1 NOVEMBER 1828

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The French army in the Morea has been in want

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of provisions, and an epidemic fever has made many victims. Coron had sur- rendered without bloodshed, and Patras and Moclon were expected to follow. The island of Candia is...

We are for one week without any exciting intelligence from

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Ireland. The continued formation of Brunswick Clubs, and the reiterated assurances of the orators that they are to be true and faithful champions of the Church, become...

SATURDAY NIGHT.

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No further accounts have been received to-day from the theatre of war. The last courier who arrived at the Russian Embassy brought the official confirmation of the surrender of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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VARNA has fallen. The Russian official account of the event is dated from the "Camp before Varna," on the 11th of October; when, the defences having been beaten down or blown...

The accounts from Gibraltar of the progress of the fever

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are extremely distressing. The following are some details. • On the 11th October, there were 771 cases, 109 of them new ; 344 were serious ; convalescents, 210. Since the 10th...

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THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.-There has been a good deal of business doing iu the public Funds during the present week, and some fluctuation, although not to any great extent...

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LONGMAN AD CO. V. POLE AND Co.—An action of damages

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for conspiracy, by the eminent booksellers against the banking firm of Pole and Co., has been tried in the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Thomas Hurst, a partner in the firm of...

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS,—Edward Cooper, lately a coachman in the service

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of Lady Nepean, was convicted of the forging of various receipts to the amount of 60/. with the intention of defrauding her ladyship. Ile had been intrusted with money to pay...

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THE PRESS.

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time general system of society : something analogous to it appears every- where in the affairs of common life. He who is not in possession of landed property to a certain yearly...

CLAIMS OF THE WOOL-GROWERS.

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BLACKWOOD'S QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE—What right, it may well be asked, have the wool-growers to demand that the manufacturers of the country shall not be permitted to...

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WHO, BESIDES THE PAWNBROKERS, ARE BENEFITED BY FREE TRADE ?

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MORNING Jourtmod.—We reply, the Fundholders. With them, Mr. Hus- kisson, the Liverpool commission agents, and a few leading merchants of London, originated the system which has...

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. AS PERFORMED BY HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS ON FENENDEN HEATH. WE last week indulged in some remarks adverse to the principle of County Meetings as applicable to...

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MR. SHIEL'S SPEECH.

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A VERY considerable hue and cry has been set up to very little purpose relative to the speech of Mr. SHIEL. It is clear he fore- saw—what actually happened—that an assemblage...

AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

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MR. NEAL, an American gentleman, who contributed some clever papers to the London Magazine and Blackwood's, has established a newspaper called The Yankee, in the United States ;...

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MUSICAL MECHANICS.

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THE writer of the "Diary of a Dilettante," in the Harmonicon, gives the following interesting account of a musical machine upon the principle we suggested in our notice of...

CITY AMATEUR CONCERTS.

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WE have had many a less pleasant musical entertainment at the Argyll Rooms than the one served up on Thursday night by our metropolitan amateurs. Truly they tread hard upon the...

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1V1ACBETH — MR. KEAN — RECOLLECTIONS OF KEMBLE.

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Mn. KEAN'S Macbeth is a failure, partially redeemed by some beautiful passages and one well-acted scene. On comparing the ideas derived from a study of the poet with the image...

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" NOLLEKENS AND HIS TIMES*" should have been called Nor,

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LEKENS AND HIS WIFE. But let not anybody be deterred from LITERARY SPECTATOR. the perusal of this delightful book by its title : it is not the remi- niscences of one who only...

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shapeless torso on its legs : these were sold to

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English amateurs 1. Three Marches from the Operas of the Zauberspruch and Well°, ar- ranged for the Pianoforte, by J. P. Pixis. of fortune, who at this present time possess...

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A NOTE ON TRUSTEESHIP, AND ON THE PRESENT STATE OF

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OUR LAWS. THE newspapers lately reported various arguments in the case of Marsh and Others, before the Lord Chancellor*. The main question in the case is the responsibility of...

NATURAL FORMATION OF SOIL.

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Nothing can be more truly beautiful in itself, or more deeply interesting to a reflecting mind, than the process by which Nature constantly produces an accession of soil, and an...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENINO.

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The Mary Ann has at length arrived, but not having touched at Madras, she com- municates II0 shipping intelligence which we had not previously received tit:Bombay. Arrived. At...

ROOKS ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED.

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The Trials of Life, a Novel, by the author of "Dc Lisle," or the Sensitive Man. The Second Series of the ROMMICO of History ; to comprise Tales founded on facts, and...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BtuTrts:-At Edinburgh, Mrs. R. H. Barber, of twin daughters-At New Posso, Lady Nasmyth, of a son-At Waltham Rectory, in the county of Leicester, the lady of the Hon. and Rev....

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, October 28. PAD.TNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED. F. Potts and J. Martin, Northumberland-street, Marylebone, schoolmasters-T. Baker and J. Tilney, Ilford, Essex-J. and E....

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LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31. • Our supply of En g lish Grain in g eneral this week has been very moderate, thou g h elere has been a g ood arrival of Forei g n Wheat. On...