13 FEBRUARY 1836

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In the house of Peer4 last *lit, the LORD CHANCELLOR

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gave a general outline of his bill mo st Consolidating- the Ecclesias- tical Courts. It will e ff ect a most useful reform of an enormous abuse, the extent of which may be...

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The desultory war in the Basque provinces is carried on

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with- out decisive advantage to either party. The accounts last received mention the murder in cold blood of five British soldiers and two officers, captured by the Carlists...

M. DUP1N, with SAUZET and PASSY, have received instructions from

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the King of the French to reconstruct the Ministry, as a majority of the Standing Committees had declared in favour of re- ducing the Five per Cents. It was uncertain, when the...

mutated anti prate el! n gst in parila men t.

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1. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord John RUSSELL, moved that the paragraph in theKing's Speech which referred to the distress of the...

President JACKSON sent a warlike message to Congress, on the

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arrival of Mr. BARTON in the United States, with the news that the French Government would not pay the Indemnity-money. He recommended a prohibition of the entry of French...

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The Court of King's Bench was occupied on Monday with

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the trial of as action for damages brought by Lord laingford against as Mr. Barrett, for criminal conversation with his wife, Lady Langford. Bar. rate had been a tutor in Lord...

Cllr Court.

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Mr King took a ride to Windsor Castle on Monday, attended by Sir Benjamin Stephenson ; and on Tuesday their Majesties and suite returned to Brighton. The King's birth-day is to...

Abe IfirtropoItO.

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The Common Council had a meeting yesterday ; when it was resolved to wait for the Report of the Corporation Commissioners, and the Ministerial measure founded on it, before...

A meeting of the Committee for the Relief of the

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Distressed Irish Clergy was held on Wednesday, when nn additional 20,000!. was directed to be remitted to the Archbishop of Armagh. The receipts up to that day were 109,4001....

A deputation, composed of Messrs. Grote, Hume, Oswald, Wallace, Harvey,

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Ilutt, Scholefield, A glionby, Sir William Molesworth, Colonel Thompson, and several other Members of Parliament, with Dr. Birkbeck ut their head, visited Lord Melbourne and Mr....

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At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, the Grand Jul ry

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ignored the bill of indictment against the Reverend Mr. Campbell, minister of Tottenham Court Road Chapel, for an a5s:iiiit, which was alleged to have been committed on another...

SCOTLAND.

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Lord William Bentinck has accepted the invitation of the Glasgow Reformers, and is now a candidate, with the certainty of being elected, for the representation of that city. His...

A Special Jury was assembled at the Freemason's Tavern, on

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Tues- day, under the direction of the Lord Chancellor, to inquire into the state of mind of Viscountess Kirkwall, mother of Lord Orkney and Captain Fitzmaurice, who instituted...

(01111Xtibi

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Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has been elected Recorder of Oxford, in opposition to Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, by a majority of 10 to 16. On the night of the 8th instant, at half-past ten...

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Mr. BAGWELL, who is the principal proprietor of Clonmel, and

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was to have been the Tory candidate for the representation of that borough, has cut the connexion, and refused to have any thing to do with " the faction," whose proceedings...

Sir Evan John Macgregor has been appointed Governor and Corn-

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mander-in- Chief of the Islands of Dominica, Antigua, and St. Kitts ; seat of Government at Dominica. The Standard is indignant at the (rumoured) appointment of Dr. Hampden to...

The new Reform Club, under the auspices of the union

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of the Liberal leaders, is rapidly filling up its ranks. Many hundreds are already enrolled.

At this busy period of the session, we particularly regret

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to learn that Mr. WARD, the active and useful Member for St. Alban's, has been obliged to leave town, in consequence of the severe illness of Mrs. WARD and three of his children.

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It is reported that when the Duke of Wellington retired

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on Friday night from the Carlton Club, he declared that he would not return to it; and we know that he immediately set off for Strathfieldsay, and that on Saturday his domestic...

Amon g the many thin g s of which an overflow of Advertisements

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and other matters. at the last hour, has occasioned the omission, we may specify the conclusion of the Review of Mr. Surrioa's Political Economy, and several papers on Music and...

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POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. It appears from the Paris newspapers, that the angry message of President JACKSON is brought to bear on the negotiations in progress for forming a...

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MONEY MARKET.

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STUCK EXCHANOS, FRIDAY AFTF.RIVOONt. The adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of the proposition of M. Gouzw for the reduction of the French Five per Cents. has led to the...

The Courier mentions the rumoured appointments of Mr. Le Mar-

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chant, Lord Brougham's Secretary, to the Secretaryship of the Board of Trade ; and of Captain Maitland to the command of a flag-ship. We join in the disapproval of both these...

The Tory evening print mentions, that an address to the

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King against the appointment of Dr. HAMPDEN to be Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, has been signed by inure than seventy Tutors and Fellows of the University, and...

idtrllalteaue.

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The names of General Sharpe, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Copeland, and Mr. Sanford, were omitted from the list of Members who voted on the Address last week : all these gentlemen supported...

There is to he a grsna 'limier of Tories to-day

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at Freemasoe's hall, Lord Manias in the chair. But it is said that all is not har- mony among the expected guests, many of whom are disgusted at the leading part which the...

The Queen of Naples died on the 31st of last

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month, of a bilious fetes. A greater loss to the world, Madame Schrceder-Devrient, the only and never-to-be forgotten Fidelio, is dead. We are glad to find that Lord Melbourne...

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Covent Garden has this week been the scene of two

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failures : Miss HELEN FAUCIT has been forced to prove, what any one who has seen her act must know beforehand, that she has not the power to redeem the mock sentimentality of...

THE THEATRES.

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THE prolonged career of music and spectacle at Drury Lane has at last been varied by an interregnum of the tragic drama, that bids fair to be of no brief duration. The Provost...

DESIGNS FOR THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

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THE Government, it is understood, has acceded to the request of the architects that the Designs for the New Houses of Parliament, for which premiums have been awarded, shall be...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived-1n the Clyde. Feb. 9th, Northumbrian, Tait, from Manritins. Sailed—Prom Gravesend, Feb. 6th, David Scott, Reeves, for Madras ; and Guiana, Tait, for Van Diemen's Lana;...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ROBBERY OF THE CHURCH BY THE LANDLORDS. Tau Church of England is about to lose a portion of its super- /Mons revenue. Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes that in future the claims of...

LORD STANLEY.

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Timm is no longer any question about Lord STANLEY'S position. He bad leisure to ponder his future course during the recess, apart from the heat of Parliamentary contention, free...

THE NEW COLONIAL MINISTER.

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OUR Colonial empire extends over some forty communities in different parts of the world, of different races and languages, having each of them peculiar institutions, habits, and...

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The trial of Fieschi and his accomplices, in the French

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Court of Peers, " drags its slow length along." Boireau, one of the prisoners, has confessed his guilt, and told all he knows or pretends to know about his accomplices; but...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Memoirs of the Life. Works. and Correspondence of Sir Wilnim Temple, Bart. By the Right Honourable Thomas I'eiegrine Courtenay. In 2 vols. Longman and Cu. FICTMN. The...

COURTENAY'S MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM

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TEMPLE. Issa person has but a scanty acquaintance with Engli,11 litera- ture, he is - familiar with the name of Sir WILLIast TEMPLE ; if he is in the habit of looking at...

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THE BAR-SINISTER.

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THE author of this novel tells her readers, in a postscript, that it is the first essay of a lad)', and that it depends on them if it be the last. Should her future course...

TOMPSON'S SUGGESTIONS TO YOUNG ATTORNIES.

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PERIIA PS the old notion of the supreme power of Chance or Fate might have been the result of long and profound observation, which, looking upon life, and seeing that the...

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Besides these, we have to chronicle the arrival of several

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Medical books, to which we will endeavour to pay due attention ; together with Dr. DAVY'S Memoirs of Sir Humphry Davy. In 2 vols. Sketches by " Boz," illustrative of Every-day...

The Reverend J. S. Hearseow's Principles of Descriptive and Physiological

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Botany, (LARDNER'S Cabinet Cyclopsedia, No. 75,) is a well-arranged, learned, and scientific treatise, alike useful to the superficial reader or the botanical student. By...

PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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Evenings Abroad, by the author of "Sketches of Corfu," is a .charming little volume,—a eery agreeable mixture of prose and verse, description and reflection, narrative,...

Mr. TEGG has included WASHINGTON IRVING'S pleasant though overdone History

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of New York in the current volume of the Family Library, with four capital illustrations by GEORGE 'CRUIKSHANK. As regards text, the volume is as neat as could be wished ; but a...

After Robinson Crusoe, there are no works more enchaining to

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the youthful mind, and which tend more to foster our national spirit for the sea, than the narratives of the voyages and adven- tures of the old navigators, ere science and...

Several small reprints, and reissues in weekly numbers, are before

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us. The most important of which is a second edition of the Reverend T. S. Geterseawe's Life and Works of Cowper ; " more than twenty thousand volumes" (meaning, we presume, 2500...

Three more numbers of the Student's Cabinet Library of Useful

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Tracts are before us; all of' them being reprints from American publications. Their titles are No. 10. VelteLascx's Discourse on the Right Moral Influence and Use of Liberal...

Major-General ARMSTRONG'S Observations upon Corporal Punishments in the British Army,

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together with a Plan to Pro- vide Seamen for the Navy without Impressment, is a tract, not without ingenuity, and some of the remarks display the results of experience. But the...