8 DECEMBER 1838

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The French papers are much occupied with discussing the Canadian

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insurrection and its probable results, but offer nothing very original or wise on the subject. Evidently, however, they are not displeased that England should be involved in so...

Another Spanish Ministry is announced in the last accounts from

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Madrid. It consists of the following persons— The Duke of Goa, to be Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. ARMENDARIZ, Minister of the Interior. N. GOVANTES, Minister of Justice....

A commercial treaty has been concluded between Holland and the

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Prussian Commercial League. The timber and corn of the Baltic is to be admitted into Holland at diminished duties, and the League will allow the importation of sugar from...

The Augsburg Gazette points attention to the progress of the

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English towards the Red Sea. According to that journal, the English " were daily extending their sway along the coast of Arabia," and had made two settlements on the Abyssinian...

The Polish correspondents of Paris papers repeat statements of extensive disaffection and numerous arrests in the Russian army.

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SIR JOHN COLBORNE'S, DESPATCHES.

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[vitoat THE SUPPLEMENT TO TIIE LONDON GAZETTE—PUBLISHED ON MONDAY, DEC. 3.] Ertraet if a Despatch ream Lieutenant General Sir J , ihn D.C.B., to Lord Glenelg, (Wed Head....

DETAILS OF THE CANADIAN WARFARE.

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[We have opened our paper this week with a summary of the principal events of the outbreak in the Canada, ;and in Sir John Colborne's despatches will be found the official...

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Int Court.

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Viscount Melbourne, the Palace Premier or Royal Favourite, went to Windsor Castle on Saturday evening. He spent Sunday and part of Monday with the Queen, and returned to town on...

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Cut /Rampant.

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At a meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, Mr. Ander. ton moved that 250 guineas should be subscribed to the fund for erecting a monument to Nelson in Trafalgar Square....

At a meeting of the Westminster Reform Society, held on

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Thursday evening at Stannard's Hotel, it was unanimously resolved, "That a special meeting of the members be convened to take into consideration the propriety of presenting an...

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Mr. Morton,

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the dramatist, obtained a verdict, with forty shilliegs damages, against Mr. Shalders, owner of a theatre at Southampton, who bad caused The Spitfire, a farce written by Morton,...

Eta Cauntrn.

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Lord Durham landed at Plymouth, from the Inconstant, on Friday: and on Saturday the address from the inhabitants of Devonport and Stonehouse, mentiotied last week, was presented...

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Sir William Molesworth, having once satisfied himself of the course

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he ought to take, has with characteristic ardour thrown himself, heart and soul, into the van of the new movement. Sir William has published the following address to his...

Mr. Finch, the Independent Member for Walsall, was entertained by

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a party of his constituents on Monday, at a public dinner. Mr. Finch condetnned the conduct of Ministers during the last session, and warned the electors of the probability of...

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A Birmingham correspondent writes—after a severe struggle at past public

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meetings, and after a mandamus to the Rector has been obtained from the Court of Queen's Bench, a signal triumph was obtained by the Liberal party, at a meeting of rate-payers...

The "working men" will act wisely in avoiding torch-light meetings.

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A letter from the Home Secretary to the Lancashire Magistrates, communicated through the Lord-Lieutenant, gives fair warning that such assemblies are illegal. This is the Under...

The damage to the shipping on the coast by the

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gales last week has been considerable, especially off Ireland and the West of England. The Waterford Chronicle mentions particulars of the loss of the steamboat St. Patrick, on...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell dined at New Ross on Monday, and at Wexford on Wednesday ; and will be entertained at Carlow on the 10th instant. At Wexford, he adverted to the support given by...

Changes already taken place, and others rumoured on good authority,

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look wondrous like setting one's house in order, or shifting the canvass to prepare for the coming storm. Mr. M‘Causland, Lord Plunkett's brother-in-law, has resigned his...

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One of the sappers and miners at Galway, who hailed

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the arrival of Mr. O'Connell in that town, and ascended his carriage, has since been placed in arrest, and a court.martial is expected.—Limerich Chronicle, From all parts of the...

SCOTLAND.

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In pursuance of a promise to meet his constituents during the Parliamentary recess, Mr. Fox Maule has lately visited the Elgin district of burghs, and has at each place...

Iffigreilanfettlf.

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Parliament was prorogued on Wednesday, in the usual form, until Tuesday, the 5th of February. The commission for proroguing it does not state that time meeting on that day will...

The Tory papers mistake, or misstate, in terming Sir William

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Molesworth "declared proprietor of the London and Westminster Review." The honourable baronet has, we believe, now no connexion whatever with the proprietorship of that...

Mr. Somers, 11I. P., has been condemned to two years

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imprisonment and a tine of one hundred francs for the assault on Mr. Beaumont, by the Paris Court of Correctional Police; but Mr. Somers took care to be out of the way, and is...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 20 inst., at Beaufort Castle, the Right Hon. Lady LOVAT, of a son. On the 5t11 at Ashliehl Lodge, Stiffalk, the Right lion. Lady TIWRLOW. of a son. On the '28,11...

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The anxiously.expected Great Western arrived yesterday at Bristol ; having

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accomplished the voyage from New York in fourteen days. She brings accounts of the slaughter or surrender of the " Sympathizers," who had taken possession of the Windmill near...

Lord DURHAM'S actual arrival in town yesterday has given fresh

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stimulus to the imaginative and gossiping faculties of men about the clubs and public offices. For instance, the Guards' dinner at Quebec— a very annoying affair in Downing...

1.IThe Times this morning observes that the" indications of the

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last week would lead a calm observer to imagine that a new and curious modification of parties is about to show itself."— Very likely. It is an universal opinion that the...

It is not supposed that Ministers will abandon office until

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every means of retaining it shall have been proved ineffectual by trial. But if they cannot keep all, may not a bargain be struck with the Tories, so that a part may be saved of...

It will be seen from the subjoined article in the

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Glasgow Argus re.ceived this morning, that atGlasgow, the principal scene of Lord Dun. 'HAWS exposition of his political opinions in 1834, his allusion to the declarations in...

The Morning Chronicle announces the final ratification at Constantinople of

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the commercial treaty between England and Turkey ; and gives the following summary of the chief articles " By the first clause of this important treaty, our trade with Turkey is...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCEANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The mingled yarn of which the web of American intelligence has been composed, has sorely puzzled the City speculators; the disastrous report...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived —At Gravesend, Dec. 4th. Bussorah Merchant, Moncrief, from Bengal ; Glasgow. Hamilton. from Singapore; awl Morning Star. !Alain, from Ceylon. 5th, Denniston, Barker,...

THE THEATRES.

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THE rival managers of the two Great Houses are resuming the old game of cross purposes ; which they play very much to the amusement of the public, though not without loss of...

GRACE DARLING might certainly recover damages for a libel upon

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her that has been acted this week at the Adelphi, in the shape of a melodrama, as monstrous as ever was brought out, called The Wreck at Sea. or the Fern Light, in which she...

The Country Squire has been revived at the Olympic ;

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Mrs. NESBITT taking the part of Fanny Marhhani, which becomes her better than VESTRIS. A new burletta, called The Brewer of Preston, or the Queen's Horse, has also been...

EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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Manchester, November 13th. SIR-You may probably be of opinion, that my claims upon your space have already been sufficiently large ; but if not, I am desirous to defend myself...

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TOPICS OF THE D

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LORD DURHAM'S RETURN. THE Earl of DURHAM is once more among US ; and welcomed, too, by no insignificant portion of the Liberal party. An opportunity of " showing his colours"...

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THE NAVY.

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Tux condition of the Navy is a subject of much discussion at present. According to the Tories, the naval force of the country is in a deplorable state—very few ships fit for...

MR. SPRING RICE AND THE GRESHAM COMMITTEE.

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THERE has been some altercation in the daily pappra as to the cause of delay in commencing the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange; and as both parties have either wilfully or...

CONSEQUENCES OF REPEALING THE CORN-LAWS TO LANDOWNERS AND THE PEOPLE.

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THAT the actual amount of the British foreign trade is small in comparison with the latent power of increasing it, appears from the eagerness with which capital is invested in...

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THE PUBLIC AND THE POST-OFFICE.

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IT is a considerable time since we had a talk with our readers on the question of Post-otlice Reform. But we have not lost sight of it; an:1 we observe with pleasure, that...

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The Morning Post of Tuesday last, noticing our paper on

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"Ancient Martyrs and Modern Saints," complains of a want of courtesy in the style of our remarks. We are most willing to cultivate the urbanities in newspaper discussion : at...

THE NEW EDITION OF BEN JONSON.

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THE reprints of standard works in every branch of literature, which are continually appearinss from various quarters, looking less like the bold speculation of an individual...

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MR. JAMES'S BOOK OF THE PASSIONS.

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IN its quality, literary, artistica], and bibliopolic, this book is of the nature of an Annual, though it does not bear the name. The paper is of the texture, the margins are of...

MRS. JAMESON'S WINTER STUDIES AND SUMMER

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RAMBLES IN CANADA. PREPARING to start from New York to the capital of Upper Canada in the earlier part of their winter, Mrs. JAMESON w as assured that she had chosen the very...

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NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS.

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Vocal Exercises. By A. D. ROCHE. This work is an apt illustration of the usual course of fashionable vocal instruction; which, in truth, is any thing but teaching the art of...

FINE ARTS. NEW PRINTS.

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ONE result of the practice of noticing all new prints as they appear is, that our remarks sometimes precede the receipt of the engraving; and this happens to be the case with...

A remarkable addition to the number of fine line'engravings has

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been made by W. H. Warr, in a brilliant and effective plate of Litst.tes picture of Yorick rescuing his remarks from the wife of the chaise.vamper who had converted them into...

The Fourth of the series of the Cartoons of RAFFAELLE,

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engraved by BURNET for popular circulation, is The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. This is the most picturesque of the set, and depends more on its general effect than the...

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THE ARMY.

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WAR-OFFICI, Dee. 4.-Memorandum-The halipay of the undermentioned Officers has been cancelled from the 4th instant inclusive, they having been allowed a commutation for their...