2 OCTOBER 1841

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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the more stubborn and calm grew Sir JAMES ; until Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD'S wholesale condemnation of the law and Mr. FEEr stasty's harebrained denunciations extorted from the Home...

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Debates ant Vrocetbings in Vatliament.

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WA.Y8 AND MEANS. Sir CHARLES BROKE VERE took the opportunity of going into a Committee of Ways and Means, on Monday, to defend the Saxmund- harn Agricultural Association from...

A movement against the Corn-law is going on "out of

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doors," - which perhaps indicates a more deep-rooted and general dislike to that law than all the ostentatious agitation of the summer. Meetings are recorded in a great number...

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eourt.

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THE Queen and Prince Albert still lead a quiet life at Windsor. The bad weather has sometimes interfered with the out-door exercise; which the Royal pair, however, have not...

Vlbe _Metropolis.

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A Common Hall was held on Wednesday, for the election of, a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. The proceedings passed off without the slightest excitement. Alderman Pine and...

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be Vrobinces.

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Mr. Freshfield has offered himself for the representation of the city of Hereford, upon the Conservative interest, in the room of Mr. Hob- house, who has accepted the...

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IRELAND.

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Sir Edward Sugden arrived in Dublin on Tuesday ; and was sworn into office before the Lords Justices, by Mr. C. Fitzsimon, Clerk of the Hanaper. The new Lord Chancellor...

Lord Morpeth will leave England for America on the 4th

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of next month. He intends to visit the principal cities in the United States and Canada. His tour will extend over four months, and he expects to re- turn early in...

SCOTLAND.

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Mr. Pringle, one of the Lords of the Treasury, was reelected for Sel- kirkshire on Tuesday. In returning thanks, Mr. Pringle alluded to an opposition which had been brewing...

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Both Houses of Parliament met today, to forward the public

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business; and several measures were forwarded a stage. In the House of Commons, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, in reply to Mr. Wu-Lux Wnssems, that 3,644,000/ had been...

Meetings to petition against the prorogation of Parliament have been

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held at Kentish Town, Christchurch Marylebone, Marylebone Rectory, St. George's in the East, South Place Chapel Finsbury, (Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association,) Derby,...

POSTSCRIPT

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SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, on the motion for the third reading of the Poor , law Commission Bill, Mr. FIELDER moved that it In the House of Commons,...

A meeting of merchants and bankers was held at the

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Mansionhouse yesterday, to express the sense which the mercantile community have of the exertions of the Times newspaper in exposing the late con- spiracy on the Continent to...

Mr. Arnold, the Revising Barrister for Westminster, gave his decision

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this morning on the right of Peers to vote at the election of Members of the House of Commons. The question was raised by the claim of Lord Dinorben to vote for Westminster. Mr....

MONEY MARKET.

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SToCR EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The period fixed for the close of the subscription of Exchequer Bills to be funded was one o'clock on Monday ; and up to that time only about...

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EAST INDIA. SHIPPING.

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Arrived-At Gravesend, Sept. 26th, Do chess of Clarence. Birch, from China; and Helena. Drenning. from Bengal; 27111, Medusa, Purdie, from ditto; and Agenoria, Gresley. from the...

THE THEATRES.

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THE Covent Garden management seems determined that playgoers shall DO longer complain of lack of novelty : on Saturday the first new Comedy of the season was produced, and on...

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The English Opera having closed upon the "triumphant career" of

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Martin uzzi, with a flourish of trumpets from the Council, and a self-gra- tulatory note of exultation from Mr. STEPHENS, that theatre now re- sounds with the din of Promenade...

GREECE UNDER THE EUROPEAN GUARANTEE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Athens, 27th August 1841. Your paper being looked upon as one of the most powerful advocates of the Popular cause in Europe, a correct account,...

SETTLEMENT OF THE CORN-QUESTION: CASE OF TIT HEOWNER S.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Rie Vivienne. Fads. 22d September 1841. SIR—You have earned for yourself a high character, that of combining de- cided opinions in politics...

HOLCROFT'S obsolete and mawkish play, Deaf and Dumb, was re-

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suscitated at the Haymarket on Wednesday, for the purpose of ex- hibiting Madame CELESTE in the character of Julio ; a deaf and dumb foundling, whom the Abbe de rEpee adopts,...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 22d September, at Ballyduff House, county Kilkenny, the Lady JULIANA MATEY, of a dau g hter, still-born. On the 24th, at Smeaton, Lady Bucirstr HEPBURN, of a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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RIGHT NOT JUSTICE. Timm is one thing which the discreet Cabinet of Sir ROBERT PEEL have found themselves quite unable to refuse : they could resist the demand for Corn-law...

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HOW TO GET RID OF THE CORN-LAWS.

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THE Globe and the Nonconformist have noticed our last paper on the Corn question—both characteristically. The former, with its usual flippancy, and incapability of seeing any...

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THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.

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WHEN this most extravagant enterprise was first undertaken, and long before its results could be foreseen in all their extent, we de- nounced it as an insane project, and as the...

LORD MELBOURNE NOT IN OPPOSITION.

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ALTHOUGH Lord MELBOURNE, on changing his seat from one side of the House of Lords to the other, avoided the place usually oc- cupied by the leader of the Opposition, the public...

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As heroes in the days of chivalry sometimes retired from the battle to have a little private fight of their own, so Mr. WAKLEY and Mr. Wean retreated the other night from the...

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TALLIS'S SERVICE.

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Tars venerable and interesting work was again presented, in its full di- mensions and original power, to a crowded audience at Westminster Abbey, on Wednesday morning; the Choir...

SANGUINE SIR WILLIAM RAE.

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SIR WILLIAM RAE, who has just enjoyed the luxury of reelection for Bute in his old character of Lord-Advocate for Scotland, announced from the hustings at Rothesay, that the new...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, The Canada, in 11341. Hy Sir Richard H. Bonnyeastle, Lieutenant•Colonel Royal Engineers, and Lieulteset•Colonel in the Militia of Upper Canada. In two volumes....

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PACTS AND FIGURES.

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THE object of this new periodical is to collect the statistics sup- plied by Parliament and the press ; to select and arrange them for present use or future reference ; and to...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Fr0111 September 16th to September 30th. BOOB& The Canada, in 1841. By Sir RICHARD H. BoseircesTLE, Lieutenant- Colonel Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Militia of...

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MILITARY GAZETTE. omc. OF ORDNANCE. Sept. 27.–Royal Regiment of Artillery–Capt.

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and Brevet Major E. Cruttenden to be Lieut.-Col. vice Story, dec.; Second Capt. H. Williams to be Capt. vice Cnittenden; First Lieut. J. W. Ormsby to be Second Capt. vice...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Sept. 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Peek and Wilcox, Maryleboue Street, Regent Street, hair-dressers–Lunn and Ro. Barton-upou Humber. wine-merchants–Webb and Mayor....

PRICES CURRENT.

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SHAR ES. (Last Official Quotation during the Week, ending Friday evening.) Mines- Banks– Bolanos Australasian Braziliau Imperial Dirt, (St. John del Rey) 5 British...