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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE House of Commons has greatly enjoyed the week. It has had nothing to do, gossip has been allowed un- limited scope, and Members have taken a cordial part in at least two...
NOTICE.
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THE WEEK ABROAD.
The SpectatorFBANCE.—The debate on the Address in the French Senate has been unusually vigorous. M. Sigur d'Aguesseau, on Thursday last, attacked M. de Persigny, whom he called the "Polignac...
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THE WEEK AT HOME.
The SpectatorPorirriese.—An important and influential deputation went up to Lord Palmerston and Sir Charles Wood on Friday week, which has been reported since our last issue. The object was...
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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
The SpectatorHones OF Loans, Friday, February 2L-Volunteer Review at Brighton: Lord Truro's Question. Tuesday, February 25.-The alleged Government Proclamation in Naples: Lord Derby's...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorBora Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, The Earl of CARNARVQN asked whether any communication had taken place between her Majesty's Government and the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTILE PRINCE'S SPEECH AND THE EMPEROR'S LETTER T at Bonapartes are Jacobins who can govern, and this week the world has been favoured with an exhibition of both sides of the...
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THE O'DONOGH1JE OF THE GLENS.
The SpectatorS OME of our readers may have observed with surprise that the passage of arms between Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Maguire, on Friday week, was not joined in by the Irish Members...
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MODERN MARTYRS.
The SpectatorI T is wonderful what a demand for martyrs there has t always been in this much-maligned world of ours. Called selfish and hard and cynical, it is yet ever on the watch for...
THE EVIDENCE ON THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE T " tapers on the
The SpectatorSouthern blockade just presented to Parliament leave the question very much where it was before—that is, open to every variety of opinion. If that be an efficient blockade which...
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THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. T HE Bishops are at last unanimous, Taught
The Spectatorby the ex- pense of the suits against scandalous or heretical clergymen, which have been of late so numerous, they have agreed to introduce a Bill for the Amendment of the...
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The SpectatorO NE of the many impediments to English comprehension of the United States is, that their people speak Eng- lish. If they did not, our information would come to us, so to speak,...
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TEUTONIC PUZZLES.
The SpectatorN EVER at any moment of their history did the inhabitants of the thirty kingdoms, duchies, grand-duchies, and principalities which form the German Confederation, make such...
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THE JESUIT IN THE PRISON.
The SpectatorO IIR readers will perhaps think that if the Jesuit is in the prison he had better stay there. We shall not grudge him his powers if he be gaoler, or his maintenance if he be...
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COT,T,TF,RY LEGISLATION.
The Spectatorcatastrophe at New Hartley and the explosion at Cethin may be regarded as the opposite extremes of an interminable inter- mediate series of colliery accidents of every...
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THE POSITION IN FRANCE.
The Spectator[Faon oun SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] THE Senate and the Legislative Body have met, and their first debates, impressed with an unwonted vivacity, reveal a situa- tion not a little...
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THE AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY.
The Spectator[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, February 12. THE English press has prognosticated so frequently the national bank- ruptcy of the United States, has argued about it...
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As far as regards musical events, the past week may
The Spectatorfairly he regarded as the very height of the dead calm which always ushers in the com- mencement of • the season," properly so called. In fact, but for those never-failing oases...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorA STRANGE STORY.* SIR E. B. Lrrron's peculiar literary carmine. is still vivid and still effective, but the false ring of his stilted and cunning intellect was never more...
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THE PROPHECIES OF DE TOCQUEVILLE.*
The SpectatorA NEW and most readable edition of De Tocqueville's Democracy in America offers a temptation which it is hard indeed to resist. We should like once more to express our...
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THE CASE OF DR. ROWLAND WILLIAMS*
The SpectatorMn. STEPHEN'S manly and learned argument for Dr. Rowland Wil- liams deserved longer life than the columns of a newspaper give. In itself, the Essay which he was called upon to...
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MR. GOULD'S "HUMMING BIRDS."* "Maxima toranda in minimis nature," is
The Spectatora proverb cited by Buffon in especial reference to the group of birds which furnishes the sub- ject of the work whose title stands above. Whatever nature may be, with art it is...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorAnn the magazines about to abandon politics altogether? Of the five which are usually read in London, only one has a paper which bears in any degree on the domestic affairs of...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorA KINDLY cynic has said that the world is not half so bad as it flatters itself, but such is evidently not the opinion of Mr. M‘Grigor Allan, the writer of a novel* wholly...