21 OCTOBER 1843

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The North American mails bring a very curious speech delivered

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by Mr. WEBSTER at an agricultural meeting in the State of New York. It is made up of parts which do not bang well together. The popular orator, among agriculturists, advocates "...

No intelligible accounts come from Italy. At Rome, the official

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people say that all is tranquil; yet in point of fact there seems to be nearly as much commotion as ever. The dread of being known to suffer from disturbance is in itself a...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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hi one short week the aspect of affairs in Ireland has materially altered: Government have calmly but firmly advanced ; Mr. O'Cuimour. has retreated from the position that he...

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Zbe InEtropolis.

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As the period of the City election approached, the contending parties did not relax in their endeavours : daily meetings were held, the can- didates attending in person ;...

Vat Court.

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TEE history of the Court is nearly a blank this week : the usual walks and drives in the morning, and quiet dinners each evening, are almost all that is recorded of the daily...

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IRELAND.

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Government have followed up their active steps against the Clontarf meeting with law proceedings on account of previous occurrences. That they intended so to do, was currently...

Int 113robintts.

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The usual notice appeared in Tuesday's Gazette, that the Speaker would issue his warrant for the election of a Member for the borough of Kendal. The Conservatives have not yet...

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Sort* anti Colonial.

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NORTH ANERICA.—The mail-steamer Caledonia, which left Halifax on the 4th instant and Boston on the 1st, with intelligence from New York to the 30th Septembet, arrived at...

SCOTLAND.

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The Grand Duke Michael of Russia arrived at Buchanan Castle, in Stirlingshire, on Friday, on a visit to the Duke and Dutchess of Mon- trose; accompanied by Baron Brunow, and...

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Allistellantous.

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Parliament met pro forma on Thursday, to be further prorogued. The only Peers present were the Lords Commissioners—the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, and Earl Delay'...

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A correspondent of the Standard asserts that the Reverend Charles

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Seager, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, has joined the Church of Rome. The Standard adds that Mr. Seager was the factotum, of Dr. Pusey, as the Professor of Hebrew ; and...

Yesterday two companies of Woolwich Artillery were ordered to prepare

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for embarkation this day, for Ireland. The Times this morning contains a semi-official contradiction of the stories about 20,000 soldiers coming over from Hanover- " We have...

The intelligence from Ireland is as pacific as it has

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been throughout the week. The correspondent of the Times has some reports of serious dissensions among the Repealers, some of the more unruly being dis- posed to mutiny against...

Mrs. Fry is reported to be alarmingly ill, of a

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pulmonary complaint, the consequence of a cold caught during a recent tour in the North of Europe.

We learn from Kendal that the Honourable Mr. Bouverie, who

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comes out in the Whig-Radical-Dissenting interest, will be opposed by Dr. Sleigh, on independent grounds. He will, we understand, receive the support of the Conservatives....

The Paris papers of Wednesday and Thursday (those of' Wednesday

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having been delayed till last night by the rough weather) contain these telegraphic despatches from Spain- .• Bayonne. 17111 OdOber. " On the 15th, at two o'clock, the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. THE LaAOUE has returned Mr. Pattison for the City of Loudon So it is said, both in exultation and reproach ; and the assertion is pro- bable. In personal...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERROOV. In this week's report of the Money-market we have very little to state as to any material change in the value of the English Funds. It has,...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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SATURDAY Motirenea. ARRIVED— Off Falmouth, 13th Oct. Greenlaw, Morris, from China. Off Cork. Eliza- beth. Tucker. from the Cape. At Mauritius, 29th July, Union, Surflen ; Ann...

THE THEATRES.

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Ma. H. WALLACH'S attempt to give the Shaksperian drama a local habitation in Covent Garden has been attended with signal and speedy failure : two or three nights' trial sufficed...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LIMITS OF THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY. TEE question, when is a government entitled to interfere to prevent its subjects from assembling in large bodies ?—or rather, the ques-...

THE NEW ITALIAN OPERA.

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PERHAPS it has been too much the fashion of late to condemn the modern Italian school by wholesale, and to employ the names of its composers as contemptuous by-words. That much...

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THE IRISH POLICY OF MINISTERS.

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THE tampering of the Whig organs with the dangerous spirit which is abroad in Ireland, is one of those sacrifices of honest principle to party, which does not cease to be odious...

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THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT IN DUBLIN.

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Ona last week's correspondent, an enlightened Englishman residing for the time in Ireland, again writes to us, backing-up his recom- mendation of a Parliamentary session in...

COMBINATION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.

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Tax disposition of all crafts and trades to incorporate themselves is stamped with the prescriptive sanction of antiquity : in England, as in other countries, it is an...

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AMERICAN NOTIONS OF ENGLISH PARLIA- MENTARY CORRUPTION.

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Ws have formerly pointed to the lessons which may be gathered from the strictures of intelligent foreigners, as in the case of French censors of our ways. We have now a good...

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THE IDEAL AND THE REAL.

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THE _Democratic Review has a notice of a volume of poems by Mr. WILLIAM ELLERT CHAIINING ; the specimens of which show the author to possess the fine feelings that are...

No necessity is more generally recognized than the fact that

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"one must draw the line somewhere"; and the hoe between true courage and foolhardi- ness is among the desirable bounds which must be traced ; but none is more variable. When the...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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MILITARY Anvzwruaes. Diary of a March throu g h Sinde and Af g hanistan, with the Troops under the Com. mand of General Sir William Not:. K.C.B.. Sze. And Sermon, delivered on...

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CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S MONSIEUR VIOLET.

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Monsieur Violet seems to us a fiction, though professing to be a narrative of facts, and offering, besides the interest of a story and the exhibition of character and manners,...

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MR. KENNEDY'S POEMS.

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WITH considerable poetical power and force of expression, Mr. KENNEDY sometimes exhibits a feebleness of style approaching to doggrel, and a metre so ill-chosen in relation to...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From October 13th to October 18th.

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Boons. Diary of a March through Shade and Affghanistan, with the troops under the command of General Sir William - Nott, K.C.B., &c. And Sermons delivered on various occasions...

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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London, 16th October 1843. Sra—Will you allow me to add a few words to your notice of Continental Music ? WAGNER'S opera The Flying Dutchman ("Der fliegende Hollander") was not...

MUSIC.

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First Sonata for the Pianoforte ; composed and dedicated to his friend, FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, by Loris SPOHR. Op. 125. IT is a significant trait of the great artist, and...

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ECONOMICS OF BRIDGE-BUILDING.

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THE condition of Westminster Bridge naturally leads to a consideration of the other old bridges over the Thames in and near the Metropolis ; all of which were more or less...

FINE ARTS.

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RAIMBACH THE ENGRAVER. THE name of ABRAHAM RAIMBACH is familiar to all admirers of the WILKIE prints : he was one of the old school of historical line-en- gravers, of which...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 3d October, at the Rectory, Isham, the Lady of the Rev. SAMUEL K. WEBSTER, of a daughter. Os the 4th, at Thorpe Rectory. the Lady of the Rev. ARMINE Rename. of a...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Oct. 17. PARTNIRSHIPS DISSOLVED. Brunton and Falconers, Howdon Pans, Northumberland, brewers—W. and A. Wells, Leeds. wine merchants—Edwards and Williams. Northwich,...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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OFFICE or ORDNANCE. Oct. 16.—Roy al Artillery — Sec. Captain J. M. Savage to be Capt. vice Sir H. Chamberlain. Bart. dec. First Lieut. H. Murray to be Sec. Capt. vice Savage....

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PRICES CURRENT.

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B RITISH Saturday FUNDS. Monday. (Closing Tuesday. Prices.) Werbses Thurs. Friday , 3 per Cent. Consols 954 954 95} 951 95} 95} Ditto for Account 952 Mk 95} 95} 951 951 3...