20 JULY 1844

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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LITTLE may be done for Ireland in Parliament, but to compensate for this much is talked about it Ireland was the predominating theme at the beginning of the session; and, to...

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Debates anb Vrotetaings iri Vatifament.

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THE STATE TRIALS IN IRELAND. The proceedings in the prosecution of Mr. O'Connell, &c. formed the main subject of debate in the House of Commons on Monday, and oc- cupied the...

A third skirmish haMken place between the French forces and

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the troops of Morocco. The affair in itself was of little conse- quence. Marshal BUGEAUD does not affect to believe that the Moors wanted to fight : " They wished to accompany...

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Ebe likobintes.

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Birmingham election ended on Saturday (as was stated in our latest edition last week) with Mr. Spooner at the bead of the poll, after a sharp contest. Mr. Spooner took the lead...

court.

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THE Queen has been domesticated at Windsor Castle during the week ; taking daily rides in her pony phaeton with Prince Albert, and walking in the pleasure-grounds of the Castle...

Zbe Pletropolis.

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A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday. In a con- versation on the decorations of the Royal Exchange, Mr. Jones, the Chairman of the Exchange Committee, stated that the...

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gore* anb (Colonial.

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FRANCE.—There has been more fighting between the French and the Moors ; in which the latter were again the aggressors, and were again be tea off. It appears from the despatches...

IRELAND.

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Earl De Grey departed from Ireland on Tuesday. The procession from Dublin to Kingstown appears to have been a very poor affair, the only expression of popular feeling having...

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The accounts received in town this morning from Windsor Castle=

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statethat her Majesty continues in excellent health, but that her ac- conchement is daily expected. Dr. Locock is in constant attendance at the Castle.—Standard. A Cabinet...

The King of Saxony visited York on Tuesday, and passed

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the night there. Next morning, he breakfasted with the Dean ; inspected the Cathedral and other objects of interest ; and departed for Leeds in the coarse of Wednesday...

Itlistellantotts.

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The Duke of Wellington reviewed various regiments of the House- hold Brigade on Saturday, in Hyde Park. After the review, his Grace gave a grand banquet at Apsley House to the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The House of Commons did double duty again yesterday, to get through public business. At the morning sitting, Mr. GLanirrotta moved some resolutions re* lating...

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According to accounts from Madrid to the 12th, vigorous measures

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bad been adopted to insure the continuance of tranquillity in that city ; the streets being patrolled every evening by large detachments of troops. The excuse for these...

Captain Warner's experiment was successfully performed, at six o'clock this

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evening, off the battery at Brighton, in the presence of a vast multitude, who thronged the cliffs, the shore, and the windows of the houses. The ship, of 300 toes burden, had...

The Belfast Chronicle received this morning announces a riot and

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loss of life at Ballymena, in the county of Antrim, on the 12th July, after a party of Orangemen who had assembled to celebrate the day had dispersed.

Advises from Posen, dated the 9th, announce that the order

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for the Poles to leave Prussia, which was suspended some months ago, is to be carried into effect. A new order enjoins all natives of Russian Poland who took part in the last...

LIABILITIES. ASSETS.

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Circulation £21,246,000 Securities £22,471,000 Deposits 13,977,000 Bullion 15,767,000 X35.223,000 £38,238,003

THE THEATRES.

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A SUDDEN hoarseness having attacked Moraxati and totally disabled him from singing on Thursday, Don Pasquale was substituted for Lee- crezia Borgia; and a numerous and...

The Country papers of this morning contain farther evidence of

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the stormy character of the weather during the week. An old woman was killed by the lightning on Monday, in Haslow Wood, near Mansfield ; another woman, her companion, was also...

Eliza Blandy, who had been occasionally engaged as charwoman in

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the stores department of Windsor Castle, was yesterday committed for trial, after examination at the Town-hall, Windsor, charged with having stolen a silver scroll, which formed...

The Paris papers of Thursday contain a telegraphic despatch, dated

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Tangier, lath July, announcing that a letter from the Pacha of Larache disavows, in the name of the Emperor of Morocco, the aggression of the 15th June ; and that he has ordered...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The prevent week has been one of more importance than the last, for the fluctuations which have occurred, and the events by which they have...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Autuvse—At Liverpool, 18th July, Gardner, Cole, from Bengal. In the Clyde, Belhaven, Watt, from China. At the Mauritius, 6th April, Vixen, Hippentbill, from London; and 19th....

NAVAL GAZETTE.

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Anatiesurv, July 10.—Corps of Royal Marines—Cul. Second Commandant J. Owen to be Col. Commandant and Deputy Adjt.-Gen. ; Col. Second Commandant J. Wright to be Colonel...

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The migration of foreign artists has commenced ; a sign

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of the ap- proaching close of the season. Mademoiselle DPJAZET and M. LEVAS- soil bowed their last adieus on Monday ; and, by way of finale to the French Plays, M. CARTICNY took...

WESTMINSTER ALMONRY

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THE Abbey Church of Westminster stands like a landmark on the confines of squalor and comfort. Stately buildings, gay public places and statues, are before it ; dilapidation,...

The little theatre in the Haymarket knows no change of

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season ; merely shutting its doors once a year pro forma, as the gates of Temple-bar are closed only to be opened when the Sovereign knocks for admittance. The Prize Comedy is...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SLAVE-TRADE-SUPPRESSION TREATIES. IF protocols and Parliamentary speeches, hard words and diplo- matic correspondence, could put down the slave-trade, it would have been...

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PERSONALITIES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MR. WODEHOUSE apologizes to

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Mr. WAKLEY because Mr. WAKLEY has proved himself innocent of the horrible charge insinuated against him. Sir ROBERT PEEL talks of Mr. Wonzimuss's retrac- tation being " put upon...

THE PENCIL OF NATURE.

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THIS is the appropriate title of a series of pictures produced solely by the action of light on sensitive paper, and multiplied to any number of impres- sions without the aid of...

BUTTONS.

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NOT worth a button" must cease to be a proverbial saying in Ireland ; for buttons are there worth persecuting and being perse- cuted for. The war for and against the Repeal...

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SP'ECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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DrREREEECT, Diaries aid Correspondence of James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury; containing an Amount of his Missions to the Courts of Madrid. Frederick the Great. Cathe. rine...

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THE LATE MISS PICKERING'S GRANDFATHER.

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THIS posthumous novel of poor Miss PICKERING is entitled to the consideration due to all unfinished works ; though it has small occasion for it beyond the retrenchment of some...

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THE THEOLOGIAN, NO. I.

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Tins new publication possesses a more distinctive plan, and, what is of greater consequence, a more distinctive character, than many of the periodicals that are frequently...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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From July 12th to July ISM. BOOKS. High Life in New York. By JONATHAN SLICE, Esq., of Weathersfield, Connecticut. In two volumes. Walter Clayton. [The tide of this novel...

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The Day Hours di the Church. with the Gregorian Tones.

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Part L Containg, cog the Ordinary Offices through the Week. An arrangement of certain Psalms, Collects, Hymns, he., to be re- peated throughout the week by devout church-people,...

Twelve Original Melodies for the Pianoforte ; composed, and dedicated

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to S. B. Wesley, Mus. Doc., by Mrs. HENRY DALE. Books I. and IL. This is an effort for which a fair lady only can stand excused. Die imitation of the celebrated Lieder of...

FINE ARTS.

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RESULT OF THE FRESCO COMPETITION. THE Royal Commission has adjudicated on the specimens of Fresco in Westminster Hall ; and the decision is in favour of native artists. The new...

"Mary dear l" Ballad, written and composed by HENRY C.

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LUNN. This composition is recommended by a flowing vocal melody, is which the simplicity of the ballad style is well preserved.

MUSIC.

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QUARTET PERFORMANCE, HANOVER SQUARE ROOMS. A. NEW and very extraordinary quartet-party, in the persons of &vont, SAINTON, HILL, and ROUSSELOT, assembled on Monday, apparently...

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COMMERCIAL CIAZETTE.

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Tuesday, July 16. PARTNER.HIPS DISSOLVED. Van Sandal' and Cumming, King Street, Cheapsitte, attoruies-S. and T. F. Here- ford, ironmongers—Jones mid Arthur, Castle Street....

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS

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BIRTHS. On the 12th July. in Grosvenor Square, the Countess of HOME, of a daughter. On the 12th, at Embed House. near Falkirk. the Lady of Major CHALMER. of Lem. Ott the 12th,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH .1 per Cent. Consols ........ Ditto for Account 3 per Ceuta. Reduced 31 per Ceuts Reduced New 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Mock, 7 per cent. India Stock, 104...