviate the lateness of the second pint, by omitting a number of the...

The I 'out ier state it, that Sir Fu,‘'soitts: is

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to Sio'reed 0,30114.1 ART1114: it , I ilit't•InOf or Van Ph.tricit's ; and that Sir Ph:Ar- t:RINE .11.4 414.AND is to proceed to Aligit'ils

The Irish Protestants are raising a sid..eription to restore the

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suttee ctf Wit.t.ta:.1 the Third it, I tablin ; least so says the Sionebtrd. Would it not tie hour to replace the fractured and co:a- ft:Wed statue with a new and somul ni n e...

FRENCH PLAYS.

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Tin: "'retell Play , have commenced this season wider Elimut auspices. The St. James's Tlentre is a ("trim; temple for the groin , of 21I01.11.111: to preside over, and JENNY...

A idtendeil by nil the llinisters, was lieu1 at the

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Foreign (Alive this Inca eing.

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SATEitii.vy ccoi !•:11.er. copied into the New York 1 root tonif, the Isteiniturs of the have I'll scut in their resig. natio! , le !H. h •h■ snt•s--'' Sit Friiiicit. !lead...

1lta.'41t I , :ter to the .i.b.rhing ?men Oh 11 , 1: iek

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.r ill years, lea, a v, v " A Ider- Mali, hilt 15-,l nn t: !I r. %vie, lips hit( firma .1 in the Tory pap.•r.. as Ow tel inset. lir 1:;fraqint. The raih , st rd . the I wo...

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We lately mentioned the expected appointment of Dr. Lost:LEY, of

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1 farrow, to it bishopric. '1 hat atrangement has not yet been com- pleted ; and before the congi" d'i'kes is actually issued, we would ask Lord MEhnocaNE whether he has really...

EAST INI)IA Anisol -- At t;raves , nd. April Lith, 5....stilbia,111':Sair, fowl

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China; 11'11. A 1: ,1 1, 405. At lE•51. !till, Flinn; Col'.41•41. from 11.it I itals ; Ia. ii,•11, ir.na tin' Ilie i(Lt, hilaha... Pori., 1411i, 1 nano, Ilmtmo. from...

'f he Dublin Elertion Committee are not yet released from

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their labours. Two homer:int decisions have been given this week : CHU in favour of the sitting Members tigailist the legality of thuGrand Jury cess for 18:35; and...

111/ MONEY MARKET. ST.)I7K 1.:SeilAtrOlt, FRIDAY Airrseeeem..

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The Coeueol Market has experieneed a decline, and is generally much heavier than it has been for some time. The real cause of this depression is. wo be- lieve, to be found in...

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undertaken by the State. We might object to such a

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departure 4. The Commissioners recommend that the convict-colonies in England from the principle of laissez nous faire. But do the —the great jails of New South Wales and Van...

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THE LAW OF PRIMOGENITURE: MR. EWART'S MOTION.

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MR. EWART'S motion for leave to introduce a bill for dividing the landed property of intestate persons equally among their chil- dren or next of kin, deserves notice. In the...

PENALTY OF THE JUDICIAL PEERAGE.

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Moss. opportunely with reference to Lord CorreNHAsfs Bill for depriving the Chancellor in the House of Lords of his jurisdiction in appeals against his own judgments elsewhere,...

TORY FESTIVAL AT COVENT GARDEN.

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THE Tories of the City mustered in great force at Covent Garden Theatre on Wednesday. The set-out was splendid, and nothing that the pocket could command was needed. Not less...

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l'ARON DOLLAND AND THE PRESS.

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IN areviove: ce'etans w e 1 a •- e an aeco t.f the trial at Ta r' ••'•'l i , t a vettl•et with Had. dam:tees against CI.. ■•f ::,tn (ea-eV/ere for it !Wel on Mr. PETER...

EXETER HALL FESTIVAL.

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We have long thought and said, that the right impulse to musical taste i;1 this couatry will be given by the middle classes. Any combined eillet from the Aristocrecy in its...

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PHILHARAIONIC CONCERTS.

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SOME managers are so steeped in ignorance, that advice—even flagella. tion—availeth nought to turn them from the wrong course into the right. Nut so the Philharmonic Directors,...

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THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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THE real Opera company arrived last week ; and the season began on Saturday, with La Gazza Ladra ; in which Geist, RUBINI, TAMBURINI, and LABLACHE, sustained the principal...

ROGERS'S LIFE OF HOWE.

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ALTHOUGH not less celebrated and perhaps more influential in his day than BAXTER, HOWE is at present not so popularly known. Some of this difference in the posthumous reputation...

The whole faubourg of St. Germain has just been thrown

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into great agitation by an impending scandalous lawsuit, which, after thirty years of peaceful enjoyment of it, is about to deprive of a fortune of 30,000,000fr. a noble,...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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HISTORY. The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley. K.G. during his Administration in India. Edited by Mr. Montgomery Martin. Vol. I. Murray....

THE BALLET.

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THE name of GRISI, great as it is in song, bids fair to become no less celebrated in the dance. A cousin of the Geist, CARLOTTA by name, made her debut at the King's Theatre on...

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THE DESPATCHES OF THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY.

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WHEN preparing the second edition of the first volume of his History of the British Colonies, Mr. MONTGOMERY MARTIN became " more strongly than ever impressed with the...

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BARROW'S TOUR ROUND IRELAND.

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THE previous volumes of Mr. BARROW have chiefly derived their interest from the nature of the people and the scenery amongst which he travelled, and the distinct though not...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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"Boz" has commenced a periodical under the title of the Pick- wick Club ; which feigns to be a record of the sayings, doings, and adventures of a knot of aspiring Cocknies,...

Anecdotes of the Family Circle, is the First Number of

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an in- tended series of ana, which the editor appears to hope may derive some novelty from a classification, if they possess none in them- selves. The contents of the volume...

SOUTHEY'S COWPER.

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THE third volume of SOUTHEY'S edition of COWPER completes the Lfe and commences the Letters. Of the latter it is unnecessary to speak ; they are beyond the need or the power of...

The Reverend HENRY S'TEBIIING is well known as a rhetorical

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divine, whose fluent emphasis of style passes with many for the higher qualities of animation and vigour. His History of the Reformation (LARDNEWS Cabinet Cyclopedia) will...

The Professions, is a series of satires on Law, Physic,

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and Divinity, and the Army and Navy ; one satire being devoted to each profession. The writer apologizes for his verse ; but his verse is the best part about hint : had his...

We are no admirers of the bit-by-bit principle in any

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thing; and the Aphorisms if Junius, which Mr. G. T. FISHER has been at the pains of selecting from that extraordinary writer, is not the kind of argument to convince us of our...

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ALFRED CHALON'S miniature whole-length portrait of Lord Lynd- hurst, admirably

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lithographed by LANE, is just so much of a resemblance as to enable us to guess without looking at the inscription whom it is intended to represent. CHALON has taken twenty...

t The Fifty-sixth Number of the Family Library commences a

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very difficult undertaking—the adaptation of JOHN WESLEY'S Compendium of Natural Philosophy to the state of science in the present day. When it is remembered that little was...

Mr. EFFINGHAM WILSON has published a new edition of the

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Parliamentary Test-Book, with division-lists on some important questions, and corrections and additions, so as to complete the work to the present month. Our readers are aware,...

TURNER'S ENGLAND AND WALES.

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THIS splendid publication comes so rarely under our cognizance, and' its merits are of so high an order, that we cannot be content to let it pass among the rank and file of our...

FINE ARTS.

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WE chanced to see the other day a cabinet-picture of " Shylock after the Trial," by ALEXANDER CHRISTIE ; which, as the first work of a painter almost self-taught, is of such...

Should any one desire to make himself acquainted with affairs

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at Bristol in respect to the past state and present condition of the charges on its trade, the best mode, in the opinion of a very active and industrious " Burgess," of...

The Catholicon is so exclusively devoted to Roman Catholic affairs

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and controversial matters, that it has little general interest. The learning and acuteness displayed will give it value with per- sons, of whatever creed, who arc fond of...