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The events of the week in Ireland are comparatively unimpor:
The Spectatortant. Mr. Dalton Williams, indicted as a co-proprietor of the Tri- bune and a participator in its treasonable sentiments, has been ac- quitted ; and Conciliation Hall is to be...
France has her Constitution : it has been definitively voted
The Spectatoras a whole, and published in the Moniteur ; and the country has what security it can derive from that curious production, which blends the character of a sentimental essay on...
Frederick William and his "beloved Berliners" have been en- gaged
The Spectatorin a controversy of ugly aspect. The King had endea- voured to end a Ministerial crisis by appointing to the head of the Government the Tory Count of Brandenburg. Berlin, which...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorVIENNA is once more in the hands of the Emperor's troops ; but not without harder fighting than was to be expected from the citizens of the gay city, or harsher measures than...
The tribulation of Austria revives the spirit of revolt in
The SpectatorLom- bardy; and while Mazzini, at the head of a guerilla force, is issu- ing proclamations in the mountain districts of the Brianza, the tumultuary movement spreads to other...
Four movements are going on in the West Indies, indepen;
The Spectatordently of the perpetual motion in Hayti. In our own Colonies, the retaliatory agitation for reduction of official establishments and expenses does not appear to flag : Demerara,...
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Ste jilletropolis.
The SpectatorSir James Duke was installed as Lord Mayor of London on Thursday, with the usual pageantry and feasting. The procession from Guildhall to Blackfriars Bridge, and the voyage in...
Zbe °UM TEE Queen of the Belgians left Claremont for
The Spectatorthe Continent on Saturday; and made the voyage from Dover to Ostend in safety, though not without some discomfort and delay, from a rough passage. Her Majesty arrived at...
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'fit Vrobiretes.
The SpectatorThere is likelihood of a contest over the vacant seat for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Honourable Charles W. Wentworth-Fitzwilliam lately published an address to the...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorDr. Mant, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, died on the 2d instant, after a very short illness, at his residence near Belfast. Dr. Mant was a native of Southampton. He was...
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/min anb (Solonfal.
The SpectatorFasces.—The Assembly on Saturday completed the revision of the project of the Constitution, and voted its ensemble by a majority of 739 against 30. M. Dufaure, Minister of the...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe Scotch municipal elections have passed off with as little general in- terest as the English, except in the capital. Edinburgh rather inclines to the literary in its...
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Miscellaneous.
The SpectatorWe last week mentioned Prince Albert's application to the Court of Chancery for protection of the Queen and himself against an artistic pi- racy. The application was made during...
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At a Cornwall tenantry court, last Tuesday, it was stated
The Spectatorthat Pane° Al- bert, as Chancellor of the Dutchy, had set to work a mine in St. Ann's parish. It did not clearly appear which mine had been taken in hand by the Prince, but it...
The Great Western and South-western Railway Companies have fol- lowed
The Spectatorthe example of the North-western, and published minute accounts of their financial position. The Great Western Company sums up its expenditure to the 30th Jane 1848, at...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. The German papers contain scarcely any news from Vienna. A cor- respondent of the Kanische Zeidung, in a letter dated Vienna the 4th in- stant, gives a very gloomy...
General Bugeand has announced, that " a more mature appreciation
The Spectatorof the state of public mind, and recent events," induce him to withdraw as a candidate for the National Presidency. His letter " to my friends and supporters " concludes...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 2d May, at Taranaki Parsonage, New Zealand, the Wife of the Rev. Henry Oovett, of a daughter. On the 31st October, at Salisbury, Lady Roper, of a daughter. On the 4th...
The Clonmel correspondent of the Times, writing on the 9th
The Spectatorinstant, re- ports that the place was in a great ferment on the previous night, from rumours that an attempt to rescue Mr. O'Brien was about to be made. At midnight all the...
THE ARMY.
The SpectatorWAIPOPPICE, Nov. 10.-1st Begt. of Life Guards—Lieut. W. B. Borne, from half- pay 15th Light Drags. to be Cornet and Sub-Lient. vice Dodwell, deceased ; St. G. Caulfield, Gent....
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THE JESUITS.
The SpectatorTO 'ME EDITOR OF TILE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 7th November 1848. Sin—I am much pleased with your sensible critique on the lying work of the Abbate Leone, in this last week's...
Another Norma has appeared; Mademoiselle Nissen, who performed the part
The Spectatorat Covent Garden on Tuesday. This lady is much superior to Made- moiselle de Roissi, the Norma of the Princess's, whose debut we noticed last week; but she is a very inadequate...
THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorAuber's last opera, Haydee, has been produced in an English dress at Covent Garden. It originally appeared at the Opera Comique, where it has had considerable success; and it...
A correspondent, whose familiarity with Continental affairs inclines his sympathies
The Spectatortowards the Poles, puts the case of the refugees still among us so well, that we cannot do better than give his own words. Although we have felt bound to dissent from the...
The only event in the non-musical drama is the appearance
The Spectatorof Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, as permanent members (not " stars") of the Haymar - ket company. They came out in The Wife's Secret, which ran nearly the whole of last season....
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOON. The continued fall in the French Funds during the first days of the week kept our own Stocks down, and excited the hopes of the speculators....
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"SABBATH IMPIETIES."
The SpectatorTO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sue—Your correspondent " J. S. H.," who puts himself forward in defence of the Scotch Central Railway Company, for their regulations in...
THE SATYR AND THE TRAVELLER AGAIN.
The SpectatorIT is scarcely possible that any of our unbiassed readers can have perused our recent notices of Irish politics,—for instance, our paper on "The Mistake of the Irish...
TOPICS OF THE D
The SpectatorPEACE. A NATURAL alarm is felt by peaceful politicians at iliet ditlithr that Peace runs of being made unpopular and contemmed by be- coming a cant—the fashion of a season or...
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CHARITY AT THE POLICE-OFFICES.
The SpectatorHOItAMJEE FRAMJEE, a native of Bombay, should be a scion of that illustrious race which gave its name to Persia, supplied the authors of Arabian Nights with the blackest...
AMALGAMATION OF THE THREE GREAT RAILWAYS.
The SpectatorAs in a flood from the mountains, the trickling streams unite now at this point now at that, until the branching waters finally join in a silver lace over the whole plain, so...
THE CHOLERA CONTROVERSIES.
The SpectatorAs we anticipated, there is a host of rival recommendations on the subject of the cholera; many by comparatively obscure prac- titioners, not a few by men of standing, and some...
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ART IN THE PALACE.
The SpectatorPERHAPS the one thing that did George the Fourth most harm in general estimation, was the report that he made a regular busi- ness of consulting with his tailor on minute...
THE MALTHUSIAN PRINCIPLE.
The SpectatorOr= upon a time, a Mr. Malthus wrote a very ingenious book on Population, the ostensible object of which was to show that people ought not to enter into matrimony, or into any...
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INFAMOUS ATTACK ON THE MANAGERS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
The SpectatorA CORRESPONDENT of the Times, one " Civis," complains that his feelings were "much outraged" on Tuesday by what he wit- nessed in the Vernon cellars of the National Gallery- "...
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM FRANCE.
The SpectatorParis, November 9. On Saturday last, a very rainy and stormy day, Paris was suddenly startled with the sound of cannon. Now, the very first idea of Parisians when they hear...
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorDretowsry, Letters of William III. and Lords XIV. and of their Ministers ; illustrative of the Do- mestic and Foreign Politics of England from the Peace of Eyswick to the...
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FORTY DAYS IF THE DESERT.
The SpectatorA DESCRIPTION of Cairo, a visit to the Pyramids, a leisurely journey to Mount Sinai, and a rapid run to Petra to avoid the extortion of the Arabs, do not promise much of...
HELEN CHARTER'S.
The SpectatorTHERE are in this country persons highly "respectable" in station and conduct but somewhat narrow in views and experience; fully impressed with the strictest ideas of propriety,...
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POEMS BY CIIRREE, ELLIS ; AND ACTON BELL.
The SpectatorTo those who think the subject worth attention, this volume will furnish data for examining the resemblances that have been observed and the dif- ferences detected in the prose...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBOOKS. The Nature and Ofre of the State. By Andrew Coventry Dick. The Poetry of Science, or Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature. By Robert Hunt, Author of " Researches...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, November 7. PANTNESAHIPS DISSOLVED. W. and E. C. Carne, Falmouth-James and Wolrige, St. Mary-at-Hill, Customhouse- agents-Overton and Wilson, Hull,...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorFOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Oftleial Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian Belgian Ditto b i p. Ct. — Massachusetts (Sterling)...6 p Ct. Brazilian 4 7I1...