4 FEBRUARY 1837

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tee session of Parliament was opened on Tuesday ; but, as we guessed last week, the valorous Tories, who during the whole of the recess vowed destruction to the Whigs, and...

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The session of the Portuguese Cortes was opened on the

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26th of January, with a speech from the Queen. The speech commu- nicates no novel information whatever; and is therefore as much en rtIgle as that delivered in the King's name...

The Russian Government has sent forth an official article in

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the Petersburg Gazette, and also in the Frankfort Journal, de- fending the capture of the Vixen in the Black Sea; on the ground that the ship was laden with gunpowder, which was...

i3ebateit an Praceettingst in parliament. OPENING OF THE SESSION :

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TIIE ROYAL SPEECH. Tim third session of the Second " Reformed " Parliament was opened on Thursday, by the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of...

Tobago papers, lately received, mention that Governor DAR- LING bad

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dissolved the House of Assembly, with a very angry speech, in consequence of that body having cited the Chief Jus- tice before them to apologize for committing the Clerk of the...

From the seat of war in Spain there is no

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certain intelligence of the slightest interest. The last report is that RIBIERO is to sail with 8,000 men from Bilboa to San Sebastian,and, in conjunc- tion with General EVANS,...

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Cbr aletropoItti.

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A preliminary meeting of about 400 delegates from Dissenting Soci- eties and Anti-Church-rate Associations was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, on Wednesday ; and on...

Bill for taking Votes by Ballot at Elections for Members

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of Parliament-Mr. GROTF, March 7. Bill to Regulate Expenses at Elections-Mr. Hems. February 7. Bill to Amend the Law relating to Controverted Elections-Mr. Ctranbes BULLER,...

Int Court.

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THERE is very little to be said this week of the doings at the Brighton Palace ; where, indeed, the King and his Court seem to have fallen asleep. His Majesty, we see, has been...

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A meeting of the proprietors of the University College, London,

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was held ou Skiturday; when, after sotne discussion respecting the operation of the unrepealed portion of the Act of Uniformity, it was temnimottely (+greed to accept the lie .c...

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At a meeting of the National Association in Dublin, on

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Thursday week, the Honourable F. Ponsonby took the chair. The weekly sub- scriptions amounted to 3811. The following names have been sultioitted to the protest against the...

Etc Counter.

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Mr. Bish has written to his constituents at Leominster, to deny cer- tain Tory reports that he was about to resign the representation of the borough ; and he founds his claim to...

IRELAND.

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Mr. Carew O'Dwyer lac been appointed Filacer of the Irish Court of Exchequer, and has announced his intention to the electors of Drogheda asst again to solicit their suffrages....

SCOTLAND.

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The Renfrewshire election has ended in a Tory triumph. The polling commenced on Ft ides , morning; and at the close of that day, the numbers in the several districts stood as...

A story, headed " Romance in Real Life," has been

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going the roee Is of the newspapers. As the Lets of the case have come to may kn avledge they may be found worthy a place in your columns. The hero of the tale, Thomas Smith,...

At the Hatton Garden Office, on Saturday, an Exciseman was

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charged with assaulting a Policeman, who had prevented him from ill- treating a woman. The Exciseman positively denied the truth of the charge; but the Magistrates, Messrs....

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There is a report from Spain, that ALAI,: has defeated

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the Carlists ; and another, that the Carlists have routed ALAIX. Which is true?

The present Lord Lovat is, it seems, the first Catholic

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who has been Created u Peer since the Revolution in 1688. Sir George Murray has addressed a letter to the Morning Chronicle, contradicting the statement of Colonel Napier that...

inficelIaneatut.

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Sir James Graham, and other Members of the House of Commons, had a conference on Tuesday with Lord Stanley, at his Lordship's mansion in Carlton Gardens.—Courier. [ Who were the...

The ship Mexico, Winslow, from Liverpool for New York, was

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wrecked off Long Island on the night of the 27th of December. There were 119 persons, chiefly steerage passengers, on board ; and only the Captain and two seamen and five...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. GREAT offence has been given to our Gallic neighbours by the omis- sion to mention France in our King's Speech. The papers received this morning from Paris complain...

Last night, the House of Commons exhibited symptoms of recovery

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from the lethargy which pervaded nearly the whole body for the first three days of the session. Irish politics (as was likely enough) afforded the first stimu- lus. Mr....

THE ARMY

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WAR - OFFIPE, Feb. 3.-4th Light Dragoons—Lieut. J. Miller, from the 8th Light Drags. to be Limit. vice Husband, who exchanges ; Lieut. T. t.haa to be Adjultant. Nice Gordon, who...

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SATURDAY NIGHT.

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In reference to the practice of creating fictitious votes and oppress sing tenants in Scotland, who refuse to support their landlords' can- didate, the Courier publishes a...

It is reported to-day that Mr. Justice Gazelee retires from

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the Bench ; that the Solicitor-General is to he the new Judge, and Mr. Sergeant Wilde is to be Solicitor-General; but we do not vouch for the truth of the report.—Courier.

The Standard to-night remarks, fairly enough, that if Lord MEL-

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BOURNE agrees to the demands of the Dissenters respecting Church- rates, he abandons the principle of a National Establishment. But his Lordship cannot help himself: the...

Mr. E. Ls:emu:at: CHART.TON . S capture by the Lord Chancellor's Tipstaff,

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on Friday night, has put a new fie e on his contempt of the Great Seal. The Tories, who now-a-days will help any one out of a mess, were raising a distinction between the...

The news of the close of the poll in Renfrewshire,

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fell in the Reform Club, on Monday, like an unexpected thunderbolt. We Loped to have been able to 'give this week a detailed expose of the causes of the Tory triumph ; but...

Lord STORMONT having given the Norwich Tories the "go-by," the

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Marquis of Docao has been invited to stand with Mr. SC.tat.ETT at the next election. In Norwich, money is the one thing needful. Had he possessed plenty of money, Lord...

The Sagulli Chronicle, received this morning, mentions that the Reform

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Kssociation of Bury St. Edmund's has passed resolutions in favour of the Ballot. The country is now beginning to rouse itself on this subject, feeling that the time is come.

MONEY 1%1 ARK ET.

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STUCK EXCHANGE, FUIDAY AFTERNOON,. The operations of the Runk Directors have been tie absothing topic of inte- rest during the entire week ; and the valise of the Public...

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THE THEATRES.

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1,,,ve no novelties to notice at any of the Theatres this week. The .Dnuav LANr. fills nightly at the reduced prices, with the attractions of °petit and ballet. The Mountain...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Mt Nismas have given to the Delegates, assembled in London from all parts of the kingdom, the most positive assurances that they will bring into...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arri‘ed—At Gravesend, Feb. 2r1, hero of Grundy, from Madras. At l'orts- irottli, lin. 31.1, Stratheden.Cheape, than ltengal ; and Feb. 2d, Royal %Villiain, Ire. Rom :Slittlras....

THE INTENDED "POOR-LAW FOR IREL AND. - THE character of time

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Irish Poor-law measure, which will be sub- mitted to Parliament on Thursday next, is no longer a secret. The main provisions of the Ministerial Bill, as we are credibly in-...

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PEEL'S BUMPS.

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DR. EPP.i, in a phrenological view of the progress of Criminal Legislation, to Le Lund in the Christian Phy.sician for the car- relt mouth, has this iassage on the great Tory...

" PAT THEM ON THE BACK."

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Mr. Humes ,Sspeeek an 11w Address. Boswsm. tells a story of some foolish person who got into a dis- pute with Dr. JonNsnsr at a dinner - party, and, by way of encou- ragement,...

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CAPTAINS SCOTT, GRINDL AY, AND BARBER, ON STEAM NAVIGATION TO

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INDIA. OF the general merit of Captain SCOTT as a traveller we have spoken already : his authority as a witness on the present subject arises from his intimate local...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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STIAM COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. Rambles in Egypt and Candia; with Details of the Military and Resources of those Countries, and Observatioes on the Government, Policy, and...

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FA I. IL NE R.

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IN spirit this novel is an imitation of Caleb Williams, but with- out its consistency of gloom, and with a good deal more of its in- consistency of character. The dispositions...

MANDELL A.

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THE author of this story has, apparently, travelled from Bayonne to Madrid, and may have fallen in with a band of Cellists. He appears to be actually acquainted with the...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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Memoirs and Trials of the Political Martyrs of Scotland, is a revised and extended reprint of the article in a recent number of Tail's Magazine, exposing the Tory tyrannies...

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FINE ARTS.

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:11(IDERN PICTURES AT THE BRITISH INS.TITUTION. IT is agreed on all hands, that the present show of pictures is one of the poorest, if not actually the worst, ever seen at this...

The Hulscan Prize at Cambridge University, is granted in pursuance

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of the will of the Reverend JOHN HULSE, who directed certain rents and profits (now amounting to about IOW, yearly) to be paid to the author of the best " Dissertation," in...

Boz keeps up the ball in Pickwick, with unabated fun

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and vivacity. The consultation with Sergeant Snubbin, in No. II, is a capital satire upon those expensive farces, as dull as they are brief. The dirty and littered chambers, and...

The Caraguin, " a Tale of the Antilles," is a narrative

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poem, in the easy irregular verse that SCOTT made so popular. The inci- dent on which it is founded is that of a pirate lover who unwittingly kills the father of his mistress in...

The Carthusian is a species of Magazine, undertaken by some

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young gentlemen of Charterhouse, with a promise, or expec- tation, of assistance from older hands who have been educated in that remote region. The tone of the .work smacks of...

The Imperial Classics. A new series of reprints of standard

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authors, in monthly numbers; which has commenced with Bishop Burnet's History of his Own Times. The size is a square octavo, or small quarto, with a full page and clear readable...

The Ordinary Cetacea or Whales, forms the subject of the

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current volume of the Naturalist's Library ; in which, besides the usual account of the different species, and a description of the practice and perils of both the Northern and...

In addition to these publications, several others are before us,

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which their late arrival or other causes have prevented our ex- amining. The most valuable of these is the Third Volume of the Despatches of the Marquis Wellesley. Of the rest,...

We have received the Seventh Volume of the Penny Cyelopredia,

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and the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Parts of the Encyclopeo- dia Britannica. The volume of the Penny commences with "Charleston," and ends with "Copyhold ;" and, in the...

The Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany is more mi , cel- laneous

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than the first, and not less amusing. Boz has com- menced a new set of adventures, the hero of which is Oliver Twist ; and " The Parish Boy's Progress" will give full scope for...

The Russian Ports on the Black Sea, contains a geographical,

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statistical, and commercial account of the different towns in that inland sea, at all frequented for purposes of trade, from Ismail and Reni, on the Russian branch of the...

Tales in Prose, for the Mine, is a pretty collection

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of stories, anecdotes, and detached scenes, told with much of the friendly feeling and Quaker-like simplicity that distinguish MARY HOWITT. At the same time, we have often been...

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painter labour who essays the bold and difficult task of

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repre- senting on a plane surface of a few feet the almost immeasurable elevation of the Alps on the apparent scale of nature ? The purer atmosphere of Italy, too, increases the...

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NEW PRINTS.

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COLLINS'S pleasing characteristic picture of " Sunday" in the Country, exhibited at Somerset House last year, has been engraved in mezzotint by S. W. REYNOLDS. The charm of Cow...