23 MARCH 1839

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tin: Corn debate in the House of Commons was closed at the Monday sitting. A majority of' 342 to 195 rejected Mr. VILLIERS'S motion for a Committee " to consider " the act...

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alto . a the , (..er sit aaain in ee

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:Is,. eniLl: e Lich lent : Pre560•1. 0, largl , 111 1P 1 'iali"u"'

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, - Air. S711111 (YEMEN Wi7:11t.'..j fur an alL-7ation of tlie tee , ,:csit ditties: s ive ia.wers; tital Loina P1111.1E11: ScuI, a nuessee ta , an d ,,, L ,.....„ s t i. ,d it...

to re(itice ch.! interest of the Five per Cent. :F. , t(a.1(

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'rim Kiisa of 1 ,Vsrteilla , r..... . ..,.. 1

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(Antes. 1101)::N descanted at nrodigietta length. ....dinister at Visaltington, and Mr. Foils', Tit, 0.1 i t i . ti .: 1 ‘. 1 1 , 11 1. (:: . = I L t er i -. 1 .... thin Fox,...

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11 do reply to l.'s eddress of the f_ . taritoration of

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:e001t.1: ;lie :Ile0'oi.01iett; .11W- .: pets. 0-1 - tia.• 11.11-)intle 0 ny ntv t:are ant: - the .011 ''t ■01'1.111!1•,.11:. 11 13■■ • ici...tS hi vitw, I have to t , 1 Will,...

- 411)c Totat.

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r..,st this Q be III went to the Italian 'I' Oit Timrs a Court ; mei received a 1 1 ddr.' - ,i nt ii 1)■• Sheriffs, and Con:infra co:lean:ors of iv:::. I .., attendance,...

t )'.firieri. and :\Tfr. II•trnev, ' , dare da• It - 0111 . t . .•. ..,

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:as. v : ,•:'teitt limgttage ' 1 ' ' i '''''' ' ' ' ''' 1 ' '''' l ' ''' ' ' ' ' ''' '' ' : ''''' t:''' 1 7: •". \ • i•-• (ii . the :::■;,:••!•;i:•,,- , , ,,;111: 1 . 17.-11‘:.•...

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' 'The Anti-Corn-.Law Delegates assembled at Brown's Hotel on Tues-

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elay afternoon ; Mr. J. B. Smith in the chair. Among the gentlemen present, were Lord Nugent, Mr. O'Connell, 31r. Sellolclield, Mr. Den- nistoun, Me. Ilame, Dr. Bowritig, lu....

At a Court of East India Directors, held on WedneSday,

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Sit Charles Forbes called attention to the trade in Hill Coolies— An order in Council bad been sent out, directing the Indian Government to suspend the regulation for allowing...

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Vrobinces.

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The North Devonshire election closed on Saturday, with the election of Mr. Buck, the Tory, by a majority of 480 over his Whig opponent, Mr. Buller. The final numbers were 3,720...

It is said that great numbers of the Chartists in

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the North of Eng- land. especially in the neighbourhood of Stockport, Rochdale, and Man- chester, are armed with pikes. They maintain that, by the Bill of Rights, every man is...

The Irish Society gave Lord Fortescue a public dinner at

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the Albion Tavern, on Wednesday, on the occasion of his appointment to the Lord- Lieutenancy of' Ireland. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Morpeth, Mr. O'Connell, and several...

In the House of Commons, last night, lord 'Tons Russum

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stated the course which Government had resolved to take in consequence of the vote in the House of Lords for a Committee on the state of Ireland- " I rise to move the...

The Great Western steamer, in her last trip from New

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York, brought 7,723 letters and 1,133 newspapers, being the largest number she has yet had intrusted to her care. It appears from a Parliamentary paper that 4,600,000 fewer...

Much interest has been excited in the neighbourhood of 'Uxbridge,

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by a fatal affray between two young men, pupils of the Reverend Frederic Stunner, of Hayes. Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst, having quarrelled violently with his fellow pupil,...

_Miscellaneous.

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Lord Glenelg is to have '.A.tieliland'resigned on If s appointment to the Governor-Generalship eV India. . . The tatteen as bestowed a pension of 2001. a year on Colotet...

TO C01111ES1'ONDEN'r No room for Commituirations this week.

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'It e hints of SPNT7 1 subieriliers as to Om IXPEX will be seted on.

The aggregate average price of wheat for the last six

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weeks has de- clined to seventy-three shillings, the minimum price at which foreign wheat can be imported at the lowest duty. The average of the Iasi; week is seventy-tour...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Standard of this evening publishes, exclusively, important news from its Paris correspondent. The negotiations with Swim anti Timms have been broken off, by...

The Bishop of London, with a deputation consisting principally of

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merchants, bankers, and solicitors in the City of London, attended.. at the Treasury on Wednesday, to present a memorial to Lord Melbourne against the transmission of letters...

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Lord JOHN' Russoss'a announcement of the .Ministerial intention to ask

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a vote of "confidence" from the House of Commons—for such, in effect, under existing circumstances, would be an approval of Lord Nolo OTAISIn'S Irish A dmmistration—has set...

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Mr. Gibson, "Member far Ipswich, has addressed the followine letter

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to his constituents, in explanation or his vote in fitundir of Mr. Villiers's motion finr a committee on ill.; Corn-laws. It k n and. in tiles! I..t . ys of menn eheffliug....

31r. Francis Bruen, the misrepresentative of' the 'bineingh of Carlow,

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has resigned his seat ; communicating to the Speaker by lt tter. (after the presentation or Mr. (lisborne's petition against his return.) (HIS he should not defend it. A...

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11S. (In (lie 8 , \V..• 1 . I N1iishisay. 1.. 1 .. and ••,' 1., :,1 1 't' On the 1-11ii :kt .„„. Oa tile 14111 as :) . .1 c 3.1 Vfl ANN, :tenet o: 0,, late Thumies.lert...

The Corn question is not " settled "--even for the

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present session. Two move; have been made, in accordance with a jediciotts plan of operations, and a third is resolved 'woo. The men who malmge th's movement, accustomed to...

MONEY MARKET.

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Srocli EV'llANGE, AFTERNOON. Tile intelligence frvuo .1.meriea did not oil its first arrival produce much effect on 'Change, and the prevailing belief still is that the dispute...

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THE TIEEATRES.

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THE opening of the Haymarket and the closing of the Adelphi are the only incidents of the week. KxownEs's charming comedy, The Love Oast', which was played for somewhere about...

T111 , , CORN-LAW 1)1 VIS10N-3losoe 31.A.1011. IT Y AGA I NsT

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wit vI1.1.1E15's MOT ION rot; A it ii Ern: E or '1 1 11r. wri01,11 cos,00ric THE uoi:N-I.‘WS. Aeland. T. 11.. . .1.. Dia, J., Haellhire - - . ',Irving, J., Antiim . East, .1....

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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• Arai-Oirrrcz. Mar ch..22 ,, Ath Regt. Liobt Dragwns-Coriket J. It. J. Roles to be Lieut. by purchase. vine Inrysiale, whose proininkiii 14th, September last, has not taken...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WANTED A DELIVERER. ALTHOUGH public affairs at this juncture may seem vehemently to desiderate - practical men, we are not sure that it is not theoretical men that they more...

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STATE OF TUE CORN QuEsnoN.

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Tut: Legislatuse of Landowners, in ly.sth thcir chambers, have do- ereca that 171 , 2 Ilsead-tax shall m.t 1 0,‘ loached. The principal mannraettning and vommerend tosstts...

110W TO SETTLE "THE BOUNDARY QUESTION:'

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THE disorderly proceedings of the State of Maine are said to fur- nish proof of the peculiar weakness of the United States ENCC , a- cutive. Then, what is proved by the...

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In the Morning Herald of Saturday last, it is impossible

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not to enjoy the fun that is made of a notice of some concert, which appears there, wherein we are introduced to anew composer of the name of" haber,"— a song of whose, it...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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Tim concert of last Monday was not only an improvement on the first, but stood in advance of most of its kind. There was not a single piece inserted or performer engaged from...

LIEBER'S MANUAL OF POLITICAL ETHICS.

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THE author of this volume is a German scholar, whose youthful enthusiasm in the cause of liberty procured hint a public lodginr, in Dresden. On his discharge from prison, he...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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MORAL PRILLORRREt o Manual of Political Ethics. By Francis Lieber. Part L Pook L mk s. General and Political. Book 11.—The State, Ihnonr, Insurrection of Poland in 1830 -31; and...

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GNOROWSKI'S INSURREC"TION OF POLAND.

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THIS volume contains a very lively and readable narrative of the insurrection in Poland, from the first outbreak at Warsaw in No- vember 1830, till the final suppression of the...