5 OCTOBER 1839

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The latest accounts from Spain describe ESPARTERO as in fulF

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march against CABRERA, with a three sufficient to crush the rebeE. general—thirty-three battalions and eighteen squadrons. Navarre, • . says a Bayonne telegraphic despatch, "...

Now that the Carlist cause is hopeless and the young

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Queen's. throne appears to be firmly established, French politicians of the Censervative order begin to think the present an excellent time thr intervention in Spain. To quarrel...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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No seven days pass without " news" of some sort, but we scarcely remember a week more barren of interesting occurrences than the one just closed. Politics there are none. The...

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Zbe court.

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THE Queen took her usual promenade on Sunday afternoon, on the East Terrace of Windsor Castle, "to the gratification of the visiters thronging the parterre." Besides her...

In the Insolvent Debtors Court, on Tuesday, an applicant for

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release was asked it' he had never been charged with felony ? His reply dis- closed a case of great hardship— He said he had :been charged by the landlord of his house at...

In the suburbs of the Metropolis, Dissenters have built about

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one hundred chapels, the average room of which is not more than MS The demand, however, according to well-ascertained statistics, was, and is, church-room for 800,000 persons....

Zbe IfIctropolis.

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At a meeting of the Court of Aldermen, on Saturday, Alderman White called attention to the Recorder's charge in the case of James Curley, convicted of an assault upon his wife....

Strange and most disgraceful acts are imputed to the Govern-

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ment of Buenos Ayres. Few letters, and none of the journals, have ventured to speak openly on the matters alluded to ; but the Times gives the following accounts, derived from a...

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Vie 13tobintcs.

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Mr. 'Feargus O'Connor has commenced the farce of a canvassing tour of the West Riding, with the view of offering himself as a candi- date at the next election. But, inasmuch as...

Mr. O'Connell t1,11res,.. , 1 a , 11 , 1y at 1:111:trne:.-. , ;1 Mr.

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O'l'onm.11's ' L .:cc 1 Li 1/ , , ( 'to ;-.1c, iilarney- ill'. ll/siiO ,'/t, c-'.'.) ; 1, .; wen 1‘110 Ivould , .1 to r 11.1-11 ( eh,,ritqi.) I do t. i., . .• . that ,:,t upon...

The unsettled state of the money-market still causes a great

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depres- sion; and though there was some demand (on Tuesday) for particular descriptions of yarns, we can note no improvement in prices. Goods also continue without improvement...

IRELAND.

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'Ilie Lord M Elect for the city of Di'dln. Sir Niebolas William Brady, v;:is 1 to the Lortl-Litott,—. on Mondly: on which occasion, Mr. Slvw, as usual. I a Departing, however,...

Between one and two o'clock yesterday morning, an altercation ensued

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at the Albion Tavern, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, between Captain M'Neal, of Devonshire Street, Portland Place, and two gentlemen, said to be officers in the Army, but...

' _Mr. Fut war Craven, of Cheltenham, has been tined hy

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Ids lea:alley Magistrates of that town, five shillings for being" drunk and dis- orderly." Mrs. Earle, mother of Mr. Earle a Cheltenham, died last week froin Of, cts of wron;...

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The Duke of Baeeleeelm's return to SAealend was celebrated on

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Thurs- day sennight, by a leree party of his telemetry and friends, assembled in the demesne of tit - 2 £r-famed Branxholni. A splendid pavilion was erected for the...

-SCOTLAND.

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The members of the Dundee Anti-Corn- Lew Association assembled on the 211h, aci ele Jted "ee-hearere " for the year. Three hun- dred gentlemen, including runny of the prinei e...

Considerable excitement has prevailed of late in various parts of

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Scotland on the subject of " Revivals" in religion. Kihsyth, Glasgow, Dundee, and, as our readers are aware, Blairgowrie, are the principal places in which these "revivals" have...

Lord Hawarden and Mr. Maude have resolved upon localizing a

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great number of Protestants ttpon their estates in the county Tipperary, thus neutralizing the misrepresentation of this large and influential county.—Courier. The...

On the night of Tuesday week, the house of Mr.

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Thomas Murphy, a farmer residing on the lands of Parkswood, near Passage, was set on fire, by a relative, it is supposed. The incendiary, who resided in the house, get up at the...

TIIE HARVEST.

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The accounts of the harvest are more encouraging than those we have lately had to lay before the reader. Time following extracts are from Country newspupers received during the...

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THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION GRANT.

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Extract from Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, 24th Stptemher 1839. lead an account of the Replications for pecuniary aid to schools in Great Britain, not...

INSTRUCTIONS FROM Til E I A OFFICE TO CAPTAIN HOBSON.

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REGARDING LAND iN NEW ZEAL A ND. Extract from a llesultelt front the Marquis I' Normanku fo evtqia Hebson, aat(‘I Downing Niro f unnet I ezn9. " It is not, however, to the...

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illaaftMtLif, ON TEXAS QUESTION, tied to Lw.ti rdirocrst-et hy II

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Convoittee rtt* the Brirslt attd Furciyit Anti- Star, Ili Society, l'u the llight Honourable Lord l'almerston, her Majesty's Principal :ary of State fur Foreign Affairs, &c....

The Mr. Baring who has received an appointment on the

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staff of the Governor-General of Canada, is not, as stated by the Standard a son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but is a nephew of the Governor-General, and the son of the...

ftlisccIlantous.

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We are informed by a correspondent at Southampton, who is known to us, that Lord Durham and Mr. Poulett Thomson passed a good deal of time together just before the new...

STATIONS OF TIIE BRITISH ARMY.

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[Prom the United Service Gootte.) 11■1111 tclth &T.-Jamaica. ; Boyle 1801 do.-.Madras ; Ports- 135th do.- Canada; Clare month Castle 1911% do.-Dubliti 66th (Ie.-Canada;...

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It appears that for the last two weeks the reimbursements

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have ex- ceeded the deposits of the Paris Savings Bank by 104,056 francs and 41,831 francs respectively ; and the numbers of depositors have been about 1,000 short of what they...

Lord Portman has sent the following to the Times- "

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Bryan:ton, 27th September. "Sir—Having carefully considered the extraordinary publication given to the world by the Marquis of Hastings in the Jiimniny Post of the Htli instant,...

By the arrival of the Roscoe, 'Montreal, and Adirandack at

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Liverpool from New York, accounts have been received from the British Provinces to the commencement of September. There is a variety of interesting matter in the letters and...

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The Weekly Chronicle, (which, to use a newspaper periphrasis fre-

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quently applied to that journal, "is understood to express the opinion's of Mr. 'Ward, the Honourable Member for Sheffield,") opens thus oe what he is pleased irreverently to...

- A report of Mr. Poulett Thomson's appointment to the

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Governor- Generalship of the British Provinces had reached Montreal, and ex- cited much dissatisfaction and alarm. The Montreal Herald says, that 31r. Thomson's views, if...

POSTSCRIPT

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Great Western arrived at Bristol yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, having accomplished her homeward voyage in twelve days and .a half. The British...

The Liberal members of the French Chamber of Deputies have

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re- solved to bring forward the question of Electoral Reform in the course of the next session. A Committee, of which Laflitte is President, Du- pont de Mare Vice-President,...

The Globe to-night contradicts that part of the Standard's statement

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respecting Admiral Fleming's appointment to the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital, which represents the Admiral as related to the Elliots. "Whatever else Admiral Fleming may...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTER:00i. The anirs of the United States Bank have been the all-absorbing topic in the City dming the last few days. It Was currently reported on...

We learn from the Stand«rii, that Sir Hussey Vivian, Master-General

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of the Ordnance, has dismissed fifteen senior students from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, as a punishment for brutal con- duct towards their "fags," and general...

Accounts from Montreal mention that the jury on the trial

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of Jalbert, for the murder of Lieutenant Weir, bad been discharged, not being able to agree upon a verdict. Ten, all Canadians, were for acquitting the prisoner ; an American...

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THE THEATRES.

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ONE would hardly have thought that the nobodies who at this season of the year constitute the emptiness of town, would have congregated in such multitudes as were squeezed into...

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING.

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The Adelaide, Captain Campbell, arrived at Fahnouth on the 30th Sep-. Umber, after a boisterous passage down Channel; and sailed immediately after receiving on board Captain...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived-At Gravesend, Sept. 30th, Rosalind, Crouch, front China; Oct. 1st. Enter- Fearden, front the Cape; 20, Iris, Fisher, from Maaritius; and 4th, Cheviot, Wang, from Van...

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THE EXCHEQUER JOB.

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WHEN Sir JAMES GnAfrAm, in March 1834, introduced the Whig Bill for remodelling the Exchequer, men of all parties in the House of Commons acc6rded their support. Nobody was...

The Adelphi again throws open the wide and tempting lobby

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that litres so irresistibly the passengers along the Strand. The bait of this taking trap of laughter-loving folks, for the present season, is neither French giant, Indian...

MACREADY'S S'hyloel, (which the opening of Covent Garden prevented our

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seeing on Monday) must be a remarkable personation. according to the panegyric in the _Ifornhey Cltroo;c/e; the able writer of which speaks of it as being " the .S'hy/ock of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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1II01\;"170 STOP THE DRAIN OF BULLION. OUR courteous contemporary the Morning Post, " organ of the Bank Parlour," regards our suggestion that abolition of the Corn-duties might...

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COLONIZATION OF ZEAL\ : CI. L lAl.

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ANNOI . NC EMENT THE Globe is an acknowledg.',1 organ of th,.. 11.;- ferring to a paper in the last Immher ou the 1):,- posal of Lands in New Zealmal, the fi.11oning exintet...

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SUICIDE.

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Wx fear that the statistics of crime in England will be found to exhibit a considerable increase within a comparatively short period in the proportion of suicides. Their...

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REGULATION OF RAILWAYS.

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AMONG the House of Commons papers delivered this week—rema- nets of the last session, a huge folio of 600 pages attests the in- dustry of the Committee which sat on Railways....

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MEMOIRS OF CHARLES MATHEWS.

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THESE two volumes complete Mrs. 3Isentiws's life of her husband; commencing in 1818 with the close of the first season of the " At Homes," and ending with his death in 1835. The...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. By Mrs. Mathews. Vols. III. and IV. BentZey. Life of James Watt. By M. Arago, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. To...

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ABACO'S LIFE or JAMES WATT.

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TUE admirers of the illustrious author of the modern steam- engine will consider this little volume an almost indispensable possession. It contains ABACO'S Memoir, written for...

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TUE TROUBLES OF THE REVEREND RICHARD CRUTTWELL, CURRENCY-DOCTOR.

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THIS singular outpouring is the autobiography of a currency- doctor, coupled with an exposition of his views. His notions are those of the apostle THOMAS of Birmingham, as...

SENOR TEXUGO ON THE SLAVE-TRADE AT MOSAMBIQUE.

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MOSAMBIQUE is a Portuguese settlement on the Eastern coast of Africa, opposite Madagascar, nominally extending coastwise from the Tropic of Capricorn to the '20th degree of...