12 APRIL 1862

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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I F Members of Parliament had no Committees to sit on what a happy life they would lead ! They have nothing to do about which anybody is likely to worry them. The Ministry have...

NOTICE.

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"Tan 'SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in Vimfor despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the -same Atflernoon through News-agents in...

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THE WEEK ABROAD

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TELNez.—The 17th of May is the second centenary of the massacre of Toulouse, which arose in this wise. Early in May, 1662, a quarrel arose between the Catholics and Protestants...

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THE WEEK AT HOME

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• MILITARY AND NAVAL.—The most important event of the week has undoubtedly been the new gun experiment at Shoeburyness. It has long been suspected that the apparent...

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

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House or LORDS, Friday, April 4.—Italian Affairs : Lord Westbury and Earl Russell—The Revised Code: The Bishop of Oxford's Motion for Papers.—Alleged Torture of Alexander...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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IN the House of Lords, Earl GRANVILLE stated' the alterations in the Revised Code : 48. a year was to be given on the average yearly attendance of each pupil ; 8e. to be given...

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

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PARIS, APRIL 11. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the March account:...

NOTICE.

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SubscripMons to the "Fantsn OF INDIA," and " OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms Per Annum,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE RESTLESSNESS IN FRANCE. I li . QUIVER in a corpse startles us more than the wildest motion made by a living man ; and we must beware of exaggerating the agitation now...

THE INQUISITORIAL RIGHTS OF THE CHURCH. Q IR W. Heathcote's

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speech on Wednesday, on the Clergy 1,..3 Relief Bill, was singularly instructive. It shows more perhaps than any recent incident—much more than the prose- cutions of Dr....

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PRUSSIAN FINANCE.

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A CHARACTERISTIC little anecdote of the King of Prussia and his late Minister of the Interior was told at the recent coronation show at Konigsberg. William I. having made his...

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MR. KENNEDY AND MS JUDGES.

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M R. Kennedy has so far challenged an expression of public opinion, and his actions have excited so much public interest, and have raised so many questions with which the public...

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THE PARTI PRETRE AT HOME.

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T HE Irish enjoy a reputation for being a warm-hearted, trusting people, whose fault, perhaps, is, that they are just a little over-quick to give their confidence, and a little...

THE CHANCES OF THE CONFEDERATES.

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T HE rapid succession of Northern victories, while they have once more excited in England the old esteem for American energy, have produced little effect on the English view of...

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THE BALANCE OF POWER IN HISTORY.

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F OR some centuries past the theory that it is important to maintain an equilibrium of power between the principal states of the world has exercised an incalculable influence on...

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UNCTUOUS SENTIMENT.

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T HERE is a curious analogy between the vulgarity of physical manners and the vulgarity of moral sentiments. Every one knows Mr. Dickens's many marvellous and truthful...

MUSCULAR HEATHENISM.

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EN a few years back the attention of all England was fixed on what sporting newspapers call the Battle of Farnborough, some weak-minded people were seized with a not...

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WHY ROMANS DETEST THE PAPACY.

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FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.] • Rome, March 20. I SIT down here in Rome to tell you, if I can, what the Papal Govern- ment really means to its people, besides mere...

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'THE FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS OF FRANCE.

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FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] 'FOREIGN affairs, rather than domestic, have engaged public curiosity throughout the past week. Shall we remain in Mexico, and if IV@ ;wain,...

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3rts.

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THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE ensuing exhibition at the Royal Academy, so far as can be ascertained from general rumour and a personal inspection of a few of the...

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BOOKS.

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VICTOR HUGO'S NEW NOVEL.* THE new novel, with which Victor Hugo is now occupying the world of letters in Paris, is a remarkable attempt to examine social pro- blems from the...

Moir.

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Thee a dozen sentries passing rip and down underneath the portico of Covent Garden Theatre, and a " block" of carriages radiating in every direction from Bow-street, announced...

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GLEIG'S LIFE OF WELLINGTON.*

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THE Life of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington, has yet to be written. It has been the cherished ambition of Mr. Gleig to write that life ; a laudable ambition, for the subject is...

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A GERMAN PEPYS.*

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THE voluminous diary of Humboldt's friend—the clever ex-colonel, ex-diplomatist, Prussian privy councillor, poet, and novelist—Varn- hagen von Ense, is the best comment and...

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GOBLIN MARKET.*

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AMONGST those—and they are not a few—of Coleridge's critical maxims which are at once so deep and so subtly expressed that they are apt almost to tyrannize over the reason of...

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T.H./, RELIGIONS BEFORE CHRIST.*

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Isl. DE PaBssmisi's work may, perhaps, be best described as an answer to Gibbon's celebrated chapters on the rise and progress of Christianity. Engaged on a magnum opus, a...

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A HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES AT HALICARNASSUS, CNIDUS, AND BRANCHID/E.* Mn.

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Navrrox's long promised and long expected work on the recent excavation at Budrum, the ancient Halicarnassus, has at length sp- e ared eared : or rather, we should say, we are...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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PourirsEss and candour equally forbid us to contradict " Clarisse" 6 when she states that her plot is loose and somewhat unconnected. We also coin- cide in her opinion that "it...