30 JANUARY 1830

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IT will be seen that we have introduced an improvement

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in the mode of printing our Advertisements, which will at once give the greatest accommodation to advertisers, and place a limit to the encroachment of commercial notices upon...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE counties still continue their musters. Wiltshire, Somerset, and Gloucester, Cheshire, and Cumberland, have assembled to instruct the Government on the state of the country....

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At a meeting of the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, the

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President, Lord Stanhope, announced that Mr. Frost had delivered up part of the property or the Society, and had pledged himself to give up the rest as soon as possible. Mr....

In our second edition last week, we announced the death

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of the Queen Mother of Portugal. The physicians exhausted their skill in attempts to save her life ; and when they had given her up, the priests tried to frighten away death by...

'.0n the subject of the Mint, the Herald yesterday made

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some notable mistakes. It connects the recent robbery of the Mint with the non- residence of the Master, and assumes, that because the Master's duties are of the lightest kind,...

TIM MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—If the aspect of our Stock Market was not over bright last week, We cannot say that it is now much mended. On the contrary, the gloom which then...

THE KING is now apparently quite we I. His Majesty

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held a Council at Wind- sor Castle on Thursday ; which was attehded by the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Secretary Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Bathurst, Earl...

• The Liberal and the Ministerial journals of Paris continue

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their skirmishes. There seems to be no change in the relative position of the parties of which they are the organs. The poor in France are said to have suffered excessively from...

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session,—viz. Thomas Holbeck, twenty-one, sheep-stealing; William James,

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twenty-two ' burglary ; James Stevens alias Steeden, eighteen; house-breaking; Henry Holmes, thirty-three, rape ; Catherine Rion, seventeen, and Michael Gander, twenty-two,...

Mn. W. EYTON Tootce.—An inquest was held on Thursday on

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the body of Mr. W. Eyton Tooke, junior, of Ne. 2, Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, who committed suicide on Wednesday. The deceased was the son of the celebrated economist, and...

Treasury on 'Monday. The object of the interview was to

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procure the revival of an old mode of paying the Landing Waiters of the Customs at the port of Liver- pool. His Grace promised that the matter should he taken into...

A most daring outrage was committed on a gentleman, in

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Aldgate, on Tuesday evening, about half-past six o'clock, as he was crossing the end of Hounsditch. A temporary ttoppage, occasioned by the passing Of ft coach and a "aft,...

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AFFAIR IN HIGH LIFE.—An event, neither very novel nor very

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unprecedented in a certain class of society, but most extraordinary and most unlooked for, when we consider the present public and private condition of the parties, has formed...

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS. SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, TWO O'CLOCK.

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We understand that all the arrangements respecting the sovereignty of Greece are completed, and that Prince LEOPOLD will certainly be- come the ruler of that country. We...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE LATE MR. TIERNEY. IT seldom happens that one remarkable personage removes from the scene at a time. Nature in her doings and her undoings seems to abhor singularities. Her...

INS AND OUTS—ETYMOLOGIES IN POLITICS.

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WE forget the name of the play, in which there is a sagacious person who, on every strange discovery or unexpected turn of affairs, em- phatically observes, "I always thought...

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MYSTIFICATION OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW ON THE STATE OF THE

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COUNTRY. THE Quarterly Review just published contains a piece of mystifica- tion on our "internal policy," designed, we presume, for parsons and country gentlemen. It embraces...

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FRENCH PLAY.

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THE performances of the season commenced on Friday, with POTIER in Le Centenaire and Le Bourguernestre de Sardam. POTIER'S style is so well known to the English public, as to...

CONCERT-BILL OF RING GEORGE THE THIRD, IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING.

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GEORGE the Third was really and truly the patron of music. To him we owed the unrivalled Commemorations of HANDEL ; to his liberal patronage, ARNOLD'S edition of that great...

DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS.

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THE principle that no man ought to suffer any civil disability because of his religious opinions, was laid down last session in the most unqua- lified manner; and it was acted...

ITALIAN OPERAS BY THE PUPILS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF

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MUSIC. PERSONS who desire to see the best-sized and most comfortably ar- ranged theatre in London, and who do not object to paying dear for the gratification of their...

THE GLEE CLUBS.

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THE Old Glee Club, of which Mr. WEBBE was the founder, and Mr. GROMBRIDGE for so many years the president, held its first meeting at the Crown and Anchor on Saturday ; and we...

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LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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THE COUNTRY CURATE.* Trim is a book as soothing and consolatory, by the mildness and beauty of the spirit in which it is written, as it is interesting by the force and vigour...

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THE REVIEWER'S TABLE.

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mestic Economy, Vol. I. of the Cupar Academy. John Britton and E. AV. Brayley. Thomas Lowndes. 7. Exercises and Derivations of the Eng- l. THE present volume of the...

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FINE ARTS.

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ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. "See Painting crowns her sister Poesy ! The world are all astonished—so is SHE." The Times. THE election of Mr. SHEE IO fill the...

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"Once a sketcher, never a painter," says Sir JOSIIITA REYNOLDS;

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and the truth of the remark has been verified in too many instances. The dan- gerous facility of producing effects by a few touches of the pencil, belongs only to inherent...

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"Farewell, if ever fondest prayer," a Song, by A. SCHULTZ.

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"It is a pleasurg dear to me," a Gere.nade,. b. A. SERWINZ. " Amidst-the gay and festive crowd," a Ballad, by F. DUVERNAY. "The Warrior's Bride." The melody by BEETHOVEN,...

Souter's new series of Catechisms. A Catechism of Music. By

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T. BUSBY, Mus. Doc. The catechetical form of conveying musical instruction is as old as the days of .MORLEV, though we confess ourselves unable to perceive its ad- vantages....

NEW MUSIC.

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The Flutist's Magazine and Pianoforte Review. (Published quar- terly.) Edited by W. N. JAMES. Nos. 19 and 20. The existence of this work is a proof of the unexampled and rapid...