6 OCTOBER 1832

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The last accounts from San Ildefonso are dated September 29th.

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The writer, the French Ambassador, says- " The King, who has several times been given up by all the physicians, is now apparently recovering. If he continues in the present...

The arrangements of the French Ministry - have at length as-

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sumed a tangible shape. - General SEDASTIANI, Baron. Louis, and GIROD de retire; .the . Duke DE BROGLIE succeeds to the Foreign department, M. HUMANS to the department of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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AnvicEs have 'been received from Oporto down to last Sunday. There was a furious attack made upon the town on Michaelmas- day (MiorrEis jour de fae), which was not resisted...

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be Court.

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THE announcements of the motions of the King and Queen during the week seem to have been few, and those few owe little to the pen of the describer. The Court Journalist, like...

From the Frankfort Papers it appears, that the people of

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Hesse Cassel are determined to use their privileges while they have them. The lamentation of the Frankfort Conservative journalist is exceedingly edifying- " The elections for...

ebe Stetropoi151. Sir Peter Laurie was unanimously elected Lord Mayor

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on Saturday last. We noticed the election in our second edition. The lately-elected Sheriffs of London and Middlesex gave their in- auguration dinner on Monday, at the hall of...

Our last notices of IBRAHIM PACHA left him in full

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march upon Aleppo; towards which city, after the defeat described in the sixth bulletin of the Army of Egypt, HUSSEIN PACHA. had retreated. As IBRAHIM advanced, the Commander of...

There is still, the Courier of last night says, considerable

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doubt whether the Northern Powers, Prussia and Russia, will permit coercive measures to be employed against the King of Holland. The argument urged or alleged is, that the King...

We noticed in the second edition of our last Number,

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the riotous behaviour of the inhabitants of Mauritius, on the landing of Mr. JEREMIE the barrister, who had been sent out as Attorney-General of the island. More particular...

The Government of Hanover have recommended to the Diet, that

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one uniform transit-duty, as well as tollage for goods, should be fixed throughout the Empire ; but there is not the slightest reason for supposing that the recommendation will...

Lord MINT() had his first audience at Berlin on the

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27th September, when he delivered his credentials. Lord DURHAM had at that date left Berlin for London. The Daily Papers have been assuring us from time to time that his...

RSCH arrived at Corfu on the 3d of last month,

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*the decree of the National Assembly of Greece confirming the election of Prince OTHO as King; and an address tetbe rung Prince, agreed to at the same time. These doeurnents are...

" All purely scientific works to be exempt from previous censorship

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; politi- cal publications, the contents of which are chiefly political, or merely argumen- tative, to be liable to censorship, without regard to the number of sheets of which...

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ST. Jonx or JERUSALEM.—In consequence of certain proceedings of persons

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calling themselves " Brothers " of this Order, the Agent- General in this country has considered it necessary, in the last week, publicly to announce that the only legitimate...

The Lord Chancellor will resume the business in the Court

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of Chancery on the 1st of November, which is the first seal-day of the Term. Motions will be heard for the 2d, 8th, 15th, 22d, and 26th ; Petitions on the 3d ; Rehearings and...

On Thursday evening, a young man, very fashionably dressed, en-

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tered the shop of Mr. Pepys, the cutler, in the Poultry, and approach- ing Mr. Pepys and his SOD, who were behind the counter, politely re- quested they would exchange him a lot...

A boy named Morreny was killed at the floor-cloth-manufactory of

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Mr. Goulston, in the Kent Road, by falling through a trap-door. He bad been specially warned of its being open, not a minute before he fell. On Monday night, about half past...

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EPILOGUE OF THE BARNES TRAGEDY.

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MR. PERFECT has addressed the Times on the subject of the Duke of Cumberland and the Misses Perfect. He does not trouble himself to go into the particulars of Mr. Jeff's letter,...

Mr. R. H. Gurney, M.P. for . Norwich, has met with

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a severe ac- cident from a gun accidentally going off, the contents of which lodged in his thigh.—Cambridge Chronicle. At Partney, on Saturday last, Mr. Robinson Goodwin, a fine...

Cbc enuntrn.

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There is not at present a single prisoner for trial in Bristol Gaol on a capital charge. Sir Charles Wetherell's attendance, therefore, may be dispensed with. Subpoenas were...

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On Thursday night (the 27th ultimo), a fire broke out

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in Chudleigh, which destroyed nineteen houses before its ravages could be subdued.— Devonshire Chronicle. A fire took place on Sunday night, at the village of Howe, in the...

. Two children, apparently between seven and eight years of

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age, ap- peared before the Lord Mayor and Magistrates, at the Guildhall in York, on Thursday last, on a charge of having wilfully broken a fence near Scarcroft. The Lord Mayor...

IRELAND.

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The inauguration dinner of the Mayor of Dublin took place on Mon- day. The Marquis of Anglesea is lying at the Lodge, extremely ill of his old complaint—tic : he requested the...

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.

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Monday, October 1. The Trial Stakes, of 10 sore. each. Mr. S. Day's Salute walked over. Match-100, h. ft. Lord Chesterfield's Weeper, 2 yes. 7st. 131b 1 Lord Exeter's Aspasia...

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ELECTION TALK.

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ASHTON.—The numberof voters will be 441. There are two candi- dates--Mr. Hindley, a resident, and Colonel Williams of Liverpool. The latter gentleman will not canvass, nor even...

SCOTLAND.

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We understand that a private meeting has been held in town, pre- vious to the calling of an open meeting of the trades, in order to adopt measures to get the exclusive...

THE CHOLERA.

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The reports of the week present the following results. New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries. Saturday 278 116 189 Monday 700 284 411 Tuesday 399 150 233 Wednesday. 395 168 166 •...

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Annum—Mr. Edmund Macdonnell is a candidate for the county, ion

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Conservative principles. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—The Duke of Cumberland, as Chancellor, has appointed the 24th of November for holding a special commence- ment for conferring...

BANFFSHIRE.—We have learned, from a source on which we can

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rely, that the county of Banff will be contested. The embryo opponent of Mr. Fergusson, of Pitfour, is a young man of Liberal principles. It is expected the contest will be a...

iItellantuud.

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Captain Horace Beauchamp Seymour, the new Equerry to his Majesty, in the room of Colonel Sir Augustus D'Este, is member for the Marquis of Hertford's borough of Bodmin, and was...

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It is reported that Jerome Bonaparte is about to take

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up his re deuce at Stuttgard. The Leipsic Gazette states that Charles the Tenth has chosen, ti castle of the ancient Dukes of Styria, chiefly because the count abounds in game...

THE ARMY.

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WAR - OFFICE, October 2. Memorandum.—The half-pay of the undermentioned offi- cer has been cancelled from the 7th September 1932, inclusive, he having received commuted...

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Despatches have been received at the Admiralty from Admiral PAR-

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KER. They confirm most of the accounts from Oporto in the Morning Papers, and arc very cheering for Don PEDRO.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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CHURCH AND STATE. THE demand for Church Reform is no ephemeral party cry, but springs from the settled determination of the more respectable and independent classes of society,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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The accounts of the Revenue are still very satisfactory. Last week there was a considerable surplus, and it is expected that there will be a further surplus this week.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.

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The John Adams, Butler, from Bengal to London, encountered a violent hurricane on the 10th March in Lat. 12, South Lon g 87 East. and put back with loss of main and mizzen masts...

The Chevalier DE LIMA, the Charg6 d'Affaires of Don PEDRO,

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has received, by express from Falmouth, a letter from his agent there, in which it is stated, that the Miguelites in the action of the 29th ult. lost 2,000 men, and that the...

The Conference humbug continues. We are now informed that Prussia

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has been requested by the Conference to offer her mediation on certain points; and that until the answer arrives, the meetings of the Conference are to be suspended.

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK E XCIIANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. In the early part of the week the Money Market showed considerable buoy- ancy, and on Wednesday Consols for the Account closed at 841 A. New...

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THREATENING VOTERS.

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THE non-electors of Rochdale have passed the following resolu- tion— " We publicly declare that we are determined, individually and collectively, without any evasion or mental...

GAUCHERIE.

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THE French make use of this term to express awkwardness of every kind, but principally awkwardness arising out of mental obliquity. The etymology of the word is significant. It...

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MUSICAL CHAT.

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WE announced, last week, the vocal strength of the two great Theatres ; and, in truth, they are both strong—strong enough to perform any good opera with effect, and, we should...

VESTRIS, who seems to defy Time, or else to bewitch

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him with her saucy smiles and honeyed tones, is as fascinating as ever; and, with her bevy of beauties, converts her Olympic Pavilion into a Circean bower. A new burletta,...

The Adelphi opened with the new burletta of Rip Van

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Winkle —founded on the legend so humorously related by WASHINGTO?; IRVING in the Sketch Book ; but the burletta is by no means equal to the story. Rip is cursed with a termagant...

THE THEATRES.

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Diann of the Winter Theatres opened on Monde.y,—Covent Garden, the Adelphi, and the Olympic—Madame VE'STRIS'S. LAPORTE has embellished the interior of Covent Clarden, which...

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RAILROADS.

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TITS following paragraph appears in the Morning Herald of Wed- nesday- 4 , It seems generally admitted, that the advantage of a railway is almost con- fined to a dead level ;...

QANOON-E-ISLAM—K . HA.UNIE KINEH-WALLA.

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THE first of these works is the composition of a native Indian, who has, under the direction of Dr. HERKLOTS, minutely, and we dare say, accurately, described the whole...

AMERICAN WOOD ADVENTURES.—" On Thursday last," says the Western Inquirer,

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U. S., " Jenison Alkire took with him his sister Elizabeth, and proceeded about three miles from home, for the purpose of watching a deer lick. They staid all night at the lick,...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ORIENTAL MANNERS, Qanoon.e-Islam ; or, the Customs of the Moosultnans of India. By O. Herklots, M.D Parbury and Co. The K'Haunie Kineh-Walla ; or, Eastern Story-Teller. A...

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LORD MILTON ON THE CORN-LAWS.

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THIS pamphlet, though just published, was, as the noble author informs us, written many months ago. It has appeared at a good time, and is calculated to answer a good end. It is...

PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE NORTHERN COASTS OF AMERICA.

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Tins is one of the masterly compilations of the Edinburgh Cabi- net Library. Its subject is one of the most interesting chapters of discovery,—interesting not only because the...

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CORBYN ON CHOLERA.

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THIS elaborate work on Cholera, written and printed in India, con- tains, first, a statement of the author's own views of the disease; second, an examination of the writings of...

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THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

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WE do not consider it necessary either to announce or to describe the successive Numbers of the Quarterly Literary Periodicals.. they rarely contain matter which calls for...

LIICETT'S ADDRESS ON INSANITY.

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?xis Address, as it is called, has been sent to us along with a letter in praise of its author, by himself, for any thing we know to the contrary. The publication comes under...

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A new series of the Library of the Fine Arts

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is announced to commence next month, under the auspices of another editor, aided by fresh contri- butors. Its late editor, who was also the projector and proprietor of the...

PICTORIAL PERIODICALS.

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WE are glad to have the Second Part of E. W. COOKE'S Views of the Old and New London Bridges before us, for we have seen no similar work so really excellent and so unpretending...

The Third Part of the Illustrations of Byron is a

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great improvement, upon the second. HOWARD'S design from Manfred, who is represented in converse with the " Witch of the Alps," is graceful, but it wants the spirit of poetry....

FINE ARTS.

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EMBELLISHURNTS OF THE ANNUALS. WE have before us the plates of the Keepsake, always the best of the miscellaneous Annuals, and of Friendship's Offering; but neither are equal...

The Fifth Number of the Gallery of Portraits contains Sir

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Josnea: REYNOLDS'S noble and sensible portrait of Fox ; en admirable head of Bossuet, full of life and character; and a quaint portrAit of Lorenzo de . Medici, from an...

The Third Number of KEARNEY'S Illustrations of the Surry Zoologi-

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cal Gardens, gives us a portrait of the Wild Ass, of which such fre- quent mention is made in Scripture. From the drawing, and Mr. KEARNEY'S interesting account of the animal,...