31 JANUARY 1835

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE struggle in the constituencies is over. Accounts of the return of 657 Members have been received; and Orkney has by this time elected a Representative, though the result is...

The question of the American Indemnity seems for the present

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to be laid on the shelf by the French Chamber of Deputies. The Ministerial Bill for payment of the money has been referred to a Committee, which is not expected to make a report...

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In the Court of King's Bench, on Monday; Mr. George

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Nicholson, . the Marquis of Salisbury's agent in Hertford, and Mr. F. IV. N. Bailey, editor of a newspaper in the same town, were sentenced to pay a fine of 1001. each, and...

ebr airtrapolbt: The Benders of the Inner Temple (on the

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motion of the present Attorney-General) lately passed the following resolutions : " That it is expedient that It be proposed to the other Societies, that so much of the "tench...

The news from Spain is rather alarmin g . We mentioned last

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week that LLAUDER, the War Minister, w ho is a favourite of the Queen Regent, was suspected of a desig n to restore the system of at a d BERMUDEZ. On this account, ad also...

EV Court.

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THERE has been rather more gayety at the Brighton Palace this week than the last. On Monday evening, their Majesties gave a dinner- party, to which the following ladies and...

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1jc Countrg. There was a very large meeting at Birmingham,

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on Tuesday, of friends to the Established Church. The object of the meeting was to! promote the building of churches in the diocese of Coventry and _Lich- field, to extend...

A correspondent of the Times, who resided in the•house at

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the corner of Duncannon Street, Strand, at which the fire occurred last week, says- " No alarm whatever was given by the Police; nor was it till after I had myself saved all the...

A serious riot has taken place at Sheffield, which has

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ended in-the total destruction of the Eyre Street Medical School. The facts of the case are as follow. The man and woman who had the care of the esta- blishment, it appears,...

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ELECTION TALK.

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HALIFAX. We understand that the friends of Mr. Protheroe have already liberally subscribed for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the return of Mr. Wortley. The...

SCOTLAND.

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A dinner was given at Inchture lust week to the Honourable Arthur Kinnaird (the brother of Lord Kinnaird, and a fine young Reformer of great promise), by a number of gentlemen...

IRELAND.

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Mr. McCrea, the Dissenting Minister, who has recently distinguished himself in Dublin by exhibitions of frantic Orangeism, last week for- warded some resolutions passed by his...

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JUDICIAL Com. Core.—This description of actions has lost much of

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its eclat of late years, as it is understood that the fashionable circles determined on displaying forbearance towards each other from the time that green-grocers and publicans...

fictlIaneatuf.

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The East India Directors, at a Court held on Wednesday, nominated Lord Heytesbury to the Governor. Generalship of India. Mr. John Gladstone has been appointed Under-Secretary...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Mr. ABERCROMRY'S reluctance to become a candidate for the Speak- ership has given way to his sense of ditty to the public, as we were sure from the first would be the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BI RTII S. On the 231 inst., at Ncwbattlo Abbey, Dalkeith, the Marchioness of LOTHIAN, of a daughter. On the 27th inst., in Berkeley Square, the Lady SANS WALSH, of a...

In amenable our Tables of the New 11011,E or COMMONS,

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we have followed a method which precluded the use of some elaborate voluntary contributions, in any other way than as red;. In this respect, some of them Lave twee valuable ;...

ENGLISH PRECEDENTS FOR THE BALLOT. TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

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Kent, 2Sth January 1533. Mv Loan—Having always placed considerable reliance on your judgment, I WM much sutpriseci to find that you joined the cry first raised hy the Tories,...

The Agent of Lloyd's at the Mauritius writes, under date

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the 6th of November — " Captain Carr, of the Mangles, reports that the Chinese Government have refused to receive Lord Napier as Consul at Can- ton ; that he was ordered to...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. favoured of all the Foreign Securities ; the former closing at our last week's depress the new Stock. The disposition fur speculation in the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE TUB TO THE IVIIALE : TORY CHURCH REFORM. TIIE vast increase in the numbers of the Dissenters during the last fifty years, is a fact that cannot be controverted; but there...

THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.

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THE last novelty at the Olympic, a vaudeville entitled Not a Word, apparently of French origin, is one of the best pieces that VESTRIS has brought out this season. The...

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THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.

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THE present Government know the use of earnest-money; and with considerable craft, have begun already to move in little. ameliorations. They are to throw open the Regent's Park...

CANDIDATES FOR THE SPEAKERSIII P.

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MR. ABERCROMBY is formally announced, on the part of his friends, as the Anti-Tory candidate for the Speakership. A better selection could not have been made ; and we...

SIR ROBERT PEEL - AT TAMWORTH.

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Sio. ROBERT PEEL assembled a party of his tenants, retainers, and relations, in the Town-hall of Tamworth, on the 16th instant, and gave them first a capital dinner, and then a...

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REYNARD'S LATEST SUBTERFUGE, OR THE

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TORY TURNED WHIG. Rains, 23th January 1535. " Taccia di Cadmo e Aretusa Ovidio; Che se quello in serpente, e (paella iu fonte Converte pokando, i' non In' nvitlio." " 11c...

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It is usual to designate Parliamentary Committees by the names

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of the bills which they sit to consider. A few years ago, a bill was intro- duced into the House of Lords for enclosing lands in the parish of Great Snoring, in the county of...

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THE NEW HCAME (:) , F©)P.APACIPIIS.

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ELECTED IN JANUARY 1835. No. I.--THE COMPLETE RETURNS. 4 'OR ENGLAND. I Pu.css. Mammas ByreArnie. tF4 l'InistoDoN V. T. Theelet • ANDER . Etwall (W F Sir John Wititer...

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The Doubtful column requires some explanation. The Members

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whose names appear in it may be divided into two classes,—first, they who will generally oppose the Tory Government, but cannot be relied on to vote with the Liberals on the...

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No. II.—THE CONTEST.

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f We have taken pains to procure as correct a list as possible of the numbers polled in the late contests. But we are prepared to learn that there are still some errors in the...

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CHANGES. No. E

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1. OLD MEMBERS THROWN OUT, OR WITHDRAWN. Via. 139 English ; 13 Scotch; and 39 Irish ; in all 134. MIA. W. Fellowes. late Member for ..... Andover. Colonel% illiams Ashton....

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No. IV.—DISTRIBUTION OF GAINS AND LOSSES.

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1. In the following places, Tories have replaced Reformers, to the number of 87. Andover Pollen, rice Fellowes. liedfurd Polhill Whitbread. Berkshire Posey Throckmorton....

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Lord of the Isles, Heyton, from Calcutta to Liverpool, while lying at anchor in the Hoogley on September 6th, grounded and fell over-one of the crew - drowned. Arrived-At...

PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Qnotation during t he Week, ending Friday evening.) Alabamarpayable 1863) 5 p. Ct. 96 !Mexican (deferred) ... 5 p. CV 224 Austrian S - 1031...

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in a moderate compass, and in a very readable shape,

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a view of it a necessary work ; but it treats, moreover, of matters which are so closely connected with recollections of many yet alive, that they have much of the interest of...

History of Europe during ttm French Revolution. Vols. III. and

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IV., embracing Advocate. Blackwood and Sons. GIOLOOT, The Comic Annual. By Thomas Hood, Esq Bally and Co.

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THE REVOLUTIONS OP 'THE GLOBE.

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Tits French are certainly admirable cooks. With scraps, vege- tables, salt, and water, a Frenchman will turn you out a palatable soup, which shall be agreeable in combination,...

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FINE ARTS.

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PROUT'S VENICE, ENGRAVED BY LE KEUX. Nusreaous as are the views of Venice, we never tire of repetitions of her sea-paved streets of palaces. We welcome any representation of "...

THE COMIC ANNUAL.

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THE present volume of the Budget of Fun is an improvement -upon its predecessors. Without losing its old features, the work has acquired new ones. There are the same forced...

MARTIN'S CRUCIFIXION.

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SOME of our readers may be inclined to think that that we have dealt harshly with Mr. MARTIN'S productions, looking exclusively on his defects, and passing over what they deem...

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POLITICAL CARICATURES.

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IT is part of the nice skill of H. 13. in his craft as a caricaturist, that when he takes the Tory view of a subject, for the nonce, he at the same time adopts the Tory medium...