17 JUNE 1837

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. NEWS-OF THE WEEK.

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THE Downing Street people have been jubilant on the result of Mondiey's muster in the House of Commons. Indeed these gen- tlemen are grateful for small things. Lord JOHN RUSSELL...

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policy has been entirely overthrown. Such is a general picture

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of .., CAPITAL, 500,000 Dollars. the state of money matters in the American Union. We shall [5 Cents) A crowded meeting of the merchants of New York was held in the Masonic...

in power. The present arrangement is not expected to last.

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The compelled to suspend specie payments also.

concluded in Africa with ARDEL KADER. of the United States

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will be ready to cooperate with the Treasury in that

a'ose. At that time, and since, the Morn- which, though

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chartered in other States, depend chiefly upon New:York for ing Chronicle and other Ministerial journals were sanguine in their sale ; that the immense amount of merchandise in...

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The latest intelligence from Lower Canada is of a serious

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com- plexion. The entire province has been violently excited by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S " atrocious Resolutions." Public meetings have been, or were about to be, held in every...

£3thatc4 arils tIrotaltingd in parhaincitt.

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CHURCH LANDS. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord JOFIN RUSSELL moved, "That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire him the mode of granting and renewing leases of the...

Demerara papers to the 11th of April have been received.

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The following is an extract from the speech of the Governor, Sir JAMES &WITH, on closing the session of the Colonial Parliament. It proves that matters are not in a very...

The merchants and bankers of the United States were naturally

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eager to create the impression that a speedy resumption of specie payments would take place. In a published letter to JOHN Quirsey ADAMS, Mr. BIDDLE, President of the United...

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etc flictrapalts. A large party of Tories dined together, on

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Wednesday, in the pavi- lion erected for their accommodation by Messrs. Cubitt in Gray's Inn Road, to celebrate the formation of the City of London Conservative Association....

Int Cuurt, THE King lingers in a dangerous, if not

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hopeless, state. On Sun- day, he wit: reported to be so much better that preparations were com- menced far removing him to Brighton ; but on Ihronday it appeared from the...

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For the last sixteen years, two brothers and three sisters,

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named Cunningham, have resided at No. 129, East Street, and procured their living by mending china, fke. About three weeks since, one of the sisters died, and was buried by Mr....

Mr. Rowland Wilks has been appointed Superintendent Registrar of the

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four districts of the parish of St. Luke, Middlesex. Mr. Rowland Wilks has been appointed Superintendent Registrar of the four districts of the parish of St. Luke, Middlesex....

At Bow Street, on Wednesday, Dr. Paine, of College Street,

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West- minster, appeared to answer a charge of breaking the peace, on which he had been given into custody the night before, by Mr. Laing, the Police Magistrate of Hatton Garden....

be Cowan.

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The time for attending to the registration is very near. On the 20th of June the Overseers publish their notices, calling upon all who are qualified to vote for County Members...

In the Sheriffs' Court, on Tuesday, a Jury was summoned

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to assess damages in the case of Magian' versus Cox, for a libel ; the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared from the speech of Sergeant Talfourd, who...

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On Monday week, a meeting of 10,000 persons was held

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in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, when inflammatory speeches against the Poor-law were delivered. After the meeting, a body of rioters broke open the Workhouse at...

iiiitictibutratt1.

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The Tyne Mercury states that the Earl of Dutham was to have sailed from St. Petersburg, on his way to England, on Saturday last. The Earl of Granard, who died in Paris last...

IRELAND.

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It is stated that Mr. Justice Moore is about to retire, and to be succeeded in the Common Pleas by Mr. Attorney-General Wolfe. Baron Foster is confined to his house with a...

SCOTLAND.

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The numbers of destitute workmen in Glasgow are increasing con. The pressure upon manufactures and commerce has at last reached Fileshire. Within a short time several extensive...

On 'Wednesday, after an irquiry of four days into the

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cause of the dreadful explosion of the boiler of the Union steam-boat at Hull, the particulars of which we gave last week, a Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter...

The Marquis of Waterford is not in all the "

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rows" which disturb the peace of his Majesty's lieges. Olt Alonday, the Morning Post charged his Lordship with being one of a set of disorderlies, who tore off knockers, broke...

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Mr. Lord, the attorney for 13. W. Poulton and T.

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Green, has in- formed the House of Commons, by petition, that he declines issuing the writs at the suit of those parties against Messrs. Nichols, the printers to the House of...

Business in the House of Commons, last night, was commenced

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by the rejection of the Portland Cemetery Bill ; the third reading of which was moved by Mr. Thomas Dem:oohs:. Mr. Buncombe la- boured hard to persuade the House, that, so far...

POSTSCRIPT.

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LATEST BULLETIN OF Tint: KING's HEALTH. 4. Windsor ('astle, Sattirda■, June 1701. 1837. The symptoms of his Majesty's disease have undergone on essential change since yesterday...

EAST IND(A

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from Bombay ; Tigris, Stevens; 1.011i,1 C:1111116 ii, • Robert Small, Fulcher ; and Richmond, MI'Lcod, v s., It, aI : Gregory, from Ceylon. At Deal. 1511,, Royal Admiral....

The evils which afflict the United States are the joint

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productions of all parties and all classes. They have been protium' by over-banking over-trading, over-spending, over-dashing, over-driving, over-reaching, over - cheating,...

The morning papers state that the improvement in the King's

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health continued up to eleven o'clock last night. The Fist says_ " We have the happiness to announce that a considerable improvement has taken place in the state of his...

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A letter from Launceston, of the middle of January last,

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received by the Arabian, reports the Colony of South Australia to be in high favour in Van Diemen's Land. Colonel Light, the Surveyor-General, bad taken 30 natives into his...

An unhappy accident marred the Parisian fkes of Wednesday.

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" On issuing from the Champ de Mars, Cat the angle of the Military School,) the crowds whu had been the witnesses ot a grand military spectacle became wedged together ; when a...

A farewell dinner was given to General EVANS, at San

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Sebastian, on the 8th. Next day, the General took his departure for France. It appears that General ORAA attacked the Carlists at Barbastro, and was driven back with heavy loss...

TIIE ARMY. Wsn-orrter, June 16.-211 Foot —Lieut. T. Sealy to

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he Capt. bv purchase, vice Davie;, %% lo. retires ; Ensign G. S. Moodie to be Lieut. by purcha , e, 'vice Spill'. ; En- sign W. II. SI.Si ..... tons, from the 76th Emit. to be...

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▪ . 4'. ,:bat Advice, of Dundee, one of the ice. bound whalers, has arrived ▪ . 4'. ,:bat Advice, of Dundee, one of the ice. bound whalers, has arrived a r Sligo . ; in the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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On the 1301 inst., at Brighton, the Lady JANE LACRENCE PEET., of a daughter. On the 1411, inst., in Portland Place, the Lady Oxstarnowst, of a datighter, st abort,: At Florence....

MONEY MARKET.

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Swot 11 EctrANGE, Fat DAV A ETERNOoK. The aid subject of interest in the City during the present week has been the state of the King's health. The business transacted in the...

It is feared in Warsaw, that PAsKiEVITSCII has received orders

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to renew the proscription against the unhappy Polish nobles.

We are informed that there is now in London a

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small farmer from Shetland, who gives some curious particulars of the manner in which the Northern lairds are profiting by the destitution for which they arc themselves chiefly...

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THE PEAR-RIPENING PLAN.

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" Last autumn, before some of the Radicals, in their inscrutable wisdom, thought proper to turn their arms against their allies because they could nut beat their enemies...

MR. HUMES ADVICE TO THE RADICALS.

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AMONG the very many matters which Mr. Hume is in tie habit of putting his hand to, is a rather extensive correspondence with provincial newspapers. Occasionally he may do some...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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A STALE TRICK, NEWLY-REVIVED BY THE TORIES. TstouGH far from inclined to cultivate the wide field of specula- tion that is presented by the approaching commencement of a new...

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SCOTCH JUDGES, AND THEIR SALARIES. ITELRTO there has been no

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principle followed in regard to the aumlers and payment of judges. At a certain period of the ?regress of a nation, a certain number of supreme judges are :lamed; and so they...

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PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS:

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MR. MACKINNON'S BILL. THE second reading of Mr. MACKINIsioN's Bill to amend the prac- tice of granting Letters Patent for Inventions, stands for discussion in the House of...

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OPENING OF THE HAYMARKET THEATRE.

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THE "little Haymarket "—once the pet of playgoers, but by mis- management become a bore—has got into new hands. Mortals has let it to WEBSTER, of Covent Garden ; who has opened...

CLOSE OF THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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THE Philharmonic season closed on Monday ; and as two choice Sin- fonias and two favourite Overtures were reserved for this night, it closed with eclat. This was the bill...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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MIT.ITARY DISC:IMAM% ReaDakS on Military Law and the Punishment of Flogeine. By Major - General ('I,srte,J. N apier, C. B., Author of " (Vim izatiou in A st ralia." T. and IP:...

Since the above was in type, we were tempted to

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Othello last night, by the announcement, not only of MACREADY, whom we had seen some months ago, but of ELTON in Iayo, and Miss ALI.ISON in Desdemona. The principal characters...

CHARLES NAPIER S REMARKS ON MILITARY LAW AND FLOGGING.

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AT first sight it would seem that little interest could be imparted to military law, and none at all to such a hackneyed subject as flogging. This notion, however, is confuted...

Grisi, it is said, demanded Mt, and at last lowered

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terms to 6001., for singing at the Manchester music meeting in September next. This was thought too high by the Committee, who applied to Madame Devrient, and she demands 1,000...

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SKETCHES IN THE PYRENEES.

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THE maiden speech of the late Lind LIVERPOOL was charac- terized, by some complimentary opponent, as resembling a piece of French lace, in which the value of the raw material,...

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PROGRESS OF PUB LICATION.

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The Widow's O t trering should be bought, as being various al.d readable, containing pieces of humour, satire, and pathos, many shrewd observations, much true philosophy, and...

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An illustrated edition of GRAY'S fine Ode, The Bard, has

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been got up by Mr. JOHN MARTIN, the hibliopolist, in a style corre- sponding with his beautiful edition of GRAY'S Elegy ; but the wood engravings in this instance, instead of...

A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, and the

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Morea, is a specimen of how easily a book of travels may be now-a-days made, and an example to refrain from doing it hereafter. Mr. Gar- man was ordered to pass the sharper...

The purpose of Dove/on, or the Man of Many Impulses,

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is not very clear; though, from the hero being contrasted with a man of sense, and always acting successfully upon impulse himself, we imagine the author wishes to prove that...

The Poet's Daughter is another novel, which displays some fancy

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and some fluency, with a kind of flickering gracefulness of manner ; but the writer has too little acquaintance with life and its probabilities to be able as yet to construct a...

Picturesque and Historical Recollections, by MATTHEW O'Costoa, Esq. Mr. O'Corroa

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is a genuine Milesian gentleman, who passed the "summer vacation of 1835" in a tour through Belgium and Switzerland, and who has contrived to give a sort of interest to the...

Memoirs of Celebrated Women, edited by G. P.R. JAstEs, Esq.,

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is another of those equivocal employments of names which discre- ditably distinguish the literature of the day: Mr. JAMES has "revised" the proof-sheets of the present...

The Doctor is concluded. The Fourth Volume is distinguished by

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the same qualities as we noted in the Third; though there are fewer" good stories," less of " shrewd, sensible, or touching ob- servations," and more of odd out-of-the-way...

Mr. EDWARDBLVTR, of Tooting, has republished that delightful work, White's

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Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. The characteristics of this new edition are—a great number of additional notes by the editor, sometimes illustrative, sometimes...

Mr. MUD'S and the Reverend HENRY DUNCAN have published two

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volumes upon Summer. The Summer of Mr. DUNCAN forms part of his Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons; and is distinguished by the same skilful compilation, and the same intermixture...

In a Preface to the second edition of his work

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on Portugal and the Basque Provinces, Lord CARNARVON replies at length to the attack upon Isis views and statements made by the author of the Policy of England in Spain. Some of...

Besides these, we have several other publications before us, 50150

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of which require fuller notice, others fuller examination. Amongst the first class must be reckoned Besides these, we have several other publications before us, 50150 of which...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN. THE - Scbool of Design, which is destined to become the parent stock of similar schools in other parts of the country, especially in the MOH- factoring...

A TREASURE SECURED FOR THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

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AT the very time when we were twitting the Whig Ministers with neglecting opportunities of securing fine specimens of art for the National Gallery, they were secretly...