7 AUGUST 1841

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TEE leading political fact of the week is a future event, for it anticipates the election of Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE is again to fill the chair : the...

The Indian overland mail has arrived in London ; and

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the first report, that it brought no news from China, proves not to be lite- rally true—the news is two days later than that brought two months before. This scanty addition...

right with the plentiful crops, there be plenty of ripening

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sun; and a glance at the leaden sky betrays all the mockery of the "if." The glance may well unnerve the boldest heart. The Whigs leave office with the cry of "cheap bread" in...

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gbe Tourt.

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THE Queen and Prince Albert have been leading a quiet life at Windsor after their brief round of visits. The Royal pair returned to the Castle, from Panshanger, at three o'c:ock...

gbe Vrobinces.

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A dinner was given at Portsmouth, on Thursday, to Admiral Stop- ford. The Mayor was the chairman. The assembly was very numerous, and comprised a great number of persons...

gbe Metropolis.

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A meeting of Corn-law Repealers was held on Monday evening, at the Jacob's Well in Shoreditch, to form an auxiliary Anti-Corn-law Association, in connexion with the Metropolitan...

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IRELAND.

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The proceedings of the Repeal Association on Monday were diver- sified by the introduction of Mr. O'Connell's bill for the better security of tenures in Ireland. He began,...

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_Miscellaneous.

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We have reason to know That Sir Robert Peel has conimunicated to Mr. C. Shaw Lefevre his intention to support the reelection of that gentleman, in the event of his being...

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 15th ult., at La Prairie, near Geneva, Switzerland, La Cumtesse Ds Sr. GEORGE, nee Heigham. of a son. On the 5th inst., at Upper Gore House, Kensington, the Lady...

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The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing in Dublin on

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Thursday, says—" Mr. Howley, Q.C., has been directed by the Lord- Lieutenant to bold an inquiry at Dungannon, on Monday the 9th in- stant, into the conduct of Major Snow,...

Madrid papers and letters of the 29th speak of another

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collision be- tween the British and the Guards Costa Company. An English vessel, the Ricardo, has been seized by the felucca Robinson in the open sea, on its way to Malta, and...

We have received papers from Port Nicholson, in New Zealand,

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to the 1st May, and private letters have been received to the 4th. They resent a very satisfactory picture of the progress of the colony. The inhabitants had.received their new...

The Perth Courier sends inviting accounts from the moors-

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" During the present week the passage of distinguished company towards the North has been considerable, and the increase is daily observable as the 12th approaches. The meeting...

POSTSCRIPT

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SATURDAY NIGHT. A break in the gloomy weather somewhat relieves the worst appre- hensions respecting the harvest. There was a slight improvement yes- terday, and today it is...

The Chronicle of this morning announces new facilities in the

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post- ing of letters- " On and after next Tuesday, letters may be posted half an hour later than at present, namely, till a quarter past six, at the branch-offices at Charing...

Today is promulgated the appointment, made at a Court of

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East India Directors on the 28th July, of Sir William Hay Macnag - hten, to be Governor of the Presidency of Bombay.

MONEY MARKET.

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SToCR EICHAN01. FRTDAY AFTERNOON. The fluctuations since our last report have not exceeded * per cent. Consols lor Money have been done at 893 and 891, while for Account the...

A fire broke out about half-past three o'clock this morning

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upon the premises of Mr. James Smith, corn-merchant and granary-keeper, Upper Thames Street ; which has proved destructive to a large amount of pro- perty, and threatened still...

The Paris papers of Thursday are chiefly occupied with the

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affairs of Toulouse; where as determined a resistance as ever, though more temperate, is offered to the Government scheme of taxation. One of hi. Dural's new Municipality has...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE POSITION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. "The bark was still there, bat the waters were gone." — Moonz. Wu have received a well-toned and temperate letter from an in- telligent but...

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THE EFFECTS OF PROTECTION.

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A PROLIFIC source of error in reasoning upon Free Trade, as upon other questions, is the use of terms in a loose and shifting sense. o' The trade and commerce of the United...

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MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

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THE Times, in a series of able and temperately-expressed papers, has been giving an exposition of its notions of a true Conservative policy. One of those papers presented an...

OYSTER-DAY: BEGGING. occupied the space they tiow unworthily fill. Oyster-day

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has dwindled down to a mere pretext for begging. Man has been defined "a reasoning animal," and "a cooking animal" : we suspect "a begging animal" would embrace the cha-...

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REPRESENTATION OF THE MINORITY. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.

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4th August 1941. Sin—A correspondent in your last paper complains that the minority Should Pettnin unrepresented—giving as a strong instance of hardship the case of the 12,000...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas. and Yucatan. By John I.. Ste- phens. Author of " Incidents of Travel in Egypt. Arabia Petrtea, and the Holy Laud," &c....

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DR. McCOSH'S MEDICAL ADVICE TO THE INDIAN STRANGER.

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THE germ of this volume was a thesis, which Mr. M‘Cosif wrote for the University of Edinburgh when he became ambitious of adding M.D. to his name. Determining on publication, he...

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LANE'S ARABIAN NIGHTS.

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WHEN the first part of this new translation appeared, we embraced the opportunity to express our opinion that so attractive and popular a work as the Arabian Nights deserved a...

THE OLD EARL AND HIS YOUNG WIFE

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Is a random, slipshod fiction, that one minute tempts the reader onward by a promise of interest, and the next provokes him to fling aside the book in disgust. The author wants...

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FINE ARTS.

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HARDING'S PARK AND FOREST TREES. UNDER the title of The Park and the Forest, Mr. HARDING has pro- duced a volume of vigorous and masterly sketches of trees in conjunc- tion...

The Art of Singing. By D. CRIVELLI.

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Tins is a clever work of its kind, but it will not teach the art of singing. It is adapted to the average state of vocal training in this country ; which seeks a memoriter...

MUSIC.

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The First Set of Madrigals; composed by JOHN Printed for the members WILBYE. of the Musical Anti- Dido and "Eneas, an Opera; composed by HENRY guarian Society. PURCELL....

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GOULD'S MONOGRAPH OF KANGAROOS.

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THIS work, the First Part of which has just appeared, is interesting as a complete and scientific account of a singular class of animals only recently known to Europeans, and...

ENGLISH STYLE OF PAINTING.

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THE art of painting is just now in a transition state in this country : the loose, sketchy, generalizing indication of " the good old English school," to which REYNOLDS,...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Memnon. Rams. from Bombay to Liverpool, in putting back, struck on the rocks off the Lighthouse the llth June, and was expected to go to pieces. The Fergussou. Vertue. with...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR OFFICE. Aug. 3.-5t1e Regt. Drags.-A ss ist-Surg. G. Dolmage, from the 59th Foot. to be Assist.' Surg. vice Buyes, promoted on the Staff. 9th Light Drags.-Assist.- Slag. A....

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, August 3.

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PARTNERSHIpt , nivisobygts. T. and J. Smith. Clithero, blacksmiths-Watson and Co. Nottingham. cotton-waste- dealers - Riley Brothers, Sheffield, table.kune menufactarers -...

PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week euding Friday Evening.) Alabama (Sterling) 5 p. Ct. - Ditto (Deferred) 5p. Ct. Arkansas (1863) 6 - - Ditto 6 - Austr i...