2 JULY 1842

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The new scale of French duties on linens has been

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officially issued, and it is as bad as the worst anticipations. It will probably work us serious injury. But it is not merely as an individual com- mercial question that it is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Parliamentary proceedings of the week need not occupy much space here. The Customs-duties Bill, in which the new British Tariff of import-duties is embodied, has passed from...

The state of the country grows no better. " Jorrs

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of Tuam" has written to Sir ROBERT PEEL, to tell the Premier that vast num- bers in Ireland evade starvation by poisoning themselves with noxious weeds picked in the fields ;...

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Dcbatts an Vrortebings in Varlfament.

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THE TARIFF. The order of the day having been moved, on Tuesday, for the third reading of the Customs-duties Bill, Mr. JOHN JERVIS moved a clause to grant a drawback on coals...

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Sbe (Sow.

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THE occupations of the Court have varied little from the ordinary rou- tine this week. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council on Wednesday. At the Court, addresses of...

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gbe Vrobiptes.

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A vacancy has been caused in the representation of Buckingham- shire, by the death of Sir W. L. Young. Mr. W. E. Fitzmaurice has come forward as a Conservative candidate. The...

Ebt Iftetropolis.

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The Goldsmith's Company gave a grand banquet to the Ministers on Wednesday. Mr. Prime Warden Buttemer presided, assisted by Mr. Warden Hayne, Mr. Warden Halifax, and Mr. Warden...

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IftistelIantous.

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The Count of Mensdorf and his four sons arrived at Ostend on the 24th, from England, on their way to Germany. The Derby Reporter announces the death of the Earl of Leicester '...

IRELAND.

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The .Dublin Evening Mail confirms the assertion of the London John Bull that Lord De Grey has not resigned the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, and that there is no difference...

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Lord Brougham gave judgment today in the Judicial Committee of

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the Privy Council in the case of Escort versus Mastin, on an appeal from the Ecclesiastical Court. A suit had been brought in that court against the Reverend Thomas Sweet...

Another preliminary meeting of ministers and others was held yes-

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terday, in Devonshire Square Chapel, Bishopsgate Street ; and a Com- mittee was appointed to convene a public meeting of all religious de- nominations, on Friday evening next,...

The French telegraph conveys the following news brought by the

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Indian mail, which reached Marseilles on the 29th- " On the 16th, General Pollock joined Sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad, reesta- blishing on his march the authority of Thorabaz...

Another debate was raised in the House of Commons last

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night on the subjects of the session—the distress of the country and Sir Robert Peel's financial scheme : the pretext being six resolutions moved by Mr. WALLACE, as an amendment...

Last night's Gazette announces the appointment of the following Commissioners

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to govern Pentonville Prison: Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, Lord John Russell, the Speaker Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Robert...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The following announcement will create no surprise, although there has been the utmost uncertainty on the subject of it up to the last : we copy the Globe of...

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STEPHENSON'S THEATRE MACHINERY.

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THE publication of a set of ten folio plates, with explanatory letterpress, descriptive of the patent Machinery for Theatres invented by Mr. R. MACDONALD STEPHENSON, will make...

THE CHINESE MUSEUM.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Chinese Collection, Hyde Park Corner, 28th June 1842. SIR—At the conclusion of a very able notice which appeared in your paper of Saturday last...

ROSSINI'S " STABA.T MATER" Has been twice performed this week,—on

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Wednesday evening, by the Professional Choral Society, in the Hanover Square Rooms ; and yes- terday morning, under the direction of Signor Ganusta, in the St. James's Theatre....

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. We have to notice the unusual circumstance of a fluctuation of per cent in the prices of the English Funds. The recent decline of Columbian...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived-At Gravesend, June 25th. Courier. Scott. from the Cape; Wasdale, M'Kenzie, from Mauritius; Mary Richardsou. Bailey; and Gleaner. GOA, from Ben- gal ; 26th. Stains...

PUNISHMENTS.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. 11th June 1842. Sue-The following remarks have been suggested by a passage in the Spec- tator of last Saturday, now to be quoted. "Other...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 21st April, at Pernambuco, the Lady of H. Auousros CuWPER, Esq.. her Britannic Majesty's Consul, of a daughter. On the 12th June, at Copenhagen, the Lady of the...

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WHIG POLICY IN INDIA.

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IT is true that the policy of the attempt to replace Snail SUJAH on the throne of Cabul ought not to be judged by the reverses re- cently experienced : that would be to take too...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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FRANCIS. THE fate of this miserable creature is still uncertain. * The re- sponsibility of the Ministers, with whom the final decision rests, is so delicate—the public and...

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FRENCH PLAYS.

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THE French plays at the St. James's Theatre close at the end of next week ; until which time Id. BODFFE'S engagement is prolonged. Before the opportunity has passed for seeing...

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS.

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Tax season terminated on Monday, with the following scheme: EIGHTH CONCERT—MONDAY, JUNE 27. am I. Sinfonia in E flat Mozsar. Scene. Miss Dom. " Ah perlido" . . Barrnovizre....

SELECT COMMITTEE ON ELECTION PROCEEDINGS. SIR ROBERT INGLIS, C01011e1 SIBTHORP,

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MT. WAKLET, and the like, object that the Committee for inquiring into Compromises of Election Petitions is an "inquisition." The objection comes oddly from the last-mentioned...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVEL% My Last Tour and First Work; or A Visit to the Baths of Wildbad and Rippoldsau. By Lady Vavasour. Cunningham. Summarily, The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times....

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DR. MADDEN ' S UNITED IRISHMEN.

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So far as a chaos can be reduced to form, this publication consists of three parts. The first is an introduction, written by a friend of Dr. MADDEN ' S, consisting of a review...

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MR. TAYLOR 5 EDWIN THE FAIR.

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IN plan and execution this volume resembles Philip Van Artevelde ; but the elements of the story are much inferior, being devoid of the novelty, variety, well-marked character,...

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DR. GULLY ' S SIMPLE TREATMENT OP DISEASE. APART from haphazard empiricism,

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there seem to be but two methods of dealing with disease,—a judicious reliance on Nature ; a confidence in the practitioner's art. By the first, the physician does little,...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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From June 23a fo June 30th. Boons. Le Petite Chouannevie ; on Histoire d'un College Breton sous l'Empire. Par A. F. Rio. (This is a very handsomely-printed Paris octavo,...

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M U S IC.

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Church Music published by the Motet Society. No. I. WHEN the prospectus of the Motet Society first made its appearance, it presented, as we then remarked, the rare announcement...

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FINE ARTS.

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SKETCHES OF THE QUEEN'S BAL COSTUME. A NUMBER of sketches, in 'water colours, of the personages who figured at the Queen's Bal Costume, have been this week exhibited by Messrs....

PICTORIAL ANATOMY.

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ALREADY do the artists who are preparing to compete for the prizes offered by the Royal Commission, begin to feel the disadvantages of not having studied anatomy ; their...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Orrice OF ORDNANCI. June 25.-Royal Artillery-Gent. Cadets to be Second Lieuts. : R. B. M'Crea. vice Wilder. promoted; J. L. Elgee. vice D'Aguilar, promoted; J. Desborough. vice...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, June 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Turner and Lenox, Mark Lane, Customhouse-agents-Fry and Co. Liverpool, tea- brokers ; as far as regards W. Fry-Draper and Trendall,...