11 SEPTEMBER 1830

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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OUR last accounts of the disturbances in th - Netherlands came clown to the 2nd. They described the entrance of his Serene Highness the Prince of ORANGE into Brussels on the 1...

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The revelution expected to have commenced in Spain in the

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first week of September, and respecting which we hoped to have something to tell to-day, has been rather ominously postponed till the last week. If this delay have taktn place...

The only point of interest which the French news cf

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the past week presents, is the attempt of the journeymen printeis of Paris to putelown the machines ; an attempt which they have wisely abandoned. On the 3rd, these men, with...

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Mn. Husxtssoar.—It is now asserted that this ; right honourable

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gentleman had an offer to come into office if he would sacrifice his friends ; and that he resolutely determined to refuse office on such terms. If he had accepted, he Would...

SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—A meeting of the friends of Lord John Russell

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took place on Monday evening, at the Nag's head in the Borough; whefe the noble lord " formally declined offering himself as a candidate. Considerable regret seems to have been...

The revolutionary mania, as it is termed, has exhibited itself

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in Hamburg, in its least respectable form. On the night of Tuesday week, a dispute, the nature of which has not been reported, took place in a coffeehouse, between a Jew and a...

Disturbances have broken out in the Prussian provinces on the

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left bank of the Rhine. At Abkla 7 Chapelle, the riots, assumed rather a serious aspect. On the. 31st. of Augnst,:the workmen, accompanied by their families, assembled in crowds...

TnE KING.—His Majestyspends his time very pleasantly at Brighton. He

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drives out—bathes at Mahomet's—dines, sups, breakfasts ; but, like all pleasant and peaceful lives, his Majesty's furnishes but little matter for the chronicles. He has done...

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DINER TO THE Mavon OF Yortx.—A dinner was given on

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the 6th, at York, to the Honourable Edward Petre, Mayor of that city, and High Sheriff of the county. Sir William B. Cooke was in the chair. Sir William was supported on the...

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MUTINY IN THE LOWTHER CASTLE AND THE Isronts.—Those ter. rible

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affairs turn out, as most complaints by "blustering captains of the sea" do to be nothing but a couple of rows, one partial and one general, and bo th excused by the gross and...

Cnors IN THE NORTH.—ID the important agricultural district be. tween

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York and Scarborough, the great mass of the corn is yet uncut. The crops, however, of wheat and barley look most excellent, and will no doubt yield abundantly, but the weather...

STATE OF T nant.—The markets at Huddersfield have latterlyevinced considerable

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activity. At our piece-hall, on Saturday, there was a brisk sale for goods, at prices which have remained stationary for several weeks, but which are an imptovement upon those...

THE RIOT AT MUFF.-.--This bloody affair has been the subject

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of three investigations ; but, like all the affairs between Catholics and Orangemen, it remains in pretty nearly the same state of obscurity as before the first was instituted....

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have not, nothing can be more. scandalous than taking prisoners

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people svho commit no wrong, for by common law every man has a right to abate a nuisance when it comes in his way. Has there been any private bill obtained for the enclosure in...

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Stu ROBERT Wzmost.—Notwithstanding the contradiction which it has received, a

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report is still extremely prevalent, that Sir Robert Wil- son is about to be appointed to the Governorship of the Cape of Good Hope.—Morning H erald. SUSSEX Itlintria.—In...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—A paragraph, SO headed, has been figuring in the

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journals for some days past. It seems that a lady, who had been long very ill, was found dead On Monday morning in her lodgings, 24, Canterbury Place, Lambeth ; with her...

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DR. BOWRING AND THE KING OF THE FRENCH.—The following account

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of an interview with which Louis Philip n-as so kind as to favour Dr. Bowring on the 1st instant, is copied from the Globe. The sen timents of the Monarch are precisely as we...

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was scalking with the late King, then Regent, in Carlton

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House Gar- ISIonsstero HERALD—Whatever may be the issue of the great dens, when the Prince, in his most condescending manner, asked her to events which have so suddenly risen to...

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TH E ARMY.

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WAR-OFFICE, Sept. 10.-10th Regiment of Light Dragoons: Captain W. Os- borne, from tl:e half-pay, to be Capt. vice Hon. It. Watson, who exchanges- 10th Regiment of Foot: Ensign...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Ephemlna, from Van Diemeus Land, for the Mauritius, was lost on the island of Sinn, on the 21st of January ; crew saved. The Ellen, Patterson, and the Silence, Jackson,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. _ At Malta, on the 5th ult. the Ludy of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. SEYMOUR nirliTIRST, of a dang,hter. On the lit inst. in Belfast, the Lady of Jowl LAMB, Esq. of twins,...

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Statements showing all the New Members which have been returned

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to the first Parliament of WILLIAM the Fourth, in August 183O, from Ireland and Scotland ;—to complete the list which appeared in our Paper of the 15th ultimo. The rejected or...

MINISTERIAL BALANCE SHEET.

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TnE account between the Duke and the Country is now closed, so far as the elections are concerned. We suggested that he would probably Sustain the loss of a dozen in Ireland....

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two o'Ctocu. A Dublin Paper, in a second edition, states that troops have been embarked there for the Netherlands. We are authorized to declare that...

REPRESENTATIVE PEERS OF ScorLAN - D.—The election of sixteen Peers to represent

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the Peerage of Scotland in the ensuing Parliament, took place on Thursday, last week, at the Palace of Holyrood House. The number of Scotch Peers, according to the Union roll,...

THE SHOOTING SEASON.

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The following is from a gentleman at present trying to get a shot in the South of Scotland. It will be seen that his game is various. His hits are pretty palpable in some cases...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCTIANGE, FRIDAY EvENINO.—The first three days of this week were distinguished by violent fluctuations in the value of Consols, and other securities. Yesterday, and still...

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MACHINERY.

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Tux violence of the French workmen has been directed against two descriptions of machines, of very different kinds, and erected for very different objects. The peculiar aversion...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DUKE AND THE PRINCE. THE story ofthe Duke of WELLINGTON'S participating, at least indi- rectly, in the.guilt of the ordinances of the 25th ofJuly, by exhorting Prince...

TRANSPORTS OF JOY.

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SOME four or five years ago, a woman stole a pair of breeches,' without any of the modesties which usually accompany theft. She committed the robbery without the concealment...

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ENGLISH OPERA.

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When Miss KELLY plays a peasant, of any nation, we can scarcely anticipate disappointment; yet the author of the Irish Girl has contrived to write a part so absolutely insipid,...

INJUDICIOUS SANCTION OF SUPERSTITIOUS TERRORS.

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IN a very interesting paper in Blackwood's Magazine, entitled "Passages from the Diary of a late Physician," there is an ac- count of a scholar's deathbed, which closes thus :—"...

THE THE:\TRES.

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HAYMARKET. THE ancient system of old English hospitality required that the master of the feast should cram his guests with meat till they could not rise from his table, and...

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We:Tosco:. v. Bneeirroer.—A paragraph quoted from the Windsor Express assigns

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three reasons for the King's leaving Windsor for Brigh- ton,—first, the Princess Elizabeth -has a dropsical affection in her knee, which requires sea-bathing; second, the Queen...

THE MUSICAL FESTIVALS.

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APOLLO, like other fashionables, remains in London during the season ; but as the summer advances, he departs in order to hold his court in the provinces. Unlike other...

At Astley's, they have revived the Battle of Waterloo, curtailed

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exceedingly of its fair proportions. It is proper, no doubt, that the scenic splendour of that glorious carnage should abate in seine prop rtion to the decreased estimation in...

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LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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MRS. ELWOOD'S TRAVELS.* it is elegant, lively, sensible, and in proper places trifling : this is of course the • of.41 female_ . If a lady's writings are ' nished at my...

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• THE NATIONAL LIBRARY — GALT'S LIFE OF BYRON.* Max first reflection

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-on perusing the general and particular titles -of this volume is, how in the name of wonder came the Life of Lord BYRON to form the introduction to a National Library ?...

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THE REVIEWER'S TABLE.

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I. The Family Library, No. XV.—His- tory of British India, Vol. I. By the Rev. G. R. Gleig, M.A. &c. 2. Letters on England, by A de Steel- Holstein. Second Edition. With Ad-...

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HOLBEIN . S Designs, illustrative of the Old Testament. En- graved on

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Wood bf Jonx and MARY SYFIELD, in imitation of the Original Cuts. We fear there are few even among those who profess to admire works of art, who will look at these curious cuts...

FINE ARTS.

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Illustrations of Natural History ; embracing a series of Engrav- ings and Descriptive Accounts of the most interesting Genera and Species of the Animal World. Engraved by J. LE...

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LETTER FROM COLONEL JONES TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH

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OF SOUTHWARK. Upper Gloucester Street, 0th Sept. 1830. GENTLEMEN — Mr. CALVERT'S friends having-declared their inten- tion to propose that gentleman at the ensuing election,...

Mr. BURNETT has just completed a fine line engraving from

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Mr. -Newros's admirable picture of the Vicar of Wakefield urging his wife to be reconciled to their unfortuate and penitent daughter, for whom her sister is also interceding. It...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, September 7. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. CARRON and CoLLs • Birmingham, jewellers-E. and W. BARDRLL, Astons juxta, Birmingham, platers-BALL and TONLE?, Wood Street,...

PRICES CURRENT,

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PUBLIC FUNDS. Satur. Mon. Tues. Wednes. Thurs. Friday. — — shut — 884 871 871 i SA 86171171 B7114831881 hi 89461971 87414 61 86 484 73 9 73 8 t84i 88 1 334 88 4 fit -- -- -- —...

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TO THE tritatore LONDON: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1830.