25 FEBRUARY 1837

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE House of Commons has renewed its sanction of the policy of the present Ministers towards Ireland. The Tory Opposition have found no symptoms of reaction in Parliament. Ors...

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On Monday, the order of the day for the House

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of Commons going into Committee on Irish Municipal Bill having been read, BELLEW the bill. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON rose to move the following instruction- i The Irish discussion...

an old clothesman, who lived in a house in the

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Rue de l'Hiltel de defying all attempts to arrest and secure its beautiful but transitory hues—to-day assuming the shape of municipal reform, the next day Ville. He had been...

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Ube Court, THE Ring and Queen are still dozing away

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existence at the Brighton Police. The King takes his carrisge-airinga as usual, when the wee.- ther is not too tempestuous; and we observe that the Queen took* ride on horseback...

A petition from Mr. Charlton, praying for his release from

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confine. ment, was presented to the Lord Chancellor on Saturday. Lord Cot- tenham, however, decided that the petition of Alr. Charlton was not such as to entitle him to the...

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A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the purpose of discussing the propriety of voting remuneration to the Recorder, the Common Sergeant, and Sergeant Arabin, the Judge...

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Mr. Robert Farrand, a merchant in London, and the owner of pro- perty in Nor folk, was elected Member for Stafford on Tuesday. without opposition. Mr. Littleton, son of Lord...

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Dr. Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury, died on Sunday, at Southampton. It is reported, we hope truly, that Dr. Hampden, the persecuted of Oxford, is to be his successor. Mr. Coltman...

IRELAND.

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Mr. Power was elected Member fur Dungarvan on the 17th; by a majority of 281 to 164 over his Tory opponent, Mr. Galwey. The Carlow election terminated on Saturday, in the...

The Town-Council of Chester on the 9th instant adopted a

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petition for the entire and unconditional abolition of Church-rates, by a majo- rity of 19 to 9. This is pretty well for the governing body of a cathe- dral city. Sir Frederick...

Sir George Crewe, one of the Tory Members for South

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Derbyshire, deserted his party on the Irish Municipal question ; and has stated his reasons for declining to vote, in a letter to his constituents. Sir George last year...

Old Lady Ashburton, who is nearly eighty years of age,

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was knccked down by a horse and gig on Thursday morning, while crossing Picca- dilly towards the Green Park. She was carried home by her footman, very dangerously hurt. •...

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JOHN LEWIS has produced a striking whole.length portrait of Du-

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VERNAY, in her Spanish costume, for which she sat—or rather stood— to him. It has the somewhat rare merit of being a characteristic re- semblance of a real woman—a creature of...

The report of the proceedings in the House of Commons

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last night has a formidable appearance in the newspapers of this morning ; but the substance of the thirteen dark-looking columns of the Chronicle may be easily and briefly...

P()STSCR1PT •

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SATURDAY NIGHT. THE boisterous weather has prevented the arrival of the Continental mails, and there is no Foreign news.

RETZSCH'S Outline Illustrations of the Second Part of GOETHE'S Faust

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hive neither the beauty nor the interest of the first. Besides that the artist's style has no longer the gloss of novelty, the continuation of the story wants the charm of the...

A Cabinet Council, attended by Lord MELBOURNE and most of

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the Ministers, was held this morning at the Foreign Office.

Madame Bonaparte Wyse, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, has lodged a

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complaint with the Prefect of Police against some person who it seems played off the practical joke of distributing a printed circular, ' stating that the lady had opened, at...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS.

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On the 19th inst., at Brighton, the Lady of Major GRAMM, of a daughter. Ott the 20th inst., at Exmouth, Devonshire, the Hon. Mrs. OSBORNE, or a dau g ht er . On the 19th inst.,...

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A piece has been got up at the Adelphi, called

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Hassan Pasha, or the Arabs' Leap, with the object of introducing the feats of the Arabs as part of the dramatic action. It is very clumsily done, however, and the Arabs have a...

THE THEATRES.

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LENT seems more lugubrious than usual this year. What with the in- fluenza, which has proved to be a more serious visitation than it at first threatened to be—and the unsettled...

The Standard this evening is particularly funny at the expense

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of poor Mr. WALTER of Berks. " Unpretending, temperate, candid, clear, and forcible," are the epithets which our ironical contemporary bestows on WALTER. That everybody will...

Mrs. S. C. HALL'S first essay in dramatic writing met

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with a very flattering reception at the St. James's Theatre On Monday. The French Emigrant is a sentimental story of the sorrows of a (laughter for her breach of filial duty in...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Feb. 19, Artemis, Sparkes, from Bengal; and 23, Morning Star. Linton, from Msurit ins. At Liverpool, FL Elizabeth, Pas‘ntore, from New South Wales In the...

MONEY MARKET.

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EITOeN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY. AFTERNOON. The supply of Money Stock in the Consol Market has been greater this week ; and this in conjunction with a large delivery of Stock which...

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SCHOOL OF DESIGN FOR MECHANICS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Durwood Place, London, Mb January 1837. St—The great consolation to the country, and especially to the artists, ought to be that the Academy...

The Sentinel is a pretty little vaudeville that makes an

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agreeable interlude to those two permanent attractions of the Olympic, the Figaros and Riquet with the TO. It is a new version of the old incident of a sentinel leaving his post...

The King's Theatre opens to-night, with the vocal corps of

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the Opera Buffa, and a new ballet by DESHAYES, on the subject of Fra Diavolo. DEVF.RNAY is the prenare danseuse till after Easter, with MONTESSU and HIRMINIE, a sister of the...

WEBSTER'S entertainment at the New Strand consists of his Wallet

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of Whims and Waggeries, which lie opened last year at the Adelphi ; some capital tricks of Conjuring, by a M. BUCK; Ventriloquial Per- sonations, by Mr. GANNON ; Tableaux...

BARNETT'S opera of Fair Rosamond is postponed till next week.

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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SHIPS.

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TO THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR. 19. 13i.hopsgate street within, 24th February 1937. the Spectator of February Pith, I perceive an interesting article headed "News of the South...

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DESPATCH OF BUSINESS IN TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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AN examination of the Business-paper convinces us that the divisisn of employments is very little understood, or at any rate very imperfectly practised, by the Representatives...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DURHAM POLICY. WHILST the Ministerial measures of the session go through the form of passing the Commons in their way to rejection by the Lords, a sort of leisure is...

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COLONEL TORRENS ON THE IRISH POOR-LAW QUESTION.

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A VERY interesting pamphlet, by Colonel TORRENS,*" confirms our own view of the Irish Poor-law qtaestion. His object is to show the absolute necessity of .1 auxi`iiary measures"...

TIIE IRISH "ALIENS" AND THE "STUNTED CORPORAL."

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IT may be surmised that Lord LYNDHURST'S sensations are not of the most soothing or agreeable kind just at present. He has reunited and rallied the scattered divisions of the...

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THE VOCAL CONCERTS.

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A SELECTION of vocal music in which appear the names of HANDEL, CLAM — MOZART and WEBER— PURCELL, GREEN— WILBYE and WEauE—is in tact an exposition of the riches of the vocal art...

MR. MOSCHELES' PIANOFORTE CONCERTS.

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IT would seem a bold undertaking for a performer without any aid from instrumentul accompaniment to amuse a company for a whole evening : and, in truth, it demanded such powers...

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Strange scenes occur sometimes among the members of Congress is

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the United States. A Mr. Whitney was lately under examination in a Committee by Mr. Peyton, a member; to whom he gave an insolent reply. Mr. Peyton instantly drew a pistol, and...

BALLOT VOTING.

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THOSE who have seen the process of voting under the Reform Act, will feel no difficulty to understand the mode ill which votes will be taken by Ballot. As at present, the voter...

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WYSE ON EDUCATION REFORM.

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DIE aim of the author of' this able and elaborate volume is, thoroughly to exhaust the subject of Education, both as regards its theory and practice—both as to what it ought to...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Iffetats , y anco tion Before': or. the Necessity of a National System of Education, By Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. Longman and Co. Frolusioues Ilistoricre; or. Essay....

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THE HALLE OTI JOHN HALLE.

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THE goodly first volume devoted to this subject is quite a curio- sity of literature. It is an olla podrida of archteology, about a hall and its founder; the existence of the...

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ABEL _ALLNUT.

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Tans novel is a wiredrawn imitation of the Vicar of Wakefield; and that in an age when the almost childish simplicity of the Vicar and his family does not exist, at all events...

TELE DIVORCED.

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THIS novel is intended as a sort of r ersonatel commentary on the Seventh Commandment. Lady Howard, "the Divorced," is drawn as a very amiable lady ; an excellent mother—a...

CHARLES PERCY WYA.TT•S POEMS.

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Tins little volume is distinguished from the number of poems that are constantly appearing, in two points of view. The native powers of the author are more than respectable, and...