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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE Government and their Liberal supporters have suffered a virtual defeat on the Church-rate question. The adjourned debate on Mr. RICE'S resolution commenced on Monday, and...
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The Emperor of Russia has published an ukase declaring the
The Spectatorcapture of' the Vixen to have been perfectly legal. Perhaps it was; but Englishmen will desire to have the opinion of the learned men whom Lord PALMERSTON consulted before...
Mr. RICHARD JOHNSON, of Kentucky, has been elected Vice' President
The Spectatorof the United States, by a majority of 31 to 16 over his competitor, Mr. GRANGER New York.
At length there is news of active operations by the
The SpectatorQueen's troops iu the in ighbourhood of St. Sebastian. On the 10th in- stant, General EVANS attacked the Carlist intrenchments on the heights, and took the fortification on the...
From intelligence recently received from Carthagena, it appears that the
The SpectatorBritish residents and Minister have got into an ugly quarrel with the new Grenadian Government. Mr. RussaLL, an Englishman, having had a scuffle with a Grenadian, was thrown...
Committee of the whole House. The resolution propos& d by
The SpectatorMr. Spring Rice on the 3d instant having been read by Mr. BERNAL, the Chairman, Sir ROBERT PEEL addressed the Committee. He said ti at he rose thus early in the discussion, in...
The Lisbon correspondent of the Times mentions, that the Por-
The Spectatortuguese Ministry intend to move for a Committee of the Cortes, on the new Tariff, with a view to its modification or abolition. A band of Guerillas disturb the province of...
The French Ministry is staggering, not so much under the
The Spectatorblow whicli the Chamber of Deputies struck last week, as from infernal weakness and disunion, and the contempt which the French public feel and cannot conceal fur the King. Some...
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Ebr Virtropolti.
The SpectatorA meeting was held at the Alansionhouse on Saturday, to set on foot a public subscription for the la lief of the ten:tufty of the landowners itt the North of Scotland. The Lord...
At the Alansionhouse, on Wednesday, a man named Kearney was
The Spectatorexamined on a charge of stabbing Mr. Loch, Deputy Chairman of the East India Company, with intent to kill bitn. It appeered that Kearney had been or fancied himself ill-used by...
Cbr Court.
The SpectatorTHE King came to town on Wednesday; and soon afterwards a Levee was held at St. James's Palace. Among the company, were Lord Portman, Lord Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke...
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Mr. O'Connell complained to the House of' Comtnons, on !ties-
The Spectatorday, that in the Times of Satutday a speech on Spanish affairs had been attributed to him, of which he never uttered a word. He was made to talk about the "voluptuous form " and...
The Duke of Roxburgh has been elected a member of
The SpectatorBrookes's Club. The Whigs will do their best to keep his juvenileGruce inclose keeping. The death of a Dean of Bristol, at Torquay, last week, in his eighty- seventh year, leis...
ebe Countin. An active canvass is going on at Lewes,
The Spectatorto supply the vacancy which will be occasioned by Mr. Kemp's ietended retirement. Mr. John Easthope, formed) . Member for St. Alban's, having been in- vited by pearly 200...
BIRTHS, AIAHHIAGES, ANLI DEATHS. IIIR'filS.
The SpectatorOn the :lilt inst., at Duddingston House, N.B., Duly IlAllalltT IIAILLIE of u t•on. On the Ilth inst., at Kensington, the Lady Ds 1,'Isr.s awl Donny, of n On the 12th inst. ,...
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POS'ISCRI. PT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. Tim wily Foreign intelligence of interest is, that on the 12th in- stant General Evaes occupied the same position near St. Sebastian as on the former day ; and that...
Arrangements are in progress for calling a public meeting of
The Spectatorthe electors of the borough of Finsbury, to protest against time attempt of the Government to violate the constitutiooal rights of Lower Canada. 'f hus, while our rulers, who...
A serious opposition to rent as well as tithes has
The Spectatorbeen commenced in the county of Limerick. At Kilmoreen, in the beginning of the wet k, there was an assembly of the peasants by horns and signal fires, to drive off the bailiffs...
The House of Commons met this afternoon, in order that
The Spectatorthe House of Peers—say Lord Chancellor COTTENHAM, Lord MeLeouisse, Lord BROUGHAM, and a Bishop—might be saved the trouble of meeting on Thursday next. The report of the...
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The SpectatorIt is rumoured at the Clubs this evening, that the serious question of resignation was dismissed to-day in a meeting of Ministers assembled for the purpose at Lord MELBOURNE'S....
Mr. GEORGE DAWSON finds that the Apprentice Boys of Derfy
The Spectatorare no longer his friends, or no longer omnipotent ; so he has retired, saucing on the chalice of being elected for some very rottess borough.
MONEY .MARK ET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCP•NON,FRIDAT AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market, which was very firm in the early part of the week, has since given way about per cent 'This decline is apt ibuted by...
A motion by Mr. ROEBUCK, in the House of Commons
The Spectatorlast night, for papers and correspondence relative to the Russian blockade of the Circe.sien coast, the commerce of the Black Sea, arid the capture of the Vixen, produced a...
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FIRST NEWS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
The SpectatorIntelligence of an interesting and important nature has reached England from the Colony of South Australia in the course of the present week. Of fifteen vessels, which have...
SCOTCH SALMON FISHERIES BILL.
The SpectatorBURKE somewhere tells a story of an elderly Member of the Howie of Corn. mons whom he one day discovered in the Library intrenched amid huge folios, gravely digesting a bill...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived—At Gravesend, March 1411,. Royal George. Wilson, from Bombay ; Se- nator. Grindley Carribean, Irving; and Thames. Arnold, from Mauritius. Off Ha-dings, Sovereign....
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LETTER FROM AN ESTEEMED CORRESPONDENT, ON THE STATE OF FRANCE.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEC TATMI. Si it — . Matters get on but oddly in France. We mire in •• ime hebroglio," RS c; mm Says, With a estvernmelit nomi7s1Py i m piemetat:re, e e...
THE CHURCH-RATE QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
The Spectatorlterorm Tlearsday Evenlne. Breit Sin—May I ask a portion of next Sperfator, for the statement of some facts, having, in my opinion, an itnportnnt bearing on the question which...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorWHIG-TORYISM ACCOUNTED FOR. THE conduct of the Whigs with regard to Canada, throws an portant light on home politics. The Whigs, from the first exist- ence of their party down...
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POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POLITICS OF THE CORN-LAW QUESTION.
The SpectatorA TaAcr, compiled from Parliamentary returns, and showing the great preponderauce of aristocratic influence in the Retie rued House of Commona, has been published by " the...
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THE BRISTOL TOWN-CLERK JOT!.
The SpectatorA centres:tie t - isx.r at Bristel has supplied us with some parti- cult: Is I-es:diets Ile e nu ni nsation awarded to Mr. Sergeant Lt. D- Lew', lut4! q't.v• id that city,...
- CHURCH-RATE GLEANINGS.
The Spectator" The total amount of fines in the no of Durham on an net rage of three years, wli bib formed the basin of the Cover 'intent cahmlationn, was I 7,e001. per annum; but it had...
" Suppose a noble lord had 20,000/. a year derived
The Spectatorfrom land let for a term of years on renewable leases; and suppose the State stepped in, and said that the noble lord's was an improvident method i,f sotling tin ptoperty ; that...
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LOTTERIES.
The SpectatorTHERE are Bishops alive who were systematic purchasers of lottery-tickets, until Parliament was persuaded to abolish that species of gambling in England. In the United States,...
PHILHA RNIONIC CONCERTS.
The SpectatorTun second concert of the season was on 31oeday ; and consisted ot tire following selection. -ACT T. Silleollk ill (7 (SO. 6) Moz ART. Air, Mr. •• 0 God have mercy" (St. 1 ME...
The financial part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech 011 Monday
The Spectatorwas a tissue of blunders; notwithstanding the parade of con- scious superierity with which he heralded it—the candid conde- seensi. n of his " Stop me when obscure. correct me...
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NAPOLEON IN COUNCIL.
The SpectatorSo far as our acquaintance with the Napeleonic memorials enables us . to fitrin a jedgment, (and who bus read all that has been written upon BONAPARTE?) this volume may be...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorHfIrOStIr. Piiip./..011 in Council; or the Opinions delivered by Bonaparte in the Connell of State. 1'r:instated from the French of Baron Pelet. (I it. La bemire.) Member of...
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COMMERCIAL RESOURCES AND MERCANTILE AND MONETARY SYSTEMS OF BRITISH INDIA.
The SpectatorTo every one who wishes, either for speculative or practical pur- poses, to acquire a knowledge of the present economical condition of British India, this little book is...
SKENE'S HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorTHERE are only two modes in which a general interest can be im- parted to an account of barbarous tribes. The one is by a con- densed and elegant treatise concerning them, such...
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SIR A. IL FAULRNER's RAMBLING TOUR THROUGH FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AND
The SpectatorITALY. Tuts discursive narrative of a Continental rambler over well- trodden ground, is thrown into the shape of letters " by the advice of the printer, as more fitted for its...
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POETRY.
The SpectatorIn which class of the belles lettres the productions are nu- merous; consisting of 1. Xeniola. Poems, including Translationsfrom Schiller old De la Motte Fouqui. By JOHN...
TRAVELS.
The SpectatorIn this branch Of literature there are two publications. Prince PIICKLER MUSKAU'S Adventures in Algiers and other Parts of *lea, in 3 vols. from Mr. BENTLEY; and from Mr....
PICCIOL A, OR CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE.
The SpectatorTins romance is it philosophical novel, which narrates, with the indescribable felicity of manner that seems peculiar to French writers, the conversion of an atheistical Count...
BIOGRAPHY. '
The SpectatorThe First Volume of the long-talked-of Memoirs of The Life of Sir Miner Scott, by Mr. LOCKHART. Johnsoniana. A very judicious, amusing, and instructive selec- tion from the...
FICTION.
The SpectatorUnder this head, the work of the highest merit is most pro- bably Mr. W,urn's vtrations if Haman Li fe; though the au- thor denies the intention of writing a novel even in the...
PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
The SpectatorLIKE tlie creatures that Scripture speaks of, the publishers know their appointea time. and are ebviously on the look-ont for the approaching holydays, when Parliamentary...
CLASSICAL LITERATURE.
The SpectatorP. Terentii Afri Comedite Sex. With Explanatory Notes, by D. B. Deem, LL.D. The Antiquities qf Greece. By JOIIN POTTER, D.D. 117th Notes and Improved Indices, by JAMES BOYD,...
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ROBERTS'S SPANISH SKETCH'S.
The SpectatorSPAIN, so rich in the picturesque and romantic, is a fertile soil for the painters, who having well nigh exhausted the beauties of Italy and Switzerland, are now leaving the...
NEW EDITIONS.
The SpectatorThose of any consequence are two. I. A second edition, en- larged and almost rewritten, of MACNISH'S Introduction to Phre- nology ; which is certainly plain enough, but from the...
HARDING'S DRAWING - BOOK.
The SpectatorHARDING is indefatigable in following up his successful career As a lithographer. His large book of Sketches and his pretty little Port. folio Intke not prevented him from...
FIN E ARTS.
The SpectatorSOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. THE Exhibition of this Society opens to the public on Monday, at their Gallery in Suffolk Street. The private view is to-day; which being too late...