20 APRIL 1839

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Ton fictitious " crisis " is over. Ministers have been reprieved by the "measuring-cast majority " of the House of Commons, to whom they sued for a prolongation of official...

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French politicians have not escaped from the gaehis in which

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we left them last week. The King's friends sustained a severe defeat in a decision of the Chamber of Deputies against the claim of Emm: GIRARDIN IO sit in that Assembly. M. DE...

New York papers to the 27th of March have been

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received by the packet-ship Roscius. Their tenor is, on the whole, pacific ; though some politicians, professing to be far-seeing beyond their fellows, intimated, that it might...

The stoppage of the British trade at Canton was also

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announced in our second edition last week. The pretences for this interrup- tion were the arrival of British vessels, said to contain opium, and the dealings of an Englishman,...

It was mentioned in our second edition last veek, that

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intelli- gence had been received from Bombay, of the entry of the British troops into Hyderabad and Burkhur. It appears that the Ameers of Sinde, though they made a show of...

Debates an Vroceebings in Varliament.

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CONFIDENCE IN THE MINISTRY : EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF IRELAND. At an early hour on Monday afternoon, the blouse of Commons was filled in every part. There was also a...

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gbe Wourt.

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THE Queen attended divine service in the Chapel Royal ;St. James's, on Sunday ; accompanied by the Marchioness of Tavistock, Lady Flora Hastings, Miss Murray, Lord Torrington,...

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The following correspondence has appeared this week in the Morning

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post; in whose hands it had been placed for publication by the mother of Lady Flora Hastings. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. " unable to reach the original calumniator...

t kT - bc _Metropolis.

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At a meeting of the Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor announced his intention of paying a visit to the Corporation of Oxford by water. It was customary to pay this...

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The Liberals of North Lancashire threaten to oppose Mr. Charles

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Towneley, of Townley, to Sir Robert Peel, if Sir Robert should be- come a candidate to succeed Lord Stanley. Lord Derby, however, may live some time to disconcert the plans of...

Allisceliantous.

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It was mentioned some months since that a payment had been made by the Queen's commands out of her Majesty's privy purse to those creditors of the late Duke of Kent whose claims...

At the Mary ebone Office, on Wednesday, three applications, two

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from women, the other from a man, were made to the Magistrate for assistance to recover children who had been taken by the Children's Friend So- ciety, and sent to the Cape of...

In the Court of Chancery, on Monday, it was agreed

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that the case of the Baron de Bode against the Lords of the Treasury shall be heard on Wednesday next. The Baron, for whom Mr. Hill acts as counsel, ap- plies to the Court for...

Lord Claude Hamilton is the Tory candidate to succeed Lord

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Alex- ander in the representation of Tyrone ; and we presume there is no doubt of his election. The Earl of Charlemont has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Tyrone, in place of...

The Edinburgh address to her Majesty in support of Ministers

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has been received by Lord John Russell. It bears not less than 10,000 signatures, all ascertained genuine.—Globe. The fbllowing appointments are announced as about to take...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. OIL the 1.2..11 inst., at Ilickleharn Lail. ALBERT CONYNGHAM, Of 11111111011On On the 13th inst., at the Vicarage, Barking, the lion. Mrs. liunEwr I.,tonEt.t., of it...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Last night's debate on the conduct of the Irish Government — the fifth of the series—was opened by 1,-Ir. T. DENE03m1; ;who proposed the amend- ment of which he...

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The stagnation which has prevailed, during the last three months,

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in the foreign trade of this country is producing the effects which might naturally be The stagnation which has prevailed, during the last three months, in the foreign trade of...

Th e Wigan Election Committee have been employed in striking off

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illegal votes from the poll of both candidates.

The only news in the Paris papers received this morning,

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is the elec- tion of M. ETIENNE, the Opposition candidate, as fourth Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies, by the minimum majority of 212 to 211 over General JACQUEMISDYP....

The Globe and Courier give the following list of Pairs

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on Lord Join.; RUSSELL'S motion. Aglionby, Major ...Stanley, E. Pinney, W sugdon, Sir E. Busfield Bowles, Ra.,limt Sharpe, General .. .3ohnstone. Dope Campbell, W. Campbell....

MONEY MARKET.

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STDC1C EXCITANGE, FRIDAY AFFcaNOOV. The intelligence from India, which on Saturday afternoon was reported to be unfavourable, having proved to be of a very different character,...

The treaties between Holland and Belgium, and between those two

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Powers and the five Powers represented in Conference, were signed yes- terday afternoon. — Morning Chronicle.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Thc Eel& Castle, Johostone. from Calealta to China, was wrecked on the 14th Nov. in, the Louisa Shoal, tu 1110 China Scans; crew :mil passengers saved. Arrived— Olt'—Olt' ILver,...

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HOW TO SERVE LORD NORMANBY.

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IT appears that for some time past a writer in the Weekly Chroni- cle has been pursuing what lie is pleased to term a "controversy" with the Spectator. We were not aware of it...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE HASTINGS CORRESPONDENCE. UNDER its proper head of " Court" intelligence we insert a cor- respondence which has taken place between the mother of' Lady FLORA HASTINGS and...

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THE T I IEATRES.

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A Tricia seems to have fallen on the Theatres all of a sudden. On the heels of Drury's metamorphosis into a shilling concert—not that the entertainment is the worse for being...

THE MELBOURNE-MINISTRY "CRISIS " DIVISION.

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EXPLANATION OF THE TWO DIVISIONS AS INDICATED IN TILE TWO PARALLEL COLUMNS BELOW. No. 1. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Amendment. Form of the Vote-That the original motion " stand part or...

MINISTERIAL NEGLECT OF THE POST-OFFICE QUESTION.

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PETITIONS are daily presented to Parliament for Post-office Re- form. Mr. ROWLAND Hues plan, recommended, after the most searching examination, by the Commons Committee, in the...

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MR. TYTLER'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF TILE REIGNS OF EDWARD VI. AND

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MARY. Tints work resulted front Mr. TYTLER'S researches amongst the archives of the State Paper Office, to collect materials for his History of Scotland; when a great number of...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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England under the Reign of Edward VI. and Mary, with the Contemporary History of Europe, illustrated in a series of Original Letters, never before printed. With Historical...

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LADY CHATTERTON'S RAMBLES IN THE SOUTH OP IRELAND.

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WHEN Mister " TOM KINS " undertook to enlighten mankind on the subject of the aristocracy, lie pronounced their conversation to be exceedingly pleasant but very...

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DE LA RICHE'S GEOLOGICAL REPORT—MURCIIISON'S SILURIAN SYSTEM.

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HOWEVER important to the scientific geologist, or valuable to men whose estates are seated in the West of England, and who way feel disposed to ransack the bowels of the earth...

MR. JAMES'S CHARLES TYRRELL.

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IN point of composition Mr. JAMES is improving,—if by composi- tion be meant ideas considered abstractedly and independently, and the style in which those ideas are expressed....

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Rambles hi the South of Ireland during the year 1838. By Lady CHAT. MERTON. In two vole. History of Europe front the Cinnmencement of time French Revolution in 1780 to...

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FINE ARTS.

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NEW WATER-COLOUR EXHIBITION. Tins young Society is increasing in numbers and strength every year ; and its exhibition, since it has been located in Pall Mall, is become one of...