13 MARCH 1852

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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ANOTIERR week of musters and preparation, by Ministers and their adversaries. Caution and covered movements are the tactics of both parties. Seldom has a new Minister been...

The new Viceroy , has reached Dublin and been installed in

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office. The citizens were disposed to receive Lord Eglinton favourably; and his entry into the Irish capital would have been auspicious, but for a riot, which at one time...

In France, the elections of the Legislative Body have:been com-

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pleted; a President appointed ; and the 29th of March fi xed for the meeting of that Assembly and the Senate. The President of the Corps Legialatif, /if:Billault, was at one...

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The Emperor of Austria has paid another flying visit to

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his Italian dominions. His reception has probably been less dis- agreeable than on the previous occasion; for he completed his tour, instead of stopping half-way and returning....

4t Zttrupolis.

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At a special Court of Common Council, held on Thursday by adjourn- ment from the preceding Thursday, a motion favourable to Mr. Charles Pearson's plan for a central railway...

court.

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Tar Queen and Prince Albert, with their young family, left Bucking- ham Palace soon after ten o'clock on Saturday morning, for their resi- dence in the Isle of Wight, and...

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Vnutintro.

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Most of the reelections of the members of the new Administration have now been got through. Mr. Herries, President of the Board of Control, was returned for Stam- ford on...

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IRELAND.

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The Earl and Countess of Eglinton arrived at Dublin on Wednesday, shortly before two o'clock. The day being beautifully fine, Lord Eglinton rode on horseback, wearing a large...

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ELECTION TALK.

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We continue our gleanings from the matter daily growing more bulky, which the journals accumulate on the movements in preparation for a general election. We present only new...

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aliortllatruut

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We have-reason, tolselieve that her Majesty will,not.take.any long ma-- rine excursion this year before July- The Royal yacht Victoria and Al- bert, it: s said" will have, at...

larngu unit Colonial.

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FRANCE.—The elections for the Corps Legislatif are completed. It is said that of the whole number, 262, not more than five are ostensibly Opposition Deputies. But this, glaring...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The two Houses of Parliament resumed. their legislative sittings last night. As was expected,. there was no statement or revelation of impor- tance on general...

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The Bosphorus steam-packet arrived at Plymouth today with the Cape

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mail. The expedition across the Kei into Kreli ' s country had fully accomplished its purpose. It returned to head-quarters at King William's Town, on the 1st of January, with a...

The Teviot steam-ship, with the Brazilian mail, arrived at Southamp-

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ton this morning. She brings intelligence of the " total defeat " of the Buenos Ayrean army on the 3d February by the combined Brazilian and Monte Videan troops. The Emperor of...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOON. There is very little to record this week in the English Stocks, and the va- riations have been quite immaterial. The firm appearance of the...

Mr. Disraeli was reelected yesterday by his " intelligent and spirited "

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constituency in Buckinghamshire ; and made an elaborate speech. From his repeated declarations that he would be transparently open—that he would " make no reserve, " so that "...

The formidable show of influences against Lord Naas in Kildare

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has driven him from the field. Viewing " the coalition of parties of the most opposite politics " against him, thirteen leading proprietors of the county advised him " not to...

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The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden

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have put forth the programme of the approaching season, which is to commence on Tuesday the 23d instant; After enumerating the thirty-six operas, com- plete in all their...

The Gowrie conspiracy, though a favourite theme with disputatious historians,

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is an unkindly subject for the tragic poet. The obscurity in which it is involved offers the seeming advantage that the author may -give his personages whatever motives he...

The scrapes that may be supposed incidental to the life

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of a modern Templar ' who relieves the severity of his legal studies by getting into financial embarrassments, have been worked into a farce by Mr. Tom Taylor and enlivened with...

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

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The lectures at the Society of Arts on the results of the Great Exhibi- tion have been so well attended, that a second series of them has been commenced. Professor Wilson...

Another actor of the minute school—with this difference from Mr.

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Phelps, that he is always minute—has made his appearance this week at the opposite end-of the town. We mean, of course, M. Frederic Lemaitre ; who on Monday last made his delyht...

tatrt5 au1 3ituoir.

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Balfe's new opera, The Sicilian Bride, produced at Drury Lane on Saturday last, was leas brilliantly successful than some of his previous works have been, though we believe that...

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letters to tit thitor.

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LORD DERBY'S "FAIR TRIAL." North Brixton, 8th March 1862. - Sm—If, by an immediate appeal to the country on the question of Free- trade, Lord Derby were precluded from having a...

RYE AS A WINDWARD DEFENCE - 14MT.!

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Sin—The elaborate statement which has recently appeared in the co- lumns of a contemporary, showing the vulnerable points of our Southern coast in case of an attempt by the...

PRINTING IN COLOURS.

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On Thursday, Mr. Leighton delivered a lecture on the process of colour- ' printing which has lately become so familiar to the artistic and so po- pular with the unartistic...

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TOPICS OF THE BAY.

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THE NEW OPPOSITION ORGANIZED. Du numerous gathering of Liberal Members at Lord John Ens- aell's house is a promising review of the Opposition forces, as to numbers: we are not...

CONTROL OF THE YORKSHIRE RESERVOIRS.

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ALTHOUGH there was no redress for the sufferers by the Holnifirth flood, it would be quite possible to give security against such dis- asters, by a measure which is demanded on...

PROGRESS OF BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT.

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SHOULD the Derby Administration be allowed its " fair trial," Parliamentary business will probably be more equally apportioned between the two Houses than it has been for some...

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THE POOR-LAW REFORM ASSOCIATION.

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" RErnonnerivg employment" is the principle on which the Poor- law Reform Association relies, as the basis on which may rest the welfare both of ratepayer and of the poor ; and...

THE BUDGET.

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IF any one asks us where we obtained the subjoined report of the speech which the great financier will have delivered on introdu- cing his budget, we must peremptorily decline...

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THE FRIEND-FOE OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE. THE Liberator, an Anti-Slavery

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journal of Boston, strings together several extracts from advertisements of various dates, to illustrate the horrors of slavery : and the incidents, though of a kind fami- liar...

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FALSE LITERATURE.

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Ir turns-out that the Shelley Letters, slightly mentioned as a new publication in our paper of the 21st February, were altogether ;forged! This forgery.is •but the accidental...

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BOOKS.

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LORD HOLLAND'S MEMOIRS OF THE liTHIGS.. TILE publication of Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences went so far to damage the traditional reputation that was attached to his name,...

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PROFESSOR NEWMAN'S REGAL ROME..

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THE conclusions of Niebuhr as to the poetical or fabulous charac- ter of much of the early history of Rome, as we observed in a notice of his Lectures four years ago,} were by...

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THE HOWITTS' LITERATURE AND ROMANCE OF NORTHERN EUROPE. * To the

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patiently studious bookworm these volumes will furnish a large amount of information as regards the • authors of Northern Europe and their works, from the Eddas and Sagas of the...

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CRAWFDRD'S MALAY GRAMMAR AND DIOTIONABY. • Tan growth of our settlements

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in the Indian Archipelago; and the extension of our trade with those regions, have- made a Malay dic- tionary and grammar indispensable to certain classes of English- men. The...

ZOOLOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES. * WELL-SELECTED reading, fully as much as

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original observation, is the characteristic of this volume. But purpose, shown in definite classification,. considerable judgment in the selection of the matter, as well as the...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Boor.B.

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Ileeort on the Mortality of Cholera itr _England,. 1848 - 49. (Registrar- G eneral's Report.) The Shrines and. Sepulchres of the Old and New frcrld : Records of Pilgrimages in....

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Nardi 9. PARTNERSHIPS Dissottrzo.—Fraser and Osborne, Union Street, Borough, brandy- rectifiers—Bennett and Elliott, Trump Street, warehousemen—T. and .1. Denham,...

NAVAL GAZETTE.

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Anura.urr, March 8.—The following promotions have taken place this day con- sequent on the death, on the 6th instant, of Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir W. A. Montagu, C.B....

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, March 12.—Royal Regt. of Horse Guards—J. D. Shafto, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Massingberd, who retires. 4th Drag. Guards—C. M'Don- nel, Gent. to be...

BIRTHS.

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On the 5th March, at Brook Vicarage, near Norwich, the Wife of the Rev. Dr. Beal, of a daughter. On the 5th, at Elm Field, Upper Clapton, Mrs. Joseph Savory, of a son. On the...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) a per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent...