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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE breath of life still lingers in the Ministerial body. On Mon- day lagt, a respite, until the further pleasure of the Tory Lords shall be known, was received at the Treasury...
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The Parisians are busy in preparing for the celebration of
The Spectatorthe anniversary of the Three Days of July. The Opposition journals are endeavouring to persuade the National Guard to get up a petition or remonstrance to the King against the...
The main body of the Russian army, according to advices
The Spectator•from Constantinople, dated 20th June and published in the Augsburg Gazette, was about to depart - without delay. It is said, however, that the Sultan is on such excellent terms...
Etchatzsi atilt larttrzebinud in Parliament.
The Spectator1. CALL OF THE HOUSE. On Monday, when the Order of the Day was read for the House of Commons going into Committee on the East India Bill. Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY rose to move, as...
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frbe SlitetropotiO.
The SpectatorA Court of Common Council was held yesterday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee on the subject of the qualifica- tions of the candidates for the office of...
ebe Court.
The SpectatorThe King and Queen honoured the Duke and Dutchess of •Bucs- cleuch with their company at Richmond on Friday evening last ; when a superb breakfast was given at seven o'clock to...
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The neighbourhood of Shadwell and Wapping was in a state
The Spectatorof great excitement on Saturday last, owing to a report being circulated that John Peacock Wood, a waterman who lived in Lower Shadwell, had been murdered by the Police. A...
At the Mansionhouse, on Monday, three little girls about twelv
The Spectatoror thirteen years old, all children of Jews, were charged with hay ing knocked another little girl, the daughter of a Jew clothes-dealer in Cutler Street, and stolen from her a...
At the Old Bailey Sessions, on Monday, Joseph Sanderson, Thomas
The SpectatorSlater, Richard Arthur, Michael Healey, and Thomas Smith, were all sentenced to be hanged for housebreaking. William Jones, Edward Hart, and Henry Gordon ' were sentenced to be...
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SignicrIlanrout.
The SpectatorThe Stamp-Office returns of the number of stamps issued "for all the London Newspapers, from the commencement of the year 1832 to the 31st March 1833" (five quarters)...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorMr. Christopher Harvey, the Mayor of Wexford, has been fully committed to gaol under a warrant for tithe. He owes about twenty pounds, and declares he will not pay a shilling....
On the night of Wednesday week, as Mr. Rolestone, auctioneer,
The Spectatorof Newton Bushell, was on his return from Torquay, and near Newton, he heard the cries of murder, and at the same time saw two women come out of a field and pass him on the...
Inc Country.
The SpectatorMr. T. S. Duncombe was sentenced at the Hertford Assizes, on Saturday, to pay u fine of fifty pounds to the King, for the libel on Mr. Pemberton, Mayor of Hertford, which we...
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THE FACTORY EVIDENCE.
The SpectatorThe Central Board of Factory Commissioners has published a se- cond volume, containing the Reports of the Medical Commissioners, and the Evidence upon which they are founded....
By letters received yesterday from Berlin, we learn that Count
The SpectatorMaTuszEwic, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary, had arrived in the Prussian capital and was expected to leave for this country in about ten days. It is yet unknown whether his...
It appears certain that an active correspondence has been kept
The Spectatorup with the Court by the HARROWBY party, and that the King has been playing the part of a mediator. The result of his mediation, however, has been to place Lord GREY in a worse...
At last some interior movements appear to have been made
The Spectatorin favour of Donna MARIA. The political prisoners have been set at liberty at Timmer, by a body of Constitutionalists, numerous and well-armed, who after proclaiming "Maria the...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. The talk to-day has been, that the High Church Party in the House of Lords , despairs of throwing out the Irish Bill in Committee. The Moderate Tories feeling...
The following gentlemen have been appointed Commissioners to in- quire
The Spectatorinto the state of Corporations in England and Wales. Messrs. John Blackburne, George Long, Fortunatus Dwarris, S. A. Rumball, George Hutton Wilkinson, Sir Francis Palgrave,...
The Portuguese Ambassador, the Chevalier DE Lima, has, by di-
The Spectatorrection of the Regency, made a new application to Lord PALMERSTON for the recognition of Donna MARIA as Queen de facto of Portugal. Lord PALMERSTON has promised to bring the...
The Sittings of the Conference upon the long-pending question be-
The Spectatortween Holland and Belgium have been recently renewed, and daily de- liberations held of several hours' duration ; and it is now asserted in well-informed circles, with a strong...
The agitation on Tuesday and Wednesday at the residences of
The Spectatorthe leaders of the Opposition in the House of Lords was excessive. The communications from the Carlton Club to Apsley House on Wednes- day, preliminary to the second reading of...
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DEVOTED JURIES.
The SpectatorTHE Inquest of the week on the charge of murder against certain Policemen, like that upon the Calthorpe Street affair some time ago, is worth studying as a sign of the times....
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, VRYDAY A/TERI/00H. The gloom which hung over the Money Market at the close of last week, has been completely dispelled ; and as it has berme pretty certain that...
TOPICS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorTHE GALLANT CAPTAIN NAPIER, AND THE ABSURD FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT. OF all stupid and suicidal measures, surely the • Foreign Enlist- tuent Act is one of the most absurd. It is...
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A DOUBLE PASSENGER.
The SpectatorDa. COLE, a personage of extraordinary obesity, whose mirthful re- cital of his grievances illustrated the truth of the adage "Laugh and grow fat," appeared before the Lord...
PARLIAMENTARY PREVARICATION.
The SpectatorIN the debate on Sir JOHN WuorrEsnEv's motion for a call of the House, Sir ROBERT PEEL is reported to have observed, in refe- rence to the anticipated vote of the Lords on the...
THE JEW AND THE MAGISTRATE.
The SpectatorWE profess not to belong to the sect of Optimists in morality any more than in politics : we rejoice that the world, bad as it is, is no worse, but by no means consider it the...
THE FREN CH RECIPROCITY ILISSFLION SO EN GLAND.
The Spectator" The French Government has sent M. Martineau to Chesnes, Countillor of State, to England upon a mission to that which Dr. Bowring has recently fulfilled in France. M....
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VESTED INTERESTS.—[The armourers mentioned below ought to have pe- titioned
The Spectatorfor compensation, as the attornies of the Insolvent Debtors' Court are now doing. The former might have claimed a vested right in physical destruc- tion, as the latter do in...
EFFECT OF THE DRAMATIC AUTHORS' BILL.
The SpectatorWE may congratulate the public as well as dramatists upon Mr. BULIVER'S bill for the protection of the copyrights of dramatic productions having passed into a law. Now, that...
ENGLISH OPERA, ADELPHI THEATRE.
The SpectatorARNOLD has resumed the management of the English Opera company. Miss KELLY is not announced to appear, although she has concluded her admirable monodramatie entertainment. Mr....
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Phcenician Ireland is a work of great curiosity and extraordi-
The Spectatornary learning, by Dr. VILLANUEVA. It is translated by Mr. O'BRIEN, the author of a Prize Essay on the Round Towers of Ireland,—the most remarkable antiquities in the world, if...
Tux PARISH PRIEST.—In the parish which I know perhaps better
The Spectatorthan any other , a large and populous parish in Derbyshire, no one could recollect having heard of it possessing a decent clergyman. The last but one was a vulgar and confirmed...
WE have found it absolutely necessary to issue a Special
The SpectatorCom- mission for the immediate trial of the merits of the vast number of new works that have been accumulating in crowds upon our walls and on our - table. We are now sitting at...
SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorHISTORY AND AlITIQVIIIIN A Popular History of Priestcraft in all Ages and Nations. By William Howitt. Wilson. Phrenician Ireland. Auetore Joachimo Laurentio Villeneuve....
Leaving a surplus of £1,501,933
The SpectatorThe following is the result of the Public Accounts for the years ending 5th July 1832 and 1833, according to the Balance-sheet just made up. The Income of the year ending 5th...
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Romances of the Chivalric Ages—The Pilgrim Brothers. This is a
The Spectatorbook that would have mightily pleased Don Quixote : it is conceived by one who might have never dwelt in these nether re- gions, but who was indebted for his information as to...
Minor Antiquilies of Edinburgh, by the author of Traditions of
The SpectatorEdinburgh, is a third and supplementary volume to the latter work. It is even richer than its predecessors. " Mine own ro- mantic town " is fully proved to be as wealthy in...
The Encydopivdia of Romance, condUcted by the Reveieta HENRY MARTINEAU,
The Spectatoris a little number-volume, price one The Encydopivdia of Romance, condUcted by the Reveieta HENRY MARTINEAU, is a little number-volume, price one containing several tales of...
The Provost of Paris, " a Tale of the Court
The Spectatorof Charles the Sixth," by WILLIAM S. BROWNING, who has already written the History of the Huguenots, is an historical novel, turning upon the very interesting events of the...
Character, or Jew and Gentile, by Mrs. LEMAN GRIMSTONE, is
The Spectatora publication full of admirable morality. The authoress is a phi- losopher : now a philosophical lady is not a very popular character, and it is very possible that the work may...
Some one has translated the original legend of Der Frwschiitz
The Spectatorinto very good English. It makes an interesting story, even when divested of the enchanting music of WEBER and all the horrors of the machinist. The original is by A. APEL, as...
Lady MORGAN'S Dramatic Scenes have only just been put into
The Spectatorour hands. We have read enough of the first and principal piece to be greatly entertained with the humour of Mrs. Quigley, and not a little struck with her picture from the life...
The Books and the Pilgrimage of the Polish Nation, translated
The Spectatorfrom the Polish, is a series of connected political parables, in which the language of the Scriptures is adopted, and something of their poetical vein. There is much that is...
Henry St: Clair, a Tale of the Persecution in Scotland,
The Spectatorand the Martyr of Freedom, are tile productions of a mind of poetical feeling, and also of poetical power. The narrative of the hateful dragonading of the Covenanters, under the...