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- Doctor Roche will publish, on the 1st of February next, the first number (containing fourteen songs) of a New Series of Ancient Irish Melodies, with appropriate words, and accompaniments for the Piano Forte, &c.

Mr W. H. Ireland will shortly publish France for the last Seven Years, containing many facts, and much valuable information hitherto unknown, with anecdotes, jeux d'esprits, &c. &c.

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A new Novel, entitled "The Fortunes of Nigel," by the Author of "Waverley, Kenilworth," &c. is at press, and will appear soon.

Speedily will be published, in 12mo. price 4s. 6d. bds., corrected and checked by several eminent accountants, Tables of Interest, at 3 per cent. From £.1 to £. 10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days.

Observations upon the Causes of Distress in, and Proposals of a Plan for ameliorating the condition of the Poor; par

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Mr J. R. Bryce has in the press, a second edition of the Elements of Latin Prosody, with considerable improvements. The first edition of this work, published last year, has obtained the approbation of some of the most distinguished scholars and teachers of the day. The author has spared neither time nor pains upon it, as will appear from the fact, that in 48 duodecimo pages, there are contained a system of rules for the quantity of syllables; comprising almost every fact noticed by the most voluminous writers, an accurate description of about forty kinds of verses in use among the Latin poets, and an account of Poetic Licence: the whole illus trated by numerous notes, in which there will be found, not only many practical observations of importance, but several interesting philological and critical discussions.

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FRANCE. The difference between the King and the Chamber of Deputies, noticed in our last Number, has issued in the formation of a new Ministry, to which measure, we are told, the King was extremely averse; insomuch, that when its necessity was passed upon him, he is said to have consented and retracted several times, before he finally gave it his sanction. The late Ministry seem to have been equally unwilling to leave their places. In a discussion which took place in the Chamber on Saturday the 8th December, the subject to be debated was the liberty of the press, and the propriety of a censorship; in place of which, however, the more interesting question, namely, that relating to the stability of the Administration, was entered into; and in reply to some attacks from the Opposition, the Keeper of the Seals, after expressing doubts as to his having lost the good opinion of the Chamber, plainly told them

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