17 OCTOBER 1835

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE progress of the Registration is cheering to the Reformers. We are at a loss to name any county, except Middlesex, where they have not apparently strengthened their position...

An article in the Second Number of the British and

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Foreign Review has turned the attention of some of our contemporaries dominion, we have as yet scarcely felt any of its effects: indeed our exports to Germany were greater in...

Mr. O'CorstseLL has startled the Dublin Election Commis- sioners, whom

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indeed it was high time to call to account. One of these gentlemen, Mr. JOY, appears to have conducted himself more like a Tory partisan than an impartial judge. He is said to...

The account of the Revenue, for the year and qnarter

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ending on the 10th instant, exhibits a decrease of 1,084,0001. on the former, as compared with the previous year, but an increase on the latter of 334,0001. over the...

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The sales of public property in Portugal continue, and the

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prices are generally very high-in some instances three times the amount of the valuations. Hitherto, however, the Government has not realized much cash from this source, owing...

The Assembly of the States of Denmark is now in

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session at Copenhagen ; but a Royal decree has prohibited the publication of their debates. It is understood that the finances of the kingdom are in a most disgraceful plight,...

The native Indians attacked the city of Pam, in the

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Brazils, on tho,14,th of August ; and, after a desultory warfare of nine days, gained entire possession of it. About half of the population, prin- • cipally women and children,...

The prohibitive system of France is undergoing some modifica- tion.

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The Mennenr contains a report of the Minister of Com- merce, and a Royal decree founded upon it, for the reduction of the duties on Cashmere shawls, indigo, salad-oil,...

Cbr Court.

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ON Sunday, the anniversary of the victory at Camperdown, the King and Queen, with a party, attended divine service at Greenwich Hos- pital. The Earls of Camperdown and Mayo, Sir...

THE REVENUE.

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Abstenotof the Net Producatof the Reveatie of fittatt4Britain, in the Years and Qu,uters endeil.10th Oot. 1884 and 10thradt.,14485; showing the Increase. or Decrease on each...

The intelligence from Spain is very scanty. General ALAVA has

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.finally determined not to go to the War-office, but to return to his post as Ambassador to England. MENDIZABAL is the War Minister ad interim. GALIANO has been appointed a...

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A Literary and Scientific Society has been established at Islington

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within the last two years, which already includes among its members a large number of the most respectable inhabitants of the place. The great advantages which this and similar...

A private in the Scotch Fusileer Guards was taken to

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the Ken- sington Station-house on Saturday, after a fierce struggle with the Police, for creating a disturbance in the streets at Brompton : the man was very much intoxicated....

Sii tt ro pal .

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Mr. Tamlyn continued the revision of the City of London con- stituency on Saturday. The names of all the partners in the firm of Whitbread and Co. were struck out of the het,...

Several of the Aldermen belonging to the Gaol Committee met

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on Saturday night, to investigate the circumstances respecting the escape of Mark Taylor from the Borough Compter, where he was confined on a charge of burglary. The prisoner...

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Irto Country.

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The Members of the South Cheshire Conservative Association dined together, at the Albion Hotel, Chester, on the 9th instant. Among the company, were Lords Combermere, Delamere,...

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

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RETPRN TO AN ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DATED AUGUST 84, 1835; FOR A Return of the number of Stamps issued by the Stamp-office for all the London Newspapers, from the 30th...

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On the same day that the Tories were edified by

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the eloquence of Mr. King, the Reformers of Cheshire gave their Member, Mr. George Wil- braham, a public dinner in Chester, at the Royal Hotel ; Lord Robert Grosvenor in the...

The provincial journals contain a good deal of matter on

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the subject of the Registration ; but it is not of a very satisfactory . description. Frequently a few opening lines of Liberal or Tory boasting as to the n results of certain...

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A meeting was held at the Town-hall in Birmingham on

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Wednes- day evening, " to take into consideration the cruel oppression and aggravated sufferings to which the Negroes of our West India Colo- nies are still subjected, under the...

IRELAND.

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The Dublin Election Commission, after an adjournment of a fort- night, to give the agents of the sitting Members time to arrange their evidence, reopened the Court on Monday....

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The Clergy of the Queen's county, backed by a lay

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society who have funds at their command, intend forthwith taking effectual steps for the recovery of the composition so long due to them. It has been inti- mated to us, that as...

A railway is about to be formed between Dublin and

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Drogheda. The provisional committee held a meeting on Friday sennight in Dublin. The Conservatives have been boasting of their strengt% in the county of Dublin. They were put...

Mr. Spring Rice arrived in Dublin in the beginning of

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the week. " lie has, of course, (says the Dublin Evening Post,) been welcomed by a tirade of silly abuse from the barrel-organ of the Faction, The well-meant effort has not,...

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Mr. Fsinnsmses 1.etter on Slavery In the United States — only received

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this morning —is too long for insertion, SO late iii the week : from the few sentences, laneerer, that we have been able to glance at, we have little doubt that it will deserve...

Mr. O'CoNstem again made his appearance before the Dublin Elec-

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tion _Commissioners, on Thursday ; when the performance of the two previous days was repeated, with little variation. Mr. O ' CONNELL again pressed the Court to hear the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Lord JorDt RUSSELL has taken the first step towards fulfilling his promise to nominate to the Magisterial office such persons only as the new Town-Councils...

SCOTLAND.

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A meeting of the Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of Supply, and Road Trustees for the county of Edinburgh, was held on the 6th instant, in the County-rooms. Sir George...

Mr. Andrew Johnston, lately the Representative of the Cupar and

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St. Andrew's district of Burghs, has been treated by his former con- stituents as he deserves. He last week circulated the following letter at Cupar- " TO THE INOT.FETtnENT...

At the late Royal visit to Chelsea, the gallant veteran

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Sir Samuel Ilulse addressed the King—" May it please your Majesty, I have stood before two Kings since I have been Governor here, and should have been happy to have stood before...

ftliittilattecti4.

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It is said that the Duke of Cleveland is to have the blue riband, vacant by the death of the Earl of Chatham. There is no truth in a report that has been circulated, that...

It appears that the Town-Council of Glasgow, through their Pro-

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vost, called Lord Lyndhurst to account for the vilification of their body in the House of Lords, in the debate on the Municipal Bill. Lord Lyndhurst threw all the responsibility...

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Molter, an accomplice of FIESCIII, died from starvation on Wed-

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nesday, in spite of the efforts of his gaoler to keep him alive. The trial of FIESCHI and the other accused parties is to commence on the 10th of November. The Moniteur...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Oct. 16th. Ann.111•Alpin. from Van Diemeu's Land. Sailed—From Gravesend, Oct. 10th, J. Pattison, Cromartie, front New South W - ales ; 11th. Chili, Nixon,...

Dr. Nrcor.r., Principal of the United College of St. Salvador

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and St. Leonard, in the University of Andrew's, died on Thursday week. About eight years ago, he was seized with apoplexy while speaking in the General Assembly, and has since...

The Government of Ireland, acting like all other Governments, has

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signified, in answer to the application lately made to employ the mili- tary in collecting tithes, that it does not deem it expedient that the mili- tary or the police should be...

In the Standard of this evening, we find two speeches

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delivered by Lord STANLEY at a recent meeting of the Lancashire Agricultural Society at Liverpool. Lord STANLEY, who was in the chair, told the company, that relief might be...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The scarcity of money, which we have lately had occasion to allude to so often, has increased materially this week. The extraordinary pressure...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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lit IITIIS. On the 11th inst., in Arlington Street, the Lady May STEPHENSON, of a daughter. On the 4111 just.. at Corry House, Kingstown, near Dublin, the Lady HENRY Moose, of...

The Madrid correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states, that the

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Junta of Cadiz, the only one of importance which stood out against the new Ministry of MENDIZABAL, was on the point [of sending in its adhesion, and indeed was preparing to aid...

From a correspondence in the Dublin Evening Post between Lord

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CLONCURRY and Mr. O'ColitsEtt, we learn that their quarrel has been made up.

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TORY LIBELS ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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LORD WHARNCLIFFE told the Yorkshire Tories assembled at Penistone, the other day, that the House of Commons was not looked upon with respect by the country. He said- " The...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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REFORM OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. THE Morning Post and the Standard have quoted largely, and with natural satisfaction, from an elaborate article in the Leeds Mercury, 'written in...

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NEWSPAPER STAMPS: AN AFFAIR OF "THE SHOP?

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IN a previous column we have given a Parliamentary paper, which professes to be a return, on the motion of Mr. CHARLES Bums% of the number of stamps issued to the Metropolitan...

THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, O'CONNELL, AND THE TORIES.

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THE readers of the Times cannot have forgotten the deadly ran- cour with which the Duke of CUMBERLAND was, not very long ago, assailed in that journal. They must remember the...

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

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WE feel obliged by the corrections of our article on the Trade and Government of India, furnished by our correspondent A. B. in last week's Spectator. We had stated that no...

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THE THEATRES.

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COVENT GARDEN OPENS on Monday, under the management of Mr. OSBALDISTON, who formerly held the Surry Theatre. The principal feature of his plan is the reduction of the prices to...

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THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.

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FASHIONABLE seasons change at the bidding of the fashionable world A winter in London used to extend at the furthest to May : it now ex- tends to August ; and if the...

THE BYRON BEAUTIES.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—I think I can convince you that you have unjustly blamed the editor of FIN DEN'S Byron Beauties for not having discovered the accidental...

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LODORE..

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Tins is one of the most remarkable works of the day ; which an accident of the publishing season prevented us from noticing when it first appeared. In Lodore it is easy to...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Lodore. By the Author of" Frankenstein." Bentley. PER ODICAL LITERATURE, 'rue Oriental Annual; or Scenes in India ; comprising twenty-two Engravings from Original Drawings by...

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THR ORIENTAL ANNUAL.

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Tan two former volumes of this elegant yet solid Annual were chiefly devoted to the Presidencies of Madras and Bengal. The present volume nominally embraces Bombay ; and...

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LETTERS FROM BRUSSELS.

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'THOUGH dashed by the affectation of spirited writing, these Let- ters form a light and agreeable volume ; furnishing some details that will be useful to travellers en route, or...

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"INNES ' S WORKING OF THE NEW SYSTEM

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IN THE WEST INDIES. THE name of INNES is well known in connexion with the Western Indies ; and a namesake, probably a partner of the house, " having often experienced...

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Mr. WILLIAM CARPENTER'S Summary of the Municipal Cor- poration Reform

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Bill, is a clear interpretation of the spirit and meaning of the several clauses of the Act, with the addition of notes and a complete index. In the introduction, Mr. CARPENTER...

Six Months in a Convent, is a narrative of Miss

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REBECCA THERESA REED'S sojourn in the Ursuline Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts; whither she clandestinely went, against the wishes of her friends, and whence she escaped...

The Book of Family Worship, contains a collection of daily

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morning and evening prayers for a month, besides a number of occasional supplications for the feast-days of the Church, or on the occurrence of' those events which happen to us...

The new cheap Magazine called The Christian Physician includes politics,

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and every class of subjects that bears on the condition of man. The Second Number contains the first of a series of concise and familiar expositions of the partial and op-...

Mr. Ginsosi's Etymological Geography is a very able and valu-

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able little book ; though occasionally fanciful, and, we suspect, not always correct. It is intended to teach the student to annex ideas to words, by showing him the original...

Bachelors' Maydays, with some Thoughts of a Theoretical Philanthropist, is

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a collection of tales, set in an autobiographical framework. The subjects are taken from the commonest occur- rences of common life; and the execution displays an amiable spirit...

PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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A VARIETY of publications are on our table, the result of a gradual in-dropping of several weeks, and verifying the common remark, how things accumulate I All of them, no doubt,...

Whatever may be the ultimate effect of modern theories, this

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at least may be said for them, that they are founded on principles deduced from observation. This is the case with Mr. WRIGHT'S Treatise on the Causes and Cure of Stuttering;...

A variety of Serials are before us; commencing, closing, or

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continuing. We wish them all every success, but they are obvi- ously more fitted for the purchaser than the reviewer : however, they are before us, and demand a line of...