6 NOVEMBER 1830

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For this week, we have considerably exceeded the space that

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we usually assignIn Parliamentary matters. The interest of the subject forms our justification, and our apology for postponing many articles in other departments of the paper,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Ws noticed in our last number the formal opening of Parliament. The real business of the session commenced on Tuesday, the 2nd instant ; on which day the King in person...

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Ties MARI/CIS OF BLANDFORD'S ADDRESS.

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"In this its first Address to the Throne of a new King, instead of making itself the mere echo of the Ministers of the Crown, this House feels that it ought to show itself to be...

The Order Book of the House of Commons already presents

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a long list of entries. ELECTION PETITIONS. The days appointed for considering Election Petitions are as follow. I. ENGLA*7D. Place of Election. Petitioners. When to lie...

HOURS of AD.! ounsunicer.—The House of Lords adjourned on Monday

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at four o'clock; on Tuesday, at ball - past nine ; on Wednesday, at one. The House of Com- mons adjourned on Monday at four o'clock; on Tuesday, at a quarter before twelve ; on...

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In the Postscript to the second edition of our last

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number, we mentioned, on the authority of expresses from Antwerp, that in lame/pence of a conflict between the Dutch and Belgic troops, an which the former were worsted and...

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The - question of the French Ministry, which has been so

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long agitated. is for the present settled. The following is the list of the Cabinet, as given in the Royal ordinances :— LAFITTE 1 Minister of Finance and President of the...

The differences that exist among the Spanish patriotic leaders, and

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which, even were their hopes of success much brighter, might render their success doubtful, have their origin in the conduct of MINA in 1826, the period of the Portuguese...

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ports of the United States open to the British trade

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from the date of the proclamation—the 5th of October—under the arrangement :entered into between the Governments of the two countries. The proclamation also declares, that the...

The King of Sardinia has issued a somewhat singular procla-

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mation, the object of which is to protect the military from the people. All offences against a soldier are in future to be tried by the military council of the division to which...

THE KING AND HIS COURT.—On Monday, their Majesties visited Covent

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Garden Theatre. It would only be repeating our description of 'their visit to Drury Lane Theatre to narrate their reception by the audience. There was, however, at Covent...

The following notice appears in the German papers, under the

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date of Berlin, October 15. If for municipal, we write New Police, and for Prussia England, it might almost stand as a summary of a Mi- nisterial speech on the state of our Home...

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MR. ST. JOHN LONG.—This person, as we mentioned in our

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second edition, last week, was on Saturday convicted of manslaughter, after a strenuous effort of Sir James Park to prevent the case from going to a Jury. On Monday he was...

PREPARATIONS FOR THE GRAND CIVIC ENTERTAINMENT.— (From the Times.)—The throne

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is nearly complete, [and the drapery round it gives the most exquisite relief to the dazzling splendour of the crown which stands above. The hustings' walls are covered with...

THE ANTI-UNION.—The first meeting of the " Irish Volunteers," which

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was fixed to be held on Saturday last, has been suppressed by a proclamation of precisely- the same tenor—mutatis mutandis—as the meeting of the Anti-Union clubbists. The...

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DIGESTED REPORT OF LAW PROCEEDINGS. COURT OF CHANCERY. COLLINS v.

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PRICE.—The Solicitor-General, applied on Thursday last, to the Lord Chancellor, that this cause might be reheard. The Master of the Rolls, who had decided it in the absence of...

A great number of individuals were fined and held to

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bail at Marl- borough Street Ploice office on Wednesdap, for assaulting and hooting the:Adige, and other .offences tending to produce a breach of the peace. Some of the...

THE OPPOSITION.—One hundred and twenty of the Opposition dined at

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Lord Althorpe's on Sunday, to concert measures for the session. LADY MILT oN.—On Monday evening Lady Milton died at Went- worth-house. Lady Milton was about six months advanced...

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THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OEPORD, Nov. 4.—On Friday last, P.L. Phillips, of Exeter College, was admitted Bachelor in Medicine, with licence to practise. Yesterday, Mr. H. E. Wall was admitted Fellow of...

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THE MONEY MARKET.

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&rota ETCHANGE, FRIDAY Evezeixo.—The fears which we hinted in cihr last report have unhappily been more than realized ; and the state of things here is greatly worse than we...

THE ARMY.

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WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 2, 1830.-4th Regt. of Dragoon Guards : Cornet T. S. Pix to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Colquhoun, who retires ; A.. D. Tait, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. at North Runcton, Lady HARRIET GURNEY, of a daughter. On the 28th ult. at White Roothing Rectory, Mrs. Hest RV BUDD, of a daughter. On the 30th ult. at...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Protector. Bragg, from London, was driven on shore at Saugur, in a heavy gale, on the 25th of June, and has arrived at Calcutta with five feet of water in her hold. The...

THE CHUICH.

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• Pursuant to his Majesty's conga' d'aire, the Very Rev. Dean and Rev. Chapter uj Bangor assembled in the . Chapter-house of the Cathedral on Thursday last, and elected the...

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S. NEWS. seToonAw. Two (Pavel. . The

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mail from Carthagena has , brought letters from Bogota to the 28th of August. That city had been disturbed for the preceding fort. night by the approach of a military force (the...

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Among the alarming on dits of the week, is the

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discovery of corresponding societies in Cumberland, and the congregation of one hundred and twenty-seven deputies of the people in London on Wednesday night. It is said they...

REPRESENTATION OF PROPERTY.

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THE Duke of WELLINGTON says, or implies, that property alone gives a title to political power; but the Duke does not explain what he means by property. Land is property, and the...

ODD COINCIDENCES.

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THE Ultras in France commenced by an attack on the press; un- able from weakness to face the Chamber of Deputies, they dis- solved it, and a new assembly made their opponents...

We gise,in another place, a minute, and,we can pledge our

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credit on the assertion, a true account of the death of the late most excellent amd amiable Lord BLANTYR31. It has been drawn up by a gentle- 'than .of unquestioned honour and...

Lord GREY, in adverting to Parliamentary reform on Tuesday, said

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the people had no abstract right to a share in the management of the state; and that, in consequence, if a limitation of the fran- chise were better than an extension, the...

It seems to be universally admitted by the House of

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Commons, that the repeal of the Union between Ireland and England would be eminently mischievous, and beyond measure absurd. Yet on Tuesday night there was a cry from all sides...

The Brunswickers have declined opposing the Anti-Unionists. They plead, that

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the Liberals having encouraged agitation in order to effect Catholic Emancipation, must be content to deal with its' issue—agitation, to effect the repeal. The Globe will have...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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IN the City, a failure of considerable importance was reported yesterday—a result of 'the ambiguously warlike language of the King's Speech. It is very generally admitted, that...

OFFICIAL IGNORANCE.

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Trim part of the King's Speech which relates to Belgium may be safely pronounced as written by one of very imperfect information respecting that country. It implies a...

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THE ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

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" quantte putatis esse vos dementies, Qui capita vestra non dubitatis credere, Cui caicandos nemo commisit pedes 1" Er Sutere Medieus, PHA:WRVS. p had the aristocratical...

" NO POLICE l "

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SEEMS at present the popular rallying-cry, and it is not unworthy of those who raise it. It is the fashion of the people of England to strain at gnats and swallow camels....

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LORD BURGHERSH'S OPERA.

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LAST night we were present at a dress rehearsal, in the Opera -Concert Room, of Lord BURGHERSH'S new opera, Catherine, or $1se AustrianSoptive,:ipeKormed by the pupils of the...

LITERARY SPECTATOR..

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THE WATER WITCH.* THE Water Witch is own sister to the Red Rover; they who have read one may save themselves the pains of perusing the other. The sea, and nothing but the sea,...

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THE LATE LORD BLANTYRE.

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Tins amiable and lamented nobleman, who met his death so tragically at Brussels, was born at Edinburgh in the year 1775. He lost his father when he was only eight years of age ;...

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FINE ARTS.

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Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels. Part VII. The plates in the present number are all excellent. STANFIELD gives us a new and striking view of Edinburgh Castle ;...

Blue Devils, or New Police ; with Cuts.

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• The first and last of the cuts in this pointless brochure are extremely clever, and worthy of a better fate than to illustrate a laboured attempt at a j oke, the merit of...

" 0 where haat thou been roaming ;" a Cavatina.

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Written and composed.brhirs. C. B. WILSON. This song is fashioned after the likeness of " I've been roaming," and will serve to renew our recollections of that very pleasing...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANNUALS, No. IV. THE KEEPSAKE.

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Tins annual maintains its supremacy in the beauty of its embellish- ments, which is not less owing to the perfection of the engravings than to the selection of subjects: the...

"Her cheek was of the rose's dye ;" a Ballad.

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By C. M. SOLA. A tolerably pretty ballad, which few young ladies will find any diffi. culty either in playing or singing. As the verses are printed at length, Mr. SOLA might as...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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Sin—I perceive, in your paper of the 25th September, that you have noticed a plate designed by Mr. GILL and engraved by C. ROLLS. As you have thought the plate worth noticing, I...

National Portrait Gallery. No. XIX.

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The portraits in this number are those of Lord Goderich, Mr. Agar Ellis, and Professor Porson : they are not only well engraved, but accurate likenesses. That of Mr. Agar Ellis,...

" God preserve the King:' For four Voices. By E.

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CRUSE. This loyal hymn is rather a work of supererogation. Where any thing of this kind is needed, either at theatres, concerts, or dinners, " God save the King" will be...

" Well I remember that meeting ;" a Song. By

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C. E. HORN. We imagine that Mr. HORN had this pretty lively air lying in his portfolio, when Mr. THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY'S lachrymose ditty was sent to him for arrangement, and...

Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments. Part III.

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Every successive number of this curious work presents us with some novel and striking specimen of the quaint devices and brilliant combi- nations of colour contained in the...

ARTISTS' AND AMATEURS' CONVERSAZIONE.

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WE had the gratification of being present at the first meeting for the season of this society, at Freemasons' Tavern. Sir M. A. SHEE, P.R.A., who had been elected an...

MUSI C.

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Our opinion of this most elaborate and admirable work was given on its first publication in an entire form. It is now republished in parts ; a judicious arrangement, as it will...

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" Mary ; " a Ballad. By T. H. SEVERN.

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Mr. SEVERN again !—two songs last week, and another this. Well, we are not disposed to quarrel with him on the present occasion. There is true feeling, originality, and talent...

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS AT GUILDHALL.

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THE Corporation of London must possess some members of their body capable of guiding their musical taste. Whatever of this kind they pro- duce is sure to he good. Their band is...

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FURTHER ILLUSTRATED.

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TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 7, Upper Gloucester Street, NovemberS, 1830. Sin—I feel so persuaded that the cause of Reform will be materially benefited by your plan of the...

" The hour of meeting; " a Ballad ; and

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" Oh sing again the melody." By S. NELSON. The first of these ballads is an agreeable melody, within the range of most singers. The second is in the style of " Oh no, we never...

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A correspondent, who states that he was born, and has

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lived all his lifetime, at Hedon, informs us that Mr. FARRAND, the Member, has been chosen as freely and independently as any Member of the House of Commons. He states, that Mr....

GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

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Sin—The very kind manner in which you were pleased to notice my letter in your paper of the 23rd instant, demands my grateful acknow- ledgments. I inn afraid, however, it has...

THE STATE OF KENT.

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November 4, 1830. I DEAR SPECTATOR — Our little parish still continues in the greatest !state of excitement. If the dogs bark, we fly to our fire-arms ; if the kitchen-chimney...

SHORT SPEECHES.

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MR. SPECTATOR—TO the numerous plans which have been sags gested for expediting the public business in the House of Commons, allow me to add another—that of restraining, by law,...