25 SEPTEMBER 1841

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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ALTHOUGH to the last Sir ROBERT PEEL'S promised " statement " of what he should do, even under the provocative of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S clever speech upon the state of public...

cipal case the reelection of Lord STANLEY ; and, there

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agt Mr. JAMES ACLAND, the Anti-Corn-law lecturer, figured as the ' opposing candidate. The servant of the League has performed his duty in the most satisfactory manner, having...

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larbates EUli3 iprottaings in Varliaintat.

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MINISTERS AND THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The subject of the state of the country and of the Ministerial policy was renewed on Monday, in some desultory conversation which took...

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be Tourt.

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Norinsc has occurred this week to break what now almost seems the monotony of Court life at Windsor Castle. The Queen has taken her usual walks and rides in a pony phaeton with...

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the freedom

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of the City was presented to Sir Robert Stopford and Sir Charles Napier, by Sir J. Shaw, the City Chamberlain. The documents were contained in boxes made of heart of oak,...

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Zbe Vrobinces.

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The election for North Lancashire took place on Tuesday, in the Court-lioase at Lancaster. The Grand Jury-box and seats for counsel were filled with ladies ; among whom was Lady...

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IRELAND.

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Lord De Grey left Dublin Castle on Monday, and embarked at Kingstown for England. On Monday, Captain Meynell, R.N., one of the new Grooms in Waiting, was reillected for...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Honourable Captain Gordon was reelected for Aberdeenshire on Tuesday, without a dissentient voice. He was proposed by Colonel Fraser of Castle Fraser, and seconded by Mr....

Iftistellaneous.

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Tuesday's Gazette announced the appointment of the Countess of Dunmore to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary ; the Honourable Mrs. Georgians Mary Anson, to be...

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POSTSCRIPT SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, the motion to go into a Com- mittee of Supply gave occasion for a new discussion on the state of the country....

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An express from Paris has arrived in town to-day, with

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the intel- ligence of yesterday afternoon. The editor of the National had been tried for a libel on the King, and acquitted. The Republicans regard the acquittal as a triumph....

Lord Granville Somerset was reelected for Monmouthshire yesterday. He was

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proposed by the Honourable William Rodney, and seconded by Mr. Joseph Bailey. There was no other candidate. Sir George Cockburn arrived at Ripon on Wednesday, and addressed the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FIITDAY AFTERNOON. This has been rather an important week. The announcement made by the the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the funding of five millions of...

A letter appears in the Times this morning, signed "G.

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Cockburn, General," which announces that the writer has already submitted to Sir Robert Peel a plan by which he could raise 30,000,000/. or more, without loan or payment of...

The first report of the House of Commons Committee on

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Public Petitions was delivered this morning. From the 25th August to the 6th September the total number of petitions presented to the House was 504. Of that number no fewer than...

Petitions to the Queen against the prorogation of Parliament until

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the popular distress and its remedy have been discussed, have been adopted at Marylebone, Shorediteh, Bethnal Green, (Anti-Corn-law Associa- tion,) Leicester, (where the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The India, Campbell, from Greenock to New South Wales, was burnt at sea on the 19th July—eighteen of the crew and pnoweugers drowned. Arrived—At Gravesend, Sept. 17th, Rosanna,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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OPPOSITIONS AND THEIR TACTICS. Am Opposition is an organized minority in Parliament, seeking to convert itself into a majority and make its leaders Ministers. Steady,...

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TORY GOVERNMENT IN CANADA, AND WHIG ROGUERY IN LONDON.

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Ix recent numbers of the Colonial Gazette, pains have been taken to assure the people of Canada that the change of Ministry at home is unlikely to produce a restoration of the...

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LORD STANLEY ON THE CORN-LAWS.

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Loan STANLEY has been more explicit on the subject of the Corn- laws than any of his colleagues. He told the crowd assembled round the hustings at the reelection for North...

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BLACK-MAIL FOB. THE LANDLORDS.

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THERE has been some cavilling at our proposal to buy off the op- position to Corn-law Repeal, in the columns of the Globe and Non- conformist; to whom only this one, and very...

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THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD HOWICK.

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YES, Lord HOWICK has been assassinated. His fearless assertion of "Free Trade principles" has made him obnoxious to popular furor : some Conservative demagogue at Sunderland,...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BroanAFRY, Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Kut.; containing his Speeches and Poems. To which are added, the Letters of his Great-great grandson. Benjamin Rudyerd, Esq.,...

DROWNING: PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE. Jr is remarkable, as ELIA

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observed many years ago in his disser- tation on the discovery of the art of roasting pigs, how slow is the progress of great inventions towards perfection. The history of the...

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ILLUSTRATED EDITION OP LOCKHART'S SPANISH B ALL ADS.

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THERE is not much to be said in the way of criticism on a work which has been so long before the public as Mr. LOCKHART'S translation of selected Spanish Ballads. The work...

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MR. AIKIN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.

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" IN the year 1828," says Mr. Awn; in his preface, " it was pro- posed to the Society of Arts to appropriate a few evenings to the illustration of the Arts and Manufactures of...

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ANTI-SLAVERY PUBLICATIONS.

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Or the two publications before us, the Proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention is a bulky octavo of nearly six _hundred pages, containing a full report of the...

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MUSIC FOR ALL CLASSES.

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Otis appeal — so long solitary and unheeded—is now finding a ready and frequent response, and our countrymen are beginning to discover, what they were slow to learn, that nature...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 12th September, at Troverne, in Brittany, the Lady of the Hon. Wurrem H. DRUMMOND, of a daughter. On the 18th, in Grosvenor Crescent, the Countess of CLARENDON....

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR•OTFICE. Sept. 24.-1st Life Guards-H. Lowther, Gent. to be Cornet and Sub. Lieut. by purchase, vice Sir H. II. Bruce, who retires. 17th Light Drags.-Surgeon E. Pilkington....

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. ',Wee:. Thurs. Friday. 891 894 894 894 894 894 904 904 894 894 89* 894 shut ---- - - - -- shut 99 99 984 984...

GOIME.R.CIAL GAZETTE.

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'13 in, ::(1): 21. PAILTAZ113"Ali5 LI/S4aLi AD. Dykes and Cooper, High Street, St. Giles's. stationers-Bowen and Long, Milt Lane, Tooley Street, psatoe-merchants-Lloyd and...