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The Opposition papers of Paris have not intermitted nor mitigated
The Spectatortheir hostility to the Ministry of Prince Polignac, but there is little novelty in their bitterness. The Duke de Laval Montmorency has been appointed Ambassador to the British...
The Chronicle, two or three mornings back, delighted, and to
The Spectatorsay the truth, astonished us, with a catalogue of improvements now on foot in Ireland, which might do credit to the happy commonwealth of Utopia. Our excellent contemporary...
SUCCESS in the East continues to flow without interruption in
The Spectatorthe same channel. Our accounts last week left General Diebitsch with NEWS OF THE WEEK. his head-quarters at Aidos ; his advance at Karnabat, about fifteen miles to the westward...
Capo D'Istrias has published a long address on the occasion
The Spectatorof the meeting of the Greek General Council ; but in the multitude of more interesting matter, we have not space even for an abridgment of its contents. Doubts have been thrown...
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THE litNO. â R is now generally rumoured that his Majesty will
The Spectatortake his de- parture from the Royal Lodge, for the Pavilion at Brighton, about the middle of October. The continued unfavourable state of the weather may induce his Majesty to...
THE MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNING-, HALF-PAST TM â The business done in our Market this week has been of very limited extent, and the fluc- tuations of prices have not exceeded...
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SABBATH IN THE CITY.âA number of complaints were made at
The Spectatorthe Mausion- house on Thursday, in consequence of an order of the Lord Mayor that the stage- coaches shall no longer interrupt divine service, by rattling along the streets on...
THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS commenced on Thursday. The calendar, as
The Spectatorin- deed is usual in September and April, is numerically heavy. The following is a summary of the chargesâMurder, 2; burglary, 4; rape,2 ; forgery, 5; bigamy, 2; stealing from...
COURT-MARTIAL At' Portvssaousn.âThe Court met on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and
The SpectatorWednesday, pursuant to the provisions of the Mutiny Act, which does not admit of adjournment unless de the in diem; but no business was of course transacted on those days....
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A SURPASSING CRIMINAL.âAt the Chester . Assizes, last Saturday, Joseph Woodhouse,
The Spectatora blacksmith, was convicted of a rape upon his own daughter, a deli- cate child scarcely eleven years of age. Mr. Justice Jarvis, who doomed the monster to death, mentioned...
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FAILURES IN THE WOOL Teanx.âWe have heard it affirmed to-day,
The Spectatorthat the total number of the late failures in the wool-trade amounts to at least twenty, and the aggregate of their debts to 1,200,000/. So great a convulsion in that particular...
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MINISTERIAL PROSECUTIONS.
The SpectatorTOPICS OF THE DAY. \ IMPARTIAL men must admit that no Ministry . - was ever more perse- veringly attacked, both individually and conjointly, both in their pri- vate and in...
THE COURT MARTIAL.
The SpectatorOUR opinion of the antmus which dictated Admiral CODRINGTON'S re- fusal to sanction the appropriation of an honour by Captain DICKIN- SON which had been denied by the Admiralty...
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CHARACTER OF THE FRENCH.
The SpectatorWE regret to see an article in Black wood's Magazine, on " the C h a - racter of the French," replete with the blindness and bitterness of that prejudice, once national, which...
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The SpectatorTwo letters have appeared this week in the columns of the Times, to which that journal has accorded the great, because rarely and almost grudgingly granted, tribute of its...
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CHESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The SpectatorTwis festival furnishes one of the numerous proofs of the vast supe- riority of many provincial towns over the metropolis in the cultivation and the performance of sacred music....
. THE MEETING AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
The SpectatorTHE Meeting that we alluded to in our last number, took place on 'Wednesday ; and we never witnessed any thing of the kind that, to use a hacknied phrase, came better off. The...
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BEST'S MEMORIALS.*
The SpectatorLITERARY SPECTATOR. Mr. BEST is not an everyday author: he is not a bookmaker to order : Is writes because he is full of ideas, and not because he wants a few 1. , sidred...
MODERN SMALL POETS.
The SpectatorCAIN, BY GABRIELLE, BY C. REDDING. ADRA, BY G. P. R. JAMES. IT seems pretty well agreed on all hands that our poetical volcano has for some time been in a state of...
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DR. DIBDIN'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TOUR IN FRANCE AND GERMANY.*
The SpectatorTins is a republication of Dr. DIBDIN'S Bibliographical Tour, pub- lished some years ago : we confess we did not expect to see it, more particularly in its present form. It will...
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CLOSE OF THE " BAR MONOPOLY" CONTROVERSY. TO TIIE EDITOR
The SpectatorOP TELE SPECTATOR. SIR,---As the original cause of a somewhat lengthy discussion in your columns, I rely upon your impartiality for the privilege of a final reply. In my first...
THE METAYER SYSTEM OF FARMING.
The SpectatorIi is well known that the greater part of Italy, one half of France, and sonic por- s ass Mother Southern countries, are cultivated by metayers â a species of farmer for which...
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THE ARMY.
The SpectatorOFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Sept. 7. â Royal Reg. of Artillery : Sec. Capt. F. Wright, to be Adj. vice Romer, appointed Gar. Quar.-mas.; Capt. E. J. Bridges, from unattached half-pay,...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.
The SpectatorThe Hope, Morse, from Bengal to Liverpool, was wrecked on Fisherman's Flat, near Calcutta, on the 4th April. Arrived.âAt Gravesend, Sept. 5, Cleopatra, Young, from New South...
LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The SpectatorBOOKS IN THE PRESS AND PREPARINO FOR PUBLICATION. Sir Waiter Scott is preparing a History of Scotland from the earliest period of au- thentic record to tbe Union of the Crowns....
LONDON MARKETS.
The SpectatorCORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 11. The supply of Grain in general this week is very tnoderate ; the trade, neverih , 4,s. is dull, though with little variation in prices since...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, September 8.
The SpectatorPARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.âHeaver and Wells, Slaugham, Sussex, millersâSte- phenson and Henshaw, Idol-lane, Tower-street, wine-merchantsâMoore and Green- wood, Norwich,...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorB arna.âOn the ad inst. at Wentworth, Viscountess Milton, of a daughterâAt Chemin the Lady of It. Vernon Smith, Esq. M.P. of a daughterâOn the 7th inst. at Langham-place,...