18 JUNE 1836

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE House of Commons followed up its rejection of the principle, by demolishing the details, of the Peers' Bill for Ireland. In pur- THE House of Commons followed up its...

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The defeat of General SALAVERY, a rebel Chieftain, has put

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an end to a civil war which had been raging for some time in Peru, although no particulars of its progress have been given for several monika. The aicesidentaaf the Republic,...

ANTHONY King of Saxony died on the 6th of this

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month, at Dresden. He was eighty-one years old, and very stupid and superstitious. FREDERICK AUGUsTUS, nephew of the deceased Monarch, reigns in his stead.

The news from Spain is unfavourable. While the main army

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of the Queen is inactive in Vittoria, and General EVANS has to maintain his position near St. Sebastian by almost daily encoun- ters with the enemy, the ruffian CABRERA has...

The Queen of Portugal. on the 4th instant, dissolved the

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Cortes, which had only been assembled in an extraordinary ses- sion a week before. The votes of the majority in both Houses against the appointment of the Prince FERDIrvarm to...

According to intelligence received from Philadelphia. SANTA ANNA, the Mexican

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General, was utterly defeated, and taketr pri- soner, with his principal officers, on the 21st of April, by the Texian troops under General HOUSTON. The Mexicans lost about 600...

Long debates in the French Chamber of Deputies occupy the

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columns of the Parisian journals. On Tuesday, LAFITTE delivered a startling speech on the financial state of the country. He en- deavoured to show that the unfunded debt had...

Illtbato1 anti Princeliingliin tgatliamtnt. I. IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.

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The House of Commons met at twelve o'clock on Monday ; and after a long discussion respecting a quarrel between Colonel Trench and Mr. Wason, which we notice elsewhere,...

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On Wednesday, a considerable minibtr of Mr. But kingliam's friend"

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held a meeting, at the Freemason's Tavern, to confider the roprialy ot ratismg a subscription for the purchase of an annuity for the joint lives of Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham, as a...

he 111CtrOpOItg.

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About 150 persons dined at Merchant Tailors Hall on Saturday, no the occasion of electing scholars to St. John's College, Oxford, from time school belonging to the Company. 'f...

trio Court.

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THE. King and Queen arrived at St. James's Palace, from Windsor, on Wednesday. The King held a Levee, at which the company and presentations were very numerous. In the evening....

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Mr. Sheldon, the Liberal Member for South Warwickshire, died on

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Saturday laq ; arid a strong contest is expected for the vacant seat in the House of Commons. The Tory candidate is Mr. Evelyn Shirley; and Sir Grey Skipwith comes forward on...

Sir 'W. Wynn, the Reforming candidate for Merionethshire, arrived at

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Dolgelly on Saturday. We understand his canvass proceeds most favourably; and the strongest expectations are entertained that he will be the sitting Member. In the course of the...

Ebt Country.

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The Birmingham Reformers mustered in great force on Monday, in the Town-hall, to petition Parliament to reject the Lyndhurst Bill. The requisition to the Low Bailiff to call the...

A meeting of the merchants and others connected with the

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importa- tion of tea from Chita was held on Monday, at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving a report from those members of the , East India and China...

In the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, Sir William

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Follett read a letter from Mr. Henry Carpenter, acknowledging that he bad been wrong in stating that Sir John Gibbons, of Stanwell, had used his Magisterial influence to procure...

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The following piece of very questionable gossip appears in the

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French paper the Messager des Chambres, as a communication from a London correspondent— Our Saturday last, AI. Dedel, in the name of the Kin g of the Netherlands, made a...

SCOTLAND.

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The corpse of the Duke of Gordon, having been conveyed by sea from London, was interred in the vault in Elgin Cathedral on the 10th. 'There were sixty carriages in the...

Iftitteltattrottg.

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The Bishop of Bristol is to be translated to the see of Ely. Dr. Butler is to have the see of Lichfield and Coventry, and Dr. Longley is to be translated to Ripon ; but this...

IRELAND.

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The following passage from the speech of Mr. Villiers Stuart, at the Waterford county meeting, is worthy of attention, as coming from the representative of one of the oldest and...

Lord Morpeth gave a dinner at Blackwell on Saturday to

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a large party of English and Irish Members, including most of the leading Reformers of both countries. All were in great spirits at the victory of the morning ; and, although...

" There were present at the division 5tt2 Member*. Of

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these thoe voted- ! or the Ministers 324 Pm the Tories 238 Majority ;se tinst the nefarious novnilments of Lord Lyndhurst 86 11aviog carefully exatnined the composition of the...

The peasantry in Donegal have been almost famished. Last week

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a vessel laden with potatoes was sent to the little harbour of Rutland by the Government ; and it was with the greatest difficulty that it could be unladen, in consequence of...

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The Miming Chronicle states, on the authority of a correspondent,

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that Count WORONZOW, Governor of Odessa, has taken measures to prevent any obstruction to British merchant vessels navigating the Danube.

The Kensington bulletin issued this morning announces, that the "

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progress" of' the Duke of Sussex "continues to be in every respect satisfactory."

POSTURIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. A Cabinet Council was bell this afternoon at the Foreign Office :. - attended by all the Ministers.

The case of "Norton v. Viscount Melbourne," was yesterday all-

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pointed to take place in the Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday morning next. Sir Robert Peel is one of the Jury of twenty-four summoned on the trial. His name was not struck...

The French papers of Thursday, which came to hand this

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morning, are occupied with the speeches of Tilitats and BERRVER in the Chamber of Deputies. on the financial state of France; but are desti- tute of domestic and Spanish news.

We alluded last week, in our analysis of the London

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Newspaper circulation, to the small number of stamps issued to the Liverpool Mercury, and intimated that some Metropolitan newspaper took credit for the sale f the Mercury. We...

The " farmers,' friends," who assemIded at the Crown and

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Anchor yesterday. did little but wrangle and abuse eneh other. Lord Stanhope railed at the House of Commons, in terms which even the Tory Mr. Brantill considered indecent and...

The Tory Peers will have S411111. dalitadty in finding , an

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excuse for rejecting the Staafford Disfranchisement Bill. They fixed upon a pe- riod for their inquiry subsequent to that which furnished the Com- mons with evidence of the...

MONEY MARKET.

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ST.WIC EXCHANr If, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. This week has scarcely been more important than the last ; the transactions of the money market have been few, and comparatively...

By recent accounts received from Prince Edward's Island, in the

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Gulf of St. Lawrence, it appears that that colony is rapidly advancing in prosperity, and will, no doubt, in a very few years become of consi- derable commercial importance. The...

Mr It 'can %W.: claims, :Ina Mel plerated a paper

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tat t het abject. which was est-hided front our pages in a temporary Fressure fur room: perhaps sue may CC', 155 sad insert it. in detault of hate' materials. We ciente BV1. the...

Lord Joust Rufistaa. last night proposed another material alteration itt

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the English Tithe Bill ; the effeet of teliclu , if we understand it. will be to authorize the Commissioners to diminish or increase the tithe to be ,paid in future by 20 per...

EAST ESDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gracesead, June 1.20), Maty :Intl Jane. Winter, from the Cape; and 13i It. II men a. Templar, from China. At Plymouth, 15th. Colombo, NUKellar, hour Ceylon ; and...

THE ARMY.

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WAR ernes. June 14.—Memornialum—The half pay of the undermentioned officers bas been cancelled. from the 14th instant, inclusive. they letting accepted a committed allowance...

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"THE TIMES" JOURNAL AND MR. JOHN WALTER.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS—UNREPORTED SPEECH OF AN UNKNOWN MEMBER, ON TUESDAY NIGHT. I else with a hope of being able to put an end to all dispute between the honourable Member for...

TII fl I'll EATRE S.

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NOTHER of those striking pictures of " the romance of real life " in which the dramatis persona are exhibited in successive stages of their career, by a lapse of time being...

The operatic melodrama at Covent Garden, called the Sexton of

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Cologne. written by FITZ BA LI., with music by RODWELL, is a very trashy affair; and hut for the beautiful scenery by XI aasuat.t., would have been intolerable. The incident on...

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POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF MINISTERS.

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THE important political question of the day is not whether Minis- ters will manage to retain office, but whether measures essential for the peace and good government of the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE COMMONS AND THE LORDS. COLLISION is no longer the word. When a moving object strikes against something. and is stopped for a moment, but then con- tinues its course, that...

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TORY STRENGTH IN THE COMMONS.

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" With 3l2 Conservatives in the House of Commons, it is too bad that Lord John Russell should be allowed to obtain a majority of eighty-six : and, for the credit of the party to...

CAPTAIN ROCK AND BARON LYNDHURST.

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THE Times has taken to abuse Mr. MOORE, in revenge for his choice of the Chronicle for the vehicle of his satire on Lord LYNDHURST and other worthies of the Tory party. The...

PEEL AMONG THE TAILORS.

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SIR ROBERT PEEL was invited to the Merchant Tailors' dinner, held on Saturday last, in the expectation that " there," as the John Bull of Sunday emphatically predicted after...

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AGITATION AT THE OPERA-HOUSE.

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MARVELLOUS is the cunning of O'Corereeee and his party—mar- vellous the dulness of the Tories! That it should rest with the Spectator to detect one of the darkest of their...

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.

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IT was our intention to have noticed the proceedings of the Com- mittee on the Liverpool Docks last week, but a press of important matter prevented us. The report of the...

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SOCIETA ARMONICA.

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THE periodical concerts of the season are fast drawing to a close, and this among them—the last, and we may add, the least. It is a specu- lation, as we understand, of...

ARMITAGE•S HISTORY OF BRAZI L. OFTENTIMES WO have books before

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us which, professing to have orie Mated in itepulse, evidently sink etc their close into matters of trade. The publmation of Mr. ARM ITAGE is just the reverse. He un- dertook...

Queen Christina has been for a long time married to

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her favourite, Munoz; the Ceremony having been performed by the Jesuits of La Granja. Three children are the fruit of the union ; these are being brought up at Grenada, the...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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itorraste, ilistory of 8raz 1 1, from the Per'rwl of the Arrival o' Vie Praganza Family, is NOS. b■ the Alidirathin of non Pedro the First, in IRII. Compiled from State...

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COOPER'S EXCURSIONS IN SWITZERLAND.

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THE power of describing landscapes with force and truth appears to be a qualification so frequently possessed, and the number of descriptive travels already before the public...

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LORD ROLDAN.

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ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, as a Scottish pastoral poet, has gained a literary distinction which he seems disposed to throw away by perseveringly presenting himself to the world in the...

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MRS. CALLCOTT'S ESSAYS ON PAINTING.

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A COMPLETE and concise History of Painting, the result of a knowledge of the art and its productions, combined with discrimi- nating research, and written con (more, yet...

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BP.ITISII INSTITUTION — PICTURES HY THE GREAT MASTERS. THE British Institution is

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the alpha and omega of the Exhibition sea- son, commencing it with the Moderns and concluding it with the An- cients, which are the crowning glory of the year. The present is a...

FINE ARTS.

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PRIVATE VIEW OF BURFORD'S NEW PANORAMA. BAG° MAGGIORE, the largest of the lakes of Lombardy, and Isola Bella, the most beautiful of the Borromean islets that stud its tranquil...

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XIILOPYROGRAPHF.

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WE have seen oil paintings imitated to illusion by bits of coloured stone (mosaic) and worsted work ; and crayon pictures by locks of wool of various hues. An ingenious artist...

Sonnet to Sleep. A Canzonet. By Jolt's ABEL.

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A composition very far above the common songs of the day.

THE GIRAFFES.

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A VERY accurate and picturesque print of the four Giraffes at the Zoological Gardens has been lithographed by G. SCHARF, in continua- tion of his cheap and pretty views of the...

Carillons; a Characteristic Rondo for the Pianoforte. By CHARLES NEATE.

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Variations on the Air " Rule Britannia." By the Same. The titles of these pieces will sufficiently indicate their general character. Of the manner in which Mr. NEATE has carried...

MUSIC.

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A clergyman of time English Church, willing and able to cultivate and improve its music, is, in these times, a rara avis ; since, whenever these reverend persons concern...

Six favourite Rounds for Three Voices, with a diversified Accom-

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paniment for the Pianoforte. By SAMUEL WEBBE. Mr. Wesae (the worthy inheritor of an honoured name) has here found an humble though pleasing employment of his talents. Many of...

"On dark Vincennes the daylight broke." A Song. By JoHN

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THomsoN. The subject of this composition is the death of the Duke D'Eteeittne, which Mr. THOMSON has treated with his usual accurate perception of the right employment and...