20 APRIL 1833

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE House of Commons met again on Monday, and the House of Lords on Tuesday. Last night, Lord ALTHORP made his long-deferred financial statement for the current year....

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Letters from Madrid of the 8th instant, received in Paris,

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state that the decrees against the Liberals, which have created so much surprise, were obtained from the King by General CASTANOS, without the knowledge of ZEA. BERMUDEZ, and...

The South Carolina Convention for organizing resistance to the enforcement

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of the tariff, has repealed its Nullification decrees and resigned its functions. The Union or Government party in the State have also formally, and indefinitely postponed the...

M. LIONNE, the responsible editor of an obscure Paris paper,

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called the Tribune, has been found guilty of libelling the French Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 256 members of that Chamber against 50. By a majority of 204 against 103,...

The reports which were prevalent at the close of last

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week, of a peace having been concluded between the Sultan and the Vice- roy of Egypt, were entirely groundless. We intimated at the time, that they should be received with...

Elrbate an rnterbing1 in Parliament.

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1. Tun BUDGET. The House of Commons last night resolved itself into a Committee of Supply; arid, Mr. M. ATWOOD having consented to postpone his motion relative to Distress and...

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airtrupolit.

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A public meeting was held at the Guildhall on Wednesday, to peti- -tion Parliament to introduce Poor-laws into Ireland. The Lord Mayor presided. Alderman Word, Mr. Grote, Sir...

The Bank of England issued a notice on Saturday, that

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they had. made arrangements with the Lords of the Treasury for circulating Ex- chequer Bills, pursuant to an act now in force, to the end of April 1834: thus showing,...

Some disorder, which, for the want of a more definite

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appellation,. has been called an Influenza, is extremely prevalent in London at pre- sent. The Medical Gazette thus describes the symptoms, we believe. correctly enough. " It...

Elir Court.

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Tim King and Queen arrived at St. James's Palace, from Windsor, on Tuesday afternoon. In the evening, his Majesty gave a grand dinner to the Knights Grand Crosses of the order...

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Mr. Ballantine, the Thames Street Police Magistrate, has been seriously

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ill, in consequence of an accident which he met with last week. He was riding on horseback in Leadenhall Street, when a Stratford stage-coach drove furiously against him : the...

Noah Pease Folgar, the American Captain, who shot at Mr.

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William Mellish on the '18th February last, was tried on Monday at the Old Bailey Sessions, and acquitted, on the ground of insanity. He is or- dered to be imprisoned till his...

Captain Bayntun, the Member for York, attended at Bow Street

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on Monday, to answer a charge brought against him by Mr. Mullett, of No. 374, Strand, of having illegally pawned a looking-glass which he had hired of Mr. Mullett. It was...

Two men named Searle and Hardy were indicted, on Tuesday,

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at the Surry Sessions, for assaulting a Police constable named Edwards, in the performance of his duty. Mr.. Dunbar, a barrister, addressed the Jury, with great warmth, for the...

Eke Cowan).

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The election for Coventry terminated, on Saturday, in the return of Mr. Ellice. The numbers at the close of the pull were— For Mr. Ellice 1,509 Mr. Thomas 1,206 Mr. J....

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The Dundee Advertiser gives an interesting account of the reception

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of Sir Henry Parnell at Dundee, and of the great electoral meeting at which the resolution in his favour, recorded in our last paper, was carried by acclamation. • A party of...

SCOTLAND.

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The financial embarrassments of the city of Edinburgh, to which we alluded some time ago, have at last come to a crisis, winch scarcely ad- mitted of an alteiaative between...

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The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr. Richard

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Bentley of New Burlington Street, his Majesty's Publisher in Ordinary. Mr. Godwin, the author of Caleb Williams, has been honcured, in his old age, by an appointment from the...

Another proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant of Irelaild has been issued,

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prohibiting the meeting of the Trades Union. Lord Gambier died yesterday morning, at his house at Iver, near Uxbridge. His age was seventy-seven. The gaol rand court-house of...

EAST INDIA COMPANY.

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A Special General Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock was held on Monday, pursuant to adjournment, for the purpose of con- sidering the correspondence between Ministers...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. The gloom which has so long hung over the Money Market was increased by the arrival, in the early part of the week, of irtelligence of a fall of...

The probability of Lord PALMERSTON'S going to India as Governor-

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General, was a topic of conversation at the dinner given by the King on Wednesday.

There was another long palaver to-day on the Dutch and

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Belgian business ; at which Prince TaLLEYRAND, Lord PALMERSTON, M. DEDEL, and M. VANDER 'WEYER assisted. Of course nothing was done. The Secretary of the Duke of Oiti.Eaais,...

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POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NtGrt T. Lord .ALTHORP is endeavouring to make terms with Mr. .MATTRIAS Arrwoon. In the last interview which he had with the Currency de- putation, be said...

A detachment from the Prussian garrison of Coblentz, and another

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from the force stationed at .Mayence, have been despatched to Frank- fort, on the application of the Magistrates of that city. The differences between the Austrian Government...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The James Sibbald, Darby, from Calcutta to London, has been totally lost at Coringa Bay; • crew and passengers saved. Arrived—At Gravesend, April 16th, Liebe, Currie, from...

Accounts have been received from Oporto at the Portuguese Em-

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bassy, up to the 11th instant. SARTORIUS was still at Vigo, and had consented not to press his own claims upon the Regency for the pre- sent, provided be had money to pay his...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ARGUMENTS AGAINST CHURCH REFORM. THE last Quarterly Review contains a paper on the projected re- forms in the English and Irish Church Establishments, written in a subdued and...

THE GLOBE versus THE SPECTATOR.

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THE following notice of our humble and fallible speculations, on three different subjects, appeared in the Globe of Monday. " If the people think that Mr. Ellice's near...

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PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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MANAGERS and Directors have been driven to their wits' end by the epidemic which is now visiting the Metropolis with such seve- rity. The Italian Opera-house on Saturday...

GERMAN OPERA.

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WE have been anxiously expecting the production of some novelty in this department of the King's Theatre, and at length the Zampa of HEROLD has made its appearance. Under the...

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The exhibiter of the Fleas is said to be greatly

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embarrassed by the prevailing epidemic : so many of his fleas has been put to bed of influenza, that he has with great difficulty been able to keep together a sufficient number...

A discovery highly interesting to the antiquarian has brought to

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light the remains of warriors whose powerful arms, at least 1,800 years ago, gave laws to our ancestors. Some workmen employed in digging for stone on Limloe Hill, a few miles...

The Dutchess of Kent's grand dinner-party, appointed for this day,

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is post- poned in consequence of the sudden and serious illness of Sir John Conroy, • with an attack, as we are informed, of the prevailing epidemic.—Morning • Paper. Cannot...

A French ship, called Le Silence, lately arrived at Havre

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from Rio de Janeiro, bringing a cargo of 10,000 parrots ! Le Silence must have made some little noise both in the old and new worlds. This is a cargo that can only be rivalled...

THE MONTGOMERYSHIRE BOROUGHS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—Permit me to point out a mistake which occurs in your account of the result of the last contest for these Boroughs, and which I doubt not...

The writer of the article " Diderot " in the

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new Number of the. Foreign Quarterly, who is famous for the inversion of hi sentences and the mystification of his meaning, says— It is several years since the present Reviewer...

It would be hard to say which is the most

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moral quarter of Lon- don. The choice at present seems to lie between Billingsgate and Grosvenor Square. A man was brought before the Lord Mayor by the parish officers of...

The Theatres have been closed on account of the illness

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of some of the performers,—in order, as it is alleged, to prevent the dis- appointment of the public. That is to say, the public, to be saved a small disappointment, are...

ANOTHER BONE-CAVE.—The Reverend Mr. Williams, of Bleadon, who is indefatigable

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in his ,pursuit of geological discoveries, has, within the last ten days, commenced clearing a new deposit of fossil-bones in his neighbourhood, .which has already produced...

"ROBBERIES IN THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S COURT." A para- graph under

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this head is going the rounds of the press. We ex- pected to read of the law's delay, of the iniquity of lawyers, the enormity of fees, and the expensiveness of Chancery. It...

The shopkeepers of the Strand and Oxford Street are petition-

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ing that the drivers of cabs and omnibuses should be licensed. They have already more licence than enough.

IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE BY EXPRESS. (From the Morning Herald.) Lady Howard

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de Walden proceeds next week to join her Lord at Stockholm. Her Ladyship has arrived at Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, from the seat of her father, the Duke of Portland, at...

When the "proclamation" of the city of Kilkenny was dis-

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cussed in the House of Commons on Wednesday last, it was urged by Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE and Mr. SPRING RICE, in defence of the proceeding, that if the city, as well as the county,...

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THE TYROL.

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Mn. Isntis is a pleasant travelling-companion: he is observant, good-humoured, experienced, and tolerably well-informed. His object being neither the consumption of time nor the...

3SIOORE'S TRAVELS OF AN IRISH GENTLEMAN.

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THIS will be deemed at least one of the most remarkable books of the present day. Under the form of a very slender fiction, it is a history of the Church, by THOMAS MOORE. "....

SPECTATORS LIBRARY.

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THEOLOGY, , Travois of an Irish GentIonan in search of a Reli g ion. With Notes and Illustrations by the Editor of "CaptEu Rock's Memoirs." 2 vole Lon:yrnan and Cu. TR LVIILS,...