5 MAY 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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MINISTERS have got their Committee on Church-property-and shelved the question of Church-rates,as they hope, for the present year. Next session, said Lord JOHN RUSSELL, there...

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The insurrection of MURRAGORRAY has been completely put down by

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the Carlists, and its leader forced to take refuge in France. So much for the spirit of liberty and independence in the North of Spain. All hopes of the new loan were abandoned...

ifiebatee mill princeling in Valli/maid.

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THE BOSH POOR. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day having been read for the third reading of the Irish Poor Bill ; and Mr. O'CONNELL having presented a...

By a series of rapid and successful operations,lartAerst PACHA has

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completely put down the insurrection in Syria.

According to the Times, there are letters in London from

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Nova Scotia, mentioning the assemblage of a considerable number of malecontents on the Vermont frontier. It is added, that Sir JOHN COLBORNE, anticipating an attack on Lower...

An arrival from Portugal brings news of another change of

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Ministry. SA DA BANDEIRA Foreign and Marine Affairs. Bomeim War. Coe Lilo Interior. LEITAO Justice. AJANUEL CARVALHO Finance. It is not expected that this Ministry will...

The following extract of a letter from Brussels, dated April

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28th, is from the Journal des Debats : we have seen no additional particulars of the proceeding mentioned in it ; which may have troublesome consequences. " Within the last few...

The Continental intelligence has resumed its insignificant character.

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In France there are rumours, not well authenticated, of Minis- terial changes. It has been repeatedly proved that the Govern- ment, on questions affecting its existence, is...

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The prizes were distributed to the students of Medicine in

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the Lon. don University on Saturday ; the Bishop of Durham in the chair. in was stated that there had been an increase of 57 students, and that the receipts of the institution...

EV itictrcpoI&.

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T There have been three public meetiegs this week on the subject of She Coronation—two at the London Coffeehouse, end one at the Lon- don Hotel in Albemarle Street. The largest...

The Tory dinner at the Goldsmith's Hall, on Saturday, was

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a meg. nifieent affair. Among the company, were the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Puke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, the Etat of Jersey, Lois Lyndhurst, Abinger,...

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, Queen held a Levee at St. James's Palace ou IV's,liasday. It as 1111....t Ilurnerou,ty attended ; the list of presenbititoss becupyiog 'featly four collillIna of the Morhin9...

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Lac elattitrn.

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Sir George Clerk has been elected for Stamford, in the room of Colonel Chaplin. Of the Baronet's election there can be no doubt, as he took his seat in the House of Commons on...

In the Court of Common Pleas,Guildball, yesterday, there were five

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causes set down for trial ; but notice bad been given that there would be no defence as to four of them. When the fifth and last was called on, the attorney for the defendant...

The anniversary of Sir William Molesworth's first visit to Leeds

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was celebrated by a public dinner at Holbeck, on Monday week. The chairman, Mr. Whitehead, professed himself a friend to Mr. Baines, as well as Sir William Molesworth ; but he...

Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. O'Connell met at the Liverpool

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Rail- way-office, on Tuesday last, mid proceeded to London in the same train, though not in the same carriage. We have heard two very dif.. ferent accounts of the meeting....

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Lord William Somerset, who is brother-in-law to Major Molyneux Williams,

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of Penbedw, Flintshire, and bad been on a visit there, has got involved in a troublesome scrape, through an unfortunate accident which occurred last week. The particulars are...

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A Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation changing the day of the Coronation frora1Tuesday the 26th to Thurs- day the 28th of June.

At the banquet to be given by the Conservative Members

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of the House of Commons to Sir Robert Peel, on the 12th instant, at Met- chant Tailor's II all, it is expected that of the 311 Members who hue inserted their names in the list...

SCOTLAND.

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The agitation on the subject of Negro Apprenticeship is begun again in good earnest. The thasgow petition, on Wednesday evening last, ha I been subscribed by no fewer than...

IRELAND.

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According to a statement in the Standard abridged from official re- turns, the number of crimes committed in Ireland in the year 1837 was 27,396; of which 722 were homicides. In...

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Dr. Chalmers continues his lectures in the Hanover Square Rooms

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; producing a great effect A by the vigour of his language and the earnest- correspondent of the 3forning Chronicle re- line of bis manner. marks— "With all the disadvantage of...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, May 1st, Francis Ann, Hay, from China; Beugalee. II &Mit.. ton, from Bengal; and Asi 5, Stead, from Dumbay; 2,1, Fait Ile, Agoor„ from Manilla; and...

THE ARMY.

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WAR.OF Plc!, May 4.-6th Reet. or Drag Guards—Lieut. W. Hawkins, from the 80th Reel. of Tout, to be Lieut. vice Stewart, who exchanges ; Staff. Assist..:.torg. IL Catlin.. to be...

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Last night's Gazette announces the appointments of the Earl of

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Belfast to be Vice- Chamberlain of the Household, and of Lord Bel. haven to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assem- bly of the Church of Sotland.

The Waterford Committee met yesterday ; when an extraordinary proceeding

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was disclosed. It appeared that a notice had been sent to the agents for the sitting Members, stating that it was not the inten. tion of the petitioners to prosecute the...

The House of Commons was chiefly occupied last night with

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a dis- cussion on the Benefices Plurality Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL having moved the House to go into Committee on the bill, Mr. HUME de- livered a long speech, introducing a...

The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of

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the Bank of England, from 6th February to 1st May 1838, as published is last night's Gazette— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Citculation £19,084,0001 Securities £22,768,000 Deposits...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The following telegraphic despatch from Bayonne was received in Paris on Thursday- " Accounts from St. Sebastian state, that General Espartero had gained a signal...

The Governments of France and England have simultaneously conveyed to

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the Government of Belgium an intimation to the following effect — that they deeply regret the occurrences which have just taken place in Luxembourg; that they hope the Belgian...

According to intelligence received from New York, the party in

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Connecticut in opposition to the VAN BUREN Ministry, have carried the election of Governor, the Senate, and the Assembly.

In the City article of this morning's Times, we find

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the following statement, bearing upon the subject of American commerce and banking- " The great southern convention of merchants and planters had again as- sembled at Augusta...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The fluctuation of the English Stock Market has been so trifling, that it does not afford scope for any remark ; the variations of any...

The proceedings in the Hull Committee are drawing towards a

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close. Mr. Wood having been declared to be in a majority of one, Mr. Thesi- ger proposed to proceed with objections to the petitioners' votes. To this course Mr. Austin...

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MAIMED RITES.

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AT the Coronation, there is to be a grand procession, but no pro- cession on foot, and no banquet in Westminster Hall. Aldernee have no idea of a celebration without a feast....

BCCKSTONE'S Weak Points are placarded over the town, in such

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an ostentatious way that one would think some enemy had been " showing him up" at the Haymarket. Instead of which, he has been expcsing the "weak points" of others very...

CELESTE has been dancing the Cachouca at the Haymetket. Her

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execution is precise and spirited, and her style full of vivacity and en- joyment; but her movements are jerking and angular, al d lack the graceful flow and voluptuous ease of...

An extravaganza, more remarkable for grotesque absurdity than broad humour,

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called Pat and his Potatoes, or the Abandoned 1r4hman, has been got up for POWER and the monkey at the Adelphi I ut neither the Irishman nor the monkey appeared to advantage ;...

A new burletta—really a petite comedy--called Naval Engagements, produced at

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the Olympic on Thursday, is one of the pleasantest things of the season. The plot is very simple. An old Admiral and his son, living on terms of equality and amity like...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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CORONATION CANT. A MORE eminently absurd proceeding than the change of the day appointed by ordinance duly published for the Coronation of the Queen, on the ground of...

THE THEATRES.

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g the postponement of Mr. TALFOURD'S Athenian Captive, Covent h y de has been suddenly thrown upon its reeourcesthough a • tr--11 musty Fs elapse till any of the forthcoming...

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THE RADICAL PIS ALLER.

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SOME Members of the House of Commons will probably get Peerages at the Coronation ; and their present constituents must select new Representatives. In reference to such...

EPISCOPAL IMMUNITIES.

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Is an eloquent passage in one of JEREMY TAYLOR'S sermons, the honest old divine declares that congregations attending doctrinal preachers are like infants who suck dry-nurses ;...

OPERATION OF THE CORN-LAWS ON FOREIGN TRADE.

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A WEALTHY and generally intelligent Lancashire manufacturer was complaining, the other day, of the dulness of trade in Man- chester, and the not very flattering prospects of men...

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COMMERCIATL HRELE A NI TED TIONS STATES OF ENGLAND WITH

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U. Tee debt owing by the United States of America to the mer- chants, manufacturers, and capitalists of Great Britain, is im- mense. There are no data which can be relied upon...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, Gr001111144 1 . Lire of the Rev. Alexander Kilham, formerly a Preacher under the Rev. and one of the Founders of the Methodist New Connexion in the }ea r 179 7 , In-...

MARTIAL LAW.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sir—In order to illustrate the remark contained in the last number of the Spectator respecting the; proclamation of martial law in Lower Canada,...

LIFE OF ALEXANDER KILHAIL.

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THOUGH curious enough in some of its particulars, the life of ALEXANDER KILHAM differs but little in its general character from that of many other ministers who taught under...

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MILLMAN'S EDITION OF 0111FION'S DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN

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EMPIRE. THIS new edition of GIBBON originated in Mr. MILLMAN'S habit of noting on the margin of his copy of the Decline and Fall, re- ferences to authors who " had discovered...

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MR. TALFOURD'S ATHENIAN CAPTIVE.

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THE structure, the persons, and the sentiments of the persons of this play, are very clever and elegant melodrame ; the language is that of descriptive poetry, in which beauty,...

ELLISON'S PRISON SCENES.

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MR. ELLISON was the " master and part owner" of a brig which sailed from Honduras for Liverpool in 1S03, and was taken by a French privateer. Landed at Bun rdeau x, he was...

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We can now only call the attention of the lovers

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of pictures to an announcement in our advertising columns of an extension of the plan of The Art Lilian ; by which each subscriber, in addition to his chance of obtaining a fine...

The advocates of free admission to National Monuments do not

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relax their endeavours to carry the point, notwithstanding the stolid opposition of the Royal Academy and Deans and Chapters. They have formed themselves into a permanent...

Next week, Messrs. WoonacltN will exhibit, at their rooms in

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St. Martin's Lane, the whole of the remaining drawings by RAFFAELLE of the LAWRENCE collection, amounting to nearly a hundred. This will be an exquisite treat to the lovers of...

Lord FARNBOROUGH'S pictures are now added to the National col-

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lection. We have not yet seen them ; having no space, at present, to enter on their merits. The great CANALLTTI, we understund, is the prize of the bequest.

FINE ARTS.

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Tee Exhibition of the Royal Academy, in Trafalgar Square, opens on Monday. The Queen visited the Gallery yesterday; and to-day the unnual feed is -given to the Ministerial and...

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN

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WATER COLOURS. YEAR after year we visit this delightful exhibition, and each time see the same sort of subjects treated in the same manner and by the same artists ; yet, so far...

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NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

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If the current be strong, and in certain quarters irresistible, in favour of what is the least worthy of regard in vocal music, it is some conso. lotion to find that there is...

We have been shown a portrait of the Dutchess of

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Kent, drawn by Mr. MINAS!, with pen and ink, in imitation of line engraving. It is very curious as an effort of patient ingenuity ; but, in our estimation, it is labour ill...

SAUNDERS'S Portraits of Living Political Reformers are not so striking

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and animated as Itsrau.'s of the Conservatives. GEORGE HATTER'S likenesses have a set, formal look : that of Mr. Buxton, in Part V. is characteristic; but we miss the bonhommie...

ENGRAVED PORTRAITS.

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MESSRS. FINDEN have commenced a series of Portraits of th e F eu! . Aristocracy of the Court of Queen Victoria, at a propitious tim e; when the public, sick of the namby-pumby...

" Si lo redo." Scena di Faust. L. SPOHR. This

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is one of the most splendid dramatic scenes ever written; whether we regard the variety, force, and expression of the recitative, the exquisite beauty of the cantabile, the...

Solfegil di Zingarelli. A very good work of its kind,

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but better adapted to the vocal school of the author and his contemporaries, than to that of the present Ita- lian school, which is rather instrumental than vocal.

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to a Few Days, Fourth Edition of the Three Series,

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with Acidities,. compressed into Tao Pocket Volumes, with Woodcuts, foolscap Boo. JESSE'S GLEANINGS in NATURAL HISTORY. Joule MURRAY, Albemarle Street. This Day is Published,...