11 APRIL 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE great struggle in Parliament is now ended. The Roman Catholic Relief 13111 was read a third time in the House of Lords last night, and passed! The final majority was ONE...

NOTICE.

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Many of our London readers complain, that the Saturday Evening's edition of the SPECTATOR of last week was substituted for that of Sunday Morning, contain- ing the Report of the...

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Though the campaign in the East has not formally commenced,

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the Russians claim further successes. A naval descent on the coast of Roumelia has put them in possession of Sissiboli, a fortress on the shores of the Black Sea ; and they had...

SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

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The German papers received this morning say, that the Porte in- tends to remedy the difficulty of obtaining supplies, caused by the blockade of the Dardanelles, by conveying...

THE KING--His Majesty resumed his favourite drives on Tuesday and

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Wednesday, and was out nearly three hours each day. DEATH OF TIIE LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-HONlitURG.—The reigning Land- grave of Liesse-Homburg, our King's brother.in-law by his...

General Jackson assumed the Government of the United States on

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the 4th of March. His inaugural address is composed in a tone of moderation. He promises economy in the management of the public affairs, and to do what he can to extinguish the...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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.STOCK. EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Eve:min.—For the first three days of the 'week the transactions in our Stock Market possessed very little interest. 'The first price of Monday for...

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POLICE OF LONDON. — John Appleward was brought to Queen-square office on

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Saturday, charged with having insulted and abused the Duke of Welling- ton. Lord Fitzroy Somerset stated, that as he was walking with the Duke of Wellington in St. Jaines's...

John Daly was indicted for stealint , above 30/. (in gold,

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silver, and bank paper) from the house of Mr. Georg:Richardson, St. Paul's, Shadwell. A button was found on the floor of the room where the robbery was committed; and a similar...

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PARLIAMENTARY DIARY.

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HOUSE OF LORDS. Mosznav, April 6.--A great many petitions were presented for and against the Catholic Relief Bill ; and some against the clauses affecting the Monastic...

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MAJORITY AND MINORITY

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On the second reading of the Catholic Belief Bill, in the House of Lords—April 4, CONTENT—PRESENT. DUKES. Clarence Sussex Gloucester Brandon (Ilamilton) Beaufort Devonshire...

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THE WEST INDIA QUESTION.

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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES. WE noticed in our last number but one, the statement of a daily journal that the Duke of WELLINGTON intended, as soon as the...

ITALIAN OPERA.

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A SHORT time ago, we began to apprehend that it was the design of the Directors of the Kings Theal re to put us through all Ros- sm's inferior compositions, with such an...

CHURCH REFORM.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CORRESPONDENT in OUT 30th Number laid down a plan for settling the Catholic question ; the peculiar feature of which w as the restoration of the...

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PAINTING VERSUS ENGRAVING.

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Mr. DANBY could not have done a wiser thing than to permit his " Israelites Passing the Red Sea " to be engraved; and this not for the commonplace reason of affording the world...

THE DIBDIN FESTIVAL.

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CHARLES DIBDIN was a genius of no common order. He was a poet, a inusieian, an actor. The lover of true melody, the lover of genuine feeling, of the poetry of nature and of the...

DIARY OF A LOUNGER IN A FRENCH CABINET DE LE

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OTC !IE. March 19th. The readers of the Constitutionnel are not unfre- quently damned from the pulpit. A minister at Vaux-Chantegue, near Pontarlier,•rarely mounts the pulpit...

CONCERTS OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

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THE Philharmonic Society has done much to elevate the musical taste and character of the English. Instrumental music was at a low ebb indeed, previous to its establishment. Not...

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TALES OF MiLlTARY

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WE have had plenty of national tales, and fashionable tales ; now commences the epoch of professional tales. Soldiers and sailors, as is their duty in all dangerous paths, have...

SPELLING AND READING.*

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. LANGUAGES are old institutions. Like all other old institutions, they have been altered, amended, and adapted to the changes of circumstances. They work...

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THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN*.

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Tins is a trifle from the hand of a master. It would be difficult to say what is the real object of it ; unless it be that it was a plea- sant pastime for the writer, and he...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.

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Among the arrivals which the westerly wind enables us to report, is the Com-. patty's ship London, front China. She left Canton on the 20th Dec. instead of the 28th Jan. the...

THE CHURCH.

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On Thursday the 2d inst. the Rev. John Spence, M.A. was instituted, by com- mission from the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, to the united Rectory and Vicarage of Cudworth, in the...

MUSIC LATELY PUBLISHED.

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"The moon from yonder mountain. "-A very flowing and ele- gant Terzetto ; the music by And. ROMBERG, adapted to English words, and arranged by BARNETT. It deserves to be known,...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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CAMBRIDGE, April I0.-At the congregation on Friday last the following degrees were conferred. Bachelor in Diei y-Robert Black, Trinity College. Honorary Master of Arts-lion....

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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EiRTIIS. - On the 71.11 inst. at Thorney-abbey, Cambridgeshire, the Lady of Tycho Wing, Esq. of a daughter-At Ardincaple-house, Argyllshire, on the 29th ult. the Lady of Keith...

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LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, APRIL 10. We are very moderately supplied with Wheat from our own coast, but the arrival of Foreign this week is again large, and the trade remains dull....

FROM THE LONDON GAZEMS.

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Tuesday, March 31. PARTNERsUIPS DISSOLVED. T. Knight and II. W. Partridge, Charles-street, City-road, perfumers—G. Taylor and It. Clark, Farnham ' Surrey, surgeons—C. Miller...