24 FEBRUARY 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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• THE Parliamentary history of the week has not been signalized Lv any great party struggle, neither has any bill of importance passed into a law : nevertheless, the proceedings...

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The accounts from Spain are almost unintelligible. The Car- list

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chief BASILI0 seems to be the great terror of the Royalists. Re plunders the country in all directions, and appears in districts where he is least expected, at the head of a...

New York papers, to the 29th of January, furnish some

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addi- tional particulars of the proceedings of the malecontents on the Canadian frontier ; but they are even more vague than usual. It is said — for nothing can be stated as...

Some alarm prevails in Portugal, in consequence of informa- tion

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that Don MIGUEL is about to attempt an invasion. The Minister of War made a statement to that effect in the Cortes. Many Miguelites had gone to the Carlist...

The Continental news does not improve in attractiveness. It is

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said that the Frertsh Chimber of Deputies has resolved to force the reduction of the interest on the Five per cent. Stock upon the Ministry ; also to cut down the sum asked for...

Otbatril anti taractetringst in tladiament.

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SLAVERY. In the house of Lords, on Tuesday, Lord BROUGHAM moved two sets of resolutions, the first having reference to the suppression of the Slave-trade, the second to the...

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far Court.

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THE Queen and the Dutchess of Kent attended divine service in the chapel of Buckingham Palace on Sunday. The Bishop of Salisbury preached the sermon. After service, Lord...

rbr itittropolig.

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Sir Samuel Whalley's abandonment of his seat for Marylebone will give rise to a hard contest for the representation of that important borough. Four candidates arc in the field—...

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At the Marlborough Street Office, on Saturday, Samuel Evans, known

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as " Young Dutch Sam," a prize-fighter, was charged with as- saulting a Policeman, and Lord Waldegrave with an attempt to rescue him. Evans was ordered to find bail, and Lord...

At a meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, pieces

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of plate, voted by the Corporation, were presented to the Sheriffs of last year. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs delivered speeches on the occasion. A meeting, to petition...

A Court of Compensation was appointed to be held a

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few days since at the Town-hall, to award compensation to Mr. Leary, of the White Swan, Joiner's Street, the Greenwich Railway having destroyed the trade on his premises. Mr....

fjt Countrp.

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Sir James Graham was elected, on Tuesday, Member for Pe m- broke, without opposition. In a long speech from the hustings, he harped on the string which he struck with some...

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At a meeting of medical practitiol. - the county of

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Yolk, wh:cli was held a DradCol.d on 1',i.l:• I 'us resolutions were ;Andel' for petitionitra. Parliament to p. %]:1 - .: to the licensing 'mules of the : duce,-ion some...

In a paragraph copied last week from the Derby Mercury,

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it was stated that damage to the extent of 7001. was caused by a fire on a farm belonging to the Duke of Grafton, which fire was occasioned by " flakes " of flame from an engine...

A recent letter from Colonel Thump:on to the Working Men's

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Association of Hull has appeared in some of the newspapers. The Colonel had been requested to deliver a lecture ; instead thereof, he sent them a pithy and pungent epistle. Ile...

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SCOTLAND.

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Mr. Fox Meek was returned for the Elgin district of Burghs, without opposition, on Tuesday week. In his speech from the hust- ings, Mr. Mettle stickled for Lord John Russell's...

The French Minister of Commerce has submitted to the Chambers

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a magnificent proposition, which we have no doubt, after it goes through the form of a committee, will be at once adopted by the Legis- lature. That proposition is to make Paris...

There was a most terrific snow-storm on Thursday and Friday

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in the South of Ireland; which did much damage, and has for the present nearly impeded all internal communicution. Cork and Limerick, the shipping at both places especially,...

There are seven codicils to Lord Eldon's will. By the

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last codicil, dated 1837, the sum of 81. per annum is left for the support of his dog Pincher. Amongst the articles bequeathed as heir-looms, the follow- ing are particularly...

S*h idceUanenad.

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It is rumoured that the Marquis of Clanricarde will go to St. Pe- tersburg as British Ambassador. Lord John Russell was, or professed to be, in a great rage at the de- sertion...

IRELAND.

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Lord Cletihrork had been elected a Representative Peer for Ire- land, by a majority of 75 to 4, over his opponent Lord Langford. Mr. Lynch was returned for Galway on the 16th...

THE ARMY.

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omen or ORDNANCR. Feb. 19.-Corps of Royal Engineers-Second Capt. A. Wal- pole to be ('apt. vice Young. dec. ; First Lieut. II. Tucker to be Second Capt. sloe Walpole ; Second...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Premier came out last night as the resolute enemy of the Ballot. This will surprise some good-natured persons, who have been assured, and on what they imagined...

MONEY MARKET.

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SATURDAY, TTRISE OTLOCR. All descriptions of English Stock are from to per cent. lower than lest week ; although money still continues abundant, and the premium upon &- quer...

From the Court Circular it appears that, on Tuesday last,

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Sit ROBERT OTWAY succeeded Colonel ARMSTRONG as Groom in Waiting on the Queen. Sir ROBERT OTWAY is therefore bound to give per- sonal attendance at Buckingham Palace during his...

The Gazette of last night gives a list of new

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honours bestowed— under the following dates. February 21. Lieutenant-General Keating, Major-General Johnston, and Colonel De Lacy Evens, (Lieutenant-General in the service of...

A meeting of the electors of Marylebone was held yesterday,

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at the Yorkshire Stingo ; Mr. Hume in the chair. A resolution was pa sse d almost unanimously—three bands only being held tip against it—.that Me, Ewart is " the most fit and...

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Sir HARRY VERNEy has placed the following notice on the

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Vote. paper for Tuesday next ; and some persons are simple enough to suppose that his motion will be carried : we anticipate its rejection- " That it is expedient to make trial...

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We had an opportunity of again witnessing the exciting interest

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felt by the Adelphi audience in the Maiden's Fame ; having been drawn to that fitvourite and crowded little theatre by the mirth-moving inci- dents of a broad fareicel burletta...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The John Stmnp, from Bombay, reported in our last as arrived off Liverpool, was totally wrecked ill the coast of Ireland on the morning of the 17th instant. and seven of the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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RTIIS. On the 1416 inst., at Bisham Cottage. Marlow. Lady IIINR1CH, of a ROIL On rho 15th inst., in Dutchess Street, Portland Place, the Lady of J. M A ASTON, Esq., of a son...

THE THEATRES.

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Tue. occurrences of the week, though trivial, are sufficient to prevent an entire blank in our chronicle of stage doings. POWER reappeared at Covent Garden ots Wednesday, as Ale...

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ARMY REFORM.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. February 1835. Stn-ln my letter of last month, I gave, with a plan for the reformation of the Army, an approximative sketch of the results to...

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JOBBING IN HONOURS.

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COLONEL DE LACY EVANS, the Member for Westminster, or, to call him by his new title, "Sir GEORGE Da LACY EVANS, K.C.B.," has been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of...

MILITARY EXPENDITURE.

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Wrs publish another letter from our Military Correspondent, the purpose of which is partly to correct two small oversights, but chiefly to extend his views on Army Reform. On...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S MOTION. I .Sir William Mulessurth—To move an humble address to the Queen, respectfully ex- 'L's g the opinion of this House, that in the present...

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THE ARROGANT COMMONS.

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LORDS arc looked upon as a superior order of beings, composed of precious porcelain instead of the vulgar clay, the lutum twpe, of which the mass of mankind are inade. There are...

THE BALLOT SKULKERS AND THE IslINISTRY.

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THE constituents of Sir HENRY PARNELL, Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, Mr. POULETT THOMSON, Sir GEORGE GREY, and the other Mere. hers returned by Liberal majorities, who skulked from the...

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"LORD MASTER LUTHER" AND MR. SMITH.

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THE silence of Mr. SYDNEY SMITH 011 the amended schemes of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Bishops for reforming the Church, induced the suspicion that the caustic Canon had been...

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MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI.

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WHO ever saw Jox GRIMALDI without recognizing him as the embodied genius of Pantomime? Other clowns have fur excelled him in feats of agility, and shocking strangeness of...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Bose With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. lu 2 cols Bentley. TRAVELS, llarONSCIIS and Palmyra; a Journey to the East, with a Sketch...

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ADDISON'S DAMASCUS AND PALMYRA.

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THE man best qualified to travel in countries where there is so little absolutely new to be seen as in Greece and Syria, would be an artist-historian ; especially if he...

COUSIN ON EDUCATION IN HOLLAND.

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Ma. HORNER has rendered an acceptable service to the friends el education, as well as to the reading public, by this translation of COUSIN'S Report. The volume is not only...

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FINE ARTS.

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Au. hope of the nation possessing any portion of the feswitexce Col. lection of Drawings by the Great Masters, is now at On end. The negs, fj tiation for the purchase of the...

The Galt.

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By GEORGE HARGREAVES. " lam monarch of all I survey." Any composition from Mr. HARGREAVES leads us to expect some- thing beyond a few commonplace reminiscences falsely...

Mephistopheles' Song. By J. WILKINSON.

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A. certain pupil of CoaNataus AGRIPPA unwittingly, and unwisely, u it turned out, invoked a certain nameless personae; who, annoyed at being thus troubled by a tyro in the black...

NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

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Quartetto Conccrlante, for Pionrfiirle, Violin, Viola, and Violoncello. Composed by II. WI:senor. Mr. WesTrtor, we believe, is one of the Norwich school of musi- cians, of...

" The Moon shines bright ; " a Fairy Glee for three

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voices. By EDWIN MERRIOTT. A very pleasing Glee, and likely to be popular where the lighter style of English vocal harmony is cultivated.