21 MARCH 1846

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THANKS to the Protectionists, the Tariff is exactly in the same cr that it had reached when we left it last week. That degree of power the party have exhibited—that kind of...

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There is a second batch of pacific news from America.

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Not that Mr. Polk's Administration is in a more wholesome state; nor has any definite step been publicly taken ; but a proceeding in the Senate promises well. Mr. Colquit had...

The Polish insurrection seems to be dying out. The great

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mass of the conflagration has been smothered by the sheer bulk of the force thrown upon it, and it smoulders beneath ; showing itself only in by-places and chance intervals. The...

The Spanish Ministry has broken up, after a month's short

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life. Composed of heterogeneous materials, the new elements consisting of respectables without energy equal to the times it had while it existed no substantive vigour. Narvaez...

Debates awl girotettrings in VarIiament

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TEE OREGON DISPUTE. In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the Earl of CLannwnow moved for the production of such correspondence as had taken place with the United States on the...

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be Metropolis.

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A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday. Mr. Anderton suggested the abolition of the old practice of giving livery-cloth to Officers of State, Judges, and others. The...

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Oalaceu. business has diversified the Royal avocations this week. On Wednesday, the Queen held a Court and Privy Council. The Duke of Buccleuch and Sir Robert Peel had...

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ebt Vrobinrts.

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Mr. Ralph Neville was reelected for Windsor, on Saturday, without op- position or bustle of any kind. He was proposed by Captain Bulkeley, and seconded by Mr. Jennings, the...

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IRELAND.

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The Government plans for the relief of the suffering population are in the course of practical development. A minute, issued by the Dahlia Commissioners at the close of last...

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FRANCE. —In the Chamber of Deputies, yesterday week, the Marquis Larochejacquelin brought under notice the affairs of Poland— Could it be believed, that in a monarchical...

SCOTLAND.

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The law of entail underwent the consideration of the meeting of land- owners alluded to in our last number, at Edinburgh, on Thursday week. As the meeting was preliminary, no...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING,

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ARRIVED — At Gravesend, lath March, Dorisana, Myth, from China; 16th, Mauri- tius, Simpson, from ditto; 18th, Herschel, Robertson, from Mauritius; 19th, William Hyde, Steward,...

AilisceIlarteous.

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The Courrier Franimis says—" An extraordinary courier has passed through France for England, from Egypt. It is said that he was sent by the English Chargd d'Affaires at...

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The Government has advertised for contracts, at Cork, for grinding

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Indian corn. Naval depots for coal and other stores are forming in Cove and in the Shannon. A cotton-mill, the property of Messrs. James Livesey and Son, at Hoghton, about six...

The Paris papers of Thursday express astonishment at the manner

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in which Ministers allowed the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the motion of M. de Remusat to conclude on the preceding day. Every ear and every pen were ready to receive...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The battle of the Timber-duties was fought last night in the House of Commons; the Marquis of WORCESTER, the youngest of the Protectionists, and an approved...

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The Presse publishes the following as the list of the

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new Belgian Cabinet, the construction of which has occupied King Leopold and his collaboratenrs for se- veral weeks—Foreign Affairs, M. Van de Weyer; Interior, M. C. Rogier;...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PARTY OF SENSE, AND THE PARTY OF NONSENSE. ONE cannot meet a mere Whig without hearing that Peel is going to Italy, for two years at least. He may return to public life...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Stock Market has been heavy during the whole week; and the closing prices of Consols this afternoon are 1 per cent below those of last...

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LORD ELLENBOROUGH AND THE NAVY.

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THE acts of great personages, and particularly of Boards, not tmfrequently astonish people of simple understandings ; and what may be very profound or very useful in official...

POLAND: NATIONALITY.

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THE Russian, Prussian, and Austrian Governments, are evidently anxious to prevent information respecting the state of the countries which have just been the scene of...

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SCOTCH ENTAILS.

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Tam Scotch law of entail is a much greater nuisance than the English. In Scotland no means are provided for the voluntary termination of an entail : the dead man's will is there...

WEST INDIAN FREE-TRADERS.

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IF the Protectionists would but look beyond their own narrow circle, they would everywhere discern symptoms of their moral isolation. Except themselves, every person sees that...

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THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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FIRST CONCERT OF THE SEASON—MON. DAT, REARM 16. PAST I. Sinfonia in B flat (No. 9) Haydn. Aria, " 0 caralmmfigine," Mr. Lockey, (.11F7auto Mattieo) Mozart. Concerto violin, M....

KING ERNEST ON LOVE.

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Tamale are no lovers in Hanover ! Monstrous as it may appear, .the fact is evident from the "general order" issued by the King for the regulation of marriages in his army ; for...

THE THEATRES.

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IT happens curiously enough that the current performances at all the principal theatres suggest comparisons, not only with the foreign stage but with our own. Madame Vestris as...

Verdi's opera of Ernani was reproduced at Her Majesty's Theatre

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on Tuesday, with three new singers; who proved inadequate to support the interest of the work, and it is accordingly again replaced by Nino. Madame Pasini has a voice of some...

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STATISTICS OF OFFICIAL INFLUENCE HQ THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DE-

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runEa — From a return published by order of the Chamber of Deputies, it ap- pears that 156 of its members hold at present public appointments with salaries attached to them....

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Novitiate, or a Year among the English Jesuits ; a Personal Narrative. With an Essay on the Constitutions, the Confessional Morality, and History of th...

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DR. CARUS'S JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAIN.

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Da. CARUS accompanied the King of Saxony, as his physician, on a two- months tour through Great Britain, in 1844. As a mere sight-seeing scamper, the excursion was well enough...

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DR. BUTT ON PROTECTION TO HOME INDUSTRY. BUT for the

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former position of the author as Professor of Political Econo- my in the University of Dublin, and the ingenuity and even eloquence of his lectures, this book might not...

THE LEGACY OF AN ETONIAN.

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Tins volume of poetry appears under the common shape of a desk of papers bequeathed to the editor by a friend dying of consumption, with a request for their publication if...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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From March 13th to March 19th. BOOKS. The Novitiate, or a Year among the English Jesuits; a Personal Narrative. With an Essay on the Constitutions, the Confessional Morality,...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE Art-Union Committee, in their well-meant but ill-judged efforts to encourage by premiums a better class of art than the taste of the majority of prize-holders enables them...

BIRTHS.

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On the 11th March, at Front Vicarage, the Lady of the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., of a son, who survived but a few hours. On the 13th, at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, Lady...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, March 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Wilson and Co., Honslet, near Leeds, engineers ; as far as regards E. B. Wilson- M'Collah and Co., Reeth, Yorkshire, grocers; as far...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, March 20-6th Drag. Guards-Lieut. S. F. Jac.son, from 54th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice 0. V. Jackson, who reverts to the half-pay of his former commission as Lieut....

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BUTCHERS' MEAT. NEWOATE AND LTADDNNALL• • BMITIIIIDI.D.. HELD 07 Canes AT . d. . cf. a. d. r. d. r. d. s. d. SMITUTIMILD. Beef... 261030104 0 .. 3 8 to 4 2 to 4 8 Friday....