9 JANUARY 1830

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Pnzswjacaar. izsiatslifessage to the Congress of the United States_ has arrived. It has been expected with some eagerness ; and it must be in the highest degree gratifying to...

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The Jamaica House of Legislature was opened by the Governor

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on the 3d of November. The Governor's speech mid the reply of the .Assembly are equally temperate and liberal ; but the points of difference with the British Government are not...

Donna MARIA DA GLORIA. and her stepmother arrived in Brazil

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on the 16th of October. The Emperor's marriage was celebrated immediately with becoming splendour. Donna MA.RIA'S claims to the Portuguese crown are not abandoned. She has a...

The indignation of the French Liberals on account of the

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nomination _ of Prince LEOPOLD as King of Greece has not subsided. After dwelling on the services which France rendered to that country during its struggle for independence, the...

The Standard has been at the trouble to construct a

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new Cabinet, of which the Duke of RicHmoND is to be the head. This is startling news; but here is the regular voucher for the fact, as it appeared in the Standard of Thursday...

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The wife of a plasterer, who resides in the City

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Road, set fire to her clothes while cooking, on Tuesday. Her husband hastened to her assistance, and in his terror let fall an infant whom he held in his arms. The child's skull...

. Miss Paton and Messrs. Sapio and E. Taylor have

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been attend' ng the Manchester and Liverpool concerts, during the Christmas and succeeding week. We have the pleasure to learn that Miss Paton, who is now at Bath, is in excel...

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SINGULAR SUBSTITUTE..--AI a meeting of one of the Wesleyan Missionary

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Societies, on Wednesday, a reverend speaker said, the Friendly Islands had made the most urgent demands for missionaries. "One island Was so anxious that it had already erected...

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. Lisbon Gazettes to the 26th ult, arrived this morning. They are chiefly filled with accounts of religious ceremonies and processions,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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DEATH OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE. WE little expected,to be called to the melancholy duty of commencing this branch of our weekly labours with an account of the death of the...

THE PUBLISHERS AND THE BOOKSELLERS.

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THE great publishers and the retailers of books are at war on the subject of profits. The book-trade, like many other branches of industry, is not in a very prosperotis...

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IS THE PRESS IN DANGER?

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SOME of our contemporaries have answered this question in the affirmative a little too hastily. We are not aware that any of them has stated that a continuance of the system of...

IMPRISONMENVFOR DEBT.

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Mn. DANCE, the Provisional Assignee of Insolvent Debtors, has published a very sensible pamphlet on Law Expenses, whiehwe recommend to general . perusal. In the course of his...

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CHEAP PROVISIONS.

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IT was observed by some of our contemporaries, when we first entered on this subject, that the mere discussion would lead to the remedy which it was the object of our club to...

SOCIETA ARMONICA.

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THE English of " Societal Armonica " is—a series of six concerts, given at Freemason's Hall, of which Mr. MORI is the leader and Mr. FORBES the conductor. And, judging from the...

WELLINGTON DEFEATED AT WATERLOO!

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SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS has obtained renown by his endeavours to prove Sir ISAAC NEWTON an ass. A writer in the Morning Chronicle bids fair to earn the same kind of fame by his...

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LETTERS FROM A RECLUSE. NO. VU.

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You ask me why I have discontinued correspondence. I answer it has been, like everything else, frozen : for the last month my paws have been but a pair of griefs to me, numbed...

LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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TALES OF AN INDIAN CAMP.* THESE are pleasant and instructive volumes. They embody the traditions of one of the most singular nations on the face of the earth, the Red Indians...

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BOOK-KEEPING.*

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It is pleasant enough that we should be indebted for such peaceful improvements as the arts of banking and keeping accounts to the sons the furious Longobardi ; and that men who...

THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE.

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THIS is a bulky volume on the art of dancing: its pages are in number 548, of the octavo size ; it is accompanied both by plates and by music. The sight of such publications...

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THE REVIEWER'S TABLE.

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1. The Athenaid, or Modern Grecians, a 5. Natural History—Lempriere's Lectures, Poem. By Henry J. Bradfield. 2d edition. The Waverley Novels—Rob Roy, 2 vols. C. Domestic...

FINE ARTS.

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Characteristic Sketches of Animals. Drawn from the Life, and engraved by THOMAS LANDSEER. Parts I. and II. These are " Characteristic Sketches of Animals," in the true sense of...

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REMARKS ON VACCINATION AND INOCULATION.

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HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO MEDICAL GENTLEMEN OF ESTABLISHED FAME AND FORTUNE. As queries sent to medical publications are seldom perused by any individuals except those who possess...

THE UNIVERSITY.

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CAsinntThCRI, January 8.—Lord Geor g e Thynne, son of the Marquis of Bath, is admitted of St. Peter's Colle g e.--The following is the subject of the Hulsean prize dissertation...

THE ARMY,

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wart - Cep/mg, Jan. 4.-3d Reg. Foot: Gen. Sir G. Don, G.C.B. from 36th Foot, tO be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Clinton dec.-36th Foot: Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. H. Sheaffe, Bart. to...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. SATURDAY Moamar°.

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His Majesty's Ship Java, Captain Carroll, arrival yesterday at Portsmouth, from India. Sheleft Ceylon on the 8th, and Madras on the 16th August, the Mauritius on the 26th Sept.,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Br erns .—On the 2d inst.

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Lady Suffield of a son, at Gunton-park—At Pitfour, the 31st ult. the Hon. Mrs. Ferguson of a dau g hter. Matt ILIAGES.—On the 31st at Tray, near Monmouth, the Hon. PAL Abbot,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, Jan. 5. PARTNERSHIPS Dissotvsn.—Boorn and Co. Liverpool, Manchester; and New Orleans, merchants—WARD and •Co. Barnsley, dyers—By amirr and GOLDSMITH, Sudbury '...

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Friday, Jan. 8.

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PARTNERSHIPS DI SSOLVED.-R. and J. COCKRELL, Coleman-street, wool-brokers -FaAsEa, sen. and Co. ; as far as regards FRASER, jun., Manchester commission agents-REYNOLDS and Co.;...

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

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The Brighton Harlem meet regularly every Monday, at Patchara ; Wednesdays, at the Race Course ; and Fridays, at the Dyke-at half-past ten. The Lewes Brookside Hariers meet every...