17 JULY 1852

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The Indian mail brings - intelligence that our troops in . Burnaah have

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taken Bassein by storm.' ..The Bassein river, on which this tom' is situated,, is the - most Westerly of the branches of the IraWaddy_ which form, the delta land of Pegu i as...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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GrAngrorrn's victory at Oxford, over a powerful and un- scrupulous - combination, organized at leisure, strong at head- quarters, and ramifying into all parts of the coantry 7...

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The United States are now mourning the death of Henry

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Clay. In Maddison expired the last American statesman of the revolu- tionary era. The departure of Calhoun and Clay have left Web- ster almost the only survivor of the...

ENGLAND,

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Bmixsuraz. Mr. Pusey took leave of his old constituents in the follow- ing address to the electors of Berkshire, which appeared in the papers of Wednesday. " Gentlemen—I am...

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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MEMBERS RETURNED. [Thsiletters x and zr heading the columns of figures in the following list indicate " terialist " and " Non-Ministerialist" respectively—the only simple...

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At a Court of Aldermen, on Monday, Mr. Hulbert sent in a protest against his nomination to serve as Sherif on the ground that he had been erroneously described as of the...

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Mr. G. M. Murray, the High Sheriff of Bucks, persists in obtruding - ' his Roman Catholic chaplain on the Protestant Judges at the Assizes: At five o'clock on Tuesday evening,...

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The Royal Family remains at Osborne, enjoying almost daily marine excursions in the Fairy yacht. The Duchess of Kent joined the family circle on Monday. The Prince of Salerno,...

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FRANCE.—It is stated that the Government has determined that the oath of fidelity to the Constitution which is imposed on all public func- tionaries shall not be required of the...

SCOTLAND.

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The election of sixteen Peers to represent the Scottish nobles in the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain took place, in the picture-gallery of Holyrood Palace at Edinburgh, on...

IRELAND.

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The important news from Ireland solely concerns the elections, and is therefore found in its principal details under that special division of our news columns. The Government...

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It was lately stated in the Builder that the eminent

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Roman Catholic ar- chitect, Mr. Pugin, had lost his reason, been confined in a lunatic asylum, and ultimately from his poverty removed to a public hospital. Mr. Pugin's...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SA.STRDAY. The rival progress of the two great divisions of Parliament is indicated in our second page : but we have to repeat the qualification which we made last week. The...

Two additional troops of the Second Regiment of Dragoons arrived

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in Belfast from England, on Thursday. The town was then perfectly quiet ; but it was reported that "two persons were shot" on the previous night. A large number of the persons...

At the Armagh Assizes, on Wednesday, Francis Berry was convicted

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of participating in the attack on Mr. Chambre, in January last, and was sen- tenced to death.

3111oullautuno.

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It is stated that one eminent Queen's counsel has already received twenty-five retainers on petitions against election returns, for undue practices. The election at Liverpool is...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTIRNOON. Notwithstanding some large purchases of Three-and-a-quarter per Cents, the prices of the English Funds have not been supported. Consols were...

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THE CHRISTIA.N SOCIALISTS. .1ker8ky, 5th July 1852. &a—While I thank your correspondent "I Constant Reader" for the zeal with which he has defended the Christian. Socialists,"...

Accident and the natural order of thitga have combined to

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render the non-lyrical portion of the theatrical world remarkably tranquil this week. Mrs. Keeley sprained her ankle by a fall daring the rehearsal of Jack Sheppard at the...

NEGLECTED ELEMENTS OF THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

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SIR — As the attention of your readers has been recently called to the question of general education, not only by the policy of the Ministry in rela- tion to the...

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The production of Spohr's Faust at the Royal Italian Opera, under the personal direction of its celebrated composer, and with the powerful means of that great theatre, has for...

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REFORM OF THE LAW OF REAL PROPERTY. London, 1st /tine

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1852. Snzt—In the actual state and prospects of Law Reform, permit me to avail myself of your columns for the purpose of reviving the interest of your readers in one branch of...

"REPRESENTATION OF MINORI TIE S."

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SIR — Some months ago several articles under this title appeared in the Spectator, and, I speak from my own knowledge, attracted considerable at- tention. Why have you abandoned...

POSTPONED LETTER ON THE DANGEROUS CONDITION OF AUSTRALIA.

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_London, 26th May 1852. Sris—I perused the letters addressed to . you by Mr. Gibbon Wakefield on the present crisis in Australia with much in ; for, though I disapprove of...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MINISTERS IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT. LORD Sreas - LET, heir and hope of the house of Derby, one of her Majesty's Ministers under his father, announces to the electors of Lynn, that...

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ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES.

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SOME intelligent electors, taunted with the kind of candidates who find favour in the eyes of constituencies, plead in extenuation the paucity of candidates of a better sort....

WALPOLIANA.

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MR. SECRETARY WALPOLE is a gentleman who concentrates in him- self a union of attributes apparently incompatible. Although he has made more mistakes than any Minister within a...

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HOW TO MAKE A MEILICLE.

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IT is Gil Bias, we think, who says that the way to establish the reputation for being a wit is, unscrupulously to say everything that comes into your head. The way to make...

ART IN THE CITY.

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Lorpolv CORPORATION, resolved to continue its apprenticeship in the study of the Fine Arts, is now proceeding in a manner to be highly useful. In the Egyptian Hall of the...

HENRY CLAY.

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HENRY CLAY has passed from life to history ; and he will fill an honourable place in the memory of his country. Yet his fate has been that of a remarkable semi-ostracism....

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MISS PA]1DOE'S MARIE DE MEDICIS. * THERE is greater formal unity

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in Miss Pardoe's Life of Marie de Medicis than in her Louis XIV. and the Court of France. The single subject confines the writer more closely to historical • The Life of Marie...

BOOKS.

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ARCHDEACON RARE'S CONTEST WITS ROME. * IT has been Archdeacon Hare's praiseworthy practice for some years past to avail himself of his ecclesiastical office in order to...

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WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER'S LIFE AND POETICAL

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REMAINS. * THE works of William Sidney Walker are not very distinctively known, yet they are better known than his name. A scholar, a critic, a poet, and a prose writer, he...

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THE BA.BONET'S FAMILY. *

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Tam fiction combines the old novel of the past generation with the ideas of the present day, and original observation of exter- nal nature. The writer has seen something of...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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OFFICE OF ORDSANCE, July O.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—Sec. Lieut. J. W. Col- lington to be First Lieut. vice Leathes, resigned. July 12.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—First Lieut. W....

BIRTHS.

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On the 6th July, at King William's College, Isle of Man, the Wife of the Rev. Dr. Dixon, Principal, of a daughter. On the 90, at Holly Grove, 'Windsor Park, the Lady Emily...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booze. The _Life of the Reverend William Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., .F.L.S., &c., Rector of Barham. By John Freeman, M.A., Rural Dean, Rector of Ashwicken, Norfolk. Money and...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &Wird. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. Thurs. Fridays 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account .... 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, July 13. . PARTIssmsnres Dissovrim.-Carpenter and Tildesley, Willenhall, Staffordshire, cur- rycomb-manufacturers-Young and Todd, millers, Milton next Gravesend-Bradley...