18 SEPTEMBER 1830

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE feverish excitement which has prevailed for some weeks in Paris seems to have subsided. The consolidation of peace and good order advances steadily. The public funds...

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The. affairs of the Netherlands advance little, but they do

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not retrograde. The intelligence from Belgium is mostly negative— nothing has been done at Brussels, nothing at Liege, no- thing anywhere else, if we except Ghent and Antwerp,...

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Private letters from Leipsie of the 10th state, that accounts

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had been received there of serious disturbances at Dresden. The Sovereign of Saxony is another exceedingly fitting inmate for the royal retreat of Lulworth. He took it into his...

The four English vessels captured off Terceira have been given

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up by the Portuguese Government, and the officer who took them disgraced. It is said that, had our Consul at Lisbon been suffi- ciently firm, they would have been given up at...

THE KING.—His Majesty and his excellent consort continue to enjoy

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themselves at Brighton quite like other people. We have nothing to tell about them ; and therefore, on the faith of the old adage, we may say all our news are good. They visited...

The following extraordinary document appears in the Piedmontese Gazette, under

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the date of Corfu, August 5. We confess, from its contents, we should incline to look on it as a hoax. What sweet youth is he who is to king A in Greece under the tutelage of...

Conmern. Or MIDDLESEX. — This election goes on with equal if not

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increasing spirit. The popular candidate fell fearfully behind during the first days of the struggle ; but on Monday he rallied, and he leas since, with a trifling exception,...

Of all the revolutions that have been got up within

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our me- mory, that which has put an end to the pranks of the Duke of BRUNSWICK has been the most promptly and effectually gone about. On the 6th instant, the .populace of the...

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REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK.—Mr. Bulwer, in a public- spirited letter to

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the electors, has declined the honour proposed for him, rather than divide the popular party. Another candidate has been sug- gested, rather than proposed, in the person of the...

OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—

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The ceremony of opening this magnificent work took place, as had been previously arranged, on Wednesday morning. The Manchester dinner, of which so much had been said, was eaten...

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_....— —..

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sieve to the external carotid Mena Captain Brown is of course unable to speak ; and in all probability will be for a number of weeks, should no greater harm accrue to him. A Mr....

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between Highroyd and Longbottom, near Halifax. They knocked him

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down, and then demanded his money. Mr. Turner threw one of the fellows into the canal ; and in a struggle with another, both parties fol. lowed him. The third ran off; and the...

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DEATH or MISS'TREACHEN.—On Saturday morning, Miss Treacher, a middle-aged female,

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residing with her mother, at Vale Place, Ham. mersmith, was found lifeless on the pavement at the back of their house ; having fallen, as was supposed, from her bed-room window...

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ATTRACTIONS OF WINDSOR.—The good people who thrive by visi- tors,

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namely, thushopkeepers and innkeepers of this ancient town, are extremely anxiont, now that the great attraction is gone, to furnish out as many small ones as possible. First,...

HAYMARKET THEATRE. —A new piece, of some interest in its way,

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was produced at this theatre on Monday ; but we have not seen it. We extract an account of the plot (the best we have read) from a light and agreeable daily journal of...

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Iraty.—The Constitutionnel contains some notice of an insurrec. tionary movement

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in Piedmont. An attempt to revolutionize that part of Italy is not unlikely to be made, but the feeble proceedings and in. significant numbers of the revolutionists in 1821...

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THE PRESS.

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ESTIMATES OF THE CHARACTER OF MR. RUSKISSON. MORNING HERALD.—The peculiarly tragic circumstances attending the untimely death of the late Mr. Iluskisson, will not fail to...

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THE CHURCH.

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On Friday last the Rev. Edward Hibgame, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College, was instituted to the valuable Vicarage of Fordham, Cambridg,e 0 .ire, vacant by the death of the Rev. R....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived.-At Gravesend, Sept. 13th, Claudine, Heathorn, from Madras ; 15th, H. C. Schooner, St. Helena, late Harrison, from St. Helena ; Mary Ann, Hopton, from Van Diemen's Land...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK-EXCHANGZ, FRIDAy EvENING . .-The value of Stock has again under- gone some changes this week, although not of so much importance as those do. scribed in our last two...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. In Park Crescent, the Lady of Sir Wtssrast HENRY RICHARDSON, of a daughter. At Denmark Hill, Mrs. WILLIAM STONE, of a son. At Belfast, on the 9111 inst. the Lady of...

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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE NETHERLANDS.

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DEAR SPECTATOR, Brussels, Tuesday Evening, September 14. SINCE I wrote last,* Brussels has been without an event. The barricades and little fortifications have gone on, but...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE LATE MR. HUSKISSON. Tuts statesman, whose sudden and lamentable death we have re- corded in a preceding page, was in many respects the most re- markable person that...

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CHARGES AGAINST THE NEW POLICE.

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IT cannot be denied, that in one respect the New Police is con- sistent with the genius of our Constitution—it is expensive, and in that important particular it agrees with our...

PUBLICANS' LICENCES — FLASH - HOUSES.

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THE licence of a person named GRAYGOOSE, who keeps the George Inn, Wanstead, was suspended by the Magistrates at the Ilford Sessions, because GRAYGOOSE—who seems on the occa-...

COMPARISON OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PAYS BAS WITH

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EACH OTHER. THE country has three great courts of justice,—that of the Hague, that of Liege, that of Brussels, dividing-the country under these three courts into three...

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WHERRIES AND STEAM-BOATS.

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A GENTLEMAN waited on the Lord Mayor the other day, to com- plain of his having, along with two ladies, been exposed to great danger from the swell occasioned by a steam.boat...

RESPECT OF PERSONS.

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ON Monday, a person who gave his 'name " Edward Savoury," was brought before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. As an answer to which, Mr. Savoury...

MODEST MERIT.

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WE quote the following advertisement as a perfect curiosity. "A youth, who has completed his eighteenth year within one hundred hours of his writing this advertisement, wishing...

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. WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

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THE very antiquity of this triennial celebration makes us approach it with respect. It is advertised as the " hundred and seventh meeting of the three Choirs of Worcester,...

DUCROW'S BENEFIT.

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WE profess ourselves admirers of talent and ingenuity, in what- ever direction they are successfully exerted, whether the aim be to instruct or amuse, and be the performer Mr....

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LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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CAPTAIN ALEXANDER'S TRAVELS TO THE SEAT OF WAR IN THE EAST *. INFORHATION could not certainly be presented in a pleasanter or easier form than in this young officer's travels...

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GHOSTS AND WITCHES.*

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" Of Brounis and Bogillis fie is this boke." GAITAIN DOUGLAS. IT hazards little to predict that this volume will prove the most popular of all that Mr. MURRAY has yet drawn...

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FINE ARTS.

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PEEPS AT PRINT-SHOPS. Lady Nugent. Drawn on Stone by RICHARD J. LANE, A.R.A. from a Painting by the late Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. This is worthy of LANE and of LAWRENCE,...

Ancient Castellated Mansions in Scotland. Part II. Drawn on Stone

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and printed by C. HULLMANDEL. This second number is an improvement upon the first, both in the execution of the plates and as regards the interest of the subjects. The drawings...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WAVERT;MY NOVELS.

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VERY general complaints have been made, in public and in private, by the readers of novels and lovers of art, concerning the embellish- ments to the new and beautiful edition of...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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884 91-9 8 8 194884 8S1 4 981 981 99 Wednes. Thurs. Friday. 65 64 61 61 61 70 1 69 68 69 9 67 66 68 66 67 68 70 68 '9 67 70 71 67 68 69 67 BRITISH. 3 per Cent. Reduced 3...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, September 14. PARTNERS HIPS DISSOLVED. .T. and H. NivEm, Watling Street.-SARELE V and COLMERE, Overton, Flint- Shire, tea-dealers- Cox and RICHES, Painswick,...

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ADVERTISEMENTS TO THE SPECTATOR.

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