9 AUGUST 1834

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THESE are the days of short speeches and manifold legislation. The near approach of the 12th of August has been producing its usual effects on British senators. Bills are...

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The speech of the Queen Regent of Spain on the

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opening of the session of the Cortes (a brief sketch of which was given last week in our second impression), is in the most approved style of Royal harangues, vague and pompous....

DON PEDRO is busy in financial affairs. It is proposed

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to convert the paper currency into a metallic one ; and it would seem that the arrangement is likely to be made without difficulty. The holders of Government paper are to...

The French Chambers have been occupied with preliminary arrangements for

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more important business. The politicians of the Bourse and the salons think, write, and talk, of nothing but Spanish news and Spanish stock; by the rapid fall of which many have...

A change has taken place in the Belgian Ministry :

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Messrs. ROMER, LEBEAU, and DUVIVIER, the Ministers of Justice, the Interior, and Finance, have been replaced by Messrs. ERNST, DE THEUX, and D'HUART. It seems to be considered...

The discontents in Syria against MEHEMET ALr's Government have broken

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out into a formidable insurrection. IBRAHY M PAC HA, with his usual activity, was preparing to repress it, according to the last accounts received.

New York papers have been received to the 17th of

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July. They contain accounts of some serious riots which occurred in that city on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of last month. It seems that much excitement has prevailed among the...

The President, aided by some capitalists, has been very successful

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in procuring a supply of dollars and gold for the State Banks which he patronizes. The United States Bank has a large amount locked up unprofitably in its vaults.

Eidetic anti Vroterbincs# in Vadiament.

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1. PooR-LAw BILL. The House of Peers resolved itself into a Committee on this bill on Monday ; when the postponed clauses were taken into consideration, and most of them...

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Ebr Court.

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THE King has been visited at Windsor by several persons of distinction during the week. Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and Sir Andrew Barnard, arrived on Saturday, and...

ifIrtropoTist.

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A Court of Directors was held at the East India House on Wednesday; when Mr. Robert Grant took the usual oath on being appointed Governor of Bombay. Mr. Grant afterwards dined...

Int Countrp.

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The nomination of candidates for Gloucester, took place on Thursday; when the show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Tracy Leigh, and a poll was demanded for Mr....

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On Monday, and Wednesday and Thursday by adjournment, an inquest

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was held at Leeds, on the body of John Beckett, a cloth-dresser, who died in consequence of injuries received on Sunday evening, in an affray near the barracks. A private...

SCOTLAND.

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An accident happened on the Paisley Road last week, caused by the breaking down of one of the wheels of the steam-carriage front Glasgow. The vehicle had gained the summit of...

Midttliattratil.

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According to present arrangements, his Majesty will prorogue the Parliament on Thursday next, in person, pro forma to the 19th of September.—Globe. It is rumoured that the blue...

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A case of singular hardship, arising out of the absurdity

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and obscurity of the law, has been communicated to us by Mr. John Epps, who resides at 1.57, Holborn. He has been fined 20/. at Bow Street, on the information of the notorious...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. Oa the 31st ult., Lady MART VYNER, of a daughter. At Blount court, the Viscountess DUNGARYAN, of a daughter. On the 3e1 inst., at Blackheath, Lady BARBARA NEW DIOATE,...

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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No details have been received in Paris relative to the defeat of the Carlist insurgents in Navarre by Et. Pasron. It appears that the French force on the frontier is constantly...

In consequence of Lord Duarram's absence from the House of

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Lords at this critical time, Lord TEYNIIAM professes to be the leader of the Reformers. In this false character he has uttered much ignorant, violent, Cobbett-like abuse of the...

VINDEX has thrown off the ill-fitting mask of Jusars, and

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assumed the grotesque and variable but marked and characteristic semblance of Lord BnouGnam ; in which he certainly appears much more at ease. lit his letter to the Duke of...

The case of Captain ROBISON was again brought before Parliament

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on Thursday. We hope that next session due inquiry will be instituted into the charges against General DARLING. Why should that person shun inquiry ? Why should his friends at...

The proprietors of East India Stock are to meet on

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Wednesday next, to consider the amount of compensation to be awarded to the maritime officers of the Company. We have seen some account of the surns it is proposed to give these...

A correspondent, who gives his name ( E. J. GII.I.MAN,

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a tradesman of Little James Street, Bedford Row), has sent us a letter complaining of the want of protection to independvet voters. Ile states that he was applied to by one of...

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The Lord Chancellor this morning settled the long.contested point of

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precedence between the Attorney-General and the Lord Advocate of Scotland. His Lordship decided that the Attorney General had the right of precedence, not only in the House of...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK ACK ARCM, FRIDAY A VEER NOW/. The Como! Market has been heavy and money scarce during the week ; chequer Bills have also declined. The sales which have occurred of the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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SATURDAY NTORVI • Arrived—At oravesend, Aug. 7th. Sherburne. Dorhyn, from Bengal ; Emma. Eugenia. Taly, ;rem Mauritins ; and Eliza. Harris, from New South 011 Nlargato, Stli...

THE. ARMY.

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Or f ITT 0E 0 tt ON A NI' f', Aug, 0.— Royal Beet. or A rii llery —Lieut-Col. A. Media to be deeea,- , 41; Capt. and Breed Majer S. Kirby to be Lient..Col. vice Bin-in `Mtn 1...

TO THE EARL OF DURHAM.

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Tr is hard for a man of rank and wealth to avoid being deceived by his parasites. l ' heir unceasing object is to please hint ; an object which can be accomplished only by...

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PART OF A LETTER ON RESPONSIBLE AND IRRESPONSIBLE POWER.

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Facial the time of the Revolution of 1688, the practical waking of the British Constitution has been oligarchic. The destiny t f the nation has been committed to that small...

LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q. No. XXII.

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AFF.afits or SPAM. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SI'ErTATOR. 601 A terpt.ot 1834. Suit—Verily, Time is a great resolver of doubts, a great clearer up of uncertainties, and a great...

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THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER'S WARNING TO THE PEERS AND THE MINISTRY.

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THE brief but emphatic speech of the Marquis of WESTMINSTER, on Wednesday, administered a seasonable warning and reproof to Ministers and the Peerage. With reference to the vote...

ADMISSION OF DISSENTERS TO UNIVERSITY DEGREES, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

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THE High Church party will be sensible next year of the error they have committed in refusing to pass the bill for admitting Dissenters to some of the advantages enjoyed by...

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GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS OF THE PRESS.

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SOME facts have lately transpired relative to the prosecution of the Brighton Guardian, which put that proceeding in an especially odious point of view. It will be recollected,...

TIIE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S DERNIER DEFENCE OF THE POST-OFFICE.

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IT suits the purpose of the Post-office functionaries, to represent the charges brought against them of mismanaging their department, as resting simply upon the ipse disit of...

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CEYLON AND ITS GOVERNMENT.

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[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK'S SPECTATOR.] THE expenditure of the Ceylon Government, for 1832, is stated at 310,364/.; the civil charges amounting to 195,921/., and the military...

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STEAMERS AND WHERRIES ON THE THAMES.

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THE Watermen's Company are attempfibg to put a stop to steamboats plying between London anti Woolwich, Greenwich, Putney, and other places at a short distance from London...

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THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.

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ANOTHER of those lively and graceful vehicles of pleasantry and satire, the mythological burlesques which VESTRIS naturalized on the stage, has been brought out at the Victoria,...

A broad farce by MORTON, called the Dragon, is the

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only novelty at the English Opera ; but others are announced as forthcoming. The new farce is only musicalinasmuch as Mrs. IV AYLirr introduces a ballad or two in the course of...

DECISION IN MR. D. W. IIARVEY'S CASE.

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TIIE Committee on the Inns of Court have laid their report before the House of Commons. It entirely exculpates Mr. Harvey from the charges on the ground of which the Benchers of...

REPORT OF THE DRUNKEN COMMITTEE.

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AN amusing document has appeared among the Parliamentary Papers of the week, in the shape of a " Report of the Select Committee of Inquiry on Drunkenness." It commences with a...

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BELLS ITALY.

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THE first edition of this work was published several years since.The second has reached us (we know not through that chan nel) from Naples, where it has been reprinted, with...