16 FEBRUARY 1839

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT has been occupied with a great variety of subjects. It is easy to lay bills upon the table, and produce sketches of measures which the authors may be incompetent to...

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Drbatu, anti 13roactincts Ilt Varliamtnt.

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Loan prnitAli's It EPOLT. YE1.1101:ItNE, 011 Monday, laid on the table of the Ilouse of papers he promised to produce last week, relative to Canada, eels-11u! , ,' the Report...

tiia the approachin g elections in France are carried

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on with fl.dlt parties continue to speak with c ontidt .. . inereasiry., their stren g th ; but if the Opposition only et a. eel ;u inaintainin, their g round, the . ..Ministry...

New York papers, dated the 27th of January ' came to

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hand on New York papers, dated the 27th of January ' came to hand on Werhes.ey. Five of the rebel prisoners had f been executed at bear: sed if.e at 'Windsor in Upper Canada ;...

;',•:.!o India nwntion, that Lord AUCKLAND had hail an !..11:ET

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SING ; who adheres tinily to the En g lish ahli:t.i••c. trders had been sent to Madras from Calcutta to eni- leiri. 1;./rell 11■1. Ilurtnah. It was rumoured that the...

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Qrourt.

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Qiiceu, attended by Lady Portman, visited the Princess Sophia at Kensington Palace on Monday. Viscount Melbourne called in the morning and dined in the evening. Viscount...

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At the Bow Street Office, on Tuesday, a Mrs. Gibbs.

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of Belt' sal Street, Covent Garden, was fined forty shillings and costs fin. spreacliag ashes on tile pavement before her door to prevent any aid lilt the frost. The Magistrate...

Zbe Siartropolis.

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At a meeting of the Court of Common Connell, on Thussdsy. letter was read frau Fox stating. that the Metropeihne Police Bill wmild embrace other desirable improvements in...

Ii the Iflourt of Qacen's beneit, 2.1ca ps..,.si s ter of the S

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eCrisi 1)■."\.,1111i)121' Wits found guilty of a Sib,:ii aisss, s ., wife of to "sleinhso: for ileverie", - . A fele .es :rim: lel i• cis., lit; icy-,, ebtaliest ill lacole...

14/i5trIlancaus%

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Lord MorFetli is now a member of the Cabinet. Ilk' first summons to attend a Cal,inet Connell tin S.Iturday. Mr. Menlo has at length been appointed :t Baron of the Exchequer,...

IRELAND.

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is tI c-al, :. • •- h hi, Ball in the rei....5 , ,t•nta,i0,1 imme!. 2%1.... Pi • t that of a eau:itnis with ell :•;,.•.• ta ecices, :Se , sose-si•al. pre..mt...

,t: • c k • : t :IX :". :1 \vas :"0.1.1S — • 1

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,‘•., Is tut, . I . o'111111y I " i • I , • ! :11 ..; t, :•• sal b h . : that I . 1 .,; .,• : ! ; : •••;; , •• h • • • 1,"•• ' • -...

wbc probilltr5.

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Sir II:if:ire Pord‘in was elected, on Tuesday, ill , 1...1:er for Sareilwielt, and Tl.e Ma:.eliester (:leiticlier of (.:C.11:1:1(..I.:4? . . '_/'anti. trk)%vtlal 1m•c:ing,...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Lord DURHAM was again baited in the House of Lords last night by the combined Ministerial and.Tory forces, even Lord BROUGHAM slyly assisting the malignants. But...

The peculiar interest attaebe.I to the Earl DURHAM'S Report on

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the Afthiro of British North America, and its vast importance as the basis of future legislation, pre. chided the ilea of dealing with it as with an ordinary state paper, by...

• Sir Francis Head has announced, in a published letter

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to Lord Mel- 'bourne. his intention of laying before the public a vindication of his proceedings in Upper Canada. Ile conceives that by submitting to Parliament the remarks on...

We intimated to our Polish correspondents last week, that it

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would be impossible to find room for their long communications occasioned by Ostrowski's letter ; and upon a reperusal of the documents, and another on the subject, received...

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A vexatious opposition to Mr. Wakley's claims to the office

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of Coro- ner for Middlesex has been got up,'Ioy persons - whose candidate is a Mr! Adey. This gentleman's chance of success may be guessed at from the result of Thursday's,...

The Anti-Corn-law Delegates have been working like men of busi-

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ness during the week. Petitions, with many thousand signatures, have been received from the country, and exhibited at the meetings. Depu- tations have waited upon Ministers and...

EAST N1)IA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Deal, Pith. 1.1111, 1'ark1101.1, Jacob, nom 1."•ina. Off 111,1Mcs, 13:11, Ainwell, Hesse, :lout Nlatiritins. At Liverpool, 13th, Heart or M' I Pori Ala, fralll...

Lord GLENELG'S successor at the Colonial Office has not, up

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to this time, been officially announced ; though the Ministerial papers have authoritatively stated that the Marquis of NORMANRY is the man. Sir GEonoE GREY, Lord GLENELG'S...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK E7VtrANOE, F',-,'r r von% The improvement of the Money Market has continued during thi , week ; and the current quotation of most descriptions of English Stock is :It per...

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THE CANADA CORRESPONDENCE : LORD GLENELG'S DISMISSAL.

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Lotto Dranam's Despatches to Lord Giscsm.o and Sir CEORGE ARTHUR, together with two or three from Lord lit.aNsmo, form the only interesting portion of the 400 folio pages of "...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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:MR. VILLIERS'S PRELIMINARY MOTION ON Tim CORN-LAWS. Tim Corn-law question has been reduced to a definite shape, and will attempt to make its way into the House of Commons on...

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FALSE ALARM OF TIIE COLONIAL Bum BuitE . An•RAcy .

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FOR the first time in its history. " Office, - 1;;;;,z S moo calls his dominion in Downing - Street, has been made to feel sonic degree of ' responsibility. Sir WIT.LIAM ,...

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LUNACY CASES.

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LUNACY cases are usually—indeed in their very nature—such a jumble of law, physic, and divinity, that it is no wonder if they cause perplexity to judges and irritation to...

NEED OF IMPROVING THE SCOTTISH COURTS OF JUSTICE.

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IT is difficult for any person to persuade himself that what he finds gainful, hurts the community. If his income is laboriously ob- tained—if he works hard at that which is...

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The "new" afterpiece at Covent Garden is one of POCOCK'S

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post- humous productions, made up of the stock properties time out of mind the inheritance of professional playwrights. The King and the Duke are two French officers, mistaken...

THE THEATRES.

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Tar, three new pieces, produced at the St. James's on Monday, are of the slightest possible texture ; but they suffice to please the not very fastidious audiences attracted by...

MOSCHELES' " MATINEE MUSICALE."

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Mu. MOSCHELES has resumed his most agreeable as well as useful course of ke-ed instrument instruction, (for his range now extends back to the irginal age,) substituting the...

MORI AND LINDLEY'S QUARTET CONCERTS.

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THE attempt to attract an audience to an exhibition of solo instru- mental performances, which originated with 13LAGROVE and Lucas, was speedily followed by Mont, who, in the...

The new burletta at the Olympic, called Our cousin German,

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is a new version of a piece with the title of " Best Intentions," in which MATHEWS the elder personated 4 similar character to this of the German cousin, Herr Wittihind, played...

The Musical Performances by the Band from the English Opereiouse,

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announced at Covent Garden for the Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent, are forbidden by the Lord Chamberlain. What sanctimonious folly VESTRIS and the Olympic company are playing on...

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• VENABIES' DONIESTIC SCENES IN RUSSIA.

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sionally minute on m. , ,tters in . : , Ling little save the perAmal eon. venienees of the t■.tivi. , t, this wm.rk adds consi:lerably to our know. ledge of' of being taken to...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, nonit'Stie Scenes is Itu=sin : itt a Seri..s of Lett..rst describing a Year's Bet:Wear- in tint Country, chi •Ily in the laterior. ity Btu ltev. R. Lister Venable:,...

" MEMENTO .310111."

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Regent Strmd, 12th February. Regent Strmd, 12th February. 3Ir. Error;—Seltee a list of "gontl things" announced for last 1londtly evening at the lie mover Sqtetre Rooms, I...

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M • MAHON'S JAMAICA PLANTEESIIIP.

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...‘FMAnoN is an Irishman, who left his country in 1818, as a N'Oltlith'et in the service of the . S ., uth American Patriots ; but be- c • olnilttc(Iissittiqied with their...

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WILLIAM GARDINER'S MUSIC AND FRIENDS.

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THESE volumes are the recollections of a Leicester stockinginaker, whose memory has furnished matter for two very amusing, and in some respects instructive, volumes. The...

DR. VAUGHAN ' S RELIGIOUS PARTIES IN ENGLAND.

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THE nucleus of this book was a sermon, preached in January 1838, at Union Street Chapel, Southwark—the oldest, or claiming to be the oldest Independent congregation in...

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TI1E " PEOPLE'S EDITION" Or BURNS.

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WHENEVER we reflect upon the number, variety, character, and cheapness of the editions of standard works which are continually coming betbre us, our constant self-interrogation...

MUSIC.

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Re're:ries vs. Six Balt nits, par G. This titiesag:2 is altogether calculated to As the work is %%lay to hat e ',wen its tiff. , ;titles:, the rintbliestion in London be...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Bouso Boosts. The Siholan System; founded on Geological Researches in the Counties of Salop, Her e ford, Radnor, 'Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pent. broke, 'Monmouth,...

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FINE ARTS.

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BRITISH INSTIILTION. Trio impression that this exhibition miss; prods:es Ira all wllo are con- versant with British art. is that of a medley or odds and cols Of the easel. A...