13 JULY 1833

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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- THE Local Courts Bill has been demolished by a shot from the Conservative battery : during the previous week, Lord LYNDHURST had loaded and primed the cannon, and on Tuesday...

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Elebateg an Prereettingd in Parliament.

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I. Basil CHURCH REFORM. On Monday, on the motion of Lord ALTHORP, the Irish Church Temporalities Bill was read a third time. Mr. SHEIL moved an additional clause, by way of...

Some particulars have been received relative to the progress made

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by the force despatched from Oporto under the Duke of Ps.nmenna, which, we mentioned last week, had made good their landing in the province of Algarves. On the 24th of June, the...

A number of arrests have been made in Paris, of

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persons sus- pected of being engaged in political conspiracies. The capital, notwithstanding, continued tranquil. The Messag,er des Chambres states, that the Dutchess BE ....

IBRA.HIM PACHA, according to the accounts received up to the

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10th of June from Constantinople, was retreating very slowly. The Russian ships of war still remained in the Bosphorus, and would not depart until the Egyptians were fairly...

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ne

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The Council of the London and Westminster Political Union have, as we learn from what we conceive good authority, very wisely deter- mined to dissolve the Union. The expenses,...

At the Old Bailey Sessions, on Saturday, George Furzey, who

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had been acquitted on Friday week on the capital charge of cutting and maiming the Policeman was put to the bar to take his trial for the minor offence ; but as the Crown...

An action brought by Mr. Darlot, who was Deputy Comptroller

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of the Foreign department in the General Post Office for many years, against Mr. George Henry Freeling, son of Sir Francis Freeling, was tried on Saturday last in the Court of...

Irb Court.

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THE King and Queen continue 'to reside at Windsor, in the enjoyment of good health. They frequently take morning rides in the neighbour- hood, accompanied by Sir Philip and Lady...

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MR. ROSSI'S SCULPTURE:3.

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Ma. Rossi, RA., is making what he calls a private, because it is a gratuitous, exhibition of his works, at his residence in Lisson Grove, with an avowed view to induce the...

Ijt Countrn.

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Mr. T. S. Duncombe was convicted yesterday, at the Hertford Assizes, of libelling Mr. Pemberton, the Mayor of that borough. The libel was contained in a letter addressed to the...

Dr. Chalmers preached on Sunday last at the National Scotch

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Church in aid of the funds of the congregation. The admission was .principally by tickets : the church was thronged, as in the days of the Irving mania; and hundreds went away...

Two women of low character, and William Oxley, a journeyman

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butcher, were committed on Saturday from the Marlborough Street Office, on a charge of stealing 54/. from Mr. William Noble Brewster, of Titchfield Street, on the previous...

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The Committee on Trade and Manufactures consists of forty-two members.

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Forty of them are called Prosperity-men, from their wish to make a favourable report ; and two, Adversity-men (ATrwoon and FIELDEN), who labour hard to extract a different sort...

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has authorized his friends to say that

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be will not accept a Peerage, and that he intends to stand again for West- minster in the event of a dissolution of Parliament.

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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A correspondent sends us the following. "There was a meeting of Conservatives yesterday, at which the majority were for allowing the Irish Bill to be read a second time, and...

Active arrangements are makinghere and in France to send reinforce-

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ments to the Algarves. It is believed that the French Government will take some steps in favour of PEDRO ; but Lord PALMERSTON de- clared yesterday, that our Government will not...

Despatches from St. Petersburg, as also the St. Petersburg Gazette,

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received to-day, mention a plot against the life of the Emperor of Rus- sia on the part of some Polish exiles who left Paris a short time ago, and bound themselves by an oath to...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY MORNING. A report is in circulation that Earl GREY has resigned, but we have not been able to trace it to any authority that can be relied upon ; nor da we credit it....

As the speedy of the Vt - i.;g. • ...omes more likely,

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the members of it have begun to peach. Suspicious are entertained of the fidelity of Lord BROUGHAM to his party and his colleagues. There is little novelty in this revelation,...

Since the above was in print, we have learned that

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Mr. SPRING RICE and other persons connected with Government declare their belief that the Ministers will be out of office on Thursday, and that a dissolution of Parliament will...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Consol Market has been more unsteady than 1. t '.. Up to Thurs- day afternoon, the fluctuation had been between 902, and . On Wednesday,...

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RETIRED ALLOWANCES OF COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE. TO THE

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EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 8th July 1833. Sm—I have just seen a return of the Superannuation Allowances granted to the different Commissioners of Customs and Excise, who have...

The Bishop of Bangor ?aired off against with Lord Barham

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for, and the Bishop of Exeter against with Lord Amherst for the bill. The venerable Earl Fortescue, father of Lord Ebrington, withdrew his proxy a few weeks since, from the...

Wit D S DI VISION ON THE LOCAL COURTS BILL.

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Dukes. Bathurst Cuthbert:tail Melee Beaufort Bet t-rley Newcastle Mansfield Northumberland Wicklow Wellington Belmore Buckingham Cstlesion Salisbury Marquises. Rosslyn...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.

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Arrived—At Deal, July 11th, H. C. S. Sir David Scott, Ward, from China ; Bolina, Murdoch; and Princess Royal, Grimwoosl, from Van Diemen's Land. Off Dover, 11th, Newton, Stuart,...

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THE FACTORY COMMISSION.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. ; S1R—Your paper is honourably distinguished as being one of the very few among the periodical press that have ventured, amidst the din of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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KISSING THE ROD. THE Cabinet seems to be principally composed of the Very humble servants of the Duke of WELLINGTON and his set; and among these, notwithstanding his occasional...

THE DUKE'S REPENTANCE.

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THE Duke of WELLINGTON'S pious attachment to Mother Church has shone forth conspicuously during the past week. Even the atrocious "guilt" of having carried the Catholic Relief...

A POLITICAL CHARLATAN.

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LIE Morning Chronicle asserts that Sir ROBERT PEEL has " risen in power in the Commons since his resignation of office,. but that " he well knows that his return to office could...

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" The continual desire to compromise differences—to avoid litigation by

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con- cession—the disposition to exercise the rights of property leniently, and above all, to trust ,in ordinary and trivial transactions rather to the character and honour of...

THE FACTORY QUESTION.

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IN commenting last week upon the Report of the Factory Com- missioners, we intimated that it had been hastily got up, and was an imperfect performance, not quite answerable to...

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THE CHARITY CONCERT AT MR. HOPE'S.

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THE concert, yesterday. at Mr. HOPE'S splendid mansion in Dutchess Street, in aid of the Metropolitan Infirmary for Children, was altogether unique. The music formed only one...

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EXPOSURE OF THE MARSHALSEA COIURT.

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THE Palace or Marshalsea Court was originally instituted for the settlement of disputed claims upon persons in the Royal House- hold : its powers are now extended for the...

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES.

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THIS may prove a useful, as it is certainly an entertaining compi- lation; but it is no history of either the middle or the working classes, though the earlier part of the bulky...