16 AUGUST 1828

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Russian army is at last before Shumla. Official intelligence up to the 21st July, announces this important fact ; and it is ob- vious that the Russians will not long delay...

MONEY-MARKET.

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THE Money-market during the week has not been subjected to any vio- lent fluctuations, as no . political news of importance, foreign or domestic, has transpired to affect the...

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THE POLICE OF LONDON.

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Mathew Dunn, a diminutive Irishman, was, on Moudai at the Marlborough- street office, charged with a robbery, and an extraordinary attempt at murder. Maurice Fitzgerald, another...

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THE ASSIZES.

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At most of the Assize', where cases of horse-stealing were tried, the Judges expressed their determination to visit that crime with the highest punish- ment of the law, on...

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RESIGNATION OP THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.

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THE PRESS. TIMES.—The Duke of Clarence, it appears, has resigned, or been stripped of, his briefly-worn honours as Lord High Admiral of England. What now most nearly concerns...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WE hope the public feel the better - for the fine lessons which its best possible instructors the Newspapers have extracted from the life, crimes, conversation, manners, habits,...

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COUNTRY CONCERTS : WITH A SKETCH OF THE YORKSHIRE, DILLETTANTI.

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IF indifference and the love of money be the vices of town musicians, that inordinate self-appreciation, called egotism, is the disease of the country ones. It was but the other...

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There is one note she strikes invariably with truth and

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effect—that In the gentle Desdemona she might be seen with pleasure ; of gentle remonstrance—of affectionate upbraiding; whose sweet- although in Cordelia, the innocent and...

moment, amid the free allusions and sometimes licentious expressions of

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artists, and historians in small, during the week days ; and on the his dialogue. The eye sparkled with intelligence, but it was a chaste and Sunday, has chased away the ennui...

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LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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THE subject of Parochial Schools has of late years, in Scotland, frequently engaged the attention of persons fond of speculating on the improvement of their countrymen, and has...

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Mr. Boamcwoon, the publisher of the celebrated Magazine that bears

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his name, has commenced a Quarterly Journal of *limi- Mr. Boamcwoon, the publisher of the celebrated Magazine that bears his name, has commenced a Quarterly Journal of *limi-...

Constable's Miscellany contains, under the title of " Memorials of

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the late War," several narratives and memoirs of soldiers who have served in the Peninsula. The first set of these Memorials we have just perused, with an interest scarcely...

E:trly on Sunday morning, the Hill April, our tents were

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struck, and we moved ;dung with the other regimtmti of the 0th divi,:ion, towards the neighbaurhood of 'couldnsv, until ordered to hall on a level ground, fliont whence we lie 0...

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undertaking to Exeter has been - abandoned, and perhaps judiciously, from peatiug

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the same delicious repast. The inhabitants of those places where eastward ; and during the whole intervening period he had annually planted Tog WIELAND CANAL, IN UPPER...

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ANTICIPATIONS REGARDING THE HARVEST.

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Tux extent to which the harvest may prove deficient is still matter of conjecture, and of much interest. At Midsummer, it was generally re- presented that the crops promised...

THE ARMY.

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Qfi7co of Onlwrnee, August 7. Royal Reg. of Arliliery—Secont. Lieut. Edward Fitzherbert Grant, to be First Lieut. vice 'Watkins, dee.; Second Capt. Edwin Croat:mien, to be...

NEW WORKS

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On the point of Publication. X. s. d. .i' s d. Gerard's (Drs. A. and G.) View of Troward's Church of Christ and Williams's Shbways in theRritish Wilson's Memoirs of Mrs. Paw-...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Tharr, ns.-Or. the Oth, at Standigh-house',

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Stromi, time Lady Emma Pcmiant, of a 11;,a,-Ider-On the 10th, at Upper Kennington-green, Mrs. Henry G. SIZWISPIOnidt, of a son-(Lm tile Otis, at l‘loor-park, Farnham, the Lady...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Al.EllIS:1111.1 W. Cordwallaciar, Camberwell. linen-drapers-S. BraiLford, lit, Cl a y, and G. Moore, Matlock, Derbyshire, lace-matnufacturerS-J. W. Barrier and W. She') omi t,...

LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, Entrus, Anus est. 15. The very unfavourable weather for the last two days has had a considerable effect on our market this murrains. Almost every article of...