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The Irish accounts renew the descriptions of horror,—people feeding on
The Spectatormiserable food, or starving outright ; numbers ejected; dogs ring on dead bodies; and the like. The streets of Lon- don ortd- , the country round strains *ithggroups of Irish,...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE Commons met on Thursday, and got through some business in the way of discussing "supplies" for her Majesty. Strangely enough, the attendance of the " Financial Reformers"...
The question of Protection is dwindling to personal disputes,— a
The Spectatorstage which had better be hurried over as promptly as possible. Much has been made of a controversial squabble in writing between the Duke of Bedford and one of his tenants, Mr....
The new Legislative Assembly of France has been taken up
The Spectatorwith the formalities of the opening. Judged by its proceedings thus far, it appears to have altered in character as compared with the Constituent Assembly just dissolved, but...
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• Debates anb time:imp in Varliament.
The SpectatorPRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OF ColiMoris. Thursday, May 31. Questions and Explanations—Navy Es- timates: postponed resolution debated and agreed to—Army Estimates:...
The American papers tell of discord—continued, perhaps in- creasing discord,
The Spectatorin Canada ; rioting, almost revolutionary, in New York. The British-Canadians continue to be angry because Lord Elgin plays the part of Governor ; " the Bowery boys" of New York...
German and Austrian news remains without material altera- tion in
The Spectatorits main features. The Frankfort Government still holds out bravely, and has made a decided effort to raise in behalf of its own authority the peoples of Germany against the...
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The SpectatorTIM Queen and Prince Albert returned, with their children, from Os- borne to Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday afternoon; all in excellent health. Her Majesty held a drawingroom,...
Zbe ttropolts.
The SpectatorAn amended bill of ten clauses is about to be issued to the members of * 5 City Corporation, "for the regulation of elections be the city of Lon- don, connected with the...
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The SpectatorThe Bishops-designate of Victoria and Prince Rupert's Land were con- secrated on Tuesday, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Metropoli- tan Cathedral; a great number of...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland met at Holyrood House on Thursday week; and as the'day was the 'one fixed for the celebration of the Queen's birthday,...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorWe have heard that Earl Ducie, the celebrated agricultural experiment- alist, and proprietor of the example farm at Totworth, Gloucestershire, has entered into a coalition with...
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The SpectatorFaatroa.—The debate on M. Ledra-Rollin's motion for an inquiry on General Changarnier's conduct was brought to a close on Friday night, by a vote of 308 to 260 in favour of...
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litistellaneous.
The SpectatorThe birthday of the Queen of England was celebrated by the King of Prussia on the 24th May by a grand dinner given at Charlottenburg to Lord Westmoreland, the members of the...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. The House of Commons spent the greater part of yesterday evening in Committee of Supply on the Miscellaneous Estimates, with a renewal of the very desultory...
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Some Of the journalisfte carifidg on a controversy respecting the
The Spectatorsize and form of the Parliame:ntary and official Blue Books, of which a third variety has just appeared. There is the folio; the old octavo, in which, for example, the Poor-law...
THEATRES AND- MUSIC.
The SpectatorThe manner in which Don Giovanni Ives produced on Thursday may be regarded as a "great fact " in the annals of Her Majesty's Theatre; scarcely less remarkable than its...
The Morning Chronicle has given a new turn to the
The Spectatorreports respecting the marriage of the Conde de Montemolin—" It was rumoured a few days since that this illustrious person was about to marry an English lady; but it is now...
The National of yesterday morning says that a total change
The Spectatorhas taken place in the policy of the French Government with respect to Italy—that a rupture of the armistice for eight days, concluded on the 22d, and an im- mediate resumption...
There was a review of the Enrolled Pensioners in Hyde
The SpectatorPark yester- day, in order that medals might be given to a great many of the Penin- sular veterans; the unenrolled Pensioners also attending for the same purpose. The Duke of...
In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, yesterday, the case of Prince Albert
The Spectatorversus Strange came to a conclusion. The Solicitor-General stated, that the advisers of her Majesty and the Prince felt it consistent with their duty to talfe a decree agaiast...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY Arms:can. The East India Company have given notice of their intention toreduce the inte- rest of their Bond Debt from 41. 10s., its present rate, to...
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The German company at Drury Lane have performed the Zauberfote
The Spectatortwice this week. It was not less satisfactory as a whole, and eveu more satisfactory in its individual parts, than the performances of this company have usually been. The part...
In the seventh Philharmonic concert, performed on Monday, the instru-
The Spectatormental music was excellent: Beethoven's Symphony in C, and Mendels- sohn's in A minor; the Overtures to Leonora and Les Deux Journies, and Mendelssohn's Serenade , admirably...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorSOVEREIGNTY AND THE MAJORITY. APROPOS to the state of affairs in Canada, our Whig contempo- rary the Globe lately put forth an extraordinary doctrine, with the remark that the...
Mr. Charles Dance has worked with considerable tact at a
The SpectatorFrench piece called Le Mariage d Orgueil; and his version has been produced with suc- cess at the Lyceum Theatre. The French drama is by no means a new one. It is characterized...
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THE DOOM OF QUARANTINE.
The SpectatorTHE arguments against the continuance of quarantine-regula- tions have come to flower in the report just issued by the Board of Health, and now, it is to be hoped, they will...
DELEGATES FROM CANADA.
The SpectatorSIR ALLAN M'NAB and Mr. Moffatt, two chiefs of the Opposi- tion in Canada, are coming to England as delegates from their party to protest against the Rebellion-Losses measure,...
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WORKING TO SOME PURPOSE.
The SpectatorMn. Casnzus COCHRANE has issued a circular "to the Trades- people, Mechanics, and Operatives of the Metropolis and Country at large," on the "Social Improvements" which it lies...
THE OFFENDED REPUBLIC.
The SpectatorIr is east to sneer at the claim of the great American Republic to be deemed a "free " country while such peculiar kind of tyranny swayi its commercial capital as that exhibited...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorSIR JAMES STEPHEN'S ESSAYS ON ECCLESIASTICAL BIOGRAPHY.. THESE volumes differ from the other collections of essays which the Edinburgh Review has furnished to the public, by...
REDHILL AND METTRAY.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. , Austin Friars, 29th May 1849. Slit—As one of those most 'deeply interested in the success of the newly-formed Farm School at Bedhill, and...
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WERNE'S VOYAGE ON THE WHITE NILE.*
The SpectatorFERDINAND WERNE seems to be a German adventurer. In 1822, he forsook his law studies to join the Greeks as one of the Philhellene. Some fifteen years afterwards, he turns up in...
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LIFE-INSURANCE PREMIUMS AND POLICIES. * THE inquiring spirit of the age,
The Spectatorwhich has put so many things "upon their trial," has not overlooked the important subject of life-insurance, both in its principles and practice. The rivalry of competition has...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBooms. Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography. By the Right Honourable Sir James Stephen, K.C.B. In two volumes. Rome. A Tour of Many Days. By Sir George Head. In three volumes,...
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THE ARTS.
The SpectatorROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION: STORY PICTURES. THE class of pictures telling a story falls short this year, some of the best hands failing to come up to themselves; and we think...
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Mr. Hogarth, the printseller in the Haymarket, is exhibiting an
The Spectatorinterest- ing collection of "sketches from nature"; which was opened to private view yesterday. From its general character, the collection appears to have been got together...
In the show-room of Messrs. Garrard, goldsmiths to the Crown,
The Spectatorin the llaymarket and Penton Street, may be seen for a few days the prize given by the Emperor of Russia for the Ascot Races; with the Queen's cup, and the Goodwood cup; all...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, May 29. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. C. and A. Duplan, Regent Place, Westminster, grocers-Wayand Bennett, Tunbridge Wells, chemists-White and Co. Liverpool,...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 24th May, at Gaultier Cottage, county Waterford, the Countess of Hunting- on, of a daughter. Op the 25th, at Spring Hall, Suffolk, the Lady of John G. W. Foley. Esq., of...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-orrice, May 29.-Ist Drag. Guards-Cornet J. Kemp (Riding Master) tole Lieut. by purchase, vice Morgan, who retires ; T. Nisbet, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur- chase, vice Kemp....
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorSesturd. Monday., Tuesday. "rears. Thurs. Friday, 3 per Ceft Consols 911 9;9 914 919 911 911 Ditto for Account 91/ 911 919 911 91 914 3 per Cents Reduced 9U 90 89i 6111 899 904...