13 DECEMBER 1834

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The new loan has been concluded at Madrid. Messrs. Nitrite

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and RICARDO are the contractors. The terms on wit h.It bat been taken are not correctly known. Rumours of the retigrup of MARTI VEZ DR Lft. Ropi. are again prevalent. MINA'S...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Notwithstanding the materials for Cabinet-making lie around him in such abundance, Sir ROBERT PEEL can find none exactly to his mind, or at least none such as the King thinks...

The Doctrinaires have triumphed in the French Chamber of Deputies.

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After a debate of two days, the following resolution, proposed by M. HEAVE,. a Ministerialist, was adopted by 134 to 117. " The Chamber ' satisfied with the explanations of the...

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ebr Court.

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Tin King, attended by Sir George Seymour, paid a visit to the Eu'chess a Gloucester at Bagshot on Monday. He returned to St. James's Peltier in the evening. On Tuesday, his...

The Belgians are disturbed at the change of Ministry in

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Eng- land ; and it is proposed by the Government to prepare for war, by increasing the number of troops in actual service, and by taking other precautions.

The Queen of Portugal was married to the Duke Of

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LEUCIITEN- BERG, on the 1st instant, by proxy, tha Duke of TERCEIRA offi- ciating at the ceremony for the royal bridegroom. There were great rejoicings at Lisbon on the occasion.

The last accounts from the West Indies are unfavourable. At

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St. Xitt's and Trinidad, serious disturbances have occurred: A proposition was made in the Jamaica House of Assembly a few days before the last accounts were despatched, which,...

The funeral of the Duke of Gloucester took place on

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Thursday Bight. The preparations for the ceremony were commenced at an early hour, at Bagshot ; where many persons were assembled to witness the procession. The deep regret...

Mir fEirtroyoUst.

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The Common Council assembled vesterdey. The Recorder read the King's answer to the Address,whiels we gave last week. Mr. Aahnrst moved, that " his Majesty's answer be entered on...

The elections in the United States have given a majority

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to General JACKSON. The fate of the Bank may therefore be con- sidered as determined: its charter will not be renewed.

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An action brought by Spring, the prize-fighter, whose real name

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is Winter, against the proprietor of the Son, fora libel, was tried on Satur- rimy in the Court of King's Bench. The alleged libel was contained in an article copied into the...

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Mr.Montague, the City architect, has had enough of his illegitimate

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child. The father of Anne Dyer, who affiliated the child to him, yesterday week, received a hundred guineas damages from him, and a similar verdict was taken for the young woman...

Cbt Country.

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The parishioners of Birmingham have not paid Church-rates for three years, the incidental expenses of churches and chapels having been defrayed by voluntary subscriptions. But...

Sir Francis Burdett has presented the Mechanics Institution of Derby

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with 100/. Part of the road leading from Whissendine to Melton Mowbry lies through the preserves of the Earl of Harbbrougb, upon which about a dozen boys with clappers, horns,...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Reformers of Dundee assembled in the Megdalen Yard Green on the 31 instant, to address the King on the present state of public affiiirs. A preliminary meeting was held in...

IRELAND.

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An address praying his Majesty not to sanction the formation of any Administration opposed to Reform in Church and State, has, we learn, been already signed by one hundred and...

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The will of the Duke of Gloucester has been opened,

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and it appears he died worth upwards of 90,000/. He has left legacies to most of his household. Colonel Edmund Curry, the Duke's Secretary and Compteoller, has c 20,C00/....

ELECTION TALK.

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ANGLESEA. Sir R. W. Bulkeley, a Reformer, will be reelected; and Captain Paget will also reta:n his seat for the Anglesea Boroughs. ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE. Mr. Charles Hindley is...

BIRTHS, MAP.Pi AGES, AND DEATHS.

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ta writs. ta writs. On the 29ill ult., at KVEllp .he Lady GEUROIANA CATHCART, Of t daughter. On the 4th inst.. in Clia,les Sleet. Lerkeley Square, the Lady of Dr. SEYMOUR, of S...

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It will be seen from the subjoined correspondence, that Dr.

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Lem. • INGTON'S caustic remarks at the Tower Hamlets meeting, on the folly. of placing coofidence in the Reforming professions of the new Ministry, Sj have stung Sir ROBERT PEEL...

POSTSCRIPT • SATURDAY NIGHT.

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Although the appointment of Sir ROBERT PEEL to the Chancellor- ship of the Exchequer is the only one gazetted, the Standard this evening informs us that the following gentlemen...

In our list of Members of the House of Commons

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published a fort- night ago, the name of Captain George Ferguson, Member for Banff- shire, appears both as an opponent and supporter of the Duke. lie is a stanch Tory....

THE AllAIY.

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WAR.OFFICE, Dec. 12.-12t1i Re g t. of Li g ht Dra g s.-Coruet Hon. R. Needham, to be Lieut, by purchase, vice Boynton, who retires; t 1111am M iller, Gent. to be Cornet, by...

The " Lambeth Householder " may send his plans, and

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we will g ive them our best Ittention at our earliest leistue : but at present we cannot possibly name a pe r i a a for using them in the Paper. - -

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LORD BROUGHAM'S LETTER TO MR. BULWEL

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Pat 61.3C1 Deeel)er ID DEAR SIR — Although I, of course, never have taken the trouble of replylvg to (lie . , -f*-.• 7 m ( s misrepresentations circulated respecting inc in one...

Lord Roslyn, it is confidently reported, does not go to

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Ireland, and Lord Cowley is named as Ambassador to Paris.— Chronicle. IL is desirable that all the principal men in office should be in one or other of the two Houses of...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Dee. 9th, Droughty Castle. Ryley, from the Cape; 10th, Thomas Snook, Plummet: and Howard. Sparks, from ditto. At Deal. 8th, Claudine, Walker. from Madras;...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCIIANOT, FRTDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has been firm and the fluctus, tans unimportant. Its pre ent tendency, which is downward, hes been in some degree...

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A PECULIARITY IN THE RECENT EXERCISE OF THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE.

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Sift—The recent change of Ministry, the manner in which that change was brought about, and above all, the present state of the Execu- tive Administration, are events so...

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THE DUKE AND THE TIMES: MEN, NOT MEASURES.

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WHEN a profligate in morals or a reviler of religion becomes, or professes to have become, a convert from the error of his ways, it is expected that he will shun the haunts of...

101 1 1CS OF THE DAY.

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CHEAP ELECTIONS. Out last week's article on This subject—the most important of an at the pee , ent moment—has been extensively circulated in the country. On two departrnente...

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LORD BROUGHAM'S DEFENCE.

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Zr is a sad infliction, in these times, to be obliged to waste a thought on Lord BROUGHAM. But the morbid restlessness of the man, and the silly officiousness of those who, one...

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CASE OF CAPTAIN ROBISON : LIBEL LAW.

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WE observe from a report of the trial in the Court of King's Bench, that this much-injured and unfortunate gentleman has been found guilty of a libel on General DARLING, late...

THE TORY TITHE WAR IN IRELAND: DOWN WITH THE TITHES!

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THE Archbishop of ARMAGH is said to have been the most influen- tial of those who counselled the Duke of WELLINGTON to throw out the Irish Tithe Bill. We suspect that the Duke...

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PEOPLE! TRUST NOT YOUR BULL-DOG TO THE TORIES.

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PARTS, December 10th. "This is the fountain of all those bitter waters of which, throu g h a hundred different conduits, we have drunk until we are read) to Imrst."—BuitKE. THE...

BRITISII CONCERTS.

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THE third of these concerts was given on Monday evening. A very excellent hand was assembled, although the principal desks were not occupied by the perlirmers Who usually fill...

LORD NAPIER IN CANTON: AN UNLUCKY MISTAKE.

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THE folly of appointing inexperienced men to important offices. merely because they happen to have aristocratic connexions, or to be needy aristocrats themselves, has often been...

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To what desperation are the Tories driven ! We are

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informed by a corre- spondent, that in one instance, a publican offered a voter a horse for a vote for Lewis. [Mr. Wyndham Lewis, the Tory candidate for Maidstone]. His wife was...

The Standard, on Wednesday, had this observation in refe- rence

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to the fancied reaction in the country in favour of Toryism- " We must not preach, but we cannot help saying, that the present Con- servative feeling of the country is a benefit...

On Monday evening last, the Duke of lirellington steam-boat, on

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her pas- sage from Newcastle to Shields, owing to the darkness of the night, ran foul of a ship's cable, and knocked down the chimney, which fell on one of the pas- sengers on...

A piece of plate, consisting of a richly-wrought salver of

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the value of seventy guineas, has been presented to Dr. James, the late Curate of Caine, in Wilts, by his friends, as a testimony of their high respect for the able, zealous,...

ON THE RECASTING AND SUSPENSION OF GREAT TOM OF LINCOLN.

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Great Tom ! late cracked and dumb, a thing thrown by, Like swords in peace time, useless and forsaken; New-fused, new-cast, thou hang'st, once more, on high; And thy fine tones...

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VAUGHAN'S CORRUPTION OF CHRISTIANITY.

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THIS volume is a goodly product of the Voluntary principle. A " religious connexion "of Nonconformists, we presume, but of what sect we know not, have established a library in...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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HISTORICAL DISQUISITION, The Causes of the Corrui Oat of Christianity. By the Reverend Robert Vaughan, Professor of Ancient awl Modern History in the University of London....

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WANDERINGS BY THE SEINE.

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LAST year we observed that the litemry part of Turner's Tour mats about the best that the season had produced in Annual literature. Excepting the Oriental, which is more real...