27 JANUARY 1838

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NE WS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Canada Coercion Bill has been the solitary topic of debate in the House of Commons this week. Ample opportunity has been afforded to the authors and supporters of the...

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Count MOLE has again made overtures to the Liberal Opposi-

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tion. On the question of Spanish interference, lie allied himself with the Doctrinaires, and triumphed over THIERS and BARROT by a large majority. It is said that he became...

At the meeting of the House of Commons on Monday,

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a number ), of petitions were presented, by Mr. LEADER, Mr. HARVEY, Sir S. WHALLEY, and Mr. HUME, against the coercion of Canada. The Edin- burgh petition was presented by Mr....

The report of the King of Prussia's death is contradicted

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; he is said to be very ill. The Emperor and Empress of Russia are expected to visit Berlin in the spring.

Sir JOHN COLBORNE's attack upon the insurgent positions at

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nd Brute was completely successful. The number of the ilist army is not stated, but in his despatch Sir JOHN calls it the 4 ' disposable force under my command ;'' so that he...

The news from Spain continues to be unimportant.

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There has been violent altercation in the House of Representa-

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tives at Washington, on the subject of slavery. Mr. SLADE, of Vermont, presented a petition, on the 20th of December, for the abolition of the slave-trade and slavery in the...

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There have been numerous fires in the Metropolis within the

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last few days. On Friday night, there was a 'fire in the housekeepers' room at the Reform Club. The celebrated Mr. Coppock happened to be there, and put it out by an ingenious...

'The Lancet contains a letter from a sturgeon at Stowmarket,

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com- plaining of a clergyman in the diocese of Ely, who has been practising as a medical man for the lust five years without apparently any other claim to professional knowledge...

Clur Court.

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Ttii: Earl of Durham had an audience of the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, and kissed hands as Governor and Lord High Commissioner of the Canadas. On Monday, the Queen...

ebr Cauntrp.

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At a meeting of the Birmingham Political Union, at the Town-hall, on the 15th instant, a petition against the coercion of Canada was unanimously adopted. The male Reformers of...

ftirtropotitt. ftirtropotitt.

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A considerable number of the inhabitants of Alarylebonin assembled in the school-room of the Workhouse belonging to the parish, On Mon- day, to petition Parliament in favour of...

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IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell finds the Dublin workpeople difficult to manage. The consequence of his attempt to put down the system of combina- tion among the tradesmen of that city has been...

*Wellman:V.

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The Times states, that Sir Robert Grant has been recalled from Bombay, and Lord Elphinstone from Madras ; that Sir Andrew Leith Bay leaves the Ordnance, and goes to Bermuda as...

SCOTLAND.

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At a general meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, on Wednesday week, Mr. Cadell stated in reference to a memorial of the Chatnber presented to the...

The Montreal and American papers furnish some particulars of th --- e

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last military proceedings in Lower Canada, which prove that the con- querors behaved most barbarously. The poor excuse for such out. rages as are mentioned below is, that they...

Mr. Robert Dillon Browne, the Member, and Mr. James A.

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Browne, of Browne Hall, in Mayo, fought a duel, on Wednesday, near Chester ; when the former gentleman was wounded, but not den. gerously, in the thigh, through which his...

There was an immense meeting on Monday on the Curragh

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of Kildare, to petition Parliament for the Ballot, Corporation Reform, the total abolition of Tithes, and against the Poor-law for Ireland. It is said that forty thousand...

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Messrs. Gruneisen and Henningsen, the 6ormer gentleman a corre- spondent

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of the Morning Post, arrived at Bayonne on the 16th, on theie road to Paris. M. de la Reynidre, author of the Almanach des Gourmands, died a few days ago, in Paris, in his...

Last night, Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tories triumphed without

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mercy over the submissive Whigs. The House of Commons went into Committee on the Canada Bill ; when Lord JOHN RUSSELL announced the determination of Ministers to adopt Sir...

Macy unused communications remain on our table, which we have

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it. it her room to insert nor time to notice, Macy unused communications remain on our table, which we have it. it her room to insert nor time to notice, Will" A Farmer's...

Early sheets of an article on " The Ministry and

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Canada," in the forthcoming number of the London and Westminster Review, are lying before us. We had hoped to enrich our columns with extracts from this paper, in which the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The great plenty of money, in conjunction with the favourable intelligence received from Canada, has caused a rise of 4 per cent. in Console....

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The New York packet-ship Siddons, which arrived y t sterday at Liverpool, brings American papers to the '2d of January. The civil war in Upper Canada is assuming a...

At two o'clock yesterday the Cabinet met—at four nothing had

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been decided on, except that delay was every thing. The Canada Bill pressed indeed, but the predicament of Ministers was still more press. ing. It was determined, therefore,...

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A BILL [AS AMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE] TO MAKE TEMPORARY

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PROVISION FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF LOWER CANADA. Whereas In the present state of the Province of Lower Canada. the House of Assets bly of the said province, constituted under the...

MR. WARD ON THE CANADA QUESTION.

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TO Tilt toting. OF THE SPECTATOR. Loudou. 25th January 1838. Sts — I have been ton long accustomed to regard the Spectator as a paper the independence and impartiality of...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—Off Falmouth, Hortensia. Held. from Mauritius. Off Liverpool, Lady Emit, Emery.fruto itombay. At St. Helena, Duncan, Randall, from China. Sailed—From Liverpool, Jan....

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LORD DURHAM'S INSTRUCTIONS.

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(Parliamentary Paper--Presented by the Queen's command, printed by order of the House of Commons, and delivered with the Votes on Wednesday morning.] Extract of a Despatch from...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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STOPPING THE SUPPLIES. "Ire in this country," said Lord JOHN RUSSNLL, in introducing his measure for Canada, "you were to refuse the supplies for a single year, you would...

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WHAT OF NEWFOUNDLAND?

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MINISTERIAL gentlemen are very shy on the subject of Newfound- land. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. SPRING RICE, and Sir GEORGE GREY will " roar you" by the hour together about the...

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THE WEATHER AND THE FIRESIDE.

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READER, we are on the eve of a social revolution I Yes, English- men are about to be deprived of two of their dearest comforts; and, what is curious, people who perceive the...

THE NIGHTLY SHELTER FOR THE HOUSELESS.

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THE continued inclemency of the weather renders this useful charity a boon to hundreds of our destitute fellow creatures; and it is gratifying to see, from the good list of...

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REVIVAL OF KING LEAR AT COVENT GARDEN.

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WERE the most penetrating and instructed mind, whose judgment should be limited by mere forms and its own experience of actual life, to class the great dramas of SHAKSPEARE, it...

JOHN REEVE.

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JOHN REEVE is dead : he had been dead to the stage, and to the public, of whom he was once the favourite buffoon, for some months; yet the single line in the newspaper obituary...

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HISTORY AND PRACTICES OF TUB THr011t.

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This volume consists of a selection from the confessions and evi- dence of approvers in particular cases of the crime of Thuggee, and from official reports. These are introduced...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Ilinstratioas of the History and Practices of the Thugs; and Notices of some of the Proceedings of the Goveruraent of ladle Ow the Suppression or the Crita• of Moues Allen mid...

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MR. PINNEY'S ALTERNATIVE—PREMATURE DEATH OR LONG LIFE.

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THIS volume is a treatise more scholastic than medical, and more declamatorial than either, on the benefits of temperance, exercise, cleanliness, early rising, and control of...

HANNAH LAWRENCE'S MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.

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THESE Memoirs display no deficiency in careful reading, or in elegance of composition ; but they have a want that cannot be supplied, in the scanty knowledge of their subjects...

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The Counting-House Manual, by DONALD TAYLOR, merchant, is an exposition

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of the author's principles of book-keeping, illus- trated by many examples of the actual working of his system, and intermingled with much homely but judicious advice. The plan...

Curiosities of Literature, by J. Disraeli, Esq. Illustrated by 'BOLTON

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CORNEY, Esq. This labour of love and leisure is printed for private circulation, and we wish it had been otherwise : not that the little volume is likely to have a large sale or...

PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE temporary flush of new works, which promised something but yielded nothing when submitted to the test, has subsided ; and the undertakings of the booksellers, however...

A brief line of catalogue must now serve for those

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volumes which are of a more professional and limited kind. A brief line of catalogue must now serve for those volumes which are of a more professional and limited kind. 1....

Proverbial Philosophy," a Book of Thoughts and Arguments," by MARTIN

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FARQUHAR TUPPER, Esq., M.A., is a quaint and thoughtful volume, the prodwit of much good reading, meditation, and a careful comparison of things, rather, we should say, than the...

Of reprints, new editions, or works of a similar nature,

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we hare 1. The Lounger's Commonplace Book. The first edition of this work was published towards the close of' the last century, and was reprinted once, it' not oftener, during...

The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kuder, by Monsieur A. De France. Translated

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by R. F. PORTER. M. DE FRANCE is a Lieutenant in the French Navy, who venturing beyond the French posts at Ar- zew, a port near Algiers, was surprised and carried off by the...