2 DECEMBER 1854

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Is there to be a loan, or is there not

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?—that is the question which has perhaps been most anxiously mooted this week. Point was first given to the expectation by the assertion of the Times, that the Chancellor of the...

The accounts from the seat of war continue to come

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tardily, and are slightly anticipated by doubtful Russian reports. In reality nothing decisive appears to have occurred since the 5th of last month ; both sides, even powerfully...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Pxn.mixEmr is summoned by a proclamation in the Gazette to meet on the 12th of this month, for the despatch of business. It is understood that there is more than one reason for...

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if0 Court.

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AT a Privy Council held on Monday, at Windsor Castle, it was ordered that a proclamation should be issued summoning Parliament to meet on the 12th of December, for the despatch...

tht 311ttrointio.

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The City of Westminster has been somewhat behind with her meeting to support the Patriotic Fund. A fortnight ago, a meeting was convened in St. Martin's Hall, and the High...

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VrottiurrB.

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Mr. Cardwell attended a dinner in the Town-hall of Oxford on Wednes- day, given to the retiring Mayor, Mr. Richard Spiers. The health of the City Members gave occasion for a...

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IRELAND.

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Another Irish Member of Parliament, Mr. Wyndham Geoid, one of he representatives of the county of Limerick, died this week of apoplexy, while he was preparing to set out for...

SCOTLAND.

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Upwards of fifty war-medal officers of the different services entertained the Duke of Richmond at dinner in Edinburgh, on Wednesday, to testify their thankfulness for his...

foreign ant tninnial.

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THE CRIMEA.—The direct intelligence from the Crimea, by letter, comes down to the 13th November, and is chiefly taken up with refer- ences to the battle of Inkerman and its...

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A Supplement to the Gazette of the 24th 'November, issued

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on Tuesday, contains a proclamation by the Queen, summoning Parliament for the 12th December, "for the despatch of divers urgent and important af- fairs." There are now nine...

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EIRTES.

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On the 21st October, in Lansdowne Crescent, Leamington, the Wife of W. E.. Jones, Esq., M.A., barrister-at-law, of a son and heir. On the 23d November, at Minster Acres,...

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POSTSCRIPT. •

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SATURDAY MORNING. News from Sebastopol down to the 18th November per the Nil steamer, and to the 22d vita St. Petersburg, has been received this morn- i n g. Of the former, we...

The Morning Post, citing a letter from Bucharest as its

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authority, states that "the long inactivity of Omar Pasha is chiefly attributable to the state of his army, which has been kept short of all the necessaries for a winter...

The Standard of last night gave expression to a report

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which had not yet appeared in print. The current report couples with the name men- tioned by the Standard that of another officer of high rank, as painfully made conscious of...

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, and sat for three

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hours. Lord Palmerston reached London, from Paris, about an hour after the Council assembled, and joined in its deliberations. Sir Joseph Paxton was elected for Coventry this...

"We are informed," says the Daily News, " upon authority that

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leaves no doubt on our own minds as to the correctness of the statement, that the treaty of alliance between Austria and the Western Powers has been signed. As no official...

Mr. Sidney Herbert has issued a circular to the Colonels

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of the Mi- litia regiments about to be embodied, informing thorn, that as there are no available barracks for the large body of men who will be under arms, the regiments will...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCEIANOR, FRIDAY APTZRNOOK. The announcement this week that Parliament is to assemble earlier than was originally intended, has created several surmises respecting the...

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Chtertg.

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The week, extending from last Saturday inclusive to the present date, may be aptly called the week of reappearances. On the Saturday itself, Mr. Buckstone reappeared, and by his...

TOPICS OF THE DAY

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MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. Mnersrees will meet - under circumstances unprecedented in our day, seldom equalled in the history of the country. There are per- haps only two occasions...

THE BACH SOCIETY.

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The Bach Society is a body of eminent professional musicians, whose bond of union is a genuine love of their art, and whose special object is the study and practice of the great...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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The tragedy of Rosamonde is said to have caused something like a tra- gedy in reality. Mademoiselle Rachel—thus says the Mousquetaire—waa BO dissatisfied with the meed of...

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IMPEACHMENT OF MINISTERS.

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THE letter from "An Old Ministerialist," in a subsequent page of our paper, presents a bill of indictment against Ministers, which cannot be dismissed with a hasty "answer."...

THE COMING LOAN.

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ThE public assumes with much probability that in seeking the increased means which the expanding war requires, Mr. Gladstone will take a loan ; and it is further anticipated,...

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THE TURKS ON THE PRITTH.

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CONCURRENTLY with the campaign in the Crimea we are told on all sides that there is to be a campaign on the Pruth; and that Omar Pasha is to create a diversion in Bessarabia '...

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THE RUSSIAN EXPOSITION OF 1855.

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WE have to welcome a new class of volunteer assistance in the war. Sir Joseph Paxton, addressing the electors of Coventry, has claimed for science a share in the enterprise...

THE PERRY RAILWAY COLLISION.

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WITTE what face can City men censure Mr. Perry for draw- ing a cheek upon his Windsor trustee ? Some two thousand pounds and more were lodged with that respectable intermediary...

COLD AND COVERING IN THE CRIMEA.

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IT is so cold in the Crimea, said a person who claimed to have a practical experience, that when men pull off their boot sometimes the toe comes off with it; and it is a mild...

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I rtttro to t bitor.

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NEW-YEAR'S GIFT FOR OUR SOLDIERS AT SEBASTOPOL. 85 Hyde Park Gardens, let _December 1854. Sue—A letter having appeared in the gdumns of the Times from Mr. lEngscote, suggesting...

THE SOLDIER'S FOOD AND CLOTHING.

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Lesketh How, Ambleside, 28th November 1854. Sin—In the last number of your paper, you did me the honour to insert a letter on " the food of the soldier," which I was induced to...

THE SOLDIER'S

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21st November 1854. Em—In your number of the 4th instant was inserted a letter on the sol- dier's cap, signed by " An Old Shako-Wearer." As I have myself also worn a...

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THE WAR ADMINISTRATION.

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SIR — I observe that in your various papers on the War, you have hitherto a bstained from blaming Ministers for the manner in which it has been con- ducted; and such being the...

"WHAT .A.RE THE GREEKS ?

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20th November 1854. Slit—In the department of " Notes and Queriee " in your last paper, you start the question, What are the Greeks ?" and suggest that " the Bush- mans or the...

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THE MALTRUSIAN PHILOSOPHY.

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Cambridgeslaire, 20th November. Sue—You quote from Professor Rickards, without disapprobation, the fol- lowing sentence—" it is evident that if the population has been doubled,...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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THE BREVET. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 28.—The undermentioned officers, who were placed upon re- tired full-pay previously to her Majesty's Royal Warrant of the 6th October 1854, to be...

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NAVAL GAZETTE.

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ADMIRALTY, Nov. 24.-The following promotions have this day taken place, con- sequent on the death, on the 81st of August last, of Rear-Admiral of the White David...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, November 28. Pawreensuirs DissoLVen.-Haywood jun. and Co. Folesb ill, Warwickshire, Abend- manufacturers ; as far as regards E. Budworth-Chinuery and Denibas,...

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PRICES CURRENT,

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BRITISH FUNDS. &turd. (Closing Monday. Prirma.) Tuesday. Iffsdnes Thurs. Fridsy, 3 per Cent Consols 92 1 92 91 els 911 Ditto for Account 94 921 911 91 91 9 94 911 3 per Cents...

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London: Printed by JO , OSPH Cr-teem', of 320, Strand, in the

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County of Middlesex,Printer, at the office of Jossen CLAYTON, WO. 10, Crane COhrt, in the Perish of St. Dunstan's in the west, in the City of London; and Published by the...

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BOOKS.

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OUR CAMP IN TURKEY. * Tins volume is a remarkable example of the power of novelty in imparting interest to details, while the same mode of composition not only becomes vapid but...

c iatator DECEMBER 2, 1854.

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OSBURN'S MONITMENTAL HISTORY OF EGYPT. * WHATEVER opinion may be formed

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of Mr. Osburn's critical judg- ment and his theories or speculations respecting the history of ancient Egyp t, there are some points on which his treatment of i the subject s...

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FIVE .NEW VOLUMES OF POETRY. * THE poets or poetasters of

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the present day are seldom wanting in the rhetoric of their art, however deficient they may be in other respects. Mr. Sandes is an example of the reverse. His thoughts are...

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Warning, by Lady Marshall, is founded on a legend, or

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it may be a fact, that the space between Bangor and the Great Orme's Head, the Isle of Anglesea, and Penmaenmawr, was once a fertile district, though now covered by the sea. The...

Lyric Notes on the Russian War. It is difficult just

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now to satisfy the mind by poetry on the Russian war, because the reality equals or surpasses the powers of the imagination, the actual heroism rising to the ideal. In this...

In The Vision of Prophecy, and other Poems, by Mr.

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Burns, there is no deficiency of rhetoric. In fact, the style of the writer is generally too much an echo,—less, indeed, of any particular au- thor, than of that composite...

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Many of the Poems by Aubrey de Very had been

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already published, but they have not left a sufficiently distinct impression on the mind to enable us to recognize the old, if we ever saw them. The volume consists of...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boom. Four Years of the Court of Henry VIII. Selection of Despatches written by the Venetian Ambassador, Sebastian Giustinian, and ad- dressed to the Signory of Venice, 12th...

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TEE ARUNDEL SO-CIETT. A second six of the wood-plates after Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua have been issued by the Arundel Society, accompanied by the promised...

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JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART.

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TUE late Editor of the Quarterly Review died this day week, at Abbots- ford, under the roof of Mrs. Hope, his last surviving child. His life, during his latter years, had been...

1.1R. RUSKIN'S LECTURES.

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Mr. Ruskin delivered on Saturday last the second of his triad of lec- tures on Decorative Colour as applicable to architectural and other pur- poses ; the special subject being...

TUE ROYA.L GALLERY OP ART.*

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We referred some time ago, when we saw at Messrs. Colnaghi's the w ater-colour copies from the pictures here engraved, to the project of which the realized commencement is...