22 MARCH 1845

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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To err is the privilege of Members of Parliament—to forgive, the Merciful Prerogative of electors : but Members may need less in- dulgence than common this session, for ,they...

Sir Robert Peel's management rivals that of Mr. Lumley: seldom

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has the season before Easter been so short as this has been, seldom so well filled with work done. We speak not now of the merits of the several performances, but of the amount...

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The American mail brings over a puzzling state-paper. The first

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step in controversy is to settle the value of your terms ; a necessity which almost precludes profitable controversy with the Government of the United States. For example, what...

Debatts an prourbings In VarliEnntra.

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NEW TABLET: AGRICULTURAL RELIEF. In the House of Commons, on Monday, when the order of the day was feed for going into Committee on the Customs Acts, Mr. Wasaass Mu-Es...

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Iftetropolis.

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A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday; but the doors were cleetei throughout the sitting. It is understood that the discussion resulted in the ap, • .intruent of a...

ebe (court.

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TnieCourt has lefe town for the Easter holydays. The Queen and Prince Albee4 with the Royal children, set out from Buckingham Palace at a quarter to three o'clock on Wednesday;...

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ebe Vrobinces.

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A meeting was held at Newmarket on Tuesday, to enable Mr. Eliot Yorke to confer with his constituents on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's agricultural policy; which he had...

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iforeign antr FnAxcE.—The Chamber of Deputies began to discuss on

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Monday, a new plan proposed by M. Duvergier de Hauranne, for abolishing the ballot in taking the votes. A Committee had reported in favour of a mixed system, which, while it did...

IftisctIlantotts.

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The Gazette notifies that the Queen will hold a drawingroom, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the 10th April next. A letter from Hanover states that the last malady in the...

IRELAND.

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At the usual meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. O'Connell presented the first report of the Committee on the Tenure of Land Commis- sioners' Report It consisted...

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F.AST INDIA SHIPPING.

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.Anaivan—At Gravesend, 15th inst. Thetis, Cass, from Calcutta. At PortsMouth, ditto, Minstrel, Barton, from ditto. At Scilly, 16th ditto, Cleopatra, Early, from qiiina. Atabia,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Times this morning gives some good advice touching New &ahead. The accession of that powerful organ is significant as to the drift of influen- tial public...

The Miles within the House is truly but the representative

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and shadow of the sturdy beggars without it—the Talbot of that clamorous =ay; and in Booth, "beggars are coming to town "—by petition. A general move- ment "amongst the English...

The case of the Reverend Mr. Oakeley is, we hear,

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to be brought before the Arches Court, by letters of request, some time in the course of the next term. The Reverend gentleman has been during the week paying a visit to the...

A half-monthly overland mail brings intelligence from Calcutta to the

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8th of February. The most striking thing in it is a kind of rumour founded on known facts. The military men of the Bengal Presidency division remark the number of troops...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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EXETER HALL • FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE RASTER SEASON. EXETER HALL opened for the season on Tuesday last. The au- dience was not numerous; but the performers exerted themselves,...

The New Zurich Gazette, of the 18th instant, reports progress

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in the proceed- ings of the Commission appointed by the Extraordinary Diet. The Commission decide unanimously to recommend an amnesty for all political offences committed " of...

PROSPECTS OF SLAVE-TRADE SUPPRESSION. THE Constitutiomiel reports that the Duc

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De Broglie has instruc- tions to propose, as a substitute for the Anti-Slavery right of search, a blockade of the African coast by combined squadrons. As this is precisely - our...

The Journal des Debats, of Thursday, quotes a letter from

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Algiers, of the 10th instant, which states that the body of an unknown Negro or Moor has been found in the ruins of the powder-magazine; and it is supposed that he may have de-...

MONEY MARKET.

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ST0118 RECHARGE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. As Good Friday is a close helyday in the City, our usual report must be made up this afternoon: and, as far as relates to the English...

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LORD STANLEY'S WHITEWASHING.

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To understand how far Lord Stanley's colleagues have been suc- cessful in making his face white before the world, it is necessary to understand the thing about which the charge...

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THE BLOOMSBURY COLLEGE.

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Tama is nothin g provoking more provokg than, after having put our- selves into a passion for a friend, to see him all at once shake hands with Ins opponent 2 leaving us without...

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A WAY TO BEGIN "SHORT TIME" AT ONCE.

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Tan Short-time agitators of Lancashire, hoping against hope, keep up their movement ; which has now dwmdled down to meeting in a public-house on Sunday, "resolving "various...

A DRESS TO BE HANGED IN.

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l'ITE hanging-dress ef John Tawell seems to have been a subject , of more anxious discussion than the marriage-dress of the belle of the season. At first it was rumoured that...

THE JEWS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Westminster, 19th March 1845. Sin—Your remarks on the Jews in last Saturday's paper appear to me to in- volve an extension of the principle of...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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DIPLOMACY, The Diplomatic Correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill, (LL.D., F.R.S., &c.) Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of St. James to the Duke of Savoy, in the Reign...

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RICHARD HOWITT'S IMPRESSIONS OF AIISTRALIA FELIX.

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FROM his own incidental account it appears, that Richard Howitt, the brother of William, was born and brought up upon an English farm, and accustomed to "handle all sorts of...

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SABINE'S MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS AT TORONTO. THIS volume enables us to

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trace the history of the great British magnetio survey now in progress, with more of accuracy of detail than was possible when we last had occasion to advert to the subject.* A...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Frans March 140 W mareh 20th. BOOKS. Efitiory, of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon, Fmming a Sequel to "The His' tory of the Preach Revolution." By M....

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MUSIC.

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PERGOLESE'S STABAT MATER. AtTILORRIATELY to a week in which all festive and secular music is silent, the. past one has been signalized by the revival of this early masterpiece...

FINE ARTS.

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TIM NEW CONSERVATIVB CLUB. TEM published 'mounts , of the architectural arrangements and decorations of the lofty structure that has swallowed up the Old Thatched House. Tavern...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, March 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Blackmore and Co. Dent, Yorkshire, marble-dealers--Eyre and Burge, Tornham Green, surgeons-Toft and Austin, Tinkersciough, Shelton...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-oancx, March 21.-let Drag. Guards-Lieut. R. A. Moore to be Adjt. vice Hollis, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 8th Light Drags.-The Hon. S. F. Carew to be Comet, by purchase,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 19th February, at Argostati, Cephalonia, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Hay, Commanding the Nineteenth Regiment, of a daughter. On the 3d March, at Florence, the...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. &had. (Closing Monday. Meet.) Twaday. Wearies I per Cent Consols .. to1 ssi 991 ooj Ditto for Account 100 1001 100 1001 3 per Cents Reduced abut — — — 31 per...