24 AUGUST 1833

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The spirits of the Miguelite party in this country have

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been cheered by the recent accounts from Portugal: Mars -}k9na- koNi has raised the siege of Oporto, and is actuall ' Oltiit41•Act to Lisbon. How far he has advanced in that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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LEGISLATIVE bustle is the order of the day. Our Representa- tives enact laws with such rapidity, that the panting chroniclers of their proceedings in the Gallery "toil after...

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1. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House of Commons went into Com- mittee on Monday, on the motion of Lord Aimionr. His Lordship then stated, that the estimated expense of the Army,...

There is scarcely a word of news from Paris. The

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result of the Portuguese contest occupies public attention almost entirely during the recess of the Chambers. The Government have di- rected their envoy at Oporto,. M. DE LEUSE,...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. The gloom which pervaded the Money Market at the close of the last week, has continued throughout the present. On Monday and Tuesday, little...

From the East, there is a rumour of a. treaty

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having been. concluded between Russia and Turkey, by which the safety and integrity of the latter are guaranteed by her powerful neighbour for a certain number of years. The...

It appears certain that the absolute Minister ZEA. BERMUDEZ is

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all-powerful at Madrid at the present important crisis. The following development of his policy is copied from the private correspondence of the Times. The motives which the...

The following letter, published in one of the German newspapers

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just received, proves that " state necessity " has at length made a heretic (in one most essential dogma of the Romish faith) of that hitherto orthodox Catholic the King of...

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A paragraph appeared in last week's Spectator, abridged from a

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Daily Paper, in which it was stated that a Mr. Price bad applied to the. Royal Humane Society for the use of their drags to recover the body of his son, who bad been drowned, as...

Louise Waechett, a young Swiss woman, applied.to Sir F. Roe,

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at at the Bow Street Office, on Tuesday, for advice and assistance under very extraordinary circumstances. She said she had been engaged as lady's maid to Mrs. Forest, a lady of...

fag Court.

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THE King's birth day was celebrated on Wednesday, at Windsor Castle, by a grand dinner and evening party ; which was attended by the Duke and Dutchess of Cumberland, the whole...

Eby JfietrapaIiti.

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A report has been circulated, that Mr. Alderman Wood had ac- cepted the office of Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and had vacated his seat in Parliament and the...

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At the Gloucester Assizes, on Friday week, Charlotte Long was

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found guilty of setting fire to three ricks of hay, at North Nibley, in Gloucestershire, on the 25th July last. She was recommended to mercy by the Jury, on the ground that she...

crbe eguntrv. The master manufacturers of Leeds, Huddersfield, and Halifax,

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have determined upon memorializing the Government respecting the conduct of the workmen of those places, whose combinations to obtain increased wages are formed in the most...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Edinburgh papers received since our last Number, are full of the exciting subject of the Annuity. Tax and Mr. Tait's resistance to the payment of it. Upon his arrival at...

As soon as possible after the risingof Parliament, we intend

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to exhibit in the Spectator,. A PARLIAMENTARY BAROMETER. This is an instrument whereby the fidelity and integrity of the Members of the First Reformed House of Commons may be...

Lord Berners, who had been visiting the Earl of Sandwich

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during the Huntingdon races, has met with an accident which is likely to cost him his life. Orillruesday last, his Lordship had been drinking rather freely ; and upon getting...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The House of Lords met this day at twelve o'clock ; when the re- ports on the Bank Charter and Factory Bills were received, and both ordered to be read a third...

The Report of the Stationery Committee has just been published.

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It confirms the account of the deception practised by Sir John Key on Earl Grey, through his Secretary Mr. Charles Wood, relative to the age of his son. There can be no doubt...

IRELAND.

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A meeting of the inhabitants of Dublin, very numerously and re- vectably attended, was held at the Chamber of Commerce on Satur- day last ; In order to consider the claims of...

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THE NATION'S PICTURES.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. TJupeflay, St4e1 August 1933. Sia n -Reading in your paper of last week the article on the National Geller Job, I find the question, " What are...

A private letter from Lisbon of the 12th, received yesterday,

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states that Elvas had declared for Queen.

The Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire

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into the conduct of the. Police at the Coldbathfields meeting have also made their report. It is exculpatory of the Police; who are stated to have used no greater violence in...

LORD CHANDOS AND THE WEST INDIA PROPRIETORS.-The SUM of 3,0001.

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which was raised by the West India Proprietors for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Marquis at the Buckinghamshire election, was not a. loan, we find, but a g...

The Italians are uneasy under their present masters; and a

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few of the more restless and daring spirits among them have been lately striving to form a combination among the principal cities for the purpose of overpowering the existing...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived-At Deal, Aug. 20th, Meta, Gaskell, from Singapore ; and Sovereign. M•Kel- lay, from New South wales; 21st, Elizabeth, Currie, from Mauritius ; Horatio, Hat- field, from...

ARRIVAL OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADRESS AND THE SPORTING COUNT !-This

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event, which we alluded to in our last Postscript as a thing expected, but at the same time a mystery, has actually come to pass. It is generally understood, that the Princess's...

[For Money Market, see page 774.1

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TOPICS OF - THE DAY.

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VIGILANT GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC PURSE. Islo period of the session is considered to be too late, no House too thin, when the public money is to be voted away by millions....

PARTISAN JUDGES.

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Pommel. judges and political clergymen do more than all the seditious and unbelieving in the land, to bring law and religion into discredit. When a judge is so lost to all sense...

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SUPERANNUATIONS.

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LORD ALTRORP stated in the House of Commons, whets the Super- annuation allowances were under discussion, "that all civil ap- pointments now were taken under the condition of...

POLITICAL CHARITY.

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FOUR Piedmontese, who had been compelled to fly their country , to escape the fate of SILVIO PELLICO, for having been guilty of the crime of patriotism in writing against its...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY versus THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

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OUR attention has again been called to the subject of the National Gallery, by a pamphlet of Mr. CHARLES PURSER the architect ; which consists mainly of an elaborate and...

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THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND PHILOSOPHY.

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THE Standard has thought proper to produce a passage from our notice of the Philosophy in Sport, in last week's Spectator, as an example of the ignorance betrayed by the....

F. SCHNEIDER'S " DELUGE."

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THE . rehearsal of this oratorio, preparatory to its performance at the Norwich and Worcester Festivals, took place on Monday, at the Hanover Square Rooms. About seventy London...