30 APRIL 1842

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Income-tax Bill has got into Committee; where it is likely to remain for some time. On Monday, the first three schedules were passed, and the Committee adjourned to Tuesday...

The proceedings of the Election Committees have constituted a severe

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commentary on the existing system. The Ipswich election has been declared void ; the Members have be pronounced guilty of bribery ; and the borough, like that of Sudbury, is...

The present position of the United States is an anomaly

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in the history of nations. Very poor lands have very poor exchequers; very indolent peoples amass little national wealth : but, rich in natu- ral treasures, potent in the...

Some of the iron-districts are in a state of riot.

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Trade is de- pressed; masters cannot pay their workmen; and the workmen find out that they are " oppressed" : they rebel ; seize some gentlemen who are unfortunate enough to...

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France, at the most untimely season, has lost her Finance

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Minister, M. HUMANE ; who was found dead in his library on Monday last—a victim, it is supposed, to the toils of statesmanship. M. HUMANE was endowed with unusual strength of...

Debates an Wroctellings in Varliament.

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THE INCOME-TAX. On the motion for going into Committee on the Income-tax Bill, on Monday, Mr. WALLACE said, he apprehended that that was the proper time to devise some...

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Vat eourt. '

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THE Queen and Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace on Monday, after their brief visit to Claremont. They rode in an open carriage and four; and two other carriages and...

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Int „Metropolis.

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At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, a report was pre- sented from the Royal Exchange and Gresham Trust Committee. It stated that an agreement had been come to with the...

bt 1j3robintts. The candidates for Ipswich are already a matter of

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speculation, al- though the reissue of the writ is doubtful. The Tories are said to have in pew Mr. J. C. Herries, one of their late candidates, and Mr. John Wilson Croker. The...

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Iftistellantous.

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Tuesday's Gazette announced that Prince Albert has been appointed Colonel of the Scots Fusileer Guards, in the room of the Earl of Lud- low, deceased ; and that Prince Albert's...

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At the sitting of the House of Commons today, Mr.

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THESIGER ex- plained at length the grounds of his conviction that the warrant issued by the Speaker last session, to compel a witness to produce papers before a Select...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The House of Commons resumed, last night, the Committee on the Income-tax Bill. Schedule D imposes a tax of 7d. in the pound upon the income accruing to every...

The leading Whigs are chargeable with gross neglect of their

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public duties in Opposition, for not striving to mend the finance measure which they factiously obstruct : but if a correspondent is to be believed, their folly is exceeded by...

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A letter has been received from Rio Janeiro, dated 3d

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February, written on board the Belleisle troop-ship, which was conveying Lord Saltoun to China. Three sailors had died: all the rest on board were well.

Among some formal announcements in last night's Gazette, is the

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appointment of the Duke of Sussex to be Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle.

Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the

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Bank of England, from the 1st February 1842 to the 23d April 1842— LIABILITIES. ASSETS. Circulation £17,23.5,000 Securities £21,898,006 Deposits 8,283,000 Bullion 6,590,000...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, April 25th, Superb. Steward, from Bengal. At Plymouth, 28th, Sarah, Heidrich, from Bombay. Off Falmouth, 23,1, Miumva, Furlong. fr,m Mauritius; 260h....

The hopes which were raised in Dudley on Thursday were

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not realized : the men have refused the modified terms offered by the masters ; the Chartists, it is said, helping to keep alive ill-feeling ; and matters remained yesterday in...

Mr. M'Culloch has published some brief but clear and forcible

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me- morandums, which he wrote in aid of his friend Mr. Murray, the Mem- ber for Kirkcudbrightshire, in order to show his constituents that they need fear little from the...

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Her Majesty's wish that the guests at the Fancy Ball

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should appear in the costume of the reign of Edward the Third has occasioned a per- plexity to the Bishop of Exeter and some of his colleagues : the Reve- rend Fathers have...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY ATVERNOON. The English Funds have improved again during the week, and the quotations of Consols and Reduced were at one period yesterday 14 per cent...

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THE ANCIENT CONCERTS.

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Tag concert of Wednesday night, under the direction of Lord Wser• MORELAND, exhibited a sufficient variety of classical music, mostly excellent of its kind, but certainly not...

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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IT is "more in sorrow than in anger" that we reflect or write upon the state of the Italian lyric drama. We have no need to trust to history or the perhaps partial record of...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MOVEMENT. " IT moves StIll," said GALILEO, as he rose from signing his recan- tation of the heretical doctrine that the earth moves, in the dun- geons of the Inquisition. "...

THE FRENCH PLAYS.

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THE star PLESSY, now in the ascendant at the West end of the town, will not be visible in our theatrical hemisphere after next week ; and before she disappear we have our report...

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DANIEL GOOD.

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FIFTEEN days ago, there was one man in the midst of our mighty population upon whom the thoughts of every individual rested. The cry of blood had been raised, and the excitement...

MONUMENT TO THE LATE DR. BIRKBECK.

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Da. BIRKBECK was one of the rare men whose merits may be tried by the hazardous test of what they have done. Good intentions are plentiful as blackberries; plausible speakers...

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ENGLISH LAW AND ELECTION COMMITTEE PRACTICE.

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ACCORDING to the law of England, every man is presumed inno- cent until he has been proved guilty, and no man can be compelled to bear evidence against himself. This may be...

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ROYALTY AS IT WAS AND IS.

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Iv there is truth in the gossip of the Morning Post, the Queen's Fancy Ball will be a dazzling spectacle. The spacious stage of the Royal State-rooms is to be fully occupied by...

THIRD LETTER ON THE INCOME-TAX.

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PARLIAMENTARY DEFINITION OF INCOME. The Income-tat Bill has been produced for John Bull's inspection; and he is now scrutinising it, with that mixture of conjecture and...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, Cabool: being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to and Residence in that City, in the years 1836,37, and '38. With numerous illustrations. By the late Lieutenant-...

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MR. WELLS 8 TRUE STATE OF THE NATIONAL

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FINANCES. MR. WELLS is a financial doctor, who is pretty well known to public offices for asking questions which they will not or cannot answer, and for making suggestions to...

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FINE ARTS.

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ROYAL COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS. THE Commissioners have taken the first step towards accomplishing the purpose for which they were appointed,—namely, to consider the best means...

LAUDATE PUENI DOMINUM.

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THE general idea of this volume is not far from supplying a literary want ; as a book of the generic character of Watts' Hymns, with an elevation of tone adapted to the greater...

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NEW SOCIETY OF WATER - COLOUR PAINTERS.

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THE exhibition of the New Water - Colour Society, always interesting because of the fresh talent it annually brings forth, is this year more attractive than usual: the new...

MR. HATTER'S PICTURE OF THE QUEEN'S MABZIAGE

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Hes been so long in band that Nature has produced two living results of the Royal union before Art could accomplish one lifeless record of the sacred rite. However, the painting...

OLD SOCIETY OF WATER-COLOUR PAINTERS.

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THE original Society of Water-Colour Painters must look to its laurels— they are beginning to fall "into the sere, the yellow leaf"; nor as the old leaves wither and drop off do...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 4th.April, at Duntoeher, N.B., the Wife of the Rev. ANDREW Jotmerons, of -a daughter. On the 17th, the Lady of Lieut.-Col. W. Goanoe CAMEROW, of a son. On the...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, April 26.—Scots Fusilier Guards—Field Marshal his Royal Highness F. A. A. C. E. Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe C-burg and Gotha. K.G. G.C.B. K. St. P. from the 11th,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUN DS. (Clotting Prices.) Saturday Monday Tuesday. R'ednes. Thurs. Friday. 911 924 921. 921 934 924 911 9 b 94 92f 931 921 91 914 914 914 92 92 100 100 1004 100 1004...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, April 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Baylis and Lockwood. Liverpool. manufacturers-Best and Tribe. Uxbridge. dress- makers-Spanton and Watson. Norwich, mail coach...