31 AUGUST 1844

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The Portuguese appear to submit very placidly to the decrees

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of' Senhor COSTA CABRAL, their "Dictator" as he is now nicknamed ; but the English writers stationed in the kingdom by the London newspapers assume a vicarious indignation, and...

As many suspected, MEHEMET Am has not abdicated, after all

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; and he was on his way. back to Alexandria when we last hear of his movements. Whether it was an act of senile madness or a pre- tence; whether he was bewildered in brain with...

The Irish Repealers do not make a show of getting

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on very pros- perously at present. The " rent " indeed is high, though it has been higher ; but they are beset with some misgiVings, and are threatened with certain inopportune...

The Anti-Corn-law League promised active attention to the electoral registration

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; and signs of their activity appear just now, in complaints from the Conservatives, that wholesale objections have been served upon persons of their side. These statements are...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE fighting fuss is kept up, and is supplied with fresh fuel by the Prince DE Jonsvir.LE's bombardment of Mogador, Marshal Be- GEMID'S victory over the Morocco army, and the...

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Ebe Ifittropolis.

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The Lord and Lady Mayoress gave a splendid entertainment to Sir Robert and Lady Sale and Mrs. Sturt, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionhouse, on Thursday. Among the guests were...

be grourt.

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THE Queen appears now to have quite recovered ; having resumed her oat-door exercise. Her Majesty took the first airing in a close car- riage on Sunday ; on Tuesday, the Prince...

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be Vrobinces.

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A Manchester correspondent of the Standard describes how the Anti- Corn-law League have begun their active operations in the business of electoral registration: they appear for...

IRELAND.

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The Dublin Evening Mail of Friday, on the authority of a private letter " written by one who has peculiar means of obtaining authentic information," echoes the doubtful report...

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joreign an eolortial.

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3fottoceo AND BAREARY.—The Prince De Joinville has bombarded at least one more town on the coast of Morocco ; Marshal Bugeand has gained another victory on its inland frontier....

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_Miscellaneous.

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There is no end to the contradictory reports respecting the move- ments of the Queen. The great questions are—will the Queen go to Ireland this year, or not ; will Louis...

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THE PATENT METALLIC CAPSULES.

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The clumsy contrivance of wire for securing the corks of champagne, soda-water, and other effervescing drinks—and also the use of wax and resin for excluding the air from...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATUBDICY Mora'. The Paris papers of Thursday publish 011ie later and fuller despatches from the Prince De Joinville and Marsh I Btteaud ; hich, altimbgh The Paris papers of...

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The Times confirms the report that the Queen, as soon

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as her Ma- jesty has acquired sufficient strength for the fatigue, will set out for a tour in Scotland. There is a rumour current this morning that her Majesty will pro- rogue...

Addresses to the Livery of London appear today from candidates

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for the office of City Chamberlain—Alderman Anthony Brown, Alderman Sir John Key, and Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey. Sir John Pine a nnounces that it is not his intention to solicit...

The Shropshire Conservative reports a meeting at which Mr. Disraeli

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met his constituents of Shrewsbury, on Monday, to report his conduct in Parliament during the past session. He described his own independ- ence as an occasional opponent of...

Last night's Gazette contains the order for a Court mourning

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for the Grand Dutchess Alexandra Nicolaiewna of Russia ; to begin on Sunday next the 1st September,: to change on Thursday the 4th, and to termi- nate on Monday the 9th. The...

The city of San Carlos, the principal town in the

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island of Chiloe, the most Southern province of the Chilian Republic, has been the scene of a dreadful conflagration, which broke out in its very centre, and before it could be...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Government Securities improved slightly on Monday ; but another com- plexion was given to the market by the arrival of the intelligence...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PRIVA TEE RING. ON land, war has, in theory at least, been conducted for upwards of half-a-century upon comparatively humane principles. Attempts have been made to give laws to...

THE ARMY.

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OFFICE or Oarnearrcx. August 26.— Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieut. C. F. Skyriug to be Sec. Capt. vice Coddington, seconded ; Sec. Lieut. J. W. Lovell to be First Lieut,...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arminian—At Gravesend. 27th August, Enterprise, Caudell, from Hobart Town; 28th, Men, Waddell, from Port Phillip ; and 29th, Breadalbane, M•Niel, from Calcutta. Off Hastings....

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NORTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

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FRANCE has gone to war with Morocco, alleging that Morocco has not only given shelter to ABD-EL-KADER, but supplied him with troops and munitions of war wherewith to harass the...

FRENCH COLONIZATION.

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Tim labours of the Colonial Commission appointed in 1840 are not unprecedented in the history of France. The colonial policy of COLBERT, though tainted with the economical...

THE IRISH LANDLORD MOVEMENT TO RAISE WAGES.

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"A rare day's wages for a fair day's work !" cries the Anti-Poor- law man : the cry is illustrated, we learn from the Morning Chro- nicle, in the incendiary fires; it is echoed...

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TAKING TITLES.

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JEAN PAUL RICHTER said, sarcastically, that the French were masters of the land, the English of the sea, and his countrymen the Germans of the air. The Princes of Germany are...

A LODGING FOR THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD WANTED.

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THE country seems to have made up its mind to have national monuments of illustrious Englishmen ; but where on earth to put them it knows not. It has been the custom to cram...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRavirm, A Winter in Italy. In a Series of Letters to a Friend. By Mrs. Ashton Yates. In two volumes Wham. STATISTICS. St. Lucia : Historical, Statistical. and Descriptive. By...

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MR. BREEN'S ST. LUCIA.

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EXCEPTING Guadeloupe and Trinidad, St. Lucia is the largest in the group of the lesser Antilles or Caribbean Islands ; its length being forty-two miles, its greatest breadth...

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DR. MAGINN'S JOHN MANESTY.

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THE time of this fiction of the late Dr. MAGINN is laid during the early part of the reign of George the Third, when, though Jaco- bite prospects were extinct, Jacobite talk...

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PAROCHIAL, OLD WINDSOR, AND CLUB SERMONS.

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Tins is, for our secular journal, a rather unusual assortment of Sermon-books, but each set possessed of more than average merit, or of some accidental peculiarity which imparts...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From August 15th to August 29th.

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BOOKS. SL Lucia : Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive. By HENRY H. BEERS, Esq., thirteen years a Resident in the Island. John 3Ianesty, the Liverpool Merchant. By the...

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FINE ARTS.

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HUMOROUS DESIGNERS. WHEN GEORGE CRUIESHANK commenced his career as a caricaturist, he was the sole successor of GH.LRAY, BUNRURY, and RowitANDsoN, who for half a century had...

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MUSIC.

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THE PURCELL COMMEMORATION. Duailto a period of fluctuating opinion on Church Music, when a cer- tain enthusiastic party are making a strong and not wholly unsuccessful attempt...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 17th August. at Munich, the Wife of the Rev. J. C. WHALLEY, of a daughter. On the 22d, at Aire, near Geneva, the Lady of Sir Jon a Cuestas THOROLD, Bart., of...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Aug. 27. PAIITNERSHITS DISSOLVED. Wilgosa and Watkins, High Street Portland Town, news-agents-Cooper arid Kings- bury, Pulliam St. Mary the Virgin. Norfolk....

PRICES CURRENT.

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3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 34 per Cents Reduced New 35 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per cent. India Stock. 104 Exchequer Bills, lid....