6 OCTOBER 1838

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Registration in England proceeds as it began—favourably for the Tories, adversely for the Liberals. We look in vain for the record of Liberal gains in town or country. The...

The Paris Ministerial journals have been at pains to persuade

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the public that the quarrel with Switzerland is entirely at an end, and that the most friendly relations between the two countries would be immediately reestablished....

Ministers have one " Irish question " left, which Mr.

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O'CON- NELL may without danger, if' with little profit, use as the basis of his new agitation. Municipal Reform is yet to be granted to Ireland ; and accordingly, in a letter to...

The average price of wheat for the six weeks ending

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September 28th, having again fallen to 68s. 7d., the duty at present is 16s. 8d. s quarter. The decline in the average price is assumed by the Standard as a proof that persons...

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Very extensive preparations have been made by Russia for car-

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rying on the war in Circassia. It is said that the Circassians com- mitted great cruelties on the Russian sailors, wrecked on their coast, during the severe storm in the Black...

The first operation of the Act for the Abolition of

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Imprisonment for Debt would appear to have had very little effect in diminishing the number of inmates in prisons devoted to that purpose. Only about 30 prisoners have yet been...

Vie SittrapaIii.

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The election of a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing took place on Saturday, at a Common Hall. Alderman Wilson and Sir Chapman Marshall were returned by the Livery to the Court of...

The retreat of ESPARTERO from Estella has been followed by

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other disasters. The Carlists passed the Ebro, and sacked the town of Amedo, some distance south of the river; carrying off all the respectable females of the place. ALAIX also...

Accounts to the 26th of August have been received from

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Jamaica. It is stated in the West Indian, published at Spanish Town in that island, that the Planters have " served notices of ejectment on almost the entire mass of the...

In the Revising Barristers' Court, held in London for the

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Middles sex list, Mr. Coppock's name, which had been struck off the register, was restored; the evidence on which it had been expunged being pro. nounced insufficient, on...

Clio Court.

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THE Queen continues to enjoy excellent health at Windsor. On Sun- day, her Majesty attended divine service in St. George's Chapel. She was "attired," says the Court chronicler,...

The Metropolis has not declared in favour of the People's

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Charter. The pulse was felt, but it beat calmly ; and is healthful indifference as to this itinerant agitation is a symptom that the disease is at present confined to the...

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The Leeds Intelligencer says that at eight out of twenty-seven

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placer in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the Tory gain, on the claims and ob- jections, is 458 votes. The Leeds Mercury states that the registration has not materially affected...

Ab e Country.

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There was a meeting of the working classes at Plymouth on Mon- day. According to a Tory statement, the numbers present amounted to two thousand persons; but we have as yet seen...

N ea rly one hundred horses, part the property of Mr. Chaplin,

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the aten siee coach.proprietor, were sold on Tuesday, by Mr. Dixon, at ki s Repository in Barbican. They had been employed to convey the poramenth, Southampton, and Exeter...

A party of five hundred Tories assembled at Kettering, in

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North- amptonshire, on Wednesday, to meet the Earl of Cardigan, who, as Lord Brudenell, represented the county in Parliament, and welcome him on his return from India to take...

It is well known that the late Mr. Robert Nicoll,

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editor of the Leeds Times, was compelled by severe illness to abandon his professional It is well known that the late Mr. Robert Nicoll, editor of the Leeds Times, was compelled...

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A Mr. John Hampton ascended in a parachute attached to

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a bal. loon, from the Montpelier Gardens, Cheltenham, on Wednesday even- ing. In a letter to the Cheltenham Chronicle, Mr. Hampton says, that having reached the height of 9,000...

IRELAND.

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A letter from Mr. O'Connell to his " constituents " appears in the Pilot of Wednesday. It commences with a congratulatory paragraph on the near approach of the renewal of the...

By the recent demise of the Reverend Job Walker Baugh,

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Chancel- lor of the diocese of Bristol, the following Church preferments have become vacant ; the Vicarage of Diddlebury, Salop, worth 900/. per annum. in the patronage of the...

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The place-hunters in Dublin are engaged in an amusing squabble.

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Numerous as the recent creations of offices have been, they are nothing like sufficient to appease the craving of the cormorant " Liberals" who beset the Castle. An unfounded...

On Thursday last, a rule was entered before the proper

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officer at the Equity side of the Dublin Court of Exchequer, dismissing a bill with- out costs, in which the Reverend Richard Deane Freeman, of the county of Cork, was...

The Dublin Pilot chooses to call Mr. Ashton Yates's letter

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" con- vincing," and to assert that be makes out " a conclusive and unanswer- able case" for the Irish Liberal Members. The Pilot, however, takes are not to give our commentary...

The new Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Hoytc, was installed,

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on Monday, with the usual solemnities. Mr. Recorder Shaw, in the course of his annual oratioa, intimated his opinion that corporations might now be dispensed with- " During...

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SCOTLAND.

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We are happy to learn from the best authority, that the registration tie Fifeshire has not been unfavourable to the Liberals, who support elm gaunt and independent Captain...

Vi3eount Duncannon hue been appuilited Lieuteneet of tlu comity

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eiri city of uney, in the room of the late Marquis of ( )intend; rid the Ifunoureble Jelin George Biala sun Poesoliee, Lieut. m u tt of " County of Carlow, in the room of...

The Tory papers in Ireland and in London have been

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stuffing their oolumns with a report of a meeting of Tipperary Magistrates, in which Lord Glengall figured as the principal personage. Some months ago, a complaint of the "state...

On Tuesday, about one o'clock, whilst the Coburg coach, on

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it'll! from Perth to Edinburgh, was receiving the passengers and Wee from the steamer at Newhalls Pier, South Queensferry, the leak suddenly wheeled round; and notwithstanding...

The name of Mr. John Deneistoun, M.P., was struck out

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of the of Directors at the recent exhibition of the highland Society in scour : Lord William Beritinek, M. P., was treated with such marked eeetect, that, although he came to...

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Tuesday's Gazette announces that Mr. John Ralph Milbanke, now Secretary

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to the Embassy at St. Petersburg, is to take the same office at Vienna; Mr. Henry Bulwer to go from Constantinople to St. Petersburg ; Mr. Charles Bankhead to leave Washington...

Lord Maryborough, brother of the Duke of Wellington, is appointed

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to the Captaincy of Deal Castle, vacant by the decease of Lord Car- rington. The office is in the Duke's gift. Mr. Law has been selected from the numerous candidates for the...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. lit RT II S. lit RT

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II S. On the 30th ult., at Brighton, Lady G RAHAM, Of a son. On the 29th ult , the Lady of ADRIAN )fore, Carlton Gardens, of a son. On the 231 ult., at Leamington, the lion,...

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It is really time that public writers left off the habit of misrepre- senting and misquoting the arguments of opponents, for the sake of a dishonourable advantage, which can...

If the present follies are continued in Newfoundland, it will

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be mercy to the colony to suspend the functions of the House of Assembly until the angry passions shall have subsided, and reason shall have resumed her sway; the blessings of a...

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It appears certain, from articles in the Journal des Debits

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and aurrier Francais, that the " free and independent Republic of Cracow " iia to he extinguished, and its territory incorporated with the Russian empire.

EAST INDIA SIIII'l'ING.

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Arrived—Off the Wight, Oct. 1, Sesostris, Yates. for lIcantsl. Off Poole, 5th, '.Very aml Juur, Stewart, from the Calif!. OR t h e Start, 31, W. Ilatrib, 'retry, from New...

DRURY Lane opened on Monday. The piece chosen for the

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es e mencement of the season, the aspect of the "house hill" d - ", : ' state of the company, indicate the Manager's design to rend op t and spectacle the attractions at this...

POSTSCRI PT.

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SATURDAY. The French papers are bare of interesting matter. In Paris, an approaching election for the First Arrondissement causes a stir. The Ministerial candidate is General...

Some apprehension having been entertained at Madrid, that a sufficient

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military force was not left to defend the capital, the Minister of War, on the 26th of September, convoked a meeting of the officers of the National Guard and the garrison, to...

The Olympic, on the opening night, showed but too evident

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sYrt1)- be absence of VESTILIS, in the thinness of the audience,—a tom- 4 of t sual, that the company appeared dispirited by the unpro- sigb. t o me n en The sin g in g of " dm...

A Scotch correspondent, who " lays little stress on public

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meetings, atilt their acclamations," but is well acquainted with the " undercur- rent" of public feeling in North Britain, informs us that there is scarcely a village in the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK It:Mtn/Nair, Penney ASTP177#001S. The business of the week has been very trifling; and the fluctuation of Consols and the other English Funds has not exceeded A per cent....

THE THEATRES.

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THE opening of three principal theatres, and the first appearance this season of the leading tragedian at a fourth, would seem to furnish abundant matter for remark ; but,...

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THE BAYADERES.

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Ter: appearance of " the Bayaderes " on the Adelphi sta g e, and in a piece &occasion di g nified with the title of a drama, does not in the least affect their performances,...

KNOwl.Es'S new play is advertised at the Haymarket for Tuesday ;

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which, as it is the anniversary of the production of the Love Chase, will most likely be adhered to. Its title is The Maid of Mariendorpt ; and the author acts a F art.

MACREADY was hailed on Monday, as Hamlet, even more warmly

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than he was as mana g er on the op • g ni g ht. It is worth riotin g , as a proof of Maces:woe's popularity, that YATES was hissed for mimickin g him in the farcical piece A...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE " GOOD" PEOPLE. WHATEVER other results may flow from the great popular de ni strations which political events frin time to time call forth, thilY never seem to have the...

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THE IRISH POLICY.

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Trans is a very general impression that " the Irish questions " Bare had their day as rallying-cries of party. The Whig Tithe Bill minus the Appropriation, offers strong...

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LORD JOHN RUSSELL IN LIVERPOOL.

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A PATENT of nobility is commonly a passport to the favour of the good people of Liverpool. Ceeierts paribus. at an election, a lord or the relation of a lord, has a far better...

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FAGOT" VOTES: EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE. Ir is not safe

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po op enfranchise the masses, .say the Whigs, because they have no prerty : their actual deficiency in intelligence and edu cation would be compensated by the favourable...

PREVENTION OF DUELLING.

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A GREAT deal of excellent morality has been written this week on the subject of' duelling. Nobody attempts a defence of' the prac- tice; though the Globe, by an impudent...

PROGRESS OF THE IRISH RAILWAY JOB.

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WILL the persons who have undertaken the defence of the Irish Railway Conimiesioners, and evidently writs from briefs draw out in Dublin, publish the authority under which the...

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BENTHAM.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sta—As an old follower of BENTHAM, who have not yet turned into "a Cole. ridgian Tory," I beg your indulgence for some remarks on the article...

STEAM NAVIGATION.

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TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Liverpool, 1st October l93a. SIR—The successful establishment of a most rapid communication between England and America, induces me to offer for...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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POLITICAL ECONoNT, A History of Prices, and of the State of the Circulation, Shorn 1793 to 1837: pro- ceded by a brief Sketch of the State of the Corn Trade in the last Twn...

The Bishop of Durham presided at a dinner of the

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British Asso- ciation, and took the opportunity of introducing to the notice of the company the claims of u lady, Mrs. Taylor, " a handsome woman, and well dressed too," as the...

TOOKE'S HISTORY OF PRICES.

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THE leisure of a dull autumn has enabled us to bostow an atten- tion upon this valuable work, which it would have been vain to attempt giving on its first appearance, during the...

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NICHOL'S PHCE110MENA OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

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ALTHOUGH appearing second in point of time, this volume, which treats of our own planetary system, is in reality a precursor of the Architecture of the Heavens, that, travelling...

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LORD BROUGHAM'S POLITICAL CHARACTERS.

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IT appears that Sir HERBERT TAYLOR published a pamphlet in reply to the celebrated article on the " Times of George the Third and George the Fourth," in the Spring Number of the...

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MODEL OF TRY BATTLE OF WATERLOO. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.

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NOTHING is more difficult than to give persons not conversant with mi. litary matters a clear idea of a battle, whether by means of plans, de. scriptions, or pictures, or all...

FINE ARTS.

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THE GUILDHALL AND CORONATION MEDALS: WYON AND PISTRUCCI. Tait fame ef the "Guildhall Medal" made us anxious to see it ; and it having been engraved by Mr. WILLIAM WYON, the...