5 MARCH 1842

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT has not been exclusively engrossed, this week, in fruitless talk about the Corn-laws : other subjects have come in PARLIAMENT has not been exclusively engrossed, this...

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Among a variety of subjects of a less immediate interest

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at home, was a motion, whose object is guessed rather than known, by Mr. VERNON SMITH, for a non-existent paper about the migra- tion of Hill Coolies from India to Mauritius....

An intermediate arrival from India, overland, brings intelligence calculated to

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exasperate the alarms excited by the last accounts. Nothing certain, indeed, is known. Sir ROBERT PEEL said in the House of Commons, on Wednesday night, that no official...

Dzbates anb Vrorttbings in Warliaturnt.

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THE CORN-LAWS. The House of Commons on Monday resumed the Committee ; and the Government scale of Barley-duties having been moved, Mr. WODE- MOUSE moved an amendment to exclude...

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'ELb II:40601m.

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At Church Stretton, on Thursday, Viscount Newport, the eldest son of the Earl of Bradford, was elected Member for the Southern Division of Shropshire, in the room of the Earl of...

Itbt (rout. THE residence of the Court at Brighton has

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been diversified by a trip to Portsmouth. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the three Princes of Saxe Coburg, with the suite, proceeded thither on Monday, in five...

25be Iftetropolis.

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We understand that Mr. Under-Sheriff Pritchard is a candidate for the office of Town-Clerk of the City of London, vacant by the recent decease of the late talented and respected...

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IRELAND.

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Mr. Conway Dobbs, the Registering Barrister at Dublin, has pro- nounced three decisions which will have the effect of invalidating the claims of two or three hundred freemen...

iftistellantous.

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The Vienna correspondent of the Morning Post announces that Prince Esterhazy has retired from the Embassy at the Court of St. James's. The Duke of Norfolk, we are sorry to say,...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY Mawr. The business in Parliament last night was of a more varied character than in any night of the session. We can only catalogue the several topics. Sir ROBERT PEEL...

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A second edition of the Times has intelligence from Portugal

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to the 28th February. After an interregnum of seventeen days, a new Ministry had been formed. Senhor Costa Cabral is the Home Secretary, and the leading spirit of the new...

A promotion has, we understand, arisen out of the recent

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visit of her Majesty to Portsmouth, which includes the following officers. The Commander of the Queen, to be Captain ; A. J. Grteme, Lieute- nant ditto, to be Commander; A. J....

The French Government have prohibited an Anti-Slavery meeting, which was

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to have taken place in Paris on Monday : it is supposed that an Anti-English riot was contemplated by opponents of the Quintuple Treaty. A Spanish friar, Father Casares, who...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Arrived—At Gravesend, Feb. 26th, Bilton. Rigby, from Bengal. In the Downs. March 2d, Margaret Parker, Currie, from Bengal ; 3d, Arcturus, Hill, from ditto; and Vixen, Palmer....

Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the

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Bank of England, from the 7th December 1841 to the 1st March 1842— ASSETS. Circulation £16,769,000 Securities £22,699,006 • Deposits 8,954,000 Bullion 5,687,000 £25,723,000...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. There has been some little bustle at the Stock Exchange during the week, in consequence of the shutting of the various Stocks upon which the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW PENSION-LIST. WHEN the reformed system of Civil List Pensions was settled by the Whigs, the Crown was empowered by Parliament to create new pensions to the amount of...

APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE PEERS AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

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THE public seems likely to derive some advantage from having no fewer than four Chancellors in the House of Peers at present. The Law Lords appear to be inspired with a spirit...

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AWFUL DOINGS IN SCOTLAND.

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EXTRACTS from Scotch journals, in our news department, commu- nicated to our readers last week the appalling information, that "Scotland is at this momert r.n object of intense...

A BRUMMAGEM DANIEL COME TO JUSTICE. BURNING, banging, or whipping

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in effigy, is a vulgar and foolish act ; but not quite so foolish as a grave decision pronounced last week regarding it by a Birmingham Magistrate. Two men were brought before...

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RHEUMATISM.

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THE following case, which our correspondent, an officer of rank in the Army, has privately authenticated by his name, is one of the many curious instances in which nature, time,...

QUARTET CONCERTS.

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BLAGROVE'S Quartet Concerts have commenced with every appearance of a prosperous season. They have the great advantage of combining the efforts not only of good players, but of...

LENTEN OPERATICS.

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A PIECE of patchwork, under the title of Comas, was produced at Covent Garden on Wednesday. The playbills were headed by some- thing like an apology, or explanation of the...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Harrow, History of Holland, from the beginning of the Tenth to the end of the Eighteenth .Century. By C. M. Davies. Volume II Parker. TB:Bomar. Primitive Christianity...

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THE BISHOP Or DOWN'S PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY'

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Is an able and agreeable work : Episcopal, not Prelatical ; firm in opposition to Popery and schism, and holding fast by the doctrine and discipline of the Anglican Church,...

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CAMPBELL'S PILGRIM OF GLENCOE.

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COMPARED with the author's former productions, this volume is rather an amusement than a work; the occupation of a veteran, in a pursuit which long exercise has rendered easy,...

BROWNING'S KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES. VICTOR AMADEUS, the first

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King of Sardinia, determined at the age of sixty-four to resign his crown to his SOB, and to marry the widow of the Count Sr. SEBASTIAN, who was then about fifty, but to whom he...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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From February 25th to March 3d. BOOKS. The Pilgrim of Glencoe, and other Poems. By THOMAS CAMPBELL. Primitive Christianity Exemplified and Illustrated by the Acts of Primi-...

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FINE ARTS.

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STAGE-ILLUSION: THE SCENIC ART. THE representation of Acis and Galatea at Drury Lane Theatre is remark- able for displaying that rare excellence in stage-shows, invention : it...

MUSIC.

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The Chris' tian Month ; a series of Original Hymns, adapted from the Daily Psalms, with Chants and Anthems. The Poetry by the Reverend W. PALIN ; the Music by Miss Mourtssy....

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wan-ernes, March 4.-7th Regt. Drag. Guards—Capt. Sir H. Darell, Dart, from the 18th Foot, to be Capt. vice Kennedy, who exchanges. 91h Regt. of I.ight Drags.— Lieut. N. T....

Since the foregoing remarks were in type, Comas has been

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produced at Covent Garden. As a specacle it is gorgeous ; but viewed as a work of art, it wants unity of design, and is not characterized by the classic feeling of the poem, or...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

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• BIRTHS. • On the 20th February, at Nice. the Lady of Camel.; T. VANDELEUR.Esq., late Captain Thirty.fourth Regt., of Movvella, County Galway, of a son and heir. On the 231, at...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, March 1. PARTNERSHIps DISSOLVED. R. and T. Crips, Windmill Street. harness makers-C. and C. Asprey, Mitcham, ironmongera-Horuer and Shafto, Barnard Castle....

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closin Prices.) Saturday Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. Friday. 894 894 894 894 89/ 89/ 894 194 891 891 894 894 891 891 90 891 shut - 991 991 991 991 991...