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The Judges of France have maintained the traditional honour of
The Spectatortheir order. Throughout the storms of the Revolution, the des- potism of the Empire, and in the main even under the old regime, the bearing of the law courts of France was...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTRERE can be no more arguing on the assumption that Ministers are "in a minority" in the House of Commons. Thrice this week have they , voted with the majority, if the majority...
It needs no concurrence in the special enterprise of the
The SpectatorPatagonian missionaries to witness with something more than Admiration the heroism of Commander Gardiner and his companions—their devo- . tion, their patience, their faithful...
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Ethan au rurubiug in4Sarlignitut PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK.
The SpectatorHowe or Lynam Monday, April 26. St. Albans Msfranchisement; Bill passed through Committee. - Tuesday, April 27. Chicory mixed with Coffee; Lord Derby's Repudiation of Sir...
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Int Court.
The SpectatorTHE Queen held a drawingroom, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday afternoon. The Princess Nassau was present. • The Queen and Prince Albert went on Monday to Claremont, to visit...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe harvest prospects are now described, from all quarters, sines the fall of geuial rain, as surpassing those of many years. A considerable sample of Irish beet-root sugar has...
• 4t Vrunintra.
The SpectatorElections have taken place at Tavistock and Worcester. At Tavistock, Mr. Trelawny voluntarily resigned his seat, by accept- ing the Chiltern Hundreds ; announcing to the...
itt4t At a meeting of the City Commission of Sewers,
The Spectatoron Wednesday, Mr. Haywood, the surveyor, reported that he had considered afresh whether it were possible so to alter the gradients of the new street from Queen Street to St....
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forngu nit Culnuial.
The SpectatorFrtexcE.—An article in the Public of Thursday advocates a new appeal to the people by the Chief of the State ; and notwithstanding the "com- municated "article against such a...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION,
The SpectatorENGLAND. AYLESBURY. Mr. J. Temple West, of Eaton Square, has offered himself. He is "attached to her Majesty's present Government." BERWICK.. Mr. Forster is now fairly in the...
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3gtortllautuu.
The SpectatorSir Stratford Canning, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary to the Ottoman Porte, has been raised to the Peerage, by the title of Viscount Stratford de...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorBA Those who expected Bonnie " bold stroke" from Mr. Disraeli in finance something original and ad eaptandum, will have b disappointed by his Budget speech in the House of...
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We have received an excellent letter from a correspondent well
The Spectatorversed in military service, on the subject of national defences ; but it is too long and too late for insertion now. The chief part of the letter relates to the Swiss plan of...
Sir James Brooke has enjoyed the eclat, and the other
The Spectatoradvantages, solid and liquid, of a public dinner. This festival appears to be rather pre- mature : neither Parliament nor the public have as yet pronounced a full an d final...
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
The SpectatorMaddox Street, 26th April 1852. SIR—Allow me to say one word—the last I ever wish to say, about Mr. Walters. You will have seen that I requested Captain Weatherley to demand of...
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The SpectatorIf there is one thing more popular than another with an English theatrical audience, it is a sniff of country air across the foot - lights. And yet this must not be a modern...
The King of Prussia announced to the Second Chamber of
The SpectatorPrussia, on the 28th of April, that he has annulled the articles of the Constitution pres cribing the organization of the First Chamber, and will reconstitute that house by...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE. FIUDAT APTERNOON. The English Stock Market has not presented a very buoyant appearance during the week, and Government Securities have upon the whole been...
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At the third concert of the New Philharmonic Society, on
The SpectatorWednesday, Berlioz's "dramatic symphony," Borneo and Juliet, had another hearing. We cannot say that our second impressions differ materially from our first. The performance was...
The comedy of .Le Barbier de Seville is so little
The Spectatorknown as an acting play, and is withal so closely followed in Rossini's opera, that in spite of the smartness of the dialogue, it conveys when performed now-a-days the...
The Hectors and Penthesileas of modern theatrical wars if they
The Spectatorare without their Homer, are not without their Sophocles. The tragic bard of the Marionettes, Mr. Hugo Vamp, sings of contumacious tenors, who will be ill whether they are so or...
The proper interest of the Opera season has been distracted
The Spectatorby the Wagner war. The fair Joanna remains in Chancery ; and probably finds, as many have found before her, that getting into Chancery is no joke. At first, getting out seemed a...
A third and not unskilful version of La Dame de
The Spectatorla Halle marks a change of management in the New Strand Theatre; where serious drama, not light farce, is now to be the staple of attraction. The new principle has a negative...
MR. WALPOLE'S MILITIA BILL DIVISION. MONDAY, APRIL 26.
The SpectatorMAJORITY FOR THE SECOND READING. Adderley, Chas. B. Colville, Chas. Robt. Herbert, H. A. Plowden, Wm. E.G. Anson, Visct. Conolly, Thomas Herbert, Rt. Hon. S. Portal, Melville...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorFROGR - Ess OF PARTY DISSOLUTION. THE march of events confirms the view recently taken by us of the approach of a state of things in which government itself will be impossible...
FORRIGN RELATIONS OF A FHER PRESS.
The SpectatorTHE French people, Mr. Sidney Herbert thinks, "are likely to re- sent the interference of a foreign press in matters which it is their own business to chastise, and which at...
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EDUCATION AND THE CHURCH IN TVELA_ND.
The SpectatorTHE proceedings at a meeting of the Church Education Society, held in Dublin lately, deserve notice as containing evidence of the influence of party instinct in clearing the...
THE WINE-DUTTRS DEFENDED!
The SpectatorALTHOUGH but slightly discriminating, the present wine-duties, as we have before shown, limit both the quantity consumed and the choice : they have, however, found a defender in...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorFORTUNE'S TEA DISTRICTS O' CHINA AND INDIA. * Mn. FORTUNE'S narrative contains a good deal of useful information as regards the tea-shrub and other Chinese plants, together...
THE WAGNER AFFAIR.
The SpectatorTHE Wagner case is hung up in Ckancery for another week ; but too much is before the public already for the advantage of any of the parties concerned. If Mr. Lumley is disclosed...
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THE ECLIPSE OF FAITH. *
The SpectatorGazer literary ability is the first characteristic of this philo- sophico-religions novel. The style is excellent—easy, animated, elegant, very scholarly yet very English. The...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBoom. China, during the War and since the Peace. By Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., late her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, &e. In two volumes. Life and Times of Francesco...
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EXHIBITION OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION.
The SpectatorThis is a melancholy spectacle. The National Institution had hitherto displayed a certain amount of endeavour which justified its existence as a separate body in art; this year...
FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorTHE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. We are now in the full season of artistic luxuriance ; as our crowded columns bear witness. The Water-Colour Societies and the National In-...
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TEl WATBR.GOLOUR SOCIETIRS.
The SpectatorThere cannot be two opinions, we imagine, as to which of the Water- Colour Societies makes the best appearance this year. The elder body fur- nishes one of the most even and...
MILITARY GAZETTE, WAR-OFFICE, April 30..-2d Regt. Drag. Guards—Lieut. J. Clements
The Spectatorto be &Alt. vice Haviland, promoted to an Unattached Company, without purchase. 4th Drag. Guards—Lieut. J. M. Webb to be Capt. by purchase, vice Lane, who retiree; Cornet G. M....
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE,
The SpectatorTuesday, April 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—Germaine and Co. Bristol, timber-merchants; as far as regards J. Mackay—Ritchie and Co. Liverpool, timber-merchants—Mackay and Co....
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 20th April, at Catsfleld Rectory, Sussex, the Wife of the Be,. Burrell Hay- ley, of a daughter. On the 21st, at Harefleld House, near Uxbridge, the Wife of Captain...
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