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NEWS OF TIIE WEEK.

IT is announced semi-officially that Parliament will be dissolved between the 7thand 12th of July, theuncertainty being produced by the state of business in the Upper House. The Lords, however, being tired of London, which gets daily hotter, are expected to put on higher pressure. The writs will be issued immediately, and the elections are expected to come off in boroughs between the 8th and 15th, and in counties between the 15th and 22nd of July. By the 1st of August therefore the list of the new Parliament ought to be filled up, but as there is to be no autumn session there will be many vacancies to be supplied in February. As the House can have no Speaker till it meets, no new writs can be issued in the interval.

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