1 FEBRUARY 1840

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE week opened inauspiciously for Ministers. By a large majority, the House of Commons cut down the proposed income of Prince AL- BERT from 50,000/. to 30,00(11. a year. On...

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Dcbatts anb lOrocetbings in Varliament.

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NATURALIZATION OF PRINCE ALBERT. In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord Chancellor COTTENHAM 'oved the second reading of bill, introduced on the previous Friday, to naturalize...

The Foreign news of the week is again insignificant—consisting of

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little else than rumours. The Foreign news of the week is again insignificant—consisting of little else than rumours. It is reported that the entire French Cabinet have...

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be (Court.

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Tun Queen held a Court on Monday, at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Bowstead did homage for the see of Lichfield. Tee Earl of Lauder- dale delivered to her Majesty the ensigns of the...

tirbe Elfttv'opoolis.

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Lord Chief Justice Denman, with Justices Littletlele, Williams, and Coleridge, sat in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, to receive the rennet to the writ of Habeas Corpus,...

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AfitscrUancous.

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It is ntlilotirCti that Lord Alfred Paget is about to resign his situation as Equerry to her Majesty. The ca w pine destined for his Lordship is said to be that of :Master of...

A meeting of Conservatives of Bromley, Bow, and Old Ford,

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re- solved on Tuesday to unite Mr. G. R. llohinson to become a candidate for the Tower Hamlets at the next election. The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery...

31,'ddleton Biddulph is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Denbigh- shire, in the

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room of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. Mr..1. E. Denison is talked of as a candidate for Liverpool at the next election. On Mmday, Mr. Charles George Noel was elected for...

The Sfteen Judges, assembled in the Exchequer Chamber, were oc-

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cupied during the greater part of Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, m hearing arguments of counsel against and in support of the objection founded on the non-delivery of the list...

A meeting of the working men of Manchester, called by

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the Opera- tive Anti - Corn - law Association, was held on Monday night, in the Pa- vilion erected for the Anti-Corn-law banquet. Between seven and eight thousand mustered....

A courier, charged with despatches for the B ussian Chargil

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d' 'Mures, and also with several costly prescms for her Majesty, from the Emperor of Russia, arrived in Hover Street from Hamburg. The presents to the Sovereign from the Czar...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The four nights' debate on Sir John Yarde Roller's motion fermi-. noted this morning at five o'clock. The result appears from the follow- mg numbers— For the motion...

The Paris papers of Sunday are much occupied with the

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projected marriage of the Duke de Nemours with the Princess Victoria Augusta Antoinette of Saxe Coburg Gotha, which was communicated to the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, on...

The annual meeting of the United States Bank e y have

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re- ported their proceedings. They declare that utter they shall have pail off the liabilities to which they are obnoxious, they will be possessed of a clear surplus of'...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Commodore, Perehase, trim Mauritius, reported as arrived o1T Margate, in o ut last, hos shore been wrecked on the Maplin Saud crew saved. Arrival-At Gravesend, 27111,...

A letter has been received from Lloyd's Canton Agents, dated

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Hong- Kong Anchorage, September 23d, by the Marmion, arrived off Dover. It is stated, that in consequence. of the supposed capture of a boat be- longing to a merchant-vessel....

The French papers received this morning speak of the arrangement

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by which M. Guizot was to succeed Count Sebastiani in London as finally completed. Time rumour of Marshal Soult's retirement is re- vived.

TIME THREE GREAT DIVISIONS OF THE WEEK.

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ICXPLANATIoN OF Tile nIvIsioNs INDICATED IN THE PARALLEL coi,DMNs No. 1. Mr. Hem E's mo , imi to reduce the allowance proposed by Ministers fmt . Prince AuiEnT from 50.0001. to...

MONEY MARKET.

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SToem BeenANoit, raiDAT AFTERNOON. 'With the exception of a momentary symptom of a tendency to depression, On Tuesday morning, all descriptions of English Stock L a ne been in...

We publish the Division-lists as correctly as the limited time

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at our disposal permits. Any errors we shall be happy to set right next week.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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FATE OF THE STATE PRISONERS. NY RE of' the fifteen Judges, assembled in the Court of Exchequer to determine the fate of FROST, JONES, and WieroAsts, con- demned at Monmouth to...

THE PRIVILEGE QUARREL.

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THE Court of Queen's Bench has sanctioned the Attorney- Ceneral's law, by remanding the Sherifk of London to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. The cause of commitment—the...

SUCCESS OF GOVERNOR THOMSON'S MISSION. Tim writer of the following

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letter is intimately acquainted with the affairs of Canada, and maintains a correspondence with the lead- ing men of both Provinces. We know not the person to whose opinions, on...

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The Guiana Exhibition is the product of an expedition into

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the in- terior of Guiana. made by Mr. lionma li. !;Ictiomlititon. in the years 1635-9 ; and consists of a collection of bird! ,- . quadrupeds. insects, geological specimens,...

THE TREAT RES.

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A monniNr: English vocalist toiling sturdily through abut% part in a eolith• opera, reminds one of a clodhopper floundering through a quag- Mire in chase of a butterfly. More...

EXHIBITIONS OF THE CTIABACTEIIS _1ND HABITS OF THE NOBT11 AND

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SoUTII AllEIZICAN INDIANS. Two different exhibitions, affording an insight into the modes of life among the Indians of the Northern and Southern parts of the New 'World, have...

The musical amateurs, of 'whose performances we made mention last

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'year, again mustered their corps at the Haymarket on Thursday ; when Ow/craft/ was done in a very creditable manner, as regards the unpro- fessional portion of the c'onpany,...

Mr. G nom n CATLIN is an enterprising American artist,

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who has de- voted seven years to the delineation of scenes and persons, and the collection of objects, to form a permanent record of the characteristic features and customs of...

At Covent Garden, Love again exercises dominion over large num-

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bers : anti 1:1.1.1:N TREE 1%016 as effectively es ever the lesson that peo- pl e seem never tired of hearing.

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STAIN UNDER CHARLES THE SECOND.

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ALEXANDER STANHOPE was the youngest son of the first Earl of CHESTERFIELD, and the father of the first Earl of STANHOPE. He was born in 1639 : in 1689 he was appointed British...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Thrronv. Spain under Charles the Second; or Extracts from the Correspondence of the Hon. Alexander Stanhope, British Minister at Madrid. 16904699. From the Originals at...

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MRS. S. C. MALL'S MARIAN.

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RATTY :1.1CANL. Katty Mac - :u possessed even more warmth and c,, .y of cm racter than falls to the lot the generality of Irishwomen. Loeter, tnot i;rnorant,iter idea-:, it not...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Books. Law and Lawyers; or Sketches and illustrations of Legal History and Biography. In two vols. Narrative of a Journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838. By G. N....

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FINE ARTS.

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" SPRING FASHIONS" IN TOWN PRINTS. THE publishers have taken a hint from the purveyors of pictorial pocket handkerchiefs, in selecting subjects for engraving; and all " new...