16 SEPTEMBER 1854

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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IMPATIENT as the public may be to learn the total destruction of Sebastopol, and the complete attainment of all our objects by the "glorious victory," we really shall have to...

Not long since, we had reports in London of some

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formidable Anti-British movement on the r aid of the American Government, in Greytown the capital of the small empire of Mosquitia ; but, unappa ll ed b y these alarming...

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'br t out PRINCE ALBERT returned to Osborne from Boulogne on

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Saturday morn- ing. The Queen went out to sea in the Fairy to meet him, and they proceeded together to East Cowes. Here the King of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto came on board...

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A deputation from All Saints, Poplar, waited upon Sir Benjamin Hall on Wednesday, to present certain resolutions respecting the defective state of the drainage in that district,...

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The Liverpool and Manchester Agricultural Society held their annual show, at .Altrincham, on the 8th instant ; and a very good show it was. At the banquet in the evening, over...

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IRELAND.

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The Irish Representative Prelates in the next session of Parliament will be the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Meath, Kilaloe, and Kilmore. The Irish Chancery Court...

SCOTLAND.

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Queen Victoria arrived in her Scottish capital at half-past six on Thurs- day evening. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, crowds were congregated in the Park...

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,furrigu unit Colnuial.

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FRANCE.—The Emperor is to leave Boulogne today for Paris ; and to depart from Paris on Monday, for Biarritz, to escort the Empress thence to Paris via Bordeasx,—inaugurating by...

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TainrIlaurnno.

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The Church and State Gazette has published a correspondence between the Reverend William Brock, of Bishop's Waltham in the diocese of Win- chester, and the Bishop of Oxford. Mr....

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Gazette of last night contained the following announcement, under the head of "Thanksgiving for the Harvest." "At the Court at Buckingham Palace" the 13th day of...

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland sailed from Kingstown on Thursday evening,

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in the Prince Arthur, for England. It is stated that he will not return to Dublin until the beginning of November. The election for King's Lynn, to fill the vacancy' caused by...

Cheerful news from the East is furnished by the telegraphic

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wire : how far it may be entirely relied on it is impossible to say. Cheerful news from the East is furnished by the telegraphic wire : how far it may be entirely relied on it...

A telegraphic despatch from Trieste, dated September 14, announces the

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arrival there of the Austria from Alexandria, bearing a telegraphic summary of the Indian mail. "Alexandria, Sept. 9.—The India mail leaves this place today, with ad- vices...

THE NAVY.

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ADMIRALTY, Sept. 15.—The following promotions, dated the 11th instant, have this day taken place, consequent on the death, on the 10th instant, of Ad- miral of the Blue John...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANOZ, FRIDAY AFTERNOON: An increased demand for money this week has rendered an early reduction in the Bank rate of discount less probable ; which, coupled with an...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW PHASE OF TICE WAR. BY the receipt of the documents relating to the last negotiations between Russia and the German Powers, we arrive at a clear apprehension that we are...

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The activity of the Haymarket Theatre has received a violent check from the sudden and lamented death of Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Setting aside all other considerations, we may say,...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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The opening of the Italian Opera is fixed for the 3d of October, and by the present arrangements the season is to last no longer than the end of March. The prime donne are to be...

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PRITATEERING REFORM.

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Tam question of Privateering is placed in a new light by a conver- sation which took place between Lord Clarendon and Mr. Buchanan the American Minister on the 16th of last...

"AN OFFICER AND I GENTLEMAN."

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CrversAies have not failed to be struck with the results hitherto attendant on the abolition of duelling in the Army, and the abuses of that practice:: its gross absurdity in...

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OFFICIAL EXPERIMENTS ON RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. AT last, one amongst the

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concurring causes of the accident at the Croydon station has been identified. Captain Tyler ' an Inspector under the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, super- intended...

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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IT is a question how far the bashfulness which is one of the most prevalent faults of the English people will prevent English farmers from accepting Mr. Neches offer. Mr. Meohi...

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LIFE OF THE LABOURING CLASSES: INSURANCE. THE tables prepared by

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Mr. Finlaison, the actuary of the National Debt Office, on the subject of Sickness and Mortality among Friendly Societies, suggest some very important reflections re- specting...

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IRON SHIPS OF WAR. Tunbridge if - W.9,11th September. Sin—Will you allow me to point out what I think is a misapprehension on the part of your correspondent " Cerberus " with...

THE PLAGUES OF OIIR INTERNATIONAL CITY. 1 Adam Street, Adelphi,11th

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September 1854. Sin—The reaper Death is busy with his sickle gathering in his harvest, not from the gardens and corn-fields, but from the foul dens of earth. He is the practical...

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BOOKS.

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TRANSACTIONS, 1570-1660.* THESE volumes may be likened to a storehouse whence raw ma. terials are drawn, which the artist subsequently fashions into...

HINTS FOR THE MEDICAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

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Sin—In your paper of the 9th instant, you gave forth to the public a list of eminent men, composing a Medical Council of the Board of Health ; and you publish at the same time a...

COLONIAL POLICY.

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ifingweston, 12th September 1854. SIR—I have been waiting to Bee whether any one would notice the suggestion made by C. B. A., in your paper of August 19, that a Central...

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BUNSEN. * To review the seven volumes whose titles are printed

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below, on the ordinary scale and in the usual method, would be simply im- possible, because instead of one work, or even three as the title- pages would indicate, we should have...

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MALONE'S THEEE YEARS IN THE AIISTRA.LIAN COLONIES. *

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Arms serving as " paymaster " [purser?] to the Stromboli during the Irish famine, Mr. Malone was appointed to the FantOme, going to the Australian and New 2ealand station. There...

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TWO HOVELS.* THE scene of Mathew Paxton is chiefly laid

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among the Northum- brian borders ; and the object of the author is to paint the charao- ter, manners, and religious feelings of that primitive district, as well as to describe...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booms. The Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Crimea : comprising Travels in Russia, a Voyage down the Volga to Astrachan, and a Tour through Crim Tartary. By Charles Henry Scott....

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THE RENAISSANCE AND ITALIAN COURTS OP THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Art had been Gothic all over Europe for nearly two centuries, when Italy, one of the last to adopt the principle in...

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NEW YORK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. A special report by Professor Wilson, one of the Commissioners ap- pointed to attend the Industrial Exhibition at New York, has recently...

BIRTHS.

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On the 13th August, at Lavignone, near Genoa, the Wife of the Rev. A. B. Stret. tell, English Chaplain at Genoa, of a daughter. On the 6th September, at Abbott's Moss, Cheshire,...

MILITARY GAZETTE, WAR-OFFICE, Sept. 12.—Staff—Col. W. F. Forster, half-pay unattached,

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to be Deputy Adjutant-Gen. in Ireland, vice Eden, promoted to be Major-Gen. Recruiting Districts—Col. T. E. Kelly, from the Provisional Battalion at Chatham, to be Inspecting...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Salmi Monday. Tuesday. ranee Thurs. spec Cent Console Ditto for Account 93 :1581 951 951 95, 951 1 4 991 3 per Cents Reduced shut shut 31...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, Tuesday, September 12.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Swift and Dezille, London, timber-dealers-B. and W. Ransom, Southampton, gardeners-Harding and Butler, Gresham Street, accountants -Maberley and Cruso,...