26 JULY 1828

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE steam-packet which, as we stated in our last paper, was seen entering the harbour at Plymouth on Thursday evening, proved to he the veritable Belfast steamer, which carried...

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MONEY MARKET.

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CITY, SATURDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK. Since our report of last week, there have been considerable business and some fluctuations in the Money-market. The account, which was settled on...

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THE ASSIZES.

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At Bedford, on the 24th and 25th, John Eastaffe was tried for the murder of his wife, Jannette Eastaffe, in Black-grove wood, near Dunstable, on the 14tit of August, 1821. The...

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THE PARLIAMENT.

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THE SINKING FUND.—When the National Debt Bill was about to be passed, Lord Bexley rose, and delivered a panegyric on the " abused sinking-fund, and an apology for his own...

POLICE.

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At the Thames Police Office, on Monday, several persons attended to show cause why warrants to eject them from the houses they hold, now purchased by the St. Catherine's Dock...

Vadianuntary Diarp.

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HOUSE OF LORDS. MoNnAr.—Bills read a third time and passed—Turnpike Roads, Military and Naval Pensions Repeal, Saving Banks Amendment, and Custom Duties : Lord Goderich and...

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THE NEW IRISH " REBELLION."

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NEW TIMES—Ireland, it is clear, is on the verge of a sanguinary civil war. The minds of the lower classes have been excited to such a degree, and so excited by the Parliament...

SAINT SWITHIN.

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THE PRESS. CORBETT'S Reorsran.—The Duke of Wellington will find this famous old Saint a much more formidable enemy than he ever had to contend with in Massena, or even in...

THE SINK1NG-FUND—THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND LORD BEXLEY.

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COURIER—From certain peculiarities in the construction of the Finance Committee, it was generally supposed that they would recommend the aboli- tion of the sinking-fund....

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THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

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T; ES.•-••We must say that we think the Americans are acting indiscreetly, and that it would be better for them to join with us in forcing the trade of the world, than to...

THE SILK TRADE CONTROVERSY.

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MORNING CHRONICLE—it is astonishing how people can confound the high or low rate of wages and profits with the policy and impolicy of the changes in the silk trade, effected...

IMPEACHMENT OF THE LATE FRENCH MINISTERS.

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MORNING CHRONICLE—We confess that, whatever he the result, we think great good will be derived front the proceeding. If it should be determined that where there is no law...

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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P.P.P." offers some friendly suggestions (which we will not overlook), and pro- poses that we should print the whole SPECTATOR in the small type at present used for the...

FRENCH WINE.

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" It is stated that proposals have been made by the French Ministry to our Government to lower the duties on some of the chief articles of British manufacture now imported into...

WHAT IS REBELLION?

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TOPICS OF' THE DAY. IT was never doubted that the Irish Catholics would return Catholic Members to Parliament : they now fancy that they can, and that the members they send...

CHEAP 11 EROISIVI. •

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THE Daily Papers give a Mr. Young's account of his apprehension in Portugal, for certain Constitutional indications, under the head of " IMPRISONMENT AND EXAMINATION OF A...

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A FROLIC IN SOUTH AMERICAN WARFARE.

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TN the interesting Recollections of a Service in Colombia, Bolivar is described as escaping in a canoe from a party of Spanish cavalry who had surprised him resting in a village...

KING LEAR AT THE HAYMARKET.

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To read Shakspeare is a pleasure ; it is a greater to hear him well read; to see him well acted the greatest of all. Characters drawn with so much truth, passion breathed with...

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THE LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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LIEUTENANT BRAND, R.N., has given an account of his South American gallops in a single octavo*. He starts as the rival of Captain Head : we know not which " has it," the...

The first volume of Parriana, by Mr. E. H. BARKER,

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is on the point of publication *. It is, like all Mr. BARKER'S publications, exceedingly farraginous ; nevertheless, the subject is curious, and he has collected together the...

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EXTRACTS.

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CROSSING A TORRENT IN THE ANDES. "TuE velocity with which the water comes down when the snow melts in the mountains, is beyond all conception. I was here informed, that the...

SPECTABILIA.

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Children and servants are remarkably Herodotean in their style of nar- ration. If an educated man were giving an account of the late change of administration, he would say—'...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived at Gravesend—July 25, Orclia, Hudson, from New South Wales. At Portsmouth—.Tnly 2:3, H. M. S. Herald, from Bengal, with Lord Amherst and suite. At St. Helena—May...

NEW WORKS

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On the point of Publication. s. d. QUARTO. Kennedy's Origin of Lanvmages 2 12 The Boarding-School Ciphering Book, bds. 3 OCTAVO. Burn's Principles of Midwifery, 7th edition ....

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Bieems.—On Saturday, the 19th inst., at Lavender-Sweep, Clapham-Common, Mrs. John K. °Mut, of a daughter—The wife of the Rev. Samuel Walter Burgess, A.M., of a son and...

LONDON MARKETS.

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Wheat, Essex Red, .... Fine White, .. Fine, . ...... ......... Superfine ...... ......... Rye,.... ...... Barley, . Fi ne, ............. ...... Malt,. Fine,.. Peas, Hog, ......

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, July 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Dickinson and T. Arnett, Bridge-street, Southwark, horn-pressers—A. and J. Simpson, New Rutland-street, Commercial-road,...