1 DECEMBER 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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LORD DURH or reached Plymouth Sound, in the Inconstant frigate, on Monday night ; but the boisterous weather, up to yes- terday morning, had prevented him from landing. The...

A Privy Council was held on Thursday ; and it

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was resolved to prorogue Parliament to the 5th of February. The natural con- clusion from the postponement of the time for assembling the Legislature till the latest customary...

Dublin is now the scene of the Precursor agitation; Mr.

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O'CoNNELL having transferred his "capacious carcass" and in- domitable powers of speechmaking to the Irish capital. The Go- vernment appears to look coldly on the Precursors....

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The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with matters of no

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gene- ral interest. The coalition of Timms, GUIZOT. and BARROT, IS still the subject of much speculation; but it remains to be seen how the hitherto discordant parties of which...

Demerara papers, dated the 13th of October, mention the pre-

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valence of a bad spirit among the Negroes. The labourers in the most fertile districts had given notice of their intention to aban- don their work, and seek the means of support...

fat Court.

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Lord Melbourne dined and spent the evening with the Queen at Windsor on Sunday, and returned to town the next morning. On Thursday, the Queen, attended by the Marchioness of...

A meeting of the subscribers to Lloyd's was held on

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Wednesday, at the South Sea House. A present of 201. was voted to Grace Horsley Darling, for her heroic conduct at the wreck of the Forfarshire. Con- siderable discussion arose...

It is said that the King of Belgium meditates another

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journey to Paris, in the hope of obtaining some distinct promise of support from his shuffling father-in-law.

According to accounts received through the suspicious medium of the

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Buenos Ayres papers, an insurrection had broken out in Lima, and SANTA CRuz had been deposed. It is admitted, how- ever, that he was still at the head of a body of troops ; so...

Within the week, accounts from Calcutta, to the 24th of

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Sep- tember, have been received. Written in ignorance of the retire- ment of the Shah of Persia from before Heraut, and the reesta- blishment of English influence at Teheran,...

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, the Reverend

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M. A. Gathercole was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the cus- tody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea, for a series of libels, published in the Watchman newspaper, on...

There is little news from Spain. The progress of CARRERA

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occasioned alarm at Madrid. An insurrection has broken out in Seville. The Queen's Commandant narrowly escaped with his life ; and a "Junta of Reprisals" was established.

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The Common Council assembled on Thursday; and voted the free- dom of the City, to be presented in a gold box, value one hundred guineas, to the venerable Thomas Clarkson. The...

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In the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Tuesday, the discharge of

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John Rawlings, lately a clerk in the Plymouth Victualling Office, was opposed by a Mr. Francis ; who gave the following details of a transaction in which the insolvent and Sir...

Mr. Burrell, from the Queen Square Office, has been appointed

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to succeed the late Mr. Rogers of Hatton Garden. Mr. Burrell, from the Queen Square Office, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. Rogers of Hatton Garden. A long...

Cbr Country.

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Birmingham has been the scene of contest between two sections of the Charfillst party, called, in the language of the day, the " Moral Force men " and the " Physical Force men."...

The weather in London became very boisterous on Tuesday evening.

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On Wednesday and Thursday, much rain fell ; and on Wednesday night there was a perfect hurricane of wind and rain, with lightning and thunder at intervals. The low lands in the...

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Serious disturbances have occurred at Todmorden, where the large factories

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of Messrs. Fielden are situated. We abridge the account of the occurrence from the country papers. Serious disturbances have occurred at Todmorden, where the large factories of...

The Liberals of Devonport held a meeting, in the Town-hull,

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on Monday evening, and adopted an address to be presented to Lord Dur- ham on his Lordship's !finding from the Inconstant frigate. The Mayor was in the chair. The correspondent...

About five:hundred Liberal electors of Salford entertained their Member, Mr.

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Brotherton, at a public dinner, on Monday last. Mr. Thomas Potter took the chair. In proposing the health of " Lord Melbourne and her Majesty's Ministers," the chairman, after...

Sir Thomas Lethbridge has addressed a sensible letter to the

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"Land- owners and Occupiers of West Somerset," recommending the substi- tution of a fixed duty and free trade in corn for the present Corn-laws. The following passage must read...

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lRELAs D.

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Mr. O'Connell reached Dublin on Wednesday week ; and the next day addressed a crowded assembly, at the Corn Exchange. Communi- cations were read from various parts of the...

A fire on F,Iturday destroyed extensive tanning works belonging to

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:Mr. John Furuival, at Warrington. This is supposed to be the %rusk of an incendiary ; and the damage is estimated at about 8,000/. Ou the same day, Messrs. Butterworth's mill...

Three men charged with the murder of O'Donnahue, near Preston,

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Live been apprehended, also the woman who was present while tire crime was committed. She is a mild-looking young person, with an infant in arms. On the night of Friday-last,...

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Mr. Fitzpatrick, the upright and independent Member of Queen' s

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County, declined attending the public meeting lately held near Mary borough, for the purpose (us it turned out) of vowing hostility against the Tithe Bill of last session. The...

Mr. Hamilton Dowdull, through the influence of the Archbishop of

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Dublin, is to be the new Secretary to the Education Board. It now appears that the arrears of tithe returned to the Castle amount to 816,0001.; from which sum is to be deducted...

SCOTLAND.

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The Dumfries Times states that there will be no opposition from the Tories to the return of Mr. Murray of Broughton for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. A public dinner is to be...

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The Bishop of London, who cannot tolerate the sight of

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Richmond steam-boats, laden with the merry folk of the Metropolis, as they pass the gardens of Fulham on summer Sundays, may acquire useful infor- mation from a perusal of the...

Sir John Hobhouse has appointed Mr. Erskine, grandson to Sir

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James Mackiutosb, as a writer in India. Mr. Sergeant Ambin is gazetted Judge-Advocate-General ; but it is understood that this is merely a temporary arrangement, and it is pro-...

The Times has been inflamed with pious wrath against the

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con- tinuance of the Marquis of Headfort in the Queen's Household, not only because the Marquis attended an anti-tithe meeting, but on ac- count of his having been defendant in...

" An Englishman is quite astonished to see a foreign

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nobleman or gentleman treet an old servant as a friend. This social estrangement has greatly increased within our recollection. In the ell.s of the High !:chool of Edinburgh, to...

Marshal Loaau, Commander-in. Chief of the National Guards,died on Tuesday,

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of an affection of the lungs. Marshal Loaau, Commander-in. Chief of the National Guards,died on Tuesday, of an affection of the lungs. The National Guard at Metz has been...

Lord Hill the Commander of the Forces, Lord Howiek the

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Secre- tary at War, and the Attorney-General, had an interview, which lasted several hours, with Lord Melbourne and Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office yesterday.—Standard. The...

A Country Newspaper, with a postage ebarge of 19.s. 3d.,

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on account of markings within, Wall this morning brought to our WILY., and refused. We have no room this week for Letters to the Editor, of any kind.

At a meeting of the Royal Society yesterday, the :krarquis

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of North- ampton was unanimously elected President, in the room of the Duke of Sussex. A letter from the Duke of Sussex to Mr. Gillon, cordially approv- ing of that gentleman's...

A report of an "atrocious assault" on the British Consul

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at Alex- andria, by the crew of a pinnace belonging to an Egyptian sloop of war, has found its way into the foreign correspondence of the French journals ; but letters of a...

POSTSCRI PT.

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SATURDAY. Accounts from Madrid announce the resignation of all the Spanish Ministers, except the Duke DE FRIAS, whom the Queen Regent wished to retain as President of the...

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The Wheat averages have this week risen to 70s. 3d.

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a quarter, and the duty is now las. 8d. Prices continue to advance, and the duty will probably again full to the nominal sum of one shilling.

From the flail Advertiser received this morning, we learn that

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the Hull Town-Council have invited the High Steward of the Borough, Lord DURHAM, to a public dinner. The resolution of the Town- Council reminds his Lordship of a promise to...

KNIGHT'S ILLUMINATED PRINTS AND MAPS.

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MR. CHARLES KNIGHT has put forth the commencement of two serial publicatiens of Illuminated Prints and Illuminated Maps, produced by a new process of " surface-printing in...

MONEY MARKET.

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SToCK EXCI‘CEOP. FRIDAY AVIENVOOK. The recent arrivals from India and Canada having In ought intelligence of an unsatisfactory nature, the Money Market law experienced a...

The Glasgow Argus of Thursday contains a grave article in

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reference as well to the state of public feeling in the important district with which it is more immediately connected, as to that of the country at large. " Discontent pervades...

Ministerial difficulties, and the reception prepared for Lord DUR- HAM

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at Court, have supplied topics for newspaper discussion these some days. A late assertion of the Standard, that Ministers intended to convene Parliament on the 4th or Zith of...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrive,l—At Deal, Vanguard, Stewart. from China ; mot Rainbow, Oakley, from Mauritius. Off Liverpool, Superb, Briscoe, from New south Wales.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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POPULAR SUFFERING AND DISCONTENT. THE discontent of the labouring population breaks forth in acts which compel attention to the causes which produce it. Our columns this week...

REPEALERS AND RADICALS.

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MR. O'CONNELL is fond of deriding the visionary and Utopian schemes of English Radicals. He points with exultation to his own mighty achievements—the results of his practical...

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THE OLD AND THE NEW SHOPKEEPER.

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THE fashion of signs over shops is gone by, but the shops thems selves are signs—of the times ; and very significant of the altered state of trade ; which, assuming we are "a...

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ANCIENT MARTYRS AND MODERN SAINTS.

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"THE Establishment" continues to flounder about in the most alarming manner. One day all trepidation, another all swagger, it seems totally at a loss in what character to...

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AN OUTRAGE AND A TRIAL IN BENGAL.

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Fnost a file of Calcutta newspapers and private correspondence, we have become acquainted with a case tried in the Supreme Court of Cal- cutta, before Sir J. P. GRANT, which, as...

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PRACTICE OE MEDICINE, management of the injury, the constitutional treatment

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of the Medical Reform : being the subject of the First Annual Oration Instituted by the patient is of the utmost importance; and when surgery advanced British Medical...

the subject chosen being Medical Reform. and bodes a fatal,

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a troublesome, or a doubtful case. It would be a stretch of politeness to say that the subject is The College of Surgeons does not forbid its members from send. ably handled,...

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DEWEY'S DISCOURSES ON COMMERCE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS.

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MR. DEWEY is favourably known for the elegance and spirit of a Sentimental Journey which he made in Europe a few years ago. His present publication possesses much of these...

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CONOLLY'S OVERLAND JOURNEY TO INDIA.

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HAVING subjected this work to the potent test of a reperusal, after the lapse of years,—when the attractions of mere novelty had faded, when its information was no longer new,...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE play selected for the Second Number of KNIGHT'S Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, is King John. Besides the emendatory and explanatory criticisms on particular passages, and...

The British Almanack and Companion maintain their usual superiority over

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all others, for the amount, variety, and usefully scientific character of their information, as well as for the work- manlike pains with which it is put together. The "...

Sketches and Essays by William Hazlitt, natv first Collected by

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his Son. We believe this is one volume of a uniform edition of the gifted and original though somewhat uneven as well as peculiar writer, which seems to be in the course of...

A Catechism on Heat, by Hucio Rain. This is a

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very valuable little publication, containing in a small compass the cream of the subject at a very trifling price. The principles, and most striking facts connected with heat,...

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Two more of the Annual tribe are on our table-

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1. Portraits of the Children of the Nobility, edited by Mrs. FAIRLIE. 2. Gems of Beauty, with Fanciful Illustrations in I'erse, by the Countess of BLESSINGTON. I. To criticize...

The Ninth Volume of Mr. MURRAY'S edition of the Decline

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and flit begins to verge upon existing interests ; being chiefly de- voted to the career of Manosissr, and the progress of his creed. The map contains the European world, and...

Rudiments of' English Composition, by ALEXANDER REID, A.M. How far

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attempts to make children good writers by arti- ficial exercises is useful or mischievous, has often been discussed. To put boys down to write a letter, or a theme, when they...

The 109th Number of LARDNER'S " Cabinet Cyclopredia " com- mences

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the Natural History of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles, by Mr. SWAINSO:S ; which is to be completed in two volumes.

The Fourth Part of Dr. tax's Dictionary of Arts, Manufac-

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tures, and Mines, is rich in subjects of a practical and scientific nature; containing expositions of the principles and processes of Cutlery, Distillation, Dying, Embroidery,...

Mr. WESTWOOD, the Secretary to the Entomological Society of London,

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has revised and extended the principal articles contri- buted by him to the "British Cyclopmalia of Natural History," so as to form an interesting and popular introduction to...

" The Guide to Serrice." Two numbers of this little

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publica- tion are before us—the Chemist and Druggist, which contains a plain description of what a chemist's apprentice has to do; and the Dairy-Maid, whose duties are told in...

A Wreath of' Wild Flowers from New England, by FRANCES

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SARGENT OsGOOD. This volume contains " Elfrida, a Tragedy . ;" distinguisbed, like most modern dramas, for too much declamation and too little act ion ; and a collection of...

In addition to these, we have, as usual, a vast

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number of pamph- lets on all subjects which can affect the body or the soul, im- prove mankind in this world, or fit them for the next. Some people take up the Church, some the...