3 AUGUST 1833

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Lords gulped down the Irish Church Bill on Tuesday last. The melancholy resignation of some, and the angry cries and con- tortions of others during the operation, were...

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There appears to have been much enjoyment, and no distur-

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bance of moment, in the French capital during the celebration of the anniversary of the Three Days. The Opposition and Minis- terial journals of course give different accounts...

The Liverpool Bribery Committee has made its report. It confirms

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the worst that has been stated respecting the corruption of the freemen of that borough. The Committee confined its inquiries into the cir- cumstances attending elections which...

Rumours of changes in the Spanish Cabinet, of the reirement

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of Zza BERMUDEZ, the reaseendancy of the Queen's party, and of decisive interference from that quarter in Don MiGuze's be- half, are prevalent, but unauthenticated.

an Prirreetrin0 in Parliament.

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1. hum CHURCH REFORM. The Report on the Irish Church Temporalities Bill was brought up on Monday, in the House of Lords; and the question being put that it should be received,...

The Emperor NICHOLAS has published two new decrees, one for

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the more effectual rooting up of the Polish language, the other for making political offences subject to the jurisdiction of courts-mar- tial. It seems that an association for...

Intelligence has at length arrived of the occupation of Lisbon

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by the troops of Donna MAR! A. This event took place on the 24th of July. VILLA FLOR, the Duke of Terceira, with 1,500 men, had pushed forward to St. Ubes, about twenty miles...

The health of the Queen of the Belgians continues excellent,

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as well As that .of the pang Prince. Promotions are making for the celebration of the Four Days ofleptembor. The Russian troops quitted the neighbourhood of Constanti- nople on...

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be court.

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THE King, who has been residing at Windsor during the week, arrived , in town on Wednesday, accompanied by Sir Herbert Taylor. The Duke and Duteliess of Gloucester received his...

HONOURS.

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Frcom THE LONDON GAZETTES. DowNIN0 STRF.ET, 20th July 1833.—The King has been graciously pleased to no- minate and appoint Lieutenaut-General Sir GEORGE Arcsox, and...

ftirtrepori#.

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At a Court of Common Council, held on Thursday, Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman, presented the Report of the London Bridge Committee. He said that the actual cost of the...

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An application was made to the Vice-Chancellor, by the assignees

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of Mr. Richards, some time ago the proprietor of the Age newspaper, to annul a bargain by which Mr. Westroacott, the present proprietor, became possessed of the paper. On...

A mob of between three and four hundred attempted to

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rescue some prisoners from the constables of the K division, in Shadwell, on 'Mon- day last ; and must have succeeded, but for the prompt assistance of Mr. Burford and Mr....

ebt Couritrp.

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The Factory Bill seems to have come into operation in Manchester even before it has been sanctioned, by either House of Parliament. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle...

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SCOTLAND.

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A Royal Commission has been issued for inquiring into the existing state of Municipal Corporations in Scotland. Messrs. J. B. Green- shields, Thomas Thomson, Robert Bell, James...

IRELAND.

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Mr. Nathaniel Sneyd, a well-known merchant of Dublin, and lately member for Cavan, was attached on Monday, in the middle of the day, by Mr. John Mason, the son of a gentleman of...

STORY OF THE COUNTESS or'Sraza. — Tbis house was occupied by the

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dowager of the celebrated general and statesman, John, second Earl of .Stair, who died in 1747. Her Ladyship, after long exercising a sway over the haut ton of the Scottish...

Lord Grey, though in general good health, has found it

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necessary to leave town for a few days, in consequence of the great fatigue he has had to endure. — Globe. [His Lordship was absent when the Jewish Diabili ties Bill was...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The following letter, from a private correspondent of our own at Lisbon, gives in graphic though hurried detail the circumstances which occurred on the recovery of...

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A Cabinet Council has been summoned to meet this afternoon

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at the Foreign Office, when the important news from Portugal will be dis- cussed. The accounts respecting Don PEDRO received lately by our Govern-. ment have been such as to...

THE KING AND HIS MINISTERS.

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A CORRESPONDENT, whose opportunities of accurate kDOWledge aie first-rate, somewhat surprises us by the following revelation. "The world knows only half the calamities of the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK E ICHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. The English Funds have been comparatively steady, and have maintained their prices, notwithstanding the uncertainty which prevails as to the...

The flame of liberty, it would seem, is kindled in

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the snows of Russia, and may ere long dissolve the icy bonds of its despotism. Siberia, which NICHOLAS would make the grave of the Polish nation, will perhaps become the cradle...

Numerous arrests have taken place at Naples, of persons charged

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with being implicated in*the late conspiracy to overturn the Govern- ment. The plot was organized by some officers, and is said to be a branch of a very extensive one against...

NEW GAS MICROSCOPE.

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ANOTHER and greatly-improved hydro-oxygen microscope, whose powers are far beyond either of the two which we have before noticed, has been constructed by Mr. HOLLAND, and is...

THE BANK CHARTER.

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LORD ALTHORP declares that the Bank Charter Bill must pass this session. If such be the will of the Minister, a bill of some kind pro- bably will be pushed through Parliament....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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. Arrived—None..SATURDAY MORNING. Sailed— From July 27th, Wave, Goldsmith, f or Van Diemen's Land ; and Lady Raffles, Pollock, for Bombay ; and Aug. id, Lady Nugent, Percival,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY -

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• THE -FACTIOUS PEERS. WTIBN the Irish Church Bill first made its appearance in the House of Lords, it might have been taken for a violent attack upon the rights of conscience...

THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC versus THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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AND MR. O'CONNELL. THE squabble between O'CONNELL and the Reporters is at an end for the present. He has backed out from his threat of enfor- cing the Standing Order for the...

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

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THE-want of Units- in this country is such, that we fear the diffi- culties in the way of devising a practicable scheme of National Edu- cation are almost insurmountable. The...

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The obituary of the week includes the name of the

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venerable WILBERFORCE, who died in his seventy-fourth year. It has been remarked before, that philanthropists have been generally long- lived. Benevolence is the true elixir...

A tobacconist's shop-boy was brought up before Mr. MURRAY at

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Union Hall, charged with stealing his master's cigars. The boy acknowledged his guilt, and said that he was "fond of backy," and stole them for his own smoking. The Magistrate...

PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF PROHIBITORY SYSTEMS OF COMMERCE.

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SOME weeks ago,'when the state of the Timber trade was under discussion in the House of Commons, and it was mentioned in the course of the debate that Baltic timber had been...

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ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH

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WILL not be found so amusing as Paul Clifford, nor so interest- ing as Eu,s,roze Aram, but it is equally able; and, in the moral crisis at which this country has arrived, will...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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England and the English. By Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M.P., Author of "Pel. ham," '' Derereux," and "Eugene Aram." 2 rots Beatif y Ts 4VELY, Men and Manners iu America. By...

Mr. E. L. Bulwer has announced, that with the Number

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for August he closes his duty US editor of the New Monthly Magazine. The cause of his retirement he thus states in his farewell address--" The pres- sure of public_business has...

SUPERANNUATION S—MR. BEAMISH'S CASE.

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TO THE EDI l'OR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—I now trouble you as briefly as possible with a few comments on the Returns made to Parliament relating to the " present and prospective...