2 NOVEMBER 1844

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Several little matters, none of a very novel nature, present

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in their combination a curious illustration of the state of Ireland. Repeal flattens : Mr. Hera . HUTCHINSON even is added to the ab- sentees. In the absence of that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tim new Exchange of London was publicly opened on Monday ; Queen Vicroati assisting at the ceremony, and with her own voice bestowing the title of " Royal" on the edifice. The...

Spain presents the usual aspect, of divided councils, armed in-

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trigue, and latent revolution. Ministers proceed with their counter- reform ; and, so far as one can yet see, will be permitted coolly to abandon those Liberal institutions the...

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gbZ lEOUrt.

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THE occurrences at Windsor Castle have not been important ; for the great pageant in which the Court took part occurred elsewhere. The 4. neen and Prince Albert came to town, by...

Some worthy citizens of the United States have discovered a

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very pretty quarrel with England. We have only the American version of the tale. The commander of an English war-brig on the Bra- zilian coast boarded a brig belonging to New...

ISO lattropolis.

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- Few events so elaborately prepared pass off without mischance, as the great ceremonial of Queen Victoria's opening the new Exchange in the City did on Monday. As early as...

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Vat 43robintes.

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The Marquis of Londonderry has had a triumph. At the last elec- tion for Durham, the Durham Conservative Association put forward Mr. Purvis; whom the Marquis refused to support....

IRELAND.

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The Dublin Pilot publishes an address signed by Sir John Power and Mr. Cornelius MacLoghlin, announcing that the national collection for the O'Connell tribute of the present...

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SPAIN.—The measure of constitutional reform continues to excite much indignation in Madrid, and there is some show of resentment in the country at large ; but as yet Ministers...

SCOTLAND.

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Meetings continue to be held throughout Scotland on the subject of the threatened changes in the currency. At all of them the same una- nimity is expressed, and resolutions have...

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4111isteltaneous.

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After many contradictory rumours, it seems now certain that Queen Victoria will visit Burleigh House, the Marquis of Exeter's seat in Lin- colnshire; once visited by Queen...

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ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

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Notes issued .527,545,730 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities 21:590814:009100 Gold Coin and Bullion 11,897,842 Silver Bullion 1,647,888. £27,546,730 BANKING...

Mr. Hood, who is becoming as noted for his heartfelt

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or even tragic appeals on behalf of homely interests as for his facetim, has put the la- bourer's claim into verse. It reads as if it were but newly uttered front the labourer's...

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A school is about to be erected in Windsor Great

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Park, for the edu- cation of the park-keepers' and game-keepers' children. The building is estimated to cost 1,5001.; and the expense both of erection and main- tenance will be...

The Limerick Chronicle states the amount of Father Mathew's debts

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at 5,0001. According to "A Master of Arts," who writes to the Standard from Oxford, recent inquiries have discovered that the Reverend W. G. Penny, M.A., a student of Christ...

A meeting of labourers was held at Clack, in Wiltshire,

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on Monday last, to make known their distress. A working-man presided ; seven others and the wife of an eighth disclosed the most deplorable poverty— full wages at 7s. for the...

The Borough Municipal Elections took place as usual, yesterday ;

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and Birmingham is the first important town to send accounts to London. The Conservatives, hitherto quite excluded, have introduced three of their party, by favour, it is said,...

In a letter to the Lord Mayor, Sir James Graham

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signifies the Queen's gratification at the reception given to herself and Prince Albert at the Royal Exchange on Monday- " The loyalty of the assembled multitudes, the splendid...

Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed Lord

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Ellenborough Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ; Colonel Dennis and Colonel Valiant, (both with rank of Major-General in India,) Knights Commanders ;...

POSTSCRIPT.

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.' Madrid, Oct. 27.—A fresh conspiracy has been discovered. General Nar- Tees was to have been assassinated at the entrance of the French Embassy, where he dined. - General Prim...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK MCMANUS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. As tomorrow, theist of November, will be kept a close holyday both at the Bank and the Stock Exchange, our usual Friday's report of the...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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ARRIVED.—At Gravesend, 28th Oct. Jain Fleming, Clarke, from Calcutta. Off Dartmouth, ditto, Henry, —, from Bombay. At Calcutta, previous to 18th Sept. George Pyre. Pike; Siam,...

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THE THEATRES.

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SINCE SHARSPERE, banished the metropolis of his native country, has found an asylum in France—his suburban retreat at Sadler's Wells being but a pis alley after all—we have been...

An amusing though not original piece, entitled Watch and Ward,

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has varied the entertainments of the Lyceum this si eek ; in which Mr. A. Winer; plays an Irish officer with Hibernian humour and a good brogue.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PUBLIC FESTIVITIES : THE DAY AFTER. THE Royal City show is over ; the decorations and barriers along " the line of the procession" have dropped off; the stream of business,...

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PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.

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THE subscription, we see, for supplying the poorer classes with baths and wash-houses goes on bravely. It has taken too firm a ground to be injured by the doubts which have been...

THE POLITICIANS OF PASSION.

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THE inconsistency of political men, who, beginning with vehement protestations of universal philanthropy, have ended with glaring acts of cruelty, has often been commented on....

DEATH FROM STARVATION.

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IT is appalling to read these words at one's breakfast-table, with the rich red of the joints of beef curiously fringed with pale fat staring one in the face from the butcher's...

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THE REFORMED SPANISH CONSTITUTION.

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THE report of the Spanish Ministers on Constitution-reform is one of the most curious practical essays on politics ever published. The problem announced for solution is, " to...

DISCUSSION.

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Discussiow has been regarded and valued as preliminary to action, insomuch that in despotic countries it is suppressed lest deeds fol- low. It has thus acquired such an...

PANIC IN THE UNITED STATES: TERRIBLE DOINGS OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW

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LEAGUE. THE hubbub of the Presidential election has been if possible in- creased by the detection of the machinations of "perfidious Albion," as Young France terms us. An...

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CITY ETIQUETTE.

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A CYNIC says, that the use of merrymakings is to make people uncomfortable. Ladies, of imperturbable temper so long as "their ban' is in their huswifeskep," become fidgetty and...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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AVTOBIOGRAPUT. The Despatches and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. With Notes by • Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G. The First Volume—l77 to 1794. %uvula....

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MR. GRANT'S IMPRESSIONS OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH.

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" I COULD have spared a better man," says Prince Hal on seeing the counterfeit corpse of Falstaff on the field of Shrewsbury ; and many, like the Prince, looking only to "the...

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ANDERS rHYXELL'S HISTORY 01' SWEDEN

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Is a more interesting work than might have been imagined, from the little connexion Sweden has possessed with the more cultivated parts of Europe, and the consequently remote...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIYED

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From October 25th to October 31st. BOOKS. , Impressions of Ireland and the Irish. By the Author of "Random Re- collections of the Lords and Commons," &c. In two volumes. A...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 11th October, at Mahn, the Wife of Captain HUGHES MALLET. R.N.. of a IOUs On the 23.1, at Frankfort-ou-the-Maiun, Lady Downie, Wife of Sir Alexander Downie....

FINE ARTS,

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PLAN FOR FREE EXHIBITION. THE reopening of the National Gallery after its six weeks closure, is as cheering to the lovers of pictures at this dull time as a burst of sunshine...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 1.-7t1, Regt. of Foot—Lient. Sit. Woulfe, from Ihe3d Foot, to be Lieut. vice G. C. Urniston, who retires on hall-pay of the 3d Foot. 6611, Foot—Capt. C. B....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Oct. 29. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVE D. Buckley and Sons, Saddleworth. cotton spinners—Day and Swallow, St. Ives, solicitors—T. S. and J. Garbutt, Easiugwold, Yorkshire,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (ClosingPrices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. per Cent. Consols ........ Ditto for Account 3 per Cents. Reduced 38 per Cents. Reduced Long...