15 MAY 1841

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE debate on the question of reducing the Foreign Sugar-duties, according to the Budget proposition of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, has been protracted for six nights,...

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Debates an Vrocerbinas in parliament.

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THE BUDGET RESOLUTIONS. The debate in the House of Commons on the motion to go into a Committee of the whole House to consider the first of Mr. Baring's Budget resolutions,...

But that the time has passed for caring about minorities

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or majo- rities, Ministers would have to deplore the loss of a sixth vote within six months : a Tory, Mr. HAMILTON LINDSAY, has been returned for Sandwich, in the room of the...

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kkl i19 7aA Zbe Metropolis.

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On Friday, the Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment to the Judges, at the Mansionhouse. Amongst the guests were the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Chief...

Vat Tourt.

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Coiner ceremonials and state business appear to have occupied the Queen this week, at some expense of out-door exercise, which her Majesty has not taken so regularly as usual....

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The nomination of candidates for the seat vacant by the

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death of Sir Rufane Donkin took place at Sandwich, on Monday. As usual, the contest was preluded by divers grave charges preferred by each party against the other. The Whigs...

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SCOTLAND.

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"it is stated in certain quarters," says the Glasgow Argus of Monday, "that the communications opened up by the Nonintrusionists of this city with the Dean of Faculty are likely...

ItlistEllantous.

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The Queen Dowager has sent to the Reverend T. Bridges a donation of 251. towards the erection of a cathedral in the capital of Newfound land. The King of Hanover has...

IRELAND.

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A " preparatory meeting" was held lately at Gresham's Hotel, in order to make arrangements for a general meeting of the citizens of Dablin to petition the Queen to visit the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Contrary to general expectation, no division took place last night on the Sugar-duties motion ; but the debate was again adjourned, on the sixth mght.. Before...

The Board of Directors and Guardians of Marylebone parish met

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yesterday, and petitioned against the Corn-laws. There was a public meeting at Wandsworth, for the same purpose, on Thursday evening. The Chartists interfered at this meeting ;...

Sir Charles Napier has issued an address to the electors

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of Maryle- bone. He advocates short Parliaments, ballot, corn-law repeal, and national education. The Tories of Bradford intend to put forward Mr. John Hardy and Mr. Gregory...

Lord Melbourne had an audience of the Queen today, and

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then attended a Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office. All the other Ministers were present. It was at first supposed that the Court would go down to Windsor today. Now it is...

By the Report of the Select Committee of the House

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of Commons on Public Petitions, brought down to the 7th May, it appears that the pe- titions presented —for Repeal of Corn-Laws, are 344, the signatures 126,755; against,...

Among the unavoidable postponements forced upon us by the exigencies

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of the time, we ought particularly to mention a notice of the Old Water Colour Exhibition, In the latest edition of our journal on the 24th April. we gave a slight account of...

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Accounts from Havannah of the 15th of April, state that

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sixty-two Negroes from Jamaica, believed to be Abolitionist emissaries, had effected a landing on the south side of Cuba. Thirty of them had been arrested and ordered to be shot.

The Great Western steam-ship arrived at Liverpool at eight o'clock

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last evening, having left New York at two o'clock on the 1st instant. The news she brings is unimportant. President Tyler seems to preserve the confidence of the late Presi-...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, May 9th, Earl Hardwicke, Henning, from Bengal; and Parry, from the Cape; 11th. W. Jardine, Crosbie, from Bengal; and Wellington, Henrich, from Madras;...

Captain Hosken, the commander of the British Queen, gives a

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for- midable account of the ice which he encountered in the outward passage. On the 18th of April he got entangled, and was an hour and a half en- deavouring to extricate...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. In Hamilton Place, the Countess of Rooms, of a daughter. On the 26th of February last, at Kotaghy, the Lady of the Lord Bishop of MADRAS, of a daughter. On the 13th...

In Canada, the proposed reduction of the Timber-duties was creating

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some alarm and opposition.

Madrid letters of the 6th state that the Queen of

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Spain is seriously indisposed. An insurrection in the neighbourhood of Moscow proves to be a more serioni affair than was at first supposed. Large bodies of troops have been...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK RECHARGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The business of the week has been unimportant ; only two bargains of con- sequence having occurred, the one a sale by the broker of the...

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THE ENGLISH THEATRES.

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NEITHER the Haymarket nor Covent Garden has brought out any novelty this week : and the only change desired by the benefit-takers at the latter is the occasional substitution of...

MADEMOISELLE RACHEL, THE FRENCH TRAGIC ACTRESS.

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THE first appearance in London of Mademoiselle RACHEL, the extra- ordinary young actress who stepped at once to the summit of histrionic greatness in Paris, and the inspiration...

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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH THE BUDGET.

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Is our last number we endeavoured to strip the financial prriet announced by Ministers of the deceptive colouring which par- tisan seal sought to throw around it. The proper...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHAT IS COMING. Tams are some persons among us who have persuaded themselves, or seek to persuade others, that the Reform Bill constitution can adz be worked by its inventors....

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THE NEW NONINTRUSION BILL.

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THE Duke of ARGYLE'S attempt to compose the differences existing between the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts in Scotland, like that of Lord ABERDEEN, is certain to prove...

THE SPECTATOR IN CHINA.

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THE readers of the Spectator ought to know who has been of their party : no less a person than the Chinese Imperial Commissioner LIN has sought wisdom from its pages ; though,...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ISTOGRAPIIY. Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. By Lamau Blanchard. In 2 vols....Co/bens. "Tasvaxa, Sketches of China ; partly during an Inland Journey of Four Months,...

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DAVIS'S SKETCHES OF CHINA.

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THE interest just now attached to every thing connected with China has caused the present publication, since the more original part of it, the journey through the interior from...

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PAMPHLETS ON THE FINANCE AND CORN QUESTION. NONE but perhaps

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the authors are unreasonable enough to imagine that we can find room for reviewing one half of the pamphlets which flow in upon us weekly, though we record their arrival, for...

MR. PARKIN ON GOUT.

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EXCEPTING perhaps indigestion, which affects so many respectable people, few disorders have excited more attention than gout ; as its attack popularly implies a person wealthy...

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MUSIC.

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A Mass pr fice roices, by WILLIAM BYRD ; composed between the years 1553 and 1558 ; now first printed in Score. SOME time since we announced the formation of the Musical...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, May 11.-5th Regt. Drag. Guards—Lient. W. B. Knipe to be Capt. by purchase, vice Colquitt, who retires ; Cornet W. Barnett to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Knipe; J....

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, May 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Heaton and Co. Bishopsgate Street, wholesale druggists; as far as regards R. Thompson—Hopwood and Hankin, Kingston-upon-Hull....

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. \Saturday 4fonday. (Closing Tuesday. Prices.) Wedges. Thurs. Friday. S per Cent. Consols ■ 894 891 891 891 891 891 Ditto for Account 90 891 891 891 894 894 3...