7 DECEMBER 1844

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NEWS OF THE 'WEEI4 Ir the friends of the Church

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OfTingland desire to - remove much present scandal, ominous of futuielltsaster, they will resort to some :plan for invoking a high influence, stiiih-as that of an efficient Con-...

There is one novelty in Mr. O'CosszLes weekly address to

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the Repeal Association — a caution to the Irish against too readily in- vesting money in railways ! Railways, says the Liberator, are a s great convenience ; but unless people...

One of the Native "protected" states of India, Kolapore, has

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been taking the trouble to illustrate the bad working of the treaty system, which keeps Native Governments with just enough inde- pendence to be perverse and obstructive in the...

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Int (Tout.

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THE death of the Princess Sophia Matilda has put a check upon all Court gayeties. On Saturday, none of the Royal family left the Castle, and the music at dinner was...

The dark age of Spain waxes yet more gloomy. Weakness

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claims the aid of cruelty, and the ' power of law is asserted by favour of lawless despotism. Spain s most remarkable men are banished by tens, because the Government is of a...

Zbe ATIEtropolis.

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A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the despatch of busi- ness. Freedoms were granted to a long list of applicants, including several merchants and bankers of eminence...

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Zbe Vrobinces.

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On the 19th November, the Bishop of Exeter addressed a letter to the clergy of his diocese, on the observance of the Rubric in the Book of Common Prayer ; and it now makes its...

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IRELAND.

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The Dublin Pilot has reason to think, although no authority for stating, "that an active cbrrespondence is going on between the Govern- ment and some of the Bishops upon the...

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SCOTLAND.

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At a most respectably-attended meeting of the roaster cotton-spinners, power-loom weavers, and others engaged in cotton manufactures, in Glasgow, on Wednesday, resolutions were...

ffortign ant Colonial.

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SPAIN.—The interest of the Spanish news still centres in the sequel of Zurbano's revolt. The last positively known of that leader is, that on the night of November the 20th,...

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Miscellaneous.

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It is reported that the Queen and Prince Albert intend to visit the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe, and the Duke of Wellington at Strath. fieldsaye. The 12th instant has been named...

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POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY.

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The morning's papers bring again to view another instance of the turmoil in the Church. The fortnight taken for consideration by Mr. Cameron, the Perpetual Curate of Hurst,...

Dublin accounts of Thursday display Mr. O'Connell still busy about

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the Charitable Bequests Act. In the first place, he has published a legal "opinion," in which he declares that the act places the regular (that is, the monastic) clergy in a...

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The Chronicle this morning resumes the soothing strain towards O'Connell.

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It is admitted that England has a "thick hide of apathy and indifference " ; but the feeling towards Ireland is improved ; and it is suggested that it would be more prudent to...

Last night's Gazette contains notices from the Horse Guards and

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Admiralty, that officers of the Army and Navy need not wear any other mourning with their uniforms than a black crape round the left arm. The Ministerial Herald quotes from the...

At Chester Assizes, on Thursday, John Kenyon Winterbottom, the Stockport

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solicitor, who was twice Mayor of that town, was convicted of defrauding the Pelican Life Insurance Office, to the amount of 5,0001., by forged indorsements. His counsel took...

The Leeds Mercury of this day reports two Anti-Corn-law League

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meetings, very numerous and effective; one at Huddersfield on Tuesday, the other at Leeds on Wednesday. Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright were the speakers ; Mr. Cobden pursuing his...

The Paris papers of Thursday publish a Royal ordinance, reducing

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'the duties on several articles of commerce imported into France in French ships. The object is understood to be, to revive the commercial navy of the country; sad complaints of...

The Times publishes a long letter by "C." of the

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" Coningsby " stamp, lecturing Sir Robert Peel on his position and procedure. It af- fects a Junius-like style of mingled familiarity and trenchant dissection, and widns up with...

BANK OF ENG LAND. — An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and

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8th Vic- toria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday the 30th day of November 1844. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £27,786,190 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The monied public have largely availed themselves of the accommodation offered by the Bank Directors, and great sums have daily been borrowed...

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THE THEATRES.

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THE week's novelties are few and trivial ; BALFE'S two operas at Drury Lane and the Princess's and BOGRCICAULT'S comedy at the Haymarket being pWces de resistance to the popular...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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COLD WINTER'S VIRTUE. THE time has come when comfortable folks gather round the hearth, or brave the outer air only in armour of triple cloth and silk and fur : and yet in muff...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Ceylon, Fergusson, from London to Bombay, was totally lost, let Oct. on the Northernmost reef of the Laccadives ; crew saved. The Brilliant, from Calcutta to Bombay, was...

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RELENTINGS OF THE WAR-FACTIONS.

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Mu. O'CONNELL'S alternate eulogies and vituperations of the same person are startling, from the suddenness and frequency of his change of note. But Mr. 0 CONNELL is not the only...

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT: RAILWAYS IN THE SOUTH OF SCOTLAND.

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JUDICIOUS management on the part of the Railway Committee of the Board of Trade might make the appalling number of com- peting lines of railway, which threaten to engross the...

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ECCENTRIC PARTY MOVEMENTS.

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WERE it not that prospects of place and patronage give something like common purpose to certain sections of the political world, it seems probable that party would go to "...

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THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.

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THERE are five hundred thousand persons in London who have a history. That is, there are five hundred thousand, whose designa- tions, occupations, and whereabouts, are noted in...

SERVANTS, ENGLISH AND IRISH.

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THE Dublin Pilot recurs to a controversy with the Spectator on the anti-Irish feeling prevalent in England, which our contempo- rary supposed to be displayed in the common...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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PHYSIOLOGY, A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Pluenomena of Mental Deran g e- ment, and...

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AN OXFORD GRADUATE ON MODERN AND ANCIENT LANDSCAPE PAINTERS.

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Tuts is a remarkable book—a treatise on landscape-painting at once intelligible to the general reader and instructive to the artist, written by one who is thoroughly versed in...

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MR. BLOFELD'S ALGERIA: MR. HODGSON'S NOTES ON NORTHERN AFRICA.

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FROM the paucity of travellers who have ventured into the barbarous and badly-governed part of Africa which lies along the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, as well as from...

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ANTI.CONINGSBY.

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THERE is a certain species of talk which is not worth much of itself but is curious to the examiner of mental phmnomena ; and such is the character of the composition of...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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From November 29th to December 5th. BOOKS. Anti- Coningsby ; or the New Generation grown Old. By an Embryo M.P. In two volumes. The History of British India, from 1805 to...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS, On the 16th November, at Woodfield theists near Kidderminster, the Wife of the Rev. W. COCHIN, Head Master of Kiddermiuster School, of a son. On the 2Ist, at Cressmell,...

MILITARY GAZETTE. WAR.OFFICE, Dec. 6. - 10th Light Drags.—Lieut. Lord G. A.

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Beauclerk to be Capt. by purchase, vice Bridgeman, who retires ; Cornet T. T. S. Carlyon to be Lieut. by purchase. vice Lord G. A. Beanclerk ; E. Shelley, Gent, tube Cornet, by...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Dec. 3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Bayley aud Chittenden, Mark Lane, curnfactors —T. and C. Lester, Dudley, pork- merchants—Broadbent and Co. Tankersley. Yorkshhe,...

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PRICES

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CURRENT. BRITISH per Cent. Coosols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 3k per Cents. Reduced Loug Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per cent. India Stock, 10} Exchequer Bills. 1.1d....