11 JUNE 1836

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE anticipated struggle between the People's House and the Peers has commenced in good earnest. Antagonist principles of legislation are avowed, and both parties declare their...

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There is not much intelligence of interest from the Continent

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this week. The French Chamber of Deputies have been em- ployed in discussing the budget of the War department ; and the Chamber of Peers sat again as a criminal court on...

It appears certain that the majority in the next Spanish

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Cortes will be Ultra-Liberal. Whether ISTURITZ will accotninodate his measures and language to the temper of the Chamber, remains to be seen. CORDOvA has withdrawn his troops...

iBetattiait roreetringi in fiatliament.

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I. IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on Thursday. sailed the attention of the EOM. of Commons to the alteration of the Lords in the Irish Muni- cipal Bill He commenced...

The Queen of Portugal opened an extraordinary session of the

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Cortes at Lisbon on the 29th of May, with a speech which is even more devoid of interest than such documents generally are.

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In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, Sir John

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Campbell showed cause against a rule for the is g of a commission to examine in Dublin an important witness in the cause of Norton versus Mel.- bourne. The witness in question...

Cbe airtropoItg.

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The Committee of the City of London Reform Club have pub- lished a satisfactory report of their proceedings during the past year. " To increase. protect, and l enity the...

The Surry Tories celebrated the anniversary of their Conservative Association

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on Wednesday, by dining together at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. Sir Edward Sugden and the Marquis of Chandos were the principal orators of the evening. The company consisted...

Ebr Cottrt.

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THE King and Queen arrived at St. James's Palace, from Windsor, on Wednesday. The King held a Levee, which was attended by most of the Foreign Ambassadors, the principal...

The rewards adjudged by the Society of Arts during the

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present Session, were presented to the respective candidates, on Tuesday, at the Hanover Square Rooms, by Sir Edward Codrington ; who acted as Chairman in the absence of the...

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The Lieutenant-Governorship of Granada has become vacant, by the decease

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of Lieutenant-Colonel Mair, K. II. Sir Charles Vaughan, for many years our Ambassador in the United States, has retired on his diplomatic pension. The Gazette of Tuesday...

A public dinner was given at Manchester, on the 25th

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of May, to Mr. James Simpson, of Edinburgh, the distinguished advocate of enlightened general education ; who had just finished a course of highly-interesting lectures on that...

IRELAND.

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The accounts from Ireland are of the same complexion as those of last week. There have been numerous meetings in every county and district to petition for the abolition or...

SCOTLAND.

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A petition from Glasgow, for a full measure of Municipal Reform for Ireland, received 23,000 signatures, ant)was transmitted for presen- tittion to the House of Commons, on...

ebt trountrp.

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The polling at the South Essex election commenced on Monday; and it soon became evident, that although the Liberals bad gained ground in the county since the previous struggle,...

The Town-Council of Hull have rejected Mr. Codd, the Tory

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Town- Clerk, as Clerk of the Peace. Mr. Woolley, one of the Li- teral Councillors, has been elected to the office; the mind:era leing- for Mr. Woolley 25. Mr. Codd 12, Mr....

About 250 Liberal Members of Parliament assembled on Tuesday, at

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the Foreign Office, to hear Lord John Russell explain the course Government intended to take regarding the Irish Municipal Bill. Se- veral Members wished the Lords' amendments...

The system of legislation on Private Bills is becoming every

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day more intolerable. The conduct of the Committee originally appointed on the Aberdeen Schools Bill in coining to a vote that the preamble was not proved, directly in...

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In the official Division Lists just received, see count no

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fewer than thirteen " Doubtful. " and Tones, who voted this morning with the Liberals. Among them are Mr. THOMAS BARING (of Yarmouth), Sir RICHARD BUI.KELEY, Sir HOBERT FERGUSoN...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Again we are forced to apologize for the brevity and imperfection of our report of the Friday's debate in the Commons,—occasioned by the crowded state of our pages...

The petitions which have been presented from every part of

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England and Scotland against Lord LYNDHURST'S atrocious measure ofinsult to Ireland, prove that the People of this country fully understand, and take a deep interest in the...

The Gazette of last night announces the appointment of Mr.

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SENIOR to be Master in Chancery, in the room of the late Mr. TROWER.

We have the utmost satisfaction in announcing to the numerous

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friends of his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, that the operation of removing the cataract, which had for so long a period obstructed his Royal Highness's vision, was...

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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The Courier this evening says, that "the country may look on all idea of a dissolution of Parliament or of a change of Administration to be at an end." Why ?—Because the Liberal...

MONEY MARKET.

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srcic Exciimeoz, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. We have very li o ttle to report this week : indeed, the operations of the. mat ket have been upon an unusually confined scale, and the...

The division of 324 to 238 shows an accession of

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Members to the Liberal majority since Lord FRANCIS EGERTON'S instruction to the Committee was rejected by 307 to 243. There were 17 pairs: there- fore, with the Tellers, 343...

It appears from accounts in the French papers received this

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morning, that disturbances have broken out at Malaga and Carthagena. In the latter place, twenty Carlists woe assassinated ; but the National Guard succeeded in putting down the...

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THE ARMY.

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WAR-OTTICE, June 6. — Scots Fusileer Guards - Gen. G. .I. Earl Ludlow, G C.D. from the 38th Foot, to be Col. vice Gen. the Dttke of Gordon. deceased. 38th Font—Major- Grim, Hon....

DE BERIOT'S CONCERT.

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WE believe DE BERIOT to be the only violinist of the age worthy to be considered as the rival of PAGANINI. It is impossible to make any comparison between things so entirely...

THE THEATRES.

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THERE has been no novely at either of the Great Theatres since our last notice of them. At Covent Garden, Ion has been the sole at- traction ; having been performed every night...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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, Artived—At Gravenend, June 3d, Manchester. Hawks; 4111. St. Thminien, Huntley. Born Ma. tidos ; 5th, Fairy Queen, Douthwaite. from Ceylon: mud Pyramus. Weller. Trom Si...

BOCHSA'S CONCERT.

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BOCHSA is an admirable band at getting up a concert which will draw a multitude of people together. He contrives to make his annual be-. nefit quite unlike every other thing of...

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TORIES AND TRIMMERS TO BE TURNED OUT AT THE NEXT

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ELECTION. A GLANCE at the list of the present House of Commons, will sug- gest to the Reform Associations throughout the country, some excellent removals, for which they should...

COLONIAL-OFFICE TRICKERY.

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MR. WARD has obtained a Committee of Inquiry as to the dis- posal of Waste Land in the Colonies, with a view to providing funds for Emigration from Ireland. That we have not...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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"FOREWARNED IS ORE ARMED - -A POLITICAL PARALLEL. " Spsiti is now described Its on the high-road of revolution. The Queen Ttegent sits in the chariot, with lstutitz as her...

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DECLINE OF TORYISM INDICATED BY THE NEWSPAPER RETURNS.

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THE state of the Newspaper circulation-the rise or fall in the sale of journals of opposite politics-is supposed, and with reason, to be an index of the state of public feeling....

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THE EDINBURGH LOGIC CHAIR AND MR. COMBE THE PHRENOLOGIST.

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THE approaching election of a Professor of Logic in the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, is exciting much interest, beyond its own lccality. The chief candidates are Sir WILLIAM HAMI...

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PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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Tile concert of Monday night terminated the twenty-fourth season of theSociety's existence,—an existence created by the progress of instru- mental composition, and sustained by...

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Account of the Stamps issued to months, from the 30th

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of June taken from the Stamp-office Ret Commons. the London Newspapers, for ten 1835 to the 30th of April 1836; urn to an order of the House of Age 342 669 I Agriculturist...

WRAXALL'S POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.

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THE period embraced in these Memoirs is brief; commencing in April 1784, with the general election following PITT'S disso- lution of' the Parliament supporting the Coalition...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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II TATORICAL 11011515. Post humons Memoirs of Ills Own Time. By Sir N. W. Wraxall. Rare., Author of Memoirs of My Own Time." In 3 vols. Bestir, • II INTORICA ANNALS. The Life...

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PALEY'S NATURAL THEOLOGY ILLUSTRATED BY BROUGHAM AND BELL.

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As an ethical and political philosopher, PALEY must perhaps be abandoned to those who impugn the soundness of his Ibundations and the purity or moral correctness of many of his...

TREVOR'S LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM THE THIRD.

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NOTWITHSTANDING the greater unity of subject and the more im- portant nature of the events, this second volume of Mr. TREVOR. is inferior to his first. The greatness of his...

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TALES OF THE WOODS AND FIELDS.

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THESE tales are described in the titlepage as a second series of the Two Old Men's Tales, a work which met with considerable suc- cess. The author is somewhat unhappy in her...

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are chiefly cabinet pictures of Holy Families, painted in the

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minute and laboured manner of his master, PEHUGINO ; and though refined senti- ment, beauty of form, grace of composition, and sweetness of espresa sion, are evident in all,...

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BUST OF THE POET SHELLEY.

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THE friends of SHELLEY will be surprised as well as gratified to learn that a bust of him is in existence, which is not merely a correct model of his features, but expresses his...