14 AUGUST 1852

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The sanguine expectations of a "sun-burnt autumn" and re- dundant

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harvest have this week experienced a cheek. The wea- ther suddenly changed from bright and hot, to cold, gusty, and wet. A gale of extreme violence and extensive range has been...

The aspect of affairs in South Africa becomes more and

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more depressing. For fifty miles on either side of the frontier line be- tween the Cape colony and Caffraria, utter anarchy prevails ; the British and the allied Caffres and...

The latest arrivals from America bring no intelligence of any-

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thing done in the matter of the fisheries. The question is debated as keenly in the United States as here, but as yet there have been no overt acts. Mr. Webster's colleagues,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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"0= Queen is a true British sailor." The ballad composed in honour of William the Fourth need not go out of use yet; like the.national antheffi, it may by a simple change in the...

The conduct of the French Government towards Belgium con- tinues

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to be marked by harshness and superciliousness, not un- mixed with symptoms of fear and hesitation. The treaty of com- merce between France and Belgium, concluded in December...

In France, the " feast of eagles " is anticipated

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with curiosity if not with deep interest. Petitions calling upon the Senate to take the initiative in a movement to place the imperial crown on the brows of the President are...

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Chr Court

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Tim Queen is off to Belgium. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Roya], and the Princess Alice, embarked at Cowes, in the Royal yacht Victoria and...

311timalio.

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A meeting under the presidency of the Lord Mayor was held on Thursday, in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionhouse, for the purpose of raising subscriptions to relieve the...

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Vrnuiutto.

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Preliminary proceedings have already commenced in various counties for raising their quotas of Militia. The Lord-Lieutenants have issued addresses and delivered speeches...

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iortigu out Culuutat.

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FaAimn.-13y a decree published in the Ifoniteur on Sunday last, Croton, Thiers, Duvergier de Hauranne, Chambolle, Remusat, Lasteyrie, Laidet, and Thouret, Representatives...

IRELAND.

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The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday says that Lord Derby has given authority for the translation and publication of the whole of the famous Bt ehon Laws; and that the task has...

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Ziortilaumo.

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A special meeting of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce has been called "to take into consideration the present state of our relations with the United States of America." The Rays...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Lagging after the despatches by electric telegraph, come the fuller accounts of the preparations for the reception of Queen Victoria at Antwerp, and of her arrival...

Tomorrow will be a great day in Paris. Louis Napoleon

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is to review the National Guards in the morning, and treat the Dames de la Hallo to a grand ball in the evening. The Guards will be drawn up on each side of the Champs Elysoe...

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The ninth annual congress of the British Archreological Association will

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be held at Newark from the 16th to the 21st of August inclusive. After the usual meeting of the General Committee, the proceedings of the congress open with an evening meeting...

We hear that a Cabinet Council is to be held

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on the 17th or 18th of this month—just before the Parliamentary writs are returnable. Is it to settle the meeting of Parliament ? or to unsettle it ? Evidently, Minis- ters...

According to the report submitted to the half-yearly meeting of

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the London and North-western Railway Company yesterday, that Company offered, on the 4th instant, to amalgamate with the Great Western Com- pany; but the offer was rejected, on...

This morning a fire destroyed one house and injured another

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in Welling- ton Place, Weet India Dock Road. It is thought that two lives are lost ; one body has been found ; but at mid-day the fireman are still seeking for the other.

This morning a telegraphic despatch from Trieste announces the arrival

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of the usual India mail. No news of the missing mail had been re- ceived up to the 7th August. The dates are from Bombay of the 6th July. The Burmese made a second attempt to...

The following prisoners were yesterday placed at the bar charged

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with being concerned in the Stockport riot—George Pell, tailor ; William But- tery, green-grocer ; Mark Gleave, mechanic; Samuel Preston, steam-loom weaver ; Thomas Walker,...

Telegraphic despatches from Madrid, received at Paris on Friday, state

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that Beltran de Lys is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Miraflores. Ordonez, Governor of Madrid, is appointed Minister of the Interior. It was currently...

The Union de l' Quest publishes the following letter, addressed

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to it by IL Similien, Professor of Mathematics at the School of Arts of Angers. "In your number of the 16th ultimo, you announce from a letter which I had sent to you, that some...

In concluding his charge to the Grand Jury at Liverpool,

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Lord Chief Justice Jervis highly complimented Mr. Blundell, of Ince, because, al- though member of an ancient and distinguished Roman Catholic family, he had not attempted, as...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. It seems now to be generally admitted that the deficiency of the harvest will be considerable, and a large importation of foreign grain...

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'Of tratrts.

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The only novelty connected with the new melodrama is its produetion by the Adelphi company during their temporary sojourn at the Haymar- ket ; since generally that sojourn has...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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CONVOCATION—TO BE, OR NOT TO BE P TSB desire for the restoration of the legislative powers of Convo- cation, so loudly expressed of late years by a portion of the clergy, and...

Her Majesty's Theatre closes its doors this evening, having given

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two "farewell performances at playhouse prices." The season, as everybody knows, has been disastrous; and the same circumstances which have marred its success have also rendered...

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THE " LITTLE CLOUD " ENLARGED.

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To put the case in its briefest and most direct shape, it may be said that in the North American fishery question our Government has been technically " in the right," but has...

LATEST ARRANGEMENTS ON BEN A T,F OF THE CAFFRES.

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" H. M. MreTsrEns have made arrangements for supplying H. M. Enemies at the Cape of Good Hope with Minis Rifles of the newest pattern. " H. M. Subjects continue to supply...

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ROYAL BRITISH " REPUDIATION."

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Tim Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the case of the Baron de Bode is a record of disgrace to the Go- vernment of this country, so explicit and so...

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HINTS TOWARDS A NEW PROSPERITY FOR BRITISH RAILWAYS. Ix is

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disheartening to be continually reiterating exposures of notorious evils; and it has required a degree of courage on our part—which our readers may measure by their own...

VISITATION OF CONVENTUAL ESTABLISHMENTS. TICE result of the case of

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" Griffiths versus De rEspinasse and another" is better than the origin. The case itself lies in a nutshell, and the substantial question at issue was one of fact, not...

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ABD-EL-KADER, HIS CHAMPION, JP, I) HIS GAOLER. LORD LONDONDERRY is

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again at Louis Napoleon, to extort from him the release of Abd-el-Kader, detained in France by a violation of pledges. To us the spectacle of the worthy old gentleman per-...

THE PAPACY IN PIEDMONT.

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THE last of the Leopoldine laws are dying out in Tuscany, and Romish views are rapidly gaining ground there. One of the fore- most of a new series of laws which will help to...

THE GOLDEN VOYAGE.

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Auer - RAT:Lk, which promises us such boundless wealth,—if we duly earn it,—is putting us to some inconvenience in various ways. The Bank is parting with its silver, as the...

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Oxford, 12th August 1852.

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Sin—I am glad that Mr. Freeman has, upon competent testimony, with- drawn the charge of personal favour and party purposes which he brought against certain of the Fellows of...

THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE FELLOWSHIP.

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University College, Oxford, 9th August 1852. Sin—Mr. Freeman, in his letter of June 26, censured the Oxford Com- missioners for referring to a case in which, as he asserted by...

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE.

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London, 12th August 1852. Sin—The public cannot expect impossibilities of journalists; and no one can therefore accuse the editor of the Spectator of negligence if he omit re-...

titters to t1 attn.

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THE OBJECTS OF CONVOCATION. 10th August 1852. Sin—Will you permit me, through the medium of your journal, to put two questions to those who are advocating the restoration of...

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CUSTOMS REFORM.

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London, 17th July 1852. Sin—It being generally admitted that some alteration in the constitution of the Board of Customs is imperatively called for, I trust a few suggestions on...

RYE A WINDWARD HARBOUR OF DEFENCE.

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[The following letter has been in type fora long time. excluded by the pressure on our space during the Parliamentary session and the General Election since. The subject has not...

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BOOKS.

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NIEBITHA'S LECTURES ON ANCIENT HISTORY.. THESE Lectures on Ancient History, following the arrangement and observing the limits which Tustin has handed down in his abridgment of...

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CASEY'S TWO YEARS ON THE FARM OF UNCLE SAM. * MR.

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OssEr's volume is but a little book, and there is very little in it that is either new or informing. We all know by this time the excellence of the New York river steamers, as...

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CONSTANCE TYRRELL. * Dimautric spirit, as applied to prose fiction, means

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more than the faculty of truly conceiving and sustaining characters in action and dialogue. It extends to the power of varying the narrative with the nature of the subjects, and...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the years 1850-1851, performed by H. M. Ships Lady Franklin and Sophia, under the command of Mr. William...

BIRTHS.

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On the 6th August, at Clifton, the Hon. Mrs. Robert Daly, of a daughter. On the 6th, at Brandsby Lodge, York, the Wife of Henry Cholmeley, Esq., of a daughter. On the 6th, in...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS Sosturd. (Closing Monday. Prices.) 71seseisoy. Wars. Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 993 99% 991 983 981 soi Ditto for Account 991 991 991 983 90. 991 8 per...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, August 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Clark and Co. Anstinfriars, merchants-Clark and Co. Corfu; Clark and Co. Zante, merchants-Verity and Co Cardiff, sail-makers-...