8 APRIL 1837

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE proper termination of the Easter recess was on Monday, and Members of the House of Commons ought to have been in their places and ready for work on Monday evening. But it...

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Alrhattri anti illrarrtIlingst in Vatliantrnt.

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LAw OF PRIMOGENITURE. Mr. Ewan., on Tuesday, moved " for leave to bring in a bill pro- viding that, in cases of intestacy and in the absence of any settlement to the contrary,...

There is no news of any kind from Spain,—except that

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Don CARLOS has got the influenza; and that General EVANS is pre- pared to resist any attempt which the insurgents may make on his lines before San Sebastian.

The quarter's revenue was made up on the 5th instant.

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On the year, there is an increase of 2,288,9291.; on the quarter, a decrease of 60,4091. These figures scarcely call for a remark. All things considered, it is consolatory to...

The quarrel in the French Cabinet was not made up,

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nor was a new Ministry brought together when the last accounts were des- patched from Paris. On Monday night, it was universally be- lieved that the Doctrinaires were "out," and...

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Elie Sittroparts.

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A meeting, summoned by the committee of the Working Men's Association, was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on Monday evening, to consider the Canada Resolutions proposed by...

Cbr Court.

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THE King went to Kew Palace on Monday, accompanied by Colonel Seymour and Sir Jeffrey Wyatville. On Wednesday, his Majesty Caine to town, and held his Levee at St. James's...

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At the Landon Session, on IVednesdny, Charles Wadham Wyndham Penruddock

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was seetenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and ordered to find sureties for future good behaviour, as a punishment for com- mitting a violent assault on Mr. Hardy, one of the...

The Reformers of Finsbury are to give Messrs. Duncombe and

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Wakley a public dinner at White Cenduit-house on the 19th instant; Mr. Ward in the choir. Mr. O'Connell and Sir William Molesworfli have promised to attend this dinner. Oa...

On Tue-day evening, a meeting of the inhabitants of Finsbury

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was held at the Coneasterian School-room, City Road, to petition Parlia- ment to pa-s the Ministerial measure for the abolition of Church. rates ; and on Wednesday a meeting for...

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Cite Camaro.

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A meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds was held on the 2gth ultimo, to petition both Houses of Parliament to pass the 31inisterial mea- sure fur the abolition of Church-rates. In...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Glasgow University Peel Club had their opening dinner yes- terday week ; Sir Daniel Sandford in the chair. " The feast," says the Glasgow Constitutional, " went off very...

At the Gloucester Assize., on Wednesday, Mr. Candler, formerlytat officer

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in the Navy, obtained a verdict with 1001. damages against Mr. Crane, a clergyman, for criminal conversation with his wife. The adul- tery was proved; but it appeared that Mr....

Mr. J. H. Whitehurst and the Honourable F. Curzon are

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candi. dates for Derby, on the Tory interest. Lord Fitzharris and Sir George Coekburn intend to contest Ports. mouth with Messrs. Carter and Baring. The Manchester Guardian...

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A military insurrection is reported to have broken out in

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St. Peters- burg, in consequence of an attempt to decimate one of the regiments, and bring the men upon whom the lots fell to punishment. All the soldiers in the barracks were...

By the usual publication of the Bank affairs, in the

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Gazette of last night, we are enabled to discover that during the last month, as com. pared with the average of the month of February. they have increased their circulation...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. WHEN the latest accounts were despatched from Paris, GulZOT was endeavouring, but, as it appeared, without success, to form u Cabinet excluding MOLE, SOUL; and...

inistcellantaud.

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The Duke of Somerset is to have the Garter worn by the late Marquis of Bath. Old Bishop Bathurst actually died at last, on Wednesday night. For many years he was the only...

. _ A private meeting of about thirty merchants was

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held at Liverpool on Wednesday,—Mr. John Cropper senior in the chair,—and resolu- tions were passed, on the motion of Mr. Joseph Sanders, that it was necessary to apply to...

A " heavy blow and great discouragement" was given to

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the Anti- Poor - law agitators, in the House of Peers, last night. The Bishop of EXETER presented a number of petitions complaining of the opera- tion of the law; and then, in...

Allusions have been made for some days past to the

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difficulties of an American house in the City, arising from the non-arrival of ex- pected remittances from New York. The Chronicle this morning announces in plain terms, that...

The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of

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the Bunk of England, from the 10th of January to the 4th of April, is— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £18,432,000 I Securities £28,843,000 Deposits 11,192,000 I Bullion...

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THE LATE CHARLES NICHOLSON, THE FLUTE-PLAYER.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Stoke Ferry. Norfolk, 4th A pril 1837. SIR—It was about the middle of the year 1799 that I first saw and knew CHARLES Nicaotsow, at the house of...

A meeting of the Reformers of the extensive barony of

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Ennishowen, county of Donegal, was held on Wednesday, in the town of Canidonagb. It appears that no fewer than 35,000 persons were in attendance, com- prising some extensive...

Circulars have been forwarded by Lord John Russell to the

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Members who usually support Government, requesting them to be in their places in the House of Commons on Monday next, when the third reading of the Irish Corporation Reform Bill...

MONEY MARKET.

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STocK EXCIIANOL, FonDA• ATTItIttOx)N. The transactions of the week have been on a very unimportant scale, and the business at the Stock Exchange does not afford room for any...

MR. TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 2d April 1837. Sra—While ull honest Reformers have been filled with disappointment at the late extraordinary conduct of Mr. TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT...

The Eighth Report of the Committee on Public Petitions was

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de- livered this morning; by which it appears, that there had been presented, up to the 10th of March, against the abolition of Church-rates, 877 petitions, with 73,941...

If this statement ( Captain Berkeley's) be true—and nothing that

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was said last night affects its truth—there can be no doubt that the continuance of Lord Hill in his present post is not quite the wisest plan which a Liberal government could...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Liverpool, April 5th, Jemna, Robinson, from China; and 6th. Eu- phrates, Heaney. from Bengal At Waterford, 411,, John o' Gaunt, Roberts, from China. At St. Ilelena,...

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THE REVENUE.

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Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th April 1836 and 5th April 1837; showing the Increase ur Decrease on each head...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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" THE MOST DEPRAVED COMMUNITY THAT EVER EXISTED IN THE WORLD." THESE are the words of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, being his descrip- tion of the inhabitants of New South Wales and Van...

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Since the above was in type, LORD JOHN RUSSELL has

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as- sented to a proposal of Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, for a Select Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the whole system of Transportation, with a view to its reform...

WORKING OF RADICAL SELF-RELIANCE.

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A TORY, the other day, asked an official Whig friend of his to go home and dine with him. " I should like it," said the Whig, " but must attend the House." "It is understood...

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THE RICH MAN'S CHURCH.

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THE ignorance of the rural population is almost beyond the con- ception of those who are accustomed to think of the comparatively aye 1-instructed and generally intelligeat...

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THE COTTON-TAX.

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GREAT Britain no longer possesses, what she possessed thirty years ago, a virtual monopoly of the cotton manufacture of the world. In this magnificent branch of industry, which,...

THE CANADIAN COMMISSIONERS.

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Wens the view of making the public better acquainted with some of the worthies on whose advice the Government has acted in its fierce and sweeping attacks on the liberties and...

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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STEAM-ENGINE.

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NOTWITHSTANDING all that Members of Parliament have lately heard about steam and steam-engines, in connexion with rail- roads, waterworks, and steam-boat companies, we dare say...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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THE third concert was on Monday night, and a more satisfactory per- formance from first to last we have seldom heard ; not that it offered much of novelty, but the pieces were...

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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EVER since the commencement of the season we have been awaiting the materials for a paragraph on the Italian Opera; for, ungifted with skill like that of the French cook who...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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DIDACTIC FICTION, DiRstodiollE or Ilemao Life. By the Author of " Tremaine" and "De Vere." In 3 rule. Cu.borst. 1111PRIA:loVi or TRAVELLING. Modem) it it Illostrations of tbe...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF HUMAN LIFE.

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THIS wilik of the accomplished author of Tremaine consists of three stories, or rather sect i n ns. The first is entitled " Attieus ; " and contains, in a series of letters, a...

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DR. SPRY'S MODERN INDIA.

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THE chief object of this work is to " invite the great mass of the people to direct their attention to inquiries which would lead to national improvement in the East, and...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE continuing rush of new publicatious prevents us from bring- ing up so many arrears, or from noticing so many productions of the week, as inclination would have prompted. We...

2. We dipped into Evenings with Prince Cambacerh, Second Consul,

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by Baron LANGON, with great expectations. We Pro- mised ourselves some rich traits of that modern APICIUS, whom NAPOLEON used to torment by keeping late at Council, and whose...

TYTLER'S LIFE OF HENRY THE EIGHTH.

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OWING to a variety of circumstances, the history of IlReny the Eighth is one of the most generally known in our annuls. The peculiar character of the man,—so open, yet so...

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Under the title of the Essays, Literary and Political, of

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TVil- liam E. Charming, Messrs. IlEnnEnwicK and Son of Glasgow have sent forth the lay writings of the redoubled American Doc- tor, containing his Characters of MILTON,...

The Elemeats rf Tot-.tiny, by Mrs. PERKINS, is nxpressly de-

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d for the use el ladies st udy Mo . the se.ence. The LitillICMI stem is followed, but the objectionable details which have inter- fered with its universal adoption are avoided...

The appearance of the Second Part of the Pictorial History

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of England affords us an opportunity of correcting a misstatement that crept into the notices of both it and the Pictorial Bible. We assumed that these works were produced under...

5. Piso and the Prrefect ; or the Ancients of

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their Stilts. These three %cantles may be intended as an historical romance ; the title would imply a satire ; from what little we have read, it would seem as if' the author...

FINE ARTS.

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DEATH has thinned the top branches of the Academy lately, and there are many iu the sett: mid yellow leaf that may be expect.d to fall off ere lung, and make room for the...

Birds of Western Africa, by WILLIAM SWAINSON, Esq., is the

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subject of the Seventeenth Volume of that cheap and elegant pub- lication "The Naturalist's Library." The individual birds de- scribed are more various, and we think more...

3. The Sixth Volume of Mr. TerLEtt's //t■tewo V Sodium',

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comprehends the pc: iod front the assassination of Cardinal Be Aeo N, in 1546, to tho inqwudent marriage of MAur with DARNLLY, ill 1363 : a period, as the author oh. erves, "...

4. Self-Fornation is the history of an individual mind by

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a Fellow of a College ; and the work professes to be " intended as a guide for the intellect through difficulties to success." We fear that the Fellow will turn out but a blind...

The Philosophy of Memory is the title of a lecture

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delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Leicester, by CYRUS EDMONDS. Its ob- ject is to show that the power of memory is unlimited, and that though it may have been feebly...

We have now come to reprints ; one of which—the

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second edition of Spain, by H. D. Imam—is perhaps of more worth than most of the productions before us, for the present interest of the subject, the value of the matter, and the...

Traditions of Perth, by GEORGE PENNY, is a species of

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local history, literal but not dull. Besides the usual historical subjects, which are treated of in such publications, the present is full of personal anecdotes, comic stories,...

Tire Little Villag,er's Verse-Book is a second series of short

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and homely verses on rural subjects, intended to excite the better feelings of rustic children. The name of the Reverend W. L. BOWLES in the titlepage, perhaps led us to expect...

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H B's last batch of Political Caricatures are more fancifully

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humorous than usual. Lord PALMERSTON as St. Sebastian, bound by the Qua- druple Treaty, and pierced by the arrows of his assailants, is a capital bit. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as a...

In mentioning a view of a " Swiss Village near

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Unterseen," No. 329 in the Suffolk Street Exhibition, we erroneously ascribed it to the painter of the " 'atelier of Haddon Hall," in the British Institution. The landscape is...

The Sixth Part of FINDEN'S Ports and Harbours consists of

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five clever views of shipping at Portsmouth, &c. by EDWARD COOKE ; one of them being a copy of the exquisitely finished picture of the " Rig- ging Hulk," in the British...

A French edition of Paul and Virginia, corresponding with those

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of Gil Bla.s and Moliire, is publishing in parts in London : the three first are before us. It is a most charming specimen of an illustrated book : the text is inlaid with...

CHALON has put forth a sketch of DUYERNAY dancing the

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Cachouca it is smaller and slighter than Lewis's, and is lithographed by LANE. The dress is the best part of it.

It is but right that the subscribers to the Wellington

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statue should be made aware of the rumour in circulation, that it is intended as a boon to Mr. MATTHEW COTES WYATT, the sculptor who has acquired such unenviable distinction by...

The days for sending in works of art for the

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Academy Exhibition are Monday and Tuesday next. In the mean time, the artists' studios will be open to tbeir friends to come and see their productions. We are strongly tempted...

Mr. WiLxists is elected Professor of Architecture in the Royal

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Academy, in the room of Sir JOHN SOANE. Is this a compliment in return for his National Gallery job? Mr. WILKINS is learned in his profession ; but his pedantic notions show a...

BEHNIS has just completed a colossal statue of Dr. BABINGTON,

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in marble, for St. Paul's. It represents him in his ordinary costume, over which is thrown a Professor's gown. The look and attitude are characteristic of the man, and the whole...