12 DECEMBER 1846

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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IT is not to be denied that the prospect for Ireland has of late grown more and more appalling. There is no principle of healthy action in that country : what is meant for food...

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The Jamaica papers report a growing movement to obtain com-

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pensation from the British Parliament for the withdrawal of the protective Sugar-duties; and there is even a talk of forming a " league " for the purpose. The West Indians merit...

Some doubt has been thrown upon the original report as

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to the drift of M. Guizot's protest against the annexation of Cracow. Guizot was described as having said that that violation of the treaty released France from her obligations...

lEbt filttropotis.

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The Court of Common Council has recently been engaged in discussing with closed doors a bill relating to the qualification of freemen. In 1710, the Court of Aldermen made an...

ebt frourt.

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Snits the return from Arundel, the Queen and Prince Albert have been enjoying the retirement of Osborne House. On Sunday, they attended divine service at Whippingham Church....

Spain presents some strange incidents. There has been a Ministerial

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crisis, over in a day. The Spanish Procureur du Roi, complying with a form, asked leave of absence from official duties to look after his election as a Deputy ; he was a...

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Vrofgrtres.

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Tuesday's Gazette contained a notification by the Speaker , that in four- teen days he should issue a writ for the election of a Member in the room of Lord Worsley, now a Peer....

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IRELAND.

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The arming of the peasantry has at length attracted the notice of the Government; and a circular, dated the 3d instant, has been addressed by Mr. Labouchere to the Magistrates...

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gortign antb (colonial.

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Sreine—A Ministerial crisis in the Spanish capital began and WAS over in twenty-four hours. Sefior Pacheco, Fiscal to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, eader of the...

SCOTLAND.

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At Renfrew, on Wednesday, Colonel Mure was elected Member for the Shire, in the room of the late Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart. The Colonel had formerly been an unsuccessful...

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IftisctIlantous.

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We mentioned recently that the health of Prince Metternich was de- Slicing, and that he was anxiously watched by his friends. On the author- ity of a letter "from the Danube,"...

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THE TEA-TRADE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Mincing Lane, 9th December 1846. Sea—I have read with great attention and corresponding interest a temperate clear and forcible article in the...

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Last night's Gazette contains the Speaker's notice preparatory to the

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issue of a writ, in fourteen days, for the election of a Member for East Worcestershire, in the room of the late Mr. Barneby, deceased. It, is re- ported that Mr. W. E....

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Our private correspondence enables us to state the definitive arrangement respecting the incorporation of Cracow with Austria. We mentioned last week, that the...

The most remarkable thing in the Paris pipes of Thursday

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is a state- ment in the Presse. About the year 1843, the King of the Netherlands wrote a friendly letter to the Emperor of Japan, to induce him to depart from the exclusive...

'Mr. °Megan, the barrister, one of the gentlemen nominated by

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O'Ctamell to negotiate betiveen the leaders of Old and Young Ireland, has written a letter to the Agitator, exhibiting the strongest possible desire to avoid the intended...

TO COR.RESI'ONDENTS.

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We have received several communications concerning Taxation, which we are obliged to postpone for want of space. The able letter on the general subject is in type, but must...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EEC/IA/COL ft/DAT ASTEHNOOK. The books of the Three per Cent Consols closed yesterday, to reopen on the 15th January. Private transfer will be permitted on the 6th of...

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Malfe's new opera, The Bondman, was produced at Drury Lane

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last night. We understand it was got up in great haste; Mr. Bunn having found that he was out in his calculation of the probable run of Madame Bishop and Loretta; and the...

THE THEATRES.

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The Bourgeois Gentilhoninur of Moliere, however excellently acted, is after all, as we play it, better suited to the closet than to a London stage. The joke of the man talking...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE IRISH CONFISCATION. Tan present state of Ireland stultifies the grand argument against a poor-law. It is said that Ireland is too poor for a poor-law ; that it would eat up...

In the present dearth of English histrionic talent, we may

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hail the ap- pettrance of a Miss Reynolds, who has made her deb& at the Haymarket Theatre in the little piece of Perfection. She has a nice lady-like air, a clear and pleasing...

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ABOLITION OF GRAND JURIES.

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A DEAD set is made at grand juries, as useless lumber; and there is this peculiarity in the attack, that those bodies, in manycases i at least, are anxious for their own...

THE VOCATION AND THE HOUR FOR POLAND.

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IN spite of many things untoward in the aspect of affairs, there are grounds for hope—as the stars shine brighter in the darkest nights. - France has declared that the treaty...

MINISTERS AND THEIR JOURNALS.

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NOTHING annoys a young gentleman accused of bonnesfrrtunes more than to accept his disclaimers. The Globe shows displea- sure at the construction which we put upon its disavowal...

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THE IRISH LAND QUESTION.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 28th November 1846. Sin—Amofig the endless speculations to which the distress in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland has naturally given...

THE SANATORY ENTERPRISE: LAND IN SIGHT. A WRITER in the

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Daily News makes some not unfriendly ob- jections to our observations last week on "social cant,"—to which, by the by, he gives a more specific application than we did, in...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Lucretia, or the Children of Night By the Author of "Menai," Eme.. &c. In three volumes Saunders ar.d 011sg. TuAvias, Travels In Lyda, Milyas, and the Cibyratts, in company with...

DANGER OF THE NATIONAL PICTURES.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Brighton, 9th December 1846. Sut—I have read with great pleasure the sensible remarks that have appeared in the Spectator on the subject of...

The Wildervpin tribute-fund now amounts to 1,3001.; of which Man-

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the/4er has contributed upwards of 4001. The sum of 2,0001. has been Lied upon as necessary to accomplish the twofold object of placing Mr. Wilderspin in circumstances of ease...

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TRAVELS IN LTCIA.

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WHEN the Beacon surveying-ship visited the coast of Lycia in 1842, to' bring away from Xanthus some of the monuments discovered by Sir Charles Fellows in his tours of...

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SHAHAMAT ALI'S SIKHS AND AFGHANS.

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WE certainly live In an imitative age. No sooner has one person bit npon a plan for acquiring customers or attention than followers start up in every direction; and unless the...

CHARACTERISTICS OF MEN OF GENIUS.

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THESE two volumes consist of articles selected from the North Ameri- can Review, and the Dial, a now defunct quarterly magazine with which Emerson was connected. The papers, as...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Bonne. Memoirs of the We and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, If.G., Vice- Chamberlain and Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth. Including his Correspondence with the Queen and...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wes-orrice, Dec. 8.-14th Li g ht Drags.—Ser g t.-Mejor E. Bradbury, from the bit Brag. Guards, to be Cornet, without purchase. 22d Foot—Lieut. H. A. M. Deane, from the 63d...

BIRTHS.

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. Op the 4th December, at the Rectory House, Little Yeldham, Essex, the Wife of the Rev. J. Gaselee, of a dau g hter. On the 4th, the Wife of Russell Martyn Piccard, Es q ., of...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, Dec. 8.

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PARTNEESHirs DISSOLVED. Brid g e and linden. Dunnockshaw, Lancashire, cotton-spinners—Hardson meld Ots. Barnsley, linen-manufacturers—Sanderson and Hyde, King Street,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. Prices.) Tuesday. Wednes. &Word. (CIOSIng Monday S per Cent Consols 959 951 -- 959 Ditto for Account. 95i 951 951 951 3 per Cents Reduced alb 911 941 911...