19 OCTOBER 1833

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The French Government have determined to station an army of

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observation, fifty thousand strong„. along the Pyrenees. It is de- stined to act only in the event of BOtTitMONT and his fellow-offi- cers taking arms under Dm CARLOS; which, it...

News from Lisbon has been received to the 6th instant

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: it is decidedly favourable to Donna MARIA. The fortifications of the capital are represented as being very complete in every respect : the number of troops within the lines...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Queen Regent of SPAIN has published a manifesto, which has caused no slight 'disappointment to her supporters of the Liberal party. It is plain that she yields, for the...

There appears to be some chance of a collision between

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the Dutch and Belgian troops. The fortress of Maestricbt, garrisoned by the Dutch, cannot be approached except through a territory de- clared to be neutral and inviolable ; and...

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A serious disturbance has occurred at Montreal, between the citizens

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and soldiers of the garrison, which it required strenuous efforts on the part of the officers and the civil authorities to put down. A bitter feeling is said to exist between...

eV &fiat.

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ON Saturday, the Queen, accompanied by the Marchioness Wellesley, paid a visit to the Princess Augusta, at Frogmore. Her Royal High. ness has lately suffered severely from the...

The treaty between Russia and Turkey has at length been

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made public. It is dated the 8th July, and consists of six articles and a supplementary one. The suj/stance of the six has , already been correctly guessed at by 'the...

A fierce civil war, and a scourge almost as terrible,

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the cholera, are both raging in Mexico. - An insurrection has broken out against the authority of the President, SANTA ANNA, headed by Generals ARISTA and DURA.N. The armies on...

President JA.CKSON has withdrawn the Government deposits from the Bank

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of the United States, notwithstanding the opposi- tion of his Finance Minister, the Secretary of the Treasury. On the 18th of September, he read to the Cabinet a long statement...

A Court of Common Council was held on Monday, for

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the purpose . of considering the report of the Committee appointed to make inqui- ries relative to the Court of Aldermen, and also relative to Municipal Corporations. The...

HONOURS.

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WHITEHALL, 14th October, 1833.—The King has been pleased to grant unto WIL- LIAM HENRY ASHE A'Couirr, Esq. (commonly called the Honourable William Henry Ashe A'Court), eldest...

We have news this week from the North Pole !

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After an absence of four years, when even the most sanguine had abandoned all hope of seeing him again, the daring navigator Captain Ross has returned to England, with all his...

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The following letter from Sir William Home was read at

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a meeting of Marylebone householders, on Monday evening. Sir William had been requested by a portion of his constitutents to preside at a meeting to consider the best means of...

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a The London soap-manufacturers have resolved that a reduction of

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2L per ton shall be made in the price of soap. This sacrifice, which is modoula of considerable importance to men in a large way of business, will lower the price of soap—that...

At the Mansionhouse, on Saturday, Mr. Henry Hunt stated to

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the Lord Mayor ' his apprehension that he, as a manufacturer of roasted corn, was in danger of a visit from the Excise-officers, seeing the man- ner in which Mr. Heale had been...

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Ann Vickers, the servant of Mrs. Hampton, was tried at

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the Old Baily Sessions yesterday. The indictment charged her with feloniously forging and uttering a receipt for 1.54/. I3s., with intent to defraud Robert Hampton, a Colonel in...

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Mr. Macnanghten, agent for the London and Leith Shipping Company,

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who, according to the evidence of Mr. Gooch, one of - We passengers in the Earl of Wemyss, had said that " the loss of life on board that vessel was nothing to the loss of the...

Eljc 'Country.

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The investigation ordered by the Home Office into the circumstances attending the loss of life on board the Earl of Wemyss, was brought to a close on Thursday week. T i The...

Henry Palmer, a man of fashionable exterior, was tried at

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the 'Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, before Mr. Hutch and a bench of Magistrates, on a charge of receiving, knowing them to be stolen, ten bills of exchange, drawn by Mr. Francis...

Joseph Oliver, a lad of fifteen, was playing with some

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others on Sunday afternoon, in Wilmington Square. There was a cry that "the beadle was coming," and he ran into a sand-bole to hide himself; but he had not been there five...

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The Chain-pier at Brighton was seriously damaged during the storm,

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on Tuesday evening. Several of the suspension-rods on the east side of the second and third bridges of the pier were struck by it ; soma parts of the structure gave way, and the...

A meeting was held on Thursday, in the parish church

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of Portses e for the purpose of levying a church-rate. It was preposed that a three- penny rate should be made. On this an amendment, that " the church. rate being unjust and...

At the Kent Quarter Sessions, held at Maidstone on Thursday,

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three men were tried for "having riotously and tumultuously ob- structed" the parish-officers in levying a distress for church-rates at Seven Oaks. The case appears to have been...

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IRELAND.

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• The deputation from the Dublin Corporation, presented their ad. dress to Lord Wellesley on Friday week. The Viceroy made the fol- lowing reply. " I receive with great...

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al&tellatternui.

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Lord Godolphin's second son, who holds a commission in the Army, has just been presented by the Ministers, who rule without patronage, to the Treasurership of St. Lucie. We are...

SCOTLAND.

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The manifestations are carried to such a height in Edinburgh, that Mr. Tait was last Sunday obliged to hang out a placard that no strangers would be admitted into his chapel,...

Opinittnil of HO

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POST - OFFICE ABUSES. TIME6 — We beg to call the attention of the Government and the public to that part of the letter of our Brussels correspondent which relates to the...

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The Dublin correspondent of the Globe writing from that capital

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on the 17th, reminds us that the great social disease of Ireland has only been quacked, not cured, by the State physicians. "The accounts from the country, particularly the...

We have received the following gossip about some of the

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leading personages in Spain ; which is not uninteresting at thepresent time. Don CARLOS, the chief of the Apostolic party, is a man of talent and great subtilty. He is without...

A Cabinet Council was held in Paris on Thursday, at

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which' chief point in discussion was whether the second contingent of 35,0(0 men should be called out. It was reported, at the close of the day, that the point had been decided...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Hull Advertiser, in a second edition, states that CaFtain Ross had landed at Hull yesterday, and in good health. We have not heard that he has yet arrived...

At the Surry Sessions on Thursday, after the licence of

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the Royal Victoria Theatre had been granted, Mr. Ilandle Jackson, one of the Magistrates said, that he wished to take that opportunity of expressing his most cordial approval of...

A gentleman connected with Sir CHARLES DANCE, the patentee of

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the steam-carriage which has been running for the last six or seven days between London and Greenwich; has received a letter from the French. Government, from which it appears...

The Essex, a very fine ship bound from New Orleans,

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for Liverpool ; where she is owned, was destroyed by f‘l*C On the 10th August, \\hen off PC7iistnia. She was burnt to the water's edge. The crew landed at New Providence. The...

A most destructive fire occurred in Manilla on the 26th

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of March last. It broke out among the bamboo huts, and consumed upwards of 10,C30 of them, laying waste an extent of about three miles, and making nearly 30,000 poor Indians...

Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN is expected daily from Sweden. He

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is known to have a great inclination to reside in Portugal; otherwise, to relinquish his charge in Sweden, where he has 3,000/. a year, and can live upon 1,0001.—for 4,000/. in...

We thank our Sherbome correspondent. His communications would be acceptable

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to a local newspaper, but are not suitable to a London journaL Were we to insert an equal number of such paragraphs as he has sent us from many other places of equal importance...

The latest accounts received by way of Paris from Madrid,

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repre- sent that capital to be in a state of perfect tranquillity. The events in Biscay, and the news of the entry of Don CARLOS into Spain, had produced no apparent impression...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Oct. 16th, Belle Alliance, Arkoll, from Mauritius. At Deal, 17th, Henry Wellesley, .h.lutson, from Bombay. At Liverpool, 14th, Winscales, Fisher, from...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD ALTHORP'S PROMISES—AND REPEAL OF THE ASSESSED TAXES. IT is to be regretted that we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer " whose word no man relies on." Much of the present...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCR'EXCHANTIE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The gloom which has for some time hung over the Money Market, has been increased during the present week, by an extensive delivery of Consols...

The Earl of DURHAM has caused legal proceedings to be

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instituted against the editor of the Durham Advertiser, for the insertion of the following paragraph in that paper. " The Earl and Countess of Durham, who have arrived at...

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. . THE PACIFICATOR OF IRELAND.

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LAST week, the Courier, assuming from 'O'CONNELL'S . quietness that he had dropped the Repeal agitation, seriously advised the Government to take him into partnership in the new...

BRITISH PRISONS AND CONVICT SHIPS — LORD MELBOURNE'S PERFORMANCE OF

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'HIS DUTIES. THE publication of a statement in the Times, by one of the sur- vivors of the wreck of the Amphitrite, has directed public attention to the mode in which old and...

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NO NEED OF THE GOSPEL AT "THE WEST END."

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MR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL B-ARCLA.Y, one of those gentlemanly young men who collect crowds in the streets by a voluble effusion of religious language accompanied with violent...

MUSIC-HATING MAGISTRATES.

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THE annual display of the liberal feeling and enlightened judg- ment of the Great Unpaid took place this week at the Middlesex Sessions, upon the occasion of granting...

MISCHIEVOUS PROPENSITIES OF JOHN BULL. A CORRESPONDENT Of the Windsor

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Herald writes thus. Will you believe that I lately saw several well-dressed persons amusing themselves by pelting the bronze statue of George the Third, which has been recently...

THE PAINTER AND THE PRINTSELLER.

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MR. TURNER, the landscape-painter, who, while he earns money on the most magnificent scale, by no means despises the economy of shillings and pence, the other day made an...

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THE THEATRES.

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THE Monopoly hangs its millstone weight round the neck both of Tragedy and Comedy at the two Great Theatres. We went on Saturday to see the Jealous Wife, and found it as dull an...

profit of the diligent reader, is that of laying our

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friends under contribution, as cor- respondents, when they sojourn in foreign lands. There are few countries to which we have not been occas ionally indebted in this way for...

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The following passage from an amusing brochure, entitled "Alfred the

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Little, or Management ; a Rejected Play," solves the mystery which had puzzled our simplicity, by reconciling the great talk about Shakspeare and the Legitimate Drama with the...

A considerable stir was made in Paris on Sunday last,

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by a Mr. Rodde, the editor of a cheap publication called Le Bon Sens, and the publisher of a variety of pamphlets which his agents hawked about the streets. The Police forbade...

A letter has been received from Captain BACK, dated Norway

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House, Jack River, 19th June 1833. He had met with some dif- ficulty in procuring provisions, and this had (fortunately) delayed his progress. He had found it necessary also to...

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SPECTATORS LIBRARY.

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AIMS OE LIVING, A History and Description of Modern Wines. By Cyrus Redding. Whittaker and Co. Freriorr. Traditionary Stories of old Families, and Legendary Illustrations of...

REDOING ON WINES.

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WITH all our vaunts about the improvements of the age, how little progress has been made in the really useful arts ! Some- thing, indeed, has been done towards clothing and...

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TRADITIONARY STORIES OF OLD FAMILIES.

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THERE is more of truth in a well-written novel (though perhaps a perfect novel has yet to be written), than is to be found in any other class of composition. Poetry and the...