18 DECEMBER 1852

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Napoleon the Third, consolidating his power, has permitted the formal

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announcement that "the Emperor recognizes and approves all that the President of the Republic recognized and approved"; an affable assurance, which we may take as a sign that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Budget as it was presented to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been destroyed—not more by the division than by the debate in which it was torn to...

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Vtlintro Vtartrifings iu isarlianunt.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Hovss or Loans. Monday, Dec. 18. No business of importance. Tuesday, Dec. 14. Income-tax Papers ; Statement by Lord Derby. Thursday, Dec. 16....

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Or Cart

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THE QuEml was still enjoying the pleasant air and scenery of the Isle of Wight up to yesterday ; but the records of the Court are of the most ordinary character, and are limited...

int Vrnuiurto.

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Mr. Bruce of Dyffryn, nephew of Sir James Lewis Knight Bruce, has been elected, without opposition, as the successor of Sir John Guest in the representation of Merthyr Tydvil....

C41. 311rtruptio.

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Meetings to oppose the Derby-Disraeli Budget were held this week, in Southwark on Monday ; and subsequently in Lambeth, Westminster, Finsbury, Greenwich, and Deptford. In fact,...

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,furtigu Ea FRANCE.—The obsequious Senate of his Imperial Majesty voted

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the Senatils-consultum without much difficulty, fixing the civil list at 25,000,000 francs. But there appears to have been no such unanimity in the discussion of the new...

IRELAND.

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Mr. Inglis, the Lord-Advocate of Scotland, has been again disappointed of a seat. Lisburn, as is well known, is pretty much at the disposal of Lord Hertford; and there the...

SCOTLAND.

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The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce met on Tuesday, and resolved upon a petition against the proposed remission of one half of the duty on malt, and the threatened doubling and...

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31liortIluututto.

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Government is about to purchase a large piece of ground at Shoebury- nese, for Artillery practice. The death of Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs vacates the post of Com-...

BIRTHS.

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On the 7th December, at Melton Mowbray, the Hon. Mrs. Coventry, of a son. On the 11th, at Pentloe Hall, Essex, the Wife of Henry Coldham Mathew, Esq., of a son and heir. On...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The anticipated difficulty of finding any persona fitted to take the vacated offices disappears as soon as the necessity exists ; and the Times indicates the probable...

Very few Peers attended the sitting of the House of

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Lords yesterday ; but there were many Members of the House of Commons present, among whom was Lord John Russell. Shortly after five o'clock, Lord MALMESBUBT rose and said- "...

Lord Derby arrived in town from Osborne at half-past two

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today, and immediately attended the Cabinet Council, which had been summoned for three o'clock. Lord Aberdeen had an interview with Lord Lansdowne today. Major Beresford...

Narvaez positively left Madrid on the night of the 10th

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instant, for Bayonne ; accompanied only by his secretary, Euriquez. He spent his last exile in Bayonne, but the report from Paris is that his friends now expect him there. On...

ANALYSIS OF THE BUDGET DIVISION. 654 PATES.

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Against. Heatheoat, J. ' Ponsonby, Hon. A. Tanered, H. W. Moncreiff, J. Corbally, M. E. Howard, Lord E. Rice, E. Moreton, Lord. Morris, D. Bulkeley, Sir R. Peto, S. H....

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOWS. The English Stock Market has been extremely inactive throughout the week ; chiefly owing to the uncertainty of our own Ministerial affairs....

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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Notwithstanding the addition of a Supplement this week, we cannot find space for the insertion of any Letters.

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FOREIGN THELTRICALS.

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The "Cirque Napoleon" was opened last Saturday, and the French papers overflow with raptures at the beauty of the edifice. The Emperor " assisted" at the inauguration, and was...

The Harmonic Union, the formation of which we mentioned a

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few weeks ago, gave its first performance last night, at Exeter Hall. The music consisted of a short motett of John Sebastian Bach, and the new oratorio of Joseph, by Mr....

Madame Fiorentini, hitherto known only on the opera stage, has

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made a successful debilt as a Handelian singer. At the last performance of the Messiah by the Sacred Harmonic Society, she sang the great soprano airs, "Rejoice greatly," and...

Miss Edith Heraud, who has been acting for some time

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in the pro- vinces, had a trial-night at the Olympic on Thursday, and passed through the public ordeal with credit. The character was Julia in the Hunchback.

The great ecclesiastical drama of the winter season, the Westminster

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play, shines out with more than usual éclat this year, chiefly through the extraordinary talent displayed by Mr. Twiss in the " crack " part of Syrus. Soaring far above the...

English opera, after years and years of gradual decline, has

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now fallen to the condition of a puppet-show ; the Marionettes, at the St. James's Theatre, are the only operatic company that we have, or are likely to have. They have been...

iquitrto auli

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This week Mr. Charles Mathews newly impressed upon us the fact, of which we had long been aware, that he is the most accomplished actor on the London stage. We do not mean to...

The Musical Institute of London has resumed its weekly conversazioni,

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held on Saturday evenings during the season. This pleasant club is in a flourishing state, and is beginning to accomplish its objects of bringing the professors of the art into...

THE BUDGET DIVISION—Tireasnar, DEC. 16.

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MINISTERIAL MINORITY FOR EXTENDING AND DOUBLING THE ROUSE-TAX. Acland, Sir T. D. Beckett, W. Bruce, C. L. C. Christy, S. Adderley, C. B. Benbow, J. Buller, Sir .1. Y. Clinton,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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" OH THE MISTLETOE BUDGET!" THE woman that hesitates is lost ; but the Commons enjoy the faculty of hesitating and yet of saving themselves, though not without some damage in...

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THE LITTLE WAR ACCOUNTS.

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THE economists who object to war expenditure might perform very useful service if they were to revise the military accounts for the last few years, with the key supplied by the...

PECULIAR CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PRESENT PROSPR1ITTY.

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IF the briskness of speculation, and the extent of it, send the mind back to 1825 and 1845-'7, the comparison is immediately rebuked by the striking distinctions observable in...

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THE POOR LETTER-CARRIERS.

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" Cnirisrmas comes but once a year "; to letter-carriers, however, it comes no more. Their Christmas-box, as it was announced last year, ceases; we do not hear that their...

DIGGER'S BRIDE.

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THE law of supply and demand is at fault, or the demand for wives in Australia would be supplied more effectively. The value entertained for woman, it has been said, measures...

INDEPENDENCE OF BELGIUM.

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IT would be a great mistake to presume that the operations of the French Emperor upon Belgium terminate with the renewal of the commercial treaty . Louis Napoleon is eminently a...

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FINE ARTS.

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WINTER EXHIBITION OP SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS. This exhibition has changed quarters on the present occasion, from the gallery of the Old Water-Colour Society to the room at No....

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Dec. I4.-93d Regt. of Foot—Major-Gen. E. Parkinson to be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. W. Wemyss, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 17.-2d Regt. of Drags .—A. Nugent, Gent. to be...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, December 14. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTFEL -Jones and Sharrock, Manchester, sawyers-Williams and Dunn, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers-Phillips and Tandy, Pimlico Road,...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Priem.) Soturd. Monday.;Tuuday. Warm. Thurs. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced n per Cents to Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent...

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L ondon: Printed by Josapa CLAYTON, of 320, Strand, in the

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County of Middlesex, Printer, at th e office o f J og y,p li C LAYTON , No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of Si. Dunstan's in the West. in the city of London; and Published by...

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BOOKS.

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lifOORE'S MEMOIRS, LETTERS, AND JOURNAL. * LORD Join - RUSSELL has undertaken to lay before the public the letters and journal of his friend Thomas Moore, in compliance with a...

*upptentrnt to tbe *prrtator

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N°. 1277.] FOR TEE WEEK ENDING. SAITIRDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1852. [Gums WITH TES WEEK'S SPECIWTOR.

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MILTON DAVENANT. * AN extensive observation of life, and the results

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of much ponder- ing over the opinions and conduct of its various classes, are the distinguishing traits of this novel. There is a varied, well-con- structed story, not without...

BUCKLE'S MEMOIR OF THE BENGAL ARTILLERY. *

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Tin history of a regiment or a corps has generally the same de- feat as that of a military order : its exploits form only a part of warlike events, as a single regiment can...

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REMINISCENCES OF AN EMIGRANT MILESIAN. * THE title of this book

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will disappoint. The " Rebel Reminis- cences" do not relate to present times, rarely to the yoresent cen- tury; but refer to the emigrant Irishmen whom politics and the penal...

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SEDDON'S PROGRESS IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE.*

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Tars volume enables us to see what is thought of the present condition of architecture by a person of thoroughly Ruskinian sympathies and ten- dencies, modified by the fact that...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Lives and Letters of the Devereux Earls of Essex, in the Reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 1540-1646. By the Honourable Walter Bourchier Devereux, Captain...