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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorALMOST the only topics of the Parliamentary week have been, Irish Education and the Reform Bill. Ministers have been successful on both questions. Lord WICKLOW'S resolution,...
The Times announces and the Globe corroborates the state- ment,
The Spectatorthat it is the intention of the Emperor of Austria imme- diately to ratify the treaty of the twenty-1611r articles.
There have been some rather serious disturbances at Grenoble, since
The Spectatorour last publication. It appears that, on the 1.2th instant, there was a masquerade procession there, the object of which was to ridi- cule the King and his Ministers. This...
The great length to which our inquiry into the Prerogative
The Spectatorof Creating Peers extended, kept us from quoting, last week, as we otherwise would have done, a few of the arguments which close the learned, curious, and useful pamphlet,...
The latest letters from Jamaica come down to the 4th
The Spectatorof last month. It appears that, though the insurrection is wholly sub- tined as far as actual resistance is concerned, many parties of the Negroes still remain out; and having...
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Elrbatrl an laraccebingl in Pariiamatt.
The Spectator1. THE REFORIM BILL. On Monday, Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the third reading of the Bill. Lord MAHON moved that the Bill be read a third time that day six months. His Lordship's...
• The Standard, the facile princeps of the arguers against
The SpectatorRe- 'form, offers a very curious reason why the Lords should reject the . 3E11 on the second reading. If they reject it, there will be an im- seediate creation ; if they accept...
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The SpectatorFAST-DAY 31EETINGS. On Wednesday, about one hundred members of the House of Com.: moos proceeded at eleven o'cleck to St. Margaret's Church, Westmin- ster, to hear divine...
Cbc Court.
The SpectatorThe King came to town on Thursday, for the pyirpose of hading the Levee, originally proposed for Wednesday, but pOtponed to Thursday on account of the Fast-day. A successful...
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Eby Country.
The SpectatorTRIAL OP THE DERBY RIOTERS. On Saturday, ten men and a woman were tried at Derby, for break- ing open the gaol of the borough, and liberating one William Keeling, a prisoner...
The Gazette of Tuesday formally announces that Earl Mulgmve is
The Spectatorappointed Governor of Jamaica. The salary paid by this country to the Governor of Jamaica amounts to about 7,000/. per annum ; but the total emoluments, including the munificent...
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The High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Mr. Henry Machin, proposed at
The Spectatorhis public dinners during the Assizes, the health of "the .Queen," in the most marked manner, and omitted the health of our most gracious Sovereign King William.— Times. [This...
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CHOLERA. REPORT FOR THE WEEK.
The SpectatorOn Thursday sennight, the disease, as far as London was concerned, for the first time during its progress appeared to be subsiding; the new cases on that day were 58, the deaths...
Mr. O'Connell made a triumphant entry into the city of
The SpectatorCork on Sunday. 'I he procession, aecording to the account in the Cork Ore- l/fete, was the most splendid and extensive ever seen in that city. He addressed the multitude from...
7 On Saturday last, the Town Green pond at Dunfermline
The Spectatorteemed ( with toads, all in motion, and apparently under extraordinary excitation. . A number of boys stood looki n g intensely on for some time ; when one , of them exclaimed,...
THE UNIVERSITIES. Oxroari.
The SpectatorMARCH 15.—The Examiners appointed to elect a scholar on the foundation of Dean Ireland, have announced their election of It. Palmer, Scholar of Trinity College. Yesterday being...
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THE CFIURC R.
The SpectatorA dispensation has passed the Great Seal to allow the Rey. C. J. Myers, MA 5 vicar of Fli - atham, Notts. chapkin to the Lord Bishop ot Lincoln, and late Vellow of Trinity...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorBIRTHS. r On the 21st inst. at Montague Place, Russell Square, the Lady of the Hon.PRIEIP HENRY Annorr, of a son. • On the 20th inst. at Belgrave Street, Belgrave Square, Mrs....
PARTNER s HIPS DISSOLVED.
The SpectatorSANnFR,ON and Moonttorisst, Slodlield, quarrymen—J. tutu It . S m Hie! , Holborn, tailors— \ VCR! E and CliApll AN, I lath, I:1.1i,rs —Mo o n ani l C.,. Morpeth, I ; as thr as...
THE ARMY.
The Spectatorfrom the lialf-pay, to he Lieeomato-Colonel, vice J. Thackwell. Nth. cxghanges- 3d It, gt. of 1)ragoon (hinds: (*apt. Wm. W. Huntley, nem the half-pay of the 'hit Light...
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The Presidency of the Garrick Club will become vacant on
The Spectatorthe de- parture of Lord Mulgrave for Jamaica. The preparations, which had been low , since commenced, for erect- ing a statue of Mr. Canning in one of the enclosures adjoining...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorThe Paris Papers of Wednesday contain a report of a debate of a very lively and rather tumultuous character, in which M. PEatut lashed the opponents of his Ministry, as men who...
In the division in the House of Lords on Thursday
The Spectatornight, Ministers were in a minority of one with regard to the Peers present, and only obtained a majority on the proxies. Some of the opponents of Minis- ters boast that a...
DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL. MAJORITY FOR THE THIRD READING.
The SpectatorFox, Lieut.-Col. Pelham, Hon. C. A. Whitmore, W. W. Gisborne, T. Pendarves, E. W. W. Wilbraham, G. Alt horp, Vise. Glynne, Sir S. Peuleaze, J. S. Williams, Sir J. Bt. Mean°,...
The Managers of Covent Garden Theatre have agreed to give
The Spectatorup to the performers, for the rest of the season, the entire profits of the theatre, and to furnish it with lights and every other requisite gratui- tously. This singular offer...
TUE INDEX cannot be published till the week after next.
The SpectatorWe must decline reviewing letters of which the postage is not paid.
TUE MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK ENCHANCE ' FRIDAY EYE NING.—Consols closed on Saturday at 83a and Exchequer Bills at Ss. to Ps. prem. : the demand for either was flat. To-day there was a slight...
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EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.
The SpectatorThe St. George, Wells, from Liverpool to Calcutta, was spoken with on the 16th SIM- tember, off Madagascar, with lass offuremast, and other damage. She was again spoken with on...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND HIS PEERS. THE question of the Peerage continues, and must continue to be agitated, until the Peers are created, or until the Bill has passed without...
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RENT AND TAICES.
The SpectatorW3t revert to Dr. CHALMERS'S opinions on Taxation. At a time when there is a prospect of extensive changes in our financial system, more swayed than heretofore by the popular...
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DRURY LANE THEATRE.
The SpectatorTHE long-promised opera of The Alchymist (Spotlit's latest dra- matic production) was brought out at this theatre on Tuesday. Its success was certainly equivocal ; which the...
POWER'S IRISHMAN.
The SpectatorCOVENT GARDEN Theatre honoured St. Patrick's Day with the restoration of an old afterpiece, now called Born to Good Luck. We understand it was originally acted about thirty...
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THE CENTENARY OF HAYDN'S BIRTH.
The SpectatorTHE hundredth anniversary of the birth of HAYDN (the 31st of the present month) is to be celebrated by a dinner at the Albion. Circulars have been issued to the members of the...
THE SPECTATOR IN PARIS.
The SpectatorParis, 20th March. Slat nominis umbra—the soul of the Carnival is gone. The police had little occasion to put forth the usual admonitory invitation to the citizens, to temper...
PUFF PARTICULAR
The SpectatorMANIFOLD are the ways of a puffer with his book. In noticing that "very extraordinary novel" the Adventures of a Younger Son, we took occasion not only to praise, but to...
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Lord ROSEBERY has obtained a Committee for regulating the right
The Spectatorof voting at the election of Scotch Peers. It was indeed time that the House should take notice of some recent proceedings respecting Scotch titles, as the following facts will...
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PALGRAVE'S RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH.
The SpectatorIN these two bulky volumes, Mr. PALGRAVE analyses, with much industry and minuteness, the remains of Anglo-Saxon constitu- tional or rather legal history. The usages and...
TOUR OF A GERMAN PRINCE, FOURTH VOLUME.'
The SpectatorTHE German Prince has very much redeemed himself in his fourth volume. In the third he seemed absorbed in the history of Dan- dyism, and to have had no eyes for any scene but...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorTAWS AND INSTITUTIONS, The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth—Anzio-Saxon period; con- taining the Anglo-Saxon Policy, and the Institutions ari-jug out of Laws and...
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MR. FERGUSSON'S NOTES ON THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, IN
The Spectator1831. IN considering the value of travels in North America, too little regard has been had to the quality of the traveller—a circumstance which enters greatly into the nature...
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PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSIC IAN.
The SpectatorTHE Diary of a Physician is calculated to be one of the most popular and widely-circulated books of the day. The idea alone is felicitous, and the execution is equally happy....
JESSE'S GLEANINGS.
The SpectatorWE, since a very early period of our Spectatorial existence, and even when our soul animated other forms of matter, and prior to the metempsychosis which led to the existence of...
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CHURCH REFORM-TITHES.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Broxbourne, lIerts, 22d March 1132. Stu-I observe in the Spectator of the 17th instant, under the head of Pluralities Bill, that the Bishop of...
THE COMIC MAGAZINE.
The SpectatorTHE Comic Magazine is an attempt to set up a periodical laugh. HOOD favours us with an annual agitation of the maxillary glands ; but the editor of the Comic Magazine is...
ROYAL SOCIETY.
The SpectatorMarch 22, 1832. Dr. BUCKLA ND, V.P., in the Chair. The following can- didates for election as Fellows of the Society were proposed, viz.-Edward Ayslx- ford Sandford, Esq. M.P.;...