16 SEPTEMBER 1837

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The civil war in Portugal seems to be on a

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very insignificant scale. The contending armies, as they are called, only number about a thousand men each. It is almost laughable to hear of SALDANHA withdrawing his troops...

The Paris papers state that there were no hopes of

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an accom- modation with the Bey of Constantine; and that the Duke DE NEMOURS was to depart from Paris for Toulon yesterday, to join the expedition which was to overwhelm the...

Late accounts from the borders of the Black Sea report

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that in several conflicts with the Circassians the Russian troops had been severely worsted.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THERE is a slight stir in the political atmosphere, for which we have to thank the Tories. Apparently, the project for raising sub,criptions to oust the Irish Liberal Members...

The Spanish intelligence consists of a variety of details, fre-

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quently contradictory, of the marches and countermarches of the opposing forces. ESPARTERO had left Madrid and joined ORAA, with the intention, as usual, of doing something...

An extraordinary sessian of the Parliament of Lower Canada was

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opened on the 18th of last month, by the Earl of GOSFORD, Governor-in-Chief. On this occasion, his Excellency delivered a speech of unprecedented length ; which we give entire,...

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the British Parliament are accused of oppressive treatment of the

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" Since the end of the last session, several local acts have expired ; and I would Canadas. The resolutions, which are preceded by a long state- suggest for your consideration...

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Or Court.

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Tee company at Windsor, invited to meet the King and Queen of the Belgians, is very small, and consists almost exclusively of Whig Lords and Ladies. Lord Melbourne, Lord...

A fire broke out about four o'clock on Thursday morning,

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in an old wooden house and shop, No. 48, Strand, nearly opposite Agar Street. The frent part of the premises was occupied by Mr. Henry Harris, as an India-rubber and shell shop....

ebe Metropolis.

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The revision of the City of London electoral lists commenced yesterday ; but little progress was made. As regards the Liverymen, the claims of the Reformers arc GU, objections...

We have been favoured with the perusal of letters from

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Val- paraiso, of the latest date (the 10th June) received io this country. They state that, on the 3d of June, a body of the troops stationed at Quillata, and forming part of an...

At the Mansionhouse, on Wednesday, a French gentleman, M. Alphonse

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Alleaume, accompanied by "a lady of rank," whose name it not given, complained to the Lord Mayor of ill treatment by the police of Brussels. M. Alleaume, who is a Parisian, had...

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the Eountrp.

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The Honourable Henry Liddell, M- P. for North Durham, must be a person of considerable assurance. It will be recollected that this gentleman affected much virtuous indignation...

A correspondent of the Times mentions, that as he was

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passing Woolwich 111 the City of London steamer from Ramsgate, on Tues. day, a cannon-ball or a shell came whizzing just ahead of the vessel, and fell in the water about fifty...

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The Town-Council of Liverpool, on Wednesday week, unaninioutig approved of

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the conduct of the Corporation Schools under what is called the Irish systetn of Scriptural education. The parishioners of Braintree in Essex, having, by a large majority in...

A large party of the Reformers of North Devonshire dined

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together on Thursday, ut South Molton ; the Honourable Newton Fellowes in the chair. It was resolved at this meeting, that the most active mea- sures should be taken to put the...

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IRELAND.

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It will be recollected, that in consequence of the toast " The Battle of the Diamond" baring been drunk at an election-dinner given by Colonel Verner, M. P. for Armagh, Mr....

In the districts of Halifax, Bradford, and Huddersfield, the friends

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of equal rights to the whole commueity ore in 0 state of' activity. The report of the delegates from the London Working Metes Association is highly encouraging, and shows what...

The Dublin Evening Mail controverts the opinion given in the

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last Spectator, that, generally speaking, Ireland is more tranquil than it used to be under Tory rude; and refers us to Sligo, Longford, and Tipperary, which counties the Alai!...

Mr. O'Connell has declined, for the present, an invitation to

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a pril,lic dinner at Athlone, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Jelin O'Connell, Member for Athlone, in 'France. " Ile went there," says Mr. O'Connell, " to make some...

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Mr. More 0' Ferrell dined with a party of his

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constituents of the county of Kildare, at Naas, on Monday. There was some plain-speaking on the subject of tithes. The Reverend Mr. Doyle, parish-priest of Naas, declared that...

Siii . allanr tre.

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Monday being the day appointed for the return of the writs for the election of :Members to the new Parliament, both Houses met pro forma. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Holland, Lord...

Lord John Russell bad the credit of saying a smart

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thing last ses- sion about the " recant of patriotism ; " but his Lordship only quoted a wit of the last century. A correspondent refers us to Horace Wales pole's Letters for...

The Durham Chronicle positively contradicts the reports that Lord Durham

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is unwell. On the contrary, says that journal, " during the four.and.twenty years we Luce known his Lordship as a public man, we nevi r saw him looking co well. Ile is indeed...

SC‘)ILAND.

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At the Edinburgh registration, the Liberal claims admitted were 351, Tory 179. In Peeblesshire, Tory claims 85, Liberal 13; Tory • voters removed 4, Liberal 21. In Berwickshire,...

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A correspondence between Mr. Wallcott, Civil SeentarY W LOid

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Gosford, - and the celebrated Papineau, appears in the Montreal papers last received. M. Papineau attended a great Anti- Coerciou meeting at St. Laurent on the 12th of May, at...

The Morning Post has an account of the investigation before

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the Bergen police of the circumstances attending the thump on the Mar- quis of Waterford's noddle. It appears that the watchman, seeing him in the street with a girl wearing a...

The Examinee, last Sunday, let out that his soreness against

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this hi s is of a shopheeping kind ; and also that in his own " turning" his eye has been to profit. " 'They laugh who win." Being a winner, however, and withal strong, he...

During the excitement in Rome about the cholera, a young

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English- man, who seems to have belonged to some fanatical society, was bar- barously murdered, on the suspicion of being a distributor of poison. The following particulars are...

As the day approaches for the great St. Leger race

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at Doncaster, considerable interest is manifested at Tattersall's. On Thursday the following was the course of betting. Epirus and Puff have changed places, not much to the...

Mr. Owen Rees, so well known as a partner in

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the great publishing. house of Longman and Company, died suddenly on the 5th instant, at his seat, Gilligron, near Neath in Glamorganshire. We copy an obituary notice of Mr....

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The West Indies and the Southern coast of North America

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suffered severely from hurricanes about the end of July and the beginning of August. Twenty-three merchant-vessels, of various sizes, were wrecked off Barbadoes on the 26th of...

On Thursday, the Morning Chronicle put forth as a fact

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the following falsehood- " The aehnission II the enemy makes the Whig majority 37; and yet the Morning Post of yesterday asks how the Government of the country can be carried...

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POSTSCRI PT SATURDAY NIGHT. The affairs of the East of Europe excite considerable attention in Paris. A steamboat had been sent in haste from Toulon, with de- spatches to...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK ETCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions of the week have been quite unimportant, and the fluctua- tions of the Funds have been so trifling as scarcely to require any...

Tit 11.—We cannot use the documents sinless he allow tie

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an interview, however stru 2 the re:tee:is for his incognito may be. There are other modes besides " Com. odsadtmerships and Sccretaryships"—direct pensions. In the case of one...

The parishioners of Christchurch, Surry, decided this day, by a

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ma- jority of 139 votes polled under Sturges Bourne's Act, to postpone the motion for a church- rate of twopence in the pound to the 12th of Oc- tober. The Church party chose...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Rebecca. Williams, from Liverpool to Calcutta, was lost in the Ray of Bengal. the end of April. The Mary, Tureen, from Loudon to Calcutta was totally wrecked on Carg , los...

THE CHRONICLE OF MENDACITY.

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THE week has produced its specimens of lying, though not of a very heinous description.

The Augsburg Gazelle has an article from the " Frontiers

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of Italy," which contains Insinuations against the fidelity of ESPARTERO. and in- timates that the Queen Regent of Spain is anxious to get out of the country and take refuge...

The Times this morning publishes a correspondence between Sir HEMS):

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ilanDINGE, acting for Sir ROBERT PEEL, and Mr. Row- LAND ALSTON, its the friend of Captain TOWNSHEND, relative to the speech of Captain TOWNSHEND at the Temworth dinner, in...

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We received the Leeds Mercury of Saturday last, as usual

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; but not a word did it contain in reply to the distinct charge of falsehood and mis- representation made by the Spectator against that journal on the pre- vious Saturday. The...

FAILURE OF THE REFORM ACT.

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AN earnestly written and elaborate communication on the failure of the Reform Act, and the necessity of the Ballot, appeared in the Morning Chronicle yesterday. It was from a...

The Morning Post, thinking it unfair that the Ministerial journals

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should monopolize the trade of misrepresenting, and desirous of keep. ing up its character for smartnesp even at the expense of truth, pro- duced the following little lie on...

The Globe on Monday opened its lucubrations in these words-

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" Grand enure du P. re Duchesne ! The Spectator is in a splendi.1 passion. " Many things are permitted to a man in a passion ; but vilifying the Globe without reply is not one...

It appears from a Parliamentary return, that the amount expended

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in Commissions of Inquiry, from 1807 to 1836, both years inclusive, is 1,689,1361. Referring to the return, the Globe says- " Our readers will perceive from this document how...

The Morning Chronicle has found it inconvenient to notice our

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de- molition of the Examiner's lie of the 3d instant, which lie it carefully copied last week. This is the game that these Ministerial hacks keep up—one invents, the other...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE TWOPENNY POST. That Ninth Report of the Commissioners of Post-office Inquiry is full of' curious information on a department in the good or bad conduct of which more...

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SIR WILMOT HORTON AND THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON.

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Stu WILMOT HORTON is not just the mirror of Colonial Go- vernors, but be is one of our best. Ile is busy, bustling, and well-intentioned. lie is generally anxious to be right...

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TREATMENT OF THE ABORIGINAL INHABI- TANTS OF BRITISH SETTLEMENTS.

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REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ABORIGINES, WITI1 THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, APPENDIX, AND INDEX. (Ordered ly the House a f Commons to be printed, 26th June 1837.) SIR JOIIN...

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Fnost the remarks of the Ministerial papers, it might almost

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be sup. posed that Mr. Rola:rex was the only Liberal candidate defeated in the late contests. It appears to be entirely forgotten that he had a coadjutor in General PALMER, a...

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Some stir has been made in Paris by the discovery

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that the statues by David on the portico of the Pantheon, from which time wood-work which concealed them was only removed last week, are those of Voltaire, Rousseau, Mintbeau,...

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

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THE performance of :MENDELssonN's St. Paid, in Exeter Hall, on Tuesday evening, by the Sacred Harmonic Society, did honour to the zeal and ability of that spirited institution....

THE THEATRES.

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THE Lyceum has become less musical and more melodramatic, but con- tinues as prosperous as before. Miss ROMEIt took her benefit onMonday, and had such a bumper that its...

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LAFAYETTE'S MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE.

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AN amiable man in private life, a consistent and well-intentioned politician in public, and acting a remarkable and conspicuous part in historical events of magnitude and...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, Memoirs. Correspondence. and Manuscripts of General Lafayette. Published by his Family. Vols. I. II. III. Saunders find Otte y. Ft mote. The Vicar of Wrexhill. Ily...

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THE 'VICAR OF WREXHILL.

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Man. TROLLOPS cannot write a book without libelling and cari- caturing some class or other. The present subjects of her trading spite are that section of the Church of England...

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he considers their supercession beneficial ; because the education

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this very interesting statement; where was th e visit made, Mr. White? " and British Schools : for the monitors are very little in advance of " Even here, Sir," replied Mr....

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MR. HATBOX'S THIRD AND LAST LETTER TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL

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ON THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Tilt picture of the Academic character and practices, so forcibly and humorously drawn in this letter, is faithful, and not overcharged. Haenos, us usual,...

MUSICAL REVIEW.

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Article " Music," ix (lie new edi a ti r unc4the Encyckpredia Britannica, Part 8 In glancing over the last-published Part of the Encyclopaedia Bri- tunnica, we lighted on a...

FINE ARTS.

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THE Queen has appointed Mr. SAMUEL. PROUT principal painter in water colours to her Majesty ; an honour well bestowed and well deserved. Paour is one of the old school of water...

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CLOTHING Or STATUES.

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" How ought statues to be clothed ?" is a quostio ve.rata with modern sculptors ; and one that the community are more interested in being rightly determined than most abstract...

London, 11th September 1837. MY LORD-.4 appeal to Sir DAVID,

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Sir RICHARD, Sir FRANCIS, Sir GEOFTRY. Sir WILLIAM, Sir A I:GUSTUS, Sir ROBERT, Sir CHARLES, Sir JOHN, and Sir MARTIN—was there ever such a galaxy of knights ! ABTHU IL and his...