19 OCTOBER 1839

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— NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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no ties between England and America are continually growing stranger and closer. The London newspapers find it necessary or advantageous to supply accounts even of the trivial...

Intelligence to the middle of September has arrived from the

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West Indies. The Negroes were happy and hazy; the 'Planters Intelligence to the middle of September has arrived from the West Indies. The Negroes were happy and hazy; the...

.• A very 'Unpleasant reception for Mr. PODLETT TnosisoN in

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Canada was prepared. Sir Jowl COLBORNE'S departure was gene- rally regretted by the British party, who had resolved upon annoy- ing his suecessor by all available means. In...

The Ministers brought forward a bill to "confirm the Fueros

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of the Basque Provinces ; " but the majority of the Deputies refused to pass the chief resolution or "article," unless coupled with a salvo in favour of the Constitution. Tito...

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The Middlesex Sessions commenced on Tuesday ; but the Court

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bad very little business, owing to circumstances explained by the Chair. man, Mr. Sergeant Adams, in his charge to the Grand Jury— It appeared from a paper he held in his hand...

The English and French fleets are ly lug together off

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Tenedos, apparently in much amity—both receiving additions. The Eastern question seems to make no progress.

The Paris papers state that PASSY, the Finance Minister, had

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resolved to please the Court by proposing an establishment for the Duke DE NEMOVRS, and the public by a bill to reduce the Five per Cents. BLANQVI, who was implicated in the May...

A boy of fifteen killed himself yesterday by leaping from

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the top of the Monument. It appears that his name is {awes, son to a widow at Chelsea. He left St. Ann's School, Brixton, (where he received a Bible as a reward of good...

The Morning Chmiele gives the following as the result of

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the Mid- dlesex registration, which was finished on Thursday- " The Tories have made all the tight thee possilil • could, and what have they done ? Served I,lt. 4 0 notices of...

An experimental trip was made by the Archimedes steamer, on

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Wed. nesday, in the presence of a number of distinguished Naval officers and engineers. On starting from London Bridge, which was covered with spectators, the Pool was much...

tr_bc Court.

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TEE principal occurrence at Windsor Castle, this week, has been a fire in the chimney of one of the offices. The routine of walks, rides, and diuners, is kept up by the Queen...

jtirtropolis.

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The Court of Common Council held their usual weekly meeting on Thursday. Some conversation occurred relative to the choice of de- signs fbr the new Exchange. From the statements...

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1.Sbe Vrot)inrts.

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The Duke of Somerset has served notices to quit upon all his tenants who voted for Mr. B. Baldwin at the late Totnes election. Many of these notices have been signed by the...

Lord Lyttleton has been aopointed Libel-Lie:Lien:int of Worcester- shire, in

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the room of Lord Foley. Mr. John Bather, Recorder of Shrewsbury has sn'Tered an attack of paralysis, his recovery frotti which is doubtful. is the gentleman v,Iuvn! death was...

A letter in the Shillchl Iris, from Mr. Poulton. the

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Anti-Corn-law lecturer, states that he had been prevente I from delivering lectures at Worksop in Nottinelmiashire. by the interfere:Ice of the landlords in the neighbourhood of...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Fife, Herald of Thursday contains resolutions passed at a Welk meeting of the electors of Dunfermline on the 1 lilt instant, expressing dissatisfaction with the conduct of...

IRELAND.

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At a meeting of the Dublin Trades Union on Tuesday, it letter was read front Mr. Sharman Crawford, in reply to the address which tatted upon hint to head the Repeal agitation....

Alderman Pirie was alarmed on Sunday week, between four and

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five o'clock, by the noise of a person breaking into his house at Gravesend. The Alderman, with the assistance of a servant, captured the robber. In the course of the flay, lie...

A riot of a serious description occurred last week on

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the works of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. The following particulars are taken from a Liverpool paper- " On the line of railway now forming between Birkenhead and...

We observe from the London Gazette of the '10th. that

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Dr. Lee has' resigned the 'Secretaryship to the Bible Printing Board for Scotland, :holy conferred upon him ; and that her Majesty has appointed . to that - office Dr. Welsh,...

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The Duke of Sussex is eeie:e.ed at Leal:Asia Caatle on

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Tuesday next, on a visit to Lord Dui :hem Dr. Prosser, who died lot a: Belmont. Ilerefordshire, in his ninety- fourth year, was a Prebendary of Durhter, Cethedral, and had...

With the exception of the very earliest spots in Scotland,

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there is still a good deal of grain exposed. In the immediate neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and in the low grounds in this (the Glasgow) district, the fields are entirely clear;...

The newspapers this week haye given currency to a rumour

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that Loal. Durham is likely to lesseme mhassador at Constanti- nople. We neither know wn. cave whence this report originated, but are satisfied that it wss intended to injure...

"The Marquis of Htmtly's failure."—A paragraph under this title, is

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going the round of the papers, pretending to be quoted from the - Herald, stating, among other strange things, that from "the schedule of funds, it appears there are not Is. f...

Helen Macdonald, nurse-maid ii . the family of the Reverend

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Mr. Thomson of Shettleston, near Cie lies been centraitted to Glasgow Gaol, charged with the murder of be: own child, nineteen months old. She had had twins, by a man who...

An account of an attempt, and failure, by the Reverend

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Mr. Burns, to get up a "revival " in Arbroath, is given in the Arbroath Herald 01 the 1 1th instant- " Except from the pulpit of Lady T.oan Church, we understand, the recent...

Arrangements have been made for ptlyntent ut errears due front

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the Spanish Government to the B: itish Auxiliary imeion. The Morning Chronicle says—" A proposal hes b. on me •.• the I.Let few . days, by the highly-respeetable l•aniek•-lem,.•...

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Official returns connected with the export of gold and silver

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are in the hands of some of the leading City merchants, which, as their accu- racy is not to be disputed, must lead to some very remarkable conclu- sions. These returns extend...

The soot in the chimney of the laundry at Windsor

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Castle took fire on Tuesday evening ; and a report was immediately - spread that the corridor and a large portion of the Castle were in flames! The troops turned out at the...

A body of Bristol merchants, who state that since the

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opening of the Canton midi! in 1t they hare imported teas on which duties amounting to z' at a miiiioa !•terling have bean paid, have presented a memorial to Lord Palm:: t a ....

The Dublin Evening Post•says-

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" None of the English Tory journals, certainly not any of the!r organs pre- tending to a shred of character for accuracy, have yet been brazen enough to claim an advantage at...

The Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies appointed last

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session to report upon the question of slavery in the French Colonies, did not complete their labours in time to lay the result before the Chambers ; but the following...

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tt Boarding is live doihr: per day at the hotels

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in Tne re- p:lb:di is sending a strong ti,rce azainst the Indians. Th.. enuntrv all I ports are pronounced lwalthy; hat ,1t1,•.rantille revtlations aro keer, out the yellow...

The New York papers contain elaborate artielos on the same

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sulmject. The Ihrnioy Mead. after stating that specie exportefl from New lark IC Havre aud. to Eugland, between time 10th of July and the 1st of October, was 3,891,02: dollars,...

The British Queen arrived on Tuesday at Portsmouth from Nyw

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York, having accomplished the voyage in thirteen days and twenty hours. She left New York on the 1st instant ; and brines seventy-three pas- sengers, 700,0N dollars in specie,...

0 The Great Western, which will leave King's-road, Bristol, on

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Saturday ; the 19th, for New York, will take out her full complement of passengers. The applications for berths have been far greater than the ship can accommodate. The British...

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Respecting the state of the eunuchs generally, and the reception

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Governor Thomson was likely to encounter in particular, we quote the following from the Morning Chronicle's correepondence- " Canada is by no means its a quiet state. Internal...

The Governor of Janntien, e.:ir Lionel Smith, had prorogued the

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Island Legislature to the 24th of September. His Excellency bud re- ceived many addresses front the Emancipation perty, expressive' of regret at his departure rend cordially...

" The state of Massachusetts (under the Claim that it

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make to a certain portion of the land upon the Aroostook) has issued through its land -agent it great number of ' permits,' its they are called, to cut thither; these permits...

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The following advertisement, which appeared in tine Morning Chro- nicle

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and other papers on Tuesday last, offering to settlers in New Zealand the opportunity of " choosing such lands as they require in the country, and making their own bargains with...

We bear that a fast-sailing vessel, of between three and

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four hundred tons burden, named the Mor, is about to be sent out to Canton with orders from the British Government in relation to the misunderstand- ings which have sprung up...

We have no amendment to notice in the Continental exchanges.

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Tine quotations are still drooping ; and, but for the support given to the market by the house of Baring, Brothers. and Co., who are believed to be acting for the Bank of...

Accounts front South Australia to the 1st .Ttme, and front

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Van Die- men's Land to the 14th June, arrived on Thursday. The new colony was thriving in spite of drought and internal dissmisions. Between the 5th and the 23t1 of May, nine...

Admiral Fleming's appointment to be " Master of her Majesty's

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Hospital at Greenwich " is officially announced in last night's Gantte. His successor in the command at Portsmouth, is not yet announced, though probably determined on. The...

The Grenada Free PPM mentions the arrival at that island

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of the hired transport Louise Frederica, with 168 Africans, part of a cargo of 5,0a0, which had been cooped up in a slaver, run on shore by her Ma- jesty's schooner Pickle : the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Paris papers are much occupied with the "reorganization of the Council of State." 31. Cousin, an Ordinary Councillor, having been re- moved for the alleged...

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The following extract from a despatch of the Marquis of

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Normanby to Sir George Arthur, states an important opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown respecting the Canadian prisoners vrbb were lately released—namely, that a criminal...

MONEY MARKET.

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ST0eR EXellANOE. FRIDAY AFTLfeffION. The buoyant appearance of the Money-market to which we last week alluded, has given place to one of a very different character, and its...

A " Supplement to the London Gazette" this day furnishes

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the "fol- lowing article omitted" [by mistake?] yesterday. Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of Eng- land, from the 23d July to the 13th...

EAST INDIA SIIIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, OM. 15111, Woutimansterste, Ilinderwell, from Mauritius; W. Wise, Ellis, from Van Dimiett's fatal ; ana 18111, Premier, Weir, front China, At Portsmouth,...

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. USES OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE

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SPECTATOR. Peterborough, 14111 October 1839. Stu—You refer in your last number to the increase of Agricultural Societies, as tending exclusively to strengthen the Conservative...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LOCAL COURTS. AMONG the numerous reforms promised by the present Govern- ment, one of the most prominent—as beyond question the most necessary of them all—related to the...

BIRTHS, 'MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. At Leamington, the Lally of the Hon. Captain SOMERVILLE, R.N., of a ' , on. At Pardon, the Lady or Lieut..C...1. ST. 3011N CLERICE, Kit., of a daughter. Ott the Gth...

TIlE ARMY,

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WAlberVica, October Itegll or is s itt iss e o.-.(ssosi Is it, nrett s tohoto is 1.ii purchase, N ic E. Oeils, who retires; W. K. Eraser, Gent. to he Cornet, by porvliase, 'tue...

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BLUNDERS OF MODERN WHIGS AND TORIES.

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MEN make money by lucky hits in trade. A blockhead once sent a large quantity of warming-pans to Cuba; and it happened that; the sugar-crop being remarkably abundant, the...

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SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE LARGE TOWNS.

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A WRITER who undertakes the defence of the Whig Government in the current number of' the Edinburgh Bedew, assumes that Sir ROBERT PEEL, in olive, would find the larger towns...

SIR JAMES CLARK'S EXPLANATION.

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WE should not have returned to this scandalous subject, believing, it to be quite past the point of profitable discussion, but for the. letter of Sir JAMES CLARK published in...

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THE THEATRES.

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COVENT GARDEN has kept the lead, this week, by two " revivals "- an old comedy on Monday, an opera on Wednesday—and by several "first appearances." The performance of...

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A new play by Sir LYTTON BCLWER is announced at

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the Haymarket ; and a play by a new candidate for dramatie fame, though a veteran author, .Mr. LEIGH IleNT, has been accepted by the management of Covent Garden.

At the Adelphi, VAN AMBURGII'S elephant is the attraction, pending

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the production of a new piece, announced with all the mystery of a paragraph of fashionable intelligence, which is to employ all the re- sources of the theatre. The elephantine...

Horace Vernet, the celebrated French painter, is about to proceed

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to Egypt, and thence to Syria, in order to paint on the spot a picture of the battle of Nezib, for which Ibrahim Paella is to supply him with the necessary information. The...

The merriment at the Haymarket—the very atmosphere of which is

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exhilarating as the laughing gas—has this week reached the con- vulsive point, by a combination of Powmi's oil of fun and BERNARD'S spirit of humour. Powsat, on His Last Legs,...

Drury Lane opens on Saturday next, the 26th. Mr. HAststoxy,

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the new lessee, took leave of his Strand Theatre audience last Saturday, in a smart and amusing speech of negative import, implying that neither German operas, French...

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MR. OGLE'S WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

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'IP the reader take up a map a the world, and look on the Western toast of New Holland for the thirty-second degree of South lati- tude, he will have the embouchure of Swan...

TT 7- Sii6TAT0R'S LIBRARY.

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Couotwertos. • The coltitty of Western Australia; a Manual for EmigrantS to that Sattlement or ha Depeuttencies; corrwrising its discovery, settlement. ahorigines,...

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MRS. GORE'S COURTIER, AND OTHER TALES.

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TIII3 V0111111C, which has reached us from Paris, and forms one of the series of GILIGNANI'S editions of English authors for Conti- nental supply, has been or is about to be...

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M. KNIGHT'S ORIENTAL OUTLINES

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Is a pleasant and lively narrative of a Mediterranean trip,- embracing a visit to the Grecian Islands, Constantinople, Smyrna, and its vicinity, with a sojourn at Pisa, and a...

MOOR E'S A LCI emit o N—T IIE it AN.

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THE new attractions of this edition of the :Epicurean are the illus- trations by TURN ER, and the poem of Alciphron by Mown:. The illustrations consist of vignettes, each a...