21 JUNE 1834

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Poor law Amendment Bill has undergone the ordeal of the Committee ; and, though certainly not unscarred, still retains its most prominent features. The principal alterations...

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We mentioned in our second impression last week, that. the

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Portuguese Regency had suppressed the Oporto Wine Company. This is a very important measure, and may be taken as an earnest of the intention of the Government to adopt a sound...

The Swiss Cantons have received insulting and threatening com- munications

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from the Austrian Cabinet, in consequence of their refusal to give up some German refugees to the vengeance of their despots. It is said that even an invasion of Switzerland is...

The French journals are filled with rumours and speculations as

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to the results of the next elections. The Carlists have resolved to take the oath of allegiance to Louis PHILIP, and in all places where the return of one of their own party is...

The Spanish Government has issued a decree establishing a censorship

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of the press, and laying down other oppressive regula- tions upon its conductors. It is pretended that this is done at the instance of certain journalists ; which is probable...

Recent accounts from Constantinople do not confirm a report which

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has been prevalent, that the Russians have invaded the Persian territory, though there appears to be some dispute as to the line of frontier settled by the last treaty between...

Mended ants laraceeltingd in parliament.

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1. POOR-LAWS AMENDMENT BILL. On the question being put, on Monday, that the House of Com- mons should go into Committee on this bill, Mr. Comery moved an amendment, that a...

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EV Court. THE King and Queen spent the first part

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of the week at Windsor. They arrived in town on Wednesday; and soon afterwards the King held a Levee. Several addresses were presented to his Majesty hum different parts of the...

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Lieutenant Parry, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, was

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drowned on Tuesday, in the Serpentine River, which he had attempted for a wager to swim across, in his clothes The wife of Thomas Benson, livery lace-maker, of Great Quetta...

Bildrnpurid.

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A deputation of noblemen and gentlemen,. connected with Ireland, waited on the Archbishop of Armagh on Wednesday; and presented a declaration to his Grace, in which they...

Ely COuntre.

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The candidates for Chatham are Captain Byng, the new Clerk of the Ordnance, and Mr. Ching, a Tory barrister. Mr. Erskine Perry► was requested to stand ; but not having the...

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111WcITitnratte.

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The Marquis of Conyngham, brother-in-law of the Duke of Rich- mond, and a very Moderate Whig, is appointed to the ofliev of Post- master-General. Colonel Leith Ilay, succeeds...

We had prepared an account or the curious trial which

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took illae • a few itays ago in the Court of King's Bench, relative to the Copyright or the S ,n g entitled The Old English tientletuan but are &diva by press of :natter to e:...

latilaiNta

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The Earl of Roden, in imitation of Lord ‘Vinchilsea, has addressed to his Protestant brethren of Ireland a letter on the present dangerous crisis of the Church. He is quite as...

Mr. WALLACE'S motion for a Commission to inquire into the

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state of the Post-office will come on next Thursday. It' the House of Commons were not an unwieldy body, the majority of whose Members are quite incompetent to discharge their...

MONEY MARKET.

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STICK EXCHANGE, FRIDAT AFTERNOON. The Eaglish Market has been heavy, and shown a disposition to decline. Consols for Account have been as low as 9:21 ; but close this afternoon...

The prosecution of the 7'rue San is one of the

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most disgraceful measures of the Whig Administration. Year after year, the leading member,: of the Whig party, when in Opposition, denounced the gross iniquity of the Law of...

We are glad to be able to inform our readers,

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that an opportunity will ovens in a few days for obtaioieg full and accurate information concern- ing the New Colony of South Australia. A bill fur erecting the new IImitish...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY N (1}11. The Vienna Congress have transmitted instructions to the German Diet at Frankfort, to inform the British and French Ministers, that the military occupation of...

SO.YELAND.

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Mr. Abereromby met a large body of the Edinburgh t lectors on Monday, at the Waterloo Rooms. After some preliminary remarks, lac proceeded to give an aCCOUIR of the reasons...

A " house dinner" took place on Wednesday last at

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the Carlton Club, in which about fatty members of that exclusive body of indi- vidual,: dined together ; Sir Robert Peel in the Chair. The Ho- nourable Baronet, till lately a...

There has been ;mother f'r'acas in the Cabinet. The cause

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of this new dissension was the appointment of the Marquis Conyngham to the l'o-t office. We understand that, in order to keep the Administration a little longer together, it has...

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EAST INDIA SIIIFPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, -Tune 10111. Leslie Ogilby, llogg, from Van Diemen's Land ; and I9111, Funchall. Ascough, faint New Smith \Vales. off Falmouth, .Mary .lint, llorublow ;...

SOME AccouNT OF LORD BROUGHAM'S EVIDENCE BEFORE THE LIBEL COMMITfEE.

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Lonn Brougham has been examined as a witness before the Select Committee on the Law of Libel. It is one of the beautiful anomalies, that while Committees on Private Business are...

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LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q.

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No. XVI. APOLOGY FOR TILE FRENCH REPUBLICANS—CONCLUDED. TO TOE EDITOR 01' THE SPECTATOR. Parig, 18th Jane 1ti3 1. Sot—The enemies of the French Republicans are more...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SLOVENLY LEGISLATION; BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MEiniFits of Parliament are constantly complaining of the labo- rious nature of their public duties. They rise early and...

REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH.

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THERE is a passage in Mr. Aneaceomev's address to the electors of Edinburgh, which merits a remark or two. " I should deceive you, if I were now to state, that while in offico...

LORD BROUGHAM BEFORE THE LIBEL COMMITTEE.

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IF it be true that Lard BROUGHAM'S judgment is weak (as his extenuating and apologizing friends allege, when the public are shocked by some piece of inconsistency in the...

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CLERKENWELL JUSTICE.

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THREE months nearly have elapsed since Lord BROUGHAM intro- duced his bill for improving the administration of justice in Lon- don and the vicinity. The bill was read a first...

CURRENT CORN CATECHISM.

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[oarcis.u, AND FOUNDED ON TIIE. MATERIALS OF TilE PASSING MOMENZ.] (Continued.) 201. RIBBON TRADE. Molting Post. House of Lords. lSth June Ital.— The petitions which he was...

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COMMENCEMENT OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL FESTI VAL.

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THOSE who have been accustomed to read our musical lucubra- tion:, are sulliciently apprised of the importance we have attached to the Provincial Festivals,—regarding them as...

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PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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THE season concluded on Monday night, with the following scheme. Aria, Mademoiselle Gals', "Tanti alYetti," La Donna Aria, MaditOlOCARA float A ELAN...Come per me scrimp"...

The first performance, for the " humbler classes," was on

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Friday morning : we cull it a pertertnance, for in this Festival there is no rehearsal. Every singer and player is in his place, and every note of the selection is give , with...

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WHO ARE THE CHURCH ROBBERS?

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Tile: present is not a political week. Its leading interest is musi- cal. Let us take the opportunity whieh the great topic of the Festival, together with Dr. Honoiss' Apology,*...

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At the late Frankfort fair, fifty thousand copies were rapidly

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sold of translations in the German and French languages of the English pamphlet, entitled " The Reform Ministry and the Reformed Parlia- ment." The sale was so quick, that the...

MR. VANDENHOFF'S "CORIOLANUS."

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THE character of Coriohenus is one of the most trying which an actor could choose for his debut ; for, independently of its associa- tions with the fame of KEMBLE, the...

THE NEW ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.

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WE looked in this week to see the progress of the works in Mr. Aitarmais new theatre. The fineries is in so forward a state as to convey a complete idea of its arrangements, and...

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BECKFORD'S ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.

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To the present generation, the name of BECKFORD is better known titan his works. Had his celebrity depended altogether upon his productions, it would probably have been less...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Italy ; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal. By the Author of " Vathek." 2 vols. Bentley. BIOnRAPHY, The Autobiography. Times, Opinions. mot Contemporaries of Sir Egerton...

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SIR EGERTON BRYDGES.

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Time volumes are not so much an autobiography, as reminis- cences and opinions. An idea of the life of Sir EGERTON Beynnes may be gleaned from them ; but the materials are scant...

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MADAME JUNOT'S CELEBRATED WOMEN.

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Tnz subjects of these biographical notices have been hitherto, almost exclusively, either unhappy in their destiny or unamiable in their dispositions. The Third Number centains...

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TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS

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Is a singular volume. It has crept forth unheralded, and, so far as we remember, unannounced. It is published in a shape unat- tractive to the pure novel-reader ; and though...

THE REVOLUTIONARY EPICK.

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THE present fasciculus of this work contains the second and third books. The former is devoted to time pleadings of Lyri- don, "the genius of Federalism," in reply to Magros,...

MR. BABBAGE'S CALCULATING MACHINE.

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THURSDAY was a proud day for the Mechanics Institute; for, on the occasion of Dr. LARDNER describing the Calculating Machinery in- vented by Mr. BARRAGE, Lord BROUGHAM...

ARTS AND ARTISTS.

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POLITICAL CARICATURES. H. B. has given a zoological version of Mr. Stanley's opposition to the appropriation of Church property ; wherein he represents O'Con- nell as the great...