19 JULY 1851

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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- The bill for the alteration of those phrases in the oath of abjura- tion which preVent.its being taken by Jews, and thus make of it an instrinnent for excluding gentlemen of...

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There are two items of intelligence in the French journals

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of the week that in ordinary circumstances would have commanded notice and comment. General Magnan, whose displays of " energy " at Lyons in 1849 are still held in lively...

&hairs ne rnurIng in p r lt m ut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. "HOUSE OF LORDS. Monday, July 14. Crystal Palace—Horfield Manor Estate— Court of Chancery and Judicial Committee Bill ; Lord Brougham's Farewell...

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Or Court THE last state ball of the season was

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given at Buckingham Palace on Monday, with undiminished splendour. Although so late in the summer, the attendance was multitudinous ; the invitations having exceeded 1700. The...

311rtrupolu.

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Possibly owing to the Cattle Show at Windsor, which has drawn large contingents from the country, and also in some degree to the fineness of the weather, the numbers of persons...

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(at Vtnuturto.

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The Royal Agricultural Society held its' annual meeting, this year, in the Home Park of Windsor ; the Queen and Prince Albert La l big gone down specially to see the show on the...

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larrigu anti enluninl.

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FRANC'E. —The debate in the French Assembly on the revision of the Constitution began on Monday. The proceeding was opened by M. Dupin ; who counselled calmness and attention,—a...

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The speakers in the French Assembly on Thursday were M.

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Pascal Duprat, who spoke for the Republic ; M. de Larochejaquelin, who spoke for Henry the Fifth ; and Victor Hugo, who made a very Red speech. It caused a total change in the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The appearance of Alderman Salomons, newly elected Member for Greenwich, occasioned a scene in the House of Commons last night. Introduced by Mr. J. A. Smith and Sir...

The "Procession of the Flitch of Bacon" at Dumnow took

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place on the 16th, in Lord Maynard's park. A great concourse assembled. Lord May- nard afterwards "gave a treat" to 300 children in the park. Gayety and jollity...

At the nomination for Scarborough, yesterday, the sliow of hands

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was in favour of Mr. George Frederick Young. A poll was demanded on behalf of Lord Mulgrave. The agricultural meeting at Windsor wound up, yesterday, with a good dinner to...

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331istr11aurnus.

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A petition to the Queen, for the restoration, at the first fitting oppor- tunity, of the separate and distinct see of Gloucester, is said to have been very numerously signed in...

MR. HERTZ'S COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES.

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On Saturday last we were favoured with an admission to the very ex- tensive and valuable collection of works of art and vertii formed by Mr. Hertz, at No. 11 Great Marlborough...

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‘64t ihratrro.

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This has been a week of benefits. Mr. and Mrs. Kean, Mr. Mitchell, and Miss Woolgar, have been the beneficiaires, and have all been grati- fied by the sight of a numerous body...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCUANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has continued without animation throughout the week. The closing price of Consols for Money is this afternoon 961 1,...

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OF THE p:A f t.• ; .

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LORD GREY'S LAST DEVICE. PROBABLY Lord Derby. would have attained •more practieal success for his motion if be had placed before the Peers more nakedly and distinctly that...

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERS.

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IN the reports of the Board of Health, the question of Metropolitan Water-supply was mixed up with the Sewers question, the Paving question, and other questions too numerous to...

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A WORKING CLERGYMAN.

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IF the greatest dangers that beset the Church of England consist in the discords and untoward ambitions of her own servants, her greatest strength also lies within herself. The...

FINAL EXTINCTION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE FOR THE SESSION.

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" SATISFACTION," " delight," " praise," "congratulation," "grati- tude," "thanks," "gratification," — all these expressions were showered upon Lord Palmerston for his "important...

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CHARLES BULLER'S MONUMENT.

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Amoicu the worthies commemorated in the national mausoleum, Charles Buller now appears ; the bust by Week-es having taken its place in Westminster Abbey. It is a fair and...

Two of the primary requisites for making good flour are

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good corn and good stones to grind it. France is favoured in both respects. Her cli- mate is ' 0:cilia], even where her soil is ungenerous : if her corn is not of the bulk or...

WLNTER GARDEN OR "EVERLASTING SMASH "?

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THE one thing to insist upon, and to concede, in the Winter Gar- den question, is inquiry. The question is not yet ripe for a de- cision in either of its branches,—whether the...

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IDttrr fa 4t Cahn.

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THE CAPE CONSTITUTION DEBATE. London, 16th Tidy 185L Sin—I happened to be in the House of Lords last night. I send you niv impressions of the debate, which to me had the...

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BOOKS.

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BELDAM'S RECOLLECTIONS Or ITALY AND TILE EAST. IT armies considerable ability in a writer when he can impart in- terest b and furnish information by reminiscences of the modern...

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MARKS'S JEWISH SERMONS. * THESE sermons are not only peculiar as

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emanating from a Jewish minister, addressing a Jewish congregation, but as indicating that the religious movement is not confined to the Christian world. The West London...

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CASTLE-DELORAINE, OR THE RUINED PEEIL * NOTWITHSTANDING its Rosa-Matilda-sounding title, this

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book aims at being a philosophical novel—" truth severe in fairy fiction dressed." The truth embraces the evils of primogeniture, the aris- tocrat feeling which looks to...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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[This volume contains a brief sketch of the origin and subsequent history of the Jesuits, followed by an account of sonic of the Jesuitical doctrines, arranged under distinct...

BIRTHS.

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On the 4th July, at Copenhagen, the Wife of J. H. Drummond Hay, Esq., her Ma- jesty's Char0 d'Affaires in Morocco, of a daughter. On the 5th, at Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk, the...

MILITARY GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, July 18.-4th Regt. Drag. Guards—Lieut. M. M'Creagh

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to be Capt. by purchase, vice Nicolls, who retires ; Cornet J. R. Scott to be Lieut. bypurchsse. ice M Creagh ; Cornet R. J. Henry to be Lieut. by purchase, vice W. W. It. Wil-...

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PRICES CURRENT,

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices. I Sagerd. Monday. Theaday. Want. nowt Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 961 93 97 96/ 961 941 Ditto for Account 971 97 97 961 97 HE 3 per Cents...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, Tuesday, July 15.

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Franklin and Woodrow, Princes Street, Ilanover Square, tailors-Pearce and Burrows, Banner Street, Bunhill Row, silversmiths- Hooper and Wilson, Hereford,...