7 AUGUST 1847

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The second week of the election contest has not been

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signalized by so many dramatic surprises as the first. The Universities yield to the laws that act upon all other masses of intelligence in England: Oxford accepts Mr....

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tit English boroughs have elected their representatives; many of the counties have done so ; returns are dropping in from Ire- land and Scotland ; and altogether some two thirds...

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THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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MEMBERS ELECTED. (Continued from page 722.) Banbury Banelos Beaumaris Redford Berkshire rA)A Aberdeen City . . Captain Fordyce. Devonport Anglesea Borough•Lord George Paget....

Italian Independence and Austrian Oppression seem to be on the

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eve of a struggle for life and death. More connected ac- counts from Rome and other parts of Italy leave no doubt that .the conspiracy detected in the middle of last month was a...

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Uncertainty, or rumours of uncertainty, attended the late election to the very last. When the result of the poll was first announced, on Thursday sennight, it was understood...

ffibe court.

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Tax life of the Court, in the tranquil seclusion of the Isle of Wight, has not been abundant in incident. The only event has been the arrival at Osborne of the Grand Duke...

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Iortign mat Colonial.

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FRANCE.—The anniversary of the Revolution in 1830 was celebrated with the usual rejoicing, and without the occurrence of anything to disturb public tranquillity. The King,...

Zbe Vrobinits.

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Felix Jarrett was charged before the Magistrates at Hastings, on Monday, with having given a bribe to Stephen Davies, a broker, at the late election in that town, for the...

IRELAND.

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It has been managed that the ceremonies connected with the interment of Mr. O'Connell's remains should form part of the election proceedings in Dublin. The body arrived from...

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Illfstellaneous.

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Active preparations are making at Portsmouth for the Queen's voyage to Scotland. The following are the latest particulars. The present arrangement is that her Majesty shall...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 11th July, at Dresden, the Lady of Colonel Todd, of a daughter, who died on the 17th On the 28th, at St. Germaine-en-Laye, the Right Hon. Lady Lindsay, of a son and...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Axanan—At Gravesend, 1st Aug. Lady Sale, Brewer, frown Singapore ; and Para- gon, Ledger. from Ceylon ; 2d, Nankin, Palmer, from Calcutta ; Othello, Thompson ; Victory, Smith ;...

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An official announcement has been received in the Isle of

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Man, that the Queen will visit that island on the 13th instant. Windsor, Friday evening.—No little excitement has been caused in the town during the last two or three days, in...

Letters from Rome, of the 28th July, mention that the

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Austrian Cabinet had addressed a note to the Pontifical Government, declaring that, in the event of any disturbances in the dominions of the Church remaining un- repressed, or...

A violent explosion, followed by a conflagration, occurred today at

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Darby's firework factory, in Regent Street, Lambeth. There being a prompt attendance of engines, and an ample supply of water, the fire was got uuder in about an hour. One man...

Of the grand funereal pageant, which mingles grotesquely with the

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election uproar at Dublin, the following account is by the correspondent of the Times- " Dublin, August 5.—Today the mortal remains of the great Agitator of Ire- land were...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The various accounts which have reached us this morning from different parts of the kingdom do not, on the whole, indicate any remarkable change in the course...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EZCHANGI, FRIDAY APITZ11001t. At the commencement of the week, the fine weather and decline in the price of corn operated favourably upon the money market; and early on...

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THE THEATRES.

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Though the season for dramatic activity is fast approaching its close, there is yet, we believe, a good deal to be done at Her Majesty's Theatre; and the production of Le Nozze...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE OFFICIAL SEATS. THE number of seats lost to members of the Government is con- siderable enough to be awkward in various ways. Four is a good many to provide out of...

The Little Haymarket, which used not to know what the

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word "season" meant, but kept open its doors for five hundred nights at a stretch, was shut up on Saturday ; and the bills of the theatres now open are less dis- tinguished than...

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DIPLOMACY OF THE PACIFIC.

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THERE are people so deficient in the organ of veneration as to treat with levity the grave mystery of diplomacy as it exists among civilized nations. But it is questionable...

THE DEPARTED MEMBERS AND THE NEW-COMERS, AS AFFECTING THE DEBATES.

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THE personnel of the House of Commons has undergone suffi- cient changes to have considerable effect on the debates, whether as heard or as reported in the journals ' • more...

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THE FRENCH STATE SWINDLERS.

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IF uniformity of example is to be attained by penal visitation, it certainly will fail in the case of the French state swindlers, lately tried and condemned. The effect of the...

GERMAN AND ENGLISH FORMS OF TRIAL.

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THOUGH Christianity is now well nigh two thousand years old men are as apt as ever to see the mote in their brother's eye and overlook the beam in their own. At a recent...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPH Y. Memoirs of the Private Life and Opinions of Louisa Queen of Prussia, Consort of Frederick William III. By Mrs. Charles Richardson Bentley. Poz.rricaL ECONOMY, View...

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DR. TWISS'S PROGRESS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.

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PuovEssonsmrs, like the olden patronage, are frequently the cause of good works that would not otherwise be produced. Originality, at least in letters and philosophy, may not...

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MRS. THOMSON'S TRAUB'S'.

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IT is now a dozen years since Mrs. Thomson first, we think, came before us as a novelist, in Rosabel ; and we then pointed out her leading merits and defects. The merits...

EDWARDS ' S VOYAGE UP THE AMAZON AND RESI- DENCE AT PARA.

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Mn. EDWARDS is a young American, who last year accompanied his re- lative, "Amory Edwards, Esq., late II. S. Consul to Buenos Ayres," on a visit to Para. What was the precise...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Readings for Advent, selected from the Old and New Testaments. Ar- ranged for the use of the Collegiate Schools, Liverpool. [These selections are arranged in three parts. The...

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rise Poor Voter's Song. Written by Thomas Noel, Erg.; the

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Music composed by F. Lancelott, and respectfully dedicated to Lord John Russell. This song was originally published in the Spectator, at the general elec- tion in 1835. Its...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Aug. 6.-4th Drag. Guards-Surg. C. Pine from 58th Foot, to be Surg. vice W. Gardiner, who retires upon half pay. 9th Light Drags.-Cornet W. W. Bird to be Lieut. by...

The Souvenir des Alpes; Fantasia and Variations, for the Pianoforte.

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Com- posed by Ricardo Linter. Among the multitudinous publications for the pianoforte, very few are really adapted to the use of amateurs. The greatest number, composed by the...

The Students Pianoforte Companion. By 0. B. Dussek.

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This little work deserves notice, not because it contains anything new either in matter or manner, (which it does not,) but because it gives the elementary information necessary...

MUSIC.

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The Skylark. The Poetry by the Ettrick Shepherd; the Musk by Mr. Wilson. This song was sung by Mr. Wilson in his new entertainment consisting of selections from the works of...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Aug. 3. pARTNERsnips DISSOLVED. Jerdein and Co. Liverpool, brokers-Charters and Co. Corkickle, Whitehaven, brewers -Crosby and Hillyard, York, stock-brokers--Smith...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prkes.) per Cent Consols Ditto for Account . 3 per Cents Reduced 3. per Ceuta Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent . .......... • India Stock, 101...