30 JULY 1842

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tin Report of Mr. Itcomucit's Committee, made public on Satur- day, has fructified in the resolutions which he moved in the House of Commons on Thursday. Quidnuncs and...

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The King of the French, who hoped to close his

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eventful life in peace, supported by the presence of a robust successor, has just opened the session of the new Parliament, while the dead body of his son lay yet unburied, in...

Debates an Vroteebinas in Varliantent.

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ELECTION COMPROMISES. Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice, on Wednesday, that on Thursday he should move these resolutions- " That the compromises of election-petitiops, as brought to the...

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ELECTION PROCEEDINGS.

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[In our last Postscript we announced the issue of the Report of Mr. Roebuck's Committee, and reprinted the section on the case of Nottingham : for the completeness of our file...

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Zbt Court.

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The Queen and Prince walk in the grounds, or ride in pony-phae- tons, with their guests ; and sometimes the Queen and the two Princes ride on horseback, and the Prince of Saxe...

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Cbt afittropolis.

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The papers this week contain the narrative a the Lord Mayor's eventful expedition last week for the purpose of making the septennial - survey of the Thames and Medway. The Duke...

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IRELAND.

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The Lord-Lieutenant took his departure from the Viceregal Lodge on Sunday evening, to embark at Kingstown for London. A letter dated Castlebar, 23d July, says that "Mr. Justice...

Zb e Vrobintes.

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The annual examination and election of foundation-scholars at Eton, which began on Saturday, closed on Monday ; twenty-three vacancies having been filled. On Saturday, there was...

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laitiscellaneaus.

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Her Majesty and Prince Albert are expected at Buckingham Palace about Wednesday sennight, the 10th of August, for the purpose of enabling the Queen to prorogue the Houses of...

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Information reached Birmingham yesterday of a new turn-out of colliers

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in the neighbourhood of Bilston, attended by some disturbances. Near Burslem the men are gradually resuming work. The notice of a reduction of prices in matly pits expires...

Both Houses of Parliament met today at twelve o'clock. In

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the House of Lords, the Royal assent was given by commission to the Poor-law Amendment Bill, the South Australia Bill, the Customs- Duties Amendment Bill, and to several...

By an arrival from Sydney, yesterday, very favourable intelligence has

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been received from Nelson, the New Zealand Company's youngest settlement. The following is an extract of a despatch by Captain Arthur Wakefield, the Company's agent there, dated...

The Leeds Mercury of this day (an influential Whig Anti-Corn-law

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paper) says—" The markets of Liverpool and Manchester have expe- rienced a decided improvement within the last fortnight. At Liver- pool, where prices and operations are...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The firmness of the French Funds has given an improved tone to our Money-market ; the current quotations of Tuesday being in advance of the...

In both the French Chambers, on Thursday, deputations were ap-

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pointed to assist in the funeral ceremonies for the Duke of Orleans, which commence today and terminate on Wednesday. Twenty Peers were named; but it was understood that the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The result of Thursday's debate was followed up last night by the issue of the writ for Nottingham. It was moved for by Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD ; who contended...

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BARON VON BATHER'S IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM-

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WE witnessed on Saturday last a trial of the improved furnace for steam-boilers, in use at the sugar-refinery of Messrs. WAINWRIGHT and Germsimar junior, Prince's Place, St....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, July 25th, John King, Bristowe, from Mauritius; 28th, Mary Sophia, Thompson, from Bengal ; and Dream, Squire, from the Cape. At Li- verpool, 27th,...

At the Lyceum, a new melodrama and a burlesque are

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announced. And this reminds us that OXBERRY'S grotesque dancing in the bur- lesque ballet of Griselle, or Dancing Mad, is too good to be passed un- noticed : his mimicry of the...

SPOBR'S "FALL OF BABYLON."

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WE stated some months since that &ORB had consented to place his new oratorio, The Fall of Babylon, at the disposal of the Committee of Management for the coming Norwich...

THE THEATRES.

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Tam Haymarket bills parade a succession of the "stock pieces," as ' they are called, of our comic drama ; and the audience hear the words of different parts parroted forth ;...

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EDUCATION.

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THE speech with which the Bishop of LONDON prefaced his ques- tions to Lord WHARNCLIFFE, on Monday evening, deserves at- tention. The reverend Prelate is not so weak as to think...

SUUM CUIQUE.

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THERE seems to be a hitch in our diplomatic proceedings at Con- stantinople. It is said that the British Embassy insists upon the Sultan's changing his system of government in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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STUDIES FOR THE RECESS. 'S IT is always desirable to avoid any interference by compulsory enactments with the labour of the subject or the employment of capital," cry the...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Eloosarev. Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel. Bart., First Lord of her Majesty's Treasury. By the Author of " The Life of the Duke of Wellington." In two...

SUNS Er.

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Now to his palace in the West The King of Day returns to rest. Not as when first he rose to sight, Soaring through the fields of space, Gladdening all things with the light Of...

CASHmERIAN EPIGRAM.

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Kishtawar, Kusht ka bonds, Din-ko bhuka, rat ko tunda Ju ka se, phir ko jae, WW1 bee gosain ka jhttnda. " Kishtawar is the causeway of distress, where people are hungry by day...

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VIGNE'S TRAVELS IN KASHMIR AND THIRST.

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POSSESSING the organ of locomotion stron gly developed, Mr.VIGNE passed nearly seven years (1832-1839) In travelling through the elevated table-lands and mountainous regions...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From July Slst to Icily 2814.

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BOOKS. Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of her Majesty's Treasury. By the Author of "The Life of the Duke of Wellington." In two volumes. The...

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FINE ARTS.

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CARTOON BY RAPHAEL, IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY. THE National Gallery has been lately enriched with the large fragment of a Cartoon by RAPHAEL, representing The Murder of the...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 20th July, at Paris. the Lady of G. S. Haacousx, Esq., of Ankerwycke I louse, Buckinghamshire, of a daughter, still-born. On the 2t1, at Cuckfield Vicarage, the...

USES OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE.

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THE Daguerreotype process, as improved by M. CLAUDET, can repre- sent objects all but in motion : a momentary suspension of movement only is necessary to fix the image on the...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE

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Tuesday, July * PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.. Hudson and Fann. Nottingham. hosiers-Clayton and Haig. t, Huddersfield, painters -Wyer and Keat, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Salardan Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. 27otrs. Friday 3 per Cent. Consols 901 91 911 914 914 91,4 Ditto for Account 91 911 914 914 914 91 3 per...