22 JUNE 1861

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The American question has not advanced a step, but the

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South has suggested a possible solution of the cotton difficulty. In the Act passed to prohibit the export of cotton by land, transit through Mexico is expressly allowed. Is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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HE week has been distinguished by a great debate in the Legis. T Wive Corps of France. From the day of the Coup d'Etat the French press has lain under restrictions which...

India has occupied another night in Parliament, and the new-

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Constitution has been pushed through committee amidst general but- powerless expressions of distaste. No division was taken on any, clause, but Sir Charles Wood agreed to extend...

The recent telegrams from Pestb, which at first seemed hardly

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intel- ligible, are explained as we had anticipated. The - Ultras insisted on the insertion of clauses into the address declaring the Emperor Ferdinand still legal King of...

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Maria,—No less than one hundred and forty villages are reported

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to have been in revolt in consequence of the indisposition of the pea- i smits to wait for complete emancipation. The following telegram: gives the only important intelligence...

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imthra.—The intelligence of the week from America is of little

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importance, and consists chiefly of a series of rumours. The Southern troops are said to be retiring from Harper's Ferry, and the whole strength of the rebels is concentrated...

518,14.—The French papers repeat that the Imperial Government intends immediately

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to renew diplomatic relations with Turin. " The renewal, however," says La Patrie, " would not imply, on the of - France, as regards the policy of the Italian Kingdom, any...

gltd4.—Daond Effendi, Director of Telegraphs, has been appointed

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Governor of the Lebanon—a bad appointment, though it helps to break the influence of France.

HOME.

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The Convocation of tlie prelates and clergy of the Province of Canterbury resumed its sittings on Tuesday, and continued them to-day. Two subjects of general interest have...

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3131'hatts not 1Srortthing5 Ill arliamtut.

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HOUSIE OF LORDS. Monday, June 17.— Excise and Stamps Bill read a second time — East India Loan Bill read a first time. — Greenwich Hospital Bill reported—Excise and Stamps...

gYr Court. THE Queen held a drawing-room at St. James's

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Palace on Wednesday. It was very numerously attended, and all those present were in mourning. Her Majesty has visited the White Lodge, Richmond Park, attended the meeting of...

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Visallfunnus.

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TEE following report of a meeting of the Conservative party at Lord Derby's house, on Monday, is given by the Dublin Evening Mail, a Conservative journal: "The muster...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. Friday. (Closing Prices.) Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 90 Bank Stock, 10 per Cent. 2311 Ditto for Account India Stock, 101 per Cent 3 per Cents Reduced 89f...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Tin Money Market this week remains without alteration. There is a general absence of pressure, but owing to the extreme caution exercised by...

POSTSCRIPT.

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Bois Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, the .Earl of 'Plr.T.nrsonounn, with reference to the reduction or abolition of the Indian Navy, asked for...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE. CIIldRCH RATE BILL: T HE Nonconformists have nobody to thank but themselves for the defeat of Wednesday - night. They have chosen_ to permit the. Liberation. Society to...

NAPOLEON' IN ITALY: O F all the puzzles now presented to

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politicians the cons duct of Napoleon-in Italy is perhaps the:most profound. After expending thirty million& oftreasure and ten. thousand. Jives in the effort to expel Austria...

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CLERICAL AND LAY TRIBUNALS. WHY is it that clergymen ever

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since the days of Eli, Y I' have been remarkable for want of equity as judges ? It seems that they,eannot meddle with judicial functions without perverting them in some way or...

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THE MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.

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I T begins to be clear that Englishmen have over-estimated the military resources of the South. Throughout the contest it has been assumed in England that North and South were...

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THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION.

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T HE Indian Constitution pa'ssed through committee on Thursday almost unimproved. The term for which the members of the Legislative Council are to sit was indeed extended to two...

THE COST OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. T HE verdict in Mr. Pym's

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case is the reductio ad ab- surdum, of Lord Campbell's Act. Mr. Ppm, a gentle- man of considerable landed property, was killed, in 1860, on the Great Northern Railway. The...

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THE Isi - EW ZEALAND PEACE. T HE war in New Zealand arose

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out of a little quarrel, and it has ended in a little peace. General Pratt as- sailed the Maories after their own fashion, following them up when they burrowed in the ground, or...

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GAS ON THE BRAIN.

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M R. Emerson has protested, in his latest work, against the English impression that all Americans are born with water on the brain, though he adds that "it must be admitted...

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MR. CUMIN ON RAGGED SCHOOLS.

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IT is with no slight reserve that we attempt to reply to that section of Mr Cumin's report which refers to ragged schools. A more honest or intelligent report we never remember...

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LONDON THEATRES.

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T ""Alhambra," "Oxford," "Canterbury," and other music-halls which are springing up so rapidly in London, whatever their other effects, will produce at least one unexpected...

31insir.

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VEB.DI'S last opera, Us Ballo is Masche-a, formed a prominent article in the list of novelties promised by Mr. Gye in the prospectus of the Royal Italian Opera season. But, in...

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3rto.

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BRITTS1T INSTITUTION. Tale exhibition, is fulls of interest.. Not only. does it contain admirable specimens of Dutch and Italian art,, it affords also a capital oppor- tunity...

Music nourishes in the Sandwich Islands. A j'i►ilharmonic So- ciety,

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has been formed at Honolulu ; which gives concerts of classical music and.representations of the favourite operas of the day. The Trovalore was lately performed, with his...

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the pursuit of starfishes and on the track or snails.

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The points course of lectures which he ever delivered in the university chair at of the biography which are of the greatest moment to the saientifib Edinburgh„ the students, we...

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS KNIGHT.*

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FIRST NOTICE. TEE name which figures on this title-page is probably but little known to the present generation except by sonic references to its author in Croker's Edition of...

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THE BACHELOR KINGS OF ENGLAND.*

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IT would appear that the object which Miss Strickland has proposed to herself as the goal of her ambition is the attainment, in the domain of history, of that position which is...

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THE SLIDING SCALE OF LIFE.•

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FROM the day when Mr. Dickens published in "Household Words" the 'experience of three deteetives,bookstalls have abounded in stories of the feats of the police. The best of...

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THE HIGH CHURCH RECIPE FOR SCEPTICAL TENDENCIES.*

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Tim attempt to meet the sceptic on his own ground by one who utterly distrusts the powers of the human mind to discern truth—who distrusts the "verifying" faculty, as one of the...

ENCYCLOPEDIA BItITANNICA.*

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Tan publication of the general Index to a new Encyclopedia, or what is virtually a new Encyclopedia, a completely remodelled edition of the largest national Encyclopedia, is an...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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How to Spend a Month in Ireland, and What it will Cost. By Sir Cusack P. Roney. London : W. Smith and Sons; Dublin : M`Glashan and Cusack Roney has adopted the best and most...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 12th Lust, at Beeston Hall, Norfolk, Lady Preston, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Birr Barracks, Ireland, the lion. Mrs. Somerset Ward, of a daughter. On the 14th...

Notes, exemplifying the State of the Medical Profession, comprising some

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Account of the Mismanagement of St. Georges Hospital. Third series, supplementary to the " St. Georges Hospital Medical Staff." By Edwin Lee, M.D., Ike. (John Churchill.) The...

I BANK OF ENGLAND.

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An Account, pursuant to the 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 82, for the Week ending on Wednesday, the lath day of June, 1861. Notes issued ISSUE DEPARTMENT. £25,892,965 Government...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 18.

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Beatrupts.-Thomas Bacon, Newmarket, hotelkeeper-Thomas Symons, Princes- terrace, Caledonian-road, and St. John-street, Clerkenwell, leather seller-Charles Kerman; Millbtook,...