18 JULY 1840

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Regency Bill has been introduced, and the Canada Bill has passed: these are the principal events of a dull Parliamentary week. The first is not what a Ministerial jourme of'...

The arrival of the West India packet brings intelligence from

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Jamaica to the 9th of June. Generally it is of a cheering cha- racter, as respects the crops and the conduct of the Negroes; but on the 26th of' May a serious disturbance had...

The Great Western reached Bristol early lin ..egInt&dav mos

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.51 4: 2 • ing, having left New York on the 1st instant. She brought a very valuable cargo, and 152 passengers. The only political news of importance by this arrival relates...

The Spanish news this week is unimportant.

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The French Chambers were prorogued on Wednesday, after a session

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commenced in much trouble, but terminated to the satis- faction of all except the displaced Ministers and their adherents. The friends of M. TIMERS loudly proclaim their...

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The Canadas continued perfectly tranquil.

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Debates an Vrocccbings iI Vatliantent.

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Tun Rix: otee Y. Lord MELBOURNE, on Monday, announced a message from the Queen ; which the Loon) CHANCELLOR read to the Peers- " Victoria IL. The uncertainty of human life,...

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Zbe 113robinces,

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The Earl of Lovelace is to be Lord-Lieutenant of Surry. Mr. Charles Howard, Private Secretary to Lord Melbourne, is the Whig candidate for East Cumberland. Mr. Head, a banker...

gbe Metropolis.

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A party of Whigs dined together at Blackwall on Saturday, to cele- brate the Anniversary of the establishment of the Fox Club ; the Duke of Sussex in the chair. The Dukes of...

At the Westminster Sessions, yesterday, the Court quashed a convic-

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tion under which Mr. Long, the Magistrate of Marlborough Street, had sent Patrick King, a boy ten or twelve years old, to the House of Cor- rection and hard labour for a months;...

Concessions on the part of the Bank of England seem

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to be the order of the day. Two of the Joint-stock Banks in the City, the London and the Union, have been permitted to open a drawing-account. They have also resolved to allow...

The release of Mr. Roberts, the Chartist solicitor, has excited

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much attention. The Globe says he was set at liberty on the certificate of the Surgeon of the Gaol, forwarded by the Visiting Justices, " that any further confinement would...

Zig Court.

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TitE Duke and Dutchess de Nemours arrived at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, on a visit to the Queen and Prince Albert. On the same evening, their Royal Highnesses with...

The Morning Chronicle says that it is intended to spoil

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the Green Park by enclosing a large portion of it for a garden and shrubberies ; also that Lord Duncannon positively refuses to permit a fair to be held in Hyde Park on Prince...

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ftlistellancous.

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Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Lomat, Esq., M.D. ' to be First Physician- Accoucheur to her Majesty ; Robert Ferguson, M.D.,...

The members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England held

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their annual dinner on Wednesday, at Cambridge, under an immense pavilion erected on the lawn of Downing College. About 2,500 per- sons were present; and among themSirRohert...

An expert finer of bank-notes, and a woman who helped

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him, have been apprehended at Birmingham. " thtorge Bradnock, the man ap- prehended, is by trade an engraver, but km some years was employed as an exciseman at Wellington ie...

A formal union has been effected between the Synod of

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Ulster and the Secession Synod, numbering together ;warm) Presbyterians. The ceremony took place on Friday last, in Rosemary Street Church, Bel- fast. The Reverend Dr. Reid read...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell is again in Dublin agitating for Repeal. The title of Chic National Association has been changed to "time Loyal National Association for Repeal of the Union "—the...

The Leeds Mercury of the 11 th contains the particulars,

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as far as they were known at the end of last week, of a murder committed in Leeds- " The unfortunate victim of this crime is William Reynolds Rotherry about twenty years of age,...

Mr. Thomas Truesdale Clarke, a gentleman of large property and

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a Magistrate of Middlesex, was found on Wednesday morning lying on face in a brook running out of the grounds of his residence near Uxbridge. The water in the brook was not two...

'We regret to state that the Duke of Wellington experienced

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on Wed- nesday an attack of disease similar to those which on some former occa- sions have excited the deepest anxiety of the British people. It is satisfactory to know that...

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Wednesday was a critical day in the estimation of those

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who attend to the progress and prospects of the season. It was Saint Swithin's Day ; and though we can by no means allow the rule to be an infallible one that the weather with...

Small progress in actual public business was made by either

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house of Parliament last night. In the House of Lords, the Earl of ABERDEEN called Lord Mel- bourne's attention to the claims of those creditors of Spain who held what are...

The French jeurnals are much occupied with the trail of

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Madame Latfarge, formerly Miss Cappelle. The trial at present going on at Drives, before the Assize Court, is not, however, for the poisoning of her hus- band, which is...

The Reverend Connop Thirlwall is mentioned as likely to succeed

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the late Dr. Jenkinson in the Bishopric of St. David's. The Reverend Connop Thirlwall is mentioned as likely to succeed the late Dr. Jenkinson in the Bishopric of St. David's.

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. We have received newspapers this morning front New York, Mora treal, Toronto, Niagara, the Cape of Good Hope, Sydney, and Port Philip ; but, with the exception of...

Sir Henry Willoughby was severely hurt on Monday evening , by

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a fall from his horse in Hyde Park. The horse stumbled, and threw Sir Henry over his head.

Accounts from Constantinople have been received to the 28th of

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June. It appears that, in consequence of tlui insurrection in Syria, the desire of the Sultan to conic to terms with 'Mehemet Ali has cooled, and the prospect of the amicable...

Dr. Bowring has written a letter to Mr. Disraeli, denying

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the accu- racy of some assertions made by that gentleman in the House of Com- mons. Mr. Disraeli had accused Dr. Bowring of charging expenses for a passage to Egypt which he...

THE ARMY.

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WAw.orrtex, July 17. —Oth Regt. Dra4s.-11revet Col. the lion . IT. II Hutchinson, from halfpay unattached, to he Lim:T.-Col. vice J. Ratcliffe, who exchanges; Major IL White to...

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TOPICS OF TIIE DAY.

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PATRIOTS AND PLACEMEN IN PARLIAMENT: DIPLOMATIC INEFFICIENCY. IN the debate on Dr. BOWRING'S remuneration as a commercial agent of the Government, these two truths were made...

The Duke of Wellington was so far recovered yesterday as

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to be enabled to write letters, and devote to business, within his own house, that diligent and punctual attention which long habit has rendered familiar and natural to his...

EAST INDIA SIIIPPING.

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Arrived—At Portsmouth, July 17th, Lord Lowther, Yates, from Bengal. 0:1' taimbe, 17111, John Marsh, Dawkins, front Ch i na ; :4,.uterset from Ben• g.ti; 'Adel, front Batavia;...

MONEY MARKET.

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SToca Exramlaz. VR1DAy AFTFRNOON. The fine weather has operated very beneficially upon the Stork. market ; and the prices of the English Funds, which had been depressed bv...

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MINISTERIAL REBUKE OF OXFORD'S JURY.

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TIIERE is nothing so provoking as to discover that there has been no call for heroism after we have worked ourselves up into a mood heroic and assumed a heroic attitude. We hear...

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KNIGHTHOOD: A NEW ORDER.

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CLASSIFICATION is necessary in honours RS in every thing else. In most countries there are orders conferred upon civil merit, and orders conferred upon military merit : in ours...

ENCLOSURE OF OPEN SPACES : THE FRESH-AIR QUESTION.

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THE subject of Public Walks is again attractiter public notice, am:. moreover occupying the attention or practiczil men of' business. Indeed the Fresh-air question requires...

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THE GERMAN OPERA.

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THE fictive management of the Prince's Theatre has produced another novelty this week, though the theatre is almost on the eve of closing. MOZART'S Titus, the German version of...

STATE OF THE KIRK QUESTION IN SCOTLAND.

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(7ourt of Session has granted the interdict craved by the Strathbee;ic ministers against any attempt to enforce the decision of the General Assembly. While the deputies from the...

THE OTHER THEATRES.

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THE Haymarket shows symptoms of the approaching termination of its ten months season. Pownit's last appearance (so say the bills) before his departure for America, is next week....

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The clever little com y , at the English Operahouse have

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been acing them. The Concerts d'Et6 fill Drury Lane nightly with audieoces who listen to such compositions as Bemarovnx's " Sept dor" tont " Pastoral Sym- phony" with...

Our star of the early portion of the Italian Opera

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season, FANNY ELMER, is Winning all kinds of homage from our American brethren ; *ho seem well nigh gone mad about her, to judge by the extravagant i tone of the New York...

MR. SOUTHGATE'S TOUR IN TURRET 'AND PERSIA.

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SorrinuTE is a clergy inan of the American Episcopal Church ; who was deputed by the Foreign Committee of the Board of Mis- sions, to visit such parts of Turkey and Persia as he...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRA F.T,S, Narrative of a Tour throu g li Armenia. Kurdistan. Persia, and Mesopotamia. With Observations on the Condition of Mohammedanism and Christianity in those Countries....

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DR. WAAGEN'S LIFE AND GENIUS OF REBENS.

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DR. WA AC EN'S object in this discourse has been to review the pic- tures of Runrss by the light of the painter's character and condi- tion. He sets out with a biographical...

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M‘GILLIVRAY'S HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS.

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THE favourable reception of his former volumes has put 111r. M‘GILLIVRAY in high spirits, and he exults ovbr the concoctors of " ternary and quinary systems," and the " mere...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. The Principles of P.pulation, and their anne.vian with 'Amon Happiness. By ARCHIBALD ALISON, F.B.S.E., Advocate, Sheriff (It' Lanarkshire, and Author of " History of...

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FINE ARTS.

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INTERIOR DECORATION THE KALSOMINE PAINT, Mn. PARRIS has been privately exhibiting some panellings which it is painting to ornament a saloon in Redburn Hall, the seat of the...

ANOTHER COREGGIO.

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THE COREGGIO "Magdalen," which was lately exhibited in Pall Mull, has been disposed of to a devotee who keeps it for his own private wor- ship exclusively. A small " Holy Family...