2 JULY 1836

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NEWS OF TILE W EE K.

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THE Peers have this week revelled in the exercise of irrespon- sible power. They have proved how feeble is the curb which the Reform Act was supposed to have placed on their...

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Louis Plump continued his journey to Neuilly. lle has since

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re- ceived addresses from numerous deputations of the two Chambers, and other public bodies. Ile is said to be cool and calm as usual, but me- lancholy. Everybody is now...

Sir FRANCIS IlEsn dissolved the Assembly of Upper Canada on

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the 28th of May, and summoned a new Assembly for the 4th of July. De was urged to take this step by addresses from various parts of the pro- llis reply to one from Toronto is...

Debatcd nub protect:tined iu Varliamtnt.

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I. THE IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL. Petitions from various places were presented to the House of Peers, on Monday, praying their Lordships to agree to or dissent from the Irish...

There is little news from Spain. Coanovit has returned to

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Vittoria ; and it is said that, in conjunction with General Evass, he is about to renew offensive operations. Even the Courier, however, now admits that the Spaniards generally...

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Court.

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THE King and Queen went on Tuesday to Bushey Park, and returned to Windsor in the evening. On Wednesday, the King came to Town and held a Levee. Among the company were the Dukes...

bc Countrn.

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The contest in Merionethshire terminated on Saturday, in the election of the Tory candidate, Mr. Richards, by a majority of 301 to 150 over his opponent, Sir W. Wynn. The Post...

O'CONNELL TO l'EOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN—LETTEII II.

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"Justice-Justice for Ireland." There is an old proverb which sat's, •• tine Net is worth a ship-load of arguments.' I will ;t it e y,.0 the rail or value. It is re : oall ease....

Some mischievous individual (lit the bead of (lily's valuable drums

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at the Opera-house on Sat urday uight. Silver spoons and forks worth about '.2t Mt have been stolen film White's Club•house. [Sono' needy Tory, we suppose, has made free with...

ht! filletrapartd.

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Mr. Teuton, Chairman of the Southwark Referm Association, has replied rather sharply to•Mr. Harvey's letter in defence of his speech and refusal to vote on the Irish Church...

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PCS 'SCRIPT S ATI' I:PAY NIGHT. The F.raminer of to-n:orrow contains another misapprehension of our views. We arts t hat gull with urging Minist..rs to resign at all events....

The lieferna Association has begun to move in the business

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of this year's Registry. Circulars containing plain directions for waking shouts and ohjections ate in course of distribution from the rooms, No. 11, Cleveland Bow; where any...

T h e ,S i I ! la t 1 i r.t :

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i t! t Lord .11.... ::1141 , )11 to rt:ft:“. 1 . 1 r!l . 1 • f 1:i:1, I r I I t I-0 tt.u.! in !! ..t!t whel v .! ::t. hut!, the • . H u tt lit, hem lobo- - is metes...

IRELAND.

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A short time since, Mr. Grattan, the('orate of Swanlinbar in Cacao, diocese of Nil stole, was dismissed born his curacy by the Rector, nephew to the Bishop. Ilis ease excited...

The Standard of this evening„ in an article ridiculing the

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manner in which the Ministerial writers treat the question of Peerage Ileforen, makes the following happy quotation from Stiassettalto. "Et/mos.—what is it ; to u r uorship's...

m NIIN:',11•CST". —In air report of tit. , .p.arlt of bud

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t. there is a t c po g ratthical Iiii•lake which makes lioustli tit r i i ii-; Lordship ;vas conttasling the btu-al sty le of Mr. with Mr. slaws male civilize-I mode of wart...

Th, it 'or subscriptions to tilt' OTONNI:t.t. T,:St111/0111:11, 01:111C11 11:tint

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to (Allude from our ealveitising coltunits this sere':. I vont:Tit:vs to receive additions from the most intleential and resp• mad IL t i n.:ur':sin tile. country. Among them...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PEERAGE REFORM. Tnz public business of this session is really over. There ye t remain some important bills in the Commons, which it is as well , perhaps, should be sent up to...

MONEY MARKET.

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sraca Exeustcor, FRIDAY AFTERNOON'. We have to notice this week the very unusual circumstance of a rise of ?i per cent. in the price of Coren.!s in one day. The business...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Anis. — A t De:l,smcv tat, George mite Vourt It, Waugh. from china. ON Plymouth. June _9th, klattlitis Camden, Gribble. titan ditto. Off Liverpool. June 301h. Eliza m any u...

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MARY MA G DA LE N E.

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THE NORTON plotters having failed to prove any criminal act against Lund MELnouRNE, have been anxious to create the im- pression that his conversation was improper, and that he...

" MIGHTY GREAT LIARS."

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TILE name of O'CoNNELL seems to throw the Tories, high and low, into a state of mental fury, which incapacitates them from dis- tinguishing, not only between truth and...

BELLIGERENT POLICY OF THE OPPOSITION.

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IT is a source of great lamentation to the Tories that Englishmen have turned their attention to their own concerns, instead of fo- reign polities and the squabbles of...

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THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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'Pia Manager of the Italian Opera has hitherto rested on the vocal strength of his corps. The old operas t for so we must now roll them) of HOSSIN1 have finnisbed nut the...

Three giraffes have arrivel for the Sorry Zoological Gardens ; one

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of them is fifteen feet in hei g ht. They were nikett in the plains of Dongola, and NOIlle A hyssiebois attend 011 them. The Duke of Bedford ha: signilied his intention of...

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The Go,ip's Week. [Iv the Author of .. Slight Reminiscences."

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With ITood.cutts tra• Lis. and Adam ores of Jon:LOT:in Jefl'erson Minim% ; or Seems: on the M ksis- Ileil'ey. .

do a great deal of business besides. I can say

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nu more about the boys hoe : would have liven reformed long ago: but as this is not to be hoped fire at pre- four yards at a limning jump, am! two at a standiog jump. I intend...

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JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW.

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LIKE Paris and the Parisians, Mrs. TROLLOPE'S present pro- duction is a made-up article; but less amusing, less striking, and less true. It is one thing to tell what one sees,...

THE GOSSIP'S WEL

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Tns: charm of these stories lies in the vivid painting of the lan- guage, which realizes the images wiih the freshness and glow of a fine picture. The author's ideas are evolved...

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The First Number of the Nainionati:. Journal, edited by Mr.

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AKERMA N. The success of tbk work will depetal upon tire number of persons who take an interest in the subjects it treats of being sufficient to support its sale. Judging by the...

PROGRESS OF PUB LICATION.

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AFTER long looking at and much meditating upon the mighty pile of Books which the accumulations of three weeks had pro- duced, the heat merle of reducing the chaotic heap to...

Recollections of an Artillery Wirer. Two volumes of egotistical gossip,

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by BENSON HILL the actor ; who narrates his adventures when a stage-struck lieutenant in barracks in Ireland, serving in the American campaign, and in the operations in Flanders...

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Locee's Treatise on Edna - dim forms the Third Volume of the

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Masterpieces rf English Prose Literature; to which Mr. ST. .1011N has prefixed a Preliminary Essay on the subject of the work, and added a variety of notes. Education itself is...

Tales if Fab*ion and Realty are written, so the announce-

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ments tell us, by the daughters of Lord Fla; mums BEAucLERK ; they are dedicated to the cousin of the writers, the Dutchess of ST. AenaN's. They profess to be founded on fact....

The current Number of rhambers's Educational course con- tains an

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Introduction to the Sciences ; and is the best treatise which has yet appeared in the series. Of course, in a little book extending to no more than one hundred pages, and...

The Principles rf Perpectice, and their Application to Draw- inz

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from Nature, by WILLI/km Riese, is a Might but simple and clear intraditethei to perspective, well calculated for amateurs, to wlmin a superficial but practical acquaintance...

Obserrations on the Curiosities rf Nature, by the late W

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1.1Am BuRT, Esq., of Ply mouth, is a pos:limnous publication, by the autlior'a nephew, of so inuch as remained of a series of " reflections far every day ill the yter,a On...

Improved as modern Guide-books are in the quality of their

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intelligence and the character of their deseriptiena the i :ea of making the pencil subserve the pen in pointing out in detail the notable objects in the diflirreut views, has...

Boole; of JUVENILE INereaceioar.

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The number of beaks ft ii the amusement find edifiration of :scents fall:.; is so great, and their merits arc now so nivel) supe- 1 ior to what they were a few year; ago, when...

A Gloasary rf Terms used in Architecture, is a careful

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compile- thin, renderad popularly useful and attractive by graphic exemplifi- ca I a ins, to the number of a hundred awl filly, beautifully cut in wood. !'hest are not confined...

Chess male Easy, is a full and intelligible introduction to

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the rudiments a the game, by Gagntee WALKER ; rendered mole clear by neat illustrative diagrams ; and including the laws af clic ,s, with remarks openings end endings of' games;...

The history of a number of bat barons tribes, like

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those which originally formed the state of Russia in Europe, does not seem to be a very promising subject ; uor have the previaus accounts of that enipile up to the reign of...

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NEW EDITIONS.

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If the length of a review depended solely on the merit of a book, the publications under this head might cf themselves have sufficed for one " Spectator's Library ;" but it is...

Of the numerous tribe of ;Magazines and Periodicals, we have

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only turned over the leaves of Tait and Blackwood. Tait opens with the first of a new series of papers. that, from the glance we took of it, is likely to be relished—" Tours and...

To the reader this Progress may seem long : the

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authors and publishers of the forty affairs which it embraces will probably conceive their productions have been dealt with far too briefly • the Spectator imagines the just...

BOOKS ON PHRENOLOGY,

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The number of popular and elementary treatises on Phrenology shows that this new science of mind is gaining ground in public estimation generally, as well as amoog,...