17 NOVEMBER 1849

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Amnesty and condemnation divide the attention of France at present.

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President Bonaparte has issued a partial amnesty for persons imprisoned on account of the insurrection in June 1848, by which seven out of twelve hundred are set free. The...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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RETURNING health and parting crime occupy the town in con- 'unction, as the Cholera and the Bermondsey murder have done before : this week we have the thanksgiving and the...

The agricultural incident of the week is the interlude of

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the Drummond among the farmers : and as pregnant with instruction lilt as one of Moliere's comedies. Mr. Henry Drummond attends a Protection meeting, to bestow his silent...

Still we are forced to note, that not a week

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passes without some sign of trouble from different parts of our Colonial empire. The mischief is really more widely spread and more pregnant with danger than the English public...

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bc IllEtropol is.

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The Bishop of London issued a circular letter, on the 3d instant, to the clergy of his diocese, suggesting measures of practical piety to mingle with the national thanksgiving,...

Zig (!Joun.

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THE Royal Family continue in the enjoyment of good health at Windsor: the Queen and Prince Albert take their early walks together; the Prince shoots, and the children ride about...

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Zbe Vrobinres.

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A meeting of the Protectionists of West Surrey, held at Guildford on Saw. day, was characterized by much diversity of counsels. The formal objects of the meeting were explained...

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ffortign anb Colonial.

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FRANCE.—In the Assembly, on Wednesday, M. Achille Fould brought, forward his financial scheme.. He commenced with an oratorical cen sure of the considerable efforts made in...

IRELAND.

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Cork election has unexpectedly terminated in the defeat of Mr. M`Ales- ander Wearthy, the candidate who advocated Repeal, free trade, tenant- right, and reduction of rents; and...

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ltliscellaneous.

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The Duke of Newcastle has been seriously ill, but is now said to be " fast recovering from his indisposition." Mr. Philip H. Howard has addressed a letter to a constituent,...

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It is reported in Paris that the President intends to

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celebrate the anni- versary of his election, the 10th of December, by a general amnesty. On Thursday, the Versailles Court sentenced M. Ledru-Rollin end thirty other accused...

The Queen has appointed Alexander James Moorhead, Esq., to be

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Secre- tare , and. Registrar to the Commissioners for the Government of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Carr Alder- son, deceased. It is...

The following indignant remonstrance has been presented to Earl Grey

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by the Reverend Dr. Lang, of New South Wales, on his departure, this week, from England. The writer is well known as an eminent leader of the Scotch Presbyterians in the colony,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. At a Protectionist meeting, held yesterday, at Bromley in Kent, to con- s ider steps forholding a county meeting—Earl Stanhope in the chair—Mr. George Frederick Young...

The Bishop of Exeter has passed sentence of deprivation on

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the Reverend Charles Rookes, MA, Rector of Nymett-Rowland, Chumleigh, Devon, against whom Widow Brooks lately recovered damages for the seduction of her daughter Maria. An...

A movement to improve the dwellings of the poor has

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been instituted in Parisi Tlie:Presse publishes a list of more than 1,100 persons of every rank and condition of life who have taken shares of from 25 to 1,000 francs whits a...

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MONEY MARKET.

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/Orme 'EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Atmomoom The continued improvement of the French Funds caused an upward.movemeot in our own • and the general course of the English Stock Market .has...

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SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

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The Sacred Harmonic Society began, last Monday, their second cam- paign under the generalship of Marshal Costa. There was the same im- posing array of troops as before, the same...

THE THEATRES.

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A farce produced at the New Strand Theatre, under the title of A Family Party, illustrates the danger, we have often set forth, of making a piece without iuterest of plot. In...

THE " STAUNTON" CHESS-MEN.

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The new chess-I:nen, just issued by Messrs. Jaques of Hatton Garden, under the-auspices of Mr. Howard Staunton, the celebrated chess-player, Some forward with several...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. ""3 MINISTERIAL PROGRAM ME FOR NEXT

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SESSION. CABINET Councils have begun for the winter season, wider so peculiar a combination of circumstances that the public will scurcely wonder to hear of very uncommon...

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THE CONDEMNED 'SERMON' AS IT , WAS ACTED: PUBLIC execution

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Of capital dhsh o demed necessary for the completeness of the example : the public flocked to see the Mannings hanged on Tueadayi and, With the expression'of 'dfsgust at such an...

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THE COLONIAL OFFICE COLONIZING I

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COLONIZING is one of the last things that would be suspected of the Colonial Office in Downing Street; yet verily we have discovered a colonizing project in that quarter . ; and...

THE SPURIOUS LAW SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND. SOME three years ago,

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we hailed the proposal to establish a Fa- culty of Law in London, founded , and supported by the Inns of Gout: in the House of Commons last session, the Attorney-Ge- neral...

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THE CHURCH AND THE VICE OF SCOTLAND. LAUDABLE 18 the

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conscientious industry of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; curiously perverse and incomplete the application of it, as expounded in a volume which has been sent...

SIR HENRY BULWER AND THE HECATE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Cape Clear , 10th November 1849. Wind, Sou'-weat-lq-west, fresh gale. .Sra--1•see in the,papers, the Llecate, one of her Majesty's...

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41'1'1"h" P BOOKS.

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• AtIVISIt-Alf'S ANDALIIrIA. * SIB Slibject of these l spirited and characteristic volumes is a sojourn in indalucia and a pretty thorough exploration of the province from the...

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HANDS NOT HEARTS. * THE ostensible object of this fiction is

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to point the moral of marriages where the band is given without the heart; but the fair writer has better succeeded in producing an interesting novel than in impressing her...

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CHAMIER'S REVIEW OF THE FRENCH REVOLVTION

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or 1848.* AMONG the various histories or reviews that have appeared on the sub- ject of the French Revolution,.Captain-Chamier'a is the best we have met as regards freshness...

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DUDLEY'S ANTI-MA.TBRIALIST. * THOSE speculations on the constitution tithe universe and

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of man which, occasionally occupied some of the keenest intellects for two thousand years, have within our own day been abandoned to an inferior order, who substitute crotchets...

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NAVA', GAZETTE. ADEM1ALTT, Nov. 12.-The following ptemotionshave taken place, dated

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the 30th ult. consequent on the death of admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hexane Whinibed, Bart. G.C. B.- Admiral of the Red Sir T. B. Martin, 0.0.11. Lobe Admiral of the Fleet:...

MILITARY GAZETTE. WAll.OFFICE, Nov. 16.-2d Rest. of Drag. Guards-Lieut. C.

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W. Calvert, to be Capt. by purchase, vice Key, who retiree/ Cornet J. G. Price to be Lieut, by purchase, vice Calvert. 7th Drag. Guards-Capt. C. P. B. Walker from the 334 Foot,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 'Jib November, at Ballechin House, Perthshire, the Lady of Certain R. Scat, of a son. On the 8th, at Court House, CannIngton, the Hon. Mrs. Clifford, of a daughter. On...

IBORTALITY IN TILE METROPOLIS. Number of Autumn Deaths. Average.

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Zyrnotic Disea.ses 216 .. 307 DroP , S Cancer, and other dlneases of uncertain or variable teat 47 .... 49 Tubercular. DIsetiscs 149 .... 179 1 21 449stabof the,Scaia, Spinal...

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COMMERCIA - CaTTE.- .

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...o, IMO - 11111k s ult11* , MI +. • •' Tuesday, Nov.'itt. , ” 7 .ot HA It ..•' eAUTNERMIlre DISSOLi*:', .1 a a a ,i .e. a a i 1,, mligo,;;gye l vkerrie, Somersetsiilre,...