28 JULY 1832

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT moves with accelerated speed as it nears the goal of its labours. During the week, there has not been much said, but PARLIAMENT moves with accelerated speed as it...

We are still without specific information from Portugal. All that

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is known is, that up to the 15th no movement of importance had been made by either party. There is a rumour—a second one ' —of a regiment of 1,000 men having deserted to PEDRO....

The Sixty-seventh . Protocol, to which we alluded in our last

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Number, contains a new scheme; not very different from the old, for the settlement of the, eternal question between Holland and Belgium : but as all that the Conference have...

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In conformity with the general resolutions of the German Diet,

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*the two popular Baden journals, the Liberal and the Sentinel of Vie Rhine, have been suppressed ; and the Government of Baden has been instructed, through its Ambassador, to...

Manta atilt Prereebingl in Parliament.

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I. THE BUDGET. Last night, the House of Commons having gone into Committee of Supply, Lord ALTHORP rose to make his financial statement. He admitted. frankly that his views of...

The Parisians are busily preparing for the celebration of the

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an- niversary of the July Revolution. Among the other arrange- ments for the festivity, it is meant to portion sixteen of the -.daughters of the heroes of the Barricades: their...

The manifesto of the Germanic Confederation, taken in con- jiinction

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with the proceedings of the powers from whom it ema- nates affords evidence that the designs of these potentates extend fa F beyond the extinction of the germs of freedom in...

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On Sunday afternoon, some thieves succeeded in carrying off a

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cash- box containing notes and gold to the amount of 2391. from the house of Mr. Jenkins, the landlord of the Auction Mart Tap. On Monday evening, a young man, respectably...

be Court.

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The King came to town on Wednesday, for the purpose of holding a Xevee. He returned to Windsor the same evening. The movements of the Court, with this ceremonial exception, have...

fictropattl.

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A long and stormy discussion took place at the Common Hall on Thursday, on the subject of the City New Police Bill. Mr. C. Pear- ikon severely censured the alterations in the...

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ebe Country.

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Mr. Henning, one of the most considerable of the resident land- holders of Somersetshire, is about to convene a meeting of that ex- tensive county, for the purpose of...

IRELAND.

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Government, or perhaps we should more properly say Justice, has been again defeated in an attempt•to convict the offenders in the bloody af- fair of Knocktopher, or, as the...

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ftliIrrTfintrou1.

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Sir Augustus Clifford succeeds Sir T. Tymbitt as Black Rod. It is said there is to be an encampment in Hyde Park next month ; that the Cockneys may witness a little of the...

/Lab) an gutitice.

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PROCEEDINGS IN BANKaurrcv.—On Thursday, the official assignee on the bankrupt estate of Sir George Duckett and Co. stated, that it was resolved to declare a dividend of twenty...

ELECTION TALK.

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BEDFORD.—Colonel Fox has been again solicited to become a can- didate for the county of Bedford, and for the new borough of Lambeth; but has declined both, from an apprehension...

SCOTLAND.

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On Monday sennight, the three prisoners, Kemp, Cleghorn, and Nelson, sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, for forcing the door of the Sheriff Court-room at Haddington,...

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Letters have been received from Paris, dated yesterday morning. Marshal

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Sonia' and M. Duenv are both spoken of for the Presidency of the Council, but the Paris letters to our Government and the French Embassy state, that the chances are in favour of...

EuttArou.—In our last week's report of the discussion on the

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Russian Dutch Loan, on the 20th, the names of Mr. HOPE and Mr. P. STEWART ought to change _places. Mr. P. STEWART spoke extremely well and reasoned most conclusively on the side...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—Off Dover, July 27th, the H. C. S. Larkins, Campbell, front China. At St. Helena, June 6111, Winehilsea, Burt, from ditto. Soiled—Prom Gravesend, July 24th, Golconda,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, Two O'CLOCK. We have received the Messager des Chambres dated yesterday. It contains a remarkable piece of news, the authenticity of which it gua- rantees....

There are accounts from the Hague to-day to the 26th

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instant. They communicate no other information than the movement of troops, and other military preparations.

There are no accounts to-day from Portugal.

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ber of cases remaining. It will be seen, by comparing

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this account with the account of last week, that the cases have diminished by about one seventh, and the deaths by one eighth ; the number of cases re- maining is less by one...

LINNAIAN SOCIETY.—The East India Company have presented to the Linmean

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Society their magnificent Herbarium, containing the plants collected between long. 73° to 114° E. and lat. 32° N. to the equator, by Ki:mig, Roxburgh, Riittler, Russell, Klein,...

_.ZI_E „ MONEY MARKET, Szoms.x.i.cnaztax,-Riundar- EVEgablre: 1...Consols closed on Saturday at Wk.

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The cholera has proved more than pro- portionately virulent among the gamblers of Bartholomew Lane. It seems, indeed, to have a decided direction towards all unclean places. The...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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A WORD OR TWO FOR ECONOMY. " Low, paltry, miserable, eandle.end - sparing, cheese-paring-preserving measures." WETHERELL ON HUIRE, I/GAHM, THE Standard of Wednesday had an...

THE CHURCH.

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The lieterend II Burn, S.C.L. has been collated to the Prebendal Stall of Lien- gaallo, la the Collegiate Church of Brecon, void by the death of the Reverend D. B. Allem—Patron,...

• BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Cassillis House. N.B., the Countess of CASSILLIS, of a son. On the 19th inst., the Lady of GEORGE SPERLING, Esq., of Baythorn Grove, in the county...

THE ARMY.

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Wan - Orrics, July 24.-18th Regt. of Foot : Lieut.-Gen. M. Lord Aylmer, K.C.B., from the 56th Foot, to be COI.. VICO the Earl of Donoughraore, deceased-56th Foot : Lieut.-Gen....

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THE MORNING HERALD AND PEEL'S mu,.

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IT seems much the fashion at present to rail at the political eco- nomists. Their habitual decriers, the writers of the BLACKWOOD school, are more inveterate in their hostility...

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

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THE Duke is again in the field. We thought that, after the failure of his last desperate attempt to carry the enemy's intrenchments by a coup de main, he had become "tired of...

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THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERY.

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A NATIONAL Picture Gallery is at last determined upon; and the fiat for the erection of the building has gone forth, in the shape of a grant of 15,000/. towards the expense,...

WISE MEN OF THE EAST—PORTSOKEN

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MR. HUGHES HUGHES has resigned the Aldermanship of Port- soken Ward, for reasons into which he cannot, he says, enter within the compass of an advertisement. Stout MICHAEL...

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ANCIENT SA NCTUA RIES.-At Athens and Carthage, a criminal escaped

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the dread sentence of the law, if he took refuge under the roof of a pregnant wo- man. — Belinage's Sources of Health and _Disease.

PRINTING MONOPOLY—DIFFUSION OF THE LAWS.

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IN November 1830, Messrs. CHILDS, of Bungay, petitioned the House of Commons for the appointment of a Committee before which they might adduce evidence on the nature of the...

BERANGER'S MUZZLED LION.

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BERANGER'S song of Le Lion Magda (which appeared in the Times of Thursday), has naturally created a strong sensation in Paris ; and many would be very happy to prove it an...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, Mirnbeau's Letters during his Residence in England ; with Anecdotes. Maxims, &c. Now first translated from the original manuscripts. To which is prefixed, an In-...

MIRABEAIT'S LETTERS FROM ENGLAND.

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TIM attention of the world having lately been re-excited on the subject of the once famous MIRABEAU, by the publication of the Recollections of D11712021t, this work may be...

SIR. DAVID BREWSTER ON NATURAL 1.1.4,Gie. Tuts copious little volume

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is fully entitled to the epithets of, cu- rious and interesting, so often unduly lavished upon. worM that have but slender pretensions of the kind. Natural Magic is a...

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THE CHURCHYARD LYRIST.

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THAT man must have a melancholy turn of mind, who sits dowii to the composition of five hundred epitaphs. An elegy in a church- yard implies a tendency to the lugubrious; but...

THE BLUE BAG.

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THIS, as the title will show, is a thing of the day—a straw thrown up in the air, and indicating plainly enough the direction of the wind. It consists of' parodies of a series...

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THE COOK'S OWN' BOOK.

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HERE is as much cookery as a man might anywhere hope to ob- tain for a shilling. The description of art is, however, of a very common kind : the fact is, that plain cookery is a...

PICTURES AND ARTISTS.

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FISHER'S Picturesque Illustrations of Great Britain and Ireland, is just that description of work which is calculated by its extreme cheap- ness to circulate most extensively,...

The Eighth Volume of Murray's Byron contains Chibie Harold' complete

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; being a proper exception to the rule adhered to in this edition in other respects, of arranging the poems chronologically in the order in which they were written. The addition...

The First Number of a series of Views in India,

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by Captain Leann, gives a favourable promise of a picturesque and interesting work. The sketches are various, and comprise scenery, antiquities, and native cha- racter; and they...

The first two or three numbers of a series of

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Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible, are before us ; each containing two quarto-sized plates from well-known pictures, engraved in a very neat and finished style, with...

The Court Magazine (La Belle Assemble, New Series) takes the

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lead of all the Magazines in the beauty of its portraits. Number II. (for • One of the most curious of the alterations is that of the title, which was originally written...

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H. B. has depicted the In and Ex Premiers, Lord

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Grey and the Duke of Wellington, as a pair of dancers rivalling one another in extra- ordinary feats of legs. The " Phantom Duke" defies any man to turn round quicker than he;...

MR. WALTER'S PANDEMONIAN FLAGEOLET.

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A NEW musical instrument, called the Pandemonian (!) Flageolet, has been sent us for trial. Its diabolical name led us to expect some of those sounds which CoweEn imagines may...