29 JULY 1843

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What with flourishing funds and imposing discipline, Mr. O'Cole- NELL

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keeps the Repeal excitement up to the mark. The Repeal finance accounts show an increase on the quarter of 14,000/. and more as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1842....

The state of South Wales has again become actively disturbed

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: blood has once more been shed ; and the popular inclination to tumult increases. The troops in the district are multiplied; they are subject to a harrassing duty ; but all in...

Durham election creates more interest than seems due to it.

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The Liberal party chuckle because Ministers have been defeated in a Tory stronghold, and because Mr. COBDEN'S vicegerent in the Anti-Corn-law League, Mr. Joins BRIGHT, has...

Madrid has yielded to the revolution, and to all appearance

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the cause of ESPARTERO is hopeless. The condition of Spain is most melancholy in every aspect. ESPARTERO, once the judicious, the brave, the energetic, left the capital for the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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As the shooting-season approaches, debating in Parliament gives place to actual law-manufacturing ; and whereas, no long time back, one measure or even one clause would be...

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Debates anti Vrorectrings in Varliament.

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EDUCATION. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Mr. HUME proposed a plan of national education ; stating that he had arranged his motion with Mr. Roebuck in the first week of...

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Zbe Vrobintes.

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The nomination of candidates for the city of Durham took place on Monday ; when Mr. John Bright, a leading member of the Anti-Corn- law League, and Mr. Purvis, a Chancery...

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A. Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the despatch of busi- ness. The Lord Mayor presented a paper containing lists of inaccura- cies in gauging; representing that a...

Sbe erourt.

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THE presence of visiters at Buckingham Palace has imparted gayety and activity to the movements of the Court. The Queen gave a state ball on Monday evening; the state apart-...

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IRELAND.

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King Ernest having received an address of congratulation on his return to his native country, from the Dublin Protestant Operative As- sociation, he has sent them a letter of...

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iforeign an TOLIMA

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SPAIN.—There has been no favourable reaction in Spain, and the intelligence has grown more and more disastrous to Espartero. Madrid is at length in the power of the insurgents....

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Iftistellantous.

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It is now generally stated, says the Globe, echoed by the Times, that the Houses of Parliament will not be prorogued until the last week in August. The Dublin Monitor reports a...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, the Leader of the Opposition brought on a smart party fight,—resultless in its nature, but agreeable probably to his own...

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The Queen and Prince Albert inspected the new Houses of

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Parlia- ment this morning; and the Coburg family viewed Westminster Abbey, both Houses of Parliament, and the Cartoons at Westminster Hall.

The Lord Chamberlain caused cards of invitation to be issued

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from his Lordship's office yesterday for a ball at Buckingham Palace on Monday next.

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOON; The expectation of a large importation of foreign corn during the approach- ing autumn is becoming more general, The foreign exchanges gave way...

The second edition of the Morning Chronicle contains the Spanish

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news which had reached Paris yesterday. Intelligence from Madrid, dated the 23d, states the conditions on which the capital was surren- dered— "A conference was held between a...

Mr. Cobden had one of his usual meetings at Chelmsford

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yesterday- market-day, and as usual carried his point; his sole opponent in the discussion being Mr. Holt White.

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THE DUEL QUESTION.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. have read with great satisfaction the whole of your remarks sug- gested by the recent duel ; but there is one point upon which you have not...

DIPLOMATIC IMPERTINENCE.

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ACCUSTOMED as people are to the forwardness of the Corps Diplo- matique, the modest assurance of its members at present assembled in Madrid must have occasioned some surprise....

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHAT OUR NEIGHDOURS THINK OF US. IT is sometimes useful for nations as well as for individuals to learn how their neighbours think and talk about them. This is not meant of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. , 234 July 1843.

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SIR—Your acceptance, and (to some extent) approbation, of my former letter on the subject of duelling, encourage me to offer my sentiments again on that head; especially as I...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The following vessels have put into Port Louis. Mauritius, to repair damages received in a hurricane on the 6th April last—viz. the Argo. Billing ; and Waverley. Morgan. from...

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WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENTS?

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Is most cases, the steam-boat proprietors. The maxim of law is " qui fecit per alium, fecit per se " : the em- ployer is responsible for the mischief done by an accredited...

NEWSPAPER REPORTING AS A POLITICAL ENGINE.

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WHEN JEFFERSON expressed the opinion that a free press is more essential to a country than a government, he only put two ideas in logical sequence—it is necessary to know what...

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WORKING OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM.

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RAILWAYS are rapidly superseding every other mode of travelling by land on all the main roads and the quantity of capital and engineering skill seeking fresh ch annels for...

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DUELLING: THE PROGRESS OF OPINION.

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Avruotrust the Court and the Government may feel disposed to offer passive resistance to the agitation now directed against duel- ling, it is palpable that public feeling upon...

ENGLISH IMPRESSIONS OF FRENCH ACTORS.

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DURING the season of the French Plays, just closed, the most popular performers, both with the subscribers and the general public, were the female " stars," Mesdames ALBERT,...

CORN FOR CORN.

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THOSE resort to quacks and quack-medicines who have tried physic in vain under the "regular practitioner " : the aristocracy resort much to quacks, for there is scarcely an...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, Australia and the East : being a Journal Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales, in an Emigrant Ship; with a Residence of some mouths in Sydney and the Bush, and the...

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THE RECTOR IN SEARCH OF A CURATE

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Is a theological tale, designed to exhibit some of the leading classes of modern clergymen, to canvass some of the different views mooted among Protestant religionists, to...

FORBES'S TRAVELS THROUGH THE ALPS OF SAVOY. Tins work comes

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nearer to the delightful and instructive volumes of SAUSSURE than any book that has been published since his day. Not that we mean to rank it in the same class with SAUSSURE'S;...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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Frees July 21st to July nth. BOOKS. Australia and the East : being a Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales in an Emigrant Ship ; with a Residence of some months in Sydney...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE. July 28,-6th Drags.—Brevet.-Col. J. M'Alpine. from half-pay unat- tached, lobe Lieut.•Col. vice R. White, who exchanges; Motor W. Moore lobe Lieut.- Col. by...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 4th March, at Perth, Western Australia, the Lady of WILLIAM SAMSON, Esq., of a son. On the 19th July, at High Harrogate, the Lady of THOMAS Curren WILKINsoN,...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, July 25. PARTE'. RsiiIpS DiSsoLVED. Carr and Nelson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, linendrapers—Laverack and Co. Kingston- upon-Hull, brokers — Skipper and Baker, Swaffliam,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 34 per Cents. Reduced New 34 per Cents Loam Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per cent. Inais Stock, 104 Exchequer Bills, lid....