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day, some of the leading clauses fared according to expectation
The Spectatorunder The Marquis of LANSDOWNE and Lord PLUNKET argued ably and their hands. The " inchoate rights " of freemen, both to the property conclusively against the assumption of the...
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The French journals are full of conjectures and assertions as
The Spectatorto the accomplices or instigators of FIESCHI, but contain no facts tending to throw additional light on the subject. The Republicans maintain that the assassin is a Carlist in...
irielutteS salt Praceeltingt in Parliament. 1. CORPORATION REFORM.
The SpectatorThe examination of witnesses was continued in the House of Peers on Saturday. The Deputy Recorder of Shrewsbury gave some particulars respect- ing the Free School, of which...
Some disturbances broke out in Berlin on the 3rd instant,
The Spectatorin conse- quence of an order prohibiting the discharge of fire-arms on the occa- sion of the King's birth-day, which was celebrated on that day. The first accounts from Berlin...
The decree of the Queen Of Spain for the suppression
The Spectatorof convents with fewer than twelve monks, will, it is said, cause the breaking up of 1200 establishments. The convents of Barcelona generally contain more than twelve inmates,...
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At the Queen Square Office, on Monday, a journeyman baker,
The Spectatorout of employ, was committed to the tread-mill for three months, for pick- ing pockets in Westminster, on Sunday. It appeared from what passed at the Office, that on Saturday...
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The SpectatorThe members of the Fox Club dined at Lovegrove's, Blackwell, on Saturday. No report is given of any speeches or toasts, but the 'following gentlemen were among the company...
CT), Court.
The SpectatorTHE King and Queen, honoured the Marquis of Ailsa, on Tuesday, with their company at an early dinner, at his Lordship's Isleworth villa. A select party was invited to meet their...
At the Manchester Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,
The Spectatoron the 7th instant, Sir Thomas Champneys, whose debts amounted to 150,000/., wits discharged, after making some amendment to his schedule. At the Croydon Assizes, on Monday,...
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The SpectatorIt is stated in the Leeds Mercury. that Messrs. Mark Phillips, Joseph Brotherton, Thomas Potter, J. B. Smith, and James Hey- wood, all Liberals, have been appointed Magistrates...
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DEMONSTRATION OF POPULAR FEELING IN FAVOUR OF THE MUNICIPAL BILL.
The SpectatorTHE hostility of the House of Peers to the Municipal Bill, which was abundantly proved by their employment of counsel to speak, and of Town-Clerks to give evidence against it,...
The Earl of Mulgrave has returned to Dublin, from his
The SpectatorSouthern tour; during which he was most warmly welcomed by persons of all classes. The British Association commenced its sittings in Dublin on Mon- day. Among the members and...
The following are the cities and boroughs, the boundaries of
The Spectatorwhich, in compliance with the Duke of WELLINGTON'S amendment, are to re- main in stain quo until Parliament shall otherwise determine. The effect of this amendment will be, in...
Lord Jobn Russell has appointed Mr. Charles Lechmere Deputy Keeper
The Spectatorof State Papers, in the room of the late Mr. Robert Lemon. This office seems almost.to have " gone a begging :" it was-offered to Mr. Thomas Moore, and, we believe, to Professor...
Sir Charles Wetherell, in addressing the House of Lords, against
The Spectatorthe Corporation Bill, alluded to the borough of Plymouth, which he styled the Palestine of the Reform Bill, in the following terms :- " They (the Plymouth Corporation) had shown...
" WHO Is THE TRAITOR ?" in our next Number
The Spectator: the delay is unavoidable. The author will miss the tail of one of his '. Isrptaxsr. ltf ACII rya " paragraphs : this docking was also induced by necessity, to ilt the subject...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. A considerable number of the Liberal Members of the House of Commons, who still remain at their posts, held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of deliberating on the...
The Edinburgh Evening Post states, that " at a snug
The Spectatorhole-and-corner meeting of Ultra Whigs, held the other day," it was resolved to invite Lord Brougham to a public dinner in that city. Mr. O'Connell is to be invited to a public...
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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The Spectator]aired - At Gtavesend, Aug. 8th. Camilla, Wilson, from Van Diemen's Land; and !ass,. assrtoa, from Bengal. 13th, Swallow, Neilson, from the Cape. Off Plymouth. r!: ,...
The discussion of the bills for coercing the French Press
The Spectatorwas com- menced in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday. The first speaker, SCHONEN, who is known to be friendly to Louis PHILIP, and gene- rally to his Government, protested...
TOPICS OF TH I: DAY.
The SpectatorPOSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE PEERS. WHEN Sir ROBERT WALPOLE was asked why he bad quarrelled with Lord TOWNSEND, his friend and coadjutor in the Ministry of the day, he replied,...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorThe Money Market has been subject to several convulsions during the past weak; a rapid decline in the price of Consols having occurred on two ocea- aims.; but the depression in...
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PUBLIC SALE OF PARLIAMENTARY SEATS : NEED OF FURTHER REFORMS..
The SpectatorIF seats in the House of Commons can be purchased now in the same manner as under the old system, we presume that no person, professing to be a Reformer, will maintain that the...
MULTIPLICATION OF VOTES.
The SpectatorTHE Tories are fond of taunting the Liberals with poverty : the numerical majority, they sometimes admit. may be Anti-Tory, but the great mass of the property of the country,...
THE ITALIAN AND THE ENGLISH OPERA.
The SpectatorTHE English Opera-house reopened, and the Italian Opera-house closes, this week. Manager ARNOLD, it seems, came to the end of his line, and proclaimed his incompetency to...
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THE INFERNAL MACHINE.
The Spectatordischarging foul Iler devilish glut. chained thunder-bolts and hail Of iron globes Paris, 10th August 18;35. This letter was written yesterday in French, to chase away the...
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POCITy.
The Spectator'POETRY is not much read nowadays, yet it is published as fast as ever. Though the demand is lessened, the supply continues as before; and it will be some time, probably, before...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorMundi it Cordis: de Rebus Sempitertas it Tempers:its: Carmine. Poems and Sonnets. By Thomas Wade. Miller. Harald de Buren. A Semi Dramatic Poem; in Six Scenes. By Henry Austen...
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TALES OF THE RAMAD'H AN.
The SpectatorMR. ST. JoisN was at Cairo during the Ramad'han, when true Mahometans fast sleepingly in the day, and devote the night to feasting and amusements, which create a sort of...
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MISS ROBERTS'S RINDOSTAN.
The SpectatorTHOUGH rather minutely elaborated in some of the descriptions both of natural scenery and of the practices of social life, these volumes form a very agreeable, and to us it...
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OLIVEIRA LEITAO ON THE SQUARE OF THE CIRCLE.
The SpectatorIF genuine, one of the most amusing instances extant, of the dangers of a little learning. A Portuguese clergyman calls the attention of geometricians to the fact, that he has...
PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
The SpectatorMR. KENNETT has reprinted Dr. CHANNING'S Discourse before Me Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. The sermon was in aid of a fund to impart religious ministry to the poor : the...
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PICTURES AND ARTISTS.
The SpectatorTHE LAWRENCE GALLERY—CLAUDE AND N. POUSSIN. THE third century of Drawings by the Great Masters of Painting, con- sisting of those of CLAUDE and NICHOLAS POUSSIN, in the...
POLITICAL CARICATURES.
The SpectatorH B's last batch is a very amusing one. " The triumph of Forensic Eloquence," is one of his happiest sketches, both in the idea and its execution. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, in a...