20 JANUARY 1855

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Such is the position of affairs in the Crimea, while

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the results of the resumed negotiations at Vienna confessedly depend upon the taking of SebastopoL This we construe to mean, that Russia has promised to concede what she must ;...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Perhaps no test of popular feeling for the guidance of Parlia- ment and of Ministers is clearer than Mr. Cobden's appeal to the people of Leeds. The failure for the direct...

The accounts which continue to come from the Crimea down

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to this latest date confirm and indeedenlarge the j uster part of the stric- tures on those who have been the guiding authorities. The Allies had been "before Sebastopol" since...

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Int 311ttrafulii.

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It may not be forgotten that, on the 25th November, Alderman Sidney gave notice of a motion that an address should be presented to the Queen praying her to remove from her...

(54t rouinits. I. conformity with the previous announcement, Mr. Cobden

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appeared among his constituents at Leeds on Wednesday. The meeting first as- sembled in the Music Hall ; but the multitude excluded was so great, that, at their solicitation, an...

40 Court.

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Tax weather, although cold and frosty, has not prevented the Queen and her children from taking their usual walks in the Home Park. Prince Nichols& of Nassau and Prince Ernest...

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fortigu out (Genial.

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FRANCE.—Great success has attended the raising of the French loan without an appeal to the capitalists. The .Meniteur of Thursday an- nounced that the sum total of the...

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311.isttllaurnas.

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It is understood that the vacant Blue Ribfurd will be bestowed upon the Earl of Aberdeen.—Glebe. One of the most gallant comrades of Wellington, General Sir Andrew Barnard, has...

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Or Quirt%

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The performance of Louis XI by Mr. Charles Kean, in a new ver- sion of M. Casimir Delavigne's tragedy, produced at the Princess's Theatre, is likely to form an epoch in the...

There have been three meetings of the Cabinet Council this

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week—on Tuesday, Thursday, and yesterday. The Marquis of Lansdowne has not attended any of them ; Lord John Russell arrived late on Tuesday ; and Lord Palmerston was absent...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SAT17RDAY. The speeches at the Manchester gathering last night have as yet only been reported by electric telegraph in the Daily News. It has been usual for the Manchester and...

From Scutari, on the 8th instant, the Times correspondent sends

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the following return, "showing the number of ships that arrived from the Army with sick and wounded, the number died on the passage, and the number of burials that have taken...

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

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It is probable that the House of Commons will resume proceedings on Tuesday next without any of its seats being vacant : a circumstance no- ticeable for its rarity. The...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The foreign intelligence this week has been unimportant, and the prices of the Public Funds have been confined within a moderate range. They...

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THE NEW "ORATORIO."

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Mrs. Mounscy Bartholomew's oratorio, The Nativity, performed on Wednesday evening under Mr. Mullah's direction at St. Martin's Hall, contains many beauties, and does the...

TOPICS OF THE DIY.

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THE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. Paimix - ENT meets next week, and as yet the country has no well-grounded conjectures, such as generally may be formed before the session opens, as...

In the earlier works of Goethe will be found a

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dialogue in Lucian's style, entitled " Gothe, Heiden, und Wieland." This jeu d'esprit is celebrated in the history of German literature, for it led to an unpleasant feeling...

ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT.

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The comedy in which "Mrs. Grundy" is mentioned is Speed Me Plough, written by the late Mr. Thomas Morton, and produced at Covent Garden in 1800. "Mrs. Grundy" is not one of the...

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ARMING FOR PEACE.

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IF the situation has in any degree altered since last week, it is to present us with a darker prospect of peace. Russia has not yet been convicted of insincerity, but the...

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SECRET AGENTS.

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Ix is not very long since we referred to the general practice in which Governments persevere, even in these respectable times, of employing spies, whether to dog the steps of...

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THEY MANAGE THESE THINGS BETTER IN FRANCE. A STORY has

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yet to be written—the story of the travels of any given letter to one of our public departments, and of the answer to it. The tale would disclose a curiously circulating,...

THE COUP DE TABLE IN PARIS.

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DrET is a grand part of education. We showed last week how important a share it has in cultivating the moral man at schools for the children of the poor, and no doubt the...

THE FATE OF SMITHFIELD.

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SnonT's Gardena," ones probably a suburb known by some kind of horticulture is now one of the squalidest lanes of St. Giles's, revealed to the London traveller of the present...

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IFttft In tbt

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LORD GODERICH. Pau, France, 4th January 1855. Sin—Having observed that, in the Spectator of the 23d December, my name is included in a list of Members of Parliament who are...

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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IT is rather interesting to note the excitement in which the corn- trade periodically indulges. At the beginning of this week there was a sudden turn. The first announcement of...

BISHOP THIRLWA.LL'S GIFT.

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.4bergwili, 16th January 1855. Sut—In your last number you remark—"From a letter by Bishop Thirl- wall in the Hereford Times, it seems that the report about his surplus re-...

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MILITARY HOSPITALS AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

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.Lesketh How, Ambleside, 17th January 1855. San—In the Evening Hail of the 12th instant, a correspondent, who signs himself " Medicastor ' " under the impression so widely...

HISS NIGHTINGALE.

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_London, 17t1e January 1855. Sin—I have Been with regret during the course of the present week at- tacks made upon the leader of those ladies who have gone out to tend the...

BOOKS.

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THIHRBY'S FORMATION' AND PROGRESS' OM THE TIERS tTAT.. Tins disquisition originated in one of those well-planned and mu- nificent publications of original documents by the...

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MAJOR CUNNINGHAM'S BIIILSA TOPES. * "{HMS is a city of Central

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India, lying in 23r North latitude, 78° East longitude. The " Tope " is a building peculiar to the Buddhist religion; and great numbers of such buildings are found in the...

GA.LTON'S ART OF TRAVEL. * ANOTHER proof of the aptitude of

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the age for enterprise and loco- motion. The Art of Travel is not a guide to conveyances, hotels, sights, and so forth : it is not even instructions how to manage in a country...

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NEW POETICAL PUBLICATIONS. * THE subjects of Martin Farquhar Tupper's Lyrics

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of the Heart and Mind are mostly of a moral character, though the phases of morality they embrace are various,—religious, domestic, social, political, and, in compliance with...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of lames Montgomery; 'including Selections from his Correspondence, Remains in Prose and Verse, and Conversations on various subjects....

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, January 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED.-Marsden and Lake, Wakefield, coal-proprietors- Marx and Greer, Newgate Street, exporters-Wing and Riley, .Battersea, surgeons...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Jan. 16.-7th Regt. of Foot-Ensign C.E. - flope, from the 10th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase. To be Ensigns by purchase : 9th Foot-R. C. II. Germon, Gent,...

RAMIS.

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On the 8th January, on board the steamer Calpe, off Gibraltar, prematurely of a daughter, Lady Lionel Smith, Wife of Sir Lionel Smith, Bart., of the Seventy-first Highland Light...

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PRICES CURRENT,

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(Closing Prices ) Monday. Tuesday. Tredues. Thurs. Friday. — 92 92 921 92 91f 92 92 921 92 911 911 92 92 921 92 921 93 921 921 921 4f 41 41 41 2101 2101 2081 210 211 23ex d....