19 DECEMBER 1835

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The Legislative Council of Canada have thrown out the Agent's

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Bill, passed by the House of Assembly. The objection was not to the establishment of an agency, but to the person app lilted— Mr. ROEBUCK. Tile majority of the members declared...

The treaty for the marriage of Prince FERDINAND AUGUSTUS of

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Saxe Coburg, nephew of the Dutchess of KENT and King LEO- POLD, was definitively signed at Coburg on the 7th instant, by plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties. A proxy...

Negotiations are in progress between the Government of the United

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States and the new Prussian Commercial League. There is a project on foot for establishing one common system of com- mercial regulations, and one tariff of duties, to which all...

Count ALMODOVAR, the Spanish Minister of War, has left Madrid

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in company with General ALAVA, for Navarre: during his absence MENDIZABAL will perform the duties ct his office. The object of ALMODOVAR'S journey is to concert a plan for the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE publication of the speech of NICHOLAS to the victims of his tyranny at Warsaw, and the general cry of indignation which followed it throughout civilized Europe, seem to have...

The care with which the O'Sunia v AN faction have

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avoided every thing like fair discussion, and the precaution they have taken to pack their meetings, is proof of consciousness on their pint that the People are no longer with...

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erb Stdrapait.

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The Common Council assembled on Monday. Mr. Pritchard ob- tained leave to bring in a bill to qualify aliens for admission to the freedom of the city of London ' on the same...

The thirty-seventh anniversary of the establishment of the Smith- field

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Cattle Club was celebrated on Monday, at the Freemason's Tavern ; Earl Spencer in the chair. The prizes to the successful candidates were distributed after dinner, by the...

The members of the Householders' Association of St. Martin's. in-

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the-Fields met on Tuesday night, and passed resolutions expressive of their full approbation of the conduct of the meeting on the 8th instant, at which Mr. De Vear presided ;...

fat feud.

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THE King continues to take his usual rides on the Shoreham and Rot- tingdean roads; but the Queen has been confined to the Palace, by a severe cold. The Dutchess of Gloucester...

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The Governor of the Bank of England has ordered all

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the omni- buses to be removed from their stand on the south and east fronts, where they have been really a " nuisance," in consequence of their almost blocking up the entrances...

There are three candidates for Cockermouth,—Mr. Horseman, Mr Charles Browne,

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and Mr. Richard Moorsom. The Whitehaven He- rald contains an account of a public meeting, at which Mr. Moorsom was introduced to the constituency. From his speech, and a...

In the Vice Chancellor's Court, on Wednesday, the motion for

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an injunction to restrain the Corporation of Wells from proceeding with the erection of a new market-house, and the sale of certain corporate estates, was again postponed, in...

ebt Country. The candidates for the representation of the Northern

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division of Northamptonshire were nominated at Kettering on Tuesday. The little town presented a very gay and bustling appearance. A variety of banners with inscriptions were...

There was a muster of Yorkshire Tories at Sheffield, on

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Thursday week. Lord Wharncliffe was the great man of the day; and delivered a very long and prosy speech upon the old topic, O'Connell's "dis- graceful coalition" with the...

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" The disgraceful spectacle, which Was lately exhibited in this

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town, of the broken windows at St. Peter's Church, proves, unhappily but too well, the ex- istence of a party resolved to destroy, if possible, the Church of our fathers."...

The Clerical Agitators have encountered a signal defeat at Brighton.

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Notice was given some time ago, that on Tuesday last the redoubt- able Mortimer O'Sullivan would " make known the real character and purposes of Popery " to the people of that...

Some remains of the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury were dis-

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covered on Saturday. An inquest was held on Wednesday, at Hat- field, from which the reporters for the London papers were excluded ; but the depositions were furnished to them...

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Lord Mulgrave has carefully selected the most Liberal names from

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among those of the gentlemen presented by the Judges to serve the office of High Sheriff. The Dublin Evening Post says—" The Reform Association has been nearly completed. Its...

IRELAND.

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Additional proof of the bribery used by the agents of the Orange candidates has been laid before the Dublin Election Commissioners. In our second edition last week, we gave an...

We have authority to say, that there is no truth

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whatever in a nimonr which has been put in circulation, that Lord William Bentinck was ex- pected to take the place of Lord Howard de Walden at Lisbon.— Evening Paper. [The...

alfrItenalteattd.

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Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, to Thursday the .I.th of February. The Commissioners were Lords Denman, Melbourne, and Glenelg. Sir Robert Inglis was the only Member of...

Sir Francis Burdett again figures in the newspapers, as the

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_writer of a long letter, addressed this time to the Electors of Westminster. It leaves all the substantial charges against him untouched, and seems to have been published with...

SCOTLAND.

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The Committee on the Scott monument have directed the Sub.. Committee to procure additional plans and suggestions, and not to accept any which does not include a statue. General...

It was an evil hour for the landlords in Ireland

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that the Conserva- tives thereof placed, or endeavoured to place, rent and tithes on the same basis. We learn from nearly the opposite quarters of the island, from Donegal,...

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The Times this morning contradicts, on " unquestionable autho- rity,"

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the statement which appeared in its own columns, that Prince GEORGE of Cambridge and his tutor attended the O'Sullivan meeting at Brighton. Perhaps they were not there ; but...

The Edinburgh Tories had resolved to use St. Andrew's Church

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in that city. for what is called a " Protestant meeting ;" and the Dean of Guild, inadvertently as it would seem, gave his consent to this pros- titution of a place of worship...

The Liberals have been utterly defeated in North Northamptonshire. At

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the close of the poll yesterday, the numbers were— For Mr. Maunsell 1721 Mr. Millbury 1108 About 900 electors remained to be polled ; and it is doubtful whether the Tory...

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P()STSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. A Cabinet Council will be held at Brighton on Monday afternoon. All the Ministers have received invitations to dine with the King on that day.

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTEREdON. The fluctuations in the Consol Market have been unimportant, and the business transacted has been on a very limited scale ; the uncertainty as...

We are requested to state, that Messrs. Mudie and Soo,

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Newsventlers. No. 15, Co- ventry Street, have no eounexion with Mr. Christopher Miclie, Princes Street. Private accounts confilm the statement we read in the Bombay papers of...

From a paragraph in the Morning Chronicle we learn, that

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the Tory candidate is to walk the course in West Glimeestershire ; Mr. KINGS- COTE, who was about to be started on the Whig interest, having been brought forward too late for...

EAST INDIA SII1PPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Dee. 17th, Matilda, Cumin. from Nhowitins. At Deal, 17th, Courier, Davison. from the Cape. At Liverpool. 12t11. Perfect, Snell. from Bengal. At the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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III Wr ts. On the 16th inst., the Coentess C NM' I M. I AM, of a son. On the lit Ii aust., in Grosvenor Square, Lady E sic c.v PosEe. of a son and heir. On the 12th inst., at...

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In the following note Lord BROUGHAM has disavowed all par-

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ticipation in the attack upon O'Comeem., which the Tories put into such active circulation from the columns of the Mormng Advertiser. Lord Brougham presents his compliments to...

THE THEATRES.

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BRAHAM'S new theatre opened on Monday evening. Expectation filled the street with a long line of carriages, and surrounded the doors with an impatient crowd, who amused...

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WORKING OF THE MUNICIPAL ACT.

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OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS, LEGAL AND EXPLANATORY, RELA- TIVE TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE COUNCILLORS AND ALDERMEN FIRST ELECTED. [From the legal knowledge of the writer, and...

KEMBLE, it seems, is going the round of his tragedy

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parts : he is announced for Othello next week. VESTRIS has recovered from her indisposition, and returned to the stage on Thursday ; to which she was welcomed back most...

Covent Garden has got the start of Drury Lane, and

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suddenly pro- duced, on Monday, almost without previous notice, a version of AUBER'S Bronze Horse, which BUNN has so long announced. If the Bronze Horse which is in the stable...

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"SAINTLY "POLITICIANS.

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WHEN a Member of Parliament proclaimsito'the world that the- advancement of Christian truth is his chief object as a legislarbr, we feel it difficult to rely upon him as a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE AGRICULTURAL DILEMMA: CURRENCY AND CORN. WE foresee that the "Farmer's Friends" will give Lord MEL- BOURNE little trouble in the next session of Parliament. By re- pealing...

JUSTICE AT CLERKENWELL.

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THE mode of administering what is called "justice," by the Mid- dlesex Magistrates, is sometimes most extraordinary. How long public opinion will suffer the present system to...

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PEERAGE REFORM—MR. O'CONNELL'S PLAN.

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FROM the Revolution in 1688 to the present time, there has been but one serious struggle between the two Houses of Parliament. The national movement in 1831 against the...

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The building of the new Division-room for the House of

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Commons, ordered to be constructed on the motion of Mr. Ward, proceeds rapidly. The Speaker's rooms are also in a state of forwardness, and will be finished by the 4th of...

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MEMORIALS OF COLERIDGE.

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NEITHER titlepage nor preface has thrown any light upon the character and position of the editor of these remains ; but a perusal of the volumes has pretty well satisfied us...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE, The Pirate and the Three Cutters. By Captain Marryat, R.N. Illustrated with twenty splendid Engravings, from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. It.A....

ILLUSTRATED LITERA.TURE—MARRYAT'S SEA-SCENES AND WATTS'S SOUVENIR.

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WE imagine we have looked our last upon the pure old Annuals of the year ; and in good sooth we are not grieved. Except the Oriental and the Picturesque, each of which had a...

Mr. ALA.RIC WATTS has in some measure also forestalled our

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recommendation, by totally repudiating the character of Annual for his Literary Souvenir, In future it will be his object to render it "a complete epitome, graphic and literary,...

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NOVEL S.

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IF novels continue to be produced at the present rate, they will soon escape criticism altogether. A literary growth of such rank luxuriance must consist in a great measure of...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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UNDER the title of Finsbury Lectures, Mr. Fox, the Unitarian teacher, is delivering a series of discourses on "Morality as modified by the various Classes into which Society is...

We are glad to welcome a third- edition of Mrs.

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JAMIESON'S charm- ing Characteristics of Women ; not only for the sake of the fair writer herself, but for the sake of the world of readers whom she has bene- fited and...

The Second Volume of the History of Rome (Lardner's Cabinet

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Cyclopedia, No. LXXIII.) opens with an able general disquisition on the symptoms of national dissolution and ruin, suggested by CATILINE'S conspiracy, and closes with the death...

LEGENDS OF THE CONQUEST OF SPAIN.

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THE title of this volume is scarcely characteristic of its contents. The look does not present to the reader the historical legends of Spain, but comprises an elegant abridgment...

The Second Number of the " Cabinet Library of Scarce

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and Cele- brated Tracts," contains A Discourse on the Past History, Present State, and Future Prospects of the Law, by the Honourable JOSEPH STORY. Mr. STORY is one of the...

There is a neat and prettily got-up work called Chessfor

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Beginners, by W. LEWIS. Its objects are, to teach the beginner bow to open his game properly; to point out the mistakes which are commonly made in the first moves ; and, by...

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Very little Tales for Very Little Children. Second Series. Progressive

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Tales for Little Children. Second Series. Two books for the nursery library, which those mammas will espe- cially approve of who are careful to inculcate benevolence, religion,...

The Eleventh Volume of the Naturalist's Library appears to us

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one of the best numbers which have appeared in that very cheap and elegant serial. It commences the subject of Ruminating Animals, and deals with camels, dromedaries, and the...

Upwards of five years' have passed since we noticed the

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first sp. pearance of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, and cordially welcomed the first edition of Polar Seas and Regions. The mere fact of having now to chronicle a fourth...

Thoughts in the 'Cloister and the Crowd, is a collection

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of independent remarks upon different subjects, at times compreased into a single sen- tence and positively conveying the result of the author's thinking, at other times...

Besides all these, we have a miscellaneous batch of publications,

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which, either from their nature or their acknowledged character, re- quire little more than a line of catalogue. I. The Twentieth Volume of Sir Walter Scott's Prose MIAs. Its...

NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

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THE most important works which have marked the commencement of the musical publishing-season, are the continuations of series of the Symphonies of HAYDN and BEETHOVEN, ; and the...

The current number of the Family Library contains the Second

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and concluding Volume of Mr. Cvnus It. EDMONDS' Life and Times of Washington. Alter the breaking out of the War of Independence, the hero of the biography may almost be said to...

The Young Man's Book of Piety is a good book

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in all senses. Its object is good, for it aims at forming a manly character ; its contents are good, for they embrace all topics necessary to be followed or eschewed in pursuit...

Here our labours terminate for the present ; but we

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see, alas ! no prospect of rest. Messrs. Bi.Acx of Edinburgh have sent us their reprint of MACKINTOSH'S Dissertation on the Progress qf Ethical Phi- losophy, prefaced and edited...