29 JULY 1837

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It is rumoured in Paris, that AHDEL KADER has been

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assassi- nated. The French journals contain little else than speculations about the probable dissolution of the Chambers; which, accord- ing to the Times correspondent, will not...

At length we have some interesting intelligence from Spain. The

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Queen's forces encountered the Carlists on the 15111 instant, in the vicinity of Valencia, and gained an important victory. The particulars are given in a despatch of the...

Accounts from Lisbon, to the 19th, were received yesterday. They

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mention a military insurrection in several of the smaller towns in the vicinity of Oporto. The charter of Don PEDRO had been proclaimed by the insurgents. A body of troops were...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tas elections for Cities and Boroughs in England are nearly over ; more than three hundred returns having been already received. Tas elections for Cities and Boroughs in England...

The King of Hanover is holding daily consultations with his

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Ministers respecting the new constitution lie is about to promul- gate. The subject seems to have lost its temporary interest in France; and little ia said about it, as fits US...

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AYLESBURY. The Tory candidates, Bickford and Praed, have been 1

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elected, and Lord Nugent rejected. The numbers were—for Rick. ford 865, Praed 657, Lord Nugent MO. Lord Nugent declared at the nomination, on Thursday, that bribery and...

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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MEMBERS RETURNED. Tr aces. 111•111DIRS SIITI/RDID. Abingdon ...Duffield - 1 Andover ... . Etwall. Pollen 1 1 Arundel Lord Eitsalan 1 - Ashburton... Lushington 1 . Ash/on...

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eV (Dud.

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Tim Queen had a dinner.party on Monday evening. The princi- pal guests were the Dutchess of Kent, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mrs. Howley, the Duke of Devonshire. the Duke...

FINAL POLLS. those of Tory candidates; the (The names to

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which the letter T is attached are others are Liberal*.] Bedford Remick Beverley Hogg Fox Cloy Bennie Noised' Alluvial Scholefield Ellis 98 Bolton Ainsworth 616 Bolling (T.)...

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Vats illittropolt#.

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The rage for ballooning received a fatal check on Monday evening. Mr. Robert Cocking, a landscape-painter, had an invincible desire to descend from the skies in a parachute of...

The Lord Chancellor, on Saturday, reversed the decision of the

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Vice. Chancellor in the case of the Marquis of Chandos versus the Msrquis of Breadalbane. This last decision gives Lady Chandos a right to about 130,0001., a third of the late...

An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Charing Cross

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Hospital, on the body of Charles Francis, aged three years. It appeared that the parents of the child lived in Old Boswell Court, Carey Street. On Monday afternoon, the mother...

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SCOTLAND.

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The fourth centenary of the invention of printing was celebrated at Edinburgh, on Wednesday week, by an entertainment in the Theatre. The pit was boarded over; the stage...

Dr. Grey, Bishop of Hereford, ditd suddenly at his palace

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in Here- ford, on Monday !miming. Ile only arrived from London on Satur- day, and outride I the Cathedral on Sunday lust. The Duke of Sussex has been appointed Captain-General...

IRELAND.

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The following letter from Lord John Russell to Lord Mulgrave, published, with a view to influence the Irish elections, is certainly the best and boldest announcement of policy,...

Ube Country.

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At the Nottingham Assizes, Thomas Greensmith was found guilty of murdering his four children, at Basford, near Nottingham, on the 5th of April. The circumstances we stated at...

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SHEFFIELD POLL.

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The majority of the Reformers at Sheffield is overwhelmirg, one o'clock yesterday, the numbers were— Parker 1655 Ward 1515 Thorneley 567 The Reformers had still several...

The triumph of the Tories at Maidstone is likely to

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be of shot duration ; and they who expected amusement from Mr. DISRAELD powers of stimulating the personality of the House, had better tilt an early opportunity after the...

Mr. Hawker, son of General Hawker, was killed, yesterday week,

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by the accidental discharge of a gun, when with a party of friends in a boat off the island of Guernsey. Mr. Hawker, who was standing near the rigging, saw some seagulls...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDlY, Since the table of Returns of Members, in previous columns,n, made up, we have received those of Mr. RIPPON, for Gateshead, b y , majority of 236 to 151 over his...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EICFLER01, Finnv ATTERNOWE The business of the'vreek has been unimportant; but, from the great ple°t! of money, the prices of English Stock have been on the rise. Consols...

" An ELECTOR" is a silly fellow; his pretended Radicalism

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shallow liurnhu g , mqh fine %Haug fit only for the Government hacks. " An ELECTOR" is a silly fellow; his pretended Radicalism shallow liurnhu g , mqh fine %Haug fit only for...

The statement of the quarterly average of the weekly liabilities

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sal assets of the Bank of England from the 2d of May to the 25th Of July, is given in last night's Gazette as follows—. LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £18,261,000 Securities...

The Post this morning says Sir 1VILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S majority of

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109 over Sir Jowl BECKETT "is, tube sure, in comparison what. PRAED'S majority at Aylesbury over Lord Nugent, an insignificant affair." PRAED'S majority wasjust 117 — eight more...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., in St. James's Square. the Countess of LICHFIELD, of a daughter. Ou the 25th inst., in New Street, Spring Gardens, the Lady STRATIIEDEN, of a...

The Gazette of last night announces that Colonel ARTHUR has

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bea made a K. C. H. This honour, we presume, is intended as a mew. pense for the injury inflicted upon him by Ministers, who refusedthe inquiry into his conduct expected by the...

The fair Isle of St. Mary, Scilly, was frightened from

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its propriety on Monday week, by the arrival of three vessels full of those miser- able objects the disbanded B:itish Legion. The ships put in from stress of weather and want of...

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TO TIIE EDITOR OE THE SPECTATOR.

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Sit-I have read in your valuable paper some excellent remarlis on the sub- ject of the arts. It would be difficult to express my approbation of the manly and candid manner in...

THE HANOVERIAN HUMBUG.

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THE Ministerial evening paper, the Courier, charges us with de- fending the recent arbitrary proceedings of the King of Hanover. "The Tories," says the Courier," have been at...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrirol—At Gravesend, July 2711,, Gibed Munro, Duff; from Mauritius. Off Faltnomh, MIL Rhoda, Hurst. from Van Diemen's Land ; and 27th, Marion, Pope. thYll 'newt At Liverpool,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE RETROGRADE MARCH OF REFORM. AT the time when the late King was seized with his mortal ill- ness, it was highly probable that the Whig-Radieal majority in the PEEL House of...

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MINISTERS AND THE BALLOT.

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IN previous pages will be found accounts of numerous elec- tions lost by the Liberals for want of the secret suffrage. "With the Ballot, this election would have been gained"—"...

PRESSURE ON THE MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. At the Nisi Prins

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Court, as the Worcester Assizes, there were only le i causes for trial ; which gave one cause to every forty-six of the weasel 014 big the Court. — Worcester Haab,. We are too...

THE NEW MANAGER OF COVENT GARDEN/ THEATRE.

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IT is true, what we heard only as a rumour last week, that MACREADY has become lessee of Covent Garden Theatre. Let us then congra- tulate our fellow playgoers on the prospect...

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STEAM EXPEDITION UP THE NIGER.

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AT length we have a book of real travels, embracing scenes of danger, privation, hardship, death ; full of novelty, variety, cha- racter ; and not less remarkable for the...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAWLS, Narrative of an Expedition into the Interior of Africa, hy the Rivet Niger. in the Steamvessels Quorra and Alharkali, in 18324833-1834. By Macgregor Laird and It. A. K....

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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Loudon, 24111 July 1837. Sia—I perceive, by the last Report of the Post-office Co llllll issioners, that they are favourable to the proposition of having penny 'stamp covers for...

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?HE BIVOUAC

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Is a title which conveys no idea of the character and contents of this work. So far from bivouacs or bivouacking forming a chief feature of the composition, they are only...

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1. The First Volume of the Pictorial History of England.

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2. The History of England. By THOMAS KEICHTLEY. b 25011. Vol. I. 3. The Second Volume of the History of the Presbyterian Churchill Ireland, By JAMES SEATON Rain, D. D. M. R. I....

The week has produced two Travels, in countries not very

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usually frequented by common tourists, from their distance or t their danger,—Mr. SPENCER'S Travels in Circastia, Krim Tat. ; tary, (9..c. including a Steam Voyage down the...

PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE lateness of the season, and the political bustle consequent ups the Elections, have somewhat checked the activity of the pi. ushers, but not very greatly as yet.

RICHARDSON'S NEW DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

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WHEN the first number of this learned and elaborate undertaking appeared,* we, judging from the specimen, predicted that " the result will be to present the world with the most...

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Mr. ARNETT's Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the

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Books o f the Ancients, will be curious and interesting to the bibliographer, and informing, though dry, to the general reader. After a brief description of the inscribed bricks...

Two Grammars are before us ; both of which serve

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as straws to show which way the current is setting. I. A Turkish Grammar ; with a Collection of Familiar Dialogues &c. in English and French. By WILIAM' ScHRoEDER. 2. A Grammar...

The Language of Birds is, in externals, a beautiful little

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book, tastefully dressed in silk, and handsomely embellished with many coloured plates of the different songsters it notices. Its literary merits are pleasant variety and...

Among the Republications which claim a word of recognition,. are

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1. A second edition of the Oakleigh Shootino. 6 Code. with some, slight improvements in the arrangement ; which appears in time for sportsmen who go grousing to profit by its...

" Athens in Miniature" would be an appropriate title for

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a beautiful little square volume of The Antiquities of Athens, abridged from the large work of STUART and REyETT, including the latest researches of WILHINs, COCKERELL, INWOOD,...

London as it Is, by JAMES Hoots, M.D., is a

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collection of sta- tiitical and other facts, with a running medical and moral com- mentary upon them with regard to the site, atmosphere, and temperature of London, and the...

FINE ARTS.

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PROSPECTS OF ART UNDER THE NEW REIGN. AMONG the various accomplishments that grace our young Queen, by no means the least conspicuous is that of drawing ; which she practises...

ANTHON'S Cicero, with English Notes and Indexes. Mr. PRIEsTLEY has

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published a new edition of what are called Ciczao's Select Otations,—meaning the four againstC ATIL1 NE, together with Those for ARCH( AS, MARCELLUs, MURENA, and the Manilian...

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MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

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A Course of Counterpoint and Fugue, by L. CirERUIIINI. Translatedby J. A. HAMILTON. Messrs. COCKS and Co., to whom the public are indebted for having brought out a translation...

NEV PRINTS.

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JOHN MARTIN has submitted another historical event to that peculiar pictorial process which he so successfully applies to all kinds of sub- jects. Marcus Curtius leaping into...

Rondo Elegant for the Pianoforte. By F. CHOPIN.

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Rather difficult than elegant, unless elegance consista in pages of arpeggios. There are, now and then, gleams of melody in this coin - position, which may properly be called...

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L'Invito ; " Canzonetta a due voci. By J. MacMoaniz.

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Simplicity is the characteristic of this Duet ; but it is not the aim. plicity of dulness. The phrases are agreeably =Iodized, and the parts well arranged for singing.

' May this parting prove the last ; " a Canzonet.

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By E. ELIASON. This Canzonet is of a simple and unpretending character. The passages, though common, are well selected, and agreeably put toge-

Invitation to the Dance. By F. Cucieng.

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This Invitation consists of an agreeable waltz, which will be beard with more pleasure than Mr. CHOPIN'S " Elegant Rondo."

a May the young Queen be happy ;" a Ballad.

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The Words by Mr. T. 11. BaYLY ; and the Music by Mr. KNIGHT. The words and the music of this song are well suited to each other, but not to their subject.