14 FEBRUARY 1852

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Wino( Lord John Russell, as the organ of Government, brought forward.the Reform Bill in 1831, it so much surpassed the expecta- tion - of any measure to emanate from the ruling...

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Earl Grey is again before the public, by his despatches.

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The series of Grey's Works is uninterrupted, and a blue book just out attracts more than lung notice, insomuch that the Fakeer:lien affair may be said to have been superseded by...

As the preparatives for the election of M. Bonaparte's new

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" Corps Legislatif ",develop themselves, the oppressive and fraudu- lent nature of the process becomes more and more apparent. Not only is the Government to nominate a candidate...

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PRINCIPAL PIISINRIMI 3 MMI1 WEEK. Horse or Loess. Monday, Feb. 9. Denman Law Procedure Amendment BM, read asecond time. Zassellay, Feb. 111... Course of LegislatieRI...

The ruffiaulanatie who wounded the Queen of Spain, has been

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handed, stripped of his clerical character, to the arm of the penal law, and has been put to death. What may have been his motive —whether it was a speculative eye to favour...

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alttrupnlis.

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At a Court of Common Council, held on Thursday, Mr. Deputy Har- rhion presented the report of the Fleet Valley Improvement Committee en Mr. Charles Pearson's- plan for a great...

Tax Royal Family remained at Windsor till yesterday. Tuesday the

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10th was the twelfth anniversary of the wedding-day of the Queen and Prince Albert : they were serenaded in the morning by military music; and in the evening the Queen gave a...

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IRELAND.

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The election for Kinsale was expected to be at the end of this week ; Mr. John Isaac Heard to "walk over the course." There are tokens of a renewal to the Tenant League...

'Ili Vronium

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The election at Greenwich, on Tuesday, ended in favour of the Govern- ment Whig, Admiral Houston Stewart, by a larger majority than was ex- pected, over the Radical barrister,...

SCOTLAND.

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Perth election was uncontested after all. On the nomination-day, Monday, Mr. Fox Maule found that Mr. Gilpin would be there against him, but he seems to have understood...

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FRANCE.—The leading act of the Government this week has been the 'settling of the costume of the Senators and Councillors of State. The matter is thus decreed in the Honiteur-...

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The overland mail from Bombay on the 17th of January

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is antici- pated by an electric message from Trieste. "The Burmese affair has been pacifically settled." Paris letters state that President Bonaparte has intimated to the Swiss...

The Parliamentary Representation Bill is followed by two schedules. -=Schedule

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A names Birkenhead and Burnley as the new boroughs to be represented by one Member each. Schedule B contains the 67 existing boroughs to which other towns or parishes are to be...

POSTSCRIPT. SATGRDAY.

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The proceedings in Parliament last night were of secondary importance and interest. In the House of Commons, the Lord-Advocate of Scotland and the Chief Secretary for Ireland...

An official notification has been published to this effect, "that

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her Ma- jesty's Government are prepared, in certain cases, to advise her Majesty to accept the services of Volunteer Rifle Corps, provided that the proposed formation of such...

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The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr. Charles Barry, the architect. Major-General Cathcart, the new Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, embarked with his staff...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The steadiness of the French Funds, and the reported return of M. Foula and some of his late colleagues to the French Ministry, have produced...

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Finally, we have to report the healthy condition of the

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Marionettes; who have now learned to work freely on their wires, while new signs of activity are given by the changes in their repertoire. The political allu sions, which abound...

A farce brought out at the Olympic under the the

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title of Matrimonial qe. 40. is marked by no novelty of combination ; the well-known expe- dient of causing one person to be taken for another being employed ac- cording to the...

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The period of reaction has at last commenced, and the eight days just concluded have been very prolific in theatrical novelties. In the first place, there is King John at the...

Mendelssohn's Elijah was performed by the Sacred Harmonic Society on

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Friday last week, and was repeated yesternight. The principal so- prano Tart is now sung by Mrs. Endersohn, and the principal tenor by Mr. Sims Reeves. Mrs. Endersohn has been...

The debiit of Mr. Barry Sullivan, a provincial tragedian, at

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the Hay- market Theatre, is by no means devoid of interest. He is deficient in physique, and he makes no very strong appeal to the sympathies ; but his performance of Hamlet —...

Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset wrote a lively poem called Vert - vert,

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which every educated Frenchman knows almost by heart. The poem furnished a hint for a less lively vaudeville of the same name, known to Londoners through the medium of a version...

We appear to be entering on a busy musical season.

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Both the Italian houses are expected to open in the course of next month. The Philhar- monic Society has to encounter the rivalry of a " New Philharmonic So- ciety," which is to...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW REFORM BILL. Inn Median law of Finality is relaxed, annulled, and we are once more in motion, drifting out with Russell at the helm into the Sea - or Change. Of Lord...

THE BALLOT MAULED

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A NEW argument against the Ballot!—Mr. Fox Maule has the credit of the contribution. His merit would have been doubled if he had contributed a good argument; but we are not to...

" TII Q170QUE " FOR SIR IT ARRY SMITH.

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ONE error out of the many which he enumerates against Sir Harry Smith, Lord Grey admits that he may have shared—he was too urgent for a reduction of the troops ; but all the...

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATIONAL SELF-DEFENCE. Slit GEORGE GREY has pledged

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his secretarial word that "the sub- ject of sanctioning the formation of Volunteer Rifle Corps is at present under the consideration of the Government"; and as the country is...

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A NATIONAL 1Ff A IF-HOLYDAY FOR EXERCISE.

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A FRIEND who is endeavouring to organize a - Rifle Club in the - Korth of England encounters a difficulty, which the promoters of other clubs must also feel—he cannot at once...

BOOKS.

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ROEBUCK'S HISTORY OF THE wine MINISTRY OF 1830.* TEN passing of the Reform Bill will ever be a landmark in Eng- lish history. By it the power of the commercial classes was in-...

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LADY THERESA LEWIS'S LIVES OF CLARENDON'S CONTEMPORARIES. * A CLEAR judgment,

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an elegant taste, and considerable industry, stimulated by family associations to a course of historical and bio. graphical inquiry, are displayed in these biographies. The...

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COLE'S CAPE AND THE ICA.FIRS..

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Ma. COLE embarked in 1841 for New Zealand, as an intending colonist, but was wrecked at the Cape, and determined to remain there. What were his particular objects or pursuits...

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ANTONY THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY.

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To some readers there will seem more freshness in the substance of this novel than it really possesses, because its elements are drawn from a class of works, if works they can...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booms. History of the American Revolution. By George Bancroft, Correspond- ing Member of the French Institute, and of the Royal Academy of . Berlin. In three volumes. Volume...

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IturrIn3.

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On the 22d January, at Munich. the Lady of Sir John R. Milbank°, Bart., H. M. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, of a son. On the ad February. at St. Helier's,...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wan-Germs, Feb. 10.-6th Regt. of Drag. Guards.-Lieut. R. B icker staff to be Capt. by purchase, vice Polhill, who retires ; Cornet J. Stillman, from 4th Drag. Guards, to be...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Feb. 10. PART:4E12MM Dissoxven. - Dewar and Culliford, New City Chambers, insuranee* brokers-C. and G. Lambert, Limehouse, butchers-Henley and Son, Caine, wine*...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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B R I T I 8 H F 3 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 Exchequer Bills, 10....