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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorREVOLUTION IN FRANCE. THE .Constitutional Government of France is at an end. The liberty of the press is no more. The Chamber of Deputies, -whose election was scarcely...
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KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH AND HIS COURT.
The SpectatorTHE KING continues indefatigably to amuse himself, and thus to furnish amusement f.;r his subjects. After the Court, which was held on Saturday for the purpose of dissolving...
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ADDRESS or TILE LIVERY.—A Common Hall, called by requisition, was
The Spectatorheld on Wednesday, for the purpose of addressing King William the Fourth on his accession. The requisitionists, it appears, could not write or speak ; and so they invited Mr....
WORMWOOD Scnuns.—The Herald mentioned, as one of the proba. bilities
The Spectatorof Monday, that the review of that day would adjourn to this place of most infelicitous name, instead of Hyde Park. Had our coni. temporary, as was his duty, taken pains to...
THE ELECTIONS.
The SpectatorTire information, which we furnished last week relative to the pre- vailing influences at elections, has procured us many friendly and a few captious communications. Some...
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MEETING OF MR. BROUGHAM AND LORD MORPETH WITH THE Yoax
The SpectatorELECTORS. —On Tuesday a public breakfast was given at 31o1- lard's Tavern, in Leeds ; when these two candidates by invitation were introduced to a numerous body of thoie who in...
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THE DUKE or CUMBERLAND.—On Monday week, Captain Ache, author of
The Spectatorthe Spirit of the Book, a work which made a great deal of noise in the days of the late Queen, was arrested on a' barge of sending a letter threatening to assassinate the Duke...
THE ASSIZES.—These ambulatory courts, we are happy to find, fur-
The Spectatornish few materials for our columns. Huntingdon was "maiden," there being neither cause nor prisoner. The attorneys on the civil side were engaged in the elections, and the...
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FIRE AT Wooaeonn.—Abont one o'clock in the morning of Thurs..
The Spectatorday week, a fire commenced in the bleach-works at Wooiford, near Bury, which in two hours destroyed from 1300 to 1400 calico pieces, and the whole of the interior of the edifice...
Peer lc MoURuiwn.—The Gazette of yesterday announces that the usual
The Spectatorchanges in the Court mourning will take place on Sunday the 8th, and Sunday the 29th August. On the 19th September the Court go out of mourning. The public mourning will cease...
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POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS. SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.
The SpectatorPROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCF. THE facts of the New Revolution, so far as they have been ascer- tained from the Paris journals, and from the letters that arrived by...
WESTMINSTER ELECTION. — The time of meeting was fixed in the first
The Spectatorannouncements at nine o'clock this morning, but was subsequently altered to eleven o'clock; and in point of fact, it touched on noon before the High Sheriff and the late and...
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THE PRESS.
The SpectatorTHE NEW FRENCH REVOLUTION. MORNING HERALD—In a moment, and by the expression of his ar- bitrary mill , the King has subverted the Charter, and cancelled the conditions of the...
THE MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—If the transactions of last week were of little interest, those of the present have been of a very different character. The price of Consols had...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorNo arrivals have been reported this week. Sailed.—From Gravesend, July 24, Duke of Bedford, Bowen, for Bengal. 26th, Hopeful, Mallors, for the Cape. From Liverpool, July 28th,...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorBIRTHS. On the 12th inst. at Maryport, Cumberland, Mrs. RINTOUL of twin sons. On the 22nd inst. at the Vicarage House, Ealing, the Lady of the Rev. Sir HE It , BERT OARELEY,...
THE CHURCH.
The SpectatorCAMBRIDGE, July 30.—The Rev. H. P. Hamiltnn, M.A. Fellow of Trinity Col- lege, has been presented by the Marquis of Ailesbury to the Rectory of Wath, in the North Riding of...
THE ARMY.
The SpectatorWAR-OFFICE, July 22.—The King has been pleased to appoint the following Colonels of Militia to be his Majesty's Aides-de-Camp for the service of his Militia Force : Col. Sir W....
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THE PaESENT ELECTIONS. . . .
The SpectatorMortxrxer Cirrtostretz—Many perSons are exceedingly puzzled to undtrstand time phenomena peculiar to the present Elections. Counties may be said to be everywhere going a...
THE LATE PARLIAMENT.
The Spectatorbarb* (hiring the four years of its disgraceful existence, done more may be in excess. We must be virtuous in spite of ourselves, when it ‘-t pita:thief , than any legislative...
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A GENUINE COCKNEY.
The SpectatorTHE Morning Herald has the art of saying things which would never have occurred to any writers or readers but those pertain- ing to the organ of Ceclugne. In describing the...
MILITARY REWARDS.
The SpectatorIN the Postscript to the second edition of our last Number, we al- luded fo a rumour mentioned in the Standard of Saturday even- .ing, that Sir SIDNEY SMITH and a Captain PELLEW...
TOPICS OF THE DAY, MR. HUME'S REFORM BEGUN.
The SpectatorTHE people of Yorkshire have at length got a couple of represen- tatives. On one of these, without disparaging his noble as- .sociate, we may justly congratulate them. Mr....
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CONTINENTAL OMNIUM.
The SpectatorBY A COLLECTOR AT BRUSSELS.• Bruxelles, July 26, 1330. AT this moment seven journals are being prosecuted for libel in the Pays Bas, under a law which passed only the 26th of...
THE OPERA.
The Spectator'NE discerning people of this country ate what were called golden pippins long after the graft had worn out and they had returned to the primitive nature of crabs, under a firm...
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LITERARY SPECTATOR.
The SpectatorTHE MILLENNIUM.* Tars is a very able work, on subjects of great interest to Chris- tians. In noticing it, we shall invert the order of its subjects, and notice first what Dr....
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GORDON'S MEMOIRS.
The SpectatorWE rector to this entertaining work—the best collection of real adventures and anecdotes that we have seen for many a day—in order to give an extract, which was omitted in our...
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RANULPH DE ROHAIS. 0 This is a " Romance of English
The SpectatorHistory," of the very interesting period of STEPHEN and MAUDE. It is not ignorantly or unplea- singly written ; and though neither the characters nor the inci- dents are...
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CHARLES LAMB'S ALBUM VERSES.*
The SpectatorIT is impossible to envy the disposition of the critic who would suffer his gall to curdle that milk of human kindness of which these verses are the overflowings. He could not...
GEORGE ROMNEY.*
The SpectatorTo a son, the task of writing the biography of his father cannot but be a grateful one ; and if that father be a man of genius, the labour of love becomes a public duty. We...
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MR. THOM'S SCULPTURES OF TAM AND THE SOUTER,
The SpectatorTHE LANDLORD AND LANDLADY. WHEN we first saw these figures, they had not received their last stroke from the chisel of the ingenious sculptor ; and our complaint of the...
FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorMR. FRADELLE'S ENGRAVINGS Rebecca and Ivanhoe. The Black Knight and the Clerk of Copmanhurst. Engraved in Mezzotint, by T. LUPTON, and W. SAY. So capricious is the breath of...
VAUXHALL.
The Spectator1E03131IINICATED BY ONE WHO /KNEW IT IN OTHER DAYS.] Tills once popular place of amusement fades like the fashions, and seems destined to follow Ranelagh, which is now only to...
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PICTURE OF CLEOPATRA.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. DEAR SIR—I think we have now corresponded long enough to be familiar, so I shall always address you Dear Sir in future. Well then,— Dear Sir, I...
lowing Noblemen and Gentlemen to fill the undermentioned situations in
The Spectatorhis Majesty's Household:— Lord Chamberlain—Earl of Jersey. Gentlemen Ushers Daily Waiters' Assist- Vice Chamberlain—Earl of Belfast. ant—E. Sneyd, Esq. Secretary to the Lord...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorPUBLIC FUNDS. BRITISH. 3 per Cent. Reduced .• 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account ... ..... 34 per Cent. Old .......... 34 per Cent. New . . . Bank Stock .. ..............
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tueselay,.July 27.
The SpectatorPARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. BARKER and ELTON, Lumb, Lancashire, cotton-spinners—WA.LTON and Co. Girdlers'Hall, attornies—D. and R. STEAD, Thorner, Yorkshire, blacksmiths- SAUNDERS...