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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTINE has continued to bring its relief to the present Govern- ment, and this week has seen them fairly through the first night of the Budget without a disaster—even winning...
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The SpectatorPRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. House or Loans. Monday, April 19. Patriotic Fund Commission ; the Duke of Norfolk's Motion—Customs Bill committed. Tuesday, April SO. No...
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The SpectatorA deputation, headed by the Duke of Marlborough, and comprising several Members of the House of Commons, waited upon Lord Derby on , Monday, to express their opposition to the...
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The SpectatorTHE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Earl Cowley had audience on his return on leave from Paris. Sir Hamilton Seymour had audience on his return from his...
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Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, was entertained at dinner
The Spectatoron Wednesday by the mercantile magnates of Manchester ; the Mayor pre- siding. In reply to the toast in his honour, SirJames Brooke eloquently, dwelt upon the political and...
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The Spectatorc f TEUTE. — Paris is in the thick of an election contest. The Opposi- tion candidates, all lawyers, have taken the oath of fidelity. The Emperor has directed that a large slice...
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BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 12th April, at Woodmaneote House, Dursley. Gloucestershire, the Wife of John Charles Bengough, Esq., of a son, stillborn. On the 12th, at Heidelberg, the Countess of...
AlistrIlnianus.
The SpectatorThe Iforeing Sloe of Thursday remarked upon the fidelity of the Times to Lord Palmerston, and accounted for it by detecting the in- fluences at work behind the scenes in...
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DEATHS.
The SpectatorOn the 1st March, on board H.M.S. Virago, off the coast of Brazil, of yellow fever, Henry Vatchell Haggard, Commander R.N., eldest son of the late John Hag- gard, LL.D., of...
MARRIAGES.
The SpectatorOn the 20th February, at the Cathedral Church, Calcutta, Horatio J. Ross, Esq., B.C.S., to Caroline St. George, eldest daughter of the late Sir Theophilus John St. George,...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AErzu woos. The result of the trial of M. Bernard caused the market for English Se- curities to open on Monday morning with considerable dulness....
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATIIRDA.Y. The proceedings last night in both Houses of Parliament tended more to discussion than business. In the House of Lords the Bishop of EXETER moved for the appoint-...
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The SpectatorThe only operatic occurrence of the week has been the first appearance this season of Mademoiselle Picecolomini at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, in one of her best and most...
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The SpectatorThe revival of Sing Lear at the Princess's Theatre will most likely form the most important theatrical event of the season. Mr. Charles Kean has studied the character of the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE PARTIES AND INDIA. WE watch with deep anxiety the play of contending purposes and desires among the leaders of Parliament, hoping for the dawn of the day when the ....
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SARDINIA AND EUROPE.
The SpectatorTHERE are two Spectacles witnessed but seldom on this earth of evil passion and sin, which exceed in impressiveness every- thing of human effort, and upon which the moral vision...
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THE BUDGET.
The Spectator" REDUCTION depends on policy," says Mr. Disraeli. He is great in the copy-book wisdom of statesmanship, and the phrase is one of his happiest. It saves him, for the time at...
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THE BERNARD VERDICT.
The SpectatorUNEXPECTED as most of us have professed to consider the Bernard verdict, we no sooner learn it than we readily understand its causes, and equally appreciate its conseciuene,es....
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THE GALWAY DISFRANCHISEMENT SCHEME.
The SpectatorTHE case of Galway and its electoral offences presented the con- flict of parties in its most distinct and perhaps most revolting aspect. At the last election in 1857, the...
THE MODEL PEER AND THE JEW BILL.
The SpectatorLona) DERBY made no reply to the eloquent appeal addressed to him from the lips of Lord Grey on the admission of Jews to Par- liament, and we are inclined to infer from his...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorLOUIS BLANC'S 1848. H ISTORICAL REVELATIONS INSCRIBED TO LORD NORMANBY. * ALTHOUGH it would seem that Lord Normanby's Year of Revolution prompted these historical revelations,...
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LADY GEOEGIANA Fl7LLEHTON'S COUNTESS DB BONNEVA.L. * Tin Count De Bonneval
The Spectatorwas one of the most worthless charac- Vers of that very worthless period of the old regime, which stretched from the closing years of Louis the Fourteenth, through the Regency,...
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Sint krio.
The SpectatorTHE NEW WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. The most ingenious writer, supposing him to be an habitue of the Gallery, would be puzzled to say anything new about the Now Water- Colour Society...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBOOKS. 18113; historical Revelations : Inscribed to Lord Normanby. By Louis Blanc. Th e . D a y after Tomorrow; or Fate Morgana : containing the-Opinions of Mr. Sergeant....
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THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
The SpectatorThe interest of the day has evoked from the Palace, by the Queen's permission, a picture by Landseer painted in the first year of the Prin- cess Royal's infancy, and which had...
THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.
The SpectatorEarlier than in preceding years, this exhibition opened to private view on Wednesday. The collection is fairly beyond the average, and pre- sents an interesting and satisfactory...
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The SpectatorFROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 20. Wart OFFICE, Pall Mall, April 20.—Dep6t Battalions—Major W. A. Armstrong, from half - pay Unatt. to be Major; Capt. and Brevet-Major J. G....
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH t/NDS. Buford. Prices.) Tussday. t/NDS. Buford. (Closing Monday. Prices.) Tussday. Wanes. Shur.. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 981 96 861 961 961...
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The SpectatorFROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 20. Bankrupts.-AnuAHAiI Manx COHEN, Commercial Place, City Road, paper-stainer -Caantra BPKINNELL, Great St. Helen's, merchant-Caesura PovrELL,...