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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectatorshould refute hina z for Texas has elected a President who is unsentiments ' are backed with belligerent preparations in the SecreUle originator of a Teilan war with Mexico. the...
Meanwhile, the position of Mexico is anything . but safe or
The Spectatoragr, eeable. According to the reports--Coming, however, through the hostile channel of the Southern States—some of her provincei are in revolt) god her councils are torn with...
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. By the present showing, peace expands its benign influence
The Spectatorover India. The paltry insurrection at Kolapore indeed continues; both Native rulers and people seeming as if they wished to illustrate their incompetency to do without real...
The Bishop of Exeter's concessions, alth o o d y„...h obvious desire to allay
The Spectatorthe flames that he It blade with an of their effect ; and the agitation in his_A?" 0 " f aised, have failed or rather it increases. Anew turn I .,,p - olocese . is as great as...
Ebe (!cutt.
The SpectatorTINE Court has again gone back to Windsor Castle and has continued the quiet style of life in which it has lately indulged. Prince Albert went to see Captain Siborne's model of...
Ebe Itletropolis.
The Spectator• The Royal Exchange was finally opened on Wednesday, New Year's Day ; all the avenues were thrown open, and the merchants took possession of their "area." Some of them complain...
John Green and his daughter Anne, a child nine years
The Spectatorold, have been coin:. milted from Worship Street Police-office on a charge of coining. In this case the coiner employed the aid of science to make his counterfeit money appear...
Etc Vrobintes.
The SpectatorAmon g the many letters recently published by Dr. Pbillpotts respectb* the points of dispute in his diocese, is the reply to Mx. March Phillipps, who had been deputed by a...
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The workmen of Middleton Colliery entertained the Reverend R. H.
The SpectatorBrandling, the owner, at a tea-party, on the 14th December. The number present was about three hundred and twenty or thirty ; the men's wives performing the duties of the...
Kendrew, the man convicted for the murder of Mr. Inchbald,
The Spectatora farmer living near Boroughbridge, was hanged on Saturday:, at York; having previously confessed his crime. He said he committed it in revenge for a threat which Mrs hichbald...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe Dublin Evening Mail makes the following announcement, which will be more welcome in general than it seems to be to the Tory journalist " We believe we may now state with...
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The Marquis of Londonderry is about, at great expense to
The Spectatorenlarge his port at Seaham Harbour, by the construction of a new dock of twelve acres, in extension of the present South dock; the increased traffic in the coal-trade at Seaham...
Many outrages are reported this week in Ireland, including four
The Spectatormurders and one attempted assassination. A man has killed his brother, at O'Dorney in Kerry, during a drunken quarreL Patrick Shiel has been murdered near Strokestown in...
gortign an eolonfal.
The SpectatorFRANCE. —The Chamber of Deputies met on Friday, and proceeded to elect the President for the ensuing session. At the first ballot the numbers were—for K Sauzet, (the Ministerial...
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fftistellantous.
The SpectatorIt is understood that the Queen and Prince Albert will arrive at Stowe, the Duke of Buckingham's mansion on the 15th instant ; and that in the following week they will visit the...
Tuesday's Gazette notified some appointments; namely—
The SpectatorThe Honourable Charles Augustus Murray, to be Extra Groom in Waiting to the Queen. The same, to be Secretary of Legation at Naples. The Reverend Frederick Anson, to be Canon of...
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Major-General Sr William Nott has not long survived his triumphs
The Spectatorin India: he died, at his seat near Carmarthen, on New Year's Day. William Nott was born in 1780, at Neath, in Glamorganshire; and was consequently in the sixty-fifth year of...
A report gains 'ground that there will speedily be a brevet promotion Ia. the Army and Navy.
The SpectatorIt is contemplated by Government to send out another expedition to the Arctic regions, with the view of discovering the North-west passage between the Atlantis and Pacific; and...
A Frankfort letter says that Mr. Fox Strangeways ' the English
The SpectatorMinister to the Germanic Diet, was to leave Frankfort for six months; but that he was not to het replaced, his absence being partly for the purpose of his receiving new...
According to a paragraph in the daily papers," from a
The Spectatorcorrespondent," the recent arrest of a debtor within the precincts of Windsor Castle was made by per mission of the Lord Steward; who only stipulated that it should be made with...
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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorAitinvzo—At Gravesend, 1st Inst. Mary Sharp, Mills, from Sydney ; Mary Bennetype, Picken, from Chins; Sons of Commerce, Williams, from Singapore ; Diadem, Harland, from...
Sir Charles Metcalfe is dying. It is useless to conceal
The Spectatorthis deplorable in. telligence, much as it will grieve all whom it reaches. It is well known, that Sir Charles suffered for many years from some cancer-like tumour in his face;...
At a General Convention of the Episcopal Church of the
The SpectatorUnited States, recently held in Philadelphia, some strange occurrences took place. The subject of Tra.ctarianism—the doctrines of the Reverend Dr. Pusey having been favourably...
The Paris papers of Thursday report the usual addresses of
The Spectatorpublic bodies presented to the King of the French on New Year's Day, with his replies. They throw no light on the "Ministerial crisis," but breathe a spirit of peace. Of nine...
The 5th January falling on a Sunday, the quarterly revenue
The Spectatorreturns will be made up this evening; and the Standard gives the general results by anticipation. The increase on the quarter in the Customs is estimated to exceed 150,000/. ;...
The rumour of renewed intercourse between the English and Roman
The SpectatorGovernments continues to create a ferment in Ireland; and the variation Of views is curious. For example, the Derry Standani, a Presbyterian paper, approves of the notion but...
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The Dublin correspondent of the Times quotes a couple of
The Spectatorstatements as showing that "whatever may be the ultimate consequences of Lord Devon's commission, certain it is, if the country papers speak truly, a movement h as been already...
Mr. J. F. Tottenham, who has just been promoted to
The Spectatorthe rank of Lieu- tenant for his gallant conduct in capturing a slave-ship, the account of - which appeared in the Gazette of the 27th ultimo, is ninth son of Lord Robert...
• ERRATA DI THE SurrsEsteser.—Since the proofs of the Supplement
The Spectatorsheet pealed from our hands, we have discovered in the impression already printed several :inaccuracies; some of them the result of hurried revision, others common errors of the...
Some of our readers may be pleased to see that,
The Spectatorby new typographical arrangements, we have increased the contents of the ordinary Spectator, without adding to its bulk:
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FEIDAY AFTERNOON. The buoyancy of our Money-market has been affected by the depression of the Funds in France under the threat of a Ministerial crisis; but that...
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THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorAT the Princess's, The Italian in Algiers, an English version of Rossini's famous opera buffs, appropriately enlivens the present merry season. It was produced for the first...
The event that signalizes M. Laurent's management of Covent Garden,
The Spectatorthe production of an English version of the Antigone of Sophocles, with Idendelssohn's choruses, is noticed under the head of Music. • Mr. Henry Betty, a son of the whilom...
Having now run the gauntlet of half-a-dozen Christmas pieces at
The Spectatorthe leading theatres, we are able to confirm by personal experience our last week's report. If there be any difference, it is that the Pantomimes are worse than was stated:...
RESULTS OF THE NEW ZR A T AND INQUIRY.
The SpectatorTHE picture presented by our New Zealand Supplement is humiliating to every Englishman. In what a light does the late Parliamentary inquiry into the management and condition of...
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• .THE HOROSCOPE OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE.
The SpectatorTER planetary conjunctions of the new year are not of the most mising augury. Mercury and Jupiter, as evening-stars, fore.a debates in Parliament—brisk, pert, and vapid—or prosy...
HOW LAW IS MADE UNINTELLIGIBLE AND UNAVAILABLE.
The SpectatorTHE enormous overgrowth of the Statute-book is an evil which is often pointed out, and it begins to excite serious alarm. The current number of the Westminster Review attacks...
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IRISH INDEPENDENCE.
The SpectatorWE have read somewhere of an Irish bank which was so unpo- , polar that the people collected all its notes and—burned them! With that and other instances of peculiar commercial...
SANGUINARY EPICURISM.
The SpectatorTHERE is a curious alchemy in human nature which enables men to convert the most repulsive aliments into dainties. Some have been known to feed on poisons. It is with the moral...
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JOHN TYLER'S SYNTAX.
The SpectatorTam schoolmasters of Europe should petition Congress to expunge President John Tyler's last message from the archives of the United States; since it is a deliberate attempt to...
Treating the retirement of M. Villemain from the French Ministry
The Spectatoras 4 a political death," the Morning Chronicle sketches his characteristics. " In the Cabinet, M. Villemain was a friend of England, and a follower more of Marshal Soul than of...
THE REVEREND W. ROBERTSON'S VISIT TO THE PENINSULA.
The SpectatorMa. Ronsarsom, a clergyman of the Scottish Kirk, was induced to visit Gibraltar in the summer of 1841, at "the instance of the Colonial Committee of the General Assembly of the...
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THE SPALDING CLUB'S EXTRACTS FROM THE BOROUGH ARCHIVES OF ABERDEEN.
The SpectatorThis volume abounds with curious facts and information relative to the social condition, borough government, and in some sense public affairs of Scotland, during the fifteenth...
HAMPTON COURT, OR THE PROPHECY FULFILLED. , TIES author of
The Spectatorthese volumes dates from Hampton Court, and pleads guilty to a knowledge of and liking for Richmond, Twickenham, and thd Vale of the Thames. Struck by the "almost incredible...
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THE NEW MAGAZINES FOR 'FORTY-FIVE. THE commencement of the year
The Spectatorhas introduced three new candidates for public favour of the magazine character; two of a purely literary cast, and one in which art is a prominent if not a predominant...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorFrom December 27th to January 2d. BOOB& Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen. 1398— 1570. Parochialia; or Church, School, and Parish. The Church System...
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MUSIC.
The SpectatorMENDELSSOHN'S ANTIGONE. THE attempt to produce Antigone on Thursday at Covent Garden Theatre, after two ominous postponements, ended in a lamentable failure; though,...
The celebrated Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues in all the Keys,
The Spectatorcomposed by John Sebastian Bach, arranged in Duets for Four Hands on the Pianoforte or Organ, by Henry Bertini. Book I. BACH'S Preludes and Fugues, (Bas wohl temperirte...
"He's gone for evermore." A Wail; the Words and Music by Mrs. Cowden Clarke.
The SpectatorAn attempt at the Scottish ballad style; which, from its simplicity and antique changes of minor and major, is creditable to a lady-amateur.
"The Clouds are blackening." Thekla's Song from Schiller's " Wallensteie
The SpectatorThe Melody composed and arranged for the Pianoforte, by S. Bacon. The prosody of this piece as well as the accompaniment are singularly in want of correction. It should have...
FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorANOTHER statue has been set up in the City. A colossal effigy of William the Fourth, carved out of two blocks of granite by Mr. Nixon, stands upon a tall pedestal at the end of...
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HAY ON ORNAMENTAL DESIGN.
The Spectator,Pat universal craving for ornament in the decoration of public buildings, the furniture of private dwellings, and the materials of dress, finds our artisans and manufacturers...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 22d December, at Aban Court, Cheltenham, the Lady of George Browne, Esq., Captain in Her Majesty's Forty-fourth Regiment, of a son. ' On the 96th, at the Rectory,...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-OFFICE, Dec. 31.-2.41 Regt. Drags.—Capt. J. Stuart, from half-pay Unattached, to be Capt. vice M. G. Adams, who exchanges; Capt. E. Croker, from half-pay 84th Foot, to be...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, Dec. 31. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Kelly and Law, Tottington, Lancashire, coal-proprietors—Canning and co. Birmingham, steel-merchants—Iredale and Co. Rotherham,...
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Friday, Jan. 3.
The SpectatorPARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. -Pussy and Co. Limon Grove, drapers-Lansdown and Co. Bow, Drapers--Casson and Co. Kingston-upon-Hull, surgeons-Chaloner and Co. Liverpool,...
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RESULTS OF
The SpectatorTHE NEW ZEALAND INQUIRY. The public documents from which this Supplement has been compiled are—The Reports of a Committee of the House of Lords on New Zealand in 1838; the...
SOME PASSAGES IN THE HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND.
The SpectatorPoetic attention in this country was directed for the first time to the colonization of New Zealand, on an extensive scale, in 1837. The islands of New Zealand and their...
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NATURAL ADVANTAGES OF THE COUNTRY.
The SpectatorTHE New Zealand group consists of three principal islands. The North Island contains, according to estimate, 31,174,400 acres ; the Middle Island, 46,126,080; and the South or...
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THE ABORIGINES.
The SpectatorTHE Aborigines of New Zealand do not appear to exceed 100,000 in number. They are most numerous in the following districts of the Northern Island. 1. The peninsula North of the...
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THE MISSIONARIES.
The SpectatorAny attempt to estimate the state and prospects of New Zealand which should overlook the Missionaries must of necessity be incomplete and erroneous. For thirty years they have...
THE TREATY OF WAITANGI.
The SpectatorSo much has been founded on "the treaty of Waitangi," that it has become desirable to ascertain its real position in respect to other parts of the question, and its intrinsic...
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GOVERNMENT VERSION OF THE WAITANGI TREATY'.
The SpectatorHer Majesty Queen Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, regarding with her royal favour the native chiefs and tribes of New Zealand, and anxious to...
THE HOBSON - SHORTLAND ADMINISTRATION.
The SpectatorCAPTAIN HOBSON the first Governor of New Zealand, was a deserving officer of the Navy. He had in 1837 been despatched by the Governor of New South Wales to New Zealand, where,...
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HOBSON-SHORTLAND COLONIZATION.
The Spectator- Governor Hobson and his inseparable Mr. Shortland were possessed With a passion for colonizing. Sent out to govern settlements already formed, their first step was to form...
HOBSON-SHORTLAND FINANCE.
The SpectatorThe materials for the history of New Zealand finance, extending from January 1840 to December 1843, are very incomplete. Although it was expressly enjoined, in the instructions...
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THE WAIRAU MASSACRE.
The SpectatorAbout the end of November 1843, intelligence reached this country of a conflict between a party of settlers from Nelson and a body of the Natives, in which a number of the...
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THE CASE OF THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.
The SpectatorTHE case of the Company against the Government is stated in the Twelfth Report of the Directors, (reprinted in the Commons Committee's Appendix, pp. 501-511,) in a Memorandum...
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THE AGREEMENT WITH LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
The Spectator211r. Vernon Smith to Mr. Somes, Downing Street, 18th November 1840. Sir—Lord John Russell has had under his consideration the letter which, on the 22d ultimo, you addressed to...
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LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S INTERPRETATION OF THE AGREEMENT.
The SpectatorLetter from Joseph Scenes, Esq., Governor of the New Zealand Company, to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell. New Zealand House, Broad Street Buildings, 261h June 1844. lify...
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE.
The SpectatorON the evening of the 26th April 1644—the day when the proposal made by the Directors in their Twelfth Report to appeal to the Legislature was approved of by the shareholders of...
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THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
The SpectatorThe Select Committee appointed "to inquire into the State of the Colony of New Zealand, and into the Proceedings of the New Zealand Company," and to report the Minutes of...
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MR. STEPHEN.
The SpectatorIs the Twelfth Report by the Directors of the New Zealand Company occurs the following passage, describing the last of a series of tricky proceedings by the Colonial Office :—...
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LORD STANLEY.
The SpectatorAll " Chief Secretaries for the Colonies" are but agents in Parliament and in public for the Colonial Office—that is, for the man who "writes what is written ;" and none has...
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GOVERNOR FITZROY.
The SpectatorCaptain Fitzroy entered upon the discharge of his office as Go4 vernor about Christmas 1843, and the latest intelligence from the colony comes only to the end of June 1844. But...