14 MARCH 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A LIVELY scene occurred in the House of Lords last night ; when the Earl of ELDON moved for some returns, calculated to show that few Catholics had taken the oath of allegiance...

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THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—The transactions of this week in our Stock Market have been so comparatively few and uninteresting, that a very few wards will suffice to...

SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

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We have received Lisbon Gazettes to the 27th ult.. They con- tain a statement of the acknowledgment of the authority of Don Miguel in the kingdom of Angola, and a long article...

The King of Spain has declared Cadiz a free 'port,

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in the most unlimited sense, to all powers iii amity with him. The privileges to traders are ample, and might, if there were no counteracting circumstances, make this forsaken...

FRANCE.—The Chamber of Deputies have been engaged in discussing pe-

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titions respecting the religious congregations and Missions in the interior. The former subject, the congregations, was disposed of by passing to the order of the day ; but the...

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LENT ASSIZES. POACHING. —Five men have been tried at Aylesbury for

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having entered a wood at Chalfont St. Peter, armed with guns and bludgeons, with the intent to kill game. They were overpowered by the gamekeepers, and secured with some dead...

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POLICE OF LONDON. EMANCIPATION IN THE CITY.—Complaints were on Tuesday

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made to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansionhouse, by some of the in- habitants of Cornhill, against the Irish orange and apple women who congre- gate every day about a door where a...

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ABSTRACT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

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The title is "A Bill for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Sub- jects." This is the preamble :—" Whereas, by various acts of Parliament, certain restraints and...

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PARLIAMENTARY DIARY.

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HOUSE OF LORDS. . MONDAY, March 9.—The Earl of Harrington and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby took their seats. Sayings Backs—Papers relating to, laid on the table. Catholic Claims...

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CAPTAIN GARTH.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. WE have inserted in another place the substance of an affidavit made by this person, which appeared in the Morning Chrmiclo of Friday. We were in possession...

11ll4ORITY AND MINORITY , •

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For and, against the motion for going into a Committee to consider the Laws im- posing Disabilities on his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, with a view to their remount-March...

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VOX POPULI.

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" Vox populi vox Dei !" exclaimed Dr. SOUTHEY, in one of his articles in the Quarterly: vox populi vox Diaboli !—it is the voice of the Devil, and his name is Legion." It is not...

STATE PHYSICIANS.

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Sir Meer Surface.—" Good people, speak one at a time, I beseech you—You all agree that Sir Peter is wounded!" i/11.—" Ay, ay, we all agree in that." SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. THERE...

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THE MAID OF JUDAH.

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THE junction of Italian music and English words forms .eferierally most unhappy mesalliance. The intractable hardness of the sounds: and the baldness of the ideas, are rendered...

THE HAPPY UNITY.

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ONE of the best cast dramatic pieces we remember to have seen, is the burlctta of Monsieur Mallet at the Adelphi Theatre. Excellent as MATHEWS is in the principal character, the...

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PEMBERTON'S SHYLOCK.

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CATALINI'S smart saying on SoerrAG might be applied to PEM- BERTON, with a difference : he is of the first class, but not the first in that class. This, in one line, is our...

DIARY OF A- LOUNGER IN' A FRENCH CABINET DR

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March 3d. It is appropriate enough that the diplomatic body in Italy.should'occapy themselves solely with affairs of nuts* instead of affairs of state. Our ambassador at...

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THE COLLEGIANS*.

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. Tun Collegians is an inappropriate title to this novel ; any other would have done as well. The two young men, marriageable and in love, who figure upon the...

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SCIENCE.

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CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.-.-At the half- yearly general meeting of the members, held in their Theatre in Aldersgate- street on the 4th current, a very...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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FRIDAY EVENING. With the exception of a few hours on Monday, the wind has this week blown. steadily from the North and East, and not a single arrival has been reported. The H....

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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ROOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Major Beamish, the translator of Bismark, has iu the press a Military Novel, entitled, Peace Campaigns of a Cornet. Mr....

THE CHURCH.

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The Rev. Francis Howes, M.A., has been collated to the Rectory of Framli . A g l iarre Pigot, in the gift of the Lord Bishop of Norwich. The Rev. Robert Hamond, M.A., has been...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OXFORD, March 7. — Yesterday the following degrees Were conferred. Bachelor in Civil Law—John Campbell, M.A., of Baliol ; Masters of Arts—The Rev. J. Arnold Walsh, Ballo], Grand...