28 SEPTEMBER 1844

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Two years ago, the agricultural societies of this season attracted great notice by vague and ambiguous words of apparent concur- rence in the financial reforms that were then...

One section of Repeal history has been brought to a

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pause this week, by O'CoNNELL's departure for his mountain-home and his One section of Repeal history has been brought to a pause this week, by O'CoNNELL's departure for his...

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Zbt lattropolis.

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CANDIDATES for the Mayoralty are to be nominated today, Michael- mas-day falling on Sunday. The two senior Aldermen, Mr. Wood and Mr. Gibbs, have been made the subject of...

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gbt likobintes.

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The election of a Member for North Lancashire, in the room of Lord Stanley, took place at Lancaster, on Friday. Mr. John Talbot Clifton was proposed by Mr. Townley Parker, and...

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IRELAND.

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A special meeting of the Dublin Corporation was held on Wednes- day, to consider a motion of which notice had been given by Dr. Mann- sell, in favour of Parliaments to be held...

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SCOTLAND.

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The weeks have passed pleasantly and teeh qu i ll y - Ulair Atholl Castle. "1. with the Queen at "....y rising, constant exercise in the open air, freedom from the usual...

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.fitiscellantous.

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The Queen Dowager and the Dutchess of Kent returned to Willey Court, on Monday, from Gopsall After visiting Hamilton Palace, Glasgow, and Scone Palace, (Lord Mansfield's...

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FRANCE.—The Constilutionnel announces the arrival of the Due De Glucksberg at Paris, with the treaty between France and Morocco. The same journal gives a summary of the treaty,...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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We must, however, find room for the subjoined historical document- s letter from the King of the French to the Prince De Joinville, pub- lished by the Prince in a general notice...

The British Association for the Advancement of Science, which met

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at York on Wednesday, and transacted on that day some preliminary matters of routine, began its sectional business on Thursday ; but nothing of very great interest had then...

For some weeks past serious apprehensions were entertained in the

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iron district that the circumstances of the trade, and the depression ex- perienced in Scotland, would have compelled the ironmasters of South Staffordshire to lower prices. We...

The Leeds Intelligencer of this day reports a meeting which

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consisted of subscribers to the Ripon Society for Promoting the Increase of Church-accommodation, and of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Education, held on Monday ; at which Lord...

A very crowded Common Hall was held in Guildhall, today,

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to elect a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. First, however, the new Sheriffs, Alderman W. Hunter and Alderman Thomas Sidney, were sworn into office, and the Corporation heard a...

Considerable surprise was excited this morning, by the appearance of

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an advertisement stating that the Chilian Dividends, which become due on Monday, would be paid by Messrs. Baring and Co., and no', as had been previously advertised, by the...

Sir Robert Sale was entertained by the Mayor and Corporation

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of Liverpool, at a magnificent banquet in the Town-hall, on Thursday night.

A meeting of country gentlemen and clergymen belonging to West

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Suffolk was held at Bury St. Edmunds, yesterday, to consult on mea- sures for checking incendiarism by improving the condition of the peo- ple. Sir Henry Sunbury was Chairman,...

Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by his son John, left Dublin on

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Thurs- day, for Darrynane.

A requisition, bearing the names of Mr. Cotton, the Governor

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of the Bank of England, and of the leading firms of the Metropolis, is about to be presented to the Lord Mayor, for a public meeting to promote the establishment of Baths and...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY ATTERHOON. The business of the English Funds has not been of any importance; hut prices have improved about A per cent, the closing quotations of Consuls...

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

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Notes issued £28,582,705 Government Debt. ... £11,015,100 Oilier Securities 2 90-5.900 Gold Coin and Bullion 12,6S3 til9 Silver Bullion 1.694.056 L28.582,705 X28,582;705...

To H. O'C.—In our opinion, the Irish dispute as to

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whether Thomas Camp- bell wrote his own Exile of Erin, (the authorship of which has been claimed for a certain George Nugent Reynolds,) is too idle to occupy the columns of The...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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&mans , : Monturro_—Anarvx n—In the Downs, 26th September, Frankland. Christie. from Batavia. Off Penzance, 25th. Thetis, Roche, from Calcutta. At Bristol, 25th. Mary Imrie....

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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REAL INDEPENDENCE FOR IRELAND. Two kinds of movement are going on in Ireland, both professing to have for aim the advancement of the people. One is the super- ficial, fevered...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 26th June, at Bhooj, in the Bombay Presidency, the Wife of Major SzcsrrrNa- SON Pooxx. of a daughter. On the 19th September. at Swynnerton Park, Stone,...

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LETTERS OF MARQUE.

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"IN contradiction to the principles now recognized in Continental wars," say s MARTENS, " the right to seize and detain merchant- ships and their cargoes belonging to the...

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A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION FOR O'CONNELL. Ma. O'CONNELL has just discovered

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a world of virtues in "the Saxon"; for he wants the English people to back him in impeach- ing Ministers, and he would fain have them forget past viru- lence. How vexing it is...

BREACH OF THE QUEEN'S PEACE AT BLAIR. THE Sabbath and

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its observances in Scotland have occasioned some surprise to Queen VICTORIA, some admiration, some amusement, and some disgust. On the first Sunday, the rain fell in torrents,...

NOLI ME TANGIER

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To oblige French sensitiveness, the English Government has been making itself ridiculous, by tremendous inquisitorial proceedings about the letters on Tangier from " British...

SUBSTITUTES FOR WAR.

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MIISSULMANS are more barefaced than Europeans in disclosing the secret works of diplomacy, and use direct terms which are rather startling until you find the corresponding...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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.HNITORY. The Heitoskringla; or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. Translated from the Icelandic of Snurro Sturleson. With a Preliminary Dissertation. By Samuel Laing. Esq.,...

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THE MODERN SYRIANS.

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TUE author of this volume seems to have visited the East for the purpose of studying its languages ; with what precise object does not appear. But whether a lingual taste, or...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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From September 201h to September 26th. Boox.S. Geology, Introductory, Descriptive, and Practical. By DAVID Tnoatas ANSTED, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge,...

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FINE ARTS.

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EXHIBITION OF ART UNION PRIZES. THE gratuitous exhibition of the pictures chosen by the prizeholders of the London Art Union draws such crowds to the rooms in Suffolk Street...

THE PROTEOSCOPE AND PHYSIOSCOPE.

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THESE are the titles of two ingenious adaptations of the powers of the Opaque Microscope, that vary the optical illusions exhibited in the theatre of the Polytechnic...

PARISH PATRONAGE OF PAINTING.

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" Panto:is wanted" was the cry of the artists a little while ago—a cry BO loudly and so lugubriously reiterated that one would have supposed there had been a galaxy of genius...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Sept. 24. FAHTNEttsHoes nissoLvE 0. Polhill and. Coleman, Crown Court, Old Broad Street. wine-merchants-Brown and Harrison. Newcastle-un-Tvue, cospers Rutiey and...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR Ornez, Sept. 27.--Royal Horse Guards-Cornet H. D. Trelawny to be Lieut. by purchase, vice the Earl of March, promoted; F. W. F. Berkeley. Gent, to be Cornet. by purchase,...

PRICES CURRENT.

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3 per Cent. 3 per Cents. 31 per Cents New 34 per Bask Stock, India Stock. Exchequer India Bonds. Alabama (Sterling) Austrian Belgian Brazilian Cuba Chiliau Columbian Danish...