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The news from Spain, which has lately been so copious
The Spectatorand interesting, is this week very scanty. The Austrian, Neapolitan, and Sardinian agents at Madrid, have received orders to leave that city. The Spanish Ministry will be the...
The English squadron in the Tagus is to be reinforced
The Spectatorby another ship of the line, which was to leave Falmouth yesterday. The French fleet under Admiral HUGON, consisting of five sail of the line, has been ordered to sail for Lisbon.
It is generally believed in Germany and France, that Russia
The Spectatoris preparing to attack Turkey in the spring. An article in the Allgemeine Zeitung, directing attention to the armaments of Russia, and to the facility of invading Turkey from...
The King of' Prussia has recently issued ordinances, of a
The Spectatorpersecuting nature, against the Jews, which have given great dissatisfaction to his more enlightened subjects. The King is said to be affected with a religious mysticism, that...
From intelligence received by an arrival at Falmouth from Jamaica,
The Spectatorit appears that the House of Assembly of Antigua is very indignant at a despatch of Lord GLENELG, lecturing the House for misbehaving itself in a dispute with their Governor on...
frbt Court.
The SpectatorTHE King arrived in town from Windsor Castle soon after one o'clock on Wednesday, to hold a Court at St. James's Palace. Sir Stamford Whittingham kissed hands on his appointment...
Etc IlletropoTti.
The SpectatorMessrs. Tamlyn and Falconer, the Revising Barristers for. Fins 4 bury, will hold their first court on Monday week. It is in contemplation to petition the King in Council for...
At Bow Street, on Saturday, Joseph Gomez, a Spaniard, was
The Spectatorexamined on a charge of being the person who put the fulminating powder into the letters for the Havannah, which occasioned the explosion at the Liverpool Post-office. An...
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Soon after five o'clock on Wednesday morning, a fire broke
The Spectatorout in the Boys' School of the London University. It was newly six.before any engines arrived, and then it was too late to save the school-house, which was full of wooden...
tat Cumin).
The SpectatorEight hundred Liberals of Halifax gave their Member, Mr. Charles Wood, and their unsuccessful candidate, Mr. Protheroe ; a public dinner on the 30th ultimo. There was no room in...
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On the 30th September, the members of the Birmingham Loyal
The Spectatorand Constitutional Society held a meeting at Dee's Royal Hotel, in Birmingham, to consult upon the measures necessary to counteract the efforts of the Reformers in North...
The Master in Chancery, who has to make the order
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In the published list of game certificates for the county
The Spectatorof Derby, there are twenty-two names with Reverend attached to them ; and in the Yorkshire list there are ninety-one ! The Bishop of Exeter held a visitation at Liskeard on...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe new Lord Mayor of Dublin was installed in his office on the 30th of September. As usual there was an address from Mr. Recorder Shaw, and a reply from the Lord-Lieutenant,...
The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Post complains that Mr.
The SpectatorSpring Rice is about to make a clearing out of all the Orangemen in the Chief Secretary's office. We hope that there is good ground for the complaint. A very considerable...
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We mentioned last week, that a Mr. Moore had been
The Spectatortrying to get up a Delany disturbance in Tuatn ; and that Mr. Kirwan, a Magistrate, Lad been complained of by him to the Lord-Lieutenant, who intimated his disapprobation to Mr....
The writs of rebellion are now found to be totally
The Spectatorinefficacious in collecting tithes, except from the more comfortable farmers, who constitute about one-tenth of the number of recusants.—Correspondent of the Courier. It seems...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe requisition to Lord Brougham to attend a public dinner in Edinburgh received several hundred signatures of Liberals of all shades, and by this time his Lordship has...
The appeals from the Registration Courts of Mid-Lothian and Linlithgow
The Spectatorwere heard out on Tuesday ; and though the Liberal interest has rather lost in Linlithgowshire, we are happy to say it is still on the ascendant in the metropolitan county,...
glicrIlattrouS.
The SpectatorThe King held a Council at St. James's Palace on Wednesday, and prorogued Parliament from the 20th of October to the 6th of December next. Lord Lyndhurst is gone to Paris ;...
If Lord Brougham, in honesty and simpleness of heart, returns
The Spectatorto devote to the cause of Reform his restless activity and powerful oratory, none will be more ready to welcome and praise him than ourselves. Most gladly will we allow "bygones...
Colonel Maberley, the successor of Sir Francis Fieeling, has returned
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Lord John Russell and his lady have been passing some time at Tunbridge Wells.
The SpectatorLord Ponsonby has availed himself of leave of absence, and Mr. Urquhart is to replace him, ad interim, at Constantinople.—.Seabian Mercury. The Duchess of Gordon still remains...
Madame Malibran's funeral took place on Saturday, at the Collegiate
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The tent prepared for the King of the French at
The SpectatorCompiegne is one of the sumptuous follies of Marshall Soult. It costs nearly 400,000 francs (16,000/. sterling)! It required sixteen horses to convey it to Coinpiegne, and every...
THE ARM
The SpectatorWAR-OFFICE, OCT. 7.—ist Regt. of Foot—Lieut. W. L. Stewart, from the 57th Foot to be Lieut. vice Sheppard, who exchanges. 18th Foot—Assist:Sorg. G. Dolmage, from the 88th Foot,...
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The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGH The Quarter's Revenue, which will be made up on the 10th instant, will exhibit a considtrable increase in the Excise, Customs, Stampst and Post-office, as compared...
Don CARLOS is said to have rejected the advice of
The Spectatorthe Russian and German Sovereigns, to publish an amnesty, and renounce all intention of restoring the Inquisition. The agents of those powers, says the Morning Chronicle, have...
"We tell Prince Metternich plainly that the Conservatives of Great
The SpectatorBritain and Ireland look to hint, and to him more especially, for a very different line of Papal policy from that which has lately been pursued. The peace of Ireland and the...
The post this morning brings us news of the Movement in a letter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We give an extract
The Spectator" An important meeting will be held at Newcastle next Tuesday evening. The object of its promoters, who are the leaders of the Liberal and preponderating party here, is to...
Mr. ROBERT WALLACE met his constituents at Greenock on Monday
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MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The extreme pressure upon the Money Market was considerably relieved in the early part of the week ; and although money was still in demand in...
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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorArrivedAt Gravesend, October 6th, Janet. Bergh, from Ceylon ; and Cherub Walker. from Singapore. on the Wight. 6th, Mangles, Carr, front Ben g al. Off Falmouth, 4th, Columbian....
A NEW BANK IN INDIA.
The SpectatorTHE establishment of a Bank in India has for some time been contemplated by many of the leading merchants in this country, who in May last issued a prospectus of the proposed...
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THE THEATRES
The SpectatorTHE _ . Covent Garden season has now begun in reality. MaciteaDv and l'annEst have joined the company, and tl.e shole stTength—or weakness father—of its resources fur...
SYMPTOMS OF TORY ALARM LEST TIIE WHIG-RADICAL UNION SHOULD BE RESTORED ON A NEW BASIS.
The Spectator[Fragm, nts from the Times ; whhh greeted to dismiss Mr. Henry Bulicer's Pamphlet. on Tuesday. as hardly worthy notice. but continued ciratiny to the chord which it...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY,
The SpectatorLORD MELBOURNE AND LORD BROUGHAM. Tsui sayings of such insignificant politicians as Sir GEORGE GREY and Mr. CHARLES WOOD can be of no importance, except as these subordinate...
STATE OF THE TURNPIKE TRUSTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
The SpectatorTHE country gentlemen of England have had the making and management of turnpike-roads throughout the kingdom. By their influence Acts of Parliament have been obtained; the...
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THE CHURCH IN THE THREE KINGDOMS.
The SpectatorGIBBON, in his latter and alarmist days, defended the Portuguese Inquisition, declaring that he would not give up even that old establishment. Contemporary Tories act on...
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LIVERPOOL FESTIVAL.
The SpectatorEVERY third year the Festivals of Norwich, Worcester, and Liverpool recur, and in the same order; an unfortunate one as far as regards Liverpool. We start with the noble and...
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PROSPERITY AND DEMOCRACY IN SWITZERLAND.
The SpectatorIN two former notices of Dr. BOWRI NG'S Report on the Commerce and Manufactures of Switzerland, we drew attention to the _general prosperity of that country, and the rapid...
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THE ECONOMICAL PROGRESS OF THE NATION.
The SpectatorTHE object of this work is to state the facts connected with the general economical condition of society, so as to point out in what particulars we have advanced, retrograded,...
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TWELVE MONTHS IN THE BRITISH LEGION.
The SpectatorTHE author of this lively and agreeable little volume saw the first, and, so far as appearances go, pretty well the last of the British Legion. He arrived with the earliest...
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THE DESULTORY MAN.
The SpectatorTus greater part of the e volumes consists of reprints of Magazine articles and Annual tales, hitched into.a story that forms the framework of the whole and gives the book its...
PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
The SpectatorVALPY'S History of England is now completed, by the publication of the Twenty-first Volume. It is a large undertaking; embracing the English annals from the first arrival of...
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Dr. LANTCARPENTER'S Dissertations, published, or as we suspect republished from
The Spectatoran American edition, by LONGNIAN, are occupied with four subjects. (1.) An exam ination[of the evidence touching the Bipaschal, Tripaschal, and Quadripaschal systems,—or, in...
The Marriage and Registration Acts are as intelligible as most
The Spectatorof the Statutes at Large to the unlearned leader,—that is to say, be will find considerable difficulty in ascertaining the real meaning and effect even of the plainest clauses....
A glance at the label " Cobbett's English Housekeeper," led
The Spectatorus to take up a thick duodecimo volume expecting to find something in the style of Cottage Economy, and by the same author, but adapted to the use of comfortable families in...
The Reverend J. R. MAJOR'S Guide to the Reading of
The Spectatorthe Greek Tragedians, is a judicious selection from first-rate writers upon the Grecian Drama, indispensable to those who wish either to study the original authors, or to...
The plan of the Grammatical Spelling-Book is to combine time
The Spectatorstudy of orthography with that of grammar; which, besides a grammar introductory to the vocabularies, is effected by arranging the words of the spelling-lessons themselves in...
The Seventh Volume of SOUTHEY'S Couper concludes his beautiful Letters,
The Spectatorwhich bring the poet before us in the dishabille of his study, and show .the very heart of the man, with all its affectionateness and melancholy misgivings. The next three...
Vandeleur, or Animal Magnetism, is a novel in three volumes,
The Spectatorapparently by a new hand; ar,a displays more of the rawness of immaturity than the freshness of youth. The characters have neither strength, truth, nor individuality : what they...
The lays of Poland are eight rhapsodies on a hackneyed
The Spectatorsubject, whicti the author has not genius enough to invest with novelty and interest, or skill enough to handle with effect. The Lays, in short, 'oelong to the class of...
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FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANNUALS. JENNINGS'S Landscape Annual is already in the field. The "Spanish Tour" of DAVID ROBERTS does not abate a jot of its interest or picturesveness....
The Illustrations of Friendship's Offering are pretty enough as a
The Spectatorset of embellishments for a book ; but viewed as specimens of art, their merit is slender. The two scenic pictures are the best. A Claude-like sunrise over the sea in a...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorOn the 1st inst., at Leamiugton, the Lady of ROBERT &multi, Esq., M.P., of Alder ston, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Downton House, Radnorshire, the Lady of Sir W. S. R. COON*...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Tuesday, Oct. 4.
The SpectatorPARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Onion and Soden, Coventry,mallsters-Fidkin and Uriderwooa, Oxford Street, tailors —Scottford and Wright, Church Street. Hackney, grocers—Gunther and...