30 MAY 1846

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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WHITSUNTIDE finds the Corn Bill further on its anxious way through the Lords than might have been expected a little while ago; the House having passed the second reading by 211...

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'The United States and Mexico are fairly at war. Mexico

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strikes the first blow ; crossing the Texan frontier, and inflicting on the American General something very like defeat. General Scott and reinforcements of men and treasure are...

Debates anti tlrocetbings inVarliament.

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THE CORN BILL. Monday being the day appointed for the second reading of the Corn Im- portation Bill by the Lords, great anxiety was displayed by the public on that day to gain...

Prince Louis Napoleon has escaped from the French prison at

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Ham ; and is now, it is said, in London, seeking a passport for Italy. The French seem in general to rejoice at his escape ; and it is even surmised that King Louis Philippe is...

The authorities of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields have registered the birth of

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Queen Victoria's fifth child—a daughter. The guns fired ; Parliament have passed addresses to the Queen ; but the fourth Priocess's entry on the scene created no sensation equal...

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gbe Inetrop olio.

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A meeting of Liberal Peers took place on Saturday, at Lansdowne House. The result of their deliberation was in every respect what the country would most wish. About seventy...

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THE Queen's accouchement took place, at Buckingham Palace, on Mon- day. Shortly after two o'clock her Majesty became ill, and at five minutes before three o'clock a princess was...

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gbe girobinres.

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The talk here is, that Mr. Bramley Moore and other gentlemen from Liver- pool, have been in London as a deputation, the object of whose going; had refer- ence to the admission...

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SCOTLAND.

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The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland commenced its annual session, at Edinburgh, on Thursday last week. In the forenoon, the Marquis of Bute, the Lord High...

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§or-tign ant eolonfal.

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FivarcE.—Prince Louis Napoleon, after a captivity of six years, made his escape from the fortress of. Ham on Monday last. The Morning Post supplies the following details—amusing...

IRELAND.

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At the weekly meeting of Repealers at Conciliation Hall, on Monday, a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, announcing his confident hope that at five o'clock of that day, "the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, the Cliatreurzort of the EraUX- QUER made his financial statement- " The House has already been informed by my right...

liftisttllantous.

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We have what we think authority for announcing that their Majesties the Xing and Queen of the French, attended by some of the junior branches of the Royal Family, contemplate...

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The morning papers report the proceedings of a very interesting

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meeting which took place in the City yesterday. The Directors of the New Zea- land Company met the Proprietors, to consider the expediency of "wind- ing up." After a long...

Sir Robert Peel left town this morning, for Drayton Manor.

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The Gazette of yesterday notifies the following appointments—The Honour- able Charles Augustus Murray, to be her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt; Lord Napier, to be...

The insurrectionatyspirit in Portugal has again broken out. The downfall

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of the Costra Cabral Ministry appears to have been the signal. The Count Villa Real was intrusted with the formation of a Cabinet; and on his failure the Queen oent for the Duke...

MONEYI MARKET.

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STOCK ETIELLE0754PRIDAT APTERNOOK. The Stock Market has been in an elastic state during the whole week; the certainty of the successful passage of the Corn Bill through the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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ARRIVED -At Gravesend, 234 May, Abbotsford, Buckland, than Bombay ; 27th. Ma. dura, Smith, from Manilla; 28th, Bangalore, Cuttings, from Calcutta; and Tory, Row% from Madras. At...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PECULIAR BURDENS ON LAND. TER Committee of the Lords have tacitly given up peculiar burdens on land as a plea against Corn-law repeal. They say in their Report*—" The Committee...

LORD STANLEY AND THE COLONIES.

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It is nothing new to see politicians all of a sudden affect to take a deep interest in persons or classes for whom they had before evinced the most perfect indifference. Lord...

. ENGLISH INTERESTS IN THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.

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IN the complaints raised, and the jealousies sought to be inspired, regarding the policy pursued by the Dutch Government in re- spect of English interests in the Eastern...

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THE WELLINGTON STATUE.

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You can scarcely do an unkinder thing than iuggeat a plan for the improvement of the Metropolis ; for it not only result! jn opening the door to disfigurement, but provokes a...

HINT TO RAILWAY SPECULATORS.

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Tun railway traffic of the country is in such a state, growing so rapidly, and shaping itself so differently from every calculation, as to baffle guessing. A witness before one...

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THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IN further prosecution of

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our desire to remove, by calling public attention to, the defects in the management of the Library, we . shall now notice the regulations by which Readers obtain printed books....

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, The Lite and Letters of Thomas A' Becket, now first gathered from the Contemporary Historians. By the Rev. J. A. Giles, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi Col-...

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DR. BURROWS ON CEREBRAL CIRCULATION.

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SINCE the experiments of Dr. Kellie, and Dr. Monro's observations upon them, in 1783, it has been a theory generally held by most British and some foreign physicians, that the...

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THE POEMS OF THOMAS DAVIS.

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Tins volume of Duffy's Library of Ireland contains the fugitive verses of Thomas Davis, with elaborate notes illustrating the historical allusions, and a preface of many...

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MU SIC.

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SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. WE were on Friday last week transported ill some degree to the anni- versary festival of Haydn's Creation, celebrated in the Riding-school it Vienna,...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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From May 22d to May 28141. Books. On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; and on the Connexion be- tween Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. By George...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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. Tuesday, May 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISMILVED. Simpson and Co. North Andley Street, cheesemong'ers-S. and•E. Ebrall, Shrews- bury, gunmakers-Hewes and Jones, Bath Place, New Road,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 30th April, at Naples, the Lady of Alfred Hamilton, Esq., of Gidea Hall, Essex, of a daughter. On the 19th May, at Liscard, Cheshire, the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, of a son. On...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-orrice, May 22.-let Drag. Guards-Major J. S. Smith, from 5th Foot, to be Major, vice Schonswar, who exchanges. 2d Drag. Guards-Staff Surg. of the Second Clam, .A.. 0. Home,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closin g Prices.) Soho-d. Monday. Made" Wass* a. — 5 per Cent Consols set 961 964 Se Ditto for Account . 961 9 3 per Cents Reduced 95 951 93 33 per Cents 973...

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Loudon Printed by Joszpu CLSTTen, of 320, Strand, in the

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Caunty of Middlesex; Printer, at the Mike of ROBERT Pstuea and Josira CL•iT024, NO.10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, In the City of Leedom ; and...

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CONTINUATION OF THE LORDS' DEBATE ON THE CORN BILL.

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The debate having been resumed on Tuesday, the speakers were— the Earl of WILTON, against the bill; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, against; the Earl of GRANVILLE, for ; the Marquis of...

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TOR THE WEEK ENDING No- 935..1 SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1846. IGRATIS WITII MS WEEK'S SPECTATOIL

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REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE BURDENS AFFECTING REAL

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PROPERTY. By the Lords Committees, appointed a Select Committee to inquire into Burdens on Real Property, and the impediments to agricultural transac- tions, caused by the...

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TWENTIETH REPORT OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE NEW

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ZEALAND COMPANY. You will have seen, from the correspondence of which a copy has been transmitted to every proprietor, that we lost no time, after Mr. Secretary Gladstone...

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SHORT DEEDS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 1911s May 1846. Sin—My attention has been particularly called to the inconclusiveness of the arguments used by your correspondent "A...