12 JUNE 1841

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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WHATEVER its intention, Sir ROBERT PEEL'S want-of-confidence motion had a more real result than was by many anticipated. The Whig papers, which have before now been so readily...

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The country is now fairly engaged in two great concurrent

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move- ments—the preparation for a general election, and agitation for free trade in corn, or something like it. That a nation should be roused to action, however slowly and...

Debates Etna Vroceetlinas in parliament.

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WANT OF CONFIDENCE. According to the agreement after the division when Sir Robert Peel's resolution was affirmed, Lord JOIIN RUSSELL, on Monday, explained the views of...

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Zbe court.

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THE great attraction of the week, Ascot Races, has drawn the Court to the neighbourhood of the national sport. The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace, for Windsor...

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the Attropolis.

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The Merchant Tailors Company gave their grand annual dinner yesterday, to celebrate the election of youths educated in their school to vacant Fellowships at St. John's, Oxford....

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IRELAND.

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Letters reached the Lord-Lieutenant on Monday night, giving so alarming an account of the state of health of his father, old Earl Fortescue, that be at once determined to start...

Zbe iirobinces.

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The Free Trade movement continues in the provinces. Public meet- ings have been held in Liverpool, Salford, Bilston, Beverley, West Bromwich, Hastings, Deal, Morriston, Neath,...

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LokN d CITY. The Conservative Association for the City of London

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have, upon four candidates to represent the City in Parliament, and have issued circulars to that effect, with a blank envelope enclosed for-the individuals addressed to return...

SCOTLAND.

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The Edinburgh Evening Courant says that Lord Jeffery was seized, on Saturday, in the Parliament House at Edinburgh, with a faintness which caused him to fall from his chair....

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Iftisttllantotts.

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We learn from an unquestionable source that the noble Secretary for the Colonies w ill shortly lead to the hymeneal altar Lady Fanny Elliot, second daughter of the Earl and...

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We understand, upon what we deem good authority, that Mr.

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E. J. Stanley, Secretary of the Treasury, has been appointed to succeed Sir James R. Carnac (who has returned home in consequence of ill health) in the lucrative office of...

The House of Commons had an extra sitting today, at

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one o'clock, to forward the general winding-up of the session. On the motion of Lord Jonzi RUSSELL, the Bribery at Elections Bill was read a third time, and passed, after an...

The following reply by Lord John Russell to the requisition

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from the City of London appears in a second edition of the Sun this even- ing. The work seems to be begun in earnest now- " TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. " Gentlemen—I...

POSTSCRIPT

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SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons blast night, Mr. WARD was about to bring on his motion relative to the Oery at the Cambridge election, when Mr. FRESHFIELD started an -...

A correspondent of the Standard asserts that Sir Gordon Bremer

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received the appointment of Plenipotentiary in China, in oonjanotioA with Captain Elliot, upon his arrival at Calcutta on the 4th of April. The commission was dated 4th March.

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The Times of this morning gives the following analysis of

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the siumber of new Conservatives and Liberals who, up to the presetit time, have started for various boroughs and counties, and of the -number of Conservatives and Liberals...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ArTEaNOON. The business of the week has been upon the usually limited scale, and the fluctuations of the English Funds have been quite unimportant ;...

According to a letter from Constantinople of the 20th May,

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quoted by the Univers, the health of the young Sultan was giving way daily. "Our correspondent," adds that journal, "who saw the Padisha, in- forms us that be is reduced to• a...

The Paris papers of Thursday contain no French news of

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inte- rest; except the following paragraph from the Toulon Sentinelle de la Marine of the 6th- " On Tuesday next, twelve ships of the line, formed into three divisions, are to...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, June 6th, Norval, Ferguson, from the Cape; 11th. Ann Metcalf, Rogers, from Bengal ; and Calcutta, Chalmers from Van Diemen's Land. Off Plymouth, 10th....

PUBLIC PETITIONS TO JUNE 4.

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Petitions. Signatures. For Repeal of the Com-laws 2,940 860,492 Against 1,327 80,336 For Proposed Measure on Corn-laws 78 33,236 Against 1,394 *". * The Thirty-first Report on...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., in Grosvenor Street, the Countess of HILLSBOROUGH, of a son and heir. At Whitehall, the Lady Canarsorow, of a daughter. On the 2d inst , in Eaton...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE CORN-LAWS MAY BE CHANGED FOR THE WORSE! Winn( we noticed, a few numbers back, a pamphlet on the policy and probable consequences of the proposed repeal of the existing...

BROUGHAM COME BACK.

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"Oh for him back again ! I wish I had him back again : I would gie a' Knockhaspie's land For Highland Harry back again." THE horrible flatness of the Parliamentary debates...

THE QUEEN.

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Tits Whigs count upon Queen VICTORIA as confidently as a whist-player counts upon the queen of trumps after the ace and king have been played out. The Whigs would make the Queen...

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THE GERMAN OPERA.

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Euryanthe was performed on Monday night ; and, as of Der Freischutz, it may safely be affirmed, with more complete success than attended any prior exhibition of it in London....

The seat of the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe, is

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now open to the public on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. His Grace has done much of late to add to the attractions of the princely park and grounds, which cover a space of...

THE ENGLISH THEATRES.

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THE English Opera-house opened again on. Monday, with a melo- dramatic company ; and we found the acters playing bawl and Frrzum.r. with great gusto and energy. At the Hay...

APPEALS TO PREJUDICE.

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Loan Jona RUSSELL, at the outset of his speech on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S resolution, claimed credit to Ministers for the triumphs which have crowned the British arms in different...

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SPECTATOR'S LEXRARY.

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Notes on the United States of North America. during a Phrenological Visit to I838-9-40. By George Combe. In three volumes. Longman and Co. Sketches in Erris and Tyrauly. By the...

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COLONEL SMITH'S HORSES.

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THIS volume is less popularly effective than the author's previous contribution on Dogs; from his having selected rather peculiar topics to dilate upon, without possessing the...

PRINCE'S HOURS WITH THE MUSES.

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THIS little volume contains a variety of verses, tripping, harmo- nious, and possessing a remarkable degree of elegance when the circumstances and condition of the author are...

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SKETCHES IN ERRIS AND TYRAWLY.

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THIS volume contains an account of several tours made through Erris and Tyrawly, two of the wildest and most Western districts of Connaught, abounding in mountain, bog, and...

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ANOTHER EXEMPLIFICATION OF A MAN'S IMPORT- ANCE TO HIMSELF.

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Kensington. 9th June 1841. SIR—Upon referring to the New Monthly Magazine, I find that the words of Sir E. L. BEILWEB were these- " We cannot resist the temptation of begging...

LIFE AND CONVERSION OF WILLIAM HONE.

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Tins fragment contains an autobiographical account of the early misdeeds and eventual conversion of the father of the well-known WILLIAM HONE, the able author of the Every-day...

FINE ARTS.

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DEATH OF SIR DAVID WILKIE. THE death of Sir DAVID WILKIE, on his passage homeward from Egypt in the Oriental, is a great loss to the British school of painting, of ' which he...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Seer Cent. Consols S aturday shut Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. .Friday. Ditto for Account 89 exd. 89 881 881 89 89 3 Der Cents. Reduced...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wen OFFICE, June 8.-11th Regt. Light Drags.-Surg. J. Chambers, from the 4th Light Drags. to be Surg. vice Sandon, appointed to the 62d Foot. 1st or Grenadier Regt. of Foot...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, June 8. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. .Moline and Woods, Godalming, bankers-Simper and Martin, Poole, confectioners- Rutherford and Co. Sheffield. Britannia...