7 JUNE 1834

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE remodelled, or as it is ironically termed, the amended Ca- binet, assembled their supporters "in deep divan' in Downing Street, on Monday afternoon. There the Ministers...

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The Madrid Gazette of the 24th May contains the Royal

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decree for the convocation of the Cortes on the 24th July. The main provision of the decree is, that an electoral junta is to assemble on the 20th of this month in each...

The French Government have issued the ordinance for the ad-

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mission of certain articles of foreign manufacture, hitherto pro- hibited, which was mentioned as forthcoming last week. The ac- count which we then gave, on the authority of...

Accounts have been received from Jamaica to the 11th of

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April. The Marquis of SLiao arrived at Kingston on the 5th of that month, and was sworn into office on the 7th. He had issued a proclamation which gave great satisfaction to all...

It is reported that the Queen of Belgium is again

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in a situation which may obviate the necessity for naming a successor to the throne. On the other hand, the Brussels correspondent of the Times asserts that the French...

At length we have really decisive news from Portugal. Don

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MIGUEL, after the surrender of Santarem, attempted to retreat to Elvas, with a small army, weakened by disease, and constantly becoming thinner by desertion. He was pressed by...

The Senate of the United States has refused to concur

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in the nomination by President JACKSON of four Directors of the United The Senate of the United States has refused to concur in the nomination by President JACKSON of four...

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igebatrii anti PramWind in parliament. 1. IRISH CHURCH REFORM.

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The House of Commons was thronged on Alottday night by an un- 'usually large attendance of Members. Every seat in the House was taken, and the Members GaHelios s'ere also full....

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In the Court of King's Bench, on Saturday, Mr. Polleck

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showed cause against u rule for a criminal information, which had been obtained by Mr. He Mole, clerk of the Alerebant Tailors Company, egainst the publishers of the Sunday...

On Tuesday, a numerous deputation of gentlemen from the Central

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Committee for the promotion and circulation of a Declaration of the Laity of the Church of England, eccompanied by Colonel Clithero.v and Alr. Bucknall Estcourt, waited upt n...

VIC COM% TI1EIR I.y the l'iittees; Augusta, Prinee George of

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tionhridge, Earl and Comptes,. Howe, the Elul of Denbigh, Lord A. Fitz-derelict., and the Earl of Mk: early, attended divine service in the Royal Chapel of Greenwich Hospital on...

Mr. Pearce, a surgeon living in Marsham Street, with his

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two sons and two ladies, had a narrow escape from being drowned on Tuesday morning. Instead of engaging a waterman, the gentlemen rowed in a wherry themselves from the shore...

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ebt Country.

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Cambridge is full of the bustle preparatory to a contested election. Both the candidates addressed the electors on Wednesday, amidst a good deal of interruption. While Sir...

ROYAL SOCIETY.

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FRANCIS Flan.v, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. Professor Wilson was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society. The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Royal Society—John...

BIRTI1S, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Qu the 4th inst., at Hanover Lodge, the Right Hon. the Countess of DuNnosato, of a Comm. On the Eith ult., in France, the Lady of EOWARD HAMILTON FFINNEY, Esq., late or the 62d...

THE BROOKES'S CLUB CORRESPONDENCE.

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ancaEss To Emil. our.v. "My Lord—We have heard with sleep concern that the changes which have taken plave in the Administration might possibly lead your Lordship to contem-...

SCOTLAND.

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" Plain John Campbell," as the facetious Knight so often and so os- tentatiously proclaimed himself, has gained his election for Edinburgh. The numbers at the close of the poll...

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The Times this morning asks who is responsible for the

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speech lately delivered by his Majesty to the Bishops ? Ministers, according to the Constitutional dogma, are responsible for all the political words and actions of the...

The Tories attended to a man in their places on

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Monday, when the Irish Church Temporalities question was before the House. On Tuesday, when the question was the Education of the People, and Mr. ROEBUCK made a very good...

The Government journals have been instructed to state positively that

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the cause of Lord DinniAses exclusion from the amended Cabinet is the " impracticability of his,temper." This is expressly asserted in the Globe and the Courier. The latter...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Lord NUGENT has quarrelled witn the petty Parliament of the Ionian Islands ; which he has dissolved on account of the Radical propensities of a majority of its...

Most opportunely for the resistance of Ministers to the motion

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of Mr. YOUNG, Dr. 110WRING arrived with the Ordonnance of the 2d of Jtine, in the Moniteur of the 3d, removing the prohibition on the import and export of certain commodities in...

Lord BROUGHAM utterly reau dares the idea of allowing the

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Roman Catholic priesthood even a fraction of the surplus revenues of the Esta- blished Church in Ireland. He said last night in the House of Peers, that as to the Roman Catholic...

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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L'Assedio di Cerrinto was produced on Thursday night, for LAPORTE'S benefit. This opera of ROSSINI'S, though now nearly ten years old, has, after its celebrity has long since...

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FROM A CROAKER IN THE COUNTRY.

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IT is come, then, sooner than I foretold—that most satisfactory state of politics in which the country expects to he without a Government, and without the means of forming one....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Deal, June 5th, II. CS. Buckinghamshire, alum. from Chien; Lady Flora, Fount ; and Warrior. St from Madras: Catherine. Fenn Bengal Merchant, Campbell; rind Dike of...

0. P. Q.'S ADDRESS TO THE DISSENTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN

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AND IRELAND. And tl:e king; all replied, and said.' It is true. it is true ' Let ns gain over to us the priests of Christ, the min ist eri of religion, with Imams uealth and...

MONEY MARKET.

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Srocn Excwaxot, FRIDAY ATTFRNOON. The Money Market has recovered its firmness, and the political events of the week have tended to enhance the value of our public Funds. The...

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TORY DOCTRINES IN MINISTERIAL NEWSPAPERS.

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THERE is no difference between the principle of action really adopted by the English Liberals, and that on which Earl GREY professes to have formed his Administration—the...

CONFIDENCE IN MINISTERS.

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THE late vote of the house of Commons on the Irish Church question, which enabled Ministers to get rid of Mr. WARD'S re- solution, is ,appealed to by their partisans as a proof...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PROVED ABUSES. "FOUNDED on the principles of Reform, the present Administra- tion must necessaril) look to the correction of all proved abuses." These are the words of Earl...

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THE CHAMPIONS OF THE CHURCH.

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THE approaching installation of the gallant and learned Duke of WELLINGTON as Chancellor of Oxford University, must strike terror into the breasts of the schismatics, and...

THE TWO PHARAOHS.

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IN the report of Sir JOHN CAMPBELL'S nomination speech to the Edinburgh Electors, the other day, we find the following curious morceau, on the subject of Mr. HUME. " I have a...

ACTS AND PROFESSIONS.

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THE Honourable and Reverend JoiRrs FORTESCUE, Lord ERRING- Tom's brother, has lately been presented to a stall in Worcester Cathedral. Mr. FoRTEscuE is also Rector of a living...

CURRENT CORN CATECHISM. .

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[ORIGINAL, AND FOUNDED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE PASSING SIOMENT.) (Continued.) 186. He began by as- suring the House that it was not his wish to occupy by any motion of a...

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THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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WE tender the Directors our best thanks for the admirable con- cert on Monday night; theirs has been the shame of failure, be theirs, also, the glory of success. We shall notice...

VAUXHALL.

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TRE scenic exhibition at Vauxhall of Captain Ross's Adventures at the North Pole, is really well worth seeing. It is a most in- genious and successful attempt at realization on...

THE THEATRES.

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THE only novelty of the week has been a well-constructed and effective melodrame at the Victoria. The Corsican Bride is founded on a custom in the island, of trying faithless...

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EGYPT AND MOHAMMED A L I.

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THE remote antiquity, the favourable geographical position, the ancient commercial importance of Egypt, and its probable revival —the extraordinary remains of their knowledge...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TAAVELE, E g ypt awl Mohammed Ali; or Travels la de Valley of the Nile. By James Att- gush's St. John. 2 von Lonynam and Co. BLACK ARTS, Lives of the Necromancers ; or an...

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GODWIN ' S LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS.

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THIS title conveys an erroneous idea of the book. It is not a bio- graphy of necromancers, who, DI strictness, foretold the future by communicating with the dead, but a much...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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MR. ALEXANDER WALKER, formerly a lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Edinburgh, has published an interesting treatise on Physiognomy founded on Physiology, illustrated by...

ORIGINES BIBLIC.S.

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'THE chronology and geography of Holy Writ is full of difficulty, whether its representations be compared with the accounts of the different inspired writers or with the...

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Mr. Pom.oex's New Guide to Edinburgh is a very handsome

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pocket volume, which every stranger visiting the Northern ca- pital should provide himself with. It contains concise descrip . thins of ahnost every thing worth seeing ; several...

The Encycloperdia of Geography proceeds well. The Fourth Part, consisting

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entirely of " Descriptive Geography," embraces more popular matter than the first two parts, and a portion of the third. The present number completes" England,"contains" Wales,"...

The Guide to Chess, by the Reverend II. Woon, is

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a concise and distinct tutor to the noble game, indispensable to the tyro, and scarcely less valuable to the master. The best Openings, Gambits, and several interesting examples...

The title of MOOR'S Oriental Fragments describes the nature of

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the work. The author served in the Indian aimy fir nearly a quarter of a century. During that period, he picked up some in- formation, and a good many curiosities in a small...

Mr. CHAMBERS'S Picture of ,Scotland, we see by the titlepage,

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has reached a third edition ; a tolerable proof that the labours of its enthusiastic author have been well appreciated. It contains much local gossip, as well as a great deal of...

The Book nf Aphorisms, by a Modern Pythagorean, contains 775

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distinct paragraphs; for the author does not rigidly confine himself to his title, but confounds a string of remarks, and even short articles, with the aphorism. A few are...

We have received a sixth edition of Ar.‘17NDER'S useful and

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excellent. Tr' scary of Knowledge and Library Qf Reference. Of a work appearing with suell a stamp of public approbation, little in the way of recommendation need he said. It...

Inat may be done in Two Months, or a Summer's

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Tour through Belgium, up the Rhine, and to the Lakes of Switzer-. land. This is a clear, practical little volume, likely to be very useful to persons intending to travel the...

Thirty Letters on the Trade of Bristol, by a Burgess,

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we :c ori- ginally published in one of the local newspapers. They have since been revised and somewhat enlarged ; extracts from the evi- dence given before the Corporation...

Besides the above, we have half-a-dozen serials on our table.

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(I.) The Fifth Volume of MURRAY'S Crabbe, with a capital view of Orfordness Lighthouse, a vignette of the landscape immortalized in "The Lover s Journey," and some occasional...

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The Monthly Magazine for June is interesting. Captain MAR- avArr

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may look to his laurels, for the writer of the " Nights in the Galley" is no every 'day rival. Jack Murray's "yarn" of the Mutiny of the Hermione, and the murder of her...

PICTORIAL PERIODICALS.

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Or these, the Landscape Illustrations of the Bible are by far the most beautiful and interesting. The Fourth Number contains a view of Babylon by TURNER, showing a plain watered...

The merits of the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Jour- nal

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are well known to scientific men; and to that class of readers, it may be supposed, its pages must afford the greatest measure of enjoyment. The Journal, however, possesses in...

PICTURES AND ARTISTS.

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THE CORREGIOS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Tna two pictures by Conar.c.to, purchased by the Government at 11,5501. for the National Collection, are now open to public view in the...

The First Number of St(phens.'s Methodist's Magazine has been sent

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to us by the publisher. We have pet used it with some curiosity ; and we think it well calculated for the description of persons to whom it is addressed. It is less gloomy in...

Though our notice is tardy, we have not been inattentive

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observers of the progress of the Irish Farmer and Gardener's Magazine, the Eighth Number of which is before us. If it be as industriously circulated and read as it is worthily...