10 MAY 1862

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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I T has been a painful week for Sir George Bowyer. In the I first place, the King of Italy has been received in Naples with a welcome such as only a Southern and excitable race...

NOTICE.

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THE WEEK ABROAD.

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Fasscz.—There is a political lull in France, and the public still occupies itself with the Roman Question. General de Goyon re- turned on Wednesday to Paris, and Marshal Niel...

THE WEEK AT HOME.

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POLITICAL.—The Lambeth election terminated in a kind of tri- umph for Mr. Doulton, which showed that his opponents had never had a shadow of a chance. The state of the poll at...

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT Hones or Loans, Monday, May 5.—Declaration of Title Bill, Security of Pur- chasers' Bill, Real Property (Title of Purchasers') Bill, and Transfer of Land...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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Is the House of Lords last night, The Earl of Danny moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the injury resulting from noxious vapours evolved in certain,...

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THE LANCASHIRE OPERATIVES ON THEIR OWN DISTRESS.

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T HIS is almost the first great occasion in the history of England on which we can truly say that a great working class is suffering severely without ignorantly inventing...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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FINANCIAL GLADIATORSHIP. AIR. Gladstone, thanks to Mr. Disraeli and Lord Palmer- i!1 ston, has escaped a very serious . danger. It was not likely that a blunder like his speech...

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THE HOUR IN ITALY. T HE grand though somewhat theatric burst

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of emotion with which Naples has welcomed her King will dissi- pate many delusions. There is an end of the theory so diligently spread by the Illtramontanes that Naples hates...

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THE TWO FACES OF IRELAND'S FOE.

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N OTWITHSTANDING the disrespect with which the House of Commons treats him, there is something monumental about Mr. Whalley. The less he is permitted the opportunity of rational...

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THE PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS.

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T HE complete triumph of the liberal party in the Prussian elections this week forms an important epoch in the political history of Germany. The result was not quite unexpected,...

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THE MORAL OF THE LAMBETH ELECTION.

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W HY is Mr. Doulton the member for Lambeth ? Against the gentleman himself we have nothing to say, be- Cause of his whole career we know absolutely nothing. Still less do we...

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THE EMILY ST. PIERRE.

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Wil not many months ago the Trent brought into the a N rbour of Southampton the news that she had been stopped on her voyage by an American ship-of-war, and two of her...

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ENGLISH INFANTICIDE.

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N O branch of human knowledge is supposed to advance more rapidly than social science, and yet it is wonderful how in- soluble the great social problems remain. Thought, and...

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THE FIRST WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION.

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T HE aspect of the huge international bazaar at Kensington, one week after its opening, is something very curious. From the hands of artists and upholsterers, the exhibition has...

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NEW MEATS.

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C OOKERY is a great art, but it gives us only new flavours, and people want a new meat. The poor have a sauce which makes all food pleasant; but the middle class would welcome a...

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THE TWO FRENCH AMBASSADORS.

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[FROM OIIR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Two of our ambassadors have had the privilege this week of engrossing the public attention. The journey of M. Mercier to Richmond, and M. de...

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REFORM AT OXFORD :—(LETTER TO THE EDITOR). SIE,—In your interesting

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article of last Saturday on the prospects of Reform at Oxford, there was, I think, one misconception, which, per- haps, you will allow me to call attention to. You speak of the...

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EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. FIRST NOTICE. THE ninety-fourth annual exhibition of the Royal Academy opened to the public on Monday last. Despite the fineness of the...

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SLEEP NOT DEATH.

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Grato m' sit sonno * * Mentre che'l danno e la vergogna dun. IN immemorial aisles, whose mellow gloom Was crimsoned with the flush of setting day, Where angels prayed above a...

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BOOKS.

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CARLYLE'S FREDERICK THE GREAT.* FIRST NOTICE. EXACTLY twenty-two years ago, in May, 1840, Thomas Carlyle de- livered before a crowded audience, comprising the galaxy of metro-...

Rink.

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.A. SECOND representation of Semiramide at Her Majesty's has led me to the conclusion that, whatever may be the special attractions of certain points in the performance, the...

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MRS. STOWE'S LAST WORKS.*

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THAT genius is elevated by unconsciousness is a dogma which it is not perhaps worth any man's while to disturb. It tends, at all events, to produce humility, and perhaps by...

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MR. HENRY TAYLOR'g . NEW DRAMA.* THE mind of every true

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poet must contain a reservoir of special power, a hoard of special experience and capacity for experience, for the interpretation of the life within or around him, which gives...

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MR. MAURICE'S HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY.*

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SECOND NOTICE. WE have said that Mr. Maurice appreciates philosophy considered as a kind of famine of the soul for some spring of infinite rest and life, and also as a social...

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POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS.* Tin last two volumes

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of Mr. Campbell's collection of Highland tales will probably a little disappoint the general reader. They have not the peculiar charm of the nursery tales which he first edited,...

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A LATIN ENGLISH DICTIONARY.*

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By the Rev. J. T. White and the Rev. J. E. Riddle. "I nova the young men of the present day," said Dr. Johnson ; "bat the dogs are not such good scholars as we were." We wonder...

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CITRRENT LITERATURE.

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THOSE who can thoroughly enjoy the manifold charms of mountainous scenery without unnecessarily risking their necks, have reason to be grateful to Mrs. Freshfield* for acting as...