14 APRIL 1832

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The principal feature in the Foreign News of the week,

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is the spread and fatality of the Cholera in Paris and its neighbourhood. The number attacked, up to Tuesday at noon, was 5,908 the number of deaths was 2,235. This report...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Reform Bill has advanced another step. At seven o'clock this morning, the second reading in the House of Lords was carried by a majority of NINE! Of the majority of 184, 128...

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The affairs of Holland and Belgium are still in static

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quo. No advance has been made by the King of Holland towards accepting the treaty, and the ratification by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, is still delayed. It is pretty evident...

Otbatr# ant! prarratinglIn Varriamcnt.

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I. THE REFORM BII.I.. Previous to the motion for the second reading of the Bill, on Monday, several petitions iiere presented, some for, and some against it. The Duke of...

Letters from the Windward islandSixeceiv_ecl on Thursday, de- scribe the

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population, slaves and freemen, in a very dissatisfied state. The slaves refuse to work, unless the Orders in Council are adopted ; and the masters refuse to supply the...

From a protocol, signed so far back as the 7th

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January, and - which has been transmitted to this country from Greece, it appears that the three powers of France, England, and Russia, recognize the -National Assembly of...

Despatches have been received from Lord BELMORE in the course

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of the week ; but not to a later date, nor containing any further particulars of interest, than the newspapers find letters no- ticed in our last second edition. From these it...

Letters from Belleisle mention the approaching departure of the third

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. division of the expedition. It consists of three vessels and a -corps of 800 French volunteers, mostly old soldiers. Among them are 100 crossea of the Legion of Honour:. The...

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be Court.

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Their Majesties came to St. James's Palace on Tuesday; and, with the exception of a visit on Wednesday, paid by the Queen to her suffering niece at Windsor, they have not left...

. At the Old Bailey, on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Stone,

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lately in. business as a hop-merchant, was indicted for perjury, in swearing that he was twenty-one years of age, in order to obtain a licence, under which he married Miss Mary...

• , e fittll'aprat.

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The Bank of England held a meeting on Thursday ; when a peti- tion to Parliament, praying for a renewal of the Bank Charter for twenty-one years, was almost unanimously agreed...

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One of the female domestics at Holland House is said

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to have died of cholera, to the no small alarm of the establishment. A Mr. Haseltine, a wine-merchant, formely connected with Guern- sey, stabbed himself to the heart, in the...

IRELAND.

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The Earl of Shrewsbury is declared, by a recent decision of the House of Lords, Eail of Waterford, and premier Earl and hereditary' High Steward of Ireland. The Marquis of...

tbe Countrp.

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Mr. Portman, on strong entreaty, has determined for the resent not to disturb Dorsetshire by a contested election, to which his intended* resignation must have led. . At the...

SCOTLAND.

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The "living" of Scone has been presented by the Crown to Mr. .T.' Craik, tutor in - Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh. This exercise of Government patronage has been in direct...

CHOLERA REPORT. •

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The report for the week is extremely satisfactory, as far as the Me- tropolis is concerned. Days. New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries. Friday Saturday and Sunday Monday Tuesday ,...

A petition has been presented to the King on behalf

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of the brava Earl of Dundonald, praying the restoration of his rank and honours. Lord and Lady Granville, and the' Honourable Misses Leveson Gower, arrived in town on Thursday,...

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A friend of ours, who lingered late within the walls

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of the House of Lords, describes the appearance of it at five o'clock this morning, when the horizontal rays of the rising sun began to dash through the windows and mingle with...

Earl GREY has been strongly recommended by his physicians to

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go into the country for the whole of the Easter recess. The Earl, how- ever, is very desirous of profiting by the pause, to obtain further pledges from the moderate Anti-Reform...

ALCOHOL trtom BREAD.—We have tasted a sample of bread, pure

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in quality, light in texture, and delicious to the taste, from which dur- ing the process of baking a considerable quantity of alcohol had been extracted. The process, which...

The following news of Don PEDRO'S proceedings, we copy from

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the Courier of last night- " We have received by an arrival from Terceira the papers of that island up to the Illth ult. They contain, among other articles of interest, the...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols closed on Saturday at 84 4 for the Account, and Exchequer Bills at 138. to 14s. premium. The settlement on Wednesday, which was very...

DESTRUCTIVE INUNDATION IN INDIA. — We mentioned in the post- script to

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our last second edition, an indistinct rumour of an earthquake and the bursting forth of a volcano in India. We do not know whether this rumoured calamity may not have had its...

An article in the Allgenteine Zeitung, dated from the Russian

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fron- tiers, March '24, states, that the Russian troops had orders to halt on the frontiers of Poland, with the avowed intention of proceeding to- wards the Rhine, in case of no...

The Cholera Report, published this afternoon, gives in London, 23

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new cases, 14 deaths, 21 recoveries ; the number remaining is 118. In. the Country, 7 2 new cases, 38 deaths, 25 r ecoveries ; remaining, 176.

POSTSCRIPT.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY NIGHT. Prince TALLEYRAND has received despatches from Paris, dated yes- terday afternoon. They announce that the cholera has somewhat abated, and...

THE DIVISION.

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Peers who voted against the Bill in October, and FOR it last night. E. Bradford, E. Calthorpe, B. de Roos, B. Gage, B. Gambier, E. Hadding- ton, E. Harrowby, E. Tankerville, B....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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A violent hurricane was experienced at Manilla on the nightof the 22d October. The Emerald, Melville, and Columbia, Booth, lost their foremasts and bowsprits, and were otherwise...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LOGIC OF THE ANTI-REFORM LORDS. Lonn ELLENBOROUGH, who, with peculiar fitness, moved the re- jection of the Reform Bill on the present occasion, says there are five classes of...

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THE BALLET.

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THE Ballet is one of the luxuries of a great metropolis : it is a dish of piquancy put together by a skilful artist, who assembles a quantity of impossibilities with the air of...

DEATH OF CHAUVELIN.

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AMONG the victims of Cholera at Paris, where the disease has taken a higher flight than here, is M. DE CHAUVBLIN; a man of diplomatic fame, who commenced his career by an...

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THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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THERE are other cabinets besides those of state, whose measures are full of mystery to the unlearned. For instance, the importa- tion of a sing er from Milan, Naples, or Paris,...

THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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FOURTH CONCERT—MONDAY, APRIL a. ACT I. Sinfonia (No. I ) Moscheks. Aria, Madame Pout, Deh per ( F lesh)," (La Clemenza di Tito) Mozart. Fantasia, Clarinet, Mr. WILLMAN...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAYIM Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the Two First Legislative Assemblies of France. By Etienne Dumont, of Geneva. (Translated from the French.) Bull. Firma. -Stanley...

DUMONT'S RECOLLECTIONS OF MIRABEAU.

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THE occurrence of such works as this, forms the real relief of a critic, engaged in the arduous and often tedious task of reporting in detail upon the progress of literature. We...

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STANLEY BUXTON, OR THE SCHOOLFELLOWS.

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IT commonly happens that genius produces its most felicitous ef- fects with an entire unconsciousness of their superiority. When they are pointed out, the author is himself as...

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NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—Mirabeau's haste of temper was known, and he must

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be obeyed. "Monsieur he Comte," said his secretary to him one day, "the thing you require is impossible." "Impossible !" exclaimed Mirabealt, starting from his chair, "Never...