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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE Revenue-accounts for the year and quarter, published this week, are paturally examined in relation to the change of Ministry, as the accounts of the first quarter of the...
Lord MORPETH, without his own concurrence, is candidate for Dublin
The Spectatorcity, the representation of which is vacant by the death of Mr. WEST. His nomination has raised two very profound cluestions for the quidnuncs—will he succeed ? and will he sit...
Five gentlemen, constituting a deputation from the " Short Time
The SpectatorCommittees" of West Yorkshire, began last week to publish a series of reports on their several interviews with Ministers on the 28th October; and the account grows more...
On New-year's Day, Louis PHILIPPE went through the ceremony, irksome
The Spectatorenough probably, in the adverse and gloomy state of affairs, of receiving addresses from the great public bodies of France. In many instances the addresses and the replies were...
ESPARTERO'S speech from the throne on opening the Spanish Cortes
The Spectatoremulates in length and explicitness an American President's message : it is not at all royal in oracular insignificancy. As a composition, it is remarkable for *nothing except a...
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The Indian mail brings the news of the reduction of
The SpectatorAmoy in China, by the Northern expedition under Sir HENRY' Porrinosa ; a success of which the most is said when it is explained that the fortifications of that port were...
be (num THE Court history continues to present the unvaried
The Spectatorrecord of walks by the Queen and Prince Albert, sittings to Mr. Partridge and Mr. Lucas for portraits, and occasional pheasant-shooting by the Prince. The Dutchess of Kent...
Preparations began on Monday for enclosing the land intended for
The Spectatorthe Royal Garden at Frogmore. The ground has been set out under the directions of a surveyor from the Office of Woods and Forests, and comprises about twenty acres of the finest...
The Queen being desirous that the poor of Windsor should
The Spectatorparticipate in the forthcoming festivities of the Royal christening, has commanded that the sum of 350L be paid into the handr of the Churchwardens, to be distributed on that...
gbe lattropolfs. The committee appoihed to superintend the erection of
The Spectatoran equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in the City, met at the Mansionhouse on Thursday. It was resolved that Sir Francis Chantrey's executors should be allowed to...
A meeting of the Southwark Anti-Corn-law Association was held at
The Spectatorthe Three Tuns Tavern, St. Margaret's Hill, on Monday, "to discuss over a sober cup of tea or coffee the effects of the present Corn-laws upon the trade and commerce of this...
Another meeting of the Spitalfields silk-weavers was held at the
The SpectatorCrown and Anchor, Waterloo Town Bethnal Green, on Saturday, for the purpose of receiving the report Of the acting committee appointed to investigate the condition of the...
A crowded meeting was held at the lecture-room of the
The SpectatorLambeth Social Institution, yesterday, to consider the necessity of supporting Mr. Southwell in an action brought against him by the clergy of Bristol, for a blasphemous libel...
At a meeting of Surrey Magistrates, at Newington Sessions - house, on
The SpectatorTuesday, the Chairman, Mr. Puckle, observed that crime had increased in the county ; which would be a disappointment to those benevolent individuals who had endeavoured to...
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The half-yearly general meeting of the London Dock Company was
The Spectatorheld at the Dock House, Prince's Street, Bank, on Tuesday, for the purpose of receiving a report from the Court of Directors, to declare a dividend for the past half-year, and...
William Estworth, a young man occasionally employed as a porter
The Spectatorat the Customhouse, was finally examined at Bow Street, on Wednesday, on a charge of fraudulently obtaining 3/. 5s. 4d. from Mr. Dodsworth, principal office-keeper at the...
Zbt Vrobincts.
The SpectatorViscount Jocelyn has accepted the invitation of the Conservative electors of King's Lynn to represent that borough in the House of Commons, vacant by Sir Stratford Canning's...
A meeting at Carlisle, on the 21st, appointed a committee
The Spectatorof inquiry into the state of the town, according to the plan which originated in Leeds. On the 28th, the committee made their report to an adjourned meeting ; and the Carlisle...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe Lord-Lieutenant to an application for aid in removing the children from the North Dublin Union Workhouse to a more healthy site in the country, returned for answer, that he...
Dr. Fowler, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leigblin, against whom
The Spectatora commission of lunacy was recently taken out, expired at the Palace, Kilkenny, on Friday evening. The deceased Prelate was in the 76th ••Par of his age, and was consecrated...
Active preparations are makinr , b to promote the return of Lord
The SpectatorMorpeth for Dublin. A meeting of "Reformers," convened by Lord Charlemont, was held at Charlemont House on Friday. The Reformers present were the Lord Mayor, Lord Charlemont,...
A new version is given of the story of the
The Spectatoridiot killed by some officers in a " lark." It is now said, that a party of gentlemen who passed their time on a visit to a gentleman of splendid hospitality in Philips. town in...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorLord Polwarth died at Merton House, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, on. the evening of the 28th. He was a Baron in the Peerage of Scotland. He leaves six children ; of whom the eldest,...
A correspondent of the Edinburgh Observer, writing from Dunkeld on
The Spectatorthe 1st instant, mentions a new species of Nonintrusion agitation. The Presbytery of Dunkeld, finding that under the Veto Act they cannot oust Mr. Clark, the presentee to...
liftiztellantous.
The SpectatorSir Robert and Lady Peel have been entertaining a select circle visiting at Drayton Manor. The Duke of Cambridge has been on a visit to the Baronet ; and Viscount and...
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The Morning Herald puts forth a complete retractation of the
The Spectatorcharge against Lord Normanby as having meddled in the Exchequer Bill fraud " In our paper of the 21st ult., we noticed upon authority on which we have been accustomed to place...
We believe that we may give the most unqualified contradiction
The Spectatorto a paragraph which has gone the round of the Radical press, stating that it Is the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to increase the rate of postage on letters to...
The Deputation from the Short Time Committees have published their
The Spectatorreport of the interview which they had with Sir James Graham, Lord Wharncliffe and Mr. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Lyndhurst, on the 28th October....
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Count D'Orsay has written a letter to the editor of
The Spectatorthe Courrier de rEurope, a French paper published in London, mentioning a project which he has long entertained to provide assistance for the destitute French in London. He has...
On New-year's Day, the Corps Diplomatique, the Chambers, and other
The Spectatorpublic bodies, presented addresses to Louis Philippe. The address of the Diplomatists and the King's reply were considered highly satisfactory in Paris. The Marquis De...
Espartero opened the Spanish Cortes on the 26th of December.
The SpectatorThe Queen was seated on the throne in the Chamber of the Senate ; her sister on her left, and Espartero on her right, but a step lower than the Queen. The President of the...
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The overland Indian mail, which left Bombay on the 1st
The SpectatorDecember, brings intelligence from Macao to the 10th October. It tells of the attack on Amoy and its capture, by the expedition to the North, under Sir Henry Pottinger. The...
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We learn that the Queen has been pleased to grant
The Spectatorto the forces employed at the capture of the outworks of Canton, out of the sum received under the convention, donation equal to one year's amount of the Indian allowance known...
Of the Niger Expedition the Shipping Gazette says '. We
The Spectatorhave this morning been favoured with the sight of a letter which gives further accounts of the Niger Expedition. Thus we learn that 'the Albert alone remains in the river; that...
Government, it is currently reported. has resolved to establish a
The Spectatorline of steam communication between the Pacific coast of South America and New Zealand and the Australian Colonies. ' The authorities of _Panama, we may add, have invited an...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorBIRTHS. On the 29th December, at the residence of her father, T. Derby Coventry, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, the Lady of B. 11. WILLIAMS, Esq., of Portland Place, of a daughter,...
The subjoined announcement appears in the papers of this morning—
The SpectatorWe learn from a source on which uuquestionable reliance can be placed, that the arrival of his Majesty the King of Prussia may not be expected before the 20th instant ; and as...
Last night's Gazette notifies the appointment of the Right Honourable
The SpectatorHenry Hobhouse to the Commission of Inquiry into the Exchequer bill fraud and the management of the Exchequer Bill Office, in the room of Lord Ashburton. The Lord Chancellor...
The Dublin Monitor of Thursday says that the deputation who
The Spectatorwere sent to London in search of a candidate have returned, bearing the refusal of both Mr. Wolverley Attwood and Mr. Colquhoun to stand for Dublin. Writing on the same evening,...
An "occasional correspondent" of the Globe, this evening, says that
The SpectatorMr. Humphrey Mildmay has consented to stand for Southampton ; a seat for which is vacant by Lord Bruce's succession to the Peerage. Mr. Mildmay is "a relative of the Winchester...
A meeting was held at the White Hart Hotel, in
The SpectatorBath, on Wednesday,. by the manufacturers of Gloucester, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire to consider the distressed state of the manufacturing districts of the West of England. Mr....
A slip of earth occurred on the London and Croydon
The SpectatorRailway, at Finch's Bridge, soon after the eight o'clock down train had passed yeerday morning. The banks on each side fell upon the rails for a distance of 140 feet, and...
Authentic accounts have now been received of the death of the second son of Sir Walter Scott, at Teheran.—Inverness Courier.
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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived—At Gravesend, Jan. 1st, Black Nymph. Hall. from Singapore; 4th, Berkshire Norris, from Bombay; 7Lh, Thomas Lo‘rry, Graham. from China: and Stratford;Haslop. from...
OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 28th December 1841: Sta—As long as the imperfections of the present state of society render the profession of arms necessary, so long...
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THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.
The SpectatorTHE question regarding the right of search, which was raised by the American Minister, Mr. STEVENSON, is very unfairly argued by English Ministers and English journals. The...
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POST-OFFICE IMPROVEMENT.
The SpectatorTim PENNY POSTAGE is one of the few benefits which the People sometimes derive from a weak Government. It was a concession to Public Opinion, made with the greatest reluctance,...
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RENT, AND THE EFFECT A CORN-LAW HAS UPON IT.
The SpectatorTHERE are various ways by which rents may be raised. Rents may be raised in consequence of the increased prosperity of the whole country. A growing population requires more...
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LAING'S NOTES Of' A TRAVELLER.
The SpectatorTHIS is a volume of the results of travel; a series of disquisitions on subjects which Mr. LAING has observed and considered during various Continental journies, in Holland,...
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ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. THE success of Mrs. HALL'S
The SpectatorIreland probably induced the publishers of that work to undertake the present speculation • though there are differences in the plan and character of England in the Nineteenth...
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BAILEY'S REVIEW OF BERKELEY'S THEORY OP VISION.
The SpectatorWE do not think that Mr. BAILEY has been very successful in his endeavour to overthrow that theory of vision which has been all but universally received since BERKELEY first...
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MRS. TROLLOPE'S BLUE BELLES.
The Spectator"THE Blue Belles of May Fair" is the proper title for this smart satire of the lionizing coteries in the fashionable world ; for though not professing to penetrate into the...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorFrom December 31st to January 6th. BOOKS. Congregationalism; or the Polity of Independent Churches, viewed in relation to the state and tendencies of modern society. By ROBERT...
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FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorTHE ART-UNION. THE Committee of Management of the Art-Union of London, not unmindful of the increased responsibilty that attaches to them in consequence of the large amount...
rHE GRAND PAINTING BY DELAROCHE IN THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS AT PARIS.
The SpectatorA Penis correspondent has favoured us with a description of the grand painting by PAUL DELAROCHE in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, which was opened to public view on the 1st of...
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MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorOrrrcz OF ORDNANCE, Jan. 1.-Royal Regiment of Artillery-Brevet-Major It. F. Romer to be Lieut.Col. vice Sinclair. retired on full pay ; Second Capt. F. A. Griffiths to be Capt....
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, Jan. 4. PARTNXRSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. aud W. Holmes, Kingston-upon.Hull, tanners-Longman and Emmens, Boston Street, Dorset Square, corn-chandlers-Ilighfield and Birch....
