7 JULY 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE triumph of the Tory party over the Appropriation principle was consummated in the House of Commons on Monday ; when an overwhelming majority of 270 to 46 rejected Mr. WARD...

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Accounts from Quebec, to the 5th of June, have been

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received by way of New York. The dissolution of the Executive Council was mentioned last week. Lord DURHAM immediately consti- tuted a new Council, consisting of the following...

The latest intelligence from Egypt is of a warlike character

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; but it is said that the European diplomatists have strong hopes of preventing an open rupture between the Sultan and his powerful vassal.

Prince METTERNICH is said to be much perplexed by strong

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representations from Hungary against the encroachments of Russia on the Danube. The " freedom of the Danube" was a constant topic of discussion among all ranks in Hungary.

3ebatcl mitt Pram/IMO in Parliament. IRISH TITHES: THE APPROPRIATION PRINCIPLE.

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In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day having been read for going into Committee on the Irish Tithe Bill, Mr. Waal) rose to move a series of resolutions, in...

The Revenue tables, for the year and quarter ending the

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5th instant, exhibit, on the year, a decline of receipts amounting to 1,102,627/., and on the quarter an increase of 364,382/. The chief increase is in the Customs, which have...

The Second Chamber of Hanover, on the 26th ultimo, finally

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rejected King ERNEST's new constitution, by a majority of 37 to 23. The Estates were immediately prorogued.

Descriptions of the English Coronation ceremonies, translated from the London

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newspapers, with many original letters from French gentlemen now in this country, occupy the greater part of the Parisian journals received duriog the present week. The friendly...

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ebe Court.

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THE Queen gave the most splendid ball of the season on Monday night, at Buckingluim Palace. The company assembled between the hours of ten and twelve. The Princess Augusta, the...

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The " Musical Festival," as a pasticcio for sight - seers, performed

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on Monday in 'Westminster Abbey, has been called by courtesy, was numerously attended. Of the performance itself we cannot speak from experience ; for, after reading the account...

airtrapaiist.

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Mr. Gilbert Pouncy, Treasurer of the Middlesex Reform Club, hes sent the following letter to the Morning Chronicle- ,. Sir—You will confer a great obligation upon those who have...

There was a grand review of the Royal Artillery and

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Sappers and Miners, at Woolwich, on 'Thursday. The Duke De Nemours, Mar- shal Soult, and a numerous body of distinguished foreigners, were pre- sent. Sir Hussey Vivian was the...

Mr. Williatn Cotton was elected, on Wednesday, a Director of

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the Bank of England, in the place of the late Mr. Mellish. A meeting of the South Australian Company was held on Friday last, at their rooms in Bishopsgate Street ; Mr. G. F....

The Foreign Ambaseadore Extraordinary have accepted the invita- tion of

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the London Corporation to a public dinner at the Guildhall on Tuesday next. It has been resolved that the number of guests, exclu- sive of Aldermen and Common Councilmen, shall...

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The Marquis of Waterford was brought before the Magistrates at

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the Marlborough Street Office on Saturday, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Piccadilly, at five o'clock that morning. A Police- man said— He saw the Marquis with twe...

A great Anti- Tithe meeting, which was to have been

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held in Tipperary, very near to Lord Glengalfs residence, last week, has been put off, in consequence of "letters from London," written by Ca- tholic clergymen, promising...

The members of the Croydon Reform Association had a dinner

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on Wednesday. The principal speaker was Mr. O'Connell ; but he merely repeated the old, often-told story. The Illanehester Guardian says, that the market for goods in Man....

On Monday, an inquest was held on the body of

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a very beautiful young women, who was found drowned in the canal on the north side of Dublin. She l a ud been dead some time when her bereaved friends were made aware of their...

Cbc souring.

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The county papers teem with descriptions of the rejoicings in every part of England in honour of the Coronation. It would be impossible with the limited space at our command to...

SCOTLAN D.

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The Coronation was celebrated in Edinburgh, on the 28t1), with much splendour and festivity. The constituted authorities of the place appear to have put themselves at the head...

IRELAND.

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Dr. Stock, Judge of the Irish Admiralty Court, and who would gladly be Judge of the Prerogative Court, is canvassing Cashel; and as the Doctor is the Ministerial candidate, it...

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I il;ttllaltea ud.

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The complete list of Coronation Baronets appears in Tuesdays Gazette, as follows— The Right llonentalde O'Loghlen, Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Sir John nedralek William...

Lord AIelbourne has had a fit of the gout, but

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was in the house of Lords again iast night. Mrs. 'rrollope lies dangerously ill at the house of her brother, Mr. Milton, in the Fulham Road. It is rumoured that a new and...

Mr. Roebuck left Glasgow about the *riddle of last week

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; having made, on the whole, a very favourable impression. A letter from Dundee informs us that he has received an invitation to a public dinner in that town.

By command of her Majesty, the new royal standard of

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England, which was hoisted over the marble arch of Buckingham Palace on the day of the Coronation, is to be always displayed during the stay of the Court in town. The Times...

Earl Bruce, the eldest son of the Marquis of Aylesbury,

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has been created Baron Bruce, of Tottenham, in the county of Wilts. [ [low now? has Earl Bruce, as well as the Marquis of Carmarthen, been se. duced from Toryism to Whiggcry by...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Irish Poor Bill was read a third time by the Lords last night, without discussion ; on the understanding that on Monday next there should be a debate on the...

MONEY MARKET.

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HOICK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The books of the various Stocks, the Dividends upon which have just become due, are now open for private transfer ; and money transactions...

The Gazette des Tribunaux announces the discovery and arrest of

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a gang of sixty robbers in Paris, the great majority of whom were libe- rated convicts. The Paris and provincial newspapers are filled with details of disas- ters occasioned...

A correspondent asks, why the Report of the Irish Railway

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Com- missioners has not been published ? ( The document, with maps, is believed to have been in Downing Street some weeks.) That Com- mission, which was to have been unpaid, has...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, July 1st, J. Milroy, ItPLellan, for Mauritius ; 5111, Shepherdess, Bigger, from ditto ; and Broshornehury, Chapman, from Bengal; and 6th, Elizabeth,...

MR. O'CONNELL AND THE IRISH BENCH.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 2c1 July 1838. SIR—In the Spectator of last Saturday, I find it stated, on the authority of the Northern Whig, that Mr. O'Cos:sati. had...

THE THEATRES.

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THE opening of the English Opera. house, as the Lyceum is still called, without so nitich as the promise of no English opera, is unpropitious enough in u musical point of view....

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., in Nottingham Place, the Rightyon. the Viscountess Hoot), of a son not heir. On the 30th ult., in St. James's Place, the Lady SONDES, of a daughter....

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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NOBILITY. ALTHOUGH the Coronation is over, its effects have not entirely subsided ; the grand procession has passed along, but its foot- marks are still visible on the highway...

This is Powrat's last night at the Haymarket, when lie

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takes a farewell benefit previous to his departure for America. Now that a voyage across the Atlantic is a fortnight's pleasant trip, migrating actors must waive the formalities...

The calm of aristocratic indifference that pervades the Indian Theatre

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has been rudely disturbed on several occasions this season, by violent storms that have agitated its stagnant atmosphere. One of the most fu- rious broke forth lust Saturday...

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CORN-LAWS AND FARMERS: A PREMIERS NOTION OF WHAT MAKES A

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COUNTRY THRIVE. Loan MELBOURNE has been talking nonsense about the Corn- laws. In reply to Earl FITEWILLIAM, who advocated the policy of relaxing the landowners monopoly, the...

THE SHERIFFS' COURTS BILL : AN ENCROACH- MENT OF THE

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SQUIREARCHY. THE object of the Sheriffs' Courts Bill, passed by the Commons on Wednesday, is to extend the jurisdiction of those courts in cases of debt from 201. to 50/. A...

INTRIGUES FOR RENEWING THE BANK tsli' IRELAND CHARTER.

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The. Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Bank of Ireland are advancing stealthily towards the game they have in view. They continue to avoid public discussion. No case, in reply...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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PflY1110LOOT. An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism. icy the Baron Dupotet De Sennevoy. With an Appendix containing Reports of British Practitioners in Favour of the...

BARON DUPOTET DE SENNEVOY* AND MR. LEE ON ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

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THE publications which we have classed together as discussing the subject of our notice, not only take different. sides of the ques- tion, but exhibit perfectly opposite...

A recent circular from the French Minister of Commerce has

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called the attention of the Chamber of Commerce to the low estimation in which the wines of Champagne are at present held in the United States, in consequence of frauds...

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THE CLOCKMAKER. THE CLOCKMAKER.

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This second series of the Nova Scotian satirist has been partly occasioned by the success of the first, partly by the desire to give the writer's opinion upon the state of...

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L ATHAM'S TRANSLATION OF TEGNER'S FRITHIOF.

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Best DES other merits, this publication has the important quality of novelty. The scene of the poem is chiefly laid in Norway; and the time is about the eiehth century, when the...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE WELLINGTON MILITARY MEMORIAL. A MONUMENT to commemorate the public services of any great man— hero or statesman, philosopher or philanthropist — is a matter of universal...

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THE PICTURES AT HAMPTON COURT: THE CARTOONS.

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A CORRESPONDENT, signing himself " AN A nTIsT," tells us that the pictures at Hampton Court are to be open to the public, without fee or gratuity, on the first four days of the...