20 MARCH 1852

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Last week's mail from the Cape brought the news of

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some ad- vantages gained over the Cares, but by no means of such a na- ture as to warrant a belief that the war is near a termination. In the Orange River Sovereignty, the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Parliamentary campaign opened on Monday; • when a simul- taneous attack was made :upon both wings of the Ministerial crmv, upon the plan of operations concocted at the...

The Indian mail brings no Intelligence of any decisive opera-

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tions in the war with Burmah. Run:tours had reached Madras, of an action between an English man of war and the Burmese, in which a grist number of the latter were killed, with...

M. Bonaparte, true to his autocratic principles, has promulgated his

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budget before the assembling of his Legislature. The state ex- penditure for 1852 is estimated at 1,430,363,244 francs; the re- ceipts at 1,449,413,604. He is to save nine...

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Vtitatto mar Vrgruhiugo lit Varliamtut

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PRINCIPAL IttISINESS OF THE 'WEEK. Honer ov Loans. Friday, March 12. Chancery Reform ; Lord Chancellor St. Leonard's announces his adhesion, with explanations. Monday. March...

The Dictator Roses has fallen before the combined forces of

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Bra- zil and the Upper States of the Argentine Confederation. He is now a fugitive on board an English man-of-war: he will probably seek an asylum in the United States. The...

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C4r 31ir1rgingio.

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A deputation of gentlemen belonging to the four important Australian Colonies, or connected with them in trade, had an interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on...

Or Court,

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Tun Royal Family remain quietly at Osborne receiving but few visitors, and those being social intimates more than dignified courtiers. Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, Sir Charles...

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IRELAND.

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Lord Eglinton received two addresses of congratulation on Tuesday ; the one from the Provost, Fellows, and Students of Trinity College, writ- ten in Latin ; and the other from...

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From an address inserted in our advertising columns, it will be seen, with regret, that Mr. Philip H. Howard intends to retire from the repre- sentation of Carlisle with the...

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For the City of London, there does not yet seem

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any serious prospect of new candidatures. The Liberal interest is said to have come to a good "un- derstanding." Still the names of Mr. Freshfield Mr. Bevan, and Alderman...

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FRANCE.—The long-expected conversion of the French five per cent rentes into 41 per cent, has at length been accomplished. For some weeks this coup has been publicly announced...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The war of Opposition against the young Government was waged with vigour last night in both Houses of Parliament. The movements of the Peers were characteristically...

3atiortl1anruus.

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The Earl of Malmesbnry has narrowly escaped a living interment in his new office—by stucco. The Austrian Minister was to have met him at three o'clock in a certain room at the...

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Yesterday, on the North Midland Railway, near Hob Moor, a

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stoker was left in charge of an engine. In breach of his duty, he moved it over some Points"; and in breach of all common prudence he descended from the engine to hold the...

tuttrto gulf 311tiffir.

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If Drury Lane at present is our Grand Opera—or at least the only thing we have to show for it—the Haymarket has similar pretensions to be called our Opera Comiquo. But as opera,...

A telegraphic despatch, via Trieste, states that Messina has been

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con- stituted a free port, and is already much frequented by English and French vessels.

MONEY MARKET.

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SATURDAY TWRLYZ o'etocx. In the English Stock Market, Consols are 1 lower this morning, being 981 for Money and Account. This is chiefly caused by lower prices from France. In...

Viscount Galway, one of the new Lords in Waiting, was

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reelected yes- terday, for the borough of East Retford and hundred of Baasetlaw, with- out opposition. Cork election began on Thursday. The contest seemed likely to be closer...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PROTECTIONIST PREMIER IN A FALSE POSITION. LOB.D DERBY seems inclined to be guilty of the affectation, which has been sometimes attributed to literary men in aristocratic...

TWO PHILHARMONIC SOCIETIES.

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The Philharmonic-Society has just commenced its fortieth season, and a "New Philharmonic Society" is on the eve of commencing its first. This new body has been generated by a...

The drame of Paillasse, which set all Paris in a

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furore in the autumn of 1850, and which contains the last great character written for Lemaitre, has been produced at the St. James's. The plot, with all its details, is already...

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SUBJECT FOR A FINAL IRISH INQUIRY COMMISSION.

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THE motion of Mr. Napier, the Irish Attoiney-General, for a Se- lect Committee to inquire into the state of the parts of Armagh, Monaghan, and Louth, referred to in the Queen's...

CONSERVATIVE DISTURBERS.

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NOT whether England shall be Protectionist or not, says Lord Harrowby, but whether she shall be Democratic or not—that is the question henceforward. There are indeed some signs...

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SIR JOHN PA RINGTON. NEVER had working

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statesman a finer opportunity than that which lies before a new Secretary for the Colonies. He finds the whole range of our colonies prepared to hail any change of Minister with...

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THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.

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Isr one of those _prose canticles on the Constitution with which Lord John Russell occasionally bathes the ear of the Commons, he alluded to some of the inconveniences of...

THE MASTER OF TRINITY AND THE SPECTATOR. IN a number

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of the Spectator about three months ago,* the report of the Cambridge Statute-Syndicate was the subject of a paper, in which, among other matters, the abolition of the absolute...

ABANDONMENT OF TICE NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER.

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A NEW aid is to be called in to the rescue of the alternately roasted and frozen-ant Members, the weatherbeaten, the stifled; and Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney is to explore the House...

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Lord Campbell has replied to the letter of Mr. Scott

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Murray. Re simply asserts that it was indecorous in Mr. Murray to obtrude his Ro- man Catholic chaplain upon two Protestant Judges. In saying that the chaplain of the Sheriff...

BOOKS.

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COCKBURN'S LIFE OF JEFFREY.. LORD Commune's Life of Jeffrey will, it is to be feared, scarcely satisfy the wishes and expectations of readers out of Scotland.. The author, it...

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THE COURT AND THE DESERT. * Tan subject of this novel

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is the cruel persecutions of the French Protestants, which, beginning with the revocation of the edict of Nantes under Louis the Fifteenth, continued till the second half of the...

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HARDMA.N'S SCENES AND AD - VENTURES IN AMERICA..

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TICB " scenes and adventures " in this volume, according to the pre- face of Mr. Hardman, are based upon the German works of Charles Sealsfield. "I have," he says "condensed and...

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REAL= 01 , LONDON DURING THE WEEK 7111721110 MARCH 13.

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[From the Official Return.] Ten Weeks Week of Zymotie Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of entertainer variable seas Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 11th March, at Downham Rectory, Cambridgeslur . e, the Wife of the -Be,. Frederick Fisher, of a daughter. On the 1111', at Badger Rectory, Salop, the Wife of the Be,. T....

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booze. The Tagus and the Tiber; or Notes of Travel in Portugal, Spain, and Italy, in 1850-1. By William Edward Baxter. In two volumes. Canada, as it Was, Is, and Mau Be. By...

MILITARY GAZETTE. Wast•orricE, March 19.-2d Regt. of Life Guards—Cornet and

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Sub-Limit. J. Awty (Riding Master) to be Lieut. without purchase, vice James A. Cl. Lord Loughbo- rough, deceased. 7th Drag. Guards—Capt. Sir G. De is Pour Beresford, Bart, from...

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PRICES CURRENT,

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BRITISH FUNDS. Saturd. (Closing Monday. Prices.) Tuesday. Trednes. Thurs, rriday. 11 per Cent Consols 97i 99 98 981 901 981 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, March 16. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—Armstrong and Son, Carlisle, attonaies - Bon't- hee and Stedman, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, surgeons - Matthews and Ste- phenson,...