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It is lucky for the ease of the public mind
The Spectatorthat the Irish Repeal leaders have committed themselves to make speeches at least once a week : it is a vent for their spare restlessness; it exposes all that they can do—which...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorPOTATOES and Railway deposits, Corn-laws and Fortifications, occasion a vast activity of talk this week—immense agitation at the surface, without any very trustworthy signs of...
France boasts a reaction in Algeria—General Lamoriciere has had some
The Spectatorsuccesses against the troops under Abd-el-Kader, who is said to have fled before the French. It was in a mountainous pass ; and the more probable conjecture is, that the Emir...
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The SpectatorTHE circle at Windsor Castle has again been enlivened by the presence of numerous visiters. Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy and other guests having taken leave on...
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The SpectatorThe new Hall of Lincoln's Inn was opened by the Queen on Thursday. The day was fine, and a considerable crowd collected to witness the arrival of the Royal cortege; which took...
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The SpectatorThe Free Trade Hall in Manchester was crowded on Wednesday even- ing by an " aggregate fleeting " of the Anti-Corn-law League; Mr. George Wilson in the chair. This meeting was...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorA Committee of Dublin Corporation, appointed to inquire and report on the potato-disease, held a meeting on Tuesday; and Mr. O'Connell spoke at some length— In his opinion,...
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SCOTLAND.
The Spectatorne Glasgow Argus announces, that when the Caledonian Canal is re- opened, after the completion of the present great improvements on it, steam- tugs will ply regularly along the...
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The SpectatorApoents.—The Paris Mcmiteur of Saturday published the following imperfect telegraphic despatch. "The General commanding the Twenty-first Military Division to the Marshal...
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IfflistrIlarreous.
The SpectatorThe Bombay East Indiaman has just brought to this country four beautiful Arab stallions, of a fine grey colour, with gorgeous housings valued at 1;0001. for each horse; the...
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THE ARMY.
The SpectatorWAR - OFFICE, Oct. 31.-4th Light Drags.—Lieut. W. K. Fraser to be Capt. by pur- chase, vice Cumming, whoiretires ; Cornet A. Grant to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Fraser ; E....
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. It is a common presumption that the subjects discussed at the Cabinet Council, which met at Sir Robert Peel's private residence yesterday, were the state of the...
In reference to the agitated subject of Railway deposits, the
The SpectatorMorning Chronicle combats the assertion of the Times that Government have no power to receive Stock in lieu of money: the Standing Order of the Com- mons, says the Chronicle,...
According to the Castlebar Telegraph, Colonel M`Alpine, an extensive landlord,
The Spectator"has, in the noblest spirit of charity, commanded his tenantry not to thrash their grain, or to dispose of it; and should they want straw to thatch their dwellings, they have it...
A new church has been opened at Leeds this week,
The Spectatorunder extraordinary circumstances. The edifice is in the form of a cross: it was to have been called "the Church of the Holy Cross," but the Bishop refused his Consent: it is...
In the Paris papers of Thursday is a telegraphic despatch,
The Spectatorreporting that Ge- neral Lamoriciare had made two successful resents against the Arabs. The Pre-sse states that 11,200 troops have embarked for Algeria; the Constifei- tionnel,...
Last night's Gazette notifies that the French and English forces
The Spectatorunder Rear-Admiral Leine and Rear-Admiral Inglefield had instituted a strict blockade of Bnceo and of the ports of the Oriental Republic which are occupied by General Oribe,...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds became much firmer at the commencement of the week; and up to yesterday afternoon the tendency to rise prevailed. One or two...
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THE THEATRES.
The SpectatorThe production of the last new Parisian ballet, Le Diable it Quatre, on the English stage, has been heralded by a new species of puffing—the Puff Interlocutory; which has the...
LORD BYRON.
The Spectatoro the memory of Byron that Cambridge should be " singled out the spot" for his statue, while Harrow is yet " on the Hill"? As if this were not outrage enough), the same year...
The concerts of the Sacred Harmonic Society at Exeter Hall
The Spectatorrecommence on Friday next, with Ilandel's great Oratorio, Israel in Egypt. Mr. H. Phillips will then reappear in London for the first time since his return from America.
Who's the Composer? is the interrogative title of a lively
The Spectatorlittle piece with an ingeniously-constructed plot, produced at the Haymarket with good success. In the French repertory from which it is taken, it would perhaps be styled...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorThe Mars, Brooks, from Singapore to Liverpool, was wrecked on a sugar-loaf rock, off the East coast of Bingtang, 29th Aug. and sunk ; crew and passengers saved. The William the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE MONSTER DISEASE OF PARLIAMENT. DISMAY at the overwhelming mass of railway legislation which Threatens Parliament for next session, has probably occasioned the report, "that...
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GREGARIOUS AVARICE.
The SpectatorAVARICE and the other selfish passions do not, like those which are more social in their workings, become ennobled when they move great masses at once. On the contrary, their...
IL LIBRO DI FERRO.
The SpectatorA NEW aristocracy is springin g . up—the aristocracy of railways. Your "cotton lord " begins to give place to the" extensive share- holder " ; a phrase which implies a...
THE BEST TIME FOR UNDOING THE CORN-LAW. UNDUE procrastination indicates
The Spectatorthat a man does not see his way clearly ; undue precipitation, that he does not see it at all. True promptitude and true caution lead to the same result. The wise man bides his...
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LONDON IN A NEW DRESS.
The SpectatorA rnoracr is said to be contemplated which would strikingly alter the aspect of London : it into cover the footways with trans- parent verandahs projecting from the houses, "so...
A LAND FOR NEW RELIGIONS.
The SpectatorA 1LELIGIOUS war is raging in the state of Illinois : not a secta- rian war such as for three centuries has been often witnessed in Europe, but a war by which a new religion is...
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorEXCISSLisTICAL ARCHEOLOGY, Begistrum Episeopatus Aberdonensis, Ecclesle Cathedralie Aberdonensis Repesta que extant in untnn collects. In two volumes. Printed/or Me Spalding...
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GITHA OF THE FOREST.
The SpectatorTIM scene of this historical romance is laid in England and Norway, during one of the darkest parts of the Anglo-Saxon annals, when the country was exposed to the devastation of...
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DR. WARDLAW'S MEMOIR OF THE REVEREND JOHN REID.
The SpectatorWECN any particular subject is pursued to minuteness and treated in a phraseology peculiar though it may be appropriate, it passes from the literal to the pedantic. This, so far...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorFrom October 24th to October 30th. BOOKS. Githa of the Forest. By the Author of " Lord Deere of Gilsland," &c. In three volumes. History of the Later Roman Commonwealth, from...
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MR. MURRAY'S ILLUMINATED PRAYER-BOOK.
The SpectatorTan embellishment of printed books has made its rapid progress by such gradual steps, that in order to estimate duly the advance of typography as exemplified in this sumptuous...
FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorROYAL EXCHANGE STATUARY. MR- LOUGH'S statue of Queen Victoria, just erected in the centre of the Merchants' Court, completes the show of statuary at the Royal Exchange —and is...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 21st October, at Rochester, the Lady of Captain Mould, Royal Engineers, of a daughter. On the 230, at Westover, Isle of Wight, the Lady of the Hon. William a'Court...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, October 28. PAWEDIESSIIIII DISSOLVED. Robinson and Hornby, Liverpool, milliners—Stabbing and Son, Portsmontk engineers—Fenton and narsdens, Sheffield, merchants; as...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Sallied. Monday. Faraday. Wants. Thum. -- Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 97 061 97 974 971 97 Ditto for Account . 971 97 97 974 97 971 3...