26 SEPTEMBER 1846

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TUE aspect of Spanish affairs grows as dark and troubled as intriguers and journalists can make it. Much of the turmoil is spurious; but it mischief do not ensue, it will not be...

From opposite regions, we have news of warlike matters. A

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British negotiator, on a mission unknown, has recently arrived in the Rio de la Plata, to attempt the accommodation of the quarrels in that quarter. Santa Anna has actually...

TheGermanic Diet has sat in deliberation on the Schleswig- Holstein

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dispute, and has uttered a kind of neutral resolution; hinting with deprecatory solemnity disapproval of any popular intervention, and also the belief that the King of Denmark...

The progress of time only develops the growing difficulty of

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providing for Ireland in this the second year of her want. The exigency outruns the earlier calculations ; the weaknesses of the people are even more fatally apparent on trial ;...

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The state of the manufacturing districts, according to a report

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which we quote, is not more unsatisfactory than it is curious. There is some stagnation in trade—sufficient to oblige the manu- facturers to shorten time. The splendid harvest...

'be Qourt.

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Tan Royal movements during the three last days of the Queen's sojourn at the Isle of Wight afford nothing worthy of special note. Rides and walks constituted the out-door...

Ebt jilletropolfs.

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On Monday, the morrow of St. Matthew, the Lord Mayor, several of the Aldermen, Town Clerk, City Solicitor, and the Treasurer and Go- vernors of the Royal Hospitals, assembled in...

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frobincts.

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A correspondent of' the Times, writing from Manchester on the 21st. im- stant, reports on the state of trade in the factory districts. " The state of this district is anything...

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IRELAND.

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The Irish Government shows no abatement of activity. The first page of the Pilot of Monday bristles with proclamations for holding baronial sessions. The Stromboli, Alban,...

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SCOTLAND.

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'The Duke of Richmond's tenantry at Fochabers held their yearly agri- cultural meeting, at Gordon Castle, on Tuesday the 15th instant. Some eery fine animals were exhibited in a...

ffortign ant( Golonial.

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SPAIN. —The flight of the Count de Montemolin from Bourges, in France, is no longer a mere rumour. The Presse furnishes the particulars of his escape. On the evening of the 14th...

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fflistellantous.

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It came out on Monday that General Cabrera had arrived in London on the evening of Friday; the Count de Montemolin, on Sunday morning. At present the Count is residing at the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The discussion in the Spanish Congress on the marriage question closed on Saturday evening. The opposition was maintained by very few mem- bers; most notably by...

The most brilliant and remarkable specimen of a " shooting

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star " that we re- collect to have ever witnessed passed over the Metropolis last night. At fifteen minutes to ten, the atmosphere became suddenly lighted up with an intense...

By the Swordfish, advices have been received from Rio de

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Janeiro to the 24th August. The Brazilian Government had introduced a measure for the sanction of the Legislature whereby the property of British sub- jects resident in Brazil...

Sir William Symonds, the Surveyor of the Navy, had a

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very narrow escape during a recent collision between the Phoenix and Herald steamers, in the narrow channel of the Swash. Sir• William was in the bows of the Phoenix, and when...

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official

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residence of Lord John Russell in Downing Street. It was fully attended. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of Lord John Russell in Downing...

Last night's Gazette notifies the following important Colonial appoint- ments—

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Sir Charles Edward Grey, Knight, to be Governor-in-chief of Jamaica. Lieutenant-Colonel William Reid, C.B., Governor-General of Barbados and its dependent Islands. Captain...

Lord Westmeath has written a letter to the Times with

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reference to " the heavy blow and great discouragement" which the Leading Journal has aimed at Irish landlords in recent wholesale strictures. He defends his class by very...

Accounts from Yonghal mention the state of the town as

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most alarming. The result of the previous day's sessions had dissatisfied the people; no- thing having been proposed to give them present employment. "Like men maddened with...

The King of Denmark has issued a proclamation, which was

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read in the churches of Schleswig on the 20th instant, conveying a disclaimer of any intention in the Royal letter-patent of the 8th July to infringe the rights of the Dutchies...

A " Post-Captain" will find that the Spectator anticipated his

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request, in the number for the 25th of October 1845.

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Mr. Bunn has announced the opening of Drury Lane on

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Saturday next, for opera and ballet. His programme exhibits a strong company, and promises great doings in the course of the season. In addition to the per- formers of last...

TOPICS OP THE DAY.

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WAR WITH SPAIN AND FRANCE. 'ume are appearances as if it were intended to prepare the pub- lic mind in this country for a speedy declaration of war by the British Government...

MONEY MARKET.

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svoce EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arrinizmow. The mere monetary proceedings of the past week afford scarcely any scope for remark. The operations in the English Funds have been of a very...

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SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN—WHAT WILL THE CONTEST DO FOR THE PEOPLE?

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THE Schleswig-Holstein agitation has at last spread into the re- gions of diplomacy and that in a way that must be disagreeable to the long acknowledged leaders in German...

WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR MEXICO?

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IT is high time that we in England should take into serious con- sideration the question, What can be done to save the. miserable and impotent republic of Mexico from extinction...

INDECENCIES OF TOWN BURIAL.

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IT is said that some shocking occurrence is necessary to bring about every reform in England: are the recently-exposed outrages to fulfil that office? The Kingsland Road...

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POLICE PORTRAITURE.

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CHARLES LAMB notes the tendency in the human mind to as- cribe personal ugliness where we owe a grudge. Your runaway apprentice is always an ill-looking dog : if he was too...

THE PRESS AND THE MONTPENSIER MARRIAGE.

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We mentioned, on Saturday, that there was a paper in the Morning Chronicle of that day, constituting a kind of war-cry against the Montpen- sier marriage. A remarkable imitation...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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A,CHaOLOGIC, Neology ; or a Treatise on the Origin, Progress, and Symbolical Import of the Beefed Structures of the most Eminent Nations and Ages of the World. By John Dudley,...

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CAMP AND BARRACK-ROOM.

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The British Army as it is. The words suggest a vast and almost nor. explored field for public inquiry. We are proud of the renown of our soldiers; praise of their great deeds,...

KENNEDY ON THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA.

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THE author of this work may claim the sad honours due to a prophet of evil, whose predictions have stood the test of twenty years' experience. When he published his first...

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MARGARET FULLER'S PAPERS ON LITERATURE AND ART. THESE two volumes,

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slender in balk but rich in matter, are all we have yet seen of the writings of the author. If this be a fault in us it is one which we long to repair, for we have seen enough...

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PAS SLOG IA.

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THE number of ingenious persons who have speculated on the idea of an universal language, arguing for its desirableness, whilst they admitted the difficulty of constructing one...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boons. Notes on the Epidemic Cholera. By R. Hartley Kennedy, M.D., &c., late Physician-General and President of the Medical Board, Bombay. Second edition, revised. Papers on...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, Sept. 22.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. and H. Hayes, Liverpool, victuallers-Newton and Co. Liverpool, plaster-of. Paris-manufacturers-Stockbridge and Kay, Oxford Street, drapers-Caulfield...

BIRTHS.

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On the I I th September, at Bothomsall, Notts, the Lady of the Rev. Sir Charles Macgregor, Bart., of a son. On the 15th, in Prince's Street, Edinburgh, the Lady Anne Home...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR - OFFICE, Sept. 25.-2d Regt. of Foot-Ensign R. 0. Potts, to be Lieut. by pus. chase, vice Otway, who retires ; R. Holdsworth, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Potts....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Oriental, Lowther, front Calcutta to London, has been totally lost near Jugger- naut; two of the crew missing. The Sultan, Porter ; and Plantagenet, Bird; bound for London,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FONDS. 3 per Cent Consols ........... Ditto for Account . 3 per Cents Reduced ......... 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 10} Exchequer...