25 MARCH 1843

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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OF all this session, Lord PALMERSTON'S motion about the Ash- burton treaty is undoubtedly the most melancholy exhibition of party-spirit. The very nature of the motion stamped...

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7thatts anb Vroctebings in Varliament.

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THE ASHBURTON TREATY. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Lord PALMERSTON moved for copies of all communications which have taken place between the Go- vernment or...

The Pacific, as every body knows, is studded with islands,

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of no great importance in their individual size, but collectively forming territories of some extent ; attractive for their scenery, fertility, and delicious climate ; and...

• There is a concurrence of natural phenomena, which in

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popular acceptation " account " for some recent visitations, if they do not actually stand in the relation of cause and effect. Violent storms in this quarter of the world were...

The King of PRUSSIA seems fairly to have given up

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his impossi- ble enterprise of making Prussia a free country under the paternal control of a despotism. Like the anxious mother who could not trust her boy in the water until be...

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At a quarterly General Court of East India Proprietors, on Wednes- day, Mr. Montgomery Martin made an elaborate speech, full of statis- tical details, showing how much colonial...

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THE Queen and Prince Albert have taken a trip to Claremont this week. They left Buckingham Palace on Saturday afternoon. The Princess Royal rode in the same carriage, the Prince...

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'Tbe Ittrobtntts.

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The election of a Member for Cambridge, in the room of Sir Alexan- der Cray Grant, commenced on Saturday, with the nomination of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, the Conservative candidate,...

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Aliscellaneous.

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Sir C. Napier, notwithstanding the threatened opposition to his elec- tion as a member of the United Service Club, has been elected by 195 to 13 black balls, one in ten...

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We are happy to have it in our power to

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announce that Mr. Gisborne, in compliance with the wishes of the Liberal electors of Nottingham, has agreed to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of that...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. A long and peculiar discussion took place in the House of Commons last night on the motion for the second reading of the Factories Bill ; one of the joint...

Cape of Good Hope papers have been received at the

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North and South American Coffeehouse, to the 24th January ; a week later than those previously received. At the date of the last accounts, Colonel Hare was constructing rafts to...

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies, on the

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motion to abrogate the vote by ballot in the Chamber, closed on Wednesday; and the motion was rejected, by 193 to 201. The result puzzled the Paris politicians. Among the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCEIANOT, FRIDAY APTEICOOOK. The only public transaction of importance during the week, has been a large purchase of Consols by the broker for the Court of Bankruptcy ;...

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PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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WE commence, this season, a reluctant duty, in noticing the first of the Philharmonic Concerts : for it is any thing but a welcome occupation to witness and to record the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, 19th March, Marmion, Gresley. from Calcutta ; 20th, Arab, Viestmorelaud, from Bombay ; 21st, Tartar. Luce, from China ; Margaretha, Bauer, from Batavia ;...

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HONESTY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. IT will be

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remembered that a recent correspondent on the " State of the Revenue " called attention to a fall in prices which he antici- pated would arise from Free-trade measures, and to...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE STATESMAN. LORD PALMERSTON has entered the lists with Mr. TAYLOR of the Colonial Office. In a three-hours speech, on Tuesday evening, he developed to the House of Commons,...

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PREVENTIVES OF EXCESSIVE LABOUR.

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Tam Morning Post attributes to " want of proper feeling" our opinion that it is in vain to expect legislation to prevent working long hours. The proper feeling here intimated is...

THE CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA. PRIVATE letters from

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Berlin represent the public mind throughout the Prussian dominions as irritated and apprehensive. The new instructions for the Censors of the Press have caused this. The...

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A NEW CONSTELLATION : THE APOTHEOSIS OF " THE TAIL."

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SINCE Mr. O'CONNELL disappeared from the House of Commons, " the Tail" has disappeared even from the newspapers. You may turn over a file of Times, Chronicle, or Post, for six...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Mum-morsel:Ts LrrEasroax, Critical and Historical Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Thomas Babington Macaulay. In three volumes Longman and Co. norms, Ra g land...

VISCOUNT CHRONICLE ON VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.—The Morning Chronicle contemplates the Palmerstonian

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effort of Tuesday last in a paroxysm of delight. Its wondering adoration of the production is almost as great as Pigmalion's for his own chef d'oeuvre, or Mr. Row- land's for...

MODERN CINCINNATI. MODERN CINCINNATI.

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"WHAT has become of the Queen's Champion ? " The question is resolved by an account of a ploughing-match in Lanarkshire, which lately appeared in a provincial paper—"...

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RAGLAND CASTLE.

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Ix one sense this fiction is the best of Mrs. Tuosisos's works. It has a story of greater coherence and interest than Anne Boleyn, and the motives of the actors are more...

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NOTE ON FRANCIS HORNER AND LORD BROUGHAM.

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Aw authority well informed as to the relative position of these two eminent persons, and not unacquainted with their respective feelings, has drawn attention to a remark in our...

FINE ARTS.

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MISS EDEN'S SKETCHES OF INDIAN CHARACTER, A NUMBER of water-colour drawings of remarkable characters among the Princes and People of India, made by the Honourable Miss E. EDEN...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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From March 17th to March 23d. BOOKS. Ragland Castle; a Tale of the Great Rebellion. By Mrs. THOMSON, Author of " Widows and Widowers," &c. In three volumes. Tke Life of a...

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WILKIE'S ORIENTAL SKETCHES.

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THIS volume of lithographic fac-similes of a selection from the sketches made by Sir Davao WILKIE during his tour in the East, is interesting, not only on account of these...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, March 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED, Boys and Son, Margate, attornies-W. and S. Fitton, Crewe, Cheshire, millers- Bowen and Harris, Heath, Glamorgaushire. fire-brick...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR•OFPICE, March 24.-Royal Regiment of Horse Guards-Lieutenant Lord Al- gernon Percy Banks St. Maur to be Captain by purchase. vice Tvrell. who retires; Cornet 11. S. Bernie to...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 28th February, at Kilgraston. Lady Luce Glum-, of a sou. On the 9th March, the Wife of the Rev. JAMES GRAY WOOD, minister of Gartaherrie, of a son. On the lath....

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PRICES CURRENT.

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3 per Cent. 3 per Cents. 3} per Cents New 3} per Bank Stock, India Stock, Exchequer India Bonds. Austrian Belgian Brazilian Cuba Chaim' 0011scubials Danish Dutch (Ex Ditto...