10 AUGUST 1844

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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"Tits session approaches its formal close this year by instalments ; now adjourning for a while, to meet again—after grouse-shooting and the first of partridge-shooting—that the...

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The prospects of peace begin to lower, with the access

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of the war-fever in France. Fresh news from Tahiti furnishes us with the French version of the disputes in that lovely and ill-used island : it does not exonerate the officers...

Queen Victual/es fourth child is born. Cannon thunder, bells ring,

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and people rejoice as in loyalty bound ; not perhaps without some genuine satisfaction that an illustrious lady, with whom all the world is proud to claim a sort of bowing...

ntbates ant iprocediinns in iparliament.

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ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN. In the Rouse of Lords, on Wednesday, the Duke of WELLINGTON announced the birth of another Prince, and moved an address of congratulation to the Queen ;...

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Zbe (num

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THE birth of another Prince—the Duke of York we may presume to call him by anticipation—has relieved every solicitude as to the personal welfare of Queen Victoria, and has given...

The Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, with the Hereditary Grand

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Duke and Grand Dutchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, have continued their round of visits; and have been entertained by the Earl and Countess of Jersey, and the Marquis and...

Zbe lattropolis.

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Courts of Aldermen and Common Council met yesterday, and adopted addresses of congratulation to the Queen on the birth of the infant Prince. A Committee of Aldermen was held on...

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The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in Mr. Dyce Sombre's case

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on Thursday. Mr. Sombre had petitioned that the commission of lunacy obtained against him might be superseded : the Chancellor has dismissed this petition—he considered that the...

Tat IBrobinces.

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The borough of Dudley was taken quite by surprise on Saturday, by the announcement that Mr. Thomas Hawkes had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Various candidates were at once...

The Reverend James Frederick Todd, Vicar of Liskeard, has been

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suspended from his clerical functions for fourteen days, by the Bishop of Exeter, because in reading the burial-service performed over the body of Mr. Hart, a parishioner, he...

The first of the qui tam actions for betting, brought

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by Russell the solicitor, was tried at Gafford on Thursday. Lord George Bentinck, the defendant, did not plead the late act passed to stop these proceedings in bar of this...

IRELAND.

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At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the chair was taken by Mr. Arabia, the Dublin Lord Mayor Elect. A letter was read how Lord Wicklow, in continuation...

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At Londonderry, last week, two men were found guilty of

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conspiring together to accuse the master and schoolmaster of the Belfast Union Workhouse of murdering one Stewart. Stewart was alive ; and on seeing the accusation in the...

SCOTLAND.

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The Burns Festival is past. It was, not perhaps all that everybody hoped, but still a striking and spirit-stirring event. The day, Tuesday last, opened brilliantly. The scene...

_foreign nub eolonial.

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Tearn.—Further intelligence has been received from Papiti ; supplying defects in the former accounts, giving the French version of affairs, and adding a sequel of later date....

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Milisttliancous.

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The Morning Post tells an anecdote of Queen Victoria's accoucheutent— " Her Majesty signed the commission for giving the Royal assent to various bills on Tuesday morning, about...

Ministers had their annual white-bait dinner on Saturday, at the

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Crown and Sceptre in Greenwich. They mustered a party of fifty, and proceeded from Hungerford in one of the Watermen's steamers. Lord Hawarden presided at the dinner. The...

August has set in with a good deal of rain;

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but as the weather has been merely showery, with warm sunshine, the accounts from the agricultural districts are not as yet unfavourable. The wet, however, has delayed...

BIRTHS.

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On the 26th July, at Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, the Lady of Rola= KOCH, Esq., Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul, of a daughter. On the 30th, at Boath House, Nairn. N.B., the Lady...

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In the House of Commons, last night, virtually the close

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of the session, the Whigs made a vigorous party sally, to secure a good position for the recess. One of Lord John Russell's lieutenants led the way. When Sir ROBERT PEEL moved...

According to the report of the Morning Post, Sir Robert

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Peel, in replying last night to a remark by Mr. Shell, said " The right honourable gentleman said he presumed that the sole cause of the adjournment, instead of prorogation,...

Ministers are rushing out of town : Sir Robert Peel

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went to-day, for Tamworth ; Sir James Graham and his family, for Netherby ; Lord and Lady Stanley, for Knowsley Hall ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his family, for...

In a letter to the Times, Captain Warner says that

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the suspicious tackle attached to the John o' Gaunt, alluded to by Captain Pechell in the House of Commons, only consisted of the towing-ropes, and apparatus to save them, as he...

On the national Balance-sheet of Revenue and Expenditure, just published,

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the commercial writer in the Times observes " The excess of income over expenditure, amounting to 1,770,0804 is indeed less than that exhibited by the April balance-sheet, which...

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In a second edition, the Morning Chronicle publishes news from Africa, received in Paris yesterday.

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"'The French Government has received a telegraphic despatch, dated the night of the 2d and 3d of August. The news contained in it was brought to Port Vendree by the Gregoh,...

A letter from Bologna, of the 29th July, announces the

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condemnation, by the Military Commission, of four more political prisoners ; of whom two were accused of promulgating intelligence favourable to the insurrection of 1843, and...

The Moniteur of Thursday publishes the Budget of 1845; in

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which the expenditures are set down at 1,363,576,248 francs, and the ways and means at 1,327,784,417 francs. Baron Fresmin Dumesnil, former Member of the Legislative body, and...

A meeting was held at Manchester, on Thursday, to promote

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the formation of public parks or walks. The Mayor was in the chair ; and Lord Francis Egerton and other gentlemen spoke. Nearly 10,000/. was subscribed. Lord Huntingtower...

The Nottingham Review 'mentions, that not only thirteen persons were

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killed by the accident at the hanging of Saville, but one hundred were injured ; and of these, nineteen are in the hospital in a dangerous state.

THE THEATRES.

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THE announcement of " last nights" at the Opera, and the closing of the Haymarket and Princess's, are not less certain signs of a waning season than the evacuation of Covent...

Another Aladdin of the burlesque species has started into life

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and popularity at the Lyceum. No sooner did the shutting of the Princess's convert its Wonderful Lamp into a dark lantern, than another is produced at the Lyceum, superbly...

The Haymarket season concluded on Wednesday. Mr. WEBurEst delivered an

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address, in which he stated, with allowable pride, that this "most profitable season" had extended to "upwards of four hundred nights," without the performers having lost a...

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OTAHEITE.

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Tin language of some members of the French Chambers who have hitherto been strenuous supporters of the pacific policy of M. Ginzor, lends to the Otaheite quarrel an importance...

THE LETTER-OPENING AT THE POST-OFFICE.

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THE able and exhaustive report of the House of Commons Committee on the Post-office * strips the question of all personality. It not only establishes that Sir JAMES GRAHAM has...

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THE LATE MINISTERS.

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TIME and space have not yet been annihilated : Windsor is still out of town. By a pompous enumeration of precautionary arrangements—railway express-trains and electric...

DROPPING OFF.

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AT the Burns Festival, Professor WILSON remarked—" Of his three sons now sitting here, one only, I believe, can remember his father's face." To a native of the land of BURNS...

MRS. HOUSTOUN'S YACHT VOYAGE TO TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS.

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THE name of HOUSTON Will be as conspicuous in the annals of Texas as the names of RomuLus and NUMA in those of Rome, should Texas maintain an independent existence ; but whether...

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MR. VAUGHAN'S WITCH OP ENDOE.

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Tus character and fate of Saul seem at first sight peculiarly fitted for poetry. His strong passions, his varying fortunes, his tragic end, give all the force, elevation, and...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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From August 2d to .elugust8th. Booics. Nem Illustrations of the L i re, Studies, and Writings of 'Shakespeare. By the Reverend JOSEPH DETER, F.S.A. First and Second Parts....

SERIALS.

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England and Wales. By J. G. Kowa. (Foreign Library.) [This publication completes Kones British travels, by adding England te Ireland and Scotland. The bulk is greater than in...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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ARRIVED - At Gravesend, 0th Aug. Thomas Jones, Hamilton, from Mauritius ; 6th; Indian, Care; and Mary and Aun. Whiteway, from Van Diemen's Laud ; and 8th, Al lertou, Phillips,...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Aug. 6. PARTNER3HIPS DISSOLVED. Baueutt and Sanders. Stourpert, chemists-B. and J. Berry, Huddersfield, cottondyers-Simpsou and Son. Leeds, tobacco-manufacturers-Ward...

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Friday, Aug. 9.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Kinsey and Sykes, Mirfield. Yorkshire, scribbling-millers-Wharam and Fletcher. Liverpool. tobacco-manufacturers-Foord and Hemingway. Halifax,...