4 APRIL 1835

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Tories have been utterly defeated on the great question of Irish Church Reform. The debate on Lord JOHN RUSSELL s motion commenced on Monday, was continued during the three...

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3364111 net Pram/ling* in learliament. I. THE IRISH 1011(1144:11.

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The House of Commons was called, over on Monday, on the motion of Lord JUIIN FtossELL. The attendance of Members was uncom- monly large. The galleries were opened at six o'clock...

On Wednesday, the House of Commons, by a party vote

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of 216 to 200, reversed its decision of the previous week on the subject of the Leicester petition; • and secured to the Ministers the two Tory votes of Messrs. GOULBURN and...

Continental politics present few claims on our columns this week,

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at least in point of novelty. The French Chancellor, PERSIL, appears to have been acting in his wonted arbitrary manner, with reference to the order of the Chamber of Peers that...

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tbc ihictrupaIid.

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The grand dinner to Lord John Russell, which we briefly noticed in our second edition last week, took place on Saturday at the Free- mason's Tavern. Nearly three hundred Members...

At Hatton Garden Police Oflice yesterday, Christopher Charles Foster, S.

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G. Foster, and Jonas King Murphy, were charged with being concerned in forgeries in the City, to the amount, it was stated, of 30,000/. The parties had absconded on Sunday last...

Biliirdlaneaut.

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Lord Amherst has been sppointed Commissioner to Canada, in the room of Viscount Canterbury. Lord Eliot has left town on a special mission to Madrid. It is said that the main...

EN. &wit Tlir King rind Queen arrived at St. James's

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Palace from Windsor On IVednesday. At two o'clock, the King held a Levee ; which was naended by the .Ministers of State, the Foreign Ambassadors, and rather it small assembly of...

Che Countrv.

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A Conservative Club, under the most powerful auspices, is being establishad in the county of Warwick. Among the members already entered, we observe the names of Lord Ingestre,...

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Captain PECHELL was dismissed yesterday from his post of Equery

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to the Queen, in consequence of his vote in favour of Lord Joni( RUSSELL'S motion. It is difficult in these times to play the courtier and the patriot too.

The Courier OH Monday published a correct epitome of the

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Report of the Corporation Commissioners. The Report itself, after lying for a week in Mr. GOULBURN'S office, was then produced in the House of Commons. The Commissioners do not...

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POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY. Lord 3 . N RUSSELL'S resolution ought to have been agreed to in the Corm it: e of the House of Commons last night. The subject was thoroughly exhausted :...

Among the many things for x !rich we have been

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unable to make mom this week, is the concludin g notice of the Vocal Concerts. - _

Mr. ANDREW JOHNSTONE absented himself from the division of Friday

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morning ; and lust night alleged as an excuse for his backslid- ing, that he wished to give Ministers a fair trial, and that the Opposi- tion was a rope of sand. Now, we leave...

The desperate position of the Ministry has naturally given rise

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to speculations on the composition of the Cabinet, which it is supposed must soon be formed to succeed them. Nobody doubts that Lord MELBOURNE ought to be restored to the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The division in the House of Commons last night has not produced any effees upon the Money Market. Consols for Account are now 911 92, which...

THE THEATRES.

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TIIE LYCEUM. THE old proverb, " too much familiarity breeds contempt," is unfor- tunately realized in the Suite de tAuberge des Adrets ; and Robert Ma- (vire, in the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—Off Margate. April 2.1, Y the. Dmyner, from China. Oil Peal, 21, Alex Roing. St. Croix, from China. At Portsmouth, 1st, Henry Wellesley, Johtl: , 011. front Ceylon. At...

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DIVISION ON THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.

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REFORMING MAJORITY. Acheson,Visct., Armagh C. Adam, C.. Clackmannan Kinn C. A g lionby, II. A.. Codarmouth Ainsworth, l'., Dolton Alston, H., IlertArdshire An g erstein,J.,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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POLITICAL CLUBS AND AGITATION : RESULTS OF TORY PREDOMINANCE. SINCE the accession of the Duke of WELLINGTON and his col- leagues to the Ministry, the country has been in one...

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LORD STANLEY'S BIGOTRY.

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LORD STANLEY has always received credit in this journal for superior vigour as a Parliamentary gladiator. His energy of manner and perspicuity of expression we have never...

OBJECTIONS TO THE NEW MARRIAGE BILL, Tins Tory Ministers have

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acted wisely in removing that clause from the Marriage Bill which rendered it necessary for the parties wishing to be married to swear before a magistrate that they dis- sent...

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LETTERS FROM PARIS, BY 0. P. Q. No. XXXV1.

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THE FALL OF THE TORIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Paris, 81st Mizrch 1835. SIR — There was a time when the Tories were hated and leered: this was the time of PITT,...

BAILEY'S RATIONALE OF POLITICAL REPRE-

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SENTATION. THIS is a work that ought not only to be read, but studied, by' every one interested in the great problem it undertakes to solve— the Rationale of Political...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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PoLITICAL SCIENCE, The Rationale of Political Representation. By the Author of" Essays on the Formation of Opinions." &c. &e. • Bunter. TRAVELS, A Voyage Round the World ;...

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HOLMAN'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

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OUR blind traveller improves as he proceeds; the third volume of his adventurous pilgrimage surpasses the two former ones both in pleasantness and interest. His path is more...

PROVINCIAL SKETCHES

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Is a very clever and amusing picture of life in a country town,with all its ludicrous punctilios, its stiff gentility, and its small factions about small subjects ; mingled here...

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The Resources and Statistics of Nations, Part IV.

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KNOWLES'S Critical Fac - simile and Pronouncing Dictionary, Parts and IV. These two useful publications—for useful they are, if they possessed far greater defects than any that...

The Cruise, or a Prospect of the West Indian Archipelago.

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A Tropical &etch, with Notes Historical and Illustrative. By ROBERT NUGENT DUNBAR. Winter Leaves. Two little volumes of respectable poetry ; the former of which, though...

The Wont/of Waters, by CIIARLES WILLIAMS. In case "the pres-

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sure from without" should prevent us from recurring to this volume, let US recommend it as a delightful little book ; various, instructive, en- tertaining, and capable of...

INFORMATION OR INSTRUCTION.

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Chambers's Information for the People. A volume both good ud cheap; containing forty-eight popular treatises on history, science, and art.

PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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BESIDES the foregoing works, a number of publications are before us; sonic of them requiring a closer examination and greater space than can be given them in a week of such...

The Poetical Works of SAMUEL ROGERS, Part II. A republication

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deserving of all favour for the beauty of its illustrations ; and which, by the by, have their uses too, for we believe that some are induced to read the poetry of Rooens in...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE artists are all busy putting the finishing touches to their pictures for the forthcoming exhibitions ; and their labours are sweetened by the preliminary praises of private...

MISCELLANEOUS.

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Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland. The Sketch-Book of the South. Thaumaturgia, or Elucidations of the Marvellous, by an Oxonian, is a collection of facts, anecdotes,...

PANORAMA OF JERUSALEM, LEICESTER SQUARE.

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NEXT to an actual visit to a place, there is nothing like a panorama to convey . a vivid impression of reality. What the illusion of the diorama effects in the instance of an...

A Letter to Sir 11013ERT PEEL, by Sir EDWARD CUST,

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on the architecture of our public buildings,—in which he recommends the institution of a sort of Architectural Board of Control, to be com- posed of five amateurs, as a remedy...

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

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A Translation of the Count F. V. Bannacovi's Compendium of the Literary History tf Italy until the Formation of the Modern Italian Language. The Twelfth Volume of Scott's Prose...

FICTION.

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Pierce Falcon, or the Outcast ; a novel, in 3 vols. Social Evils and their Remedy, by the Rev. CHARLES B. TAYLER. No. VII. The Soldier : a tale whose object is to illustrate...