27 JULY 1850

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Ps.nuemErr is assiduoug in finishing off the fag-end of the va- rious little measures still. on hand; Ministers, in blocking up any new question against an opening at "this late...

The political action out of doors has not excited any

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keen hopes and fears by its critical character. The substitution of Mr. Wil- liam Owen Stanley for Sir John Jervis in the representation of Chester will not shake the empire ;...

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The unexpected death of President Taylor causes a move in

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the politics of the United States. General Taylor's abrupt decease is imputed partly to harassment in the vain endeavour to hold a course above party intrigues ; and his...

lOrlintro anti Igrurrrhingo inlarlianant.

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PRINCIPA.L BUSINESS OF THE WEE/L. Ilousn or LORDS. Monday, July 22. Forged Signatures to Petitions; Joseph Byrne and others committed to Newgate—County Courts Extension Bill,...

The Continental news is more unpleasant than surprising. In France,

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the law of the press has at last been promulgated, to take effect on the first day of August ; after which, the publication of a real newspaper will be so hampered with...

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C4t (fund

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THE Royal Family enjoy their healthful quiet at Osborne. The Duke and Dutchess of Nemours, and Lord John Russell, have been the Queen's guests for brief visits. On Saturday...

31ittrupo1io.

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A Common Hall was held on Monday, to elect a Sheriff in place of Mr. Caldecot, who has declined to serve, and paid the fine of 100/. Mr. Hodgkinson, shipowner, and Mr. C. S....

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tkr , frouintro.

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'The representation of Chester, vacant by the promotion of Sir John Jervis to the bench, has been filled up by the election of a Whig, after a sharp contest. The candidates were...

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intrigu nub tennial.

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FRANCE.—The Government and the majority have received a puzzling- check from the united parties of the Republicans and Legitimists. On Monday, the Assembly began the ballot for...

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Zi strilnutgus.

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The Speaker gives his official dinner on Saturday, August 3.—Times. It is undertood that Parliament is to be prorogued on the 15th of Au- gust—Daily News. We understand that...

BANK OF ENGLAND.

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An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday, the 26th day of July 1830. 13801 DEPARTMENT. Notes issued Proprietors' anital...

PRINCIPAL House OF COMMONS BUSINESS FOR NEXT WEEK.

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Monday, July 29. Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild : Adjourned debate, (at twelve o'clock.) Motion, "That from the earliest times of the existence of a Legislature in land, no...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SAT17RDAY. At the House of Commons, by noon yesterday, a large number of Jews had assembled to witness the demand by Mr. Rothschild to be At the House of Commons, by noon...

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A legal corresponded of high professional status communicates to us

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his apprehension that the New Regulations in Chancery, for enabling the Masters to dispense with the hourly-warrant system, and to hear matters by lists in continuous sittings...

The Coroner's Jury on the deaths caused by the steam-boat

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explosion at Bristol have returned a verdict declaring that the "boiler at the time was not fit for use."

The final ballot in the French Assembly, on Thursday, for

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the one more representative to fill up the number of twenty-five in the Committee of Permanence, resulted in the success of the Moderates over the combined Legitimists and...

VOTES OF CONFIDENCE IN THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

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Sir Charles Wood's troubles, unlike those of Lord Palmerston, do not spring from adverse votes of the Peers, but from the restiveness of ma- jorities in his own House. Disputing...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. At the commencement of the week, the English Funds were firm and a disposition to improvement was apparent. The unsettled state of the weather...

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Sontag maintains her supreme position, beyond rivalry, among the tuneful

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sisters of both establishments. After the strain of so many lead- ing performances, she played this week in La Tempesta and Il Barhiere with powers apparently as unfired as if...

La Aim, announced for some time at the Covent Garden

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Opera, was performed on Thursday. In getting it up, the present managers have out- done the utmost efforts of their predecessors, and have produced the most gorgeous spectacle...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PALMERSTON. FOR all the English dislike of the modern French practice of club nomination to state offices it is not merely a club but the section of a club that has nomina ted...

The tragedy of Marie Stuart, which in the first instance

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seemed to be removed from Mademoiselle Rachel's list, was after all performed on Wed- nesday. It has the disadvantage, that there are two whole acts in which the great...

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HINTS FOR IRISH POOR-JAW REFORM.

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WHATEVER amount of general soundness there may be in the Eng- lish national faith in the converse of the apostolic proposition, it must nevertheless be admitted that money is...

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HOT AND COLD J UDICIAL.

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Two cases are before the public, one of them now becoming an an- tique, which exhibit a remarkable discrepancy in the administra- tion of our law. In the case of Robert Pate,...

THE POOR MAN'S PICNIC.

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" Poen " is a term that needs a wide construction as applied to Joseph Brown's annual excursion into the country. " Poor " is he that lacks the good things of this world; still...

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RA TTWAY F.XPLOITS.

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ACCORDING to a passenger by one of the excursion-trains of the 18th instant on the South-western Railway, the accounts which have reached the public are softened to the extent...

BOOKS.

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MAX SCHLESINGER'S WAR IN HIINGABY. • THESE volumes are written in a style very different from what in England we are accustomed to associate with the idea of an his- torical...

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BIIREE'S ANECDOTES OF THE ARISTOCRACY. * Tnis is a readable, various,

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and pleasant book, with enough of ex- trinsic interest in its subjects to attract, and never BO long in its • Anecdotes of the Aristocracy, and Episodes of Ancestral Story. By...

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COLONEL CHESNEY'S EXPEDITION.'

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IT is reported of a simpleminded country clergyman of the last century, that having produced a sermon to his own very great satisfaction, he determined on giving it to the...

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THOMSON'S TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. * Da. ANTHONY TODD

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THOMSON was as well known to the public as to the members of his own profession. A memoir of Dr. Thomson, possessing considerable merit, is prefixed to the work we are about to...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Of the more promising miscellaneous books of the week, Mr. Baillie Coch- pane's volinne on "Young Italy" seems a slight affair, in which tales and travelling sketches...

PANORAMA OF CONSTA.NITHOPLE, THE DARDANELLES, AND BOSPHORUS.

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Mr. .Allom has prepared for the London panorama-tourist a hi g hly g ra- phic survey of a most interestin g and beautiful re g ion. Guided by the artist, you enter the...

FINE ART&

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HISTORICAL PORTRAITS. AMONG the many of Sir Robert Peel now competin g for public notice, is one by portraits of Piekersgill, ILA., at Herin g and Remin g - ton's. Althou g h...

BIRTHS.

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On the 15th July, at Kilbride Manor, county of Wicklow, the Wife of Richard Moore, Esq. of a son. On the 21A, at Blackadder, Lady lloustoun Boswell, of a son. On the 21st, Mrs....

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFTICE, July 26.-2d Regt. of Foot-Lieut. S. F. Jackson to be Adjt. vice Squire, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 21st Foot-Lieut. J. Macdougall, from 42d Foot, to be First...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, July 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Hall and Son, Northwich, stationers-3PMichael and Grierson, Basinghall Street, worsted-yarn-spinners-Holland and Walmsley, Willen-...

PRICES CURRENT.

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RAILWAYS-. Caledonian Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties 71 6 1 BANES- Australasian British North American Colonial 274 421 71 ca d. Great Northern ex int....