27 JUNE 1846

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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In its last stages, the Corn Bill met with no serious obstruc- tion. The Protectionist Lords saw the detriment to dignity in- volved in protracting defeat by struggling, and the...

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The further accounts from the scene of war between Mexico

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and the United States exhibit the Americans as still victorious, but as rather embarrassed by their own progress. The retreating Mexicans were suspected to be stronger than...

The new Pope has been elected in a hurry :

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the Sacred College have chosen Cardinal Mastei-Ferretti, who has assumed the naine of Pius the Ninth. The unwonted baste is imputed to two causes, not, however, incompatible...

Instead of mighty battles, the tidings from the Punjaub only

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tell of a mighty row. A cattle-driver attempted to break through the guard set by the British to protect the removal of some am- Munition; an artilleryman gallantly resisted...

Debates anti iproreebings in 'parliament.

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Tan Coax Mx.. In the House of Peers, on Monday, Lord ASHBURTON moved the fol- lowing resolution, of which he had given notice- " That whatever may be the alterations which it...

From South Australia we learn that Captain Sturt had re-

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turned, after absence for a year and a half, exploring the interior. He had made useful geographical discoveries, but had found no inland sea. New Zealand, or rather the North...

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gig eourt.

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THE Queen, Prince Albert, and the children, continue at the marine re- sidence in the Isle of Wight. The Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg and Gothajoined the Royal party on....

'be lirtetrop Offs.

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The Marylebone Vestry passed a vote of thanks on Saturday to Sir Ro- bert Peel, for his Free-trade measures, and for his great exertions in carry- ing them through Parliament....

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Sbe iprobinces.

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- Within the last few years crime has been progressively decreasing in Cambridgeshire; and at present, judging from the number of prisoners in custody charged with offences, it...

IRELAND.

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Mr. O'Connell has resolved to lay the &lemon of dissension. In a letter read at the weekly Repeal meeting on Monday, the Liberator thus expressed himself— "It is with the...

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SCOTLAND.

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Last week, an address to Sir Robert Peel, expressive of sympathy for the enany annoyances to which he has been subjected in his efforts to carry through his Free-trade...

jfartign an erolanial.

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Fnarroe.—In the Chamber of Peers, on the 19th instant, the Prince de la Moskow, took M. Pasquier to task for his allusion to his father, Marshal Ney, in connexion with the...

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Illfstellantous.

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A special messenger was in readiness on Thursday night to convey to her Majesty the intelligence that the Corn and Customs Bills had actually passed, and to obtain her Majesty's...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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AllIttvED—At Gravesend, 24th June, St. George, Jones, from Sydney ; and Barbara, rums, from Mauritius; 25th, Ratcliffe, Gilbert, from Sydney ; and Antigua Packet, Hunter ; and...

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The first acts of the new Pope's reign promise well

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for his future government. Accounts have been received from Rome which state that he is immediately to grant a general amnesty for all political offences. The effect of this...

A CORN-LAW BALLAD: ADDRESSED TO SIR ROBERT PEEL, BY AN

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ADMIRER. " Ile that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him teat Benet], it."—Troo. 21. 28. The puppy, and the fool, The...

The Gazette of yesterday notifies the following appointments—James Macaulay Higginson,

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Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in--chief of the Islands of An- tigua, Montserrat and Barbuda, St. Christopher, Nevis, Anguilla, the Virgin Islands, and Dominica;...

It having become known in Paris on Thursday that the

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Peel Administration was really near its close, the Bourse was much agitated. Stocks and Shares, the latter especially, declined.—Times. Lady Peel passed through Paris on...

POSTSCRIPT.

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The Lords Commissioners—the Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Haddington, and the Earl of Dalhousie—entered the House of Lords, in their robes, a little before five...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK Haraswes, FilMAT AFTsasoost. The gloom that has so long impended over the market still continues; and as a change of atinistry is now considered imminent, capitalists...

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PARLIAMENTARY SCANDAL.

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Mn. VILLIERS VMS right in saying that the public view with unmitigated disgust the personalities now current in Parliament— in both Houses ; for in this respect the House of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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HOW TO KEEP PEEL OUT AND RUSSELL IN. IT is commonly said that there may be half-a-dozen Govern; meats before we get what Lord George Bentinck called a '! stable " one. Likely...

- DIVISION ON THE IRISH COERCION BILL--TsurnsanY 25TH JUNE 1846:

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MINISTERIAL MINORITY FOR THE SECOND READING. Acker's, J Coote, Sir C. H. Hayes, Sir E. Patten. J. W. Heneage, 0.11. W. Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir R. Herbert, Rt. Hon. S. Peel, J....

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COLONIAL GOVERNORS.

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the Colonial Office consulted its interest, it would invent a prize for any Governor who should return from his colonyfunctus qfficio and not followed by the ridicule or the...

WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR 'LITERARY MEN AND ARTISTS.

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Tee tragic close of Haydon's career is of a nature to command attention even amidst the intense contemporaneous public excite- ment. The long and terrible struggle of an...

REFORM OF THE PENAL LAW.

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Tim nomenclature of English penal law is wretchedly defective. The generic terms "felony' and " misdemeanour " indicate no characteristics inherent in the offences to which...

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THE MODERN SPHINX.

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As Mr. Spooner was moving, the other night, to introduce a bill for the prevention of trading in female prostitution, the House was counted out. That, perhaps, is the fittest...

At the meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday last,

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Mr. Dun- can, who has just returned from his explorations in Western Africa, gave a viva voce statement of some interesting details respecting the manners and customs of the...

SUMMER AM - MEW:NTS.

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THE splendid summer weather, delightful even in its sultriness, has almost ruined the managers of theatres, while it has revived the prospects of Vauxhall and Cremorne Gardens....

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ESITOSICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, Original Letters illustrative of English History ; including numerous Royal Letters: from Autographs in the British Museum, the State Paper OflIce,...

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COLONEL RING'S TWENTY-FOUR YEARS IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

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THE author of this volume is a native of New York; who "foolishly" ran away from home at fourteen years of age, and, after trying without success to get a living, allowed his...

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MR. DUTTON'S SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND ITS MINES. FOR some years

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past, Mr. Menge, a German naturalist resident in Aus- tralia, had predicted that the range of mountains running North from Encounter Bay to nearly the 32d d e gree of (South)...

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MUSI C.

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THE BEETHOVEN QUARTET SOCIETY. THE performances of the present season were brought to a termination on Monday, with Ilaydn's Quartet in F minor with the fugue, Mozart's in F...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Vas Occult Sciences. The Philosophy of Magic Proffigies i _and A_ pp a rent Miracles. From the French of Ensebe Salve;te. With Notes, Matra five, Explanatory, and...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 18th June, at Vieux Luc, Calvados, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Car- michael, C.B., of a daughter. On the 19th, in Burton Crescent, the Wife of the Rev. G. S. Drew,...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Tune 23. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. S. H. and M. A. M. Lindley, Cranbourne Street, bead-manaractarers-Phinips and Elldred, 3111k Street, llnen-factors-J. and F. Trotman,...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAx-orrrce, June 19.-3d. Drag. Guards-Capt. J. D. Dyson, to be Major, by pur. vice Teesdale, who retires; Lieut. W. Squire, to be Capt. by par. vice Dyson; Cornet T. E. Whitby,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing PrIces.) &hull. Monday ruemey. rams. Fawn. ahnt —3. — — 934 excl. 1131 531 94a 944 954 95 si4 93 95 97 13 ee 061 961 — 104 loi 101 1004 — 2014 205...