8 NOVEMBER 1834

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Don MIGUEL appears to be moving from one Italian court

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to another, wig' his usual restlessness. It is surmised that he is pestering the different Governments for loans of men and m , :ney, wherewith to make a descent upon Portugal....

The Spanish Ministry is nearly in the same state of

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dis- organization as the French. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, who is suffering from a severe pulmonary complaint, has tendered his resignation to the Queen Regent; and TORENO has been...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tsg French Cabinet was completely broken up on Tuesday even- ing, by the simultaneous resignations of THIERS, GUIZOT, &MANN, Da RIGBY, and DUCHATEL. These Ministers surprised...

The German Diet has been interfering in the internal affairs

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of' Switzerland. The Canton of Berne is to be the directing Canton for the next two years ; and the object of the Diet is to dissuade the other Cantons from sending...

An amendment to the Ministerial address, in reply to the

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Kicg of Holland's speech, was moved in the Second Chamber on Tue,- day week, by M. VAN DAM VAN ISSELT. It was to the effect that the Chamber desired some Rather " political' •...

Accounts from Lisbon have been received to the 25th of

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Oc- tober; bat they possess little interest or importance. TheQueens mother was seriously, but not dangerously indisposed. Some violent attacks had been made in the Chamber of...

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"That all thoughts of drawing the sword once more against

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the Pacha of Egypt have been abandoned by the Sultan, in consequence of an accident, by which the Imperial sword left the side of the Royal Is ,trer to drop into the sea, where...

trio Court.

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Tim King and Queen, accompanied by Prince George of Cambridge, Earl and Countess Brownlow, Sir Herbert and Lady Taylor, and Sir Philip and Lady Sydney, arrived at Brighton from...

ebe InetrapoTig.

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The Lords of the Privy Council again asseirbled on Saturday shortly after three o'clock, and continued in deliberation respecting th fire in the Houses of Parliament, for nearly...

A vessel from Jamaica brings intelligence to the 24th of

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Sep- tember. It is extremely unsatisfactory, and goes far towards establishing the fact that the apprenticeship portion of the Eman- cipation Act is a failure. The Negroes had...

The plan of uniting all the governments and people of

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Italy under the "Protectorate of Austria," again forms a topic of dis- cussion in the letters from the Continent. The project seems to be utterly impracticable in the present...

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The Superb steam-packet, which left the Thames with the mail

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for Hamburg on the 21st of October, has not since been heard of. The Sir Edward Banks, which sailed on the 24th, arrived safely ; but there is too much reason to fear that the...

In the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, Sir John

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Campbell moved for a rule to set aside a zionsuit in the action of Dewar versus Purday, which was tried in this Court at the sittings after last term. The plaintiff claimed...

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" With your notions of honour, you will probably be

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glad that, instead of cropping your ears in the olden fashion, or applying a switch to your shoulders, or my toe to another part of your body, I satisfy myself with saying that...

rbe enuntrp.

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The GloucestersLire Conservatives dined together at Tewkesbury on the 24th ultimo, to celebrate their triumph over the Whigs in the return of Mr. C. W. Codrington to Parliament....

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IRELAND.

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The Lord Primate, the Archbishop, and Bishops of the Irish branch of the Established Church, met on Wednesday week, a, Mr. Quin's (one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners), in...

At Warwick, on Saturday sennight, the Revising Barristers closed their

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courts. Many voters of the List registration were erased from the list, in consequence of not having paid their rates within the period prescribed by the act, and some others...

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Mr. Fitzgerald, the Member for Louth, died on Thursday at

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Clontarf, near Dublin. He was a Catholic and a Repealer. One of the latter class of politicians, probably Mr. Sharman Crawford, will, it is thought, be his successor. Mr....

SCOTLAND.

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A grand Anti-Reform dinner was given on Wednesday week at Aberdeen, to Captain Gordon, Member for the County. The at- tendance was very numerous—about seven hundred, it is...

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Messrs. Grant and Bell have at length exhausted the term

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of their imprisonment under the sentences of the Court of King's Bench. They were condemned to six months' imprisonment, under a prosecution by criminal information, for what...

f1414ernaltrOtt.d.

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Reports are in circulation that Lord Minto will succeed Lord William Bentinek in the Governntent of India ; that Mr. Tennyson %till take Mr. Ellice's place in the War-Office ;...

On Monday, the Court of Cessation was opened in Paris,

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by a speech from M. Dupin, the Procureur-General of the Court ; in the course of which he alluded in terms of deep regret to the burning of our two . Houses of Parliament, and...

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It will be seen by a reference to our Law

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intelligence, that Lord DENMAN has granted a rule to set aside the nonsuit winch he ordered in the case of" Dewar versus Purday." At the last trial, after the best evidence that...

We learn from a circular letter which has been sent

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to us, that it is the intention of the Reformers of the Borough of Lambeth to invite Lord DURHAM to a public dinner. We presume that this intention will not be persevered in ;...

The elections in several of the principal states of North

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America. have terminated in favour of the" Whig" or Anti-Jackson party. In Philadelphia, and in other places, there were some rather serious con- flicts between the contending...

Mr. Rosee, the Member for Penryn and Falmouth, was appointed

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to the office of Solicitor-General, just in time for the opening of the present term. The delay which arose in making this appointment, is attributed to some disagreement...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. There is no additional intelligence as to the reconstruction of the French Cabinet, though it is said that TRIERS was the first person applied to by Count MOLE: but...

The Privy Connell assembled yesterday, to consider their report to

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the King on the origin and consequences of the Great Fire.

REVELATIONS.

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Mr. Evans will sell to morrow (Saturday) sonic curious autograph letters, chiefly addressed to the well-known Dennis O'Bryen, by the late Mr. Fox, Lord Liverpool, Air. Canning,...

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THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. S'Itt — Some months ago, I addressed a letter to you on the subject of the Boards of Customs and Excise. In that letter (which you did me the...

SIX LETTERS TO LORD DURHAM, BY 0. P. Q.

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LETTER L TO THE EARL OF DURHAM. Paris, 5th November 1834. MY LORD—I am not in the habit of paying compliments, and above all, of paying compliments to public men in a public...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Money Market has continued firm, though the business transacted has not been extensive ; the fluctuation in Consols has not exceeded per...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived — Off Margate, Nov. 6th. Parsee, McKellar, from Bengal. At Deal, 6th, Palambam, Willis, from Bombay ; Horatio, Arnold, from Madras ; Enchantress, soar; and Persian....

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, TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE ANTI-REFORMING DEMONSTRATIONS. • :ee the stirring bustle of the Tories in all parts. . . . What t• object to is, the system of mutilating and tsimpromising to gain an en,...

LORD BROUGHAM AND THE CENTRAL COURT BILL.

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THERE appears to be but one opinion in regard to the important advantages to the administration of justice which are likely to result from the establishment of the new Central...

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POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

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THE following passage in the Parisian correspondence of the Morning Herald, this week, has met our eye. "You have found that, with respect to France, the Act of last ses-ion of...

PUBLIC MEN: OVERT ACTS OF TREASON.

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THE Courier last night had a very well-written letter from a cot respondent, who professes to be "One who owes Nothing to Lord Brougham," on the subject of that remarkable...

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SUPERNATURAL ORIGIN OF THE LATE FIRE.

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WHILE the press in general is making sport of the alarming evidence of Mr. COOPER touching the "destruction by fire "— burning-down is too familiar a phrase for so awful a...

WORKING OF THE LAW OF LIBEL: SENSIBLE MANCHESTER JURIES.

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THE trial of Mr. ARCHIBALD PRENTICE, the spirited editor of the Manchester Times, on an indictment for libel, presents some points which ought not to pass unnoticed. It will be...

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MR. BENTHAM AND THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. TO THE EDITOR OF

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THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. 99th October 1834. Sin—For the purpose of helping you to establish the Anti-Ben- thamite character of a certain article in the Westminster, I have...

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WARLEIGH, OR THE FATAL OAK.

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MRS. BRAY'S " Legend of Devon" has scarcely fulfilled the ex- pectations which were formed from its introduction : yet the general reader, who has sympathized with the fair...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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FICTION, Waritigll; or the Fatal Oak. A Legend of Devon. By Mrs. Bray. Author of " Fitz of Fitz.Ford," " The Tuba,' " The White Hoods," " De Folic," &c. Ste. lu 3 vol. Longman...