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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE decline of Ministers continues to be marked by the events of the week ; and it must now be estimated as considerable, since, from the combined influences of unsafe counsels,...
The latest reports from Silistria only tend to strengthen those
The Spectatorreceived last week. Prince Paskiewitoh is still represented as re- tiring to Jassy; but the reasons for his doing so are now manifold. Silistria has not only succeeded in...
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The French Minister of the Interior, M. de Persigny, preparing
The Spectatorto retire from officeâat least so it is understoodâleaves behind him a memoir on the state of the country as it comes within the purview of his department, and presenting...
The great Western R2public is undergoing characteristic move- ments in
The Spectatorall parts. In the South, the Government is repressing that active preparation against Cuba which the efforts at repression only appear to stimulate ; in the North, the...
33 data nu ruiug iii ar Haunt.
The SpectatorPRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK, Horn OP LORD8. â Monday, June 19. The Eastern Question ; Lord Lyndhurst's SpeechâExcise-duties Bill read a third time and passed. Tuesday ,...
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'Or tuurt.
The SpectatorTHE Royal Family returned from Windsor to Buckingham Palace on Saturday. The Queen held a Court on Wednesday. Mr. Edward Strad had an audience of her Majesty, and resigned the...
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1jt alttrnpntio.
The SpectatorThe King of Portugal and his brother the Duke of Oporto were re- ceived at the Mansionhouse on Monday, by the Lord Mayor and Cor- poration, in state. The business of the...
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Vrnuiurrs.
The SpectatorThe election for Morpeth, consequent upon Sir George Grey's accept- ance of office, took place on Saturday. The rain fell in torrents, but the Town-ball was well filled. Mr. T....
fartigu mitt ornlunial.
The SpectatorFRANCE.âThe Moniteur of Wednesday filled ten of its columns with a report from M. de Persigny to the Emperor, reviewing the conduct of his own office, the Ministry of the...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe Dublin Gazette of Tuesday contains two proclamations ; one re- voking the application of the Peace Preservation Act 11th Victoria to Queen's County, except as regards the...
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311igullaurnuo.
The SpectatorLetters from the Baltic in the morning journals fully confirm the ac- counts of the doings of Admiral Plumridge at Brahested and Uleaborg, supplied by the telegraph last week....
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSiTUSIDAY. In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. LAYAltD gave notice, that on Thursday or Friday next week, if convenient to the President of the Council, he would move a...
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PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR NEXT WEEK. Tax Commies.
The SpectatorOXFORD Uurvaitsrrr BrimâThird reading; Monday, June 26. (Lord Ionx STAMI'-DUTIE8 BILLâCommittee; Monday, June 26. MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATESâResumed; Monday, June 26....
Several English engineers, who, in spite of great obstruction, escaped
The Spectatorfrom St. Petersburg on the 5th of this month, called at the Admiralty yesterday, by the direction of Lord Bloomfield, for the purpose of seeing Sir James Graham. Sir James was...
The Brevet includes the following Members of the House of
The SpectatorCommons. To be GeneralsâSir John Fitzgerald, the Honourable Hugh Arbuthnot, Sir George Berkeley, Henry Wyndham. To be Lieutenant-GeneralâSir De Lacy Evans. To be...
"Paris, Friday Evening.
The Spectator"Advises from the Danubian Principalities state that General Dannenberg has succeeded to the chief command over the Russian forces, in consequence of the wounds received by the...
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Miss Arabella Goddard's concert, on Wednesday evening at the Hano-
The Spectatorver Square Rooms, and Mr. Benedict's yesterday morning at Covent Gar- den Theatre, have been the great benefit concerts of the week. Miss Goddard, young as she is, has...
C4tatrts unit 3iiitoir.
The SpectatorThe French company at the St. James's have begun to redeem their credit with the public, and to fill their half-empty theatre, by doing what they ought to have done from the...
PARISIAN Tazezaresis.
The SpectatorAladdin from a lamp could raise whatever he pleased, and M. Ostrowsky, a French dramatist with a Polish name, has raised a piece Out of the famous lamp of Sir Humphry Davy. La...
Grisi reappeared on Thursday, and repeated Iuerezia Borgia with un-
The Spectatordiminished energy. We regret, however, to say that Mario's weakness and languor seem to increase. He sang sotto voce during the evening, and made no exertion till the last...
The Philharmonic Society terminated its season on Monday, with a
The Spectatorconcert of first-rate excellence. The greater the excellence of these con- certs, the less room there is for description or criticism. The best con- cert is that which consists...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERENOOH. A considerable improvement has occurred this week in Government Se- curities; and the anxiety of the late operators for a fall to close their...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorJEALOUSY, NOT CONFIDENCE. THE reply made by Ministers to the representations of Lord Lynd- hurst on the subject of the several treaties to which the Western Powers and the...
RELIGION IN PRISON.
The SpectatorAMONG all the weapons of controversy, who would have thought of choosing logic to use against Mr. Spooner? There could have been no Spooners upon earth in the days of Euclid. If...
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THE NATURAL ALLIES OF ENGLAND.
The SpectatorWHEN Lord Ellenborough proposed, last week, to dissolve the con- nexion between the North American Colonies and the Mother. country, he could scarcely have known how entirely...
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THE ENA.VE OF SPADES.
The SpectatorIT is clear that those who are now complaining of the iron and steel tools furnished to the Army, as bad for pioneer purposes, do not fix their regard upon the real object which...
COLLEGE EXPENSES.
The SpectatorSo long as there is any force in the implied obligations of social usage, young men at college will, for the most part, follow the fashion of the day, and will regulate their...
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
The SpectatorTHE EGYPTIAN COURT. Tun art of the Crystal Palace begins where the world's art beganâ at Egypt. Strange to think that the earliest remaining monuments of this land bad seen...
NOTES AND QUERIES.
The SpectatorTHE King of Portugal does not disdain to recognize his own youth and its necessities. "I have undertaken this voyage," he said to the City deputation, "not for my amusement, but...
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THE WAR MINISTER.
The SpectatorBayswater, 81h ..Tune. SIRâAs you frequently do you have in this matter taken a sounder view than your contemporaries, and were the first to indicate that you were not...
trItu tu tht attar.
The SpectatorMEDICAL DEPARTMENT ON THE ARMY. SIB.I have read with pleasure a letter which appeared in your paper of the 10th instant, signed "An Old Officer." It certainly does appear very...
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HR. DAVID 1711QUHART.
The Spectator35, Norland Road, Notting Hill, 22d June 1854. SinâThe rare manliness with which you ever incline your ear to the remonstrances of dissidents, induces me to send a few words...
INTEMPERA.NCE AND SEWISH SABBITARIANISM.
The Spectator1 Adam Street, Adelphi, 5th June 1854. SniâI should be much better pleased if Mr. W. Mill could prove his case than I mine, in the matter of the "reeking abominations ' of...
THE CENSIIS OF SCHOOLS.
The SpectatorGloucester, 22d Tune. SntâPermit me to call the attention of the public to what appears to be a proof that the recently-published Census of Education very greatly over-...
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BIRTHs. On the 13th June, in Warwick Terrace, Belgravia, the
The SpectatorLady of John Brady, Esq., M.P., of a daughter, still-born. On the 15th, at Baleworth Rectory, Lady Frances Brid g eman Simpson, of a son. On the 16th, at Freeland Lodge,...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTHE BREVET, Wax-orrice, June 20.âOfficers promoted by the following Brevet will receive their promotions subject to new regulations about to be promulgated by Royal War-...
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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, June 20. Paarrarasnirs DISSOLTF.D.-E. and W. Williams, West Derby, joiners-W. 'and J. Leach, Liverpool, grease-refiners-Lightfoot and Filter, liowden, curriers- Ninnes...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH 3' i per Cent Consols I 1 IINDS. (Closing Sdiord. Mond.7.,7*.esday. Prices) If Wass . Thum Friday: shut â --- â -- Ditto for Account 911 ex d. 931 93 931...
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London : Printed by leaven Li seven, of 320, Strand,
The Spectatorin the County of Middlesex, Printer, at the Office of JOSEPH CLAITON, No. 10, Crime Court, In the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the Wi at, in the City of London ; and rublIalid by...
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BOORS OF TRAVELS.'
The SpectatorTHE fashion of travelling, induced by modern facilities of locomo- tion, has given rise to so many books of travels that the ground is exhausted wherever steam can search. It is...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorERSKINE'S HISTORY OF INDIA UNDER HABER AND IITJMAYIIN. * THE necessity of association or sympathy to excite interest in a reader, is clearly shown by the little regard paid to...
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KATHARINE ASHTON. * VERY good books, like very good persons, are
The Spectatorapt to be a little prosy ; and Katharine Ashton is hardly free from the quality that accompanies the record of remarkable virtue in fiction. The idea of the work is...
T RAN SMUT A TI 0 N. * Tills tale belongs
The Spectatorto a class of fictions which have appeared at inter- vals during the last five-and-twenty years. The object of the authors has always been satirical, but the subjects have...
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G OSSE'S AQUARIUM. *
The SpectatorIs life, in art, in mechanics, in "exhibitions," action is equally important as in oratory. A busy pigmy is of more account than a slothful giant ; an active minnow is more...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBoons. History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires, from 1057 to 1453. By George Finlay, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature. Alexandria and her Schools. Four...
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"tut 3rtg.
The SpectatorTHE NATIONAL GALLERY. We are glad to find that the Trustees of the National Gallery have not lost a good opportunity lately presented to them by the sale of Mr. De Bammeville's...