30 AUGUST 1828

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE long absence of authentic details of the progress of the Rus- sians in Turkey, has created an impression unfavourable to the reputation of the Imperial arms. It was reported...

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MONEY-MARKET.

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The continued dearth in arrivals from the Continent, and of domestic events calculated to create excitement in the Money-market, has pre- vented any fluctuations of importance...

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POLICE OF LONDON.

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On Tuesday, George Draper, a Buckinghamshire man, in a smock frock, was charged, at the Mansion-house, with having assaulted a man of respect. able appearance, named John...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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If suggestions like these do not tend to mitigate the criminal's doom in his own eyes, they at least contribute not a little to lighten it in the imagination of the audience. A...

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Last week, the story of the "melancholy catastrophe" of a

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ruf- fian drowned by a cat he was endeavouring to destroy, was ex- tracted from the American Papers. For the honour of old Eng- land, which, we suppose, should not be behind...

With reference to our observations on Sir Walter Scott's lines

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on the " Bell Rock Light," the New Times says- " The critic of Sir Walter's lines must excuse us if we deem him much less a seaman than the poet on whom he sits in judgment. It...

ANATOMY.

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THE Report of the Committee for inquiring into the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection has been published. It has adopted the views of several enlightened advocates of...

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MORTALITY OF SIERRA LEONE.

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WE copy from a country paper a striking account of the fatal in- fluence of the climate of this place. Death, it seems, has become so familiar an acquaintance there, that he is...

NOT FOR ME, OR TIIE APPLE OF DISCORD.

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Louis Mamma, the composer of the opera brought forward under this title at the English Opera House, is a young man of Hanover, and already, we believe, known to the musical...

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Green-eyed Monster has doubtless ere this been well talked over

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properly objected to ; and the encore of the sobbing duet was too perhaps the least said the soonest mended. For the satisfaction of bad. the country reader, it may be enough...

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAVARY, DUC DE ROVIGO.

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. THE Memoirs of the Due de Rovigo''' are a revelation of sin- gular curiosity. We do not believe all he says ; much of it we do not even understand ; still...

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MORAL IMPORTANCE OF ARITHMETIC.

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WE are writing no puff— a trade we scorn — when we say honestly, that Mr. Hutton's Theory and Practice of Arith- metic* is the first book of numbers we ever saw which was not a...

SOCIAL LIFE OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

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IN our notice of the book comparing the Social Life of England and France, we spoke of the imperfectness of the comparison. It is a very common error to suppose that a...

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SPECTABILIA.

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PHENOMENA OF EARTHQUAXES.—M. Gay Lussac, in a late number of the Annales de Chimie, remarks, that the vibration of the earth during an ex- tensive earthquake, is precisely...

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GAS-LIGHTING.

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A rateenrser has been sent to us for notice, entitled "A Letter to the Lord Mayor," which we certainly think worthy of notice, though probably not in the way in which the author...

NEW WOTIK 8

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On the point of Publication. Marshall's Naval BiographY, S01" - Vigers' Greek idioms, translated Arminins's Works, translated by Practice of Tenancy of Land in Nichol's, Vol....

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1 7 11.0J11 THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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PARTNERSIII PS DISSOLVED. M. Saltine and M. A. Kippen, Barnes-place, Dille-end-road, sehoohnistreeses—W. Wood and T. Setae, Liverpool, shin-chandlers—A. Jones and .1. Le...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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EIRTHS.--A poor woman, wife of John Robinson, a cotton-spinner, about two miles beyond Oldham, has been safely delivered of three line female infants, all of whom are alive,...

LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, Faunae', AUGUST 29. There has been a good supply of Wheat and Flour since Monday, and the weather containing sit very favourable, our trade in general has been...