6 SEPTEMBER 1834

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The Portuguese Cortes have been principally occupied with preliminary regulations,

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appointing committees, &c. The Oppo- sition in the Chamber of Deputies is discovered to be stronger than was anticipated, and may be said to number about 40 members out of the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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WHEN orators or writers wish to attach vast importance to the acts or deliberations of any individual or body of persons, it is very usual to say, " the eyes of all Europe are...

Louts PHILIP has given up his journey to the South

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of France : lie has too much on his hands to permit his absence from Paris. Marshal GERARD has been exceedingly ill, though he is now re- covering; and TRIERS is neglecting...

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Accounts from the West Indies to the 5th of August

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were re- ceived yesterday. From an epitome of their contents, published in the Courier, it appears, that at St. Kitt's the Negroes had re- fused to work, and manifested a...

The King of Bavaria has recalled the members of the

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Greek 1Ftsgency, who were said to have been bribed with Russian gold ; and.thes well-meaning and sagacious Count ARMANNSPERG has Secoveied his ascendancy.

Etc Court.

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THE King, who spent the first part of the week at Windsor, arrived at St. James's Palace on Wednesday, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor. Boon after his arrival, the Sheriffs of...

Various alterations have been made in the Courts of the

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Old Bailey, it being imagined that the increase of business likely to he caused by the new Central Criminal Law Court would render it necessary that they should be more...

There are some very contradictory accounts from Constanti- zople. According

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to one version of the design of the Sultan, he intends to attack the Egyptians in Syria, without delay, being en- couraged in the attempt to regain the ceded provinces by...

Cbg flitrtropaIi4.

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A public dinner was given on Wednesday, at the Albion in Alders- gate Street, to Mr. Wolryche Whitmore, M. P. by about eighty gentlemen interested in the success of the New...

The Americans are much pleased with their new gold coinage.

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21e mint strikes off to the value of from 20,000 to 25,000 dollars daily. Gold coin in the United States has till lately been a rarity.

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Cnuntrp.

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The South Lancashire Conservatives dined together on Thursday, at the little town, lately the rotten borough, of Newton, which lies half-way between Liverpool and Manchester:...

During the performances at Sadlers Wells Theatre, on Wednesday night,

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the audience were thrown into confusion by a report of flee. At the end of the Wood Dimon, after the explosion of a train, the curtain fell. Some of the scenery, made of very...

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On Wednesday evening last week, as Mr. Joseph Elms and

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Mr. Powell were passing down Clowance Street, they observed a soldier of the 98th Regiment coming towards them with his bayonet drawn, and apparently in a state of excitement :...

A smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Portsmouth

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on Wednes- day night last week, about ten o'clock. Several houses were much shaken, and some slight damage was sustained. In other houses, articles placed against the walls, or...

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The Marquis of Downshire has announced his intention to pay,

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in future, to the clergymen the amount of time composition due to them from parishes on his Lordship's property. The Dublin Evening Post has the followin g remarks upon this...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell has addressed a lon g letter to Lord Duncannon, in p erformance of his promise. The first part of it consists in an ex- posure of the absurdity of the Oran g e...

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The Edinburgh bankers, Messrs. Robert Allan and Son, suspended payment

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on Saturday last. The Edinburgh bankers, Messrs. Robert Allan and Son, suspended payment on Saturday last. The mill-house and a granary of the Lochrin distillery, near Edin-...

SCoTLAND.

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Mighty preparations are - making in Edinburgh for the dinner to be given to Earl Grey on Monday the 15th. The list of stewards com- prises the names of two hundred and seventy...

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We were right in anticipating that Lord Brougham would be un- usually active during the recess. Indeed, scarcely a day passes that we do not bear some account of his rapid...

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The French Astronomer-Royal, M. rag°, is now in London, on

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his way to Edinburgh, to join the meeting of means which takes place next week in that city. 31. A rago has been coinmissioned by his iovernment to entirely remodel the...

The following biographical notice of Mr. Telford, the civil engineer,

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who died this week at his house in Abingdon Street, is extracted from the Courier. It is, we believe, in the main, fairly drawn up ; but the encomium on Mr. Telford's candour...

Donna Francisca, the wife of Don Carlos, died at Alverstoke

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Rec- tory, near Gosport, on Thursday afternoon. The immediate cause of her death is variously stated. One account says it was the typhus fever; another, that leeches having been...

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Optutottd of ibc t9rt114.

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CATCHING AT STRAWS. MORNING Posr—Our columns of this day present a cheering and heart- stirring proof of the existence of strong constitutional feeling! , in the most MI-...

THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL.

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SUNG AT THE DINNER OF rue SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COLONISTS, SEPTEMBER 3. Although we leave thee, Fatherli n Aril seek a foreign shore, And the delightful scenes of youth, Relinquish...

M. Carrel, editor of the National de 1834, was again

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cited on the 29th August, before the Court of Assizes, sitting in banco, for another breach .of the injunction issued by the Court, interdicting that journal from publishing any...

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It is stated in the Dublin correspondence of the Miming

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Herald, that Mr. BLACKBURNE had been offered, acid refused, the Puisne Judge- ship, vacant by the death of Judge JESS ; and that Mr. CRAMPTON, the Solicitor-General, has...

The Bank of England has put forth the following statement

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of its assets and liabilities, on the average of the quarter, from the 3d June to the 26th August last inclusive. Circulation £19,147,000 Deposits 15,384,000 £34,531,000...

A house fell in yesterday in Glean Alley, Tooley Street,

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and buried fifty of its inmates under its ruins. They were shortly afterwards dug out, but most of them seriously injured. The dead body of a child was picked up this morning;...

The additin- • ,.lat articles to the Quadripartite Treaty were

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ratified at 1VIadr;• 3 1 .41 on the 29th August. The memorial of the Cortes Bond- molders has been laid before the Finance Committee. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, in his reply to Mr....

The following paragraph appears in the Times of this morning.

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It is intended, we presume, as a reply to the pressing calls of the Morn- ing Chronicle of yesterday for the grounds on which the Times charges Lord BROUGHAM with treachery and...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Advices have been received from Jamaica this morning, by way of New York, dated the .38th of July inclusive. They are of very alarming character; stating that...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., at Elvetham, near Hartford Bridge. Lady CHARLOTTE CALTHORTV, of a daughter. Ou the 28th ult., at 41, Moray Place, Edinburgh. the Lady of Sir RALPH...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived--At Gravesend, Sept. 1st, Sir Joseph Banks, Daniells, from New South Wales ; and 4th, Courier, Palmer ; from the Cape. Off Dover, 4th, Mary, Turean, tram Manilla. At...

The cholera is making dreadful ravages in Sweden. In Gottenburg,

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out of a population of 2:10/0, it has swept away 1,800. In the capital and other places the mortality is great in proportion.

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The principal feature in the English Money Market since our last, has been an extensive sale of Exchequer Bills, which was at first stated to...

Sir DANIEL SANDFORD has intimated to the Principal of Glasgow

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University, his intention of resigning his seat in Parliament as Repre- sentative of Paisley.

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Thus far in reply to the Courier of Tuesday. Since

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our re- marks were written, we have seen an article in the same journal of Thursday, from which we learn that our contemporary is in a puzzle between his desire to find...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TIIE EDINBURGH DINNER. Emenreau has been happily chosen as the place for the great gathering in honour of Earl G EY. There is probably no part of Britain in which the late...

DUTY OF THE MINISTERS IN PARLIAMENT.

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THE Courier admits that its own notions of the duty of Ministers are exceedingly vague : they seem to be exceedingly convenient for Ministers also. There is a " conflict," we...

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CASHIERING OF HALF-PAY OFFICERS; CASE OF DR. WILLIAMS.

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AMONG the notices which stand in the Order-book for next ses- sion, is one by Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON, for a return of the officers who have been deprived of their half-pay,...

CONSERVATIVE DESIGNS ON THE PRESS; WHIG DEFENCE OF THE TAXES

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ON KNOWLEDGE. THE last Number of Blackwood, in an elaborate article on the " Influence of the Press," suggests a plan for converting the People of' England to Conservatism, by...

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We lately announced to our readers, that a Commission had

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been appointed by the Lords of the Treasury to inquire generally into the system of the General Post-office department, with a view of ascertaining whether any alterations of...

The report of the proceedings of the Court-martial which sen-

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tenced fluTeniNsosr, the private of the Scots Fusileer Guards, to the terrible flogging which excited so much public attention, has been published in the Daily Papers this week....

A man and a woman were each tined by the

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Lord Mayor on Tuesday, for having smuggled brandy and tobacco in their possession. 'the contraband trade is carried on to a great extent, with the assistance of the numberless...

A public dinner was given at Leamington on Wednesday, to

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celebrate the rejection of the Warwick Borough Bill. Several speeches were made in reference to the subject ; and after souse encomiums n upon the Lord Chancellor for having...

At the Marylebone Office, on Wednesday, a footman in the

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service of J. Car- ruthers, Esq., of 52, Upper Harley Street, was charged with the following impudent conduct. It appeared that the defendant was so vexed at having re- ceived...

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An affair of the "shop" has occupied considerable space in

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the important columns of the Times and the Morning Chronicle this week. The Chronicle lately anticipated the Times in the publi- cation of the Queen Regent's speech at the...

CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.—The nineteenth half-yearly meeting

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of the members of this society took place in their theatre, 165, Aldersgate Street, on Wednesday evening. The chair was taken at eight o'clock, by Dr. Southwood Smith. The...

MIRIAM COFFIN.

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IN an introduction, not very felicitous, and : dealing too much in Yankee politics, this work is represented as the production of an old sailor, but revised by the...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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FICTION, Miriam Coffin, or the Whale Fishermen ; a Tale. 3 vols. Whittaker and Cu. BIOGRAPHY, The Life, Character, and Literary Labours of Samuel Drew,A.M. By his Eldest...