25 FEBRUARY 1832

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The sentence of the Court-martial on Captain W ARRINGTON, confirmed

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on Wednesday, was, that he should be cashiered. The Court at the same time recommended hhn to mercy. The So- vereign has permitted, in consequence, the sale of his commission....

- It is understood that the measure contemplated by Ministers

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for restoring 'peace to Ireland, if possibk, is to commuti the tithe for a land-tax, to be collected by the Government tax-gatherers, with the barony, cess, and other public...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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WE had anticipated, that by the time at which we write, the Reform Bill would have been rescued from the Committee, and' WE had anticipated, that by the time at which we write,...

A very serious rising of the Negroes in Jamaica, attended

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with great destruction of property, has taken place. The Jamaica pa- pers received early in the week had stated the fact, and many of the details : the authentic particulars as...

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The Journals of Southern France speak of large -preparations by

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.FZIWINAND to - support 311011 311 - 1 311111,. On the 13th, Three regiments of about 3,000 men left Madrid for the Portuguese frontiers, where other troops are daily...

Drhatc anti Vraftrbino in parTiainrnt.

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1. THE REFORM BILL. On Monday, before going into Committee, Mr. CROKER expressed a wish that the postponed - clauses should be discussed previous to entering on the question of...

Among the acts of the early Government of Belgium, was

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the condemnation of a M. STEVEN, editor of the Ghent 31es.svng , r, by a military tribunal. The Messenger was a violent Orange journal, but the unconstitutional nature of M....

The Senate of the 'United States have refused to ratify

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the Pre- sident's nomination of Mr. Vi N BUREN - as Minister to this country. He must, in consequence, be recalled before the end of the session of Congress. His acts are in the...

Calcutta Papers have been received to the 4th October. They

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describe the greatest bustle as existing with the reported expedi- tion against the Chinese. The expedition, it is stated, will consist of 1:),000 men. All the disposable...

The Vera Cruz journals of the 4th January mention a

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military revolutionary movement that has taken place in that city. Gene- ral SANTA ANNA has been invited to place himself at the head of the garrison. The general ground...

A long letter from a certain Baron AN DER SMISSEN

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appeared in the Evening Papers of last Saturday, charging Lord Po NSO while in Belgium, with first encouraging and then deserting the Orange party there. The Time-s of Tuesday...

The Greeks are by no means so agreed to have

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their Govern- ment settled as the Allies are to settle it. Thu Roumeliots, and the inhabitants of the islands of Hydra and Spezzia, have adopted one line of polities, while the...

The Court at Paris has at length pronounced judgment in

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the regarding cause rearding the late Duke of BOURBON S will. The Court treats the 'whole of the articles exhibited by the Princes of ROHAN as inadmissible and not pertinent....

We are again told that a French force has sailed

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from Antibes for Civita Vecchia, or Ancona, notwithstanding a denial of Lord PALMERSTON in the House of Commons. The Paris papers of Thursday say two snore companies of...

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SEMMARY OF THE DIVISION OF COrNTIES . DILL.

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Cheshire—North-eastern division, hundreds of Macclesfield and Bucklow ; South-. western division, hundreds of Broxton, Kddisbury, Nantwich, Northwich, and Wirrall ; the city and...

Ett Cwt.

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The King and Queen have passed, as appears by the accounts frorn Brighton, a very quiet, and, we have no doubt, for that reason a very happy winter. 'There have been few parties...

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be aittrupoI14.

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The Lord Mayor gave a splendid dinner last Saturday, the particulars of which reached us at too late a period to admit of our using them. The Duke of Sussex, Lord and Lady Grey,...

PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.

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The disease has made very little noise in London this week, and no progress. At this moment, there are but 7 eases remaining.. The entire cases from the commencement have been...

THE DUBLIN CORPORATION ADDRESS.

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The Mayor of Dublin Mr. Alderman Morrison, and Mr. Judkin Butler, having agreed With their brethren of the Corporation upon an Anti-Reform address to his Majesty, came over to...

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IRELAND.

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In the county Clare, about ten miles from the city of Limerick, on the left of the road leading from thence to Ennis, lies an estate of 600 acres, named Ralahine, belonging to...

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At Leeds, on Monday evening last week, a preliminary meeting of a few manufitcturers took place at Sewell's hotel, to consider of the course proper to be adopted in regard to...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, 21st February.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. watala and ANDREWS, West Smithfield, ironmongers-Waremr and GUNNELL, Ai- church Lane, wine - merchants - W. and T. BUTCHER, Orchard Street, Portman...

THE ARMY.

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WAR - OFFICE, February 24. - 2d Regiment of Life Guards : Cap'. .1. W. Cuthbert from the lad f-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice C. Bulkcloy, v. cc exchaeges, re- ceiving the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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On the 21st inst. at Vernon House, Park Place, St. James's, Lady SUFFIELD, of a son. On the till: inst. at Edinburgh, the Lady of Major - General the Hon. PAre tete SrEwART, of...

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WORSE 11/6.EASES THAN CHOLERA.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Ramsgate, 20th Fefshaary 1331 SIR-I observe in the last Number of your valuable Miscellany art excellent article on the epidemic, which at this...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The H. C. ships Buckinghamshire and Waterloo have arrived frora China ; they sailed filth October, and from St. Helena 8th ultimo. All the Company's ships of the season had...

THE BRISTOL COMMITTEE.-WC have received, in Common with several of

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our contemporaries, a communication conveying to us the thanks of the Committee for our conduct in respect to the Bristol case. We are always gratified to receive the...

Mr. O'Connell has a notice on the Order-book of the

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Commons, for an inipfiry into the emoluments and labours of the Irish Secretary. He intends also to move the reconsideration of the Irish Tithes Report. Sir JOHN MACDONALD has...

" Philo Honestus et Veritas" must favour us, confidentially. with

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his address. Ire shad endeavour to clear off an arrear of correspondence nest week.

Last night's Gazette contains the names of the following gentlemen,

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ton whom the honour of knighthood was conferred at the levee on Wed- nesday- • • Dr. J. Gibney, Physician to the Sussex County Hospital ; Henry Edmund Austen, Esq. one of the...

We have the authority of Sir HENRY HALFORD for stating,

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that the Copdolo-gratulatory Letters, inserted in a late Spectator, were not those he wrote, and unluckily misdirected, to Earl WESTMORLAND and the Marquis of TAVISTOCK. The...

POSTSCRIPT.

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Letters from France of Thursday's date, report that Government ' had received a telegrap hic despatch, announli that the Pope had sent a Message to the French Ambassador at...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EvElerara. Consols left off on Saturday at 821 to 11 for the Account; Exchequer Bills at 7s. to 8s. prem. The Cholera, or the Humbug, as it is...

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THE LISTS.

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"Grmcum eel—non potest legi." Moxn•tsu SATING. THE introduction into the House of Commons of Lieutenant Daummoxn's calculations, has played sad havoc with the brains of the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. WE see with pleasure, that Mr. E. L. BULWER has given notice of a motion to repeal the Stamp-duty on Newspapers and the Excise on Paper, and to substitute...

MR. SADLER AND THE SPINNING-MILLS.

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LAST session, Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE introduced a bill for the regu- lation of the hours of labour in factories. Its loss, like that of the Highlandman's father and mother at...

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SOCIAL FESTIVAL.

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THE proceedings of a meeting, or party, of great singularity in both its objects and its character, have been communicated to us in almost an official shape; and we notice them...

GOVERNMENT PLEDGES.

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IN a debate on the Army Extraordinaries last week, a conversa- tion sprung up respecting Swan River: Mr. Hums insisted that a pledge had been given, when the grant of 270,000...

HEMP-DUTY.

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WE had forgot that Britain levies a tax on the material of the important naval necessary—cordage—until we were reminded of the fact, by a petition which Mr. Ross presented the...

ROBERT THE DEVIL.

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DRURY Lane and Covent Garden are both possessed with Robert the Devil. His Satanic Majesty's reign at the former house be- gan on Monday, and at the latter on Tuesday ; the...

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THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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THE repetition of such an experiment as that of producing La Coutessa LASIZE in Desdemona, would go very far to shake our confidence in Mr. MASON'S judgment. Never was failure...

NEW BUILDINGS IN THE METROPOLIS.

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WE are so accustomed to the rapid changes which silently take place around us in.the buildings of this vast metropolis, that we see new ones rise up to completion before our...

MR. PERRY'S ORATORIO, "THE FALL OF JERUSALEM."

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IN our account of the last Norwich Festival, we remember to have put this query, "Who is Mr. PERRY, and what is the Fall of Jeru- salem?' It was occasioned by the performance of...

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THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE TOUR OF A GERMAN PRINCE.

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Tuts volume of the German Prince's Tour, though called the third, is in reality the first. It describes his setting out from Germany, his arrival in England, and is occupied...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, Tour in Germany. Holland, and England, in the Years 1826, 1827, and 1828. By a German Prince. In 4 vols. Vol. III, Zoormay, Fauna Boreali-Americans ; or the Zoology...

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FAUNA BOREALI-AMERICANA.

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THIS is the first zoological work ever published under the im- mediate authority of the British Government ; and we are glad to pronounce it worthy, in all points, of dais high...

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CHESKIAN ANTHOLOGY.

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THIs is a pleasing volume of national and amatory poetry, from the muse of a people who have no nation to be proud of, and to whom love is the only source of inspiration left....

PICTURES AND ARTISTS.

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Mn. MARTIN has been styled by one of his most enthusiastic admirers, " Sovereign Lord of Space ; " to which cognomen might be added, " Frince of the Power of Perspective,"— a...

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H. B. has made an amusing scene (though we will

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venture to say not equal to the reality) of the late Puritanical display in the House of Commons when its doors were closed upon unqualified scoffers. The saintly " Member for...

The First Number of a series of Views of Highland

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and Lake Scenery among the Western Isles of Scotland, neatly lithographed in outline by LEITH of Banff, from the drawings of Colonel MURRAY of Ochtertyre, has been put into our...

• We have often wondered that no views should have

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been published of the Pyrenees, associated as these mountains are with warlike recol- lections, and whose grand scenery must have been familiar to so many English officers and...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH Satur. 3 per Cent. Consul- 821 Ditto for Account 6. , 11 3 per Cent. Reattectl 825 31 per Cents. of 1P18. Redtwed i per Cents 90.1 New 31 per Ce nt, 891 1 4 per...

Mr. COTTINGIIAM and the other architects who have so laudably

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aided the exertions of the liberal part of the parishioners of Southwark to save the " Ladye Chapel" of St. Saviour's from demolition by the pa- rochial Vandals, have published...

ROYAL SOCIETY.

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23rd February 1832. His Rcq al Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, K.G. President, in the Chair. Mr. 1.ister and the Reverend - Madden were admitted Fellows of the Society. Ti,....