1 AUGUST 1829

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The American papers which arrived yesterday bring nothing from Havannah

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so late as was received by other channels in the course of the week. The 4th of July passed in the United States with the usual observances. Ammg the varidus methods employed to...

The rumour of an expedition from the Havannah against Mexico

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is reiterated in private accounts, dated 2d July; which fix the sailing of five thousand men under General Barradas for the 8th or 10th of this month. It is stated at the same...

Our anticipations of last week respecting Ireland, we are happy

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to find, are fully confirmed by the arrival, or rather by the non-arrival of information from that. honest but somewhat unthinking part of the empire. In fact the riots, swelled...

The French letters and papers are divided between conjectures re-

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garding a change of Ministry, and complaints of commercial stag,na- bon. The rumours of change in the Ministry have been strengthened since it transpired that the Prince de...

Letters from India, received yesterday via Bourdeaux, contain al very

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remarkable invitation, in the shape of a circular from the Go-t vernor-General, for "suggestions tending to promote any branch of national industry ; to improve the commercial...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE intelligence from the seat of the war, since last week, is extremely small. General Geismar is said to have, moved towards Nicopoli, leaving of course Rudshuk and Giurgevo...

WINE TRADE AT BortnEaux.—The embarrassments which were foreseen and predicted

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are already showing themselves in the receipt of the direct taxes ; such is the effect of the fatal combination of the direct tax on wines, with the direct tax on vines, that...

Sir HuMMIRY DAVY'S Biography, Chapter Fifth, in our next Number.

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Also, Mr. Wrcxsx's Argument for more of the Division of Labour in Civil Life. T. W. is right, and we were wrong — very. Will our stanch and friendly adherent, who makes a...

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THE CARINET.—To show how easy it is to form a

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Ministry, on paper at least, the Morning Journal has this week put forth a list of a Tory Government ; in which the Earl of Mansfield is first Lord of the Treasury, Sir Charles...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNING.—The supply of Money Stock havin g rather exceeded the demand this week, Consols, which on Saturday last were done at 89f, fell on Wednesday to...

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PARTY STIRIT.—The Court of King's Bench, Dublin, sat two days

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last week trying an action of libel, brought by Mr. Smith, who had been High Sheriff of Galway, against Mr. O Flaherty, the proprietor of the Connaught Journal. The quarrel...

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A JESUIT'S Haszr.—We announced some time ago, that the late

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Archbishop of Aix had bequeathed his heart to the Jesuits. The Constitutionnel states, that the executors of the will had prepared the bequest for delivery, but no one ap-...

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POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY. German papers, which anived this morning, announce the surrender to the Greeks of Thebes, in the island of NiTopont. An article from Odessa states...

ENGLISH SYMPATHY WITH THE TURKS.

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THE PRESS. • MORNING CHRONICLE—We were a good deal struck with the impression pro- duced on the generous john Bulls of all ranks by the fall of Silistria. We had no idea that...

INFLUENCE OF POPERY IN IRELAND.

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STANDARD—The ascendancy of Popery is always strictly commensurate with misrule and murder. The Popish journals, and Popish talkers in Parliament, it is true, tell us that party...

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE—The question of Parliamentary Reform has very naturally again attracted much notice, particularly as it is now ahnost a new one in regard to circumstance....

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MORALITY OF THE DAY.

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THE Morning Chronicle makes the following reflections on the occa- sion of a trial for (aim. con. "Modes and fashions are certainly changing. Spanish jealousy was at one time...

THE HOAX OF THE MONTH.

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THE monthly hoaxes, played off in the Chronicle under the title of i " Novelties n Gentlemen's Dresses," are carried on with unabated drollery, and an ingenuity quite...

THE MINISTER OF STATE AND THE MINISTER OF SYDENHAM.

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TOPICS. OF THE DAY. THE Duke must gird up his loins for the most formidable struggle he has had to sustain for many years past ; Waterloo was nothing to it. JOHN LITTON...

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GLI ORAZJ E CURIAZJ.

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THERE is much truth as well as point in the remark, that the contem- poraries of a great master judge of him by his worst work, but posterity estimate him by his best. Thus the...

DIFFICULTY OF ADAPTING ENGLISH WORDS TO FOREIGN MUSIC.

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THE Globe is distressed because we said that the translated adaptation of the Robber's Bride to the German music was " creditably done." This certainly was our opinion. The...

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CAPTAIN FRANKLAND'S TRAVELS TO AND FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.*

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. Tins is a sailor's book—simple and straightforward, manly and good- humoured ; entering into no delicate investigations, giving a rough. sketch of all the...

DER FREISCHOTZ.

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EVERY time we hear this opera, every time we sit down to a perusal of it, we are more and more struck with the extraordinary genius and character of its author. WEBER was, in...

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FAMILY LIBRARY — LIVES OF THE PAINTERS.* WE have in our language

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one of the most agreeable and the most highly finished works on the history of art that perhaps any language what- ever can furnish : it is the Anecdotes of Painters, compiled...

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PITCAIRN'S SCOTCH CRIMINAL TRIALS—WITCHCRAFT.*

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THE object of Mr. PITCAIRN'S work is expressed in his preface—to put beyond the chance of destruction the valuable materials contained ni the Books of Adjournal of the...

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TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOR.

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SIR,—Haviug observed in your valuable paper of yesterday, two errors of facts in the review of Devereux, you will perhaps patdon me for pointing them out to you. The first is,...

MONOPOLIES—THE BAR.

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()see upon a time, says a fable, an ass had been so long accustomed to his falters, hat he considered theta a part of himself. The heavier he was laden, the better (le was...

THE AUTHOR OF PELHAM—MISTANES CORRECTED.

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TO TUE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. SIR,—Ill your review of Devereux, you have attributed to me, the Autumn in Greece. That work was written by my brother, Mr. HENRY RTAAVER j and...

ORNAMENTS OF THE LAW.

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TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Stu,—In your last Number there were some clever observations on the "Vex- ations Regulations at the Inner Temple," and a quotation comprising...

GLEANINGS.

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A NEW ORATORIO, DT NEURONINI.—The most interesting circumstance attend- ing his visit (M. Neukomm's late visit to Edinburgh), was his allowing some of his friends to see the MS....

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, July 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSoLvED.-Johnson and Litchfield, Old Stratford-wharf, North- atnptonshire-Green and Cox, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, stone-quarry.men-J anti...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EvENING.

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By the Sesostris, letters have been received from Bombay to the 21st Mardi. The rate of freight at that Presidency is rather improved, the current quotations being now 25s.to...

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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BOOKS IN THE PRESS, Olt PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. An Account of the Early Reformation in Spain, and the Inquisition, translated from the French by the late Dr. A. F. Ramsay,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BinTitS.-On the 25th inst. at Barrow-upon-Trent, Derbyshire, the Hon. Mrs. Beau. moat, of a son-At Montagu-house, Portman-square, the Hon. Mrs. H. Montagu, of a daughter-On the...

THE ARMY.

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CHANGE OF THE DISTRIBUTION! OF COR.PS SINCE JUNE, [From the United Service Journal for August.] 1st Life Guards., from Windsor to ........ Regent's Park. 2d Ditto ...........

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LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, JULY 31. The arrival of English Wheat this week is very limited, though the Foreign supplies continue most abundant ; the Meeting Trade, however, remains...