7 SEPTEMBER 1844

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The Prorogation Speech is unusually empty. Of the great subject

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belonging to the day, the extraordinary issue of the State trial and the course to be pursued towards Ireland, it says no- thing—not a syllable. The very name of Ireland is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Toss last scenes of the Parliamentary session, now formally closed, .have been signalized-by an unexpected event—the reversal of the - . judgment against DANIEL O'CONNELL and...

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Debatts anb 113roteebings in Varliamtnt.

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THE O'CONNELL WRIT OF ERROR. The House of Lords reassembled on Monday, to receive the opinions of the Judges on the questions submitted in the appeal of "Daniel O'Connell...

Lord STANLEY retires from the Commons, to become a Peer

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in his father's lifetime ; and everybody asks what it means ? As a young man, with all the confident if not the dignified bearing of aristocratic birth, proud in its own...

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Ilat Grout.

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WITH the Queen's growing strength, and the preparatives for the cere- monial of the christening, Windsor Castle has witnessed gayer scenes this week. Her Majesty drove out on...

Vlb e Vro ()burs.

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The Birmingham Journal of Saturday contains a very interesting re- port of a public dinner given by the Birmingham Athenic Institution on the previous Monday. The nature of the...

gbt Itietropolis.

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The nomination of candidates for the office of City Chamberlain took place, in a Common Hall, on Thursday. Alderman Brown was pro- posed and seconded by Sir Peter Laurie and Mr....

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IRELAND.

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The meeting of the Repeal Association was held as usual on Monday ; Mr. James O'Hea, a barrister, in the chair. He alluded at some length to the decision which the English...

jforeign ana

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FRANCE AND Moeocco.—The Constitutionnel contradicts the rumour that Abd-el-Kader had been taken prisoner by the army of Morocco ; thus reporting the state of matters on the...

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Aftistellantous.

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The reports of the Queen's visit to Scotland begin to assume con- sistency. Lord Glenlyon has placed Blair Castle, a fine sporting re- sidence of the Atholl family, at the...

EAST INDIA. SHIPPING.

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ARRIVED. — Off Penzance, 4th Sept. Volunteer, M'Cree, from Mauritius. At Liver- pool, 3d, William Parker, Sewell, from Calcut:a; and 5111, Devonport, Parry, from Bombay. In the...

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Of the statement in the Times respecting the termination of

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the Tahiti dispute with France, the Paris correspondent of the Standcwd says — " I can assure you positively that this statement is erroneous. There may be a particle of truth...

On Sunday evening, a large flock of wild geese passed

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over Chester- field, on their way, it is supposed, to the fens of Lincolnshire. Such 4 circumstance at this early period of the season was hardly ever known ; and it is...

News of the reversal of the judgment against O'Connell reached

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Dub- lin on Thursday afternoon. Great crowds had assembled on Kingstown pier : the packet arrived before five o'clock ; some Repeal agents on board, holding up white flags...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Lofty was the ceremonial, splendid the feast, in Windsor Castle last night ; when Queen Victoria's second son was christened. Royal visiters began to arrive...

John Kenyon Winterbottom, once the most flourishing solicitor in Stockport,

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has been captured. He was charged in 1839 with forgery on a London insurance-company ; he fled ; and his defalcations were discovered to be immense. On Thursday evening, he was...

Lord Kenyon, as the son of a Law Lord, writes

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thus to the Standard, on the assertion imputed to Lord Wharncliffe and Lord Brougham, that the Law Lords constitute the court of appeal in the House of Peers- " I well remember...

The Times gives this explanation about the manner of Lord

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Stanley's withdrawal from the Commons and elevation to the Peerage— "if a vacancy in the representation of Lancashire had been occasioned by the death of a member, it is well...

The Dublin Evening Mail is wroth at Ministerial " conciliatory

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" treacheries : Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Primate, has been styled at a party given by the Lord-Lieutenant "Archbishop of Dublin "; and Mr. Petre, attached to the Embassy...

The parish of St. Mary's in Leicester has kept up

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its annual custom of refusing a church-rate : it was refused at a meeting on Thursday last, for the eighth time.

MONEY MARKET.

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Srocx Exemewas, FRIDAY Arraatroox. The market was in a very uncertain state during the early part of the week. The intelligence of the return of the French army to Oran, which...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THIRTY YEARS OF PEACE. THIRTY years of peace have not, it must be confessed, been thirty years of quiet and of unalloyed enjoyment. It is not enough for men to be placed in...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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BIRTHS. On the 27th August, at Gormanstowu Castle. the Lady of the Hon. TERIMAS Paitsrox, of a daughter. - On the 311th, in Belgrave Square. Lady CECIL'S DEB VOUX, Of a...

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THE HOUSE OF LORDS AS A COURT OF APPEAL. THE

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proceedings in the case of O'CONNELL place in a strong light the defects of the House of Lords as a Court of Appeal. The Lay Lords declined voting : the case was too...

A SECOND CHAPTER ON PRIVATEERING.

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THE favourable reception of our remarks on Privateering has been gratifying, as showing that the moral sense of the community is alive to the atrocity of the practice, and as...

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WASHING FOR THE MILLION.

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Now that the resultless din of Parliament is over, the plans of men who seek only in sober seriousness the public good may chance to find a hearing. Party warfare ended, the...

THE BIRMINGHAM AGAINST BRUMMAGEM BENE- FITS TO THE WORKING-CLASSES.

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Tna " Athenic Institution " of Birmingham is doing better than any Ten-hours Bill; for instead of arbitrarily restricting overwork, IL i raising a permanent antagonistic...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ARCIVROLOGY. A Breiffe Narration of the Services done to Three Noble Ladyes. by Gilbert Blak- hal, Preist of the Scots Mission in France, in the Low Countries, and in Scotland,...

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MRS. GORE'S POPULAR MEMBER.

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IN a critical survey of Mrs. GORE'S fictions, (for a limited or loose examination will not suffice,) she might be shortly characterized as a trader on topics—as one who turns to...

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CAPTAIN CUNYNGHAME'S RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVICE.

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CAPTAIN CUNYNGHAME sailed as Aide-de-camp to Lord SAL- TOUN, with the additional forces sent from England against the Chinese at the latter end of 1841. After a voyage of more...

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FINE ARTS.

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THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER. Puniac attention has been particularly directed to the building of the New Palace at Westminster, by Reports of Select Committees of the Lords...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, Pm. Ass est 30th to September 5th.

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BOOKS. An Aide-de-camp's Recollections of Service in China, a Residence in Hong-kong, and Visits to other Islands in the Chinese Seas. By Cap- tain ARTHUR CUNTNGHAME,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUN DS. (Closing Prices.) Saturday Munday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. 981 984 99 981 994 981 981 99 931 99-4 991 991 991 994 shut shut shut 121 124 124 121 shut 1984 199...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Sept. 5.-Coldstream Regt. of Foot-Ensign and Lieut. J. A. V. Kirk- land to be Lieut. and Capt. by purchase. vice Brand, who retires ; Ensign W. G. Darr. kins. from...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Sept. 3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Lewis and Grand, Coleman Street, accountauts-Cassara anti Rays. Kingswinford. Staffordshire, jewellers-Morrison and Evans, Newport,...