31 DECEMBER 1836

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of course, was a suspension of all news. A more

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prosy place than colours that the soldiers of France march to battle. gence which did not relate to the snow, and the disasters it had good spirit of the population. (Renewed...

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It is mentioned in the Allgemeine Zeitung, on the credit

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of letters from Constantinople, that the English Government is about to send a vessel to survey the coast of the Black Sea ; but it is added, that the Sultan's permission to any...

The only news worth mentioning from Spain, is that ALAIX

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still continues contumacious ; and that, owing in part to his quar- rel with NARVAEZ, the redoubtable GO1HEZ has actually made his way back to Don CARLOS at Durango, with an...

-- • THE SNOW-STORM.

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Sslow began to fall heavily in the North of England on Friday; and several coaches which should have arrived in Loudon early on Satur- day morning did not reach town till the...

There is a rumour in Paris that the King of

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Sweden has had an attack of apoplexy.

The Parliament of Belgium has been adjourned to the 16th

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of January, after voting supplies for a military force of 110,000 men, and providing for the redemption of a loan of 30,000,000 of francs.

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Cbr Court.

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THE King and Queen have been "snowed up." His Majesty is de. dared to be free of gout, but the severity of the weather has not allowed him or the Queen to leave the Palace since...

At Boor Street, on Wednesday, George Forbes Atkinson, calling binaself

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a Captain, was examined on a charge of forging the acceptance of the Honourable Captain Lauderdale Maule to a bill of exchange for J,0001. It appeared that Captain Maule lu;c1...

The Ma , chester Guarthan contains a report of a public

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meeting, on Monday last, of the rate-payers of the parish of Manchester, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the entire abolition of Church- rates. It was held in the...

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The Middlesex Reformers will give a grand dinner to their Mem- bers, Messrs. Hume and Byng. on the 23cl of January. The enter- tainment is to take place in Drury Lane Theatre....

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A very numerous meeting was held at Leeds on the 224, to petition Parliament and memorialize the Government for the entire abolition of Church-rates. Mr. Baines, M.P., made a...

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The Diocesan Union of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, regularly convened

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by the Archdeacon, has, by an unanimous vote of the clergy, con- demned the projected union with the Marlborough Street Institution, and refused to cooperate either with the...

The Conservatives of Belfast and the neighbourhood had a grand

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dinner on Monday week. The number of gentlemen who sat down to table was 1158; including Lords Dufferin, Roden, Powerscourt, Cas- tlereagh, Rathdown, Cole, and Jocelyn, Colonel...

IRELAND.

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At a meeting of the National Association, on the 22d instant, the Poor-law debate was resumed; and Lord Milltown spoke with much earnestness in favours f Mr. O'Malley's motion....

At a newly-erected factory, in Derby, on Thursday week, one

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man was killed, and three were dangerously hurt, by the failing-in of a floor in the fourth story of the building. The floor had been supported by a east-iron beam, which...

Sir William Molesworth has sent 201. as his subscription to

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the Jus- tice Rent, in a letter to Mr. French, Secretary of the National Associa- tion. Sir William refers to a charge brought against him in the Associa- tion by a Mr....

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SCOTLAND.

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The Glasgow Town. Councilhave refused to vote the freedom of the City to Sir Robert Peel, by a majority of 19 to 12. The Council saw through the hypocritical pretence of Sir...

From the Paris papers of Wednesday evening, received this morn-

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ing, it appears that Louis Pump lost no time in summoning the Chamber of Peers again to resolve itself into a court of justice for the trial of the new assassin. PERSIL, on...

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Lord Henry Russell is on his journey from Paris to Lisbon, via Madrid, to join the Hastings ship of the line, as junior Lieutenant.— Morning Post.--[ This is the Lord Blank...

When Ginzar heard of the attempted assassination, he exclaimed- "

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Who now will come to disarm the Government ?" It seems to be taken for granted, that, for a time at least, the Ministry are safe.

The Honourable Arthur Baring, youngest son of Lord Ashburton, has

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arrived at Bath House from Liverpool. This gentleman is des- tined to take the lead in the mercantile concerns of that opulent house. Mr. O'Connell states that, independent of...

The Standard has been begging for ammunition to fight the

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battle of Orange- Toryism in Ireland : the accounts from Longford show too well how the subsidies to be raised in England for this purpose would be applied. The Dublin...

The quantity of snow in Paris, on Wednesday, was greater

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than at any period .vithin the recollection of the oldest inhabitant.

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POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME of the Country papers, and especially the Herybrd Reformer, have been struck by what they term the " mystery " of our last week's para- graph...

The Dublin letters bring accounts of the first day's polling

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in Long- ford ; ebtained with great difficulty, in consequence of the road from Dublia to Longford being almost blocked up with snow, which began to fall there on Saturday last....

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CHRISTMAS THEATRICALS.

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WITHOUT frost and snow, that form the ice of the great holyday cake, and Harlequin and Clown, the glittering figures that adorn it, Christ- mas festivities would be incomplete....

The Gazette of last night contains the Speaker's writ for

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a new Member for Renfrewshire, in the room of Sir MICHAEL Sttaw STEWART. We perceive, too, that Mr. RAMSDEN, M.P. for Mahon, died on Thursday; and the Chronicle this morning...

The Duke of MONTROSE died yesterday morning. his Grace was

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Lord Justice-General of Scotland, Lord-Lieutenant of Dunbarton- shire and Stirlingshire, Lord Chancellor of Glasgow University and a Knight of the Garter. Under the Liverpool...

A fire broke out in the workshop of a cabinetmaker,

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in Greenside Street, Edinburgh, on Tuesday morning about three o'clock ; and in the course of four hours destroyed an entire angle of buildings, formed by Greenside Street and...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrired—off Falmouth, Dee. 29th, Annabella. Anstruther, from Mauritius.: At Man willful, Miranda, Hopper; Cognac Packet, Wallace; Mersy, Parkinson ; William- Barra., Norrie; and...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., at the Stud House, Hampton Court, Middlesex, the Lady Ismetzta War vss, of a daughter. Om the 4th inst., at Paris, the Lady of the Right...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The interruption to which our inland and foreign communications have been subjected by the rigour of the season, has rendered this a week of...

At two o'clock to-day, the only Country mails due were

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from Edin- burgh, Glasgow, and Halifax. Part only of the Dover mail remained to be received. The Foreign mails not arrived were one each from Paris, Lisbon, Hamburg, La Guayra,...

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ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA.

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ON Thursday, the Italian company at the Lyceum, performed Rim's comic opera, Un' Avveatura di Searamuccia, with great success. It is a lively and pleasant piece. The principal...

ST. JAMES'S " OBERON."

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WHEN ELLTSTON left Drury Lane and began his profitless career as Manager of the Circus, C"Twas called the Circus then, but now the Surrey.") he produced " a burletta called...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE first fruits of the Parliamentary inquiry into the state of the Arts in connexion with Manufactures are already beginning to appear. The manufacturers of Paisley appointed a...

The Hunter's Annual, with its scarlet coat, is the largest

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of all the Annuals — the huntsmen require a wide field for their spoi t—being, in fact, s set of four large folio prints of hunting-pieces, with short de- scriptions of each ;...

ToP1CS OF THE DAY.

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POLITICS FOR THE NEW YEAR. EXPERIENCED and observant politicians, both Reformers and To- ries, have been for some time aware how impossible it would be. come that the next...

Cooper's Drawing-Book of Animals contains studies that tbe artist IIS

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well as the learner may profit by, and that are as pleasing to look at as they are useful to study. SIDNEY COOPER may vie with EDWIN LANDSEER, in the characteristic skill with...

We have few novelties in the way of pictures to

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notice; for the Picture Periodicals which crowd our table afford little that is new, and less that is striking. We must, however, clear off our arrears next week, by a review of...

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CONDITIONS AND RESULTS OF THE LATE WHIG-RADICAL UNION.

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"We have thus briefly characterized the various parties which support Ministers in the House of Commons. It is difficult to ascertain bow many adherents belong to each party,...

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It is just possible to imagine that 'Whig, whose pride

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is his bane, should reply to this friendly proposal of Radical—" Our bargain was that I should lead, and you merely follow to hold me up in ease of need. You were not to give me...

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THE IRISH POOR " POSTPONED."

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MINISTERS mean to patronize colonization from Ireland in drib- lets. A Limerick paper tells us, that " Government intend offering a free passage to New Setuth Wales next spring...

THE TORY HORSE GUARDS.

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Tux Whig Government, although now in power for nearly six years, still leaves the control of the Army in the hands of the Opposition; abandoning to the powers at the...

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THE " FOLLY " OF RESISTING LEGAL INJUSTICE.

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THE Tory newspapers have this wee.„ - ploted with approbation the following dictum of Lord AHINGER, in a recent trial of a person who resisted the collection of a Church-rate....

WALTON'S REVOLUTIONS OF SPAIN.

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MR. WALTON is an avowed partisan of Don CARLOS ; and has written his book with the intention of influencing the public minsl in favour of that Prince, and of putting an end to...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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HISTORY. The Revolutions of Spain. from 1809 to the end of 1836. With 111021111Phic-al Sketches of the most Distin g uished Persottaues. and a Narrative of the Warmn the...

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M I CULLOCH . S STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

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TnE object of this work is to " develop, within a moderate com- pass, the physical capacities, population, industry, and institutions of the British Empire ;" and thus to supply...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE newest event in the publishing world is tile appearance of the first volume of the Pocket Edition of Byron's Works, with which Mr. MURRAY intends to open the new year....