22 JANUARY 1848

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Abroad there is an equal absence of any great or

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startling event, an equal ferment of old agitations. Paris has been held with suspended breath by rumours of King Louis Philippe's illnese. The facts, so for as they can be...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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NOT for a lens , time have we had a week so barren in striking events either at home or abroad ; and yet the intelligence is not without interest, so important and ever active...

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Inetropotts.

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At a Court of Aldermen, held on Tuesday for the despatch of general business, Mr. Alderman Finnis was introduced on his election for Tower Ward, and took the customary oath. The...

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Mr. Whiteall Dodd, of Cleverly, in Shropshire, has accepted a recadei- tion to stand for the Northern Division of the county, in the room of Lord Clive, who succeeds to the...

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Tun Queen and Prince Albert, with the young Princes and Princesses, returned to Windsor, from Claremont, on Monday afternoon. From day to day there have been fresh arrivals of...

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IRELAND.

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The bill for the repression of outrage is applied with vigour and promp- titude. The Westmeath Independent mentions the arrival in several dis- tricts of strong bodies of Police...

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SCOTLAND.

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A curiously complicated case has just been tried at Aberdeen, before Lord Ivory and a Special Jury. The trial lasted from the 4th to the 17th instant, a period quite...

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Fitawoo.—The debate on the address was brought to a close on Satur- day; all the paragraphs being adopted, with the usual addition on the na- .tionality of Poland. A great deal...

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A Cabinet Council was held on Wednesday at the Foreign Office, and sat upwards of two hours. — A deputation from Lancashire and Yorkshire, headed by the Mayor of Manchester and...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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ARRIVED-At Gravesend, 15th Jan. Sophia, meth. from Mauritius: 19th, Thomas Arbuthnot, Thompson, from Sydney ; Glen Huntley, Carr, from China; and Reflector, Withycomb, from...

BIRTHS.

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On the 12th January, at Denston Hall, Suffolk, the Lady Keane, of a daughter. On the 13th, at the Vicarage, Morthner,the Wife of the Rev. H. J. C. Harper. of a son. On the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The Chronicle this morning gives the following paragraph as its naval "A squadron of armed steam-vessels, to consist of twelve of various sizes and rwer, is...

Since the conviction of William Frewen for harbouring the murderer

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Ryan Puck, a great change has taken place, and wandering strangers are not admitted into a house if there be any reason to suspect that they are trying to avoid being ob- served...

The intelligence in the Paris papers of yesterday is of

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a peculiarly domestic character. The most striking fact is the election of the Opposition candidate at Lyons, M. De Mortimart, by a majority of more than a hundred over his...

Inquiries have been made respecting the Spectator Index for 1847:

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it will be published soon. The lucubrations of our Correspondents become rather unmanageable in the ap ace we can afford even during the Parliamentary recess: after next week,...

MONEY MARKET. STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

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The English Funds have, after some fluctuation, recovered the ground lost at the end of last week; Consols having today touched 88f, which is higher than they have been for some...

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THE NATIONAL DEFENCE QUESTION.

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TO THE EDITOR OF VIE SPECTATOR. Pencarrow, Bodmin, 17th January 1848. MT DEAR Sits—I have read in the Spectator with sorrow and surprise the articles which you have inserted...

NEW ZEALAND: GOVERNOR GREY'S LAST CAMPAIGN.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 20th January 1848. Sin — The despatches which have been recently published in the daily papers, giving an account of the last encounter...

THE THEATRES.

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In commenting on the various failures which have but too frequently occurred in the theatrical world, we have more than once taken occasion to expatiate on the necessity of...

Madame Thillon has appeared to great advantage in an operetta

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called The Young Guard, produced at the Princess's. The story is of a peasant girl, who during the civil war in Spain saves a Carlist prisoner, by assuming the disguise of a...

MADRIGAL SOCIETY.

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The Madrigal Society had its anniversary " festival " on Thursday, at Freemasons Hall. The chair was occupied by the President, Lord Sal- toun,—an excellent nobleman, a gallant...

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ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

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LETTER IIL THE RIGHTS OF THE CHOW/Q. London, 19th i January 1848. Sin—The system which I have succinctly exposed, as operating Met power fully against the interests of the...

WHAT HAS THE LAW DONE FOR IRELAND?

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Lerma V. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Dublin, 5th January 1848. Siat—The pressure of the law upon industry was begun at an early period in Irish history, and there was much...

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T OPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD PALMERSTON AND M. GUIZOT. WHAT is Lord Palmerston about ? The publication of his des- patch to Sir Edmund Lyons, our Ambassador at Athens, seems to throw a disagreeable...

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FALSE FREE TRADE AND THE WEST INDIES. "THE organs of

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the onesided Free-trade interest seem to be alarmed lest Ministers should throw some crumbs of charity to the West Indians, whom a legislation dictated first by blind...

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A CHAMPION FOR THE IRRATIONAL DEFENCELESSNESS.

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WE have to thank Sir William Molesworth for a very opportune contribution to the controversy on national defence. Our ac- knowledgments are due not only for the obliging terms...

THE ROOT OF EVIL IN IRELAND.

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WHY is it that the Irish, who are so idle and barbarous in Ire- l a nd, so readily become civilized out of their native land ? At home they prefer starvation and murder ;...

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CORRECTIVE DISCIPLINE: EXAMPLE AND REFORMATION.

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THE subject of corrective discipline for criminals is receiving an extended and close attention, from which society must reap great benefit ; and it is in order to help forward...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Poway. The Saint's Tragedy ; or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine Of Thariligla, Saint of the Boorish Calendar. By Charles Kingsley junior, Rector of...

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LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN STERLING.

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THE late John Sterling was one of those men the apparent and tangible results of whose life did not quite fulfil the expectations of his intimates. The shortcoming was partly...

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RICHARDSON'S TRAVELS IN THE SAHARA.

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MR. RICHARDSON belongs to the band of newspaper scribes; and in the course of 1845-46 he made a nine-months tour into the Desert South of Tripoli, at an expense of some fifty...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. An Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China; derived from Personal Observation during an official residence in that country from 1804 to 1826; and...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Jan. 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Bodrshon and Co. Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, drapers ; as far as regards W. and A. riliThurst and A. Dodgehon-Myerscough and Co....

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wait.ovtion, Jan. 2I.-3d Drag. Guards-Second Lieut. J. Whderbottom, from the Ceylon Ceylon Rifle Regt. (Riding Master) to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Williams, appointed to the...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH P U N 13 (Closing Prices.) Safurd. }faraday. Aseaday. 3 per Cent Consols 871 871 871 Ditto for Account 871 871 871 3 per Cents Reduced 671 871 871 33 per Cents 881...