20 JUNE 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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BOTH Houses of Parliament met last night ; and again adjourned till Monday, when it is likely the closing scene of the session will be formally enacted. Our Foreign...

The Emperor and Empress of Russia, after the coronation pageant

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at Warsaw, went to Berlin, to visit the King of Prussia. Some foreign The Emperor and Empress of Russia, after the coronation pageant at Warsaw, went to Berlin, to visit the...

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The siege of Silistria proceeds. The Russians say they have

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repulsed a vigorous sally of the garrison.

Don Miguel is said to have marked out other victims

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for destruc- tion. Some of them have escaped from Oporto to the British shores. Miguel's squadron has at length blockaded Terceira.

FRANCE.—The French Government has published a statement of the amount

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o f the exports and imports of the country for the last year. From this account it appears thai the total value of its imports amounted to 607,677.321 francs, or about...

LATEST NEWS.

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SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. There are no further accounts of interest from the Theatre of War. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 13th instant, which arrived this morn- ing, contains,...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY MORNEW, HALF-•PAST TEM.—Another week has passed with little or no business : there has not in fact been a single oc- currence worth mentioning. The...

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LIBEL ON THE LORD CitascET.Loa.—The Attorney-General presented him- self, on

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Friday, before the Court of King's Bench, to move, on behalf of the Lord High Chancellor, for leave to tile a criminal information against the proprietors and publisher of the...

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THE CHELSEA FIRE-RAISER.—James Butler was indicted for setting fire to

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Mr. Downing's floor-cloth manufactory, in the King's-road, Chelsea. 'Mr. George Downing gave evidence, that on the 15th May, he saw the prisoner opposite the manufactory : on...

At the MinntEsEx SESSIONS, on Monday, five Spitalfiehls weavers were

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tried for an assault on some police-officers. It will be recollected that Mr. Moore's foreman went to fetch away some silk in the possession of a weaver, to save it from being...

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Firies.—Accidents from • have again been frequent in different quarters

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of the metropolis, and in one in :::tuce life has unhappily fallen a sacrifice. On Tees- day morning,.as a woman in Hollen Street, Wardour Street, Soho, Was lighting the fire,...

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FASHIONABLE PaaTtes.—On Saturday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester guise

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a grand dinner to Prince Leopold, ttrc. On Sunday, Prince Leopold and the Duke of Grafton had large dinner parties. On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester dined with Lord...

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ASCOT HEATH RACES.—The commencement of this meeting, on Tuesday, was

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marked by fine weather, good sport, and fashionable company. Besides, there were not a few experienced thief-takers on the ground, and a great many expert and exceedingly...

"A STRANGER IN THE GALLERY." •

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THE PRESS. Measitalo JOURNAL—The case of Mr. Nash was brought before the House of , Commons last night (Friday). Colonel Davies opposed the bringing up of the report of the...

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LE NOZZI DI FIGARO.

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MADAME MALIBR.AN has .proved :the justice of an opinion we have repeatedly expressed—she has played a part without affectation, and her success.hasbeen complete. Her Susannais a...

THE HANOVERIAN LADIES.

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Moen interest is excited for the Hanoverian ladies, BOTH; whose distresses, apparently acting upon a morbidly acute pride, have prompted them to the commission of more than one...

REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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AN attempt was made to give adventitious interest to the Cambridge University election, by holding it up as a contest between Whigs and Tories. We do not think that such a...

THE CHANCELLOR AND THE MORNING JOURNAL. TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE Morning _Journal is a paper of great spirit and great zeal, but not at all times of great discretion. • It, and several of its contempo- raries who advocate a similar line...

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TURNER'S ENGLAND.

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Mr. TURNER, the Royal Academician, has executed a series of views in different parts of England and Wales, which are now exhibited (gratis) at the Egyptian Hall. The intention...

A THEATRICAL IMPETUS.

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THE newspapers inform us, that, to give an impetus to Drury Lane Theatre next season, it is said to be the intention of the Select Com- mittee to erect the long-projected...

LONGBOW APPROPRIATION OF JOKES.

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WE too often have occasion to marvel at the stupid impudence of facetious persons who describe ancient Joe Miller jokes as occurring to themselves. A writer in the Quarterly...

SALARIES OF ACTORS.

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ONE of our contemporaries lately made an estimate of the number of Spitalfields weavers that, according to the present rate of wages, and working twelve hours per day for six...

SONTAG'S BENEFIT.

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MADEMOISELLE SONTAG selected for her benefit, on Thursday even- inn . , part of Die Zaubeilliitte and part of Tancredi. In reference to the former branch of the entertainment,...

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DEPRAVATION OF LITERATURE.

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IN the review of the State of the Country, in the last Quarterly, there is a representation of the character of the literary appetite, and the literary supply, which is, in our...

LIFE OF CAPTAIN BEAVER.*

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. THIS is one of those books which it is impossible to read without im- provement. It affords an example of high virtue and sterling merit, which, while it...

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THE FIVE NIGHTS OF ST. ALBANS.*

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SOISE man of talent has taken up the old story of the Wandering Jew, to try what he could make of a new version of it. He has succeeded in composing as pretty a piece of...

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LINDSAY ON FLUTE-PLAYING.*

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THE use of wind instruments (with the single exception of the tri impet) has undergone a great change within the last forty years. The ir com- pass, their tone, their character,...

THE POETICAL SKETCH-BOOK.* MR. T. K. HERVEY first became known

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to the world as an editor of one of the Albums; a task which, to the best of our recollection, he. performed with discretion and taste. The small poems which he in- troduced...

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THE CHURCH.

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The Marquis of Bath has presented the Rev. Lewis Tugwell to the living of Long. bridge-Deverill, Wilts.—The Lord Bishop of St. David's has collated the Rev. David Felix, B.D. of...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OxFoRD, June 15.—In a convocation, holden this day, the Masters of the Schools took the oaths of office ; and the Rev. E. Burton, B.D. late Student of Christ Church, and Regius...

GLEANINGS.

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MEDICAL SUPERIORITY OP TkIE FRENcII,--It might be proved as the result of this system, of which we have given but an imperfect outline, that France in medical science is nearly...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The wind having blown fresh from the westward, the arrivals fro F m R I I n D d A ia ir are E v t numerous. By the Prince Regent advices have been received to the 16th February...

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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BOOKS 14 TfIE PRESS, OE PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. The sixth edition of the Little Villager's Verse-Book, by Mr. Bowles—A Third Volume of Sir Jonah Barrington's Memoirs—Dr....

THE ARMY.

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WAR-OFFICE, June 15.—Memorandum—The half-pay of the undermentioned Officers has been cancelled from the 25th Dec. 1828, inclusive, on their receiving a commuted allowance for...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, June 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—E. and W. Crouch, Great Wild-street, tea.dealers- Cuthbertson, Borough-road, and Fergusson, Rochester, linen-drapers—J., T., and T. W....

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Butrus.—On the 17th, at Tittenhanger Green, Herta, the lady of William Swainson, Esq. F.R.S. &c, Assistant Commissary-General, of a son—On the 17th inst. in Stratford. place,...

LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, JUNE 19. The arrival of Wheat this week, both Foreign and English, has been rather limited. The trade nevertheless is exceedingly dull, and and the few...