14 SEPTEMBER 1844

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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O'CoNazu, is at large ; Repeal is up once more. Dublin escorted the Liberator from his prison on Saturday ; on Sunday he was the chief object at a religious ceremony, in which...

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Sweeping the political telescope over the horizon abroad, we find

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nothing very striking for description ; although there is move- ment in all quarters—a storm either subsiding or brewing. France and Morocco lie upon their arms, reposing, but...

Sbe „Metropolis.

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The poll for the election of City Chamberlain closed on Thursday : for Brown, 2,319; Heppe], 67; majority for Brown, 2,252. Alderman Brown briefly thanked the Livery for having...

Ilbe Court.

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TEE splendours of Windsor have for the time departed, with the Sovereign and Iter Court. After the ceremony of the christening and its attendant festivities, 011 Friday night,...

Queen VICTORIA, with her husband and eldest child, has left

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Windsor Castle, to seek strength and pleasure in the bracing mountain-air of the Scottish Highlands. Her journey has been performed, and with royal speed; for the voyage from...

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The Conservative candidate for North Lancashire is Mr. Talbot Clifton ; a gentleman of an old Catholic family, and connected by ties of blood with the Earl of Shrewsbury and...

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IRELAND.

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Our last Postscript indicated the tumult of excitement created among The people of Dublin by the intelligence of the judgment reversed by the House of Lords, which reached that...

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FRANCE.—After long denying the fact, the Paris papers admit that the- Tahiti question between the French and English Governments is settled. The Courrier Francais states, that...

SCOTLAND.

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Such speed made the Victoria and Albert yacht with its illustrious freight, that at midnight on Tuesday, the light at St. Abb's Head was descried ; and before three o'clock the...

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_Miscellaneous.

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We understand that the visit of the King of the French to her Ma- jesty is now definitively fixed for the early part of next month. It is arranged that his Majesty will embark...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Grave events give place in the news of the morning to gossip about all sorts of things. Looking to Ireland, we find rumours of future doings by the Re.-...

Paris letters of Thursday state, that the Government had arrived

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at a decision respecting the Polytechnic School, unobjectionable, yet destroy- ing the scholars' power to meddle in any future popular movement. Government propose to remove the...

Lady Hardinge, accompanied by two of her daughters, leaves town

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today by the London and Dover Railway, for France. After staying a short time in Paris, her Ladyship and family will proceed by the same line of route to India as that taken by...

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The Aforning Chronicle gives some particulars of Louis Philippe's in-

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tended visit to this country- " His Majesty will leave Tripoli on the 7th or the 9th, by the evening tide, so as to disembark the following day, before midday, at Southampton,...

Her Majesty has most graciously signified her intention to open

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the Royal Exchange in the course of the last fortnight of the month of October. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is to accompany her Ma- jesty upon the occasion.—Times....

A private correspondent, writing to the Riforme, says that the

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Arabi on the frontiers of Morocco had endeavoured to revenge oa the French camp of Sebdon the disastrous battle of Isly- " At eight o'clock on the morning of the 20th August, a...

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Several deaths of persons well known by name or by

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association are mentioned in the papers. That of Captain Basil Hall, some time buried from the world in Haslar Asylum, will be regretted by all. Others re- cently dead are Dr....

HOW TO NATIONALIZE OPERA IN ENGLAND.

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[*mom AN AMATEUR CORRESPONDENT.] THE review of the Opera season of '44, in a late number of the Spectator, was calculated to be useful, by its impartial but not severe...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The business in the English Funds has not been extensive, neither has the fluctuation of the market been important ; Consols having during the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE QUEEN'S ROUTE TO BLAIR. Tits old road up the Pass of Killicrankie—the road along which MACKAY marched to conquer by defeat—has been reopened for the Queen to pass along....

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FAMILY FESTIVALS.

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Tun Duke of Bucemensm has been celebrating with much state his son's coming of age ; and some time back a similar festival was solemnly held by Lord FRANCIS EGERTON. At no time...

CONSERVATIVENESS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL. THE opinion that

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the House of Lords must necessarily have a conservative leaning, rests upon the belief, that, the wealth of its members and their exclusive privileges being endangered in un-...

THE MANCHESTER PARK.

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Prussic Parks have been called the lungs of towns. In the animal economy the lungs are among the earliest developments, and are at first disproportionately large, the other...

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PRIVATEERING.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. SIB — Many of your observations on privateering are excellent; but you do not go to the root of the evil, which is the acknowledged practice of...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Pourres, Izelautt and its Rulers since 1829. Part the Third Netohy. MII•CELLANEOOS LITERATURE, Rhymes and &cone...lions of a Hdud Loom Weaver. By william Thom. of Is- verury....

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WILLIAM THOM'S RHYMES AND RECOLLECTIONS. THE author of this little

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volume is a Scotch hand-loom weaver, with a taste for music and a turn for verse. The American failures a few years since reduced him and his family to absolute destitution, and...

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MR. M`CARTIIT ' S FREE LANCE. • Tars new romance of Mr.

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111`CARTHT exhibits the same merits and defects as his Masaniello, with some considerable improvement, especially in the general composition,—using the word in the painter's...

MR. UPTON ' S PHTSIOGLYPHICS.

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THE " discovery" contained in this volume was first promulgated in a couple of lectures at the British and Foreign Institute; BUCK- INGHAM auspice, emendatore BUCKINGHAM The...

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MUSIC.

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INSTRUMENTAL PART-MUSIC. THE late rehearsals of the Philharmonic Society, under MENDELSSOHN ' S direction, disclosed no inconsiderable share of wrong notes in the orchestral...

CAPTAIN MARRTAT'S SETTLERS IN CANADA.

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Ist 1794, a gentleman of the name of Campbell, who had suddenly been deprived of a large fortune, resolved to emigrate to Canada. Thither he accordingly went with his family ;...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The Royal Admiral, Garbutt, from Newport to Aden, is wrecked upon the Prong, near Colaba Light-house; tnaterials saved ; ship and cargo lost. The Candahar, from China, has beau...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATOS.

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BIRTHS. On the 4th September. at the Rectory House, St. Michael's Coogan, the Wife of the Rev. THOMAS W. W,ENCII, Rector of a daughter. On the 6th, at Brighton, Lad) HARRIET B....

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, Sept. 1(1.

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PARTNERSHIPS DIssOLVED. Vickerman and Co. Huddersfield, woullemeluth.manufacturers ; as far as regards B. Vickermau - Vowell and Mascot, Stockwell, manufacturers of the...

PRICES CURRENT.

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Friday • 991 991 2831 75 76 SHARES. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Moms- BANKS- B..lanos . Australasian Candouga - Loudon Joint Stock...