20 JANUARY 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tam is " wonderful unanimity" on one part of the Canadian question—the necessity of putting down the colonists vi et armis, for the honour and glory of the British name. And it...

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The French Ministers gained a victory on the Spanish pare.

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graph of the address ; a majority of from 70 to 80 Deputies adhering to Count MOLE'. policy of non-intervention. The well- known determination of the King not to abandon the...

Contrary winds have prevented the arrival of vessels from Ame-

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rica; consequently no intelligence has been received of the result of the expedition against Grand Brute, where the main body of thaOntidist■ihtkiigents were posted according to...

The intelligence from Spain is not of the least importance.

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King Onto of Greece has been obliged to dismiss his

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odious Minister, RUDHART, and several Bavarian officials.

A rumour has been circulated, that the King of Prussi

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on the 12th instant; but it is not credited in the official circles at Paris.

lachattd anti iprucceliinint in tlatliament.

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AFFAIRS OF CANADA. Both Houses of Parliament resssembled on Tuesday. In the House of Commons, exactly at five o'clock, Lord Jones RUSSEL!. rose to call the attention of the...

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On Monday afternoon, there was an alarm of fire at

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the Stock Ex.. change. Some plumbers. employed to thaw the ice in the pipes and gutters out the roof, set fire to a heap of straw and lumber. Little damage o us done. The...

The Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, granted a rule

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for a new trial in the case of buncombe versus Daniel ; on the ground that evi. deuce for the defendant was rejected, which should have been admitted. [It would seem that...

CO Court.

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" STATE affairs '• not only interrupt the pleasure's, but interfere with the devotions of our young Queen. The Courtly chronicler relates, that on Sunday last the Queen did not...

CIO Countrp.

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On Thursday week, a numerous meeting, summoned by 160 of the most respectable inhabitants, the Magistrates having refused to call the meeting, was held at Bradford; and a...

Vie inarOpOIllt.

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At a meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Thomas Campbell, and other members of the Association of the Friends of Poland, attended to present an...

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The rectories of Burford St. Martin, Wilts, and of Dinden,

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in the county of Southampton, are lately become vacant by the death of the Reverend Edward Pole, D. D. The former, worth SOO/. per annum, which lie held thirty-six years, is in...

SC6TLAND.

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The High Court of Justiciary was occupied from 'Wednesday the 3d to Thursday the I I th instant, with the trial of the five Glasgow cotton-spinners. The Judges on the beach were...

IRELAND.

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The dinner to Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hutton, on Thursday week was a splend id affair. The price of tickets was a guinemand-a half, but five guineas were readily paid for them....

Mr. O'Connell was busily engaged on Thursday (the 11th) at

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the 'Commercial Buildings, in getting a requisition signed by the different employers in Dublin, for the purpose of calling a meeting, without delay, with reference to the...

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William Lyon Mackenzie, for whose apprehension Sir F. Head, the

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Governor of Lipper Canada, offers u reward of IA01., is from the village of Alyth, in the vicinity of Dundee. He Was an apprentice to a respect- able ironmonger in Dundee, and...

The Times makes out a formidable list of reinforcements needed

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for the Army. Ilere is a tolerable muster for one week— Not less than on augmentation of 20,01)0 men to the present strength of the Army will enable Ministers tub carry into...

There was a row in Edinburgh, on Thursday week, between

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the students of Edinburgh University and some tradesmen of the town- There was a row in Edinburgh, on Thursday week, between the students of Edinburgh University and some...

The Earl of Eldon died on Saturday. The daily papers

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have pub- lished memoirs of his life ; which, however, supply no particulars Sot previously notorious. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his grandson, Lord Encombe....

Sir D. K. Sandford took the chair on Thursday last

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at the anniver- sary dinner of the Students' Peel Club. After trying, in succession, Political Unions and the House of Commons, Sir Daniel has at last bit upon a sphere of...

A second series of papers relative to the affairs of

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Canada has been printed by order of the House of Commons. It consists chiefly of documents already published in despatches of Sir John Colborne, Colonel Wetherall, and Colonel...

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The Italian Opera-house (not the Acad6mie Royale) at Paris was

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burnt down on Sunday night. There had been a performance that evening; and it was after the audience had withdrawn, and the theatre find been closed, that, about half-past...

POSTSCRI PT.

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SATURDAY. In the House of Peers last night, Lord Baouatime presented a peti- tion against the coercion of Canada; and took the opportunity of stating that he left the House...

The Foreign intelligence in the papers of this morning is

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destitute of interest. The only portion of it that requires notice relates to the proceedings of the King of Hanover. His Majesty has sum- moned the States to meet on the 20th...

A s few evenings ago, the opera of Faust was performed at

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the Theatre of I anover. At Mephistopheles' song, which in Anster's English translation runs- " Once on a time there was a King. A lovely Queen had he: Hat dearer far than...

Lord William Hervey, Secretary of the British Legation at Madrid,

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with two French and two Spanish gentlemen, who travelled with him in the same diligence, were captured by the Cnrlists, on their road from Madrid to Paris, at Alcoba, in the...

MONEY MARKET.

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srece Excnkroa. Flatntr An improvement of f j per cent. in the price of the Public Securities is at tributed, in Stuck Exchange causation, to a favourable change in opinion...

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A fare:ral burletta, %skit the alarming title of Shocking Events,

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is rendered very ainusing by the capital acting of FAIGIEN and KEELEY ; whose opposite qualities, heightened by contrast, combine like vinegar and oil in a a) of to produce a...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrivuls—None. Sailed—From Gravesend, Jan. 13th. Claudine. Kemp. fur %learns. From Liverpoo , , 1 1 til. for Data% ia.

An Operetta in one act, called the Musician of Venice,

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the music by Signor PILATI, is one of the beat things produced at the St. James's this season. Straitens, a famous musician, who has been obliged to quit Venice for (Nursing off...

THE THEATRES.

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Tire Lost Pleiad has noule some stir in the world before now, and various speculations as to its fate have been indulged in ; but certainly the must palpable, and therefore the...

The attraction of CHARLES KEAN at Drury Lane continues. He

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has repeated Lfam/et several times ; and report speaks of sonic improve- ments iu kis later performances, which we are glad to hear of. We hope F01)11 to see him in some other...

The Haysiawket, that by good maaagement has again beeome as

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popular as it was of yore, closed • long prosperous season—the first of the kind fir several years past—on Monday ; when Wrasmu bad a bumper for his benefit. The legitimate...

Three versions of AUBER'S Opera Le Domino Noir are already

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ad- vertised, at Covent Garden, the St. James's, and the Olympic. How many managers mean to play in this genie of dominos? The Olympic has got the start ; though, in so doing,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MEASURE AND THE MAN. NEVER, perhaps, was there a finer occasion for the display of high statesmanship, than the debate of Tuesday afforded to the Leader of the House of...

SIGNIFICANT SYMPTOMS.

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In the City article of the Morning Chronicle for Wednesday, the effect on the Money-market of Lord DURHAM'S appointment to the Dictatorship of the North American Provinces is...

PARLIAMENTARY TACTICS.

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"When embarrassed Mr an argument, try to raise a laugh." THERE are two modes in which a laugh is sure to be elicited from the House of Commons. One is by giving utterance to...

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THE VOCAL CONCERTS.

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IN spite of the excessive severity of the weather, an audience far from inconsiderable assembled on Monday evening at the Hanover Square Rooms, to usher in the season of the...

THE FROST AND THE FIRES.

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WHENEVER a great fire happens at the time of a great frost, people exclaim—"Alt! there is never a frost without a fire!" — as if fires never happened in the Dog-days. We dare...

AN OLD BOY.

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WHAT notion has the reader of a "page in waiting ?" Does he not fancy to himself a pretty lad, beardless and blooming, with slim legs and curling hair, jauntily dressed,...

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MEMOIRS OF MOLT.

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THE reader who has been taken by the somewhat pompous phrase oaf " General of the Irish Rebels," will be disappointed in these volumes. H 01.T was neither more nor less than a...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Memoirs or Joseph llolt.thmeral of the Irish Petals in MS. Edited from his Original Manuscript, in the possession of Sir William Ilettimn, Ulster Hing.at• Arms of all Ireland,...

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HAZLITT'S CHARACTERS OF SHAESPEARE'S PLAYS.

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THIS third edition of a keen an pithy work, by an acute rather than a profound or instructed critic, is published in the shape and style of the cheap editions of' Bstaost, &c.,...

LOGAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA, ETC.

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MR. LOGAN was induced to leave Scotland, in the summer of 1836, by the organ of locomotion, which had previously led him over the Continent of Europe; the hope or rather the...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE Exhibition season is close at hand ; already the note of prepa- ration is heard in Pull Mall. The British Institution received the pictures of Modern Artists on Monday and...

Want of room compels us to decline the offer of

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a communication from Mr. Acuo, on the now almost exhausted subject of the Royal Academy. Mr. Aocio contends, that the Academy, being a private body, have a right to do as they...