15 JULY 1837

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Again we have a very scanty supply of news from

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the Conti- nent. Don CARLOS, having crossed the Ebro, has established his head-quarters at Cantavieja, in Lower Arragon, on the confines of Valencia. He intends to proceed to...

The proceedings in Parliament receive a very secondary attention. As

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a matter of course, the only public bills which it was desirable to pass, the Lords have rejected. Their Lordships were not asked to consider the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ;...

The pregnancy of the Queen of Portugal was formally an-

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nounced on the 3d instant, la a letter from the Home Secretary to the Patriarch of Lisbon.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT will be prorogued by the Queen in person on Tues- day next; a dissolution will follow immediately ; a new Parlia- ment will be summoned; the elections will commence...

The chaleat is making to laid ravages at Nap'e;; tLe

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deaths being -IGO or 500 a day.

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Lord REDESDALE persisted in designating the measure as one in-

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BURY. Sergeant Spank ie. it is said, will be invited by the Tories; Lord BROUGHAM said, that the bill was as much a matter of course .. I am decidedly in favour of Triennial...

‘Brbatest ant prouttitilii in Vadiament.

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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS BILL. Lord DUNCANNON moved the Lords, on Thursday, to read this bid a second time. He stated that its object was— To give facilities to those persons...

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THE FUNERAL OF WILLIAM THE FOURTH.

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The ceremonies observed at the interment of the corpse of the late King were, with slight variation, the same as those described in the Spectator of last Saturday ; but some of...

At the Bow-street Office, on Saturday, a person calling himself

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Captains Ferguson, but who was suppo:ed to be Lord William Beres- ford, was accused, with two other young men, of breaking off door- knockers and assaulting the police. The...

Or Court.

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THE Queen came to town from Kensington, and held a Court at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. The Lord Mayor, with a deputation o f Aldermen and Common Councilmen, presented...

ebe ifirtropalto.

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The Protestant Dissenters of the Three Denominations, whose mi- nisters bold their conferences at Dr. Williams's Library in Redcross Street, have unanimously resolved to...

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IRELAND.

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At a recent meeting of the Trades Union in Dublin, Mr. O'C,ta nell delivered the following speech. It is more joyous than rule Mr. O'Connell's which we have read for some time :...

As the large steam-ship the Batavier, bound for Rotterdam, with

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a considerable number of passengers, was proceeding down the river, on Sunday morning, she was run against, off Eritb, by a brig of about 300 tons burden. The shock completely...

fait trauntrg.

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A letter has been received by the Mayor of Hull from the Earl of Durham, accepting the invitation of the Council to an inaugural (limner to be given to him as Lord High Steward...

A bill of' indictment was preferred at the Leicestershire Quarter-

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sessions against the Marquis of Waterford, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Baronet, the Honourable Augustus Charles Hyde Villiers, and Ed- ward Horner Raynard, Esq. The facts as stated...

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Father Delany has been persuaded to declare, that his recantation

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of Protestantism, and his confession that he had been hired to traduce the Catholics, were got from him while he was delirious. This, how- ever, is positively denied by Mr....

The Times and Morning Post have given currency this week

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to a rumour that the Earl of Shrewsbury, with the cognizance of Ministers, had entered into a negotiation with the Irish Earl of Portarlingtou for the purchase of the Earl's...

A correspondent of the Chronicle says that a brother of

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Lord Cotten- ham is an active canvasser for Lord Teignmouth in Marylebone. The Courier says that the Customhouse and other Government officers in Cuithness-shire are aiding Sir...

The Marquis of Waterford has lost a leg and an

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eye by the explo- sion of a cannon. His Lordship was superintending the launching of his s;tlendid yacht ; on which occasion he recklessly applied his (agar to this priming. The...

The late King was subject to fits of abstraction in

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the most nume- rous company, and under such circumstances would give utterance to the feelings of an honest heart. At the time Talleyrand first came over here as Ambassador, he...

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TO TOE EbITOR OE TIIE SPECTATOR.

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Gilt .h,ly 1437. gm—Allow site to call your attention to another pretty instanee of the job- bing practised by the Trustees of our National Gallery, or their agents and...

The King of Hanover has issued a protlamation, dated the

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5th July, to inform his subjects that he inteurla to abrogate their constitution, and restore the government of the country, in form as well In substance, to its uncient...

The rejection by the Lorda of the guarantee-rate clause in

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the Dundee Waterworks Bill proved fatal to that bill; for although it was passed in the House of Peers, with the promise on the part of the Tories, that next year (when there...

POSTSCRIPT;

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SATURDAY. So, Lord MELBOURNE has prevailed upon the innocent young Queen to undergo the ceremony of proroguing the miserable old Pan bament in person. No doubt, a certain...

Accounts from the East mention that Russia_is making great prepa.

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rations to subdue the Cireassialis.

Last night, both Houses of Parliament were occupied chiefly with

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routine business. The Peers refused to receive a petition from some Quakers against capital punishments, which the Duke of SUSSEX attempted to present : the reason was, that...

P." is right in his apprehension founded on '• knowledge

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of human nature :" the wivice is thrown away, and its disinterested motive doubted. 1'. is wrong in his guess, and will not he gr.ttilled ht the way he wishes : fur further...

MONEY MARKET.

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srace 1:XCIRNOE, FKIDAT AFTERNOON. The issue of money consequent upon the payment of the Dividends has et. tires reli, vet the pressure under which the market has for some time...

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C• iLiaSEUM.

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Tot: l ulussctt.n, :::1.11 the temple of Janus, 11.14 tia o fronts—one, stately a n d solemn, wliose pritteipal featioe Collie portico, for the day Visiters ; the other !to iag...

REPORT OF THE SELECT llOM SIITTEE ON THE POOR-LAW

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AMENDNI ENT ACT. The Report of the Poor-law Committee has been published. It commences with a statement of the course which the Committee adopted in the conduct of the inquiry;...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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VARIOUS READINGS OF LORD DURHAM'S LETTER TO MR. BOWLBY. NOT liking to be quite unfashionable, as " the DURHAM policy" is at present and as " Reform " itself is becoming, we are...

THE REFORM-DAMPING MINISTRY.

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WITH a self-complacent chuckle the Downing Street journalists dwell upon the idea that Ministers have "succeeded in damp. , ing the steam of Organic Reform." The boast of...

THE QUEEN OF THE WHIGS.

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FALSTAFF " misused the King's press damnably," but not a whit worse than the Whigs are now misusing the Queen's name. 11 we are to believe the Downing Street journalists, before...

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A KEY TO THE BEAUTIES OF PENNY-A-LINE WRITING.

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THE circumstance of WILLIAM the Fourth being buried on a Saturday, furnished an opportunity to some penny-a-liner to re- produce a bit of newspaper gossip in the shape of a "...

"PRINCIPLES" OF CANDIDATES.

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MR. HORSLEY PALMER is a candidate for the City of London on false pretences. He in a Tory : in private lie will not deny it; every body knows it. Yet, see what lie uttered at a...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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LITER/MT CORSR*1•0111115iCK, The Letters of Charles Iamb. n lth n `;ketch of his Life. By Thom ., fooni. Esq . Sergoant•At.I.4w. In 2 vols. 1/•,;,”1. TR1vEl.s, Th.. Spas of...

MR. TALFOURD's LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLEs LAMB.

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THE incidents in the life of Cit var.1:ti LAMB are few and conanon- place ; and the circumstance which determined Iris pursuit of lite- rature may probably be resolved into a...

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MISS MITFORDS COUNTRY STORIES.

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THE impression with which we lay down this volume of Country Stories, is that we have been passing a sunny morning with a charming gossip, in a comfortable, well-ordered...

DR. GRANVILLE'S SPAS OF GERMANY.

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SOME years since, a facetious " old man " visited some of the lead- ing Spas of Germany, and blew thence a series of bubbles, of such a light and spirited kind as to attract...

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A History of Riots and Disturbances, written in a spirit

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of fair- ness, would be a valuable addition to our literature, if' those outbreaks of popular excitement were traced to their origin in the sufferings or prejudices of the...

Tales of the Martyrs is a Protestant Martyrology for the

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nursery, written in the style of a novel, and in an unchristian spirit of sectarian intolerance. Professing (honestly choogli, per haps) to be an introduction to the study of...

A Narrative of Captain James Fawckner's Travels on the Coast

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of Benin, written by himself, has been edited and published by a friend for the benefit of the unfortunate voyager ; who, in addi- tion to severe personal sufferings, by which...

A Selection from the Poems of his Majesty Louis the

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First King of Bavaria. The attraction of this little volume chiefly consists in the royalty of its author ; for the merits of the poems them- selves do not seem of a very high...

PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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MR. YARRELL (who has succeeded the late Mr. BENNETT in the Secretaryship of the Zoological Society) is following up his /its- tory of British Fishes by a History of British...

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English Pleasure-Carriages, by W. B. ADAMS, deals with the past,

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the present, and the future; investigating the origin and narrating the history of locomotion in former days, describing and criticizing existing vehicles, and promising to...

In addition to these, we have received (1.) from Mr.

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BENTLEY a narrative of the ill-fated Expedition into the Interior of Africa, by the River Niger, in the Steam-Vessels Quorra and Alburkah ; which will obviously require a...

Of the many Reprints on our table, the two most

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likely to be popular, are WI'Dialimin's edition of Cowper's Poems, with a plea- sant Life by the editor ; and a pocket volume, containing CAMP- BELL'S Poetical Works, excepting...

That's Emigrant's Introduction to an Acquaintance with the British American

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Colonies, is, in the first place, too late in the day; for though it advocates an extensive system of emigration, it is very far inferior to the principle of colonization now...

Mr. D. L. RICHARDSON'S Leaves in Prose and Verse, is

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a Cal- cutta reprint of papers which have formerly appeared in period- icals both English and Indian. The subjects are various ; the interchange of verse and prose is agreeable...

When we say that WHEELER'S History of Manchester contains upwards

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of five hundred pages—that it commences with the history of that cotton-spinning town from the period when " Celtic emigrants from the Continent spread northward, and covering...

Three books of Instruction are before us.

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1. Mrs. E. E. PERKINS'S Elements of Botany, with Illustra- tions, is expressly designed for young ladies ; all equivocal matter being carefully, but perhaps not very wisely,...