15 SEPTEMBER 1838

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Another week has casstes, and the " new agitation " in

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Ireland is in static quo. No more meetings have been held, and we find no announcements of additional Precursor Societies: Mr. O'Ccev- NE LL has written a long letter to the "...

To a numerous meeting of Sheffield Liberals, Mr. WARD has

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been descanting on the performances of the last session, the conduct of Ministers, and the future prospects of Reformers. Mr. WARD displayed characteristic frankness, and the...

The Emperor FERDINAND has signalized his coronation as sovereign of

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the North of Italy, by an act of grace, that will es far more towards establishing his authority in peace and secur:ty, than all the glitter and magnificence of the ceremony by...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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"THOUGHTS on c.areity " are the most touching of all mental lucubrations; surd when BURKE gave that title to one of his ablest works, he proved himself a proficient in the art...

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The Chilians in June last sent a second expedition against

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Peru, with the intention of blockading Callao and the other Peru- vian ports. SANTA CRUZ is fully prepared to encounter the Chi- Ilan squadron, and of its defeat there is little...

A vessel from Sydney brings news from that part of

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the world to the 1st of May. From the Launceston Advertiser of the 6th April, it appears that the settlers in Van Diemen's Land were alarmed by a generally-credited report, that...

According to a statement in a New Orleans paper, there

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have been serious disturbances in Cuba. It is said that a conspiracy to place the island under Carlist government has been discovered. All the information as yet received will...

The French journals are much occupied with an affair in

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which GISQUET, lately at the head of the Police, figures disreputably. GISQUET, it:seems, had seduced the lady of a person of distinction in Paris : the injured party challenged...

The intelligence from Quebec reaches to the 16th of August

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, from New York to the 20th. There was no appearance of the renewal of disturbances in any part of the Canadas; and the buccaneering expeditions on the frontier seem to have...

The Swiss Diet have put off till the 1st of

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next month the con. sidemtion of the Duke DR MONTEBRLLO'S note, requiring the ex. pulsion of Louis BONAPARTE from Switzerland. The National, alluding to a rumour that Prince...

The ricketty Spanish Cabinet has at length fallen to pieces.

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The defeat of ORAA, and the failure to procure a loan, seem to have been fatal to it. A new Ministry was patched up by the Duke DE FRIAS ; but out of the five following...

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Land ?

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T H E Queen seems to be leading a quiet life at Windsor. Every day h e r Majesty rides it) the Park, and the neighbourhood of the Castle accompanied sometimes by the Dutchess of...

ebr Countro.

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Mr. Ward has been visiting his constituents at Sheffield. On Friday last he addressed a crowded meeting in the Town-hall, in ex- planation of his conduct in Parliament during...

ebr Otrtropolfst.

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The Committee of the Working Men's Association are taking active steps to insures grand demonstration on the part of the working classes on Monday next. In every district of...

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Three children of a Mr. Cape were drowned, on Wednesday

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weeh,; at hen bathing near Watelnet, not far from Taunton. The account cl the accident is given in the Taunton Courier partly from the evidence of Mr. Cape's maid.servant- "...

Mr. Roebuck's late constituents at Bath intend to present him

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with a dinner.service of plate, in token of gratitude for his services in Par- liament, arid their approbation of his political conduct generally. The National Petition has...

A Diocesan Association, "in aid of building, enlarging, and endow-

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milurches," has recently been formed in the diocese of Ripon. At the Church Missionary Society meeting, held at Pwllbeli the other day, the number of clergymen present was...

THE HARVEST.

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We have read the accounts in the Couutry papers received to-day of the state and progress of the harvest : we rejoice to be able to commu- nicate, that generally they are of...

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A good deal of attentiot, has been excited by two

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letters addressed to Mr. O'Connell on his support of the Miaisterial measures for Ire. lurid, and especially the Tithe Act, by :Mr. Patrick O'Brien Bayern, a Catholic priest of'...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell has commenced a new series of letters to the Pee& of Ireland, tile first of which has been published in the Pilot. sists of an immense number of paragraphs, but...

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The following correspondence has passed bete een Lord Brougham and

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Mr. 'I'ait, the publisher ; who had addressed his Lordship on the part of some of his political friends " Edinburgh, 3.1 September 1838. "My Lord-Yon wottld greatly oblige a...

SCOTLAND.

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According to the latest accounts, the recent registrations in Scot- land, though not yet what they ought to be, have perhaps been quite as satisfactory (to the Tories) as could...

An incautious writer on the subject of Irish Railways in

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the Courier, assumed that Mr. William Bald, the well-known engineer, was author of certain letters published in the Times, and exposing some of the blunders of the Irish Railway...

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Miteitatteaut.

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Lord and Lady Holland and a numerous suite left the York Hotel, Dover, on Sunday, for Calais, in her Majesty's packet Beaver, Captain Mudge. The naval authorities paid every...

In the dearth of interesting domestic intelligence, the daily papers

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are tilling their columns with descriptions of the proceedings at Milan, on the coronation of the Emperor of Austria as King of Lo nbardy. Vie take a few of the more lively...

A meeting of the New Scotch Radicals was held on

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Tuesday night on the Calton Hill, for the purpose of nominating a delegate connected with the Mid Lothian Universal Suffrage Association, to attend the meetilig which is to take...

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A few days ago, two grisettes of the Quartier Latin,

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Paris, after exchanging blows for an inconstant student, decided upon an appeal to the laws of honour. The fair belligerents fought with pistols ; and Were attended to the...

We learn from the National, that the petition of the

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National Guards of Paris for Parliamentary Reform bad excited a powerful sensation in the provinces, and that the Guards in several important districts were signing similar...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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On the 1304 inst., in Upper Brook Street, Lady MARY FARQUHAR, of a son. O n th e 13th inst., at Grosvenor Place, Lady Manor., of a BOO and heir. At his house, 9, l'ark...

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The Sun appropriates to itself a remit-E. "' "-^ last

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Sp ectator, that there was "an attempt on the part of the AIinistenai tress to divert the attention of the working classes from political changes, to j,5 over- throw of the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. New York papers to the 26th of August were received this morn- ing. They mention a rumour of a dispute between Lord DURHAM and Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, respecting an...

Speaking of the abandonment of the " Appropriation," to:his consti-

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tuents at Sheffield, Mr. WARD is reported to have said, that Ministers were compelled to take the course they did by the Irish Members. These are the words of the report- ,' I...

Tieeties to attend the Universal Suffrage meeting have arrived in

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Lon a Birininghern, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, Northippton, gow, Edinburgh, olaces. h Carmarthen Chelmsford, Troubridge, Glas- Ebenezer Elliot is the Sheffield...

We have been gratified by a sight of the "

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Cup" to be run for at the ensuing Doncaster Races : the elegance of the design lied the beauty of the workmanship entitle it to particular mention. It rine- sents an oak,...

MONEY MARKET.

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Faun{ EXCHANGE, FR1DAV AFTVI,Nnow, The probability of a large importation of foreign corn has given a shake to the previously firm condition of the Money Market. The last...

THE ARMY.

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WAR OFFICZ, Sept. I4.-3d Regt. of Drag. Guards—Lieut.-Col P. Phipps, from the half- pay unattached, to be Lieut.-Col. vice E. R. Story, who exchanges; Major G. Matt tewll to...

The Mornin g Chronicle says that the Tories have served twelve

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hun- dred notices of objectioes to the votes of Liberals in Middlesex ; and urges the latter "to wake from their apathy," and appear in the Revising Barristers' Court, which is...

The Paris papers received this morning supply little news of

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interest. Some intelligence was expected from the seat of war in Spain, as the weather had been very fine and nothing had occeurred to obstruct the working of the telegraph ;...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING,

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Arrived—At Gras,...a, Scalley, from New Stalin vVales. In the Downs, Sept. 1311i, Roberts, Elder, from Bengal ; IVA Stiflillpilirer well, WIISUll, f gal. 011" Ilastiu 14th,...

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OPERATION OF THE CORN-LAWS ON THE COMFORTS OF THE PEOPLE.

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WHEN the supporters of the Corn-laws are charged with causing distress to the labouring classes by enhancing artificially the cost of bread, a common excuse is, that wages rise...

.-----TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE CORONATION NUISANCE. ALL the great babies of the Continent have been gaping and s taring nn d lolling the tongue out for the last fortnight, in antici- ration ofthe grand...

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A ROYAL OPERA.

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THE amiable social spirit which we described last week as animat- ing the higher classes to form certain moral connexions with the lower classes despite of much damage and...

REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS.

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THE Times this week begins to publish the Report of the Trans- portation Committee ; and falls foul of the fifth resolution, which it ridicules as " mere twaddle." As quoted by...

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THE IRISH RAILWAY SCHEME.

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As touching the unsatisfactory mariner in which about 600,000/. has been expended in Ireland under the control of the Board of Public Works, enough is let out by the Board...

TREASURY EXPENDITURE IN IRELAND.

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"COMMISSIONERS" and "Boards" are not apt to undervalue their own paid labours in the public service. It is not to be expected that men to whom the expenditure of money is...

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TIME PAST AND TIME PRESENT.

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BESIDES the little leader, but large fib, to which we replied at once in our second edition last Saturday, (and which we reprint at the end of this paper,) the Examiner of the...

Lest our dexterous contemporary should be tempted, as on a

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former occasion, to after-reference to an exposed misstatement, we reprint the following, which appeared only in a part of our impression last week. " The Examiner of...

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TIIE WHIG-RADICAL DEFENCE 01' THE GOVERNMENT TREATMENT OF CANADA.

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TO THE EDITOR OF Time srEcTATOR. SIR—It is pitiable to see the mode in which Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. WARD, and other professed Liberals, defend the proccediugs of the Government...

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MR. ELLIOTT'S TRAVELS IN AUSTRIA, RUSSIA, AND TURKEY.

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'run author of these volumes quitted the Civil Service of the Eait India Company for the Church ; but was compelled to suspend the exercise of his new profession in consequence...

THE THEATRES.

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EMPTY as the town is, the theatres fill ; though, excepting Mr. VAN AMBURGH (not Amburgher, as we had it last week,) and his lions, there are no very remarkable attractions....

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAt'ittl, Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey, By c B Elliott, M.A., F.R.S., Vic a r of Godalming. (late of the Henzal Civil Seryise4si Author of...

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CAPTAIN GLASCOCK'S LAND SHARES AND SEA GULLS.

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THE reputation of Captain GLASCOCK as a novelist has always struck us as being purely adventitious. Although possessing' quick perception of the salient points of character as...

COGITATIONS OF A VAGABOND BY AUTHORITY OF THE RING'S COMMISSION.

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ALTHOUGH the relation of the titlepage to the contents is per- ceived when the book is read, it will convey but little notion of them till that process is submitted to. The...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE series of popular zoological works by YARRELL and BELL has received a very interesting and important addition, in a simi- lar one on animal physiology as ;applied to...

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The last volume of the Naturalist's Library—the Seventh of the

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Mamrnalia—contains the British Quadrupeds ; the number of species, never very great, being now reduced to fifty. In civilized and thickly-peopled countries, beasts of prey...

The third volume of Lives of the Most Eminent Literary

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an d Scientific Men of Great Britain, in Dr. LARDNER'S Cyclops% No. 106, embraces the dramatic poets of the last two centuries: The volume is useful in supplying a want,—for...

The object of Dr. Hestev's Dialogue between a Bilious Patient

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and a Physician, is to enforce the doctrine, that purgative medi. eines of any kind are not only useless but mischievous, either palliatives or cures for indigestion, bile, and...

The Zoological Gardens : a Hand - Book for Visiters. This slender

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pocket volume of some hundred pages, is, like the pre- ceding publication, rather intended to titillate than teach. Pro. fusely enriched with spirited and frequently...

The Field, the Garden, and the Woodland. The object of

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this elegant little book is not to teach botany, but to inculcate a taste for it, by bringing together some of the most interesting facts connected with vegetation, whether...

The appearance of books often indicates the names though not

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the character of the seasons ; and so, although the nights are frosty and days of chilly gloom are freely intermingled with those of sunshine, it would seem that Irish and...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE NEW SCHOOLS OF DESIGN. Is going over the Palace at Versailles, the guide who conducted us through the suite of state apartments not commonly shown to the public, vented...

The English Welsh Teacher, by RICHARD DAVIES, though blended to

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teach Welsh children English, may be useful in ena- bling persons visiting Wales to acquire a smattering of the lan- guage spoken by the humbler classes, sufficient for ordinary...

Various ingenious methods have been adopted by teachers of the

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French language to impress on the memory of the learner the genders of nouns substantive, which are so puzzling to the student ; but the plan of M. DE PORQUET of printing them...

A Disclosure of the Principles, Designs, and Machinations of the

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Popish Revolutionary Faction of Ireland, by JOHN RYAN, Esq., fize. We received this volume some time since, and put it aside, as the kindest thing we could do by the author. As,...