22 JULY 1854

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tire political business of the week may be said to commence with Lord John Russell's muster of Liberal Members on Monday, to tam the position which the leaders of the Tory party...

.• . . The meeting of Contocation, this week, has

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been creditable to that body, and hopeful for those who desire to restore its true working. It was distinctly understood that the Convocation would not nieet with a view to the...

The reports from 1114 jOierek fielde_of 'the great war are,

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for the creek, iseperfeet,. - We Mid' Walling fresh tbc'rejmrt =from the Baltic; 'nothing fresh respecting the negotiations with Austria,— only surmises, founded upon fact, that...

By far the most interesting news 'of the week is

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supplied by Spain ; where the insurrection has taken a totally different turn. While General Bloser is still following up O'Donnell, who is marching on Seville, the rebellion...

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Nimbi auti Vramitiugo iu Varlimutut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEER. HOCSE or Loans. Monday, July 17. Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Bill; referred to a Select Committee—Bankruptcy Bill read a third...

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Cp Cunt.

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THE Royal Family are now at Osborne. The Queen left Buckingham Palace on Monday at two eielock, and reached the Isle of Wight at six o'clock. Before leaving town, her Majesty...

4t 31Ittrn1ulis.

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The general supporters of the present Government in the House of Commons, called together by circular, met on Monday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury...

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'ir Vtuniurto.

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Colonel Boyle has issued an address to the electors of Frome, announ- cing his proximate departure to the head-quarters of his regiment in the East. Should his stay abroad be...

SCOTLAND.

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The Young Men's Protestant Society of Edinburgh recently called Mr. Macaulay to account for being absent when Mr. Spooner moved the omission of the item in the Civil Estimates...

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forrigu unit Colonial.

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Frissrez.—The embarkation of the French troops at Calais, on Satur- day, was most successfully performed. The men carried themselves with gallant bearing,--singing " Partant...

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31iiortilaurnus.

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However important a good harvest may be in ordinary years, it is a consummation doubly to be desired by us during a war. To a great ex- tent the grain countries that lie around...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Both Houses of Parliament, last night, received the Queen's Message relative to the war expenditure. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gxenseurin handed the missive to...

BIRTHS.

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On the 13th July, at the Rectory, Stoke Newington, the Wife of the Rev. Thomas Jackson, of a son. On the 13th, in Tivoli Terrace, Kingstown, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel...

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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The Letter of .fr. W. H. Murray, on Partnership _Liability, is not over- looked—it is in type ; but we cannot make room for any letters of dis- cussion this week.

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The manager of the Princess's having brought out a version

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ef Use Fits de Famille when it had been worn to rags at the Adelphi, the manager of the Adelphi Produces a version of Le Courrier de Lyon when the gloss has been rubbed off at...

The telegraphic despatches of the morning from Paris, giving news

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from Madrid, of the dates July 16 and July 19, state that after the insurrection a new Ministry, headed by General Cordova, was formed and actually gaeetted. The people rose on...

Notices of the rather sudden deaths of two gentlemen more

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or less known in public appear in the morning journals. Lord Langford, in the prime of life, died, after a short illness, at Castletovrn, in Kildare, the seat of his bro-...

The supplemental estimate for the Ordnance has been increased by

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65521.; being the expense consequent on the Brevet of the 20th of June. For the Army, in addition to the vote of credit of 3,000,0001. for the pur- poses of the war, 10,0004...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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Voltaire, a favourite character on the French stage, has owe more been placed thereon, in a short comedic by MM. Louis Lurine and .Alberic Second, called La Come'die d Ferney,...

The Spanish dancers, who have made their debfit at our

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Haymarket Theatre, having previously gained popular applause and Imperial patron- age at the French Gymnase, may be reduced to the single personage Senora Perea Nene ; for to...

MONEY MARKET,

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AYTERNOON. From the extant of the operations in the English Funds, some considerable fluctuations have for a long period taken place within the few days...

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PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

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The _Licensing Sy.stem. The Select Committee on "Public-houses" have made their report. The inquiry was extensive and minute ; occupyin g considerable portions of two sessions,...

A BURST OF SUNSHINE.

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THE sun has arrived just in time to settle a question more difficult than that of the East or of the Ministry ; to adjourn, sine die we trust, that perplexing question which we...

The theatres in the leas fashionable boulevard Fire active. The

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Mad- cap Prince Hal is the hero Of a quasi-historical piece, by MM. Fournier and Meyer, bronght out at the Ambigu-Comique, with the name Harry is Diable. At the Theatre...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MINISTERIAL : MEETING. THE meeting of Ministerial Members in Downing Street, on Mon. day, was an illustration of a national custom which will perhaps be studied by the...

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THE STRUGGLES OF HOTEL REFORM.

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AFTER all the proverbial vicissitudes of English weather, the promise for 1854—a sultry summer—seems likely to be fulfilled in the latter half : town business grows warm work ;...

THE PUBLIC-HOUSE OF THE FUTURE.

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IlleuxE too many Select Committees of Parliament, the Committee which was appointed to consider the system relating , to places of public refreshment, entertainment, and...

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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FEW cases have presented more room for question than the com- paratively simple one of Lieutenant Leigh, of her Majesty's ship Meander, who has been dismissed from the Navy by...

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BOOKS.

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MAURICE ' S LECTURES ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.. Tim lectures in this volume have never been delivered, nor were they written for delivery, though the form of address to a...

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STUART'S RESIDENCE IN NORTHERN PERSIA. * NEARLY twenty years ago, Colonel

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then Captain Stuart, accom- panied Sir Henry Ellis on his embassy to Persia as private secre- tary, and subsequently shaped the journal of his travels and ob- servations into...

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)IRS. STOWE'S SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS. * THESE volumes give

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an account of her visit to Europe by the au- thoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The circumstances under which the journey was made naturally throw a rose-coloured hue over the...

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NOVELS OF THE SEASON. * Lewell Pastures, by the author of

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"Fabian's Tower" and several other novels does not belong to the "Jane Eyre" school, but to that of the novels, Bells, with perhaps a little more acquired smooth- ness....

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boons. The Essence of Christianity. By Ludwig Feuerbach. Translated from the second German edition, by Marian Evans, Translator of "Strauss's Life of Jesus." (Chapman's...

NAVAL GAZETTE.

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ADMIRALTY, July 19.-Corps of Royal Marines-First Lieut. J. Mauger to be Capt. vice Stevens, to retired full-pay ; Second Lieut. W. L. Tinmouth to be First Lieut. vice Mauger,...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, July 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-Cole and Osborne, New Charlton, bakers-Biart and Tasche, Pluinstead, confectioners-Hunt and Co. Long Lane, Bermondsey, tin-plate-...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, July 18.-Ordnance Medical Department-J. Barker, Gent. to be Assist.-Surg.; H. Clifford, Gent, to be Assist.-Surg. WAR-OFFICE, July 21.-To be Califs. without...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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S HA It B IL (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) B.A111.1• Sr. — BANKS— Bristol and Exeter 99i A.natraladan Caledonian 521 British North American...