15 OCTOBER 1831

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE consequences--felt and foreseen—of the Lords' vote of last Saturday morning, have served to occupy the members of both Houses for nearly the whole of the week. On Monday,...

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THE KING AND MS COL:MT.—Their Majesties arrived in town on

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Wednesday, at about half-past one o'clock. Many people awaited their arrival in the Park, and at the end of Piccadilly. At two o'clock, the King h e ld a Levee ; at which the...

The Courier of Cracow notices a demand of General P.17DIGER

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for the surrender of the Polish fugitives who had taken shelter in that republic, or their immediate disarming and dismissal from its territories. The republic!, which is...

In the midst of the excitement of the Bill and

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its rejection, mat- ters are passed over which, at other times, are the subjects of days and weeks of anticipation and argument. The revenue tables, published on the 11th, seem...

The general discussion on the project for the new-modelling of

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the French Peerage closed on Friday last week, after an eloquent speech of the minister, M. PERRIER, in which he very plainly in- cheated his leaning towards the hereditary...

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REACTION.—We noticed in the second edition of our last Number,

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the meeting of members of Parliament at Willis's Rooms on Saturday. The result of that most gratifying meeting will be found recorded in our Parliamentary summary. On Saturday,...

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STATE OF LONDON.—NOthillg can exceed, considering the greatness of the

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public disappointment, the quiet which has prevailed in London during the whole of the week. On Monday there was a very considerable crowd assembled in Pee:::mment Street, and...

PROCESSION OF THE PARISIL DELEGATES TO ADDRESS THE KINCL—The wetness

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of the day took greatly from this show ; which, we may remark, would never have been thought of, had it not been for the idle and non- sensical remarks of the Lords and Commons...

RIOTS AT DERRY AND NOTTINGLIA3L—We regret to state, though we

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feel no surprise at their occurrence, that the rejection of the Bill has been the signal for very serious disturbances at both of these towns. The intel- ligence of the division...

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Erememne oe Loin) Meeme—It was announced to the Common Hall

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on Monday, that the Court of Aldermen had determined to disappoint the Livery, by voting for Alderman Thorpe instead of Lord Mayor Key, —hereby imitating, at a respectful...

CONSTITUTION or THE Per.;:s.—At the Sheffield meeting, on Mofiday, which

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Lord Milton attended, his Lordship took occasion to notice the fact, that a majority of the members of the older Peerage of England had voted in favour of the Bill. His...

SIVINCL—On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, a fire was dis-

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covered on the premises of Mr. Rogers, of Chill:ode Lees, about seven. miles from Canterbury, which destroyed a barn, containing a large quantity of wheat, also forty sacks of...

DoasExsnirtn ELEc1'IoN.—The state of time poll on Thursday was as

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follows : Ponsonby, 1,759 ; Ashley, 1,777 ; majority for Ashley, 18. The advance of Lord Ashley is attributed by the Tithes correspondent to a " hit" of cottagers, each holding...

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CONSISTENCY.—Gloucester House, the residence of the Duke of Gloucester, was

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barricadoed with boards placed over the windows on Monday. [The Duke does well to shut out the light as long as possible —it will break in, however, even though the windows be...

COLLISION OF A STEAM-BOAT AND A Saoor.—On Friday morning about

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four o'clock, when the sloop Donegan, from Sunderland, laden with coals, was sailing up against the tide between Gravesend and London, the Enterprise steam-vessel, from the...

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POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two o'CLoca. The post of this morning brings us various letters from the North. The following is from Edinburgh, dated the 12th. " The news of the...

LIST OF THE MAJORITY

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FOR LORD EBRINGTON'S MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY ' S MINISTERS. MEMBERS FOR ENGLAND. Anson, Sir G.—Lichfield Astley, Sir J. D. Bart.—Wiltshire Atherley,...

Axarosiv OF TIE Posoacs. , —In our next Number, we propose to

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give A Con- PLETE DISSECTION OF TILE PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, which vii serve as a key to the past as well as present character of the House of Lords It will form a...

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THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. The closing price of Consols on Saturday was by no means so low as from pre- vious calculations had been expected; Consols closed at 801. The...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The following Company's Ships for the ensuing season have been thus stationed : —The Asia, Bathie; and Sir David Scott, Ward ; for Bengal and China, to sail from the Downs...

PEERS PRESENT AT THE DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL IN

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THE HOUSE OF LORDS. REFORMERS. ANTI-REFORMERS. Royal Family. Royal Family. Duke of Sussex Duke of Cumberland Duke of Gloucester Dukes. Dukes. Brandon Beaufort Devonshire...

PEERS VOTING BY PROXY.

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REFORMERS. ANTI-REFORMERS. Dukes. Bedford Portland Somerset Marquises. Ailsa Breadalbane Northampton Stafford Earls. Buckinghamshire Burlington Derby Ferrars Fortescue...

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

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LAMMING and MILKS, Kingston-upon-Hull, mercers-E. and P. PAtrniES'MAN, Blanchester, rag - dealers-J. and W. Pertener and SMITH, Leeds and Pontefract, bankers ; as far as regards...

THE CHURCH.

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ORDINATIONS.-The following Gentlemen were lately ordained by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, in the parish church of BiicktIe'n:-Leacoas-'Thomas B lack- burne. I3.A. Braseenose...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OXFORD. Ocr. M.-Congregations will be holden for the purpose of granting Graces, and conferring Degrees, on the following days in the ensuing Tenn; October, Thursday, 20th;...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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FACTS AND INFERENCES. FACT I.A week has elapsed since the Reform Bill was thrown out, and yet Parliament is not prorogued. Fact - 2. Not a word has yet been said by Ministers...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH. PUBLIC Satan Tues. FUNDS. Wednes.1Thurs. Mon. 3 per Cent. Reduced - - 781 fihSi 791 79 79U8ilik 3 per Cent. Consols SO4 „„}k 801 80 811}79i0' Sul ; I i I80i...

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THE APPEAL TO PHYSICAL FORCE.

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THERE has been a great deal said against the late outrages of the mob,--and very properly ; for violence is an exceedingly bad argument, and convinces nobody. Men, however,...

REFORM OF THE LORDS.

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THE present House of Lords, including the recent creations, con- sists of about 420 individuals. There are besides nine Peeresses in their own right, whose political privileges...

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DRLTRY LANE THEATRE.

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Ox Thursday evening, Mr. M.4.cneAny repeated his part of William ; a character, as our readers know, of the same cast as Virginitts, Alfred, &c. and of which he is a spirited...

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Mr. FE ARN, the metaphysician, whose labours have been but

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very scantily appreciated, because, though he had consented to give all his life to metaphysical investigations, he has utterly neglected to provide a popular medium of...

Mr. CROWE has finished his Abridgment of the History of

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France, in three volumes. It forms a creditable portion of LARD- NERS " Cyclopmdia." An abridgment of the entire history of a great nation in a small space, is an undertaking of...

NEW BOOKS.

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EMIGRATION, Martin Doyle's Hints to Emigrants to Upper Canada Curry, Dublin. HISTOR T, Crowe's History of France, Vol. III. (Lardner's Cyclopedia, No. XXIII.). . . . Memoirs...

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The new Number of the Quarterly Journal of Education, is

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dis- tinguished by its usual stock of good sense, information, and scho- lastic gravity. Several articles might be mentioned as useful and intelligent, more particularly those...

The Daughter of the Air is said to be a

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mythic tragedy ; and is translated from the German of RA.UPACH, who himself com- pounded it of two Spanish tragedies by CALDERON, with a farther reference to the original...

Mr. STOKES, if lie has not the fire of a

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poet, has both the flame and the smoke. His Song of Albion is a patriotic effusion of much animation, if not of much power. A botanical critic would class it as Pindaricum...

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The Fifty-third Part of " The Complete Works of Sir Joseu.1

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Ray. Not.ns," engraved in mezzotint by S. W. Reyeemes, brings this great work near to its completion. It contains a sweet pretty "Portrait of Lord Burebersh" when a child ; the...

FINE ARTS.

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EMBELLISHMENTS OF THE ANNUALS. WHAT a singular lack of originality, barrenness of fancy, and poverty of invention, is evinced by John Bull in all that relates to the graces and...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTFIS. On the 11th inst. at Eaton Place, the Right Hon. Lady BYRON, of a son. On the Iota inst. at Pennington house, Lyinin4ton, the Lady of Capt. TEMPLE, ' of a sou. On...

If the author of Sematology will favour us with a

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loan of a copy of his work, it shall be examined and noticed. The copy previously sent has been mislaid.

THE ARMY.

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WAR OFFICE', Oct. 11.-401 Foot : 1). Howson, from the 47th Foot, tube Lt. vice Maly, who exchanges—kb Foot : Assist: Sur. J. Ferguson, M.D. from half-pay 27th Foot, to be...