5 DECEMBER 1835

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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ACCORDING to the latest intelligence from the United States, efforts are making by the friends of General JACKSON'S Adminis- tration to inflame the public feeling against...

The French Ministers have appointed Admiral MACKAN to the naval

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command at Martinique. In a short time, an armament of fifteen sail of the line and several frigates is to be ready for sea. The French journals boast that their navy has been...

The only piece of intelligence from Lisbon, in additio which

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we gave last week is, that the new Ministers CAM P05, immediately on arriving at his office, orde &cites of the arrears of pay due to the Duke of W and amountin to about 90001....

The Liberal majority of' the Spanish Procumdores gains ground. ISTURITZ

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was elected temporary President of the Chamber, by a majority of only 53 to 51; but was chosen the permanent President by 134 to 88. MENDIZ ABAL read his project of a law on...

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Int Iftetropotti.

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The Common Council assembled on Tuesday; when Mr. Wire moved the appointment of a Committee to inquire into and report upon the most proper mode of testifying their satisfaction...

A species of revolution has been accomplished in Mexico, by

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the agency of the President, General SANTA ANNA, aided by the army. The following account of the proceeding is taken from the Morning Chronicle. " The Federal Congress has made...

far Court.

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THE King and Queen have not left the Palace at Brighton during the week, except for short rides on the roads to Rottingdean and Shore- ham. Their Majesties continue to enjoy...

It is exceedingly proper that the persons who helped to

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throw cut the Government measure for securing a comfortable income to the Irish Protestant Clergy, should come forward with subscrip- tions to relieve them from starvation. We...

In a subsequent column will be found a sketch of

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the proceed- ings at an agricultural dinner at Sherbourne in Somersetshire. It was attended by Mr. BERKELEY PORTMAN, Sir THOMAS LETH- BRIDGE, and Mr. S ANFORD, M.P.; all of whom...

The proprietors of the London University held a special general

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meeting, in one of the halls of the institution, on Wednesday, to con- sider the question of the proposed charter, and other matters relating to it. About 400 proprietors were...

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The Master of the Rolls, on Tuesday, dissolved the injunction

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he had granted on the Saturday week previous to restrain the Corporation of Liverpool from raising 105,000/. by mortgage for the purpose of augmenting the incomes of the...

A meeting was held at the Freemason's Tavern, on Thur--day,

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for the purpose of raising a subscription to relieve the Irish Protestant Clergy. The Archbishop of Canterbury took the chair, and explained the object of the meeting, in a mild...

The patrons of the Scottish Hospital dined together on Monday,

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St. Andrew's Day, at the London Tavern ; the Duke of Gordon in the chair. About 150 gentleman were present. There were several vocal and instrumental performers engaged to add...

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The West Somersetshire Agricultural Association had their anni- versary dinner

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yesterday week, at Sherborne ; Mr. Bickham Escott, in the chair. Among the company, were Mr. E. A. Sanford, Mr. Berkeley Portman, and Sir Thomas Lethbridge. Mr. Sanford warned...

A Coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday, at an inn

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in the High Street, Borough, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Langton, a widow, aged sixty-five, who was said to have been found hanging by a cord la the cellar of her own house,...

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Lord Charles Manners is the Duke of Rutland's candidate to sue. ceed Lord Robert in the representation of North Leicestershire : he is not likely to meet with an opponent. Mr....

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IRELAND.

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The death of Mr. Ardill, father to one of the Dublin Election Commissioners, has occasioned RH interruption of their proceedings. The Irish Governnnent has issued a new...

The Cambridge University Pitt Club have had a meeting, at

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which a good deal of Tory nonsense was talked by young gentlemen, whose education is evidently unfinished. The Birmingham Philanthropist contains some unanimous resolutions of...

Very few particulars were known last week respecting the fire

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at Hatfield House ; but the papers have since been full of them. The following account is taken from the Hertford 1?,:ji,rnier : it omits none of the more interesting...

Sir Francis Burdett's letter to the members of Brookes's has

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pro- duced the following note in reply from O'Connell. It is caustic and nervous, though jocular and pleasant, and will not tend to diminish the uneasiness which Sir Francis...

Easton Hall, the seat of Sir M. J. Cholmely, Baronet,

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in Lincoln- shire, was discovered on Wednesday week to be on lire ; but, owing to timely assistance, it was extinguished, without further injury than twos of the upper...

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The Earl of Winchilsca has addressed a letter to Mr.

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Maxwell, M.P., contradicting the assertion made at the late meeting of the Orange Society in Dublin, that he had recommended the suppression of Orange Societies. He says it was...

aliactlIantaUlt.

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The Duke of Montrose is, we learn, dangerously ill. his Grace is a Knight of the Garter, and Lord-Lieutenant of the counties of Dum- barton and Stirling.—Standard. The King has...

MINERAL MAGNETISM.

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THE efficacy of the magnet in curing certain disorders of the nervous system, has been the topic of discussion by the Westminster Me- dical Society ut their last three meetings....

A letter signed "Thomas Thorp," of Trinity College, Cambridge, was

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inserted in the last Leeds Mercury, taking that journal to task for copying a paragraph from the Spectator, in which the formation of a Tory club at Cambridge was mentioned, one...

From a correspondence in the Irish papers, it appears that

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Lord Morpeth has authorized a Magistrate and some Police to attend the tithe process-servers, upon satisfactory affidavits that danger is appre- hended to the lives of the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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HI RTII S. On the fr'Sth ult., the Lady of the Right lion. the LORD MAYOR, of a son. On the 231 tilt., at VI ellesheurue, near Stratfurd-ou-Ason, the Lady CHARLES PAULET, or a...

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Last week, the Times and the Standard charged Mr. O'CONNELL--

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" Mr. Daniel O'CoNNELL," as the Times and old BURDETT, with witty particularity, love to identify the Irish Potentate—with an attempt to cheat RAPHAEL out of 10001., on the...

The opinion of Bishop WARBURTON respecting the principle on which

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the alliance between Church and State is to be defended, has lately been brought into question : it never can be questioned again. Being much entreated by the Standard, the...

The Paris newspapers received this morning contain some intelli- gence

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from Toulon. Orders had been received for the speedy equip- ment of a number of vessels of war, to reinforce the fleet in the Medi- terranean, as well as in the West Indies. The...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. We learn from the Standard — (bow came it that the Ministerial Evening Papers were not so well-informed ?)—that a proclamation is issued proroguing the...

The Address of the Spanish Proeeres has been received in

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Paris : it is a mere echo of the Queen's speech. That of the Procuradores is described as being of a more moderate tenor than was expected ; but no copy of it has been published.

The Neva, Captain Peck, with female convicts for New South

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Wales, was totally lost, on King Island, in Bass Straits, about the beginning of May; and of 241 people on board, only the Captain, Chief Mate, seven seamen, and six convicts,...

MONEY MARKET.

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STUCK EXCHANOR, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The closing of the books of the various Stocks whose Dividends become doe in January, which has occurred during the week, was not productive...

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THE THEATRES.

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THE theatrical prospect of the next week is far mora enlivening than the retrospect of this. The opehing of BRAHAM'S new theatre, tine St. James's, which is positively fixed for...

Another version of the Jewess, by Moxenir.re, has been got

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up,. with considerable splendour for a minor theatre, at the Victoria. The pageant is very gratifying to uncritical eyes ; and, what with a large expanse of stage, arid a...

The new afterpiece, The Carmelites, at Covent Garden, is of

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slight materials, and not very lively as regards either the incidents, the dia. logue, or the acting ; and there is but little to reconcile us to the im- probability of the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrived — At Gravesend. Dec. 1st. Morning Star, Linton;

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and 2d. Achilles. Duncan, from Ceylon. or Margate, 341, Kent. Cow bro, from Bombay. Off Partmontli, 31, Artemis, Sparks, from China; and Itelzona, Salmon. from Mauritius. At...

The Adelpbi burlesque of the Jewess is by BUCKSTONE ;

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and though, it does not attain the perfection of satirical parody—that of setting in a ludicrous light all the weak points of the original in order to show their aleatrdity, it...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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OUGHT MINISTERS TO DISSOLVE THE PARLIAMENT? THERE seen is to he a general understanding among men of all parties, that the Parliament will be dissolved next year. It is so very...

THE TORY REPEALERS.

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THE pretenders to exclusive loyalty and patriotism are not unfrequently the most reckless factionists. Thus we see the Times full of affected indignation against the Irish...

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POLICY AND PROSPECTS OF THE OPPOSITION.

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WHILE the monthly organs.of the Tories, Blackwood and Fraser, write despondingly on the political prospects of the country,— meaning thereby the prospects of' their own party's...

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WORKING OF THE REFORM ACT—INTIMIDATION BY LANDLORDS.

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THE Tories have laboured hard to give currency to the notion, that if the Catholic priests were prevented from interfering in elections, no ground for complaining of undue...

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THE POWER OF RUSSIA, AGAIN.

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A CORRESPONDENT, who is generally well satisfied with the ex- posure made in the Spectator, 21st November, of the substantial unbecility of Russia in so far as her power of...

FREE TRADE AND THE TEA TRADE.

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LARGE sales of Company's and free trade teas have been effected within the last few days, and at reduced prices, which approach to those of the Continent and America. The people...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies till their Revolt and Declaration of Independence. By haws Grahame. Esq. In 4 cols...

ROSSINI IN LONDON.—The season was attended with enormous loss; and

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Rossini left England without Having fulfilled his engagement to compose an opera. His residence in London, however, was a very profitable one to him- self. He was just the kind...

GRAHAME'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

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To plan the history of thirteen independent provinces—different from each other in the time of their foundation, the objects and characters of their settlers, the interests...

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HOLMAN'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

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THE leading subjects of the fourth and concluding volume of the blind traveller are China and Australasia: but—whether it be that the topic of his travels is beginning to pall....

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GILBERT GURNEY

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Is not entirely new to the public ; a portion of it—we cannot tell how much—having already appeared in the New Monthly Maga- zine. It is known to be the production of Mr....

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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THE booksellers, it would seem, are determined to enliven what used to be a dull time in politics, by the number of their literary productions. Since the Spectator first began,...

MALTAGNA.

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THE press is teeming with novels and romances at present, even more than in the palmy days of the manufactory in Leadenhall Street. But there is this difference, that they now...

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PICTORIAL PERIODICALS.

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TIIE beautiful republication of the Poetical Works of Rogers is now completed, by the appearance of the Tenth Part. We cannot take leave of this, the flower of our...

FINE ARTS.

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LITERARY SOUVENIR. Mn. ALARIC Warrs seems determined that the pictures of the Lite- .rary Souvenir shall realize its nevi title " The Cabinet of Modern...

We have a shoal of the small fry of literature,

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the technical Maga- zines, which require a decent dismissal. There is the Gardener's Magazine ; which contains an annual retro- spect of gardening and rural improvements in...