2 JULY 1842, page 1

The New Scale Of French Duties On Linens Has Been

officially issued, and it is as bad as the worst anticipations. It will probably work us serious injury. But it is not merely as an individual com- mercial question that it is......

News Of The Week.

THE Parliamentary proceedings of the week need not occupy much space here. The Customs-duties Bill, in which the new British Tariff of import-duties is embodied, has passed from......

The State Of The Country Grows No Better. " Jorrs

of Tuam" has written to Sir ROBERT PEEL, to tell the Premier that vast num- bers in Ireland evade starvation by poisoning themselves with noxious weeds picked in the fields ;......