6 AUGUST 1836

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Irish Tithe Bill was filially rejected on Tuesday. This was the end to which it was doomed from the first hour of its existence. The House of Commons refused to take the...

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The celebration of the anniversary of' the Three Days of

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July passed off gloomily in Paris, amidst rumours of plots and multi- plied arrests. The latest accounts describe the police as still in full activity, securing suspicious...

The elections in Spain are proceeding favourably for the Mi-

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nistry; but, even in Madrid and the vicinity, alarm is felt at the approach of the rebels. There was quite a panic on the 234 of July at St. Ildefonso, the country residence of...

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17.1rbatrs1 anal prattaingri in patliantrttt. 1. TRISH CHURCH REFORM.

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In the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Order of the Day having been read for the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Irish Tithe Bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose and...

The Indian warfare in Florida still continues. A large de-

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tachment of Indians escaped from the American forces, and made their way through the province, killing all the inhabitants, young and old, of both sexes, whom they could seize....

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ebe Court.

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THE King, who is said to have recovered entirely from his late illness, visited Kew on Monday, and on Wednesday came to town to bold a Levee. Among the company who paid their...

The members of the Protestant Association held an extraordinary meeting

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on Tuesday, in Exeter Hall ; Mr. George Finch again in the chair. On the platform were Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Wilks, (what did lie there ?) Mr. Pringle, Mr. Sergeant Jackson, and Mr....

be jifittropoltti.

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On Monday, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Alderman Venables, Sir Peter Laurie, with Sheriffs, Chamberlain, and other City officers, and about sixty Common Councilmen, waited on the Duke...

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There is a vacancy in the office of Chief Clerk

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to Christ's Hospital, by the resignation of Mr. Thomas Wilby, after having passed more than half a century in the service of the charity. The Marquis of Clanricarde accompanied...

On Sunday last, the Mistress of the Liverpool North Corporation

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School proceeded with the scholars attached to the Established Church, to St. Martin's. On her arrival there, she entered the pew always previously occupied by the mistress and...

At the Marlborough Street Office, on Wednesday, Mr. James Fraser,

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of Regent Street, publisher of Fraser's Magazine, charged the Honourable Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley with an assault. Mr. Berkeley is a strong, tall man, and much larger...

A Mr. James Stanley, who described himself as an esquire,

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a Magistrate of three counties, and a member of the Reform Club, was fined 51. at the Queen Square Office the other day, for being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting a...

The anniversary of the passing of Sir John Hobbouse's Vestry

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A et was celebrated on Wednesday, by the Marylebone Reformers, in the Lords' Cricket-ground, St. John's Wood. A tent was erected under which lIfteen hundred persons dined. One...

An action for libel, brought by the Reverend Henry Thomas

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Streeten against the Morning Chronicle, was tried at the Guildford Assizes on Tuesday. Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Platt, Mr. Channell, and Mr. Chambers, were counsel for the plaintiff...

Elle Country.

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It is said that Sir Charles Greville, M. P. for Warwick, is about to resign his seat on account of ill health. In that event the Tories intend to call upon Mr. Canning, son of...

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Lord Yarborough continues much indisposed at his town residenca in

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Arlington Street, and his attendants give no hopes of his recovery for some time.--Lincoln Gazette. The old Earl of Fingal], the head of the Irish Roman Catholic Peerage, died...

It is understood that Parliament will be prorogued on the

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18th of this month. We understand that the Reverend Mr. Otter, Principal of King's College, is to be the new Bishop of Chichester. Mr. Otter, it is well known, approves of the...

IRELAND.

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The National Association continues to hold frequent meetings in Dublin. It is evident from the tone adopted by Mr. Finn, O'Connor Don, Mr. Lawless, and other leaders of the...

At the Leicester Assizes, Henry Roper, a fine-looking man of

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sixty, was tried on a charge of ravishing a woman, who was murdered near Kegworth, in the year 1802. The only evidence against him was his own confession to a "ranting parson,"...

The Plymouth Chronicle states that the Bishop of Exeter is

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obliged, by his duties in the House of Lords, to postpone his Episcopal visit- ation. It is a pity that Phillpotts cannot doff his lawn sleeves and be- come a politician in...

SCOTLAND,

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The Scotch papers furnish some particulars of the claims for the elective franchise in different counties and cities. In Stirlingshire, the Tories have been very busy in...

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Mr. Robert Gordon called Mr. Lechmere Charlton to account for

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the following passage in a letter sent by Mr. Charlton to the Times, on the subject of the interruption he met with in the House of Commons on Friday last- " Neither did I tell...

We find that the Tories have been busy canvassing Westminster

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these two days for Sir George Murray, under an impression that General Evans is in such a dangerous state that his 'recovery is doubt- ful. It gives us great pleasure to learn...

The Herybrd Reformer, hitherto one of the most vigorous supporters

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of the Melbourne Ministry in the whole range of the provincial press, has some remarks on the result of the Newcastle election, which are worthy of notice. " Captain Blackett's...

According to the authorized publication of the Votes on Divisions,

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the numbers on the Irish question on Monday were the following. For the Apppropriation-clause 260 Tellers 2 262 Against it 231 Tellers 2 233 29 Here we have...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. It is stated in a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne to Paris, that General BERNELLE, at the bead of the French Legion, encountered the Carlist...

Accounts from New York, dated the 8th of July, mention

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that the greater portion of the Indian tribes had surrendered unconditionally, and that the war might be considered at an end.

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The Gazette this morning announces the appointment of Mr. John

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Austin to be Commissioner of Inquiry into the affairs of Malta.

In consequence of the assault committed by the Ilonoumble Grantlev

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Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M. P., on Mr. James Fraser, the publisher Of the Magazine, the author of the article which originally gave offence, Dr. Maginn, left his card at Berkeley...

In one of his Exeter Hall speeches, Mr. APGhee said

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that Mr. O'Connell had been prevented by his Bishops from denouncing the notes to the Rheimish Bible. But Mr. O'Connell. in a letter to Mr. Page, one of the Secretaries to the...

MONEY MARKET. MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FIIIT)Alt AFTERNOON; The Consol Market has entirely recovered the shock which it received last week ; and, after improving more than per cent. from its extreme...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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RADICAL, WHIG, AND TORY PROSPECTS—SESSIONS OF 1835 AND 1836. AT the close of the last session of Parliament, we were enabled to speak as follows of the state and prospects of...

ERECTION OF TIIE STATUE OF GEORGE TIIE THIRD.

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MR. WYATT'S unlucky statue of George the Third on horseback— which was first delayed by the deficiency of funds, then by the damage it sustained in the casting, , and lastly by...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend. Au g ust 211, Montrose, Wall. from Bengal ; Java, Todd, from Bombay ; Ly idler, and Kersew ell, from the Cape ; Jean Graham. Warren. and Siu g a• pore....

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SINGAPORE PETITIONING PARLIAMENT AGAINST TAXATION.

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AT the very moment that the President of the Board of Trade is liberally announcing in his place in Parliament that the duties are to be reduced on certain Indian and other...

FURTHER EXPOSURE OF THE BISHOP'S JOB.

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IN defending the Bishop's Bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL invidiously contrasted the refusal of the Deans and Chapters to relinquish their patronage, with the more patriotic and liberal...

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STATE OF PUBLIC OPINION IN FRANCE.

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IT has been supposed by some persons who have good opportuni- ties of ascertaining the state of public opinion in France, that in our article last week on the policy of Louts...

ANOTHER NEW COLONY.

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A New colony has been planted on the South coast of New Hol- land, between the new Province of South Australia and the South- east corner of New South Wales. The place of...

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Airs. Fox, the widow of Charles Fox, is still living,

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and in good health, at St. Ann's Hill, although on Monday she completed her eighty-ninth year.—Cheltenham Chronicle. An extraordinary and totally groundless report having...

MUSICAL RETROSPECT.

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THE musical season of 1836 has closed. For some weeks the concert-bills, from those of BOSCHA and MORI dimensions to others of bumbler size and less formidable front, have been...

THE French Plays terminated last night. The latter part of

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the season was more prosperous than the commencement, from the attsae- tion of Mademoiselle PLESSIS. She is very pretty, but more of a coquette than an actress; and seemed to...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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PiZIODTCAL LITILRATURZ, The Edinburgh Review, or Clitical Journal. No. CXXVIII. July 1838. Longman and ; A. and C. Blade. Edinburgh. The Quarterly Review. No. CXII. July 1d36...

THE QUARTERLY REVIEWS.

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HOWEVER the publication season may have slackened as regards original works of merit, it cannot be said that the " reading public" is without reading . materials. A few weeks...

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The Quarterly Review. Whether it be from the Tory party

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sticking closer together, and thus preserving their literary con- nexion more unbroken, or whether greater management, exertion, and liberality, with less of Whig squeamishness,...

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DUBOURG ON THE VIOLIN.

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THIS is a highly-interesting work to the musical inquirer, abound- ing in well-arranged and diligently-gathered facts ; while its lively and amusing style will equally commend...

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THE OAKLEIGH SHOOTING CODE.

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WHEN BONAPARTE petulantly called the English "a nation of shopkeepers," he forgot to add, "with an aristocracy of sports- men." People talk of the tyranny and caprice of...