5 MARCH 1837

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TEE Parliamentary Vote-paper gave promise of three important discussions this week—on Triennial Parliaments, National Edu- cation, and Church-rates. An account of the...

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Letters from Constantinople mention, that there was great re- joicing

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among the Turks in consequence of the failure of the French expedition against Constantine ; and that solemn thanks had been offered in the mosques to Allah for burying the...

In the French Chamber of Deputies, the eloquent DUPIN has

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raised his voice against the enactment of severe laws as safe- guards of the life and dynasty of Louis PHILIP. The bill of " disjunction." as it is called, which is intended to...

Eirbatrif anti Pracrettingli in Parliament.

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OPERATION OF THE ENGLISH POOR•LAW. The debate on the English Poor - law, the commencement of which we mentioned last week, was resumed in the House of Commons on Monday. Ni'....

The Prince of Syracuse was nearly suffocated with smoke flut-

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ing the fire at the Royal Palace in Naples, on the 6th and 7th of February. The library and splendid collection of paintings be- longing to the Queen, were entirely destroyed.

Affairs in Spain remain in Mau quo as far as

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the movements of the hostile armies are concerned. The influenza has laid up about 3000 of General EVANS'S troops; and ESPARTERO seems to think that he can live some time upon...

President JACKSON transmitted a message to Congress, on the 6th

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of February, recommending that authority should be given to the Executive to make armed reprisals on Mexican vessels and property, in case another and last attempt to obtain, by...

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Eryr Lauri.

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THE King and Queen left Brighton on Monday morning, and ar. riv. 1 at Windsor Castle in the afternoon. Their Majesties seem tes been in a rather ungracious hurry to get to...

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SEUCCIIalt¢Oufls

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The Committee of Privileges of the house of Lords decided, on Tuesday, that Mr. Alostyn and Mr. Hartopp had each proved an equal title to the Barony of Vaux; turd it remains for...

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The meeting of the electors of Sheffield to select a candidate to represent them in Parliament in the room of Mr. Buckingham, was highly creditable to the good sense and...

The Recorder presented his report to the King in the

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Council held on Wednesday, ut St. James's Palace. Seven prisoners,capitally con- victed, were reprieved ; and John Pegsworth was ordered to be exe- cuted on Tuesday next, fur...

Cbe fiietropaltS. The Lord Mayor, on Saturday, gave a splendid

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entertainment at the Mansionhouse to his Majesty's Ministers. The viands and wines were doubtless superb; but the speeches of Ministers, Aldermen, and citizens of every degree,...

`Tire Reverend Sir H. Rivers, Baronet, was sentenced to a

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fine of 10/. at the Worcester Assizes, on Monday, for kicking and beating a boy syho was bathing in the liver near to the place where the reverend baronet was fishing. The...

IRELAND.

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The Orange Members of the House of Commons pretend that the Orange Society is dissolved : they muy be only mistaken, not deceitful; but certain it is, that in several parts of...

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S ATIIRDAN Ni The grand affair in the House of

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Commons last night was the Church-rates. In a speech of two hours and fifty minutes duration, Mr. SPRING Bice exponmdcd to a Committee of the whole house, the Gove:stment plan...

An extraordinary negotiation has been going on between the East

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India Company and the Directors of the West India Dock Company, for the delivery over to the former of the jewels and curiosities sent by the King of Oude to her Majesty the...

A curious scene took place in the House of Representatives

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at Washington, on the 0th ult. Mr. Adams, the Representative of Massachusetts, who has signalized his zeal in behalf of the abolition of slavery, presented a petition from...

At the Tuileries every sort of precaution which prudence can

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dictate, and which experience can suggest, is being taken to prevent any attempt being made on the life of the King in the palace. The Aides- de-camp, the Orderly Officers, and...

X, is riulit. w',• mismplermon4 him. and &rumnbtauees made communicllion

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possible. Where eAn a letter teach him now?

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Since the Topic on Canada was in the press, we

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have seen the Re- solutions which Lord JoaN RUSSELL will move in the House of Corn. mons on Monday. Their plain scope and tendency is to destroy the Constitution of Lower...

Our attention has been called to that paragraph of the

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" Questions to Lord Howick," inserted in the Spectator of the 18th February, which relates to General Sir F. A. Weritenasa ; and we have seen u paper in the United Service...

Before the House went into Committee on the Church-rate ques.

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tion, there was an exhibition of ill-temper by Sir ROBERT PEEL The motion under debate was to refer back the petition for the 'farnworth and Rugby Railway to the Standing Orders...

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No Foreign intelligence of the least importance has been received

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Ibis mu iii i l lg. No Foreign intelligence of the least importance has been received Ibis mu iii i l lg.

l'OP1CS OP THE DAY.

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POLITICAL DISUNION BETWEEN TITE MIDDLB, AND WORKING CLASSES. " In the year 1821, 19 petitions were pre-ented in favour of Reform. In the we IF 1822 the number as reduced to 12....

MONEY alARKET.

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Srnett I:season.. Fount.. Arersvoott. The Karla:retinas of the wick havelnen trifling and unimportant. The pres. sere hit let Isi y perms at In.' to be opt-lilting urn the...

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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London, Wednesday 1st March. Sin—As the Spectator circulates, for the most part, amongst the " highly respectable," or carriage keeping class • as there are but few subscribers...

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WAR OR PEACE WITH CANADA?

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GOVERNMENT in Lower Canada is at a dead-lock. What has been often threatened, but seldom attempted by the British House of Commons, the Canadian House of Assembly has done—it...

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MECHANISM OF THE BALLOTA THE Horning Post has a great

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many objections to Mr. GROTE'S Ballot Bill, but generously waives them all except one ; and that is, the inefficacy of the measure to secure its sole object—secrecy of votes. "...

THE LORDS OF THE SOIL.

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To the best of our recollection—for it will not be a slight ap- pearance of necessity that forces us again to wade through that dreary desert of irrelevant matter, the...

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THE TEA TRADE.

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THE readers of the Spectator will recollect that we kept the public duly informed, from time to time, respecting the history of Consumption. 1833 lbs.:31,529 620 Duty. 1835...

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FAIR ROSAMOND.

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JOHN BARNETT'S long-expected opera, Fair Rosamond, was produced Drury Lane, on Tuesday. Our opinion of the composer has not unfrequently been given : lone hefote the production...

THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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THE instrumental season commenced in good earnest on Monday night : the rival parties who have been entertaining us with exhibitions of &limber music found common ground, and...

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PAMPHLETS ON PAPER CURRENCY.

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THE number of pamphlets on the Currency, and the character . and pursuits of their authors, at once mark the importance at- tacked to the subject, and the limitations of the...

THE BALLET.

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Tut production of a pieturesque new ballet, and the appearance of several new dancers of more than average talent, gave some eclat to the opening night of the King's Theatre, so...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Pa PER Colonorev, 1. An Examiostino of the Report of the Joint Stock Bank Committee ; &c. &e. Second Edition. To %Odell is added. an slsrnu n t of the la Ir. Pressure in the...

You will - be likely to see a kind of revolution

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in the Parisian press, probably within the next fortnight ; the success of the cheap sy , tern having made itself felt in the copious lists of subscribers of the r..o ,...

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THE WELLESLEY DESPATCHES.

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THE present volume relates almost entirely to the Mahratta War; by the successful conduct of which, the force of that turbulent and martial people was broken, the French power...

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PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.

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AFTER a period of considerable quiescence in the publishing world, matters have begun to stir. In addition to a variety of smaller publications, we have received, towards the...

The Fourth Volume of Mr. THIRLWALL'S History of G recce,

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in LARDNER'S Cyclopoodia, finishes the history of the Pelopon- nesian war, and brings down the work to the general peace, which ARTAXERXES, in conjunction with AGESILAUS,...

The Pictorial History of England promises to supply that im-

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portant desideratum in our literature, a History of the British Nation. Hitherto we have had histories of the Kingdom only ; the People have found no historian. The acts of...

Sermons on the Ten Commandments, by EDMUND ROBERT LARKEN, M.A.

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These sermons are ten in number ; the first ex- amining whether Christians are in any way or to any extent bound by the Mosaic laws ; and deciding in the negative, unless so far...

The Second Volume of the Reverend Dr. DUNCAN'S Sacred Philosophy

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of the Seasons, is devoted to Spring; and is an provement, perhaps a considerable improvement, upon the first The subject is more genial, more varied, and admits of a wider...

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DONALD W ALKER has followed up his treatises on "

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Manly Exercises " and " Exercises far Ladies," by a third of Games and Sports, which forms a very appropriate sequel. It is a simple compendium of the various in - door and out...

The small space which it occupies, its facility of transmission

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in a frank, and its correctness, from being reprinted every month, render VACHXWS Parliamentary Companion useful to any one who has occasion to communicate with " Pailiainent...

Three Letters to the People, by One of the Middling

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Classes, treat of government, representation, and many other political matters. In principle, the author is what BROUGHAM would term a low Radical, and what Mr. HETHERINGTON...

DELILLE'S Introductory Lessons in the French Language, con- tains a

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brief outline of the grammar, with a fsw simple exercises in both tongues. It is apparently intendtd for the young, for whim it is well adarid by its plainness and simplicity ;...

The Cheltenham Annuaire is a combination of calendar and directory,

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with a chronology and some introductory essays of a scientific character relating to the place. These local publications are useful, no doubt ; but a chronology of events at a...

Mr. M'Cri.i.octi has published an improved and enlarged Sup- plement

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to his Commercial Dictionary ; embodying the changes that have taken place and the additions that have been made to the trading facts or speculative opiniona since his former...

An edition of Smollett's Translation of Gil Blas, with the

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hu- morous and spirited wood-cuts, from designs by the clever French artist JEAN GIGOUX, that illustrated the original, and printed in a similar form, makes an attractive...

We were skimming over the pages of the Third Number

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of Bentley's Miscellany at the railroad rate at which the light ar- ticles in Magazines require to be read, when suddenly we found our pace slackening, and our progress getting...

Popular Astronomy, is a translation of a concise elementary treatise

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by M. QUETELET, a ith the useful addition of questions at the end of each lesson for the examination of the pupil. It appears to be scientifically correct and comprehensive, and...

The Second Volume of Mr. Beexe's Book of Human Charac-

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ter, so closely resembles the first in form, qualities, and spirit, that nothing more is necessary than to recommend it as an agree- able medley for spare moments—the very thing...

Besides these, there are before us, several pamphlets, reprints, and

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serials, which we have already noticed on other occasions, or passed by for sufficient reasons. The most valuable of these are the republication, in the Family Library, of Mr....