8 SEPTEMBER 1832

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Hs that has the fortune or the misfortune to be roused from pleasant slumbers on a moonshiny night by the angry cries of a couple of tom-cats, and who, making a virtue of...

• The trial of the persons arrested by the Belgian

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Government,— .•onScihoie release King WILLIAM and his coadjutors, the members .-allie'Conference, have rested the release of M. THoRN,—was to takelilaCe on Wednesday. The charge...

The intelligence from Paris contains little -of interest. The Ministry

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is still undecided. SEBASTIAN' is said to be iri a state of convalescence. • The people of Paris artamused from day to day with criminal trials,—a kind of petty warfare, by...

The Vienna papers of the 23d ult. mention a report

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there, of the death of Captain REINDL, the person who attempted to shoot the young King of Hungary; in consequence of the wound he subsequently inflicted on himself. The...

A plot has been discovered in the Canton of Bern;:f'oTrL

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version of the Liberal constitution, and numerous arra,4i place in consequence. A Captain UNTULUS is mentic:). head director. His coadjutors were mostly young men of the...

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While Warsaw was yet in the hands of its highminded

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defenraers against the arms of the pious NICHOLAS, it was stated that its population was by no means unanimous in their opposition to the Russians. The Jews, particularly, were...

The territory of the United States, winding along the shores

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of the Atlantic from the Bay of Fundy to the Mouths of the Mississippi, embraces in its long arms every description of clime from the frigid zone to the torrid. The citizens are...

'Though the official printer has not found it convenient to

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supply the subscribers to the Parliamentary Papers, or even the Members of the House of Commons, with their copies of the Evidence given before the Committee on the Bank...

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. etturt.

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The last Levee for the season was held on Wednesday. It, as all these ceremonies have been for several weeks, was very thinly attended; there were only forty-one persons...

ne siartruptail.

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The registrations for the City of London, under the Reform Act, amount to 16,842 electors for the City and 384 for the county ; Westminster, 10,103, rind 746; Mandebone, 6,501,...

On Monday morning, the quarterly sale of teas by the

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East India Company commenced at the India House. The declaration amounted to 8,400,0031b., being 100A101b. more than was offered at the June sale. The quantities of the...

Lord Brougham, it seems, left no case undecided at the

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rising of the Court, but one—not a general judgment, but a judgment on one point of a case only. Sir Albert Pell has enjoyed his knighthood and judgeship for but a brief space...

Warrants were in the course of the week granted, by

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Mr. Broderip, of the Thames Police Office, against Colonel Burrell and Captain Bell, the agents to Don Pedro, for an alleged infraction of the Foreign Inlistmcnt Act ; but,'...

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On Wednesday morning, the body of a middle-aged man was

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picked up in the Thames at low-water, opposite the Temple. On removing the corpse, which was in a shocking state of decomposition, blood was observed to issue from three deep...

ebt COUntr11.

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RIDE REGATTA.—Tlie regatta and fete in honour of his Majesty's birth-day, which had been several times postponed in consequence of the weather, took place at Hyde on Friday....

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IRELAND.

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The Irish Conservative Fund is described by the Dublin papers as a failure. The sources are rapidly drying up. The people at large do not subscribe, and of the aristocracy many...

ELECTION TALK. •

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BATH.-Mr. Roebuck the barrister, a man according to. Mr. Hume's own heart, and on of our cleverest political writers, his started for this city. . . • . • • COaxwati.—Sir...

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ED11411intftli.—We hear from many quarters that the return of the

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Lord Advocate and Mr. Abercromby is certain ; but that Mr. Blair's canvass will show - two things,—first, that all the electors of Edinburgh are not of one way of thinking, and,...

Ruthven starts for Dublin, on the Repeal interest; and will, it is said, be joined by O'Connell.

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giilcarattetru4.

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Mr. Kennedy, Clerk of the Ordnance, is appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury, in the room of Lord Nugent. Colonel Fox succeeds to the Clerkship of the Ordnance. By the...

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Earl Mulgrave arrived in Jamaica on the ‘26th July, and

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was sworn in on the :2Stii with the customary ceremonies. The Jamaica papers cf the 28th July mention an alleged attempt to set fire to Kingston, but give no particulars. The...

TIIE NEW CUSTONIS.—The following is a list of the articles,

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with the quantities of each, which may now be shipped from bonded warehouses free of duty. Tea t oz., or Coffee It oz., Cocoa I oz. per day, for each person on board. Wino, 1...

SONG OF THE DEPARTING SPIRT 0,F TITHE.

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BY TICE EDITOR OF CAPTAIN ROCK'S 3IEMOIRS. " The parting Genius is with sighing sent."—Muacrif. [From the Metropolitan Magazine for September.] It is o'er, it is o'er, my...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 28th ult., at the Marquis of Northampton's, Castle Ashby, the Baroness DE N'ORmANN, of a son. On the 6th inst., in Park Street, the Lady ELIZABETH Turrrsts, of a...

We are still without positive accounts from Portugal. According to

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the best advices, it appears that MIGUEL has got together upwards of 20,000 men, of one sort or another, round Oporto ; and that he threatens an immediate attack. PEDRO has...

The members of the Conference have met twice this week,

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and on each occasion remained in deliberation until one o'clock in the morning. There have also been meetings at the house of Lord PALMERSTON on the Belgian question. A new...

The Government of Lours PHILIP pursues its steady game of

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prosecuting the newspapers. No experience enlightens these zealous enemies of discussion ; no defeat casts them down. They have failed in nine cases out often, because the...

The attempt at a revolution in Switzerland, is attributed, by

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the correspondent of the Herald, to Prince METTERNICH. This poor old man has long been in the predicament of ALLAN RAMSAY'S witch" He gets the blanse of all falls out. And...

The following curious commendation of Lord Palmerston, is given by

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our worthy contemporary the Morning Advertiser of this day— " This Lordship pledges himself to the abolition, so far as he may have the power of accomplishing it, of many local...

The Home Secretary has issued circulars calling upon the various

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officers to transmit to him, as soon as they are completed, a statement of the new constituencies under the Reform Act.

The Gazette of last night contains an order dispensing with

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the holding of Coroners' inquests on persons dying of Cholera in Exeter prisons, and ordering the interment of the bodies within twenty-four hours. Thus, at the moment that...

THE ELECTION CANVAS - S.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 34 September 1832. Sue—I was glad to see that you noticed the appearance of Mr. JOSEPH PEASE as a candidate for the county of Durham....

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? PREMATURE INTERMENTS.

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" TO TI1E EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 5th September 1832 Strt—I have never felt more satisfaction at reading any article in a periodical, than in perusing that in the Spectator...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. The evident tendency to improvement which the Stock Market has for some time past exhibited, received a check on Tuesday by the arrival of the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Arabian, Boult, from Bristol to Bengal, put into Colombo on the 27th March, in distress; having experienced a severe gale on the 19th January in Lat. 16 S., Lou. 79 E....

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SHOULD THE KING'S COACHMAN PAY TOLL? HERE is a question for the lawyers ! It has already puzzled the Magistrates of the Police-office and the Magistrates on the Bench ; the...

CABS AND COATS.

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AT Bow Street, on Tuesday, Miss NANCY JEFFREY was charged by Mr. COULTMAN, a County Magistrate, with an assault. The assault consisted in attempting to get into a cabriolet, in...

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WHERRIES versus STEAM-BOATS.

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THERE have been numerous prosecutionsof steam-boats during the last three or four weeks, to which the Magistrates of the Thames Police Office have lent themselves with a zeal...

SUGAR AND SLAVERY.

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SOME able papers have been published lately, more particularly in the Anti-Slavery Reporter, a vigorous and uncompromising, friend of the Black, showing that the supply of sugar...

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HORSE-RACING.

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THE papers of the week contain accounts of horse-races at Paris and in Germany. The English—an island people, not celebrated for nimbleness, and popularly supposed_ to be only...

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CHOOSING A PORTRAIT-PAINTER.

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WHOM would yen recommend to paint a portrait?" is a question that has often been put to us ; and to which we have perhaps as nften: given a diffeDant reply,, a.ecoading to the...

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A royal" Joe" is worth commemoration. . The following is

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travel. ling the round of the papers. "The Princess Victoria the other day was reading the paisage in the Roman History , where's lady, having. -visited Cornelia, 'the mother of...

THE NEW GIL BLA.S.

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THIS is a very clever and lively book in its way, but no more a new Gil Bias than a new Don Quixote. The hero is a imiscular young ruffian, who runs through numerous murders and...

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COUSIN MARSHALL.

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THE first day of each month is marked by no publication of more importance than Miss MARTINEAU'S Illustrations of Political Economy. Each succeeding Number increases our...

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DOVE'S - 1, TYE OF ANDREW MA.RVELL.

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AT a time when Englishmen are chiefly concerned in settling in their own minds the model-character of a member of Parliament, this publication may be considered especially...

BE NT FIAMI C S.

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DR. SOUTHWOOD SMITH'S Lecture over the body of JEREMY BEETRAM as it lay before him on the anatomical table, both by the oc casion and the character of the performance, is a most...

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The other work whose title we have inscribed, is a

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posthumous pamphlet of Mr. BENTHAM, apparently his last work, in which he applies his juridical principles to the destruction of Lord BROUGHAM'S Bankruptcy Court. One of his...

BOOKS ON THE TABLE.

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1. Dr. LARDNER has just published a most valuable manual of Chemistry in his Cyclopedia. The author is Mr. DoNovAN. In a short space, it appears to us to contain a luminous...

THE ARTS.

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THE Second Part of Mr. GOULD'S splendid wcrk of the Birds of Europe has appeared; and is even superior to the First, in the beauty and variety of its specimens, and in the...

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In the Fourth Number of the Grillers/ qf Portraits,• we

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have a vigorous likeness, by VANDERBANK, of the immortal Newton ; whose massive face, with white flowing locks, and somewhat anxious expression, Would seem to convey the notion...

The history of Poland is one of injustice and wrong.

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Her chronicles are records of acts of oppression and tyranny—of the wars of a nation against kings and rulers. Her annals are written in the blood of her children. Her...

Bzwwx'slast work, which he did not live to complete, is

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before us in .rts unfinished state, but not the less interesting because imperfect. It is the tail-piece of this ingenious artist—a memento mori---a graphic finis,...

A good specimen of what is now ordinarily done in

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wood engraving, is afforded us in a spirited sketch of Young Napoleon. There is as little work as possible, but as much as is necessary; and that is clear, bold, and effective,...

H. B. has not been idle since the Parliament broke

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up ; he has been recording one or two of the few incidents that marked its close. Like echoes, his sketches prolong peals of laughter. The Duke of Wellington is made to look...

Acxxameior has just brought out a beautiful improvement upon the

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old crayons, which he calls his Pastiles for Tinting. Its material is a mixture of grease and wax, similar to lithographic chalk ; and it is made of every requisite variety and...

THE ARMY.

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WAR - OFFICE, September 7th.-4th Regt. of Dragoon Guards : Cornet A. B. E. Holdsworth to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Chawner, promoted-31d Regt. of Light Dragoons : Lieut. G. H....

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, September 4.

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INSOLVENTS. BANKRUPTS. FOSTER, MARAIADUKE, Liverpool, chemist, to surrender October 2, 16: solicitors, Messrs. Dewhtirst and Todd, Preston ; and Mr. Jeyes, Chancery Lane....

Friday, September 7.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. and S. TAYT.OR, Hereford, milliners-J. and C. DAWES, Cheltenham. commoncarriers-W. and R. TAYLOR, Shrewsbury, maltsters-OseirAm and Co., Bucelench...