14 DECEMBER 1833

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The ire of the Conservative journals has been prodigiously ex-

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cited during the week, by rumours of reductions in our Military Expenditure. A Royal Commission has been issued, appointing the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. ELLICE,...

Warlike operations appear to be suspended in Portugal, where negotiation

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has succeeded to skirmishing between the hostile parties. Of the progress of the negotiation, the commencement of which we alluded to last week, little is certainly known. It is...

The French Minister of the Interior is taking active measures

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to prevent the recurrence of another Vendean insurrection, by the construction of roads, bridges, and other operations calculated to civilize the country, and render it less...

The very meagre accounts received during the week from Spajn,

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confirm the general impression that the war is all but over in the North. Don CARLOS is reported to have sailed for Bilboa, which is now in possession of the Queen's troops ; so...

Affairs in the East still occupy much attention; but no

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addi- tional intelligence, to be depended upon, has been received during the week. It is certain that the news of an insurrection in Con- stantinople, the imprisonment or murder...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A. RECENT communication from the Austrian to the French Go-. verument, indicates a state of public feeling in the North of Italy, alarming to the Imperial Protector of that...

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Parliament is again prorogned to Tuesday the 4th of February

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next; when it will meet for the despatch of business. The Royal Proclamation to that effect appeared in Tuesday's Gazette.

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A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday, at which it was agreed, with only one dissentient voice, to repeal the standing order which required that all the officers of the...

The ease of Alderman Scales versus the East London Water

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Works Company, which has been pending five years, was brought to trial on Friday last, at the Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, before Chief Justice Tindal. As the case was a...

HONOURS.

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, 8th December 1833.—The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Lieutenant-Colonel GIDEON GORREQUER, Member of the Imperial Ottoman...

ne Court.

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Tire King held a Privy Council on Monday afternoon, at the Palace at Brighton ; at which it was determined to issue the proclamation for the further prorogation and final...

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On Tuesday, Messrs.Oliver and James A nderdon, were tried, in

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the Court of King's Bench, on a charge of conspiracy to deprive their brother, Mr. Freeman A nderdon, of the management of his affilirs, on the alleged ground of his insanity....

On Monday evening, as Mr. Sewell, of the firm of

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Sewell and Cross, Compton Street, Soho, was going home to his country-house at Nor- wood, upon a high-Spirited horse, the animal took fright at another horse, ran against the...

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The banking-house of Messrs. Lawson, Newham, and Co. of Buck-

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lersbury, was robbed on Sunday morning of about 1401. in gold, taken out of the iron safe. The bank-mites and securities in the same closet were left untouched. The porter was...

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A general meeting t f the Leeds Association for the Promotion of the Return of Liberal Members to Parliament for the borough. of Leeds and the West Riding of the county of York,...

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IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell attended the consecration of a Catholic chapel in Kildare, on Sunday week. After the conclusion of the ceremony-, he mounted on a platform, and addressed the...

The Duke of Wellington cutter, of Jersey, sailed from St.

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Michael's on Sunday the 10th tilt., and arrived at Cowes On Tuesday week, after a passage of twenty-three days, under a tempestuous gale during the whole of the voyage, with the...

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- "Elie agents of Don IVIrettee are stilr actively engaged in

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endeavour. us to raise recruits in this country. About 400 have been secured, and - are to sail in the course of a fortnight. Money does not appear to be wanting; a portion of...

Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart, M.P. for Lancaster, has been invited

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to become a candidate for the chair at Lloyd's. Colonel Sir John Burke, of Marble Hill, late M.P. for the county of Galway, is now in Ireland; and is not therefore the person...

aiWrIfietrattg.

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The rumour is revived in the Law Courts, that after next Hilary Term, Mr. Baron Bailey retires from the Bench. His successor will, it is added, be Sir William Horne; who will...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Ships are fitting out at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Chatham. It is understood that the British fleet in the Mediterranean will be rein- forced by ten sail of the...

SCOTLAND.

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The Town-Council of Pei th have decided, " That should a vacancy occur in any of our fonr parishes of Perth, the patronage of which is vested in the Council, that no candidate...

In the Courier of this evening, we find a letter

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from Mr. BARRETT, editor of the Dublin Pilot, on the subject of his late conviction in Dub- lin, for publishing what has been decided to be a libellous letter from the pen of...

General Cesrareos has issued a proclamation, dated Tolosa, 3d December,

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breathing the most savage spirit towards the Biscayan in- seargents. The Bourdeaux journal which publishes it, says that from thelextreme rigour of its previsions, it will.be...

The trial of John Bodle junior, for the murder of

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his grandfather, at Plumstead, commenced yesterday, at Maidstone. The case for the- prosecution closed last night; when the Court adjourned, to sit again this morning. John...

Mr. O'Connell has written a second letter to the Hull

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Radicals, in which he again charges Mr. Hill with inventing the story of the False Irish Members. He.styles Mr. Hill's letter —promising to answer all applications addressed...

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We have mislaid the manuscript of a Letter in reply

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to one which appeared in the Spectator of November 2311, on the " Difficulties of a Property Tax." If we can teener it, we shall insert the communication next week.

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AN OLD WITNESS AGAINST THE WINDOW-TAX.

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11th December 1933. A CONSTANT READER of the Spectator sends some just remarks upon the Window. tax, which show bow odious this impolitic impost was upwards of a century ago ;...

ANCIENT CONCERTS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, lath December 1833, Sua—Presuming that you are equally anxious for "the trutll, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" - (as...

ATTORNIES AND BARRISTERS—SHERIFF'S COURT PRACTICE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Westminster Hall, 9th December 1833. DEAR SPFC.—Yon 'save a few words in your last Number, as to disputes 'between tire Bar and the attornies...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK Emil 1NOF, FRIDAY A TTERNOON. Rumours have been current during the week, of a misunderstanding between our Government and the Court of Russia ; and some speculations have...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW EXCHEQUER. Two years ago, the Commissioners appointed to investigate the Public Accounts o(England, with Sir HENRY PARNELL for their Chairman, made a thorough exposure...

CONSERVATIVE REPENTANCE—MILLENNIUM OF THE PRESS.

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THE conductors of the Whig and the Independent Newspapers are at present subjected to a most severe trial of their political virtue and consistency, It is, alas t. too...

THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

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ANOTHER instance just occurs to us of the necessity of inquiring how far the recommendations of the numerous Commissions, that have of late years been appointed, have been...

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LIBERTY OF THE PRESS AND ITS ABUSES.

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" THE LIARS AND SLANDERERS." AMONG the numerous discussions concerning the Liberty of the :Press, and its abuses, with which the newspapers have lately teemed, we have not seen...

THE CAPUT MORTUUM OF CAMBRIDGE.

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LAST week; several members of the Senate of Cambridge Uni- versity proposed two " graces," as they are termed in University language, to the tuembess of the Caput. Their purport...

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THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.

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THE entertainments at the two most popular little theatres, the Olympic and the Adelphi, present a striking contrast. At both, 'hey are excellent of their kind; the companies...

We never enjoyed an hour more pleasantly than at RUSSELL'S

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entertainment the other night ; and we advise all who love a genuine good song, a capital bit of mimicry, and a well-told story, to visit the Strand Theatre forthwith. Sitting...

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A man was charged at the Marylebone Police-office, on Mon-

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day, with riotous behaviour, and an assault on the Policeman who took him into custody. It appeared that the poor fellow himself had the most reason to complain ; having been...

"At the Middlesex Sessions, last week, during-the time the Grand

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Jury were in Court, two prosecutors, on different indictments, complained. that their bills had been ignored by the Grand.Jury, without having:examined the witnesses whose names...

MORE OF O'CONNELL'S INCONSISTENCIES.

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AFTER a month's reflection and study, Mr. O'CONNELL has pro- duced another Letter for the readers of the Spectator: It is not quite so pleasant as the last; but it is equally...

A correspondent in the Times of Thursday, imagines that lie

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has discovered the. real authoi of • JUNIUS, in the person of Dr. FRANCIS, the father of Sir PHILIP; who, it _seems,. was only the instrument for transacting the "...

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Mr. O'CONNELL commences by laying down the state of the

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controversy between himself and the Spectator ; and, in order to make good his claim to the use of our columns, he misstates it. But there is nothing new in this trick of his...

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SVECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Facnow, Dilemmas of Pride. By the Author of " First Love." 3 vols.. ... tall and Chuvton. Stories of the Study. By John Galt, Esq. Author of " The Annals of the Parish," "...

DILEMMAS OF PRIDE.

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FOR 'mine years the tide of popularity set strongly in favour of the Aristocracy. A fashionable novel was, till very lately, a pretty sure card in the speculations of " the...