12 NOVEMBER 1859

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The London Gazette has published the official correspondence declaring the

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position of this country as between Spain and Por- tugal. The publication has been very useful in correcting pre- vious misconceptions,—by which indeed our own readers have not...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Reform Bill is announced. by the Home Secretary as one of the earliest measures of the session. We have not yet any hints as to the provisions of the Bill. There is one...

King Victor Emmanuel has replied to the epistle of the

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Em- peror Napoleon, and has done so, we have no doubt, in terms worthy of his own position and of his illustrious correspondent. Many versions of the reply have been published,...

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The confusion in the ecclesiastical world has not been restored

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to order. We do not refer to the continued agitation of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, but to the movements in England and in our own Establishment. The endeavour made by the...

THE MORTARA CASE.

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The deputation to Lord John Russell touching the abduction of the boy Mortara, had an interview with the Foreign Secretary on Monday. The leader of the deputation was Sir...

MR. BRIGHT'S POLICY EXPOUNDED BY HIMSELF.

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Unable to attend the monthly meeting of the Birmingham Landlords Association, Mr. John Bright set forth his views in a letter. The Association is opposed to the income-tax, and...

More gales, and more wrecks ! but, unquestionably, the stern

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experiences of this winter will bear fruit in future safety. Ad- miral Fitzroy has announced, for the satisfaction of the public; that special information on the character of...

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THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

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From one end to the other the country rings with the proceedings of volunteer corps. The movement makes decided and steady progress. In London large subscriptions have been...

LORD ELLENBOROUGH ON THE ITALIAN QUEST ION.

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The Earl of Ellenborongh has forwarded to the Times the following letter which he has addressed to Lord Brougham. " Southern, Delabere, Nov. 5. " My dear Brougham—I propose to...

SPAIN, MOROCCO, AND ENGLAND.

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The Gazette of Tuesday contained copies of a correspondence on the intentions of Spain in mating war on Morocco between Lord John Russell and Mr. Buchanan, our Minister at...

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Wednesday was Lord Mayor's Day, and it was kept with a due ob- servance of ceremony. The "procession" to the Court of Exchequer had few of the characteristics of the old...

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THE chief incidents recorded by the Court Newsman are the arrival of the Prince and Princess Frederick William at Windsor Castle, and the celebration of the birthday of the...

THE LATE GALES.

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The gales have continued to be very destructive although no other wreck of the magnitude of that in Moelfra bay has been recorded. " The loss of North country vessels is likely...

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puniutial.

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A meeting was held in the Peel Institute at Accrington on Saturday to distribute the prizes awarded by the Council of the East Lancashire Union to successful competitors for...

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IRELAND.

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The Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese of Dublin met on the 3d, Dr. Paul Cullen in the chair, to make a demonstration on behalf of the Pope. The speech-making on the occasion...

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STRUM—The Imperial Court is at CompiOgne, where visitors go in relays. The Emperor was not 'present at the first stag hunt, but the Empress was there attired in " a charming...

SCOTLAND.

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Party politics run high in the Town Council of Edinburgh. There is a dominant party, which naturally domineers ; and as it is mysteriously mixed up with the support of the...

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The Government has issued an order forming "a Coast Brigade of Artillery" to be distributed in the forts, batteries, and towers of the United Kingdom. The appointments to this...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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" PARIS, Thursday Evening. "The public yearns for a Congress, but, if my information is correct, the Congress is not so near at hand as is generally imagined ; the Cabinet has...

The _Lyttelton Times of August 13 reports two interesting facts.

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The merchants of the place had held a meeting and had established a Cham- ber of Commerce. The first synod of the diocese was opened on the 11th of August. It is also stated...

The last number of the Overland Friend of China appeared

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on the 20th of September. Its editor and proprietor, Mr. Tarrant, had been sentenced to one year's imprisonment fora gross libel on Acting-Governor Caine. The effect of the...

Intelligence from Vienna tells us that the Government is actually

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en- gaged in constructing a Senate out of the old Council of the Empire. The new invention is to control the administration of the finances. It is further stated that the Jews...

A telegram from Turin, dated Thursday, states that King Victor

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Emmanuel, in consequence of a very urgent representation received from the French Government, has refused to grant permission to the ' Prince de Carignan to accept the Regency...

The report circulated today [Nov. 11] by a very well-informed

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contem- porary, that the case of Smethurst has been disposed of, and that he will receive a free pardon, is not correct. No free pardon has been granted, and the case has not...

The Court of Exchequer yesterday granted a rule for a

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new trial in the case of Swynfen versus Chelmsford. The Lord Chief Baron said the Court were of opinion that there ought to be a rule to show cause on the question, as to what...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FR/DAY AFTERNOON. The Discount Market has been active all the week at higher rates ; it was expected in some quarters that an advance in the present Bank...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE CONTINENTAL SITUATION. FROM the altered aspect of affairs on the Continent, it might be imagined that the position of several Governments has changed from what it was ; and...

DOCKYARD ECONOMY.

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CAPTAIN Sin ADOLPIIIII3 SLADE, in a spirited pamphlet,* just published, calls attention to the causes of the decay of navies in maritime states, and finds abundant reason to...

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TAXATION STORM GATHERING IN THE NORTH. WHEN Mr. Bright is

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asked whether he will vote against the re- imposition of " the hateful and intolerable Income-tax," he answers that the House of Commons is a very bad House of Com- mons ; that...

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LABOUR, ITS INTELLIGENCE AND GUILDS.

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THE working classes must rely on themselves for their rescue from present embarrassments, and for their ultimate elevation. We do not say it in cold reproof to them,—the very...

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IRELAND AND THE POPE.

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Two remarkable facts go hand-in-hand in the sister country. Dr. Paul Cullen, the leader of the ultramontane party, supported by those bishops and priests who consent to wear the...

THE DISORDER IN THE CHURCH.

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IF " the recording Angel" is moved by the feelings which are sometimes supposed to influence him at his task, he must view with a sad amusement the various aspects in which...

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MECHI ON AGRICULTURAL EMBEZZLEMENT.

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Mn. MECHI bravely performs a public duty , in forcing attention to a subject which is allowed to drop into neglect, not only because it is held to be " indelicate " by the...

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" BOAT PLATES."

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Tu statement of facts which we made last week in the paper entitled " The Mistress of the Storm" has attracted a practical attention among some of our readers, and we have had...

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A new drama, from the pen of Mr. Watts Phillips, which was produced on Thursday last, brings the New Adelphi Theatre into a prominence which has not belonged to it since the...

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Miss Louisa Fyne, whose performance of Dinorah six times a week, ever since the opening of the Covent Garden English Opera, would have broken down a singer of less robust health...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 2d of November, at Milliken, Renfrewshire, Lady Milliken Napier, of a daughter. On the 3d, at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, the Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, of a son. On...

[For Booms and ARTS see the accompanying Supplement.]

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 8. Bamirupt.s.—Jemn Gem', Westminster Bridge

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Road, grocer—Rosa= Mm- Bean, an -JAMES Izawsixrs Warm, CheapsIde, and MARTIN Jzusa and Co., Paris, merchants. Scotch Sequestrations.—Linro, Glasgow, watchmaker—Waimixesr,...

PRICES CURRENT.

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(Last Official Quotation RAILWAYS- Bristoland Exeter Caledonian Chesterand Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Glasgow and South-Western Great Northern Great...

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London: Printed by JosErut cf....I-rex, of 265, Strand, in the

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County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JOSEPH CLAYTON, 17, Bouveric Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London ; and Published by the aforesaid....

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BOOKS.

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BLAISE PASCAL. * BLAISE PASCAL was one of those rare men to whom no one will re- fuse the often-misapplied title of genius ; for an inborn original faculty, a constitutional...

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NOVEMBER 12, 1859.

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TEOLLOPE'S WEST INDIES AND TUE SPANISH 3IALN. 1 THE name of

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Mr. Anthony Trollope on the title-page of a book of travels is a pretty sure token of good entertainment within for all sorts of readers whose appetites are healthy. Those who...

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THE GREAT TRIBULATION. * " THE learned .,Fnlists, we are told

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by a celebrated theologian of the last century, maintain the original cause of all things to be wind, from which principle this whole universe was at first pro- duced. and into...

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REDDING'S MEMOIRS OF CAMPBELL. * Mn. REDDING has collected into two

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volumes, with some addi- tions as he intimates in his preface, the reminiscences of Thomas Campbell, which he published in the New Monthly Magazine not long after the poet's...

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NEW NOVELS. * WE entreat our friends to seize the earliest

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opportunity of making the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Asheton. The work which relates the history of their first ten years of wedded life cannot fail to be popular, but quickly...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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On Thursday, the centenary anniversary of Schiller's birthday, Messrs. Longman and Co. paid their appropriate tribute towards the celebration of the poet's memory, by issuing...

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rittrorg eltgaings.

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THE MenrroemAreas.n.—None can gainsay the wondrous beauty of the Mediterranean, nor, though hues equally lovely of their kind dye the bil- lows of more northern latitudes, the...

LITERARY NEWS.

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Besides the long lists of forthcoming books enumerated in preceding numbers of the Spectator, there are still promises of more publications. Thus Mr. Bentley announce; in...

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TURNER'S PATENT TENTS.

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Without good tents, an army is soon decimated, or worse. The pe- rusal of the disastrous intelligence from the seat of war in the East, show- ing the state of the army during...

NEW PIECE OF ORDNANCE.

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We have been requested by Mr. Hobbs, whose new piece of ordnance we mentioned in the Spectator of September the 10th, to examine some further improvements which he has made in...

fin Arts.

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PRIZE EXHIBITION OF THE GLASGOW ART UNION. The Art Union of Scotland's commercial centre is unquestionably doing good work : it is providing the means for disseminating the...

WEST END EXHIBITION.

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Among the exhibitions of the off season is a new competitor, in an as- pect of undisguised picture-dealing—Mr. Wallis's "West End Exhibi- tion of High-Class Modern Paintings,"...