1 NOVEMBER 1834

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The Spanish Proceres have come to a resolution decidedly at

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variance with the preject sanctioned by the Lower Houses for the recognition of the Debt. They propose to acknowledge the whole of the Debt, including the Guebhard Loan, and to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TI4E French Ministry is again without a nominal Premier. Mar- shal GERARD has resigned, in consequence of his inability to pro- cure an amnesty for political offences. Various...

Very favourable and exaggerated accounts of the wealth and resources

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of Russia have recently been circulated in Paris. They were mere forerunners of a proposition, which partly gives the lie to them, for a loan of seven millions and a half...

An arrival from Jamaica brings rather unfavourable accounts of the

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doings of the Negro population on the North side of that island. It is said, in a letter dated the 19th of August, from an extensive proprietor- Difor, t "The truth is, that...

The session of the Dutch States-General was opened on Mon-

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day week, with a speech from the King. It affords not the slightest prospect of a near settlement of the Belgian question. The King still speaks of his former subjects as...

The German diplomatists are said to be busy in intrigues

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to detach Louis PHILIP from the Quadruple alliance, and procure the recognition of Don CARLOS as King of Spain. But even Louis we should imagine, would shrink from such a...

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iftetropolio.

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The inquiries of the Privy Council into the origin of the fire in the Houses of Parliament have been continued during the week ; and not-. withstanding the positive assertion...

The Court of Aldermen met on Tuesday; and soon after

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their assembling, the Sword-bearer was ordered to inform the Sheriffs that they must retire from their seats within the bar, and remove below the bar. Mr. Sheriff Raphael...

Tot Kim; and Queen took several drives in the neighbourhood

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of Windsor on Monday and Toesday. On Wednesday, their Majesties came to town, and were received at St. James's Palace by the Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia. In the...

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The Lord Mayor recently addressed a letter to the Magistrates

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of Lambeth Street Police-office, stating that several poor persons had complained at the Mansionhouse of the refusal of the Lambeth Street otheers to allow them to communicate...

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There is to be public dinner to Lord Durham at Newcastle, on the 19th instant. The following requisition, signed by 20.5 of the most respectable inhabitants of that town, was...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Earl of Durham arrived at Hamilton Palace on Tuesday after. noon, and dined with the Duke of Hamilton, who had invited the prin. cipal civic officers of Glasgow to meet him....

There is every prospect of a revival of the project

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for a railway between Brighton and London, with a branch to Shoreham. A meet There is every prospect of a revival of the project for a railway between Brighton and London, with...

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FRENCH COMMERCIAL INQUIRY.

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The inquiry is not to include the coal and iron ; it being consideied that these matters are already sufficiently understood to enable the Minister to propose a definite, and as...

IRELAND.

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The promised letter of Mr. O'Connell to Lord Durham has been published in the Pilot. It is highly complimentary to his Lordship ; who is invited, when he shall have the power,...

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IF( iltellan Mtg.

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Mr. Marvey Napier, the editor of the Edinburgh Review, has ad- dressed a letter to the Newspapers, which is intended for a defence of the notorious article in the October...

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WHERE IS THE PARLIAMENT TO ASSEMBLE'

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Is cobsidering, last week, the important question of the accommoda- tions required for the two Houses of Legislature, we set aside the minor though more immediate point as to...

A well-informed correspondent assures us that Dr. ALLEN, the Bishop

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of Bristol, may be considered as an acquisition to the small Liberal party in the House of Peers. Dr. ALLEN, it seems was tutor to Sir HENRY PARNELL, at Trinity Colleg e,...

Several communications from correspoldents aro ne. ssarily postponed for want

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of room ; among them a Letter on the Board of Customs by a Pooa CLERK," which bits been on hand too long, but with Is shall appear. if possible, next week.

THE THEATRES.

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THE long-talked-of stage version of Manfred was brought out at last on Wednesday, at Covent Garden Theatre ; and a most elaborate failure it has turned out. We had the curiosity...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The prospect of a further improvement in the Consol market, of which the operations of last week gave promise, has been realized ; and the...

A telegraphic despatch from Bisyone states, that MINA was there

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on the 27th ultimo, apparently in good health.

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POSTSCRIPT SATPRDAY. The Moniteur of Thursday officially announces the retirement of Marshal GERARD from the Ministry. Admiral on RIGNY, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, will...

EAST INDIA SELPPING.

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Arrivals—None. sunco-1.i. in Grav..sciut. Oct. 25111, Eliza iu ne, Findlay ; 11es , tm and 34th, Dahlia Packet, M 1■Lte ; for the Cap,. ho n Liverpool. V4.11, Lo I Stanley....

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JERROLD'S admirable drama The Rent Day, with WrLxii.'s two pie.

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tures of that subject and the " Distress for Rent" animated, is played at the Victoria. It is extremly well ease ELTON personates Martin Heywood, and Mrs. SELBY his wife, with...

SERLE'S new drama of The Widow Queen having - been put in

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abeyance for a short time by the illness of 11Irs. WAYLETT, PEAK L'S popular and cleyer piece The Climbing Boy has been substituted for it. A hit at the legislatorial folly of...

VESTRIS brought out lust week a new burletta called The

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Retort courteous ; the main object of which is to show up a certain foreign Count, who was the hero of a former piece. However conspicuous in his fopperies this gentleman may...

MR. BENTHAM AND THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. 23d October me SIR—The Westminster Review, you know, was established with Mr. BENTHAM'S money; for several years it was written by his...

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that plan having been submitted to him not long before

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his death, he THE proceedings at Glasgow, in honour of Lord DURHAM and Reform, have fully equalled the most sanguine anticipations of the and s_ only to g ive utterance to the...

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THE MEMBER FOR IRELAND.

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THE O'Coreeitee Rent for 1834 will probably equal, if not exceed, the amount of any previous year's contributions. The Agitator himself has, according to his custom at this...

THE NEW COLONY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

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Ist pursuance of the Act of Parliament, which authorizes the Crown " to erect South Australia into a British province, and to provide for the colonization and government...

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TIIE LYCEUM AND ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. DURING the present season three

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operas have been brought out at this theatre, each the product of our native soil, and all suc- cessful. Two of these are the work of men little known as com- posers, and not at...

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SOCIETY OF BRITISH MUSICIANS.

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Tits formation of this Society can scarcely be matter of surprise to those who are acquainted with the workings of the Metropolitan musical machine. The British composer feels...

AMATEUR FESTIVAL.

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OCTOBER has usually been a blank in the musical as well as the legal calendar; but times are altered, and we have two novel musical undertakings to record in the past week. An...

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The following notice was put up at the General Post-office

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on Wednesday. " His Majesty's Postmaster-General having had satisfactory proof laid before him, that printed newspapers sent from the United Kingdom, addressed to the cities of...

Some cotton-yarn, spun in the United States, has been imported

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into Liverpool, free of duty. It will be recollected that there is a duty on the raw material. Now the right way to prevent such in- terference with our Manchester spinners, is...

DISCOVERY OF THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK.—The Gazette de

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France has published a letter written by M. A. BILLIARD, formerly Secretary-General to the Minister of the Interior, which would seem to clear up this long-cherished mystery, in...

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LEE'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON. •

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DID any or e ever read all that has been written about NAPOLEON BONAPARTE? Is this task necessary even to his biographer? If nct, what portion of it ? Can the general reader...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, The life of the Emperor Napoleon: within Appendix. coltaiuMg an Examination of Sir Walter Scott's "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," and a Notice of the Principal Errors...

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BENNETT'S WANDERINGS.

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A CAREFUL and leisurely perusal of Mr. Bereriarf s volumes, has not greatly changed our opinion of his character as a writer, but it has increased our estimation of the value of...

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TYLNEY HALL.

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HERE is a capital novel spoilt by haste or caprice. In using the term novel, we do not mean a fiction of the highest class,—a pro- duction which should poetically revive the...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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Tux time teems with fictions.. There are four novels besides Tylney Hall before us, amounting in the aggregate to a dozen volumes save one. Of these, the first in likelihood is...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 26th ult.. the Lady of the Rev. SANUEL LYSONs, Rector of Rodmarton, of a daughter. On the 29th ult., in York Terrace, Regent's Park, the Lady of C. D. Aactuoaux...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, October 28.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVID. nirst and Skilheek. Iladdersfield, cloth finiehers-J. and II. Barnes. Faversham. boy- men -J., J., anal It. Davies, Bristol. woollen-drapers- Turner and...

THE ARMY.

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WAR-arms. Oct. 31.-16th Regt. of Light Drags.-Lieut. P. T. Robinson to be Capt. by purchase. vice Browne. who retires ; Cornet W. S. O'Grady , to be Lieut, by purchase, vice...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BUTCHERS' MEAT. SMITHFIELD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER al. The market generally is excessively dull, with a decline both in mutton and veal- the former 24. and the latter full 64. per...