23 MAY 1840

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE first three nights, the greater part of the Parliamentary week, were devoted by the Commons to a wearisome debate on Lord STANLEY'S Registration Bill for Ireland. The...

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Rumours of disasters in Africa, of a serious quarrel between

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the Duke of ORLEANS and Marshal VALLI:E, and of the Duke's speedy Rumours of disasters in Africa, of a serious quarrel between the Duke of ORLEANS and Marshal VALLI:E, and of...

In consequence of a discovery that Don CARLOS has been

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ac- tively instigating his partisans in Spain to raise a fresh insurrection, he has been ordered to strict confinement in the fortress of Blaye. All the recent uews is...

By the same arrival we have received Upper Canada papers

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to -the 25th ultimo. The Kingston Chronicle and Gazette gives parti- culars of a disastrous fire, by which fifty houses in that town were destroyed on the night of the 12th...

The packet-ship St. James, which left New York on the

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1st instant, arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday. The commercial in- telligence is still unsatisfactory, trade being very dull. No political events of interest are mentioned.

Debatts anb likorcetiings in parliament.

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REGISTRATION Or IRISH VOTERS. The House of Commons was occupied the first three nights of the week with a debate on Lord Stanley's bill "to amend the laws relating to the...

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Further evidence concerning the murder of' Lord William Russell was

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given yesterday before the Bow Street Magistrates. The witnesses were the cook and housemaid, Lord William's coachmen, Mr. Pector's coachman, the butler of Mr. Latham, who lived...

br Court.

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AST:J.1:S A mphizbeatre, the Ancient Concert at the llanover Square Rooms, and the Italian Opera have afforded anntseineut to the Queen and the Prince tl:is week. The opera was...

Zbr StIrtropolis. At a r.:eet:itg of the Common Conned on

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Thursday, ere freedom of the City was presented to Lord Sea t011, The Chansbcri..in, James Shaw, delivered a complimentary mblress on the oceivien ; Lord Seaton returned an...

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York Minster has again narrowly escaped entire destruction by fire,

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About nine o'clock on Wednesday night, flames were seen to issue front the belfry at the South-western end of the Cathedral. The alarm was given, and fire-engines were speedily...

Zbe robincrs.

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Lord Melgund does not intend to offer hhnself again for Hythe; rea Mr. Stewart Manjoribanks is mentioned as the Whig candidate to sue- ceed him. Mr. HarInnd has announced his...

The following petition for the admission of foreign sugar into

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the English market liar home consumption, has been no tueronsly signed by "wholesale and retail grocers, confeedoners, and others of Lyndon and its vicinity." It sets forth- "...

A new church is about to he erected on Tlti

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ickenham Common. The Queen Dowager's subscription towards it is 100/. ; the Duke of Northumberland's, 500/. ; Mr. Clay's, 5001.; and several subscriptions of 100/. and 15o/. are...

The Yorkshire Gazette mentions " the total wreck of the

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barque Arcturus, belonging to Mr. Halt, of Whitby, and bound from Sierra Leone to Sunderland, with a valuable cargo of oak. On Sunday MOTn. ing last, when the vessel Wi . :S uir...

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IRELAND.

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The Irish Judges have decided that a sentence of (hall passed on Women, Casey and Hartnett, convicted of murder at Cork, must be reversed, in consequence of a technical...

The last regular packet front the West ',elks brought accounts

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front ltemerara to the 20:11 of .Nlareb, bust from a private source we have been favoured with intelligence front that colon,y ten (lays' later. he Cluiana l'in,fw tl:e 80th...

Sir Francis Heed has sent to the newspapers a letter

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which he has addressed to Sir Robert Peel, on the Cenada Benito] Bill. Sir Robert, he resniuds lsisnm , gave his reluctant eonsent to the second reading of that bill on the...

SCOTLAND.

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A great meeting of the mercantile community of Glasgow was held in the Assembly-rooms of that city on the 15th, to petition the Queen and both Houses of Parliament to take...

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A third (tests:itch front Colonel Wakefield ts-:•.s received by the

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Directors of the New Zealend Cempany on Tuesday last. It was brought by a vessel direct from Holtianga, a port on the western side of the North Island ; and contains a det a...

filisceitantous.

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We are informed that her Grace the Dutchess of Sutherland has re- signed the appointment of Mistress of the lobe.; to her Majesty, and that the Dutehess of Bedford is to be her...

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General Wyndham will oppose Mr. Horsman at Coekermouth, Iii his

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address to t he (deems's, Mr. Horsman says- " it is 111111Urrs....al'y use me to say that 1 never sought office, and I have still less wished for it. i bal consul t ed my own...

The French Chamber of Deputies have voted the renewal of

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tie charter of the Bank of France to 31st December 1867, by a majority of 252 to 58.

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY.

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At Cambridge, the numbers at the close of the poll were— For Sir Alexander Grant For Professor Starkie Majority At Ludlow— For Mr. Redfield Fur Mr. Larpent Majority 745 652...

MONEY MARKET.

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Smolt EXVI1ANOE, FuTnAv AFTERNoom. The impulse given to the 11fone1--suarket on Saturday last by the financial statement of the Chaneellor of the Exchequer, continued during...

In the liewe of Lords, last night. the Bishop of

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Exi:TEN presentee - 1 petition front 31erthyr TydviI, representing tint want of new churches and of religions instruction for the impielly-inere:'sing population of that...

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THE ARMY.

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NVAR•OFFICE, Mit \ 22.-13th Light litrags.---1,..1. 11. .91Igootl, (lent. to he 1,Irmit, by purchase, vice who retires, 70th Voct -•:1,,,i,t.-Surg. .1. Alaharg ti• Sire Ke11110,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, ANI) DEATHS.

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On the 1:3111 inst., at Pent Cottoge, near Winds. r. T.ittly li.ixteAino, of a son antl heir. On the 14th inst., Lady Itomurr Gitosykrant. of It daughter. On Out 16th inst., in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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EXERCISES IN ONOMATOLOGY. THE name of Radical has fallen into such disrepute of late years from the mixture of feeblemeae contradiction ; apathy, and treachery displayed by the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The etwbar. trot.' Liverpool to chino hos

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pot batik leaky. Arrived-At t;rave,:ettd. 1611t, Victoria, Street. t'rom the Cap.': 17th, Aritb, Item :t1,, ur iti ll s ; 1511, Niataga,ear, t ititlell ; 10t1). Anna Maria, Ryan...

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SENDING ROUND TIIE HAT.

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Ws: remember in our juvenile days a sort of provincial Ducrows who used to witch our village world with noble horsemanship sob Arp- i5l the open market-place. lt being...

LIGHTNING-CONW - CrOilS: MORALITY SSE ELMO- PEAN GOVERNMENTS.

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Toe use of what limy be called lightning-conductors in the moral world—attractions to divert the violent passions, which might work havoc in our own circle, ilito ;mottles...

NAP(1)LEON'S REMAINS : THE BONAPARTE FAMILY.

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Loris Pui mem:, yielding to the suggestions of his IICW Minister, wishing to acquire credit for magnanimity, and perhaps desirous of giving a new direction to the minds of his...

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THE GERMAN OPERA.

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TEE vigour, as yell as the extent of Spoil a's genius, are yet led par- tially made known to the English piddle. his fame, it is tree, has been extending year by year : his...

OPIUM \VAR 1)0CUMENTS.

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r.%1ZT Or A eeenrac nese.eren Toe ovens 01' ENGLAND " raost pint (7111a1731: mi Nl."110N.S1111:S Al' CANTON. " We 60:th that your country is distant front its about sixty or...

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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r re s are contagious. Without meaning an irreverent association of ideas, it would seem that people grow insensible to outrages by repeti- tions, wheth:r oil the real or...

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CONTINENTAL INDIA.

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NATURE, says Imlae, sets her gifts on the right hand and on the left ; as we approach one we recede from another. The same law which bars mankind from the full means of...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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RAVELS, Cominental India. Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections, illustratiug the Antiquity , . Religion. and Manners of the Ilindoos. the Extent of British Con....

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TIMON, BUT NOT Or ATBENS.

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TBIS is a singular publication. The author is a person of some reflection and ability, with a critical perception in music and paint- ings. Ile is also one who has thought much,...

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THE ANATOMY OF SUICIDE.

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THIS volume originated in a paper its author, Mr. FORBES WINS- LOW, read to the " Westminster Medical Society," the object of which was to show that the disposition to commit...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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The Anatomy of Suicide. By FORRES WtssLow, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London ; Author of " Pity tie and Phy- sicians." Tinum, but net of Athens. In two vols....

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FINE ARTS.

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THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. Jr was announced a few days ago that the design for the 'new Royal Exchange was at last fixed upon ; and having obtained a sight of the drawings, we are...

THE MISSING PICTU1111 BY LEWIS.

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Jolts 1.r.wis's large picture, that was to have enriched the Weter-eo- lour Exhibition, leis safely arrived at last ; and we have been gratified by a sight of it at Mr....