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The announcement of the Ministerial plan in Ireland has been
The Spectatorreceived with a conflict of signs and symptoms, of defiance and trepidation. The first report reached Dublin on Saturday, the law itself on Wednesday. In that capital, and in...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTun bill to suspend the right of habeas corpus in Ireland has passed in both Houses of Parliament without hinderance ' : the Commons passed it through all stages on Saturday,...
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Debates ant iiirotettlings in glarliament.
The SpectatorSEDITION AND REBELLION IN IRELAND. The House of Commons held an extraordinary sitting on Saturday, to hear and consider the application of the Government for additional powers...
The loyal English town of Liverpool pays a heavy penalty
The Spectatorfor being the principal English port in the Irish traffic, by being also the foremost place to receive bad importations from that unhappy landânow shoals of pauperism, then...
The foreign news of the week is comparatively unimportant. In
The SpectatorFrance, the Finance Minister of M. Cavaignac's Government has exhibited a wholesome candour, and confessed to a very large deficiency of revenue, where his mystifying...
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be _Metropolis.
The SpectatorA Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the despatch of business. On a motion to consider the report upon a communication respecting the West London Union, Alderman...
gig 'natl.
The SpectatorTHE Queen and Prince Albert, with their children, left town on Saturday afternoon for Osborne, and arrived there safely before nightfall. The Dutchess of Gloucester arrived at...
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'bt Vrobirtres.
The SpectatorThe large Irish population of Liverpool has become so disaffected in sympathy with the Confederates of Dublin and the turbulent districts in Southern Ireland, as to excite very...
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SCOTLAND. The Chartists and Irish Confederates in Edinburgh have been
The Spectatoruniting and organizing in armed clubs for some weeks past; and the latter espe- cially have nightly resorted to houses of rendezvous to hear read copies of the Nation and Irish...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe Irish Club leaders and sedition-writers have fled from Dublin, and in some sense " taken the field." On Saturday, the Nation and the Irish Felon fairly threw away the...
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gortian anti Colonial.
The SpectatorFRANCE.âSecurity increases in Paris; as well from the calming of po- litical feeling, as from the great military power concentrated by the Government. The seals placed by the...
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Pais tell a ra us.
The SpectatorIt is stated on high authority, that Chevalier Bunsen, who left London two days since, had been recalled by the King of Prussia, to occupy an im- portant post now vacant in the...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. Ireland was still the prominent subject in the House of Commons bed night. First there was a conversation on the fabricated report. Mr. MACKINNON asked whether the...
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A public dinner, in honour of the election of Archduke
The SpectatorJohn of Austria to the Regency of Germany, was held on Thursday, at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, Greenwich; the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Ambassador, in the chair. Count...
A Privy Council was held, yesterday afternoon, at Dublin Castle;
The Spectatorwhen proclamations were agreed to, offering rewards as followsâ" For the arrest of William Smith O'Brien, 5001.; for Francis T. Meagher John B. Dillon, and Michael Doheny,...
The Society for the Promotion of Colonization held a meeting
The Spectatoryesterday, in the Guildhall; at which the Lord Mayor presided. Mr. F. Scott, M.P., moved and supported a resolution that more sustained systematic colonization is urgently re-...
It is rumoured in Liverpool, that last night the Mayor
The Spectatorand Magistrates came to the conclusion that it was necessary to take the more dangerous of the Liverpool demagogues into custody; and in pursuance of this decision a warrant was...
The Paris news of yesterday is wholly external. Accounts had
The Spectatorbeen received by electric telegraph from Bologna, that four of the Legations have risen against the Pope, respectively to join Tuscany or the Union of Upper Italy. A Pro-...
A Cabinet Council was held on Monday, which sat two
The Spectatorhours; again on Thursday a Council was called suddenly, on the receipt of despatches from Ireland; and a Council is to be held today. The Duke of Wellington had an interview...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK Exclaim:ix, FRIDAY Arras/mow. Reports of the prevalence of the potato-blight, in conjunction with the mena- cing aspect of Irish politics, have produced considerable...
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LORD GREY'S VANCOUVER'S ISLAND JOB.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 26th July 1848. SruâAgreeing most cordially in your condemnation of Lord Grey's wholesale pandering to the interests of monopoly in...
THEATRES AND MUSIC.
The SpectatorNo theatrical event of any consequence has occurred during the past week. The concerts also are entirely overâall but Jenny Lind's; and the two Italian Operahonses are now the...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMERCY TO IRELAND. OPINIONS as to the probable effect of the new measure in Ireland vary even among the best informed,âsome anticipating that it will altogether prevent,...
The concert which Mademoiselle Lind, with her characteristic benevo- lence,
The Spectatorhas undertaken to give for the benefit of the Hospital for Consump- tion and Diseases of the Chest, takes place, in the Concert-room of Her Majesty's Theatre, on Monday morning....
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THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM WE MAKE TREATIES.
The SpectatorWE have heard of treaties of Waitangi, which Lord Stanley deemed so binding ; with King Peppul, which Lord Palmerston makes such sacrifices to uphold ; with the Kafka, which...
COLONIAL OFFICE REPLY TO SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH.
The SpectatorTin reply which Mr. Hawes consented to make for the Colonial Office to Sir William Molesworth has created a sensation never produced by the Member :for Lambeth's happiest...
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THE TRADE IN CHILDREN TO BURY. _
The SpectatorA CONTEMPORARY calls attention' to the poisonings which have become a practice among certain classes of the population, for the sake of gain, by frauds on insurance-offices and...
REGULATION OF PUBLIC MEETINGS.
The SpectatorA SENSE is growing in France and England, that while discus- sion is left perfectly free, it is desirable to keep it distinct from plotting, which pursues its unhallowed...
DRESS IN THE ARMY.
The SpectatorSURELY the authorities at the Horse Guards presume consider- able moral cowardice or extraordinary good-nature in the British Army, or they would not persecute the officers as...
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorCOIRESPONDENCS. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. Consisting of Au- thentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons ; and intended as a...
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TALFOURD'S FINAL MEMORIALS OF CHARLES LAME. THE principal' topic of
The Spectatorthese volumes is a family disease and a terrible event, that influenced the career of Charles and Mary Lamb ; but which, however necessary to be considered in forming an...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBooze. Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with Sketches of some of his Companions. By Thomas Noon Talfourd, one of his...
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MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
The SpectatorResults of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last- Number of Summer deaths. average. Zymotic Diseases 390 .... 257...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 20th July, at Sanquhar House, near Forces, the Wife of Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming, Esq., of Altyre, of a son. On the 21st, at Potternewton Hall, near Leer% the...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, July 25. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED. Pauley and Co. Sheffield, silver-platers ; as far as regards ⢠. Fisher-Davies and Harness, Aldermanbury,...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The Spectator'BULL/ON. iler or. Foreign Gold In Bars, Standard ... £3 )7 9 Foreign Gold in Coin, Portugal Pieces 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars, Standard .. . 0 4111 METALS. Per...