20 OCTOBER 1832

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE closing of the ordinary session of the Dutch States General on the 13th, and their reopening on the 15th, have given to King WILLIAM an opportunity of making a speech on the...

The first act of the new French Ministry has been

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the creation of sixty-five Peers, to supply the vacancies made in the Chamber by the Revolution of 1831. The following are the names of fifty- nine of them- Lieutenant-General...

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The Stockholm Gazette speaks of a plot against the Govern-

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ment as having been recently discovered. A letter, it seems, was - written in July last, from Berlin to a person in Vienna, requesting him to acquaint the ex-Crown Prince, the...

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Cto Court.

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The Court Newsman is like the Sun ; nothing is too great or too , small for his brightening influence. Be turns from the Queen's cold. and the continued illness of the Dutchess...

A Royal Commission has issued for inquiring into the revenue

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of Deans and Chapters and Bishoprics. They have issued to each a set of queries, a summary of which we give in another co- lumn. The Standard says, that he has had already more...

A correspondent of the Times of Wednesday gives a somewhat

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different description of the recent riot at Savannah-la-Mar, in Jamaica. He says— " Mr. Kingdon was residing peaceably in that town, without even exercising the functions of his...

O'CONNELL has changed the form of his address; he now

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be speaks the attention to the wrongs of Ireland—not of the Re- formers of England, but of Mr. BEAUMONT, member for North- umberland, and Mr. LAW HODGES, member for Kent. There...

- The accounts from Madrid of the 4th instant describe

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FERDI- NAND as out of danger. It is said that during his illness, the Queen promised the English Minister, that if her royal husband recovered, he would issue an amnesty, for...

b e Parliament.

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The House of Lords met on Tuesday, soon after two o'clock, for the purpose of further proroguing Parliament. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor and Lords Lansdowne and...

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.—These sessions met on Thursday. The only case

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of any interest was that of Clifford, the man charged with stealing a milk-pot in Pickett Street, or, as he alleged, taking a milk- pot with a view by the taking to test a...

bc alctrawilL REVISING LISTS. The City.—On Thursday, Messrs. Thomson and

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Keene, Revising Barristers under the Reform Act, commenced their sittings in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, Guildhall. It appeared that the Overseer of Bridewell...

A meeting of the persons who take an interest in

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the scheme of Almshouses, in commemoration of the passing of the - Reform Bill, took place on Wednesday. Mr.. Sheriff Humphrey offered to build the almshouses at cost price ;...

Sir E. Carrington, formerly a Judge in Ceylon, and recently

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Chair- man of the Aylesbury Sessions, is the person, it is now said, destined to succeed Mr. Const at Hicks's Hall.—Globe. A Court of Directors was held at the East India House...

OMNIBUSES AND PRIVATE CARRIAGES.—Mr. Wynne Ellis, the Re- forming member

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for Leicester, and ribbon-merchant on Ludgate Ihll, prosecuted on Tuesday no fewer than twenty-four omnibus-owners and drivers, for obstructing the street. The complaint was...

r SURRY MAGISTRATES,— The Committee of the Surry Magis- trates

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appointed to consider of the best means of discharging the duties of the Sessions, which have greatly increased in magnitude and importance, by reason of the increasing number...

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A steam-vessel left the River on Saturday afternoon, with three

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hundred fine young men, several officers, and a quantity of guns, shot, small arms, and other stores, destined for the service of Don Pedro at Oporto. A ship sailed from the...

A duel between a Captain Arens and a Mr. M'Donald

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took place on Saturday morning, in a field near West End. The duel arose out of a dispute on the relative merits of Colonel Jones and Mr. Portman. The Captain, says the Globe...

WHERRIES AND STEAM-BOATS.—A conviction Was obtained by the Watermen's Company,

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at the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, against the Captain of the Glasgow steam-boat, for causing a wherry to fill with water, on the 12th August last. The chief witness was a...

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ebe Catintrn.

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The King has ordered a donation of 1001. to be applied towards the relief of the sufferers by the late fire at Bradninch, in the county of Devon. A requisition from the...

HONEST TOM HARDY.

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The funeral of this worthy man took place on Thursday. The funeral of a man in Hardy's humble rank of life, and who for many years had been in a great measure hidden from the...

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The gale on Sunday and Monday last week seems to

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have been as much felt on land as at sea. "On Tuesday," says the Portsmouth Herald, "about seven o'clock, when the gale was at its height, a fine elm, at the dairy-house of Mr....

IRELAND.

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Tina ArruAv AT Moecone.—We mentioned in our Postscript last week, that the latest accounts spoke of one person only as having fallen in the rencontre between the police and the...

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ELECTION TALK.

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ARUNDEL.—Lord D. C. Stuart is expected to be again returned. Alderman Atkins retires. BARNSTAPLE.—Lord Boringdon is understood to have declined an invitation to offer himself...

More than 1,200 attachments were this clay r onday] issued

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from the Court of Chancery against persons in arrears for tithes which are now the property of the Crown ; and it is said to be the fixed determi- nation of the Government to...

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The results of the Sheriffs ' investigations have not, it is

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supposed, materially altered in any case the relative positions of the parties. The Scotch papers give the following statement- Carrsismss.— Out of a population in Caithness of...

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NEWMAREMT SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.

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Monday, October 15. Mr. Henry ' s I. by Part isan, out of Rivulet, beat Mr. Othaldeston ' s f. by Partisan, out of Seherue. 100, h. Wou by a length. The Garden Stakes of 100...

Mr. GoaTox, the author of the Biographica/Dirtionary, has compiled a

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cheap and copious analysis of the three Reform Acts ; which is valuable from its including the whole of the boundaries of the several boroughs in England, Ireland, and Scotland....

Cons COUNTY.—The Honourable Robert King comes forward again.

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LIMERICK CITY.—Mr. John Vereker, nephew of Lord Gort, the patron of the Limerick Corporation, has announced himself candidate for that city. The Political Union have declared...

SiliArlianenue.

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THE CHURCII.—The Ecclesiastical Revenue Commissioners have issued a set of articles of inquiry, addressed to the Deans and Chap- ters of the several Cathedrals, and also to the...

DEATH OF MR, JAMES STEPHEN. —Another who has acted DO un-

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distinguished part in the great drama of life, has just quitted its stage, and gone to Ins eternal rest. Mr. Stephen died at Bath, on the 10th instant, of a diseased liver. He...

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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S ESTATE.—A story has gone the round of

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the newspapers respecting a contemplated application to Parliament by the family of Sir Walter Scott, for an extension of the copyright of his works. No such application has...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY, Two o'CLocx. The Conference met yesterday, in Downing Street, to hear read the last note of the King of Holland, in answer to the proposals for a treaty of peace with...

There are no accounts from Oporto either at the Admiralty

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or at the Foreign Office, although fourteen days have elapsed since the last arrival. The Portuguese Ambassador is astonished at this delay.

name has not yet come before the public. The American

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packet now lying at Portsmouth was a few days ago minutely examined all through by the police, but no culprit was found. Similar measures of vigi- lance are adopted at all the...

Arrangements are making, in the proper office, for the early

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dis- solution of Parliament; which, it is expected, will take place be- fore the 10th of December.

The Times correspondent of this morning rests the permanence of

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the French Ministry on the evacuation of Antwerp and the ex- pulsion of the Dutchess DE BERRI,—if this latter event, of which we have heard so often, have not already taken...

GlIOLERA. — The reports of the week are as follows—

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New Cases. New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries. Saturday 0 45 qS .. . °It; Monday 382 214 263 T uesdav 166 62 123 Wed nesday 364 170 209 Thursday 211 ho 137 Friday...

Prince TALLEYRAND and Baron BuLow have had several inter- views

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on the Belgian question. It is said that the Prussian Go- vernment will not oppose coercive measures. This is said, how- ever, by those who have said a hundred things which have...

The Duchess of Angouleme arrived at Vienna on the 6th,

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and is lodged in the Imperial palace. She had previously paid a visit to Schoenbrunn, where she was received with the highest respect by their Majesties and by all the members...

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THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. The warlike appearances of the last week have not been without their effect on the Funds; but the English Stocks have maintained themselves...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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CAMBRIDGE. On the 12th, the following Gentlemen were appointed the Caput 'br the ensuing year. The Vice-Chancellor-W. Chafy, D.D., Sidney Sussex College, Divinity; Geldart,...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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FRIDAY EVENING. The H. C. Ships for the Season have been stationed as follows-viz.: Duke of York, Locke ; Scaleby Castle, Hillman; Warren Hastings, Sandys ; Nellie Castle,...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, October 16.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. CHAPMAN and Co., Radcliffe, Lancashire, spirit , dealers-DoesoN and GLOVER. Preston, tea-dealers-BARKER and Co., M:inchcster, packers-SINGLETON and...

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SHROPSHIRE POLITICS.

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THE conductors of the London Daily Pthss appear to possess very scanty information on the subject of Shropshire politics. Amidst the multitude of electioneering paragraphs,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TITHES. THE right and duty of Parliament to deal with tithes and other Church property, as Public property, is obstinately denied by the sticklers for old abuses ; but it is...

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THE PARLIAMENTARY TIME-BILL.

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THE electioneering intelligence received from all parts of the coun- try, places beyond doubt the gratifying fact, that the Reformed Parliament will contain at least twice as...

PAWNBROKERS.

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SOME decisions, in which the public and the pawnbrokers are not a little interested, have been given within the last few days at the Thames Police-office. We noticed one of the...

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PERE-LA-CH-9ISE.

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I WAS wandering the other day in the populous solitudes of the Pere-la-Chaise; and after reading an infinity of inscriptions, it oc- curred to me to reflect how few of them...

A VISIT TO THE STRAND THEATRE.

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WE had the comfort of witnessing an exhibition of the "legitimate drama" at one of the Minors a few nights ago. It was a pleasant thing to hear the dialogue, when spoken in the...

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FOUNDLING HOSPITALS FOR ART.

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'TIM Annuals are not only schools for sucking sonnetteers, and 'workhouses for superannuated scribblers and pauper poetasters, but foundling hospitals for the illegitimate...

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TAYLOR'S RECORDS OF MY LIFE.

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EVERYBODY knew JACK TAYLOR, mid everybody liked him. He was known by the familiar diminutive of' his Christian name on account " of his love of goodfellowship and wit"— to use...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ANECDOTES, Records of My Life. By John Taylor, Esq., Author of "Monsieur Tonson." 2 Vols. narrow, Our Island. Comprising Forgery, a Tale; and the Lunatic, a Tale. 3...

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OUR ISLAND.

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THESE Tales are written, it is said, with a view of exposing some defects in the state of the law. We apprehend that no benefit is likely to arise from any exposure the author...

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,

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THOUGH it no longer marks the quarters of the year with merry changes of pleasant sounds and sparkling ideas, seems determined to make up in solidity what it has lost in...

FINE ARTS.

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THE Gallery in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, will shortly open with an exhibition of the works of British artists, living and deceased, which have not been before publicly...

HASTINGS.

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THESE little works are quite inventions in the art of ciceroneism. In a small compass, they contain information, in letterpress and by plates, such as, excepting by the...

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USEFUL ARTS.

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THE COAL-WEIGHING WAGGON. WE have seen a model of a very excellent contrivance for weighing coals as they are delivered from the waggon into the consumer's cellar, which is...

EMBELLISHMENTS OF THE ANNUALS.

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THE embellishments OPthe Literary Souvenir, the Forget Me Not, and the New Year's Gift, constitute our show of attractions this week. They are each various and interesting...

ATLAS ANNUALS.

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IF Alexander could peep out from his coffin to give a glance at the Geographical Annual for 1833,—which is a miniature Atlas of our Earth,—he would rub his mummy palms at the...

MUSIC.

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Four Sacred Melodies. The Words by C. V. INCLEDON; the Music by R. A. WALLIS. There is a spirit of fervent and rational piety about these words, which bespeaks them to have been...

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" 0 could to me;" a Ballad. By Jonx TnomscioN, Esq.

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"Where art thou ;" a Song. By the same. The first of these compositions abounds with touches of strong feeling, and is most skilfully accompanied. The secoil is more elabo-...

THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.

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Tins strange, old-fashioned society meets when there is " not a creature in London," and to sing music of which " no one ever beard." Yes, it is very true that its movements are...

"I can never forget thee ;" a Ballad. Sung by

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Mr. WILSON in the "Fancy Ball." By A. LEE. Mr. LEE, though not a great musician has contrived to hit off, now and then, a pleasing melody; and this is musician, an average...

"Lilian May." Composed by W. BALL and J. MOSCHELES.

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Mr. MOSCHELES, in contributing the accompaniment to this ballad, has made something, we won't say out of nothing, but out of very little.

"The smiling Spring ;" a Ballad. By S. S. WESLEY,

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Esq. Mr. WESLEY has studied in a school of which one of the rules is a connexion between sound and sense. That he has not studied in vain, this sow* would be sufficient to show...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at the Rectory, East Clandon, the Lady of the Rev. EDWARD loos WARD, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Warwick, Mrs. GEORGE RUKNELL, of Cadogan...

PRICES CURRENT. Friday:

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834 834 901 901 914 914 188 20 21 10 11 FOREIGN FUNDS. The Dividends on Stocks printed preceded by an Asterisk the 47 44 die 994 994 94 131 131 BUTCHERS' MEAT. SMITHFIELD,...