27 MARCH 1830

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Lord Chancellor moved in the House of Lords on Monday for leave to bring in a Law Reform Bill ; the affair of Terceira was dis- cussed on Tnesdae ; on Thursday and Friday...

In order to make room for the admirable Plan of

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Systematic Colonization, whichshis been placed at our disposal, and which we regard as of first-rate importance in the present state of the country, the next Number of THE...

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CHARLES the Tenth has prorogued his Parliament, in return for

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the liberty which one branch of it took of censuring his Ministers. The Royal pleasure was signified on the 19th. The King, as they say in Ireland, has given the Legislature a...

The House of Lords sat on Tuesday till half-past ten

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; on Thursday till nearly eight ; on Monday and Friday adjournments took place at earlier hours. The House of Commons sat on Monday till one; on Tuesday till half-past two ; on...

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Another expedition against Mexico was to sail from Cadiz on

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the 8th of this month. It is now alleged that the principal cause of BARRADAS'S failure was the want of provisions ; and a Sefior Don EDMOND() MORAY, in order to prevent a...

When the States-General of the Netherlands rejected the 'Ministerial Budget,

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a number of Government officiaries voted in the majority, and were dismissed in consequence. M. de POTTER, who is at pre- sent in prison for libel, projected a national...

By the latest accounts from Hayti, it appears that the

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King of Spain has claimed restitution of the eastern part of the island, and that the President BOYER has flatly refused to comply with Ins claims. If this refusal should lead...

Tun Kelm—His Majesty has had a slight cold ; but

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he has been able to resume his drives in the Great Park. It has been intimated by the Lord Chamberlain, that his Majesty will hold a levee at St. James's on the 21st of April,...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNING.—The Money Market has, durino - the week, given unequivocal proof that it is no longer to be acted upon with the facility which formerly...

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SUSPENSION-BRIDGE AT MONTROSE.—On the afternoon of the 19th, an immense

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crowd of people having assembled on the suspension-bridge at Mon- trose, to witness a boat-race, one of the chains unfiatunately gave way to the strain, and a portion of it...

FAMILY QUARRELS.—A young man named. Alexander was arraigned at Worship

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Street, OR Monday, for an attempt to shoot his father. He had discharged a pistol at him, but it proved to have been loaded with powder only ; another was seized in which was a...

Til FOUB. rf:It CENT. ST OC Ks.—The long-expected notice on

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the sub- ject of the conversion of the four per cents. was given on Wednesday morning at the Bank and at the Stock Exchange. It is in the followine ° terms.—" A new Stock to be...

SPRING ASSIZES.—At the Leicester Assizes, John Edwards and Wil- liam

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Watt were found guilty of robbing Daniel Wall of twelve sovereigns. John Watkins and William Thomson were found guilty of robbing John Carver of 341. The whole were condemned to...

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MR. BRouaneet.—We understand that Mr. Brougham's health is in a

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precarious state. He begins to feel the effects of severe mental application. At Lancaster Assizes, after he had finished eddressing the Jury in the last cause—half-past eleven...

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MINTING APPOINTMENTS.

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His majesty's Stag Hounds meet on Monday, at Thorpe ; and Friday, at New Lodge, Winkfield-at half-past ten o'clock each day. The Surrey Stag Hounds meet on Monday, at the Swan,...

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.

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SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. There are arrivals from Holland and Germany, but they are not of political interest. A dreadful fire at Bergen, in Norway, has...

The Danish vessel, Norden, has arrived at Cowes, from China.

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She left Canton on the 19th October, at which time no progress had been made towards a settlement of the difference existing between the Company's Factory and the Chinese. All...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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STATE OF THE COUNTRY—THE UNTRIED REMEDY. THE late discussions on the state of the country have proved, if proof were wanting, how very little "the omnipotence of Parliament"...

THE BEER - TAX.

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THE brewers of Edinburgh and Leith met on Friday sennight, and after stating, in one resolution, that the beer-tax amounted to ten shillings per barrel, announced in another...

FRENCH AND ENGLISH JUDGES.

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IN France, the great object of the Judge is to procure evidence of a man's guilt from himself. It is supposed by our neighbours, that a man commonly knows as much about his own...

FRENCH POLITICS.

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ALL the springs and modes of action of a representative government are so familiar to every Englishman who concerns himself at all with public affairs, that we have a difficulty...

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NEWSPAPER BEAUTIES.

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A WISE philosopher made two holes in his gate—one, as he explained, for the fowls, the other for the chickens. The Morning Chronicle expresses its hope that Lord LOWTHER will...

IIACKNEY COACH FARES.

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IT is greatly to be desired, that some member of Parliament who has t regard to the public convenience, and the character of the Collective Wisdom for common sense, should draw...

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

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IF Drury Lane had often had as full a house as on Tuesday last, Mr. PRICE would have had little occasion to complain of his lease. There were, it is true, three distinct...

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LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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CAR WELL. CARWELL is truly designated as a tale of crime and sorrow. It is a very affecting history of the enduring attachment of a charming young creature to her husband, in...

MISS KEMBLE'S BENEFIT.

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ON Thursday, Miss FANNY KEMELE took her benefit at Covent Gar- den. It was, as might well be anticipated, "a bumper ;" but before we notice the performance, we may note what...

ANGELO'S REMINISCENCES.* THE title of this bulky volume gives a

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pretty fair notion of its con- tents. It might be expected that amongst so much gossip there would be a considerable quantity of trash ; and there is, perhaps, even more than a...

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GERMAN POETRY—PROFESSOR MUHLENFELS' LECTURES.

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PROFESSOR MUHLENFELS begins his lectures with a definition—a common, but a dangerous practice. " Literature, - he says, "repre- sents all those productions of the human mind...

POETRY OF THE MAGYARS.*

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DR. BOWRING learns a new language, and is ready with a new book, before his critic can form an opinion of his last production. The poetry of the Hungarians is scarcely dry from...

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FINE ARTS...

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Mr. Charles Kemble, as Pierre. . Drawn on stone by W. SHARP, from an original drawing by JOHN HAYTER. This is as fine a head as any we ever saw in lithography, and a noble...

f EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF BRI FISH ARTISTS.

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• THIS exhibition opened to the public on Monday last ; and at the first glance of the pictures which constitute it, we were painfully struck with the nodule predominance of...

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S PICTURES.

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THE ensuing exhibition of Pictures at Somerset House will be enriched with eight pictures of the late President of the Academy ; and at the close of the present exhibition the...

LECTURES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

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MR. WEST MACOT T concluded his course of Lectures on Sculpture on Mon day evening, with an examination of the works of Roman art, and an inquiry into the causes of the decline...