2 SEPTEMBER 1837

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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NOBODY is so unreasonable as to expect political excitement, or even the ordinary supply of what goes by the name of news, in NOBODY is so unreasonable as to expect political...

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The French are likely to have some more trouble in

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Africa. The Bey of Constantina will not be a party to the treaty with ABEL KADER; and a new expedition, to reduce the town of Con- stantina, would, it was supposed, become...

In the Turkish Gazelle of the 5th ultimo, appears a

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long decree ef Sultan MAHMOIJD to the judges and magistrates in his dominions, censuring their nialeadministration of justice, and laying down some sensible rules for their...

The accounts from Italy and Sicily are contradictory ; but

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it is geneially believed that in Sicily and Naples the Government has established tranquillity ; while in the dominions of the Pope there was a good deal of alarm, though no...

tin Court.

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*THE Queen has not left Windsor Castle during the week. On Saturday, Lord Gletielg visited her Majesty ; and, staying over Sunday, returned to town on Monday morning. It is not...

A political interest has been given to the visit of

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King Leopold, be a leader, of clever execution but sinister intent, in the Times of Thurs; day. It is delicately hinted that his Majesty—on account of bit pre . sumed...

King LEOPOLD of Belgium and his Queen are now at

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Windsor. Perhaps LEOPOLD may have some political talk with his sister and aiece : it is likely enough ; and it is surmised that any advice he may give to our youthful Sovereign...

The Emperor NICHOLAS has issued what he calls an act

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of amnesty to the Polish exiles in Siberia. He decrees that all whose -conduct in their state of servitude has been commendable, shall have liberty to enter the military service...

Affairs in Spain continue in a most deplorable state. Up

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to the 21st of last month, the Ministry was incomplete; ESPARTERO baying refused to take the office of President of the Council, and the applications of the Queen to several...

erbe ibletropoito.

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About four hundred electors assembled on Monday, at the High. bury Barn Tavern, to meet their Member, Mr. Wukley, at a public breakfast. Mr. Wakley himself was Chairman, and,...

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At Bow Street, on Thursday, Mrs. Mountain, of the Saracen's

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Head, was fined ten shillings and costs for neglecting to deliver a coach-parcel, within six hours after its arrival, as the law directs. This decision may act as a warning to...

On Thursday, the Duke of Sussex reviewed the Artillery Company

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for the first time since his appointment to the post of Captain- Ge- neral. After the review, the Duke dined with the Company at their hall. Seven columns of the Morning...

The Revising Barristers for the City of London, Mr. Craig

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and Mr. .Mylne, will sit on the 15th of September at Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the claims of persons to vote for Members to serve in Parliament....

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Captain Maurice Berkeley, whom Mr. Phillpotts unseated at Glou- cester,

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cannot be persuaded that said Phillpotts is an honest Liberal : he will only be convinced by the Spectator's test—the "recorded votes" of a session. Iii a letter to Lord...

On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Graham made an ascent from the

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gardens of the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, in her Royal Victoria balloon, pro. fessedly "for the benefit of the widow of the late Mr. Cocking." At- tached to the balloon were two...

About 900 objections have been made by the Reform party

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to the names on the list of voters for the %Vest Riding of Yorkshire, in the Leeds polling. district ; and, from what we hear, we shwa suppe.e . much larger number of objections...

Int Country.

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Lord Palmerston has issued an address, an original in its way, to the accommodating constituency of Tiverton. " Gentlemen—Permit me again to request that you will accept my...

The amount subscribed to assist Mr. Brotherton to defend his

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seat amounts to ,5,000/.-11fanchesfer Guardian. We understand that a cautious investigation of the votes given at the late Lewes election has afforded such a clear prospect of...

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Trinity Church, Ettingshall, was consecrated on Wednesday week, by the

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Bishop of Lichfield. The church, schools, and parsonage, have a most peculiar and picturesque effect. All three of the buildings are erected in a very unusual manner : being...

Two fine boys, sons of Mr. Bignell of Ruislip, near

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Uxbridge, and an infant child of Temple, a market-gardener of the same place, were killed by lightning in the storm on Saturday. An inquest was held on the bodies of the two...

The accounts from the moors in the counties of Northumberland

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and Durham represent the birds as small and rather weak on the wing, brit generally numerous. The weather has been generally favourable for shooting since the commencement of...

Egli= Races commenced on Tuesday. The weather was very un-

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favourable, and the company very thin. The attraction of Royalty, which for so many years brought fashion and numbers to the course at Egbarn, was wanting. In the meagre list of...

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Mr. Sharman Crawford has addressed a long letter to Mr.

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O'con. nell, the pr incipal points of which are these,—that the " Member f Ireland" has always considered measures and principles of seconds; importance when compared with the...

IRELAND.

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The Honourable Patrick Plunket, one of the Hannibals, is about to be appointed Second judge of the Bankruptcy Court,—a situation worth 1,2001. or 1,5001. a. year, and the...

The Irish and Whig and O'Connellite newspapers are very angry

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with their contemporary, the Northern Whig of Belfast, on account of Ii s calm and impartial sertitiny of the election returns. The _Northern Whig, though a firm and...

The tradesmen of Galway have denounced their Liberal Represeuta- tive,

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Mr Lynch, and by resolution placed their confidence iii his col- league, Mr. 'Blake, M P. for that town. Mr. Lynch hiss cut them, and gone to Leedom The object of the Trades is...

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The Tories boast that they will still upset the election

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for Rox- burghshire. According to the Berwick Warder- " Every necessary preparation is in progress for bringing before a Committee 'Idle House of Commons those outrageous...

The editor of the Glasgow Argus is putting his readers

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through. course of Bentham on Fallacies. Two preliminary articles haw already appeared, explaining the object and plan of the series. He takes the classification adopted by...

SCOTLAND.

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The election of Scottish Peers to serve in the new Parliament took Place on Tuesday last, at the Picture-gallery of Holyrood House. l'here were only eighteen Peers...

The Marquis of Abereorn has contributed the munificent sum of

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100 guineas to the distressed Paisley operatives. His lordship has property in the neighbourhood, and the town gives him the title of Viscount.— Tory Paper. [Under the...

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Tine Earl of Durham is labouring under indisposition ; and,

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in accordance with the advice of his medical attendants, is expected to lease this country very shortly for a more genial climate. The South of France is spoken of, in the event...

The Times on Thursday cited the Spectator as an "

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organ of demo. cracy ; " but according to the Standard, " tine Government of thiseoun try is, and has been for three or four centuries, a democracy, tempe ss i by delay and...

Sir William Molesworth is entertaining a party of friends, which

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includes Mr. Leader and Mr. Charles Buller, at Penearrow. The Leeds Mercury contradicts a very improbable story, that Sir William Molesworth would succeed Mr. Roebuck in the...

The Paris paper La France states, that Prince Alexander of

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Wur- temburg is to marry the Princess Mary of Orleans; whose dowry is to be 200,000 francs a year. Baron Louis expired on Thursday at his residence of Petit-Brie, near Paris,...

Those Ministers who are now absent from town will return

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early in the next month ; when a Cabinet Council will be held, at which the time for the meeting of Parliament will be fixed, and will most likely take place the second week in...

Medelssohn Bartholdy, the celebrated composer, arrived in town from Germany

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on Sunday last. He comes to conduct the perform- ance of his oratorio, St. Paul, at the approaching festival at Bir- mingham. The Quotidienne quotes from a correspondent in...

SIthictRantout.

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The Household appointments having been completed, were formally announced in the Gazette of Tuesday— Mistress of the Robes — The Dutehess of Sutherland. Principal Lady of...

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'1'he Home Secretary has caused an abstract of the new

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Wills Bill, which will come into operation after the close of the present year, to be extensively circulated. To the unlearned reader this document is nearly unintelligible ;...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 19th ult., at Stratford Green, Essex, Mrsill CHNAPE, of twin danItters, who survived only a short time. On the 29th ult., at Tunbridge Wells, the Lady of...

The Paris journals announce that General Donnadieu was arrested on

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Sunday afternoon, in consequence of the rejection of his appeal, and conducted to the prison of Sainte Pelagie, without any previous notice. He is accused of plotting with the...

The railway from Paris to St. Germain was opened on

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Saturday. It was a gay dny for the Parisians, and came very seasonably to relieve the dulness of the season. A correspondent of the Times has given a lively description of the...

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MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, The Money Market has been in a languid state during the whole of the week. Console opened on Monday at 918 to 92 for the Account ; on Tueolay,...

Accounts from Lisbon, dated the 22d August, were received this

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morning. They furnish two documents of some importance. The first is the proclamation, dated the 18th, of the Duke of TERCEIRA on leaving Lisbon to join SALDANHA : it may be...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. It is Stated by the Morning Chronicle, that a military riot has occurred at Pamplona, in which General SAARSFIELD and Colonel MENDloRE Were killed. No further...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Sept. 1st, Emma Eugenia, Tilley, from China ; and Eagle, Patterson, from Mauritius. In the Downs, ditto, Clyde, Carr. from Bengal. Off Dart- mouth....

LIES OF THE MINISTERIAL PRESS.

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Trim seems to have become a necessary department of an independent newspaper ; and the first use we make of it is to commence the pay- ment of a debt to the Ministerial...

Messrs. Bowman. and Suers. of Tabernacle Walk, Finsbury, have sent

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us a lette r stating that a person pretending to be an agent of the SPECTATOR, called on them last week and obtained money for an advertisement. The man must have been a...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE SPECTATOR'S POLICY AND POSITION. CONSIDERING all the circumstances in favour of the MELBOURNE Government, under which the recent election took place, the gain of the Tories...

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MISREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN PARLIAMENT.

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Ansa the election of the PEEL House of Commons, we drew up some tables,* to show that the Reform majority did not represent the smaller and less important constituencies, but...

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THE BALLOT, A PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENT.

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THE time is gone by for arguing the merits of the Ballot. The only question now is, how are we to get it? That the great body of the electors desire to obtain protection in the...

HOW TO RAISE THE PRICE OF LAND.

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IT is stated in a provincial newspaper, that a quarter of an acre of land, belonging to the Corporation of Monmouth, was sold last week for 1,500/., being at the rate of 6,000/....

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A VISIT TO THE THEATRE AT RICHMOND—A DEBUT THERE.

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IT so happens, that never before Tuesday last had we been inside the Richmond Theatre ; which is a sort of aristocratic summer-house of Thespis ; boasting better performances...

A young German Prince lately became deeply enamoured of a

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young actress of one of the minor theatres in Paris ; who, however, being as virtuous as she was beautiful, refused all his offers. In the infatuation of his passion, the...

THE BALLOT, THE MINISTERS, AND THE PEOPLE.

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TO THE EIHTOK OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—As an advocate of the Ballot, and of the vital importance of its adoption alike to the Government and the People, may I request you to...

THE THEATRES.

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MR. PHELPS, the tragedian of whom so much was expected, turns out to be an actor of the " respectable' and " useful " class ; a very efficient member of a company, but not...

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UNCLE HORACE.

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reviewing Mrs. S. C. HALL'S Outlaw on its first appearance, we took occasion to show that originality chiefly consisted in the wholeness and uniform consistency of the...

SPECTATOR'S 1.11311ARY.

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Dried Horses; a Novel. By the Author of "Sketches of Irish Character." "The Buocaneta," ke. &e. In 3 TU1S Cuitara. reasnv. The Tribute ; a Collection of Miscellineons...

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THE TRIBUTE.

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THE Reverend EDWARD SMEDLEY is known to the literary world as the Editor of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana. Having, through attention to his laborious duties, lost his hearing,...

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DONOVANS DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

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THE first volume of Profesor DONOVAN'S treatise on Human Sustenance was restricted to liquids, and to bread as a fermentable product ; the second is devoted to solids both...

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A GLANCE AT THE MAGAZINES.

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h is a sure sign of leisure when we find ourselves sitting down before the month's batch of Magazines, to skim over the surface of their contents ; a thing we have not done for...

ANIMAL MAGNETISM REVIVED IN LONDON. MaGNrrisst, in various shapes, is

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just now occupying a large share of the attention of the scientific world, and excitiag the wonder of the less knowing. The plunnomena of the magnetic needle, of electro-...