16 JANUARY 1841

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The French cannot exist without some warlike food for their

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daily thoughts. While there was peace—actual, not armed peace- - between France and Europe, she could find nothing better to stay her appetite thap a little peddling war with...

The Turco-Egyptian question is said, though not as yet upon

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unquestionable authority, to be really settled. If reports which, originating in Vienna, have been repeated in the German, Belgian, and French papers, are to be believed, the...

The Douro question seems to remain in abeyance at Madrid.

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At the date of the last accounts, stormy weather on the Tagns had prevented communication with Lisbon ; and nothing certain had transpired since the acceptance of British...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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fixed upon, and the Ministerial papers make the momentous an- nouncement. Lord BRABAZON and Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY have - agreed to propose and support a document of which they...

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Two or three packet-ships have arrived during the week from

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the United States, with the President's message to Congress. Though not so long as usual, it is unusually dull and uninstruc- tive. The larger portion is occupied with a sort of...

Ebt itletropolis.

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At a Court of Aldermen, held on Monday last, Plough Monday, to receive the presentments from the Ward Inquests, the Common Coun- cilmen of the Tower Ward appeared at the bar...

/Eta Court.

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THERE has been little company at Windsor Castle this week. Whilst the frost lasted, the Queen accompanied Prince Albert to the lake at Frogmore Lodge, to witness the skating,...

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t2G be robintts.

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A vacancy has occurred in the representation of Reigate, owing to the elevation of Lord Eastnor to the House of Peers, by the death of Earl Somers. Mr. Ryves D'Arcy is busily...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Lord Advocate was entertained on Friday at a public dinner, by about two hundred of the electors of Leith. Provost White presided ; and among the guests, were the Honourable...

IRELAND.

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The names of forty-four Noblemen, forty-four Members of the House of Commons, and ten Roman Catholic Bishops, were attached to the requisition for calling the meeting of...

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liaiSfi1l1neous.

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The following circular has been addressed by Lord John Russell to the supporters of Government in the House of Commons- - Downing Street. 23 January MIL i nstant, I Sir—The...

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There will be a Cabinet Council this afternoon, at which

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the whole of the Ministers will be present ; when the Speech from the Throne twill be agreed upon. Viscount Melbourne gives a Cabinet dinner in the evening, at his mansion in...

There are at the present time no fewer than 1,691

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persons in the 'Workhouse of Marylebone, who are fed, clothed, and lodged at the ex- pense of the ratepayers ; and 5,000 receiving , out-door relief, partly in bread, which is...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCEANOZ. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. As is usually the case upon the payment of the Dividends, money has be- come much more plentiful; and though the Funds have received a check...

Madrid papers and letters, to the 6th instant, have been

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received. They contain no news of importance. The ex-Minister Arrazola had addressed a memorial to the Regency, in which be demanded to be allowed to return to Spain. He...

From a Dover letter, dated last night, it appears that

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the English snail-bags were lost at Boulogne yesterday morning, by the pilot-boat capsizing on the bar. Some of the crew, it is reported, were drowned.

One of our Paris letters states that the announced withdrawal

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of the dichiance of Mehemet Ali by the Porte, and the recognition of his here- ditary sovereignty over Egypt, was considered officiak—Times, Jan. 16.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Paris papers of Thursday are filled with the report of the Com- mittee on the fortifications of Paris, which was presented by M. Thiers to the Chamber of...

From the account of an inquest held at St. George's

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Hospital last night, we learn that Mr. Charles Harman, a solicitor retired from prac- tice, has lost his life from a fractured leg, caused by so simple an acci- dent as a fall...

A Paris correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette writes—" The Neapolitan

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Ambassador had an interview a few days ago with M. Guizot, on the Sulphur question. The Ambassador asked if the Cabi- net of St. James's had lately made advances to that of the...

The following programme of the proceedings of the Leeds Re-

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form Festival, which is looked forward to with great interest in Yorkshire, is published in the Leeds Times of this morning- " The proceedings at the great meeting on Thursday...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MYSTIFICATIONS IN FINANCE. TEE Manchester Guardian, a Whig-Ministerial journal of some consequence in the district where it circulates, has published a notice of our late...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Jan. lath, Pomona, Stopple, from the Cape; 14th, Kil- lian', Shaw; W. Shand, Putter; and Cleopatra, Early, from Bengal; Science, Row- land, from Mauritius;...

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LOUIS PHILIPPE.

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THE Gazette de France has published some letters written by the present King of the French during the years 1806-8. They are certainly calculated to increase our estimate of his...

A LAW WANTED TO CONTROL THE USE OF STEAM.

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IT is the boast of England that in no country is there better pro- tection for life and property ; yet in no country is there a greater recklessness in what concerns life when...

WHIG PRINCIPLES.

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°Transit than once we have had occasion to observe, that Whig principles, always sufficiently vague, had become, since the pre- sent Alinisters got into office, altogether...

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THE NEW RECORD SERVICE. THIRD LETTER.

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TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SPECTATOR. Loudon, 9th December 1840. Sra — It would be premature to enumerate the various uses for which the English Records might be rendered available,...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Simms Lirrass. History of German Literature. by Wolfgang Menzel. Translated from the German, with Notes, by Thomas Gordon Talboys, asfurd. SOCIAL MORALS. Women's Rights and...

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WOMEN'S BIGIITS AND DUTIES.

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THIS is an intelligent and agreeable work. As a philoso- phical treatise it may want originality ; and it is deficient in depth, commencing rather with the stream than the...

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DR. SINCLAIR ON MEDICAL REFORM.

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Two years and more have elapsed since we touched upon the sub- ject of medical reform ; showing the evils that beset both the pub- lic and the profession from the anomalous and...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Thursday morning, January 14. Tits slackness in the publishing world still continues; the only new work of any consideration we have received, is Mrs. BRAT'S Mountains and Lakes...

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FINE ARTS.

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SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF TEACHING DRAWING. TEE " Lesson in Drawing," last week, terminated in a discourse on the general principles of the art of Design, which was not reported ;...

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 13th January 1841.

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SIR—I felt much interested while perusing the article in your paper headed " A Lesson in Drawing." I am very much in the same situation as the little boy you have described,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, BIRTHS.

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On the 9th inst., at Daveridge, Derbyshire, the Lady WATERPARK. of a daughter. On the 12th lust., at Sarreudou Dering, the Hon. Lady DERING, of a son. On the 6th lust., at Medea...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Jan. 15.-9th Regt. of Light Drags.—Lieut. J. A.Thomsou to be Capt. by purchase, vice Whalley. who retires • Cornet G. T. Nicholson to be Lieut. by pur- chase, vice...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, Jan. 12.

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PARTNERSHIPS nissoramo. Edwards and Frankland, Seacombe. Cheshire, cual-merchants-W. and T. Ander. son, Newcastle-neon-Tyne, ship-brokers-J. and H. lAtry, Knightsbridge....

PRICES CURRENT.

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AVERAGE PR CES OP CORN. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN Per ChISTISF (Imperial) of England and Wales. For the present. Week. Wheat ...... 60s. 24.' Rye........... 33. 5d. Wheat 16s. RI,...