8 AUGUST 1835

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Tory Peers, as we anticipated last week, broke through the arrangement made by their ostensible leader, the Duke of WELLINGTON, and refused to go into Committee on the...

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It has been ascertained that the name of the man

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who attempted to assassinate Louis Plume is FIESCHI. not GIRARD; and that he is a Corsican, not a Frenchman, by birth. The Constitutionnel says that " He belonged to the Guard...

Soroe disturbances have occurred iletellliktinia. At Barcelona six monasteries have

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been burnt, and a ntrraber of monks ferociously murdered by the populace.

The session of the Belgian Parliament was opened on Wednesday

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; and the first proceeding of Ministers was to propose a law for the removal of an additional ten per cent, on certain taxes, which was voted last year. There had been some...

ISebateit anti flrocettlingli in Parliament. 1. CORPORATION REFORM.

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The House of Peers reassembled on Saturday; when Mr. Knight concluded his argument against the bill. He warned the Lords, as they valued their own priviieges, not to sanction...

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Cie (.ourt..

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THE King and Queen returned to Windsor Castle, after their visit to Greenwich, on Saturday evening. On Tuesday, their Meiesties, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Howe,...

be ctrapaild.

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A numerous deputation of the Liverymen of London waited on the Lord Mayor, at the Mansionhouse, on Thursday, with a requisition for a Common Hall to petition the Lords to pass...

Elie Country.

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A meeting of leaseholders under the Corporation of Liverpool was held in that town on Wednesday, at which resolutions were agreed to deprecating those clauses in the Municipal...

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At the Derby Assizes ' on Thursday last week, William Wild,

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only fourteen years old, was found guilty of the wilful murder of two fe rarde children, aged four and two years, the daughters of the boy's master, by drowning them in a pond....

IRELAND.

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'Lord Bandon had been elected a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the room of the late Earl of Longford, by a majority of 81 to 31. The adjourned meeting, to take into...

• idreIlituraut.

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Lord Auckland is to be the new Governor-General of India ; and there is a rumour that Sir John Hobhouse will succeed him as First Lord of the Admiralty ; Lord William Bentinck...

The correspondence between the East India Directors and Sir Joh n

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Hobhouse, relative to the cancelling of Lord Heytesbury's appointment to the Indian Governorship, has been published in the newspapers. It is very long, and not particularly...

POSTSCRIPT.

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S teruitnAY. The funeral ceremonies at Paris, for the "victims of the 28th of July," were performed with great pomp on Wednesday. There was no disturbance, although an immense...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, August 7th, Diana. Ihulman, from China : City of Edinbur g h, Frazer ; from lieugal : Roslyn Cu-ti,', Richards, ft-urn New South-Wales; Sutry, Kemp, trom...

THE DUKE AND PEEL.

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IN January last, we told Sir ROBERT PEEL, when the TorieS set him up as the man whom befine all others they delighted to ha , flour, that he was the tool, not the chief of the...

TORY ELECTION PROCEEDINGS: PROVOCATIYES TO "AGITATION."

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THE object of the Reform Act was to enable the People of England freely to elect Members to represent them in Parliament: the Tories appear determined to prove its insufficiency...

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"TEARS SUCH AS ANGELS STIED."

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WHEN Mr. Romsenten shook hands with Lord MELBOURNE on their bargain for the Pew Loan, he is reported to have been "evidently much affected." Lord CASTLEREAGH'S famous simile of...

LOVE OF OFFICE EXEMPLIFIED.

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A WORTHY citizen of Langbourn Ward, who prided himself on being "a constable in his own right," was summoned, the other day, before the Magistrates at Guildhall, to answer to...

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THE THEATRES.

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SHERIDAN KNOWLES has returned from America, where he was cordially received. His yigourous roughness and geniality seem to have been well relished by Brother Jonathan : but...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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A Steam Voyage clown the Dana's.. With ■kitch..s ul ilumvraey. Wallachia. Strati, and Turkey, ke. By Michael J. Quin, Aut l or or A Visit to Spain." In II vols. DeRIOCtny iu...

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DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

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Is a very able, and, for its subject, a very charming work. The author has all the industry, method, and vivacity of the French man; and though somewhat touched with the French...

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THE FUDGES IN ENGLAND.

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THIS jeu desprit is a slight satire (or perhaps a skit would be the more correct term) on the saintly doings at Exeter Hall, and else where, to bolster up the Establishment and...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THOMAS WALLACE, Eq., LL.D., and King's counsel in Ireland, is convinced by Christianity of the immortality of the soul ; but knows not whether it be material or immaterial, and...

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POETRY.

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The Burning of Moscow. By W. H. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD, Oriel College. Sunday. A Poem, in three Cantos. By the Author of " The Mechanic's Saturday Night." Wesleyan Parsons. A...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

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Caroline Mordannt ; or the Governess. By Mrs. &unworn:). Parables of the Lord Jesus. By the Rev. B. H. DRAEEa. In 2 vols. ( First and Second Series.) Little Arthur's History of...

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FINE ARTS.

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GLOVER'S VIEWS OF VAN DIEIHEN'S LAND. MR. GLOVER, the landscape painter, a year or two ago, sold off all his pictures, and adding his easel and palette to his stock of...

PICTORIAL PERIODICALS.

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STANFrEto's Coast Scenery promises to be one of the most popular of pictorial periodicals ; and for obvious reasons. As islanders, sea views have charms for us beyond what...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 2d inst.. in Cavendish Square, Lady LOUISA. DUNCOMBE, of a daughter, which survived its birth only a few minutes. On the 3,1 inst., the lion. Mrs. iloWARD, of a...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, August 4. PARTNICIISHIPs DISSOLVED, Reece and Mellon. NIanylirster, brieltilyers —Bonier,' awl Vernal& Worcester, tallow-chandlers-R. and M. Camtn, Stroud,...