28 MARCH 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEli.".

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THE great measure of the session moves steadily to its completion in the House of Commons, supported by majorities of two or three to one. The Relief Bill reached all but the...

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The Congress of the United States has declared "that Andrew

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Jackson is duly elected President of the United States" for four years from the 4th of March:

The College of Cardinals are now shut up in conclave

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in a dark room, in the capital of the Christian world, deliberating on the election of a sly:ritual sovereign for the Romish Church. Between forty and fifty of the Cardinals are...

II - was formerly mentioned that the King of Spain had

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made Cadiz a free port : this measure has injured the trade of Gibraltar ; some of f he leading merchants were about to remove their concerns to Cadiz.

S.A.T U RD AY, Two O'CLOCK.

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The last German mail states that the Turks still coniinue their warlike preparations; but it contains no news of any interest. Accounts from Patras to the 8th February say that...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EvasrDro.—Another week has passed since our last report in the same dull uniformity which has characterized our Market for some time past. There has in...

The campaign in the East is supposed to be on

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the eve of com- mencing. General Wittgenstein has finally given up his command of the Russian forces, on account of his advanced age and ill state of health. Count Diebitsch has...

The Duke of Cambridge has, it is understood, purchased Cholmondeley

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Hotn.e, Piccadilly, of the Marquess of Choiniondeley. The Duke of Bucicinglmam is expected in England early in June. Lord and Lady Arundel will accompany his Grace from Rome....

The French legislators are engaged with their laws for the

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admi- nistrative organization of communes and departments. The Com- missioners appointed to examine the projects have made such alterations upon the Ministerial projects as...

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LENT ASSIZES. ROBBERIES AND Tnerrs.—George Wingfield was tried at •

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the Lincoln Assizes, for an assault and robbery urn Robert Capp. It ap- peared that Capp, returning, from market on horseback, was overtaken by the prisoner and tour other...

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POLICE or LON DON. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—An investigation took place

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on Wednesday, at Marylebone Police-office, respecting the death of Henry Neale, of 16, Great Castle-street, Regent-street ; who it was reported had been " Burked," or murdered,...

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AN ALARM.

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THE PRESS. STANDARD — What does the Duke of Wellington care that in the eyes of Europe he displays one branch of the British Legislature, and that the braucil which ought to...

THE DUEL.

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GLOBE-011 the duel between the Duke of Wellington and Lord Win- chilsea, which has become the subject of conversation to the exclusion of ether public topics, the general...

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DR. CHALMERS.

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Jr is RACINE, we believe, who remarks that distance of place offers the same advantage to poetry as distance of time. It was on this rule, we presume, that the Morning- Journal...

DREADFUL DESIGNS OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AGAINST THE WEST

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INDIANS. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THERE is a prayer of one of the saints of old, which the West India planters have often had, and most especially at this moment have, occasion to...

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KING'S COLLEGE.

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THERE seems to exist something like a wish in its high Tory friends to put clown this incipient institution. Why they should not only abandon it themselves, but endeavour to...

LIGHTS.

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WHY is it that, though accidents from vessels fouling each other at night in our rivers and on our coast are of frequent occurrence, no regulation is attempted for the...

ITALIAN OPERA.

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THE French Stage has its little paces de circonstance, which are full of spirit and gaiety : our Italian Opera has also its pieces of circumstances, but they are pieces of...

REVOLVING MASTS.

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LIEUTENANT SHULDHAM, of the Royal Navy, has lately introduced to public notice an invention which, should it answer his expecta- tions, will effect a complete alteration in the...

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NATURAL SCHOOL OF ACTING—AND PERI.ET.

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" THE natural school of acting" is much talked of and admired : is the excellence implied accurately understood ? When Partridge Sees GARRICK in Hamlet, on the appearance of the...

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THE NEW MUSICAL FUND.

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THE anniversary dinner of the New Musical Fund was held at Freemason's Tavern on Wednesday. The Duke of SUSSEX, the munificent and steady friend of this charity, having been...

THE GUILDHALL CONCERT.

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THE Concert at Guildhall on Thursday next, for the benefit of the Spanish and Italian Refugees, promises to afford the inhabitants of the metropolis a rare opportunity of...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.

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Tins is an institution that we shall always notice with pleasure, because it dares to set up for itself, and break through a monopoly that even in trade is an injurious bond,...

THE ORATORIOS.

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WE regret to be compelled to observe that the management of the Oratorios has not. been such as to realize the expectations which at their commencement we were led to entertain....

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SHEPHERDS, SHEEP, AND DOGS*.

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. WREN a poet takes to prose, we are apt to expect too much from him : whether from this or some other cause, we have never been entirely satisfied with Mr....

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LONG HOLLOW ,

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Is a novel in three volumes. It is one of those extraordinary books which produces at length DA effect by a reiteration of small circumstances. It is the drop of water hollowing...

LAY DOCTORS.

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THE SIMPLICITY OF HEALTH. BY HORTATOR. THE MANUAL FOR INVALIDS. BY A PHYSICIAN. WRITING books on health must be a very profitable occupation, for the number written is great,...

POOR IIUMPHREVS ALMANACK.

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THE author of the Every-Day-Book has published an amusing sa- tire upon the old astrological almanacks. His black-letter informa- tion has enabled him to preserve the character...

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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ROOKS IN THE PRESS, Oft PREPARING Fon Pour.' mAT1 ox. Mr. Washington Irving's account of the Wars of the Moors in Grenada is to be published in little more than a fortnight. A...

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THE CHDRC EL The Rev. William Hall has been presented

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by the Marquisof Bristol, to the Rectory of Tuddenham, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Stocking. The King has been pleased tst preseit the Rev. Augustus...

THE _ARMY.

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Office of Ordnance, March 21. Royal Reg. of Artillery-Capt. George Spiller, from unattached half-pay, to be Second Capt. vice Simmons, retired on half.pay.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. FRIDAY EVENING. The homeward-bound have had to

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contend again with a strong easterly wind, since the beginning cif this week, and are arriving very slowly. The following were the dates appointed for the departure of the...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OXFORD, March 26.-In a convocation holden this day the degree of Doctor of by diploma, was conferred upon the Rev. John Matthias Turner, M.A. of Christ Church, who has been...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, March 24. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Hollands and J. Meek, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, butchers - S. W. Faxon and J. Thorn, Piccadilly, surgeons-Parker and Wyatts,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BtnTirs.-On the 18th inst. at Frognel, Hampstead, the wife of the Rev. R. Simpson, M.A. of twin daughters-At Sir George Nayler's, in Hanover-square, the Lady of the Rev. Thomas...

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LONDON MARKETS. "

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CORi s si E FIANGE, FRIDAY, MARCH 27. With the exception 01 Forgn Wheat, the supply of all Grain this week is very moderate, and for fine parcels of Wheat quite as good prices...