25 APRIL 1840

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The accounts Of the utter failure of the Russian expedition

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upon Chita are coutireled. The troops wore SO (11111111i:11o:I by cold, sick- The accounts Of the utter failure of the Russian expedition upon Chita are coutireled. The troops...

Letters dote Constantinople repeat the rumour that the Shalt of

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Persia was marcl , iog with a large army upon Bagdad.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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It; all besides are pleasure-seeking at Easter and other holyday- times, O'CONNELL is SUIT to be found working in his old voca- tion: and never has the veteran been more active...

It appears from letters written by Jews resident in Damascus

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and in ;'vat the Israelites in both places have b jet:tett to tho 1110'1 11, , r111114; to11111es to elicit confessioa: f „ 4. , ; murdered. in Dara , ■lis. .1 priest and his...

The interest in the Sulphur question has subsi.led for the

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pre- sent. 'I he French Government offered its mediation between England and Naples : which the l ower at once accepted, and it is vresumed that the consent of Naples will not...

The reports of mutinies among the Carlist insurgents in Spain

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are revived ; and it is said that liSrAilTEE0 has pledged himself to ; , ut an end to dm civil war in Arr:Ton and Catalonia by the month 4./ Septen.her. Mcanw idle. the budget...

The Chamber of Deputies in Frain(' has been occupied with

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a discussion on the bill. " reported" by the Committee ofthc Cham- ber, to reduce the interest on the Five per Cent. Stock. Two of the King's Aides-de-Camp spoke against the...

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From Halifax, Nova Scotia, we have newspapers to the 2d,

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and private letters to the 4th instant. .Affairs in Nova Scotia have assumed a very serious aspect. The House of Assembly voted resolutions declaring the uccessity of...

e Qrourt.

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TEE Royal party at Windsor enjoy the fine weather which has con. tinned during the week, in frequent rides and walks in the neighbour- hood of the Castle. On 3Iondly, there was...

The tenor of tic. Boundary correspondence, carried on at Wash-

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ington by Mr. Fox and Mr. Foasyrn, was described last week. The sub j ect has since leam keenly discussed by most of the Lon- don journals. Aware that difficulties of a...

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On Saturd;.y, one of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's vessels,

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the Peru, was launched from Messrs. Curling and Young's dockyard at On Saturd;.y, one of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's vessels, the Peru, was launched from Messrs....

Mr. Howard, Stockdale's attorney, stated in a letter to the

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Standurl last night, that the defendants in the still-pending case of Stockdale versus Hansards bad applied yesterday to Mr. Justice Williams at Chambers, to stay the action,...

At the -'treet n 1 .1 Jolm Byrne, a Midship- man

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en board .1.. in•li r. -- to of respectable eonnexi- ,: ii•• :,:-. 1 .eetalde, and he ' Woolwich, is in custody on a of his sons. mere lads, were ••- mar:ler : but there was...

'bf 13robincrs,

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The COM( -- hour the Whigs ••,, person of Mr, 'Me following aee, . how closely the (.7■ , !.1.. - To-nes, At the eleventh . : Baldwia. in the for Carlow. d';-rent hours shows...

be „Metropolis.

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Elections of Churchwardens, Overseers, and other parochial officers in the Metropolis, have been held during the week. In some parishes the contest between the Liberals and...

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A Manchester paper states, that •• N.owit'estanding the numerous

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prosecutions which have been instituted the Government and various local authorities, and thi• great nutub,:mt of trials and consequent con- vietions and imprisonment of many of...

A meeting was held at Chelmsford, on Monday, to form

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an " Essex County Branch of the London I ■incesan Board of Edeeation." The Essex Stqndard says, it was " a splendid assemblage of the piety, in- telligence, beauty, and wealth...

Mr. Edward John Stanley, Clerk of the Treasury, Whig Whipper-

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in, and a considerable dispenser of Government patronage, dined at Stockport on Wednesday, with a large party of his constituents, the North Cheshire Liberals. The immediate...

A considerable number of Lewes Conservatives dined with Lord Can-

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telupe on Wednesday, on his Lordship's special invitation. The speeches were not remarkable. The StuffunIstriee Adcatiscr announces that the " independent men of Tamworth will...

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On the 14th instant, two of the foot soldiers stationed

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in Nottingham quarrelled in the park about some girl, and were going to settle their dispute by a battle, when one of them thinking to make himself appear more valiant than by...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell emplees himself in organizing his new plan of agita- tion, wen elihmeteri energy. Scarcely a day pa.;,;-es in which some public ineeting is nut held in D-htin, r.t...

The Birmingham Canal Company are preparing to expend upwards of

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300,000/. in the improvement of their different lines of communica- tion, including the new line up the 'fame Valley. The Birmingham and Derby Railway are obtaining an act for...

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Mr. D•wammel's funeral took place on Tuesday. The barial-place was

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the Ceeree:•, - of Mount Jerome, Harold's Cross About two hun- dred carria:es e ore in the procession : the first conveyed Mr. John Drumm:m:4 the ileum iseirs brother, the...

On the afternoon of Tuesday the 14th, about four o'e:oek,

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a power- fill shock of earthquake was felt in Stirling. the motien of the earth being from West to East. It was accompanied whit a grave hollow sound, and resembled that of...

SCOTLAND.

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The Glasgow Constitutional of Wednesday contradicts a report, which had appeared in the Liberal paper, that Lord Aberdeen had relin- quished his Church-bill. The Glasgow paper...

Lord Lorton had obtained it rule for a new trial

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of his action against Widow Murphy ; but the death of the defendant has virtually put an end to the disgraceful proceedings, Mr. Robert Harman, a graduate of Trinity College,...

Extraordiaary exertions are made by both parties in Ireland to

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se- cure maj trities on the lists of registered voters. Tint Cork Southern Reporter publishes the following circular letter, which exposes some of the Tory tactics- 4r-te,:s_t...

The Rovercr 1 Laet t.'arpenter to

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:e the 5tli ins! lilt. WA tit 1 - 115 , Frain N.1Y1... with a friend e; of his ' left Naples I:: had nalocistki his trove:Hee-bee some things, as it' prenarille: tor r, he...

Colonel Batter has published a letter to the electors of

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Kilkenny County. intended as an apology for the offence of' absence in recent di- visions when Miaisters wanted every vote. The defence is couched in 3ubmissive and...

The I 'nine/ Sierice Geser re calls arc'17.7 ".1

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.., nee of :Mr. 1.:111tielS. (ffiecr of the Twenty-s.•,.. •! li scroll ehildren. Th. • young . he that at an officer deprive I at rank aml the unju.nt verdict of a...

Allistell an o 115.

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The Month:9 Chronicle announces •11.:t the p :sea. ono; will come into use on the tith of May ; that they Post-office in London, mei. from all license- It is announced that Lord...

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Tile American papers contain an account of what the National

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ha& ligencer calls "tire most extraordinary sitting of the House of' Represen- tatives, or perhaps of any other legislative body. since the creation," The subject of debate was...

A correspondent of the Tintes, writing from Naples, describes the

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character of the King and state of public feeling in the Neapolitan dominions- " The whole kingdom of the Two Sicilies is discontented. Avarice and caprice, the leading vices of...

TheCourrier Frwwais, announcing the arrival of Mr. Porter in Paris,

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from London, expresses an expectation, that at length the negotiations for reciprocal commercial concessions by France and England might be regarded as promising success. Dr....

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The Times calls attention to the " changes in our

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shipping arrange. meats" The Times calls attention to the " changes in our shipping arrange. meats" in consequence of the " war with China "— " In proportion to the loss...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Paris papers of Thursday are very bare of news. The Chamber of Deputies had decided that the holders of the Five per Cent. Stock should be paid off, or take...

THE TnE.-vr RES.

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COVENT Oa tows and the Adelphi have made splendid F.Aster offering:, encli after its own peculiar fashion, and both of the extravaganza spe- cks. proper to the season. VEsrms...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATIIS.

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(tit the 2311 inst., in Belgrave Square, the Counte.s or LIsTowill., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at the Ray, Maidonliwail, Lady Puitm.im,ar, of a postliumou daughter. the...

MONEY MARKET.

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sTorK E ICUANOV. Pains, AFTER:WM,. The business done in the English Funds this week, has been almost entirely confined to money investments ; by which, in the aggregate, a...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, April 22d, Malabar, PaIhrk from Bombay; 23d. Royal Suvereie a, Mynah from Bengal ; and Regains, Crews, from New South Wales, At Deal, 24t11, Anabella,...

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The following letter affords a remarkable proof of the tendency

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of playgoers to be unduly affected by dulcet accents, a graceful person, and intentness of manner. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sl'ECTATOR. . Manchester, 224 April 1840. Stn—In your...

MERVIIT's bustling but vapid comedy Knme - Vow (hen Mind was

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revived Ull Thursday, at Covent Garden : it was played as well as it deserved, and dressed in a most piquant style—it now only wants to be used " as men should serve a...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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DEfOSITS IN THE BANK OF OR NOT ENGLAND: ARE THEY CURRENCY ? Tao recent appointment of a Committee of the House of Com- mons to inquire into Banks of Issue, has greatly...

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WANT OF A CIRCULATING LIBRARY FOR THE STUDIOUS.

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IT is very seldom that splendour and utility are combined; yet few, we believe, who have frequented the Library of the British Museum refuse it this praise. There, in the midst...

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COLONIZATION AND THE CONSERVATIVES.

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Toe slise.thle Post cautions us against what he terms our " ha- bitual tendency to the enormous blunder of exhibiting a warm and indiscriminate sympathy with the projectcws and...

LOVERS' QUARRELS.

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" Friends all, but now—even now In quarter and in term like bride and Divesting them for bed; and then, but Low, (As if some plaLet had nuwitted men.) Soon:, at and tilting at...

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MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR SAMUEL

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ROMILLY. PERHAPS no individual ever obtained so great a hold over the Eng. lish public and the English aristocracy, by the mere weight of his personal character, as Sir SAMUEL...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BloGRAVIIY, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Rotnilly, written by Himself; with at selection front his Correspondence. Edited by his son. la 3 vets. manly. TRArEcs, Narrative...

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MONTGOMERY'S JOURNEY TO Gl7ATEMAT.A.

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GUATEMALA, or as it is pompously styled by its inhabitants, Cen- tral America, lies between the eighth and eighteenth degree of North latitude, Harming that long straggling neck...

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TILE COUNTERS, BY PAY.

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MR. FAY enjoys great popularity among his countrymen beyond the Atlantic--hardly inferior, we believe, to that of the American WALTER Scow, CoOPER himself. lit this country he...

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MUSIC.

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A Collection if Glees and Cottons. Contpo,s.ed by Jos. MeMunurE, Mus. Bac., Oxon. Among the glee-writers of the present day. Mr. MeMunous holds a respectable rank. Ii is cons...

POEMS CHIEFLY DRAMATIC.

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Tats little volume is edited by the Dean of Exeter, or rather it is published under his superintendence, for he declined the task of revision it contains a lyrical drama on the...

The Harnuatist. IV. 1.

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This is the first volume of a work published in periodical numbers, and having for its professed object " the universal diffusion of good muaie at a cheap rate." Though heartily...

Friar Turk; el Glee fur three voice,. Du HENRY Boys.

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This compositi in should rather he called a trio with pianoforte ac- companiment : ,ieee without this addithm it cannot he sung. When so supported, i: a ill be heard with...

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Six Songs. The Music by F. SCHUBERT; the Words (translated)

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by T. OLIPHANT. SCHUBERT is in some vogue as a vocal writer, and many of his com- positions evince considerable skill, if not genius, in this branch of his art. They arc...

Overture to Romeo and Juliet, by G. MACFARREN. Arranged as

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a Pianoforte Duct. A very clever composition, as far as we can judge of it from an arranaement ; although it might as well be entitled an Overture to - MS& or Lear.

Vocal Music for the Young. No. I. By MARY KINGSTON.

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A good collection of this kind is beginning to be wanted, but the present publication only partially supplies the deficiency. Such a work should consist of compositions in two...

A New Method of Singing. By J. Centuro.

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This book, we presume, is the reprint of a French work : and it would be as well, in this and all similar cases, if what portion of it has to be expressed in language were...