24 APRIL 1830

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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"Windsor Castle, April 22, 1830. "The King is better. "HENRY HALFORD!' THIS most gratifying intimation has put an end to the gloomy rumours with which the town was agitated...

The last arrivals from Calcutta bring an interesting account of

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a meeting held in that city, to petition Parliament against the renewal of the Charter of the East India Company, and for the removal of all obstacles to the free settlement and...

The attack on. Algiers may be expected to take place

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immediately. BOURMONT left Paris on Monday to take the command. There is no change in the state of parties in Paris. The French papers are highly indignant on the subject of...

It is more than probable, that, agreeably to the opinion

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we ex- pressed last week, the offers of resignation of BoLiyAn. will terminate on this occasion, as they have on former occasions, by his reappoint- ment as President, with all...

We have- rceived aletter of remonstrance on the opinions which

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we have expressed on the proposed increase of duties on whisky. Our correspondent " feels quite assured that we canffot, consistently with the principles which we have uniformly...

The Lord Advocate's proposed reforms in the Law Courts of

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Scot-. -land have now been very generally canvassed in that country ; and the common opinion seems to be, that they are nothing better than a barefaced job. The reforms in...

Several Communications are unavoidably postponed.

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We request aprivate interview with Mr. MICHAEL Rooms ox.

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" THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY.-Although the formal celebratioaeof his Ma- jesty's

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birth.day was countermanded, the theatres, clulohouses, hotels, and houses of his Majesty's tradesmen, were very brilliantly illuminated last night. The Princess Augusta...

POLICE IrrsPEcTons.-We perceive one of these people, of the at

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divi- sion, as he is hieroglyphically designated, bringing before the Union Hall Magistrates a sailor charged with-what does the reader suppose ?-with courting a young girl,...

CITY EcoaroarY.--.The Committee appointed upon Mr. Charles Pearson's motion for

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the purpose of inquiring into the expediency of reducing the al- lowances of the Mayor and the other civic dignitaries, sat in Guildhall on Tuesday. Mr. Pearson, after adverting...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.-The alarm of last week occasioned by the King's illness has been repeatedly renewed here during the present week, but it has neither been so...

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Tun CREDIT SYSTEM ILLITSTRATED.-0I1 Thursday, a case was de- cided

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in the Court of King's Bench, which has excited considerable atten- tion. Rowlands, a jeweller, sued Gargrave, an attorney, for jewellery to the amount of 2201., which had been...

MIDDLESEX SEssioxs.—Thomas Bradford, an old Chelsea pensioner, was sentenced to

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twelve months' imprisonment for an assault upon a girl of ten years of age. On Monday, six fellows, named Eagle, Renard, Williams, Browne, Trimmer, and Jones, were sent to the...

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THEATRICAL Gossip.—We mentioned last week, that some friends of Madame

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Vestris waited on Sir Richard Birnie to complain of the new singer, Mr. Anderson, for having attempted to drive the lady from the stage while personating Captain Macheath. In...

DREADFUL Loss OF LIFE BY FIRE.—A fire urns discovered in

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Fetter Lane about half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, in a house occupied by a baker named Grant. The watchmen, as is customary on such occasions, broke open the door; and...

Coax SPECIAL Commissiort.—The four men that were convicted of conspiracy

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in November last and condemned to die, have received a reprieve, and will, it is expected, soon be set at large. A special reprieve has also been granted to Patrick Lynch,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PUBLIC BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE motions and orders set down in the Speaker's paper are so numerous, that the 9th of June is the first day that can be found open....

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY. City. One o'Ciod.-The following bulletin has just reached the Lord Mayor. "Windsor, April 24th. "His Majesty has passed a good night, and...

SYSTEMATIC COLONIZATION.

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THE plan of emigration which formed a part of our appendix on the 3d of April, has since been published as a two-shilling pamphlet; and the National Society for the Cure and...

A NEW SALVE.

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BEING heartily tired of the old salves for state sores, we hail with much cordiality the announcement of a new one.* Enough has been said and written on the subject of the...

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ABSENTEEISM.

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IN our hasty notice of Mr. MACCULLOCH'S Principles of Political Economy, three weeks ago, we stated that his opinions on "Absen- teeism" seemed to us less decided than...

p. CHURCH OF ENGLAND — THE EVANGELICAL PARTY. . RILAND, Curate of

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Yoxall, in Staffordshire, has published a mien. volume on Church Reform ;* a subject which he has treated • Ecc lake Demo et Tatamen. By the Rev. J. Maud, litA. Published by...

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have more of sorrow than of music in them. In

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one song over her nose, were as appropriate to weeping as the shrill cry ; but the most earnest admirers of natural lights too nnich in displaying the mere physical power of his...

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FOURTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.

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Bravi bravi tutte ! gentlemen Directors of the Philharmonic Con- cert. You have earned, and you hereby receive, our hearty com- mendations and thanks for the concert of Monday...

FRACAS AT DRURY LANE.

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VP= the absurdity and indecorum of the altercation between two performers on the Drury Lane stage, it is quite tuinecessary to offer a remark ; and it were equally superfluous...

LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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TEMPLE'S PERU.* THE melancholy Sultan of Serendib was sent all over the world by his astrological physician to seek and procure the shirt of the first truly happy man he should...

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NOVA SCOTIA.*

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THE main land of North America was discovered by CABOT, in 1497; and from his description there is every reason to believe that Nova Scotia was the point that he first visited....

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THE REVIEWER'S TABLE.

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I. Family LlbrarY—Plays of P. Massinger. 7. Address to the Members of Parliament 2. The Vale of Tempe, and other Poems. of Great Britain. By H. Berthold. By U. Newton, A.B. 8....

NEW MUSIC.

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Songs for Leisure Hours. The Poetry by W. WavroN, Esq. ; the Symphonies and Accompaniments composed and arranged, and four of the Airs harmonized, by H. R. BISHOP. Fifteen...

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THIS delightful exhibition reopened on Wednesday, with two new views,—

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Mount St. Gothard, and the Interior of Rheims Cathedral; the former painted by Mons. DkOUERILE, the latter by Mons. Borrow. The view of Mount St. Gothard is taken from the town...

HINDU FIGURE.

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A VERY curious and interesting specimen of Hindu sculpture has been brought to this country, and is exhibited at Earle's auction-rooms, 240, Re- gent Street, previously to being...

MR. SLATER'S DRAWINGS.

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WE have been much gratified by an hour spent in Mr. SLATER'S Exhi- bition-room, in Newman Street, which is hung with a collection of his sketches in crayon and water-colour...

FINE ARTS.

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Ix our "Peeps at the Print-Shops," we observe a Portrait of the lately de- ceased Sir Edmund Nagle, which appears to be a faithful likeness ; also one of the Duke of Newcastle's...

LAW REFORMS AND ABUSES. No. 2.

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ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT PEEL. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Sta,—The Insolvent Debtors' Court, viewed in comparison with the other courts of judicature in this...

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PRICE OF FISH.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sra,-You were so kind as to insert a communication in behalf of the fishermen of Ramsg ate, of the 7th of April, accompanied by some remarks of...

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LONDON MARKETS, CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, Aran. 23.

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The supply of Wheat this week is very moderate ; the trade is, however, dull; and al- though real fine parcels support Monday's prices, the middling awl secondary descrip- tions...