12 JUNE 1858

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Is the business before Parliament has not been in its nature trivial and of minor importance, it has been rendered so by its treatment. Ministers were last week spurred to the...

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Etitatto unit Vrortaingo in Varliamtut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE 'WEEK. Horn op Loans. Monday, June 7. Belfast Riots ; Lord Dungannon's Ques- tion—Non-Parochial Registers Bill read a third time and passed—Lord...

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311rtrupplto.

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The politicians of the City are actively engaged in resisting the London Corporation Reform Bill. In the Common Council, on Saturday, there was a smart conversation on the...

cyt Cuurt.

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THE QUEEN held a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. At the Council Sir Edward Lytton and Sir John Taylor Coleridge were sworn in, and took their Beats....

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I.RELAND.

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Through the columns of the Cork Constitution we learn that the Go- vernment offered to place Mr. John Francis Maguire in the commission of the peace, and th at Mr. Maguire...

Vronintifil.

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Lord Stanley was reelected for King's Lynn on Saturday, without opposition. As the new President of the Board of Control was not present the proceedings attracted very little...

furrign out slutial.

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Fraurf.—The Conference at Paris continues to sit at intervals. It in assumed, from the protracted character of the whole proceeding, that the Plenipotentiaries have been obliged...

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The division on the ballot always attracts some attention. This

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year, the minority as usual includes the bulk of the Liberal party and the In- dependent Irish opposition. The majority includes the names of the late Liberal leaders—Lord...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Ministers were last night triumphant in both Houses ; drawing forth much cheering by announcing a success in the foreign policy, and de- feating the Whig Opposition...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The National Securities opened on Monday at a decline upon last week of f per cent,—Consols, 951 # ex div. ; and numerous sales continued to...

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[4r Nothing seems more adverse to the English mind, than

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an adherence 'to those laws of probability that render comedy in some sort a reflection of real life, and thus distinguish it from farce. Weakness and insipidity, not...

New operas, like angels' visits, are few and far between.

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If we meet with such a thing, it is sure to be Verdi's, for his arc the only new operas that have been produced in London for these many years. We hear now and then of a new...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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" NE QUID RES-PUBLICA DETRIMENT' CAPIAT." THERE are moments in the history of nations when its destinies appear to be solemnly brought before the critical tribunal of the...

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THE PROGRESS OF INDIAN LEGISLATION.

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To examine the progress of the Indian legislation of this session, is more like reading a chapter out of the New Atlantis, or Plato's Republic, or Peter Wilkins's visit to the...

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FRANCE EQUIVOCATING.

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THE Times asks if there is anything in the present condition of France which can account for remarkable proceedings in that country ; and although the leading journal astonished...

THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY.

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BEFORE we are quit of the Indian war the thunder of a war-storm across the Atlantic already has begun to make its rumbling heard ; and our wise men have been called in to...

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REFORM AND ITS CLAUSES.

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THE new Reform Bill is a great work ; it equals in the complete. ness of its provisions and in the elevation of its spirit the bill that passed in 1832. True that none of us...

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ANOTHER WORD ON RAREYISM.

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THE continued success of the American horse-tamer has increased the confidence in his character as well as his method ; and at a time when the American republic is sounding the...

THE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN QUESTION.

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Tire decision given by the Visitors in the case of Trinity Colleg e Dublin, which we reported in our last number, has but esta- blished the necessity of ulterior proceedings....

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BOOKS.

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FORESTER'S RAMBLES IN CORSICA AND SARDINIA. * Tam real subject of this handsome and illustrated folio is a jour- ney from Bastia at the northern end of Corsica to Bonifaoio at...

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THE DEAN OF YORE. Bra — I quite agree with you in censuring the impropriety of the appoint- ment which Lord Derby has made to the Deanery of York. He might have conciliated...

The railway lines and branches remaining to be constructed in

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France Will require 1,800,000,000 francs during the next ten years. The commercial distress among the tradesmen of Paris becomes worse and worse : things have not been so bad...

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GOLOTIN'S ALEXANDER THE FIRST OF RUSSIA. * TICE generality of Ivan

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Golovin's works are less remarkable for themselves than for the nationality of the author. Tried by Eng- lish perceptions they have of course a foreign air, as well in the style...

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CAIRD'S SERMONS. *

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Tin celebrity of Mr. Caird as a preacher is no doubt owing in a de- gree to his sermon on " Religion in Common Life," delivered before the Queen, and published by her Majesty's...

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COLONEL GRAHAM'S PROGRESS OF THE ART OF WAR. * TTIr-F1 Colonel

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MacdougalPs " Campaigns of Hannibal," this Elementary History of the Progress of the Art of War deals With history only from the military point of view. No matter how important...

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fiur Art5.

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THE BRITISH INSTITUTION: OLD MASTERS. The pleasure of publicity seems to be enforcing itself upon the minds of our collectors. After furnishing forth the wondrous show at Man....

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia. With Notices of their His- tory, Antiquities, and Present Condition. By Thomas Forester, Author of " Norway in...

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PHOTOGRAPHIC HANDBOOK.*

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Asa skilful painter and a skilful photographer, Mr. Price possesses excellent qualifications for addressing the public on the processes and capabilities of photography. His...

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MEDIEVAL FAC-SIMILE.*

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An illumination without colour is almost the white of an egg without its yolk ; and that has been adjudged insipid since the time of Job. Co- lourless as it is, however, (and...

DEATHS.

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On the 30th May, Captain John Fynes Turnpenny, for many years Professor of Classics and History at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst ; in his 80th year. On the 1st June, at...

BIRTHS.

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On the 2d June, at Stoke Hamond, Bucks, the Lady Julia Bouwens, of a son. On the 2d, in Upper Montagu Street, Montagu Square, the Hon. Mrs. John Beresford, of a son. On the 3d,...

DR. WAAGEN' S ERRATA.

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We have received from Mr. Morris Moore a rather long and loud- mouthed letter on a rather small point. Dr. Waagen has claimed, in print, to have been the first to announce...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 8. Bankruptcy Annuiled.-Wmusu Bums junior, West Ham, Essex, cutler. Bankrupts.-Joan JAmresoN, Bishopsgate Street Without, sail-cloth-dealer- Primp...

MARRIAGES.

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On the 17th April, at Peshawur, H. Richmond Brownlow, Esq., Bengal Artillery, to Jane, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Blaikie, Kat., Aberdeen. On the 1st June, at St. Mary's...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Anturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes 951 96 98 96* oe 961 2191 221 shut 1001 17 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per...