23 OCTOBER 1830

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The important Parliamentary Tables that we present in this week's

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SPECTATOR, have encroached so much on our space, that we find it necessary to postpone a number of Literary, Musical, and Miscellaneous articles that we had prepared. Several...

NEWS OF . THE WEEK.

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THE revolution in Belgium draws to a close. In a week or two, we hope and expect that it will cease to occupy a prominent place in the politics of Europe. The following...

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condemnation and punishment of these persons; on Monday evening, something

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which bore the appearance of a riot took place with the same view. The people pressed into the square of the Palais Royal in great numbers, and shouted out their wishes under...

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THE COURT OF KING Miriam —The Queen, with her usual

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good-natured condescension, attended at a cricket match played on a leaturday last, by the buys of the Rev. Mr. Evorard's school, in which George of Cumin idge was a party. The...

This week again, Ireland is one of the topics in

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our political summary. On Monday, the Lord Lieutenant issued a proclam- ation of the following tenor. " Whereas, by an act passed in the tenth year of his late Majesty's reign,...

THE NEW POLICE.—The inhabitants of St. John's, Wapping, and those

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of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, have both agreed to petition Parlia- ment against the New Police Act. While the people are stirring against this force, the Grand Juries—how wisely...

The Constitutional forces entered Spain on the 13th. A letter

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from General de \Two, dated the 14th, at Bayonne, communicates the intelligence. The General states that he had just returned from Vida°, where he left Colonel VALDEZ and his...

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CANDIDATES FOR LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Ewart and Mr. Dennison made their appearance

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at the Corn Exchange on Saturday last. Mr. Ewart pledged himself, plainly and Without periphrasis, to oppose the Corn- laws and the East India monopoly. Mr. Dennison professed...

%In. CHARLES KEMBLE AND MR. WESTHAEOT T.--A serious ren- eontre

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took place between these two gentlemen on Saturday night, in the box lobby of the second circle of Covent Garden Theaire. Wq were in the theatre at the time ; but as neither...

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is impossible. In tracing the fugitives from Sheffield into Wales,

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one of the officers Mr. Cowley, the complainant in this case, also said that, about the entered a house, ran up to the bedroom, and, looking over a bed, saw a 10th instant, the...

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THE KING'S VISIT TO ScoTLAND.—The Scotsman states that this visit

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has been definitively determined on ; and adds, that the Duke of Gordon and others are meditating another descent on the plains of the Lowlands at the head of their " breekless"...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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IN another part of our paper will be found a very sensible and well- written letter on a subject to which we have lately adverted—the salaries of Government civil servants. The...

PARLIAMENTARY ANATOMY.

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the great families in its neighbourhood. Our lists, therefore, we have no doubt, err very c_nsiderably by shortcoming. From errors of excess, we believe them to be nearly free....

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 16th inst. at Gisburne Park, the seat of Lord Ribbesdale, the Lady RIB- BESDALE, of a daughter. On the 17th inst. in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, the Lady of...

The rumour of a new Spanish loan, for which MINI

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was pre- tended to be one of the guarantees, has been contradicted by that gallant officer ;. unnecessarily, we should say, for we hardly think a man in England believed it.

Our excellent correspondent O'HIGGINS has sent us no letter on

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the Belgic brawls this week—for the tolerably Irish-looking reason that he is writing a History of the Revolution in Belgium. There had been, mob law, he informs us, for a day...

There is one passage in the King of Holland's proclamation

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that demands explanation. and which must receive it ; we allude to that where he says that he may always reckon " on the support of his Allies, who will maintain the political...

The -French papers speak of a new convention at Troppau;

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but they remark that Great Britain never having been a member of the Holy Alliance, and France having resigned her diploma, the number of members will be materially diminished....

A smart pamphlet on the state of parties has appeared

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this week. The chronicle is authorized to say it is not by Mr. MAcAu- LEY. The writer divides the different parties into Ultra Tories, Ultra Whigs, Moderate Tories, Moderate...

THE . MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FEIDAY EVENING.—This has been a very stormy week here, and the events of it are well calculated to confound all who pretend to the gift of prophecy in affairs...

In the notice of an inquest in our last Postscript,we

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Were misled, by a similarity of names, to confound the person who has lately appeared at many popular assemblages, and last as a public ac- cuser at the Pimlico inquest, with...

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FRENCH AND ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS.

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THE adjournment of the French Chambers has led to a greater degree of activity in the Paris journals. The arrival of the De- puties, or their departure, does not operate in...

THE VOTES. - TITERS is a small sheet published every morning

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in session-time, by order of the House of Commons, which most of our readers may possibly have seen. It bears the name of the day of the • week and month in dog Latin, and in...

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THE THEATRICAL AFFRAY:

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WE know nothing of the quarrel between Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE and the reputed editor of the Age; and we do not intend to enter into the inquiry whether wounds to the feelings are...

NEWSPAPER FOOD FOR CALUMNY.

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THE Newspapers inform the Public, that the persons who have diverted themselves by destroying property and injuring indivi- duals with shots' from air:guns are the sons of Lord...

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND CHARLES THE TENTH;

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CHARLES the Tenth and his family left Lalworth Castle on Satur- day ; the Ex-King for Poole, whence its was his intention to pro- ceed by a steam-boat to Edinburgh ; the • rest...

INNOVATIONS OF CONVENIENCE.

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" 0 CURAS 110MilIRM ! 0 quantum est in rebus inane !'° The • naturalists anxiously applied themselves to the breeding of toads and vipers in Ireland. The Bourbons endeavoured to...

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THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.

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THE Madrigalians — the old-fashioned Madrigalians—resumed their sittings at Freemason s Tavern on Thursday, in considerable strength. 'These primitive musicians neither change...

Two Suns IN THE EAST !—The City people are to

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have two Lord Mayor's dinners this year. The feast on the 9th of November, will not suffice for above seven hundred guests ; among whom there will be a much larger portion of...

THE NEW TRAGEDY.

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Acrons, and especially actors who are managers, 'are decidedly the very worst judges of dramatic merit. We sc'.:rcely ever heard of a play, much praised in the green-room , that...

MR. MACREADY.

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MACREADY, after an absence of nearly two years from the London stage, made his re-appearance on Monday, at Drury Lane. He was enthusiastically received, and for the most part...

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DEMONOLOGY OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS.*

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THE Demonology of the ancient Christians has been scarcely al- luded to by Sir WALTER SCOTT, although it was probably the immediate origin of the fiends and demons of the middle...

LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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HORSES.* "AND their Alliel Species," that is to say, ASSES : but we sup- pose Captain Brown was ashamed to stand forth in his titlepage as the biographer of the ass. The Horse...

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FINE ARTS.

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LAWRENCE'S Portraits of the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Grey, and Prince Metternich. LAWRENCE did not invest the male branches of the peerage with that elegance of style and manner...

Bonington's Sketches, No. 1V. •

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This is the concluding number of a highly-interesting and beautiful work ; and although, as regards the subjects chosen, the collected sketches of BONINGTON might have afforded...

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE, ANNUALS—No. II.

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THE IRIS. Had our lively neighbours the Fsrench put forth an annual with this title, they would have tricked it, out literally in all the colours of the rainbow ; but we...

1 GOVERNMENT CLERKS AND OFFICERS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. ; several papers, articles have lately appeared which have caused f great apprehensions in all those who, like myself, fill subordinate situa-...

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QUARTETT BY EISENHOFER.

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EISENHOFER has considerable reputation in Germany as a composer of vocal music, which in its structure and character somewhat resembles our glee. The following Quartett, which...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The East India Company's China ships are to be in the Downs as follows, viz. :- Marquis Huntly, Hine ; and Buckinghamshire, Glasspoole, for Bombay and China; and Thames, Forbes...

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THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OXFORD, Oct. 21.-This day the fqllowing degrees were conferred :-Doctor in Dieinity-The Rev. B. S. Chiron, Worcester. Bachelor and • Doctor in- Divinity, by accumulation-The...

PRICES, .0 PUBLIC FUNDS: Satur. Mon. Tues. Wanes. Thurs. Frid

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ry e 86 851 S5i I 3 654 85 * 843 san 83434 34 832 3 A. 86 4 2 861 i 6 86i5i3*t 838 3 84 833f 446 864 864 34 4 86815453 85444343 8 34 i 44 8344361 948 944 - 924 92 924 968 4 968...

FROM THE LONDON GAZOITES. Tuesday, October 19.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. BUNN and SmITM Worcester, tiax-dressers-II urc HINE os: and Uri LLIAMS, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, wine-merchants-Woon and DARE Y NE, Notting- ham...

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MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE FIRST PARLIAMENT OF HIS MAJESTY KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH. . TABLE I.—SHOWING THE MEMBERS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO THE CONSTITUENCY. ENGLAND....

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HOUSE OF COMMONS,--TABLE II.

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SHOWING THE MEMBERS IN THEIR VARIOUS PERSONAL RELATIONS. (ES) E RELATIONS OF PEERS. A'Court, Edward Henry b. Lord Heytesbury Abercromby, Hon. G. R — s. Lord Abercromby...

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ADVERTISEMENTS

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TO THE *vertator. LONDON : SATURDAY, OCTOBER ,9.3, 1830.