12 JULY 1845

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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MINISTERS have contrived this week to impart a revived, but not a very agreeable interest to the waning session. Sir Robert Peel made, on the agreeable, night, the annual...

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A new version has reached us of the affray at

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Ballinhassig more favourable to the Police, and less so to their assailants, who in the new account are represented as wantonly violent. The tone of the Repeal leaders and...

On the face of it, the Revenue account just published

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looks uglier than it has done for some time past ; but it is not really so bad as it seems. The table for the year, indeed, has an aspect fair enough : there is an increase on...

The result of the three elections which have as yet

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occurred makes no great change in the House of Commons ; but what change there has been is unfavourable to Ministers. For their colleague Sir William Follett, at Exeter, is...

IlDtbatts ant 413roteebings in radiament.

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BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. In the House of Commons,. on Monday, Sir Roamer PEEL stated the' course which Ministers intended to adopt with respect to the abandonment or...

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gbt OSOUrt.

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THERE is little to record under this head, except some trifling movements. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the King and Queen of the Belgians, drove to Bushy Park on...

Ebt iprobinres.

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The election of a Member for West Suffolk took place, at Bury St. Edmund's, on Monday; when Mr. Philip Bennet, of Roughiun Hall, was elected without opposition. He referred to...

ebe Ifittropolis.

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A Court of Common Council was held on Monday, to receive the report of a Committee on the Charitable Trusts Bill. The report strongly condemned the measure, and advised the...

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goreign anti Colonial.

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FRANCE.—The Chamber of Deputies have closed their labours; but the session will be prolonged for a few days, to enable the Chamber of Peers to conclude its legislative duties....

IRELAND.

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The weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, was crowded, in consequence of Mr. O'Connell's return. The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Thomas Steele, in which the...

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giftiscellantous.

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The- Select Committee appointed to inquire into the charges made by the South-eastern Railway Company have made their report; but it has not yet been printed. The Times thus....

PANOB.A.MA OF ATHENS:

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A beautiful little panorama of Athens has this week been opened in the smallest of the three prospect-circles in Leicester Square. It is painted by Mr. Burford, assisted by M....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Amara:a — At Gravesend, 6th July, William Carey, Dove, from Mauritius ; 8th, Al- bion, Allan, from the Cape ; 9th, Thomas Arbuthnot, Smith, from Calcutta ; 10th, Tropic,...

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The packet-ship Rochester arrived at Liverpool last night, with accounts

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from New York to the 21st Jane. It is positively announced that the Honourable Mr. liPLane, of Baltimore, had been appointed Special Minister to England, and that he would take...

THE THEATRES.

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The sojourn of the foreign artistes in London is approaching the end of its term. Next week is the last of M. Arnal and the French Plays at the St. James's; the Brussels Company...

We believe we can state that the disagreeable revelations contained

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in the re- port of the Committee appointed to consider the petition of the Smith-eastern Railway have rendered it imperative on Captain Bolder° and Mr. Bonham to re- sign the...

The Hull Advertiser reports that the Bob Roy steamer, which

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departed on Thursday for St. Petersburg]; bore several presents from the Queen of England to the Emperor of Russia—full-length portraits of her Majesty and Prince Al a...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Parliament got through a good deal of business, last night, and almost as much squabbling. Both were mingled in the proceedings on the Lunatics Bill, at the...

The Paris letters of Thursday mention a curious combination of

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accidents: last week a horse in King Louis Philippe's carriage dropped down dead; on Wed- nesday, a wheel of Marshal Souk's carriage flew ofc throwing him out, but un- hurt; and...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Upon the first appearance of the Revenue returns, on Monday morning, some disappointment was expressed: when, however, the large recent...

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TOPICS OF THE DIY.

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PARLIAMENT: ANNUAL SELECTION OF WORK TO BE COMPLETED. EVERY man of ability and energy has, perhaps, at some time pictured to himself how much more judiciously and effectively...

SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES: FALSE PRETENCES: THE NEXT MOVE.

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SIR ROBERT PEEL gravely pleads, that to have allowed the Scotch University Bill to become law would have been a viola- tion of the Treaty of Union and the Act of Security! The...

THE REVENUE.

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.Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 5th July 1844 and 1845, showing the Increase or Decrease thereo£ YEARS ENDED 5th...

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THE CORONATION-OATH.

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AMONG other apparitions of sophisms supposed defunct, the Coronation-oath argument has been resuscitated in the course of the Muynooth debate, and even in the solemn shape of a...

"PRIVILEG-E." ILLLTSTRATED:-

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THE House of Commons has voted that one of its privileges is to hear and-publish.slander r andta protect the slander-mongers. A witness- may calumniate any person before a...

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THE JESUITS IN FRANCE.

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THE Anti-Jesuit Party in France have achieved one of those victories that lead to nothing. The General of the Jesuits, in consequence of the representations made by the French...

SPECTATOR'S LISRA_RY.

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TIAP11.8, navels - hi Storni America ; Gbological Obserretione oft -the:united states, Nei • nada, anti-Nova SeoUl. ByChasies hyoll BaO, Anthos of" The Prim:106W of Geology."...

. Among the papers read at the late meeting of

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the British Association, was one byM. Coulnier Gravier. He has ascertained that there are between 6,000 an d 7 5 000 shooting stars to be seen in the course of a year; and that...

"OUR OWN."

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" Orin own reporter" has long enjoyed a fair share of the dainties - of this life. He is free to "sit at good men's feasts?' He par- takes of the Lord Mayor's turtle and the...

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SIR ROBERT ADAIR'S NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE PEACE OF THE DARDANELLES.

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THESE volumes are a sequel to the author's Mission to Vienna, pub- lished last year ; at least his appointment to Constantinople sprung out of his residence at Vienna. Some of...

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MM. H. JESSE'S MEMOIRS OF THE PRETENDERS AND THEIR ADHERENTS.

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Mils was not so much needed as some of Mr. H. Jesse's previous col- leefions of historical or biographical gossip under the title of Memoirs. Information respecting the...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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From July 4th to July 10th. BOOKS. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to aseertan the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. By the Reverend...

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MUSIC.

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EIGHTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT—MONDAT, JULY 7. PART I. Sinfonla In G minor Mozart. Doak., "La ci darem," Madame Gras Dorus and Herr Pischek, (II Don Giovanni') Mozart. Concerto...

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MR. ELLA'S MATINEE MUSICALE.

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THE Director of the Musical Union had a benefit concert on Tuesday, at which good music was in the ascendant. An Elegy of Beethoven's (first time of performance) was the grand...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, July 8. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Douthwaite and Bowen, Castle Street, Holborn, jewellers-Nash and Howkins, Nor- wich, chemists-Thomas and Co. Northwich, grocers-Graham...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OITICE, July 11.-2d nee. of Life Guards-Sir M. R. S. M. Stewart, Bart., to be Cornet and Sub-Lient, by purchase, vice Clayton, who retires. 5th Drag. Guards- Lieut. J. C....

BIRTHS.

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On the 2d July, at Glenfenban, Gareloeh, Dumbartonshire, the Lady of Colonel P. Edmonstone Craigie, C.B., Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, of a son. On the 3d, at Sandwell, the...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. Satred. (Closing Meadow Piices-) hadery. Wickes. S par Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced ......... shut 991 exd. 991 99*ex d. :3 :1 991...