21 FEBRUARY 1829

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE chief burden of the discussion, which may be said to form the single one for which the Parliament has either tongue or ears, has lain this week in the House of Lords. The...

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Pope Leo the Twelfth died at Rome on the 10th

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current, after a very short illness, In the s'i'xty-ninth year of his age. The de- ceased was raised to the Papal chair in September 1823 ; and during the few years which he...

The Turks have lost another of their frontier fortresses,—that of

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Kali, which it is supposed will hasten the fall of Nicropolis. It was taken by assault on the 24th of January ; but the garrison does not appear to have been strong. The suburbs...

SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

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Letters from Berlin, in the German papers which reached U.S this morning, state, that all hopes of peace between Russia and Turkey are at an end. The Porte rejects every...

We hear of no new accessions to the policy of

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Ministers among the lay opposers of the Catholic claims; but the Chronicle says they multiply even on the Episcopal bench. Three Irish Bishops are named as having espoused the...

In Jamaica, the Executive Government and the Legislature are again

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at issue. The Assembly has withheld the pay of the troops, and Sir John Keane has enforced the double duties and prorogued the Assembly. It is said that this disagreeable affair...

In NoVeMber, the City of Mexico was partly sacked by

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an insur- gent mob ; and in the course of the fighting between the parties in the streets, it is said that no fewer than eight hundred persons were slain. This bloody affray was...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—The apprehensions expressed in our last report, of a further decline, have been in some measure realized; but we have at the same time the...

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FRANCE.—Some new projects of laws have been submitted to the

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French Chamber of Deputies. One of these relates to the duties on tobacco, and prolongs for ten years the monopoly in that article. This monopoly is en- tirely in the hands of...

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THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS commenced on Thursday morning, before the

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Lord Mayor and the City Officers. The presiding Judges are Mr. Justice Gazelee and Mr. Baron Vaughan. There are two hundred and seventeen prisoners for trial. The cases tried...

POLICE OF LONDON,. CRUELTY.—Eliza. Ebner the mother, Eliza Ebner the

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daughter, and Ann Rawlinson their servant, were on Monday charged at Bow-street with having ill-treated and starved five female children, who had been apprenticed to them from...

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PARLIAMENTARY DIARY.

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MOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, February 1G.—Catholic Maims—Petitions against, presented by the Earl of Eldon, from Coningsburgh in Yorkshire, from several parishes in Cardigan,...

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THE ROYAL LINE—SPLIT AMONG THE ANTI-CATHOLICS.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. " Which King, Besonlan In "THERE was once a King of England that had one son and one daughter," to quote the words of the most venerable and veracious of...

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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.

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IT is one of the many inconveniences attending the non-settlement of the Roman Catholic question, that it narrows extremely the number of candidates for seats in Parliament. We...

CONSISTENCY.

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" Servetur ad imum Qualis ab inecepto processerit—" " If you begin as a rogue, never stop short till you are hanged." CONSISTENCY is at present in every man's mouth. It is not...

ALARMING DECISIONS.

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SOME late decisions of Commissions of Lunacy have spread con- siderable alarm among large classes of his Majesty's subjects. Very lately, it was held that a gentleman who...

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tainly read.something like the following before : nevertheless the reproduc..

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short in accuracy of metre. was praying in the church with great devotion : when she arose fiorn kueel- Further— ing, she perceived a letter lying before her. It announced that...

and COLBURN, MURRAY, and LONGMAN, will rid themselves of brilliancy

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; but it struck us that she did not succeed in giving it all their plagues by process of law. We ourselves, as newspaper the appropriate character of expression, so completely...

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TALES OF A VOYAGER.*

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. THIS is one of that heteroclite genus of publication which one knows not how to designate : it is a real voyage if the framework be considered ; it is a...

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REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY.

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THE Memoirs of JOHN SHIPP called to mind the anecdotes we had read of "the First Grenadier of France," LATOUR &AUVERGNE ; and we determined to look about for some account of...

QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE, No. IV.*

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To read this Journal is like turning up the sweet-smelling earth : it is wholesome and inspiring—redolent of hopeful labour, and pregnant with delights to come. Agriculture is...

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-BOOKS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sm—Your notice of Mr. Croker's Elementary Geography, induces me to hope that you will not deem the following observations altogether unworthy of...

this is a proper season for suggestion. The truth which

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should lead these discussions is, that the evils complained of belong not to 'one or the other part of the system merely, but that all parts have contributed to them. The Lord...

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THE CHURCH.

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On the 11th inst. the Lord Bishop of Peterborough Instituted the Rev. George. Wilson Sicklemore, M.A. to the Rectory of Milton otherwise Middleton Matzur, the County of...

GLEANINGS.

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Axzcoores or ELEPHANTS.—To - the battering,-train were attached a few elephants, to assist the guns over any obstacles which could not be sur- mounted by the ordinary means....

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OXFORD, February 18.—The Vice Chancellor has fixed Wednesday, the 25th inst for the election of a Public Orator. February 19.—This day the following degrees were conferred....

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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BOORS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Popular Lectures on Biblical Criticism and Interpretation. By Mr. W. Carpenter, author of the Scientia Biblica, &c. A...

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN COMMISSION.

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WITH vim NAMES OF THEIR CAPTAINS AND STATIONS DURING THE LAST YEAR, DROUGHT UP TO JANUARY 1:+29L* [From the United Service Joaroul, No. II.] (Concluded from our last No.)...

THE ARMY.

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Wee of Ordnence, February if. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Capt. George Birch, from unattached half-pay, to be Second Capt. vice Browne, retired on half-pay.

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Fainev EvENING.

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Advices have been received this week from the Cape of Good Hope to the 3d Dee., which enable us, in a great measure, to complete the list of British vessels which have arrived...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, Feb. 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Cole, AL Holder, and E. M. Cole, Bristol, wholesale linen-merchants (so far as regards AL Holder)-T. Needham, jun. and E. Baker,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Be ;mtg.-At Jardine-hall, on the 10th inst. the Lady of Sir William Jardine, of Applegarth, Bart. of a son and heir-At Hainton-hall, Mrs. Edward Howard, of a son and heir-At...

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LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. The supply of Wheat and Flour this week has not been large; the trade, however, continues in the same dull state, although we do not...