16 MAY 1846

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Poland has her revenge of her wrongers, for nothing that

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they do in the injured country fails to be absurd and discreditable. Even measures in themselves creditable assume an inverted mean- ing, and become quite otherwise. Austria is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE measure immediately before the House of Commons is the Corn Bill. It was to have been finished in the Commons, and sent to learn its doom from the Lords on Thursday ; but on...

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Debates anb Vroteebings in Varliament.

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THE CORN IMPORTATION BILL. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Sir JAMES GRAHA3f moved the third reading of the Corn Bill. The Marquis of GRANBY moved an amendment, that the...

The Oregon question is settled in the Ainerican Cangress. The

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notice is to be given, and in friendly terms. At the beginning of the week, adverse reports were received ; the Representatives having refused to concur in the " amicable " form...

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Zbe Ifletropolts.

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The Proprietors of East India Stock held a special meeting on Wednes day, to confirm the resolutions passed by the Court of Directors on the 29th April conferring a pension of...

Zbe (Court.

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THE Queen, Prince Albert, and the two elder children, spent part of Tues- day at Kew Palace. The Royal party left Buckingham Palace at eleven o'clock ; took luncheon at Kew,...

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'Utz Vrobinres.

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The Squadron of Evolutions left Portsmouth on its cruise, on Wednesday, under the command of CommixIore Sir Francis Collier. The movements are thus recorded- " Soon after nine...

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IRELAND.

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After all, the Irish Government have perpetrated the job of filling up the vacancies caused by the death of Mr. Pollock, without waiting for the promised bill of Sir James...

jortign anti eolonial.

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UNITED STATES. — By the packet-ship Liverpool, which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, accounts were received from Washington to the 21st April, and from New York to the 23d; and...

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jarilOftlialltORS.

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The friends of Polish nationality give a dinner this evening, at Willis's Rooms, to the leading British champion of the cause, Lord Dudley Stuart; the more im- mediate object...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Corn Bill passed the House of Commons at four o'clock this morn- ing. The final division was— For the third reading 327 For Lord Granby's amendment 229...

Accounts from Madrid, to the 8th instant, state that the

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province of Galicia has been relieved from martial law; and that Malaga has been put into a state of siege, on account of the assassination of the military officer.

A requisition signed by about 150 of the Bridport electors

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has been addressed to Mr. Baillie Cochrane, requesting; him to stand again for Bridport at the gene ral election. First on the list is the name of William Rockett, the person...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The transactions in the English Funds have not been important, and the re- sult of the week's business has been to establish the same closing...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Aaarvxn—At Gravesend, 7th May, Sea Park, Humphries, from China; 8th, Reaper, Thompson, from Ceylon ; 10th, Protector, Dove, from Madras; 11th, Gideon, Mul- lens ; Symmetry,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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RUMOURS AND SPECULATIONS. NOTWITHSTANDING the pregnant character of the Corn Bill as it respects the future state of parties and government in this coun- try, even the...

THE OPERA.

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Vat:meg opera, I Lombardi alla Prima Crooiata, in four acts, supported by Grisi and Mario, was extremely successful at its first representation, on Tuesday; when so splendid a...

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THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

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THERE iS scarcely any one object on which the advancement of literature in England so much depends, as upon the proper ma- nagement of the Library of the British Museum ; and as...

THE POETRY OF PROTECTION.

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WHEN a national creed, or popular principle of any kind, falls into the hands of the artists, its decay and subversion are at hand. Art is to public opinion what the flower is...

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DESTITUTION AND EMIGRATION.

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A NOTION obtains, that emigration is a resort alternative with prosperous employment for the working classes at home. We observed lately, that it is not at all incompatible with...

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"SHORT DEEDS."

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TO THE EDITOR OF TER SPECTATOR. Lincoln's Inn, 5t1 May 1846. Snt — I will not trouble you with any attempt to answer your comments on my former letter. I am well aware that...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ABCILEOLocy, Letters of the Kings of England ; now first collected from the Originals to Royal Ar- chives, and from other Authentic Sources, Private as well= Public. Edited,...

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R. W. FERGUSSON'S PROFESSIONAL NOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.

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nets posthumous volume contains the spontaneous reflections of a physician of wide experience in military and private practice, thrown off with a somewhat rough but ready pen in...

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MRS. MONTAUBAN'S WANDERINGS IN INDIA AND EUROPE.

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CAN it be that the grand tour is extending to Hindostan ? Will Delhi and the Great Mogul take the pas of Rome and his Holiness, and a presentation to the "representative of the...

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NOTE ON "FOREST HILL."

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WE are informed that Forest Hill is the first production of a young lady "in her twenty-third year." This fact explains whilst it ex- cuses the wildness and crudeness of the...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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An Essay on the Character of Macbeth. [This essay is written in reply to a powerful article on the character of Macbeth, published seine time since in the Westminster Review; in...

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FINE ARTS.

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ROYAL ACADEMY EXETBITION : SECOND NOTICE. ON a second visit to this exhibition, the favourable impression made by the first view of it is confirmed and strengthened, more...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, May 12. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLvED. Reed and Roberts, Liverpool, mllliners-Brocklehursts and Hunter, Holmfirth, shire, nnendrapers ; as far as regards C. L....

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OPENS, May 8.-4d Light Drags.- F. Chaplin, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Shaw, appointed to the 9th Light Drags. 4th Light Drags.-F. C. Ford, Gent, to be efornet, by...

BIRTHS.

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On the 14th April, at the New York Hotel, New York, Mrs. William Wood, of Liver- pool, of a son. On the 4th May, at Hampton Grove, Surhiton, nearKingston-on-Thames, the Lady of...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) — Massachusetts (Sterling).. .5 p. Ct. 110 Mexican ... ..... ..5 — 97 Ditto (Deferred)......