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Three more Orders in Council have issued,âone re g ulatin g the permission
The Spectatorfor exportin g articles contraband of war to certain places friendly or beyond the scope of Russian operations; the second g rantin g an extension of indul g ence to forei g n...
Poor Spain is exhibited to the world under a serious
The Spectatorcombination of pressures within and without, "above , below, around." The thou g htless Court, hitherto lost in g ayety and sensualism, appears to been rendered red g rave by...
Lord Mayor Sidney, who sustains the sumptuous hospitality of the
The SpectatorMansionhouse, was enabled to re g ale his g uests on Easter Mon- day with that dainty which would perhaps be re g arded as the most desirable novelty of the seasonâa viva voce...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHY principal event in the pro g ress of the war is the conclusion and publication of the convention between the Governments of France and En g land. Enveloped in a cloud of...
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The figure which the United States cut before Europe just
The Spectatorat this moment is not less characteristic. While two leading sena- tors are threatening to fight a duel over a semi-Ministerial pro- position to suspend the Missouri Compromise...
At tuna
The SpectatorTna QUEEN held a Privy Council on Saturday, at Windsor Castle. Mr. Henry Unwin Addington was sworn of the Privy Council, and took his seat at the Board. Proclamations were...
iftt Yartruinitio.
The SpectatorThe Lord Mayor's banquet at the Mansionhouse on Easter Monday was distinguished by a speech from Sir Hamilton Seymour. Among the other guests were Lord and Lady John Russell,...
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i4t Vr ottiu rro.
The SpectatorMr. Urquhart called a meeting at Manchester for Wednesday, at the Stock Exchange, to explain to the people of Manchester how that the present war was entered into in "...
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furrigu ftu FRANCE.âThe doings in honour of the Duke of
The SpectatorCambridge and Lord Raglan have greatly occupied the Paris journals. Every day brought something new. Driven about in Imperial carriages, our countrymen seem to have received the...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh was occupied three days last week in the trial of William Smith, a surgeon of Birkton St. Fergus, in the North of Aberdeenshire,...
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WAR PREPARATIONS.
The SpectatorIntelligence reached London on Monday, that the paddle-wheel squad- ron under Admiral Plumridge had captured the first prizesâfive Russian merchant-vessels laden with...
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
The SpectatorThe Gazette of Tuesday contained a "Notification" by the General Board of Health, on the subject of the cholera. It is dated Whitehall, April 17, and bears the signature of Mr....
nistrilautuaL
The SpectatorThe Supplementary Gazette of April 14th contains two proclamations; the first commands that the 26th of April shall be observed throughout England and Ireland as a day of...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. At a late hour yesterday, the monied world in the City received Mx. Gladstone's project for meeting his immediate or proximate pecuniary wants with a loan, of a...
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The Gazette of last night contains an authentic copy of
The Spectatorthe regulations, approved by the Emperor Napoleon, for the Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1855. The Queen in Council has appointed the Reverend Edward Penrose Arnold, M.A.,...
A Russian merchant-ship, the Froya, was captured yesterday, in the
The SpectatorChannel, between the Owers and Beachy Head, by the revenue steam- cruiser Argus, Commander Grandy, and carried into Portsmouth last night. The rumour of her coming went before...
FROM PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.
The SpectatorThe Liverpool Local Marine Board have inquired into the competency of Captain Noble, the master of the unfortunate ship Tayleur, to continue in such a command. Their opinion is,...
The Times publishes the text of the convention between Great
The SpectatorBritain and France ; but the ipsissima verba add nothing to the information al- ready before the public. It has been officially announced at Vienna, that the Austro-Prussian...
PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR NEXT WEEK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BivaâCommittee; Thursday, April
The Spectator27. (Lord JOHN Era- AMENDMENTâThat the Bill be committed to a Select Committee. (Mr. HET- WOOD.) CONVENTUAL AND Motu/Inc InsrmaroxsâAdjourned debate on Nomination of...
At the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday,
The Spectatoron the applica- tion of Sir Frederick Thesiger, Lord Campbell granted a rule to show cause At the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, on the applica- tion of Sir...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANOR, FRIDAY Arnanoox. The intelligence this week regarding the Eastern question has been of secondary importance, and Government Securities have been influenced...
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The new operatic establishment at Drury Lane has set about
The Spectatordoing what the Royal Italian Opera, when first established, professed the in- tention of doingâplacing an entertainment hitherto exclusively enjoyed by the richer classes...
At the non-lyrical theatres, Easter is celebrated with a fair
The Spectatoramount of novelty ; though,. generally speaking, the novelties are less abundant, and less characteristic of a holiday, than at the Easters of old days. Mr. Buekstone's Voyage...
fOrattro anb Zusir.
The SpectatorPending the absence of the great opera stars, Grisi, Cruvelli, Mario, and Lablache, whose rising is expected with the month of May, the Covent Garden managers have given...
Mr. Hullah, by his concerts at St. Martin's Hall, is
The Spectatornow supplying a desideratum in choral music. Hitherto we have had the chorus-singing of the oratorio and of the opera ; the one grand but ponderous, the other theatrical and...
On Monday week, St. James's Theatre will probably open for
The Spectatora series of French Plays, under the management of M. Lafont.
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THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.
The SpectatorThe time is approaching rapidly when that gigantic undertaking, the mausoleum of old and repertory of new arts, whose figurative name of " Crystal Palace " has by habit and...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE OXFORD REFORM BILL IN COM1fITTRE. AMONG the many serious evils which have been entailed by the backwardness of the governing bodies in our Universities to check corruptions...
DIORAMA OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STAlt...
The SpectatorThis diorama, ned next door to the Polytechnic, is announced as " painted by Mr. . E. Friend " ; though, after deducting, as the pro- spectus further tells us to do, for the...
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PUBLIC IMPATIENCE.
The SpectatorA serruntra against the " slowness " of Ministers in expediting our forces and their equipments, begins to grow so loud and to as- sume such articulate expression as to merit...
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PROGRESSIVE REFORM IN LAWS OF WAR AFFECTING COMMERCE.
The SpectatorONE of the plausible charges against Ministers has been, that the series of documents which regulate the treatment of neutrals and commerce during the present war exhibits all...
THE BRITISH GRENADIER AND HIS TAILOR.
The Spectatorwith the coxcombry of pipe-clay, we must deal with facts as we find them, and not force discontent upon the soldier by giving him an ugly costume. The dress should be suited to...
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NOTES AND Q17ERIES.
The SpectatorA CORRESPONDENT of the Times suggests a new force. Deferring to diversity of opinion as to the policy of embodying the Militia and calling labourers from the works of industry,...
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Trittro to Of fititor.
The SpectatorTHE DISSENTERS, THE 'UNIVERSITY, AND THE COLLEGES. NO. IL Oxford, April 1854. I ventured last week briefly to indicate the plan which appeared to me likely best to obviate the...
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CA MBItIDGE FELLOWSHIPS.
The SpectatorLondon, Apra 1854. SutâMr . Goulburn has protested against the extension to Cambridge of that clause in the Oxford University Reform Bill which provides that, in the disposal...
THE FIRST " ORDER " AFTER EASTER,
The SpectatorCorby Cattle, 1911s April 1854. SinâIt may not have escaped your acute observation, that at the solemn moment of the declaration of war, the House of Commons was engaged, not...
PROPER TAXATION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS ABROAD.
The SpectatorSinâAllow me to call your attention to a fact which seems to me to re- quire some consideration. In order to meet the exigencies of the war, the Chancellor of the Exche- quer...
SUPPLIES WITHIN THE YEAR: LOANS.
The SpectatorTemple, 10th April 1854. SueâI do not intend to consider whether the war t being incurred for the benefit of posterity as well as of this generation, it is justifiable to meet...
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DECIMAL COINAGE.
The SpectatorLondon, 19th April 1854. SIR âFor some time past no allusion has been made in Parliament to the system of Decimal Coinage, for which commercial and scientific men ex- pressed...
THE FIST-DAY.
The SpectatorBayswater, 20th April. SuiâThe 26th of April has been fixed on for beseeching the Almighty Ged to afford assistance to British arms in the war upon which we have en- tered. I...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTURNERELLI'S KAZAN. * THE interest which these volumes possess is owing to present cir- cumstances stimulating attention to anything which has a rela, tion to Russia. Kazan,...
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN INDIAN ARMY SURGEON. * IN the form of
The Spectatora series of sketches and isolated adventures, rather than of a fiction, this volume exhibits the career of an Indian sur- geon, from his student days at Edinburgh till his...
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DR. HUNT ON HEARTBURN AND INDIGESTION"
The SpectatorMon of us are acquainted with common heartburn, and its crudity, eructation, or acidity, arising from a fit of indigestion, ⢠On the Severer Forma of Heartburn and...
PHEMIE miLLIB. * IN order to sustain attention to a minute
The Spectatordescription and develop- ment of character, that character must possess great strength as well as singularity in itself, or be involved in events of some depth as well as...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBOOM Treasures of Art in Great Britain : being an Account of the chief Col- lections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS., &c. By Dr. Waagen, Director of the...
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BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 13th April, at Edwinsford, Carmarthenshire, Lady Drummond, of a daugh- ter. On the 14th, at Spring Hall, Suffolk, the Wife of Commander Tyssen, of a son. On the 14th,...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-OFFICE, April 18.-32d Regt. of FootâLieut.-Gen. Sir W. Cotton, G.C.B from the 98th Foot, to be Col. vice LieuL-Gen. Sir R. Armstrong, K.C.B. deceased.. 68th...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUND S. &Hurd. (Closing Monday. Priem.) Trardoga. Wed.,. Shun. 'Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 871 871 55 88 88 871 Ditto for Account 871 871 8,1 871 871 3 per Cents...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, April 18.
The SpectatorPARTNERS:1MM DISSOLVED.-Freeman and Co. Bradford, Yorkshire, stone-masons; as far as regards J. Greetham-Sexton and Simpson, Manchester, carvers-Fawell and Co. Bolton-le-Moors,...