26 APRIL 1834

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TILE Repeal question has been debated in the House of Commons during the week at unmerciful length. Mr. O'CONNELL on Tuesday harangued for five or six hours on this fruitful...

The intelligence from France bears ample testimony, that dis- affection

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to the Government of Louis PHILIP has spread far and wide. It is also manifest, that everywhere the military are too strong for the people; and that, for the present at least,...

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The Belgian Ministry have been checked in their arbitrary proceedings

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against foreigners residing in the country, a number of whom have been expelled without legal sanction. The Court of Brussels has determined that the Government has not the...

113cbattti ann prnceetringit in Parliament.

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I. CHURCH-RATES. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day having been read for the House going into Committee on the subject of Church - rates, Lord .ALTHORP...

The long-expected decree for the convocation of the Spanish Cortes

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has made its appearance. The General Cortes, as it is termed:is to consist of two Estates, the Peers and the Deputies; who are to assemble in separate Chambers. The Peers are to...

American papers have been received to the 14th of March.

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The ferment about the Bank question was still raging. Mr. WEBSTER, of Massachusetts, proposed in the Senate of the United States, either that the charter of the Bank should be...

It is stated on good authority, that a treaty has

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been concluded between England, France, Spain, and Portugal, for putting an end to the civil war now raging in both countries, by the prompt expulsion of both Don CARLOS and Don...

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Qllj t Court.

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THEM Majesties passed the beginning of the week at Windsor. On Wednesday, they returned to St. James's Palace ; and soon afterwards, the King held a Chapter of the Order of the...

ebt VetrapaIii.

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The Metropolis was disturbed in the beginning of the week by the proceedings of the Trades Unions. On Sunday, there were three fu- nerals in different parts of the town,...

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Cbt Country.

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The Leeds petition to the House of Commons in favour of the Vote by Ballot, received, in live days, 11.079 signatures. The sheets were withdrawn last Saturday evening. The...

IRELAND.

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The Cork Herald publishes a letter from Mr. Standish Barry, dated the 16th of April, and addressed to Mr. E. Roche, in which Mr. Barry states, that he has now taken the final...

In the Court of Chancery, on Saturday, an application was

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made by- the appellants from the Vice-Chancellor's decision in the case of Lady liewley's charity, to have the question disposed of as early as possible, and out of the usual...

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LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q. No. XIV. FRANCE—WHAT

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SHALL, AND WHAT CAN WE DO, TO BE SAVED? " S'il Taut que tout Lyon perisse pour la cause du Gonvernement, tout Lyon peritta." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Paris, 23d April...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. It is gravely stated by the Standard this evening, that the Queen, ac- companied by Lord and Lady IlowE and Lord DENBIGII—( Lord HOWE her real and favourite,...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arched—Off Plymouth. April 24th, Duke of Buceleugh, Henning ; and If. M. S. Wolfe, from Madras. At Liverpool, 22d, Curdelia. Weaver, from Bengal. In the Clyde. Loth, Francis,...

Despatches received at the French Embassy from Madrid, confirm the

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statement of a new loan having been determined upon ; but it is added, that there is no chance of the Spanish Government making a favourable bargain except on condition of...

It is understood that the House of Commons will positively

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divide on the Repeal question on Monday night. Ministers say that the Re- peelers will not altogether amount to 40; and that of that number there will not be 10 English Members....

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, Tie determination of the Bank Directors, to which we alluded last week, has, for the present at least, entirely removed the pressure upon the...

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Our Ambassador ill Paris has spoken of Louis Pinto's policy

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in such a way, that it may fairly be inferred that be has received instruc. tions from Earl GREY to wain him of the precipice on which he is standing.

The motion of Mr. PETER, for the removal of Lord

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WARWICK from the Lord-Lieutenancy of his county, has been elbowed out by the other debates. It is not, we trust, indefinitely postponed. The course which the Peers intend to...

THE ARMY.

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(teeter or ORDNANCE, Aril 2l.— Royal Regt. of Artillery—Major-Gen. W. Millar to!, Col. Commandant, vice Major-(;en. Sir J. F. S. Smith, dec. WAR...yeti:S. April 25.-91h...

The Convention between Great Britain and France, to which the

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Spanish and Portuguese Governments are parties, was on Tuesday sent off for ratification by the different States in whose names it has been entered into.

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DEFICIENT CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

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ESTIMATES FOR COLLECTING THE REVENUE WANTED. THE cost of collecting the revenues of the United Kingdom exceeds three millions and a half; and this vast sum will not be...

VOLUNTARY AND COMPULSORY SUPPORT OF RELIGION.

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"In pursuance of the King's letter, collections were on Sunday last made in most of the London churches, in aid of the funds of the Society for Building and Enlarging Places of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PROCESSION OF THE UNIONS. THE procession of the Trades Unions on Monday, was a manifes- tation, not of power, but of weakness. In the first place, if their object was to...

AIDE-TOI.

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THE next point to be determined for such a Society, is the form. . And here the rule should be, to eschew all formation. As men in fair weather build umbrellas, and calculate...

THE OTHER SIDE.

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Ws have spoken according to our honest opinion of the weak part of the Trades Unionist exhibition : its strength lay in the since- Tity, the earnestness, with which the poor men...

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TIIE PUBLIC versus THE POST-OFFICE; MR. WALLACE'S MOTION.

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TUESDAY next is the day appointed for the formal discussion of the state of the Post-office; and we seize the last opportunity which will be afforded us before the motion of the...

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THE SHAMBLES REFORM BILL.

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THE denizens of the slaughterhouse are up in arms to resist the Sh , mbles Reform, in the shape of a bill authorizing the esta- blishment of a cattle-market at Islington, which...

The second document in the collection of PAPERS is a

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compara- tive statement of the actual expense of the Post-office with reference to the scale proposed by the Commissioners of In- quiry. We have already proved (in No. 300 of...

We trust that Mr. WALLACE will not, in bringing forward

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his motion on this subject, perplex himself with minor details. There are several striking points which must engage the attention of the House of Commons, and if properly laid...

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ARISTOCRATICAL TAXATION-THE HOUSE-TAX AND THE WINDOW-TAX.

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THE House-tax is to be abolished; and as it is grossly unequal, and the Whigs lacked the sense and spirit to equalize it, in such a manner as to give it the fair character of an...

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CORN CATECHISM.

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(Continued.) 123. I contend that, in each nation, the amount of its money-wages is accord- ing• to the extent of the pro- duce of ita soil, and its price upon the spot, after...

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ROYAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

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WE must resume this subject, although there is little of official or trustworthy information to state: but whether the puffing para- graphs which appear in some of the Daily...

THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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AFTER the unexampled labour and toil which the preceding con- cert must have occasioned, and the exertion attendant on bringing out three new pieces, a little repose seems to...

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THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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ON Tuesday Otello was performed, with the strongest cast we remember. Otello RUBIN'. logo TA MBU RINI. Elmira Z n ELM. Roderigo IVA:UK/FE. Desdetoona CRIS/. 'ago used to be...

THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.

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THERE is but little news in the theatrical world. Busisis Lottery scheme was forbidden, it is given out, by some great authority— no less a one than public decency, we...

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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14, Chandos Street, West Strand. SRI April 1834. SIR—Having given insertion to a letter from Mr. ROBERT CitnIKSHANK, on the subject of a work which I am now publishing...

The public will scarcely credit the fact, that the Public

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Records which were removed from the temporary sheds in Westminster Hall to the Kings Mews are still huddled together in what remains standing of that building; and that though...

SPEC 1 AT0R's LIBRARY.

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Tacoma v. An Argument to prove the Truth of the Christian Revelation. By the Earl of Rome. Murray. BuBTRY, India; a Poem. in three Cantos. By a Young Civilian of Bengal...

ROSSE ON THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION.

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THIS volume is touchingly dedicated to the memory of a beloved sari. Its subject was studied during the long period of affliction consequent upon his loss; and its nature was...

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INDIA.

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HERE is an extraordinary production. Its merit as a poem is great. Its object is singular—to call the attention of the English public to the fiscal condition of India ; and...

THE CONSPIRACY HAS appeared an age too late. Some five-and-twenty

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years ago,. the minute finery of its workmanship would have raised it to a high rank amongst the productions of the Minerva Press ; but its light would be hidden under a bushel,...