2 MAY 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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BOTH Houses of Parliament met on Tuesday after the Easter recess. On that day, the Duke of Norfolk and Lords Dormer and Clifford took their seats among the Peers, under the...

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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The offer of P. P. P. is both kind and liberal. We cannot act upon it this week but we shall endeavour to satisfy our correspondent, if he will favour us with his address. The...

MR. BUCKINGHAM TO THE READERS OF THE SPHYNX.

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TEE Readers of Tux Sens , xx will no doubt remember the announcement made in one of its recent Numbers, of Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S wish to find some successor in his labours, on whom...

THE READERS OF THE SPECTATOR

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Ana respectfully informed, that the transference of property announced in Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S Address to his own readers, will not in any respect whatsoever, beyond that of...

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The Russians removed their head-quarters from Jassy on the 30th

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of March, and moved onward to Issakteha on the Danube ; but it does not appear that the passage of the river has yet been effected, or any other military operation undertaken in...

St. James's is glad because our good Monarch has returned

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to lilt ancient halls; which none of even the most renowned of his predeces- sors ever trod with more grace and dignity. It is gratifying to us to record, and it must be...

SATURDAY, Two o'cLoes.

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We are glad to hear that the accounts which have been received from Bushy Park this morning, of the health of the Duke of Clarence, concerning which unpleasant statements had...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—We have had a great deal of business in our Stock Market this week, and a fall since Monday of one and a half per cent ; a proof that the spirit...

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AN AWFUL CRISIS!

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TILE PRESS: THE MORNING ji 11RNA L—Ill another place will be found the particulars re.. lative to the incendiary attempt upon Westminster Abbey. At the present moment such...

Among the on Bits now in circulation in Paris, is

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one that the Emperor of Bra- zil has solicited for himself in marriage the hand of one of the daughters of the Duke of Orleans, and that he has offered his daughter Donna Maria...

WHAT WILL IRELAND DO NOW?

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Gtone.—What will Ireland del now? As some of the friends of the Catho- lics say, or rather as they said, will she now be satisfied, arid give up all ambitous projects ? or,...

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INDIA.

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SIR JOHN MALCOLM, one of the ablest and most determined de- fenders of the Indian monopoly, admits that were it now for the fir st time to be adopted, none but an insane person...

PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT.

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IN VourAntes Memoirs, he says that he remained at Berlin when FREDERICK had given him the best. reasons for departing, merely for the pleasure of laughing at a book MAUPERTUIS...

THE NEW MORALITY.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATO:t. your ingenious article on itowLANDSTEmaNsoN, you say that of all roithers there is none to be so much feared and so difficult to be guarded...

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. 1)Am. Stop him ! Stop him ! Murder ! Thief! Fire ! Stop fire Stop fire ! THE RIVALS. SCRUB. There's two.and-forty of them ! • BEAUS' STRATAGEM. YORK...

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MADAME MALIBRAN GARCIA.

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WE have seldom seen a performer who, both as a singer and an actress, has presented within the range of one part more faults and ex- cellences than Madame MALIBRAN GARCIA. Her...

EDITORIAL COMMENTARIES.

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THE learned and philosophical editors of the Morning Chronicle, in a moment of leisure from poor laws, corn, and currency, Ireland and population, thus apply themselves to Mrs....

DRAMATIC MONOPOLIES.

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MONOPOLIES are the giants of modern days, which all true men should unite in assailing and slaying, wherever they are to be found. Mr. BUCKINGHAM, with the valour of a knight of...

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FIFTH CONCERT OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

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ACT I. Sinfonia letter R.. . Haydn. Recit. and Air, " Now heaven in fullest,"Signor Zuchelli (Creation) Haydn. Concerto Pianoforte, Mr. Schlesinger ..... ..... Hummel. Duetto,...

MR. GREATOREX'S CONCERT.

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WE notice this concert merely as an illustration of our remarks two .weeks ago on the laziness of those who get up such things. Mr. GREATOREX is the conductor of the Ancient...

TAM O'SHANTER AND SOUTER JOHNNY.

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THIS exhibition has pleased us mightily. It is so much the fashion to suppose that the art of sculpture can only be brought to bear on dying swains, love-sick nymphs; et id...

IRISH MUSICAL CRITICISM.

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WE must quote the following morceau entire, as a delicate bit of the blarney. MATHEWS tells a story of a worthy gentleman who began to laugh about half an hour after the jest....

ILLUSTRIOUS PORTRAITS.

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MR. LODGE'S Portraits of Illustrious Persons belonging to this coun- try are about to be enlarged as to number, and re-engraved, in con- sequence of the success which the...

SURPRISING INTELLIGENCE,

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FROM THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE OF FASHION. Tai Hyde Park may be seen not only many equestrians of fashion, but noble drivers of four-in-hand, phaetons, curricles, tandems, &c....

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FRENCH POST AND POSTING.

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M. PELET (de la Lozilo), on the subject of the post-office of France, has complained in the Chamber of Deputies, that letters were fre- quently as lung in passing from the...

THE VILLAGE PATRIARCH *.

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This is the work of a junior CRAHBE. We have read his severe verse with no small pleasure ; for although the author may perhaps not be a wry great poet, he is a man full of a...

LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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SECUR'S RUSSIAN HISTORY.* This is a sketch of a vast subject—such a book as would, when the title was in fashion, have been called the Spirit of the History of Russia. The two...

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THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE*

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Is a "library of entertaining knowledge" in itself. This is the true lounging book: a fact of the most striking kind may be snitched up in tile momeni I hat a lady takes to put...

MAJOR BEANIISH'S NOVEL,

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THERE is no more difficult task than that of ascertaining whether we are fit for the composition of an original work of fiction. A man knows not whether he has succeeded or...

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THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OXFORD, April 29.—This being the first day of Easter term, the Proctors of the last year laid down the insignia of their office, and the new Proctors were admitted in fun...

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CLASSICS WITH ENGLISH NOTES.*

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Tins is a useful design, and will be properly appreciated by all Greek students. The absurdity of teaching the classical languages by the aid of notes in a tongue which the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING.

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The great change in the temperature of the atmosphere which has taken place to-day induces us to hope that the wind is now decidedly westerly, and that in the course of the...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS.*

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Early Impressions is neither more nor less than a reading-book for children—as good as any other, perhaps, in its general character, and vastly better in one particular...

THE CHURCH.

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The Rev. Calvert Richard Jones, B.B. of Oriel College, Oxford, has been presented, by the Lord Chancellor, to the Rectory of Loughor, Glamorganshire, void by the re. signation...

BURTON'S ROME.*

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This is a curious and interesting work for all those of our readers whose information or travels may lead them to take an interest in the Eternal City. It is an antiquarian...

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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ROOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Vt A History of the late Catholic Association of Ireland, from its institution in 1760, to its final dissolution in 1829, by a...

THE ARMY.

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WAR-OFFICE, April 27.—Memorandum—His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 13d Reg. being permitted to retain on its colours and appointments the words " Salamanca" and "...

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LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE. FRIDAY, MAY 1. The arrival of all Grain this week has been very limited, owing to the boisterous state of the weather ; the trade, however, continues in a dull...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Hiram s.—On the 25th of April, the Lady of William Garforth, Esq. of Wiganthorpe. of a son and heir—At Clifton, the Lady of Sir E. Poore, of a daughter—At Pentre-punt, the Lady...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, April 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—Gray, Whitworth, and Gillbee, Leadenhall-street, shipping-linendrapers—H. Ashley, S . . Goodman, and G. Ashley, Tokenhouse-yard,...