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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorThe motion for recommitting the bill was not carried without strong opposition, manifested in one of the most interesting and animated debates of the session. Mr. O'CONNELL gave...
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The Doctrinaires have triumphed in the French elections, ac- cording
The Spectatorto expectation. Out of 459 members, it is probable that not more than 80 will belong to the Opposition. LAFITTE and °DILLON B tRROT have been returned for provincial districts;...
319ebateg anti Prareebinga in Parliament.
The Spectator1. hum TITHES. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day for the further consideration of the Report of the Irish Tithe Bill having been read, Mr. LITTLETON...
Some outrages have been committed in Lisbon. and other places
The Spectatorin Portugal, against the Miguelites; several of whom have been assassinated in the streets. Al) attempt was made to murder MIGUEL himself, as lie was on the point of embarking...
It is said that METTERNICH is desirousof establishing a tribunal
The Spectatorto decide differences arising between the German States. The members of this tribunal would be really, though not nominally, chosen by Austria and Prussia; and therefore the...
By a late arrival from New York, it appears that
The Spectatorthe contest stilt continues between the Bank and the Senate on the one side, and tbe President with the House of Representatives on the other. The Bank Directors have refused to...
The Spanish Court has recently been alarmed by a report
The Spectatorof the approach of cholera to Ara njuez, but it turned out to be ill-founded. It is said that the united firces of QuEsADA and EL PASTOR have sustained a severe defeat from the...
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trbr Csurt.
The SpectatorTHE King and Queen dined on Monday at the seat of Colonel Clitherow, near Ealing, in company with the Princess Augusta, Sir Herbert and Lady Taylor, and Lady Mary Fox. On...
The borough of Finsbury has been the scone of much
The Spectatorailimatod s■wech-ina ing alai canvassing during tlw week. Air. Gibson, w mec twearatiee ia the we announced a furtiii6lit ago, prudently ictirkal from the contest ; and Sir...
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The interesting case of the Attorney-General versus Shore, respect- ing
The Spectatorthe right to the benefit of Lady Hewley's charity, came on before the Lord Chancellor, assisted by Judges James Parke and Littledale, on Thursday. The pleadings are expected to...
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SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe reelection of Mr. Abercromby as Member for Edinburgh took place on Monday. Mr. Cunninghame, advocate, proposed him to the constituency, in a speech, full of eulogy of the...
The inhabitants of Dartford and its neighbourhood were thrown into
The Spectatorgreat alarm on Friday last week, by a violent explosion at the powder-mills. Men, women, and children, were in an instant seen running from all directions towards the seat of...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorA great Protestant meeting is advertised to be held next week in Dublin, at which Lords Winchilsca, Wicklow, Roden, and others of the same Orange complexion, are expected to...
be Country.
The SpectatorCaptain George Byng, the Government nominee, was returned for Chatham on Thursday, by a majority of 70 over his opponent Mr. Ching ; the numbers being 262 and 192. In the course...
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Among the Spaniards D-ho accompanied Don Carlos in the British
The Spectatorship Donegal to Portsmouth, is the notorious General Moreno. This man, it will be recollected, was Governor of Malaga, when Torrijos and his comrades, among whom was Mr. Boyd, a...
If we may trifst the contents of an anonymous communication,
The Spectatorwrit- ten in a very clerkly hand, the rE w First Lord of the Admiralty is busy. ing himself in the details of his department, with a view to a reduction of its expenditure. We...
pos cm PT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. The four candidate , : for Finsbury are all resoh el to put the sincerity of their respective friends to the test, by going to the poll on Monday next. Of Mr....
The Congress of Vienna broke up on the evening of
The Spectatorthe 12th instant. The resolutions adopted by the assembled Ministers are to be laid before each Government, for its formal sanction, before they are promulgated. One of these...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCNANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has evinced more firmness this week, and sonic improvement in prices has taken place. This result is attributable to...
Mr. Thomas Payne, the publisher. of the Morning Post, appeared
The Spectatorat the bar of the House of Lords this afternoon, in compliance with their Lordships' order, to.answer for the breach of privilege committed by the Morning Post in the article...
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MADAME DARUSMONT'S LECTURES ON SOCIAL REFORM.
The SpectatorCURIOSITY and the fame of FRANCES WRIGHT led tts to the Free- mason's Hall on Thursday evening, to hear this clever champion of female independence, who now bears the matron...
THE LORDS AND THE ELECTION PURIFICATION BILLS.
The SpectatorWE call the attention of the country to the extraordinary political farce now acting in the House of Lords, on the subject of the notorious cor- ruption of the footrest...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorBIRTHS. On the 20th inst., in Connaught Square, the Lady of WILLTAM DENRy, Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., Lady MARTA SoMERVIT.T.E, of a daughter. On the 20th inst.,...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived—At Gravesend, June 24th, Wave, Goldsmith, from Van Diemen's Land- 25th, Lady M•Naghtan, Faith. from Bengal; Rubicon, Smith ; and Esther, Clarkson, f rom N e w south...
STATISTICS OF SWEDEN.
The SpectatorBY A CORRESPONDENT WHO HAS RECENTLY VISITED rne COUNTRY. [This article appeare in a part of our impression last week. It is now inserted in the remainder. Mr the use of those...
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LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q. No. XVII.
The SpectatorTHE MONOPOLIST ELECTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Paris, 25t1 June 1834. Ste — "Nous sommes aujourd'hui, ce que noes etions trier," said the im- mortal SIEVES to the...
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REASONS FOR RENEWING THE COERCION BILL.
The SpectatorWE find the following remarks in the Courier, in reference to Mr. O'CONNELL'S renewal of the Repeal agitation. " A peaceable and prosperous vinter might reduce the honourable...
TOPICS OP THE DAY.
The SpectatorMINISTERIAL MFFICULTIES. Ni }mous addresses have been presented to the king expeessive of gratitude for his late speech to the Bishops.. It does not appear that his Majesty...
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POLITICAL TREACHERY OF SIR GEORGE MURRAY.
The SpectatorIT was a 'avourite maxim among the profligate politicians of an- cient Rome, that "men were to be cheated with oaths." Sir GEORGE MURRAY appears to have adopted this rule, with...
THE NEW COLONY.
The SpectatorWe announced last week, that the project of the SOUTH AUSTRA- LIAN ASSOCIATION, for founding a Colony in Australia, had ob- tained the sanction of his Majesty's Government. The...
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THE BRUTES OF THE "RING."
The SpectatorTHE public has heard much of the immorality which is said to arise from the consumption of malt liquor by the poor; and the arm of the law stilt soon be made to fail heavy on...
POLICY OF THE NONCONFORMISTS.
The SpectatorTHE Morning Chronicle, on Monday, told the Dissenters that their emancipation " from political disabilities of every kind and ilegree is nigh at band; and, if they will only...
ROYAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The SpectatorTUESDAY. THE second performance of the Creation was on Tuesday morning. Throngs of carriages and groups of pedestrians crowded to the Abbey at an early beer; and long before...
CURRENT CORN CATECHISM.
The Spectator[ORIGINAL, AND FOUNDED ON TI1E MATERIALS OF THE PASSING MOMENT.3 Morning Post. House of Co lllll ions. June 20, 0334. — What he intended to do was to pt te the general...
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WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
The SpectatorThe rehearsal, as it is called, of the second day's performance, was on Wednesday morning ; and the Abbey was crowded. Hundreds of auditors were unaale to catch even a glimpse...
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FRIDAY.
The SpectatorThe good people of London perhaps like music, but never thoroughly unless in a crowd. A month ago, tickets were exhi- bited at the shop-windows; and the same persons who then...
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TIIEATR1CALS OVER TIIE WATER.
The SpectatorTHE Victoria opened on Monday, under the sole management of ABBOTT ; who, during the brief interval of its recess, has en- livened the interior by introducing a bright green...
TAGLIONI AND THE BALLET.
The SpectatorTHE " Interrnede Ballet," as a new divertissement at the King's Theatre is called, is merely a forest scene, with TAGLIONI and the Cory phees as Diana and her Nymphs. Here are...
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SPECTAToR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorTRAVEL. European Colonies in Various Parts of the World, viewed in their Social, Moral, and Physical Condition. By John Ilowison, Esq. Author of "' Sketches of Upper Canada,"...
HOWISON'S EUROPEAN COLONIES.
The SpectatorMR. HOWISON is favourably known by his Sketches of Upper Canada, and by another publication on Colonial life, whose plea- sant impressions we remember, though we forget the...
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Under the modest title of Sketches of Natural History, and
The Spectatorin the simple guise of a child's book, MARY Howerr has given us a series of vivid poetical pictures of natural scenes and of the life of individual animals, which, though level...
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, is the title
The Spectatorof a pleasant and entertaining miscellany, of four volumes, by Mrs. JAEIESON. It consists of an account of a visit to Germany, called "Sketches of Art, Literature, and...
PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
The SpectatorTHE principal work of the week is Lieutenant BITE NEi'S Narra- tive if a Voyage on the Indus and Travels into Rokhara. This, however, is a week of " song that charms the sense ;...
Mr. WELLS, the author of a volume on the Revenue
The Spectatorand Ex- penditure of the United Kingdom, is known, to persons who take an interest in these subjects, as a contributor to the Daily Press. His letters to the best of all...
ARTS AND ARTISTS.
The SpectatorNEW PRINTS. WILKIE'S Parish Beadle, which has been so long in RAIMBACH'S hands, is now completed in the most elaborate and finished style of line en- graving; and it makes a...