26 APRIL 1845

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The other subject of the day has again been discussed

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in both Houses of Parliament—railway legislation. A fierce onslaught has been made upon the Railway Board, in the Commons by Mr. Thomas Duncombe, in the Lords by Lord Brougham :...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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MAYNOOTH still! Indeed there is another week of it ; tongues going as fast as power-looms, in Parliament, in town and country, and m Ireland. But in Parliament the question has...

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Debates anb poceebings inVarliantent.

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• ENDOWMENT OF liTAYNOOTH COLLEGE. In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, the order of the day was piard for going into Committee on the grant from the Consolidated Fund fop...

The Foreign news is of no great mark—more personal than

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political. - From India, the most startling announcement is, that a gallant officer is under arrest for one of those daring acts of chivalry that have done so much to establish...

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Ebt jattropolis.

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The Queen went to see the Great Britain steam-ship, at Blackwell, on Teesday. Woolwich was dressed out in the customary way, with soldiers, pensioners, and pups, flap and music....

Ebe ourt.

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" TakREWaS aeother levee at St. James's Palace on Wednesday. Her Majesty and Ptince Albert arrived in the usual state at two o'clock. The Duke of Cambridge, the Hereditary...

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IRELAND.

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A general Protestant petition of the town of Belfast, highly approving of the Maynooth Bill, as a measure of justice, and a peace-offering to the Irish Roman Catholics, and...

Zbt Wrobinces. The Marquis of Blandford has resigned his seat

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in the House of Commons for Woodstock. In an address to the electors, he observes that a crisis has arisen in Parliament which was not foreseen when he was elected—the question...

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filtisttlIantous.

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All doubt as to one Ministerial change is at an end: it will be seen by Parlia- mentary proceedings that Mr. William Forbes Mackenzie becomes the Scotch Lord of the Treasury, in...

fforeign ana

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FEANCE.-.41. Guizot was taken seriously ill on Saturday morning, with a spasmodic attack, so violent that he was for some time deprived of speech. Me- cal aid was immediately...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. iIl the House of Commons, last night, Sir ROBERT Pim propounded his important measure for the regulation of banking in'Scotland and Ire- land. We give the pith...

THE THEATRES.

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THE performances • of -the week .do not call for particular notice; the most remarkable novelty being the Queen's state-visit to Drury Lane, on Thursday. The entertainments were...

BIRTHS.

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On the 19th April, at Shinfield House, Berke, the Lady.ofIdeut.-Col. Bunn, of a-son.. On the 19th, at Sonthtown House, Devon, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Haworth, of a On the 19th,...

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On Penenden Heath, yesterday,—High SheriffSirlidoses Montefiore presiding,— • Colonel Thomas

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Austen was elected Member for East Kent, in the No-Popery and • 'cultural-Protection interests. 'There was no opposition. tds Of Blandford has written a letter to the Morning...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Palanquin, from Liverpool to Bombay, is totally wrecked on Nelson Island, Mie of the Maldives ; crew saved. ARRIVED—At Gravesend, 21st April, Sea Nymph, Barclay, from...

The Paris journals of Thursday are mostly Oectiplea with comments

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cin the • shill for converting the Five per Cent Stoat; which pessed the 'Chamber of De- puties on Wednesday, by a - majority of 202 egainst86. -M. Gaissoes health was...

. DIVISIONS ON THE MAYNOOTH COLLEGE BILL.

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SECOND READING—FRIDAY 18th APRIL. • 'MAJORITY, IN FAVOUR OF THE 'ENDOWMENT, 323. Conservative Supporters, 158. Acland, Sir T. D. Cripps, W. nogg. J. W.' Pennant, Mon. Col....

MONEY MARKET.

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BATtraDAY, TWO O'CLOCK. The English Funds close at an advance of 4 per cent upon the morning's • prices. There is no important change in the Foreign Funds. The minor class of...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHERE ARE WE IN 1829, the Roman Catholics of Ireland were admitted to Par- liament, and made capable of holding high offices of state. In 1831, the Reform Bill made the...

THE PASSOVER.

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To a stranger who at this season, or indeed on any Saturday throughout the year, strays from the throng. and bustle of the Exchange or Bishopsgate Street into the purheus of...

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CHASTISEMENT OF TRUANT MEMBERS.

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"If the honourable Member persist in his disorderly conduct, I shall be obliged to name him," is a threat of the Speaker of the House of Cominons in desperate cases. A candid...

BRITISH BRAHMINS AND PARIAHS.

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SOME half hundred gentlemen in France are slowly undergoing the process of being made Peers, in batches of four or five at a time ; and in a recent batch appear Victor Hugo, the...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Broalavwr, The'Life St the Rev. 'Joseph BlanCO White, written by Himself: 'with poetic:ea &Ibis Correspondence. Edited by John Hamilton Thom. In three velMnes..Chopatien....

DWELLINGS FOR WORKPEOPLE.

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Ar the new port of Birkenhead, which is -rising up to be a great town before our eyes, a practical experiment is in progress, highly interesting to the working-classes. The town...

DIFFUSION OF GENTILITY.

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- OBSTINATE sceptics - may occasionally be met with who -doubt - whether the mass of society is more intelligent and moral in this generation than in the generations which...

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SELF, BY THE AUTHOR OF CECIL. THE COCK AND THE

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ANCHOR. BEYOND a flippant preface, and a transient appearance of Cecil Denby towards the close of the third volume, sef has little relation to Cecil. It rather resembles some...

LORD NUGENT ' S LANDS CLASSICAL AND SACRED.

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nom December 1843 to the May following Lord Nugent occupied him- self in a trip to Athens, Alexandria, and Cairo, and a tour thence to Palestine, whose principal places he...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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From April 180 to etpra 24th. Booxs. A Memoir of the Honourable and Most Reverend Power Le Poer Trench, last Archbishop of Tuam. By the Reverend Joseph D'Arcy Sirr, D.D.,...

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MUSIC.

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THE OPERAHOUSE CONCERTS. THE miscellaneous performance which preceded Le Desert on Monday last afforded one of the highest musical treats that the Metropolis has enjoyed for a...

FINE ARTS.

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NEW WATBR COLOUR SOCIETY. TAB New Society of Water-colour Painters, being fairly established in public favour, have improved their Exhibition-rooms in Pall Mall by throwing...

VHB SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

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Solomon was given at Exeter Hall on Wednesday; when some of the noble double choruses of that work, in particular the charming one "Final the' causer," censer," produced their...

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PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, GRESHAM COLLEGE has just been

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enriched by a valuable and appropriate ornament—a full-length portrait of its illustrious founder, at the age of twenty-six: It has been presented throagh Professor Taylor, by...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Anuraarre, April 17.—Corps of Royal Marines—Sec. Lieut. S. R. Little to be First Lieut. vice F. J. White, placed on half-pay. WAR-OFFICE. April 25.-6th Drag, Guards—Lieut. H....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, April 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. D'Usayerand Co. Regent Street, professors of languages—Clifford and Co. Liverpool. commission-merchants—Davie and Pitcher, Ipswich,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Alabama (Sterling) 5 p. Ct. — Massachusetts (Sterling) ...6 p.CL Austrian 6 — — Mexican 6 —...