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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorLiberal majority 22 But these numbers require further explanation. There is a majority of 22 against the formal rescinding of resolutions aban- doned by Ministers, and...
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Rumours and speculations respecting changes in the French Ministry occupy
The Spectatormuch space in the journals of Paris. It is said that Louis PHILIP sent for GUIZOT, and desired his advice and assistance ; but that the experienced Doctrinaire declined to offer...
The commercial accounts from New York are of a rather
The Spectatormore cheering character than those we have recently been receiving. The arrival of a million and a half of dollars from England, the expectation of further supplies, but chiefly...
The question of " mixed marriages" is acquiring fresh impo r t.
The Spectatorante in Germany. The Augsburg Gazette admits that it excite ' "the greatest effervescence," and that the movement is felt even in Austria ; where the Court Chaplain has preached...
All the accounts from the seat of war in Spain
The Spectatorrepresent the affairs of Don CARLOS to be in an almost desperate condition. The insurrection raised by MURRAGARRY has not been entirely stifled; and a party in support of the...
The news from Upper Canada is bad, because bloody. W e
The Spectatorallude to the execution, at Toronto, of SAMUEL LOUNT and pun t Mai-rums, convicted of high treason, as having been concerned in the late disturbances. Four other persons...
Important intelligence has been received from Bahia. After three days
The Spectatorfighting and much slaughter, the insurgents were driven out of the town by the troops of the Imperial Government. About sixty houses and a considerable quantity of merchandes...
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ilecluttri nun prarcetingri fn parliament.
The SpectatorTna APPROPRIATION PRINCIPLE. In the House of Commons, on Monday, the order of the day having been read, for a Committee of the whole House to take into consider- ation the...
The Chilian Government have been guilty of the folly and
The Spectatorin- gratitude of refusing to ratify the treaty of peace so mercifully accorded to his impotent foe by SANTA CRUZ. On the return of the Chilian army from the Peruvian territory,...
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trbe iftetropoIti.
The SpectatorThe grand Tory banquet to Sir Robert Peel took place on Saturday, Sir Robert Peel, on rising to return thanks, was of course received with rapturous chet rs. Of course also, he...
ear Court.
The SpectatorTHE Queen's Birthday was celebrated on Thursday, by a Drawing- room at St. James's Palace, the most splendid that has been held for many years. The company began to arrive at...
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In the New Court, on Thursday, Mary Wearing was tried
The Spectatoron a charge of embezzling the sum of one shilling, belonging to the prose- cutor, the Reverend John Stnallintin Master, of Greenwich. Mr. Master said that he was Treasurer of...
The Reverend Mr. Hinton, on Wednesday, commenced a course of
The Spectatorlectures on National Religious Establishments, at the Devonshire Square Chapel, Bishopsgate Street. Thu object of the reverend gen- tlemen is to refute the arguments of Dr....
A meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor, on
The SpectatorMonday, to peti- tion Parliament to take into consideration the claims of the officers end men lately serving in the British Auxiliary Legion, arid the suffer- tags of the...
Ebt Countrn.
The SpectatorIt was stated in our second edition last week, that Mr. Hope, rather than defend himself from the charges of bribery which the pea- tioners against ir:s return act. prepared to...
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At a numerous meeting of Essex freeholders, held at Chelmsford
The Spectatoron Thursday,—Mr. Cotton, High Sheriff; in the chair,—resolutions were passed expressive of deep regret at the rejection of Sir George Strickland's motion for the abolition of...
The Edinburgh correspondent of the Courier relates some proceed ings
The Spectatorof the High Church gentlemen in Scotland, which prove the eagerness of that party to carry matters with a high hand at present- " On Wednesday last, the Reverend Mr. Cunningham...
The Cork Southern Reporter states, that at the Skihhereen Petty
The SpectatorSessions, the Reverend Mr. Traill, Vicar of Skull, was lined ;ih for presenting a pistol at one of his Roman Catholic flock, on the high. road, on the return of the reverend...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe Pilot of Dublin 'contains a requisition for a great public nem ing to be held in Dublin on the '24th instant, to take measures for call. ing the Reform Registry Association...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorIt is currently reported that John Dunlop, Esq., the Member for Ayrshire. has re-igned his seat, on the score of ill health, awhile Lord Kenmore ha: already taken the field on...
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POSTSCR1 PT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. Our Chancellor of the Exchequer made a dolorous exhibition last night. In a Committee of Ways and Meares he opened his long- deferred Budget. Instead of the vapouring...
Sir John Herschel, with his lady and family, Les arrived
The Spectatorfrom the Cape of Good Hope, where be had been for some yearn prosecuting estrono ' al discoveries. It has b ea resolved by the London savans to invite Sir John to a public...
Mr. Leader was absent from the debates and division on
The Spectatorthe Irish Church resolutions, on account of his mother's death and funeral. Sir William Molesworth has been prevented from attending the House by a severe ititlammatory attack,...
aiidreInnreuti.
The SpectatorWe understand the Coronation procession will be of unexampled splendour ; and will proceed from Buckingham Palace up Constitu- tion Hill, through Piccadilly, St. James's Street,...
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It is the most absurd self-deception for men to suppose,
The Spectatorthat the votes of a number of Members, acting upon the principle which we have stated (" keep them in at all risks,") can, at this time of day, se.. cure a Ministry in power....
Movements of troops to the Northern frontier of France were
The Spectatoreon. tinued ; but still it was said that nobody saw a chance of war. Prince TALLEYRAND has again been dangerously ill. The King and Queen visited him on Thursday, but he was...
Accounts from Bayonne, of the 14th instant, confirm those pre.
The Spectatorviously received of the spread of disaffection among the Carlist troops Fresh mutinies had broken out at Estella among the Navarrese batta- lions, and a large force had been...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTMOON. The confident anticipations of Ministerial defeat in which the Tories indulged during Monday and Tuesday, in conjunction with the conviction paw...
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At Drury Lane, CHARLES KEAN appeared as Othello on Wednes-
The Spectatorday. The principal feature of his performance seems to have been his death—" no act in life became him like the leaving of it : " he dropped stone dead! 0. SMITH could not have...
At Covent Garden, on Thursday, a lively operatta, called The
The SpectatorOutpost—a version of a French piece, La Scntinelle Perdue —was produced with complete success. The perplexities of two lovers, a French sentinel left to guard an " outpost," and...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorIII STIP+. On the 16th inst., the Duteliess of ScrteritLAND, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., nt Woolmers. liens, the Lady SUSAN 110THAM, of a IOU. At Grad :Malvern. the Lady...
The public do not tire of the Love-Chase: it is
The Spectatorplayed almost nightly at the Haymarket, and reached its hundredth night on Wednesday. The Wife also has been revived there. CELESTE produces quite a sensation by her pantomime...
THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorTHE Winter season of the Minors drawing to a close ; and the bene- fits having come on at Covent Garden, our theatrical chronicle last week presented a blank; and this week we...
DIVISION ON THE IRISII CHURCH QUESTION.
The SpectatorWHIG•RADICAL MAJORITY AGAINST SIR THOMAS ACLAND'S MOTION YOR RESCINDING THE APPROPRIATION RESOLUTIONS OF 1S35. CONSERVATIVE MINORITY FOR SIR THOMAS A CLASH'S MOTION. Cole,...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrived-At Gravesend, May 17th, Inglehorotigh, Ricketts, from China; and Mala- bar, Hos, tom Bombay. At Deal. 17th, Earl Grey, Talbot, from Matuitius. In the Channel, Brothers,...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMINISTERS ON THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION, IF Ministers had tlle worst in the argument, though they bad the best in the division, on the Irish Church question, it was owing to...
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THE PRINCIPLE OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL "ESTABLISHMENT."
The SpectatorA rassaell in Mr. %Vann's speech, in Tuesday's debate, deserves notice fur its truth and manliness. The principles avowed by the srbigs when discoursing upon Ecclesiastical...
THE BANK OF IRELAND.
The SpectatorIT is manifestly not desired by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the renewal of the Charter of the Bank of Ireland should be much discussed. The Government journals are...
WANTED—A "POPULAR DEMONSTRATION."
The Spectator"THE Old Man of the Sea," says the figurative Courier, "is still upon our backs. The Reform Act has indeed staggered him, but it has not shaken him off; and the two last general...
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THE IIOUSE OF LONGMAN AND THE COPYRIGHT BILL.
The SpectatorIN a printed circular on Sergeant TALPOURD'S Bill, Messrs LONG- MAN and Company, the eminent publishers, object to the ret ro , spective clauses by which existing copyrights...
HOW THE GOVERNMENT BILLS ARE DRAWN.
The SpectatorEVERY one knows that it is not Lord John This or Mr. Spring That who actually prepares the measures which are brought before Parliament. The real business of the country is done...
At the sale of Lord Northwick's pictures, on Saturday last,
The Spectatorthe por- trait of Sir Robert Walpole, painted by Vanderbank, was purchased by Sir Robert Peel, for 31 guineas. Shakspeare's autograph has been purchased by Mr. Miller, Lam....
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The Spectator5100NIPFIV , Life an d Ad min istration of Edward First Earl of Clarendon: with Original Cm , respondence and Authentic Papers, lamer before published. By T. tl. Lister, Esq....
MR. LISTER'S LIFE OF CLARENDON.
The SpectatorAs impartial life of Lord CLARENDON is one of the desiderata of English literature; or rather, we want a searching and enlarged estimate of his character and career, for the...
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HOMEWARD BOUND.
The SpectatorCONSIDERED merely as a novel, this work wants the interest that springs from number, variety, and novelty of incidents woven into a connected story ; all which are probably...
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BULWICR'S LEILA AND CALDERON.
The SpectatorTHIS is one of the tribe of picture-books, where the writer weaves a tissue of fiction for the painter to embroider with pictorial fancies and engravers to stud with " gems of...
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FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. RESUMING our rapid glai.ce at the most striking points of attraction in the show of paintings in the Middle Room, we commence with another of EDWIN...
FINDEN'S GALLERY OF BRITISH ART.
The SpectatorTHE commencement of this magnificent work is in every respect un- exceptionable; and, regarded as a specimen of its future conduct, is satisfactory in the highest degree. It...