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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorOnsintrermn . of Ministers in the Commons and defeat on minor points in the Lords, are the athieveinents o f revived Tory Op- Vosition. - Emboldened by the amount of his...
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The publication of the diplomatic correspondence on the Grecian affair
The Spectatorthrows an unpleasant air of ridicule over the whole subject, without disarming its ugly tendencies. It seems that the two most urgent points in the dispute which Sir Thomas Wyse...
The Ten-hours Act, which magisterial and official compromises have placed
The Spectatorin so equivocal and unsatisfactory a footing, is now the subject of renewed agitation. The Short-time agitators are incited to resume the work of legislation, which ought to...
Vritatro nub rrrbng in arliantrut.
The SpectatorPRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Horn OF Loans. Monday, rob. 25. Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, considered in Committee ; and amended by the Opposition, after divisions....
Paris has passed quite safely through the 24th of February.
The SpectatorThere was a grand demonstration of sympathizing memory at the funeral column in the Place de la Bastile, and the railings were hung with immortelles. The Police removed the...
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'!it 31fatrufn1is.
The SpectatorA Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for despatch of business. On the motion of Alderman Sidney, it was ordered that there be laid before the Court a return of the number of...
fly Cunt.
The SpectatorTau Queen enjoys good health at Buckingham Palace ; takes her usual walking exercise; and has driven out in the Parks with her guests and children. The Dutchess of Kent visited...
'ji Vruttinrtg.
The SpectatorThe renewed Ten-hours Act agitation proceeds with united vigour hi_ the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and the West Riding of York- • shire. A large meeting of the...
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311i5allnurnun.
The SpectatorThe Queen has resolved to purchase for the Prince of Wales, by "a donation in one sum, the perpetual right of immediate admission for a patient into some of the leading...
,furtigu nub entnuint.
The SpectatorFaariez.—The chief political movement of the hour is the preparation for the election of representatives in room of those members who arc now voluntary exiles, to evade trial...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorThe province of Ulster is in a state of alarming commotion on the agi- tated questions of tenure and rent. Incendiary fires are lighted in every direction—fifteen of them are...
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Vague rumours come from Paris, through the Turin papers Opinions
The Spectatorand Concordia, and through private correspondence from Milan, that an Austrian ship had exchanged shots with an English ship in chase of a Greek vessel ; that the English Consul...
BANK OF ENGLAND.
The SpectatorGovernment Securities, (in- cluding Dead WeightInnosityl £14,399,986 Other Securities 9,687,0116 Notes 11,437,600 Gold and Silver -Coin 796,066 £36,320,869 £36,320,869 •...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. The House of Commons spent several hours last night in Committee on the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill. Several detailed attempts were made to cripple the bill...
It is understood that the Court will leave Buckingham Palace
The Spectatorfor Wind- sor Castle this afternoon, and remain absent from town about a week. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was sufficiently recovered yesterday to take a carriage drive for...
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ANALYSIS OF THE LAND - BURDENS DIVISION OF LAST WEEK.
The SpectatorMr. Disraelis Jfinority. Ministerial Majority. The Absent. England : Counties.. 107 England : Counties .. 27 England : Counties.. 23 Boroughs. 97 Boroughs. 183 Boroughs. 60...
COntrts nub Sum
The SpectatorThere have been several events during the past theatrical week, but most of them are of comparatively trifling importance. The revival of Mr. Jerrold's Prisoner of Warlast...
PRINCIPAL HOUSE OF COMMONS BUSINESS FOR NEXT WEEK. Monday, March
The Spectator4. Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, and other Government mea- sures, to be advanced a stage. Many Amendments to be moved on the Parlia- mentary Voters Bill in Committee....
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arrraisoos. The course of the fluctuations of the English Stock Market has been nearly similar to what was described in our last report : Consols have...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorBENJAMIN DISR A KU. PEEL took three years to construct his Conservative party on the rains of the old Tory party, and at last he mustered three hun- dred to oppose the torrent...
The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, have
The Spectatorissued their prospectus for 1850 announcing the opening of that theatre on the 16th instant, and "offering to then- audiences during the forthcoming season, a series of...
The opening-day of Her Majesty's Theatre, next week, is not
The Spectatoryet for- mally announced. The opening-day of Her Majesty's Theatre, next week, is not yet for- mally announced. Mr. Lumley has been enjoying eclat in Paris by a series of...
The Amateur Musical Society had their first concert of the
The Spectatorseason on Monday &ening, at the Hanover Square Rooms. This society, the members of which belong chiefly to the aristocracy, has for its object the cultivation of orchestral...
Mr. Willy has enlarged the scale of the concerts he
The Spectatorhas been giving for some time in St. Martin's Hall, by the introduction of great orchestral composition; which his well-chosen and well-trained band execute with precision and...
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OFFICIAL PLAN OF EXTRA.MITRAL INTERMENT.
The SpectatorA GRA2Th social reform is set forth in the Report of the Board of Health on a General Scheme of Extramural Sepulture : will the half-minded statesmen of our day have the zeal...
111..a PUBLIC EDUCATION BILL.
The SpectatorMn. Fox has the honour of beginning in Parliament a movement which cannot fail of ultimate success, and the reception of his measure shows that a sense of that inevitable...
CAPTAIN PITMANS CASE.
The Spectatorvery absence of which tended to confirm conclusions adverse to Captain Pitman. From a set of small pamphlets which he has just published, however, it would appear that he had at...
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CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMINAL PUNISIBERNTS.
The Spectator" TheAtny, one of the most difficult questions this we have in these times, what to do with our criminals P" formed, according to Mr. Carlyle's March pamphlet, the bland inquiry...
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STATE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
The SpectatorIx the Hunterian oration of the present year, Mr. Skey turned the discourse, not unfitly, on the position of h is brethren in medi- cine and surgery ; and he is thought by many...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE ROOKERIES OF LONDON.. IN the course of pastoral duties Mr. Beames, "Preacher and Assistant of St. James, Westminster," became extensively ac- quainted with the London hells...
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DITSON'S CIRCASSI.L. • Mn. GEORGE LEIGHTON DITSON is an American, who
The Spectatorhas crossed the Atlantic seven times, has sojourned in the Old World for ten years, and has embraced in his actual survey all that the ancient poet fixed as the boundary of the...
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Thise two changes would abolish so much of the present
The Spectatorlaw relating to bates and letters of administration as depends on mere jurisdiction and notabilia. They would effect, though in a different manner, the pur- poses of the bill of...
METHS.
The SpectatorOn the 20th February, at Afonkfryston Hall, Yorkshire, the Wife of Benjamin Hemsworth, Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st, at the Rectory, Orcheston St. Mary, the Wife of the Rev....
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBooxs. The week does not greatly differ from its predecessors of the present year, except in the scantiness of new editions ; of which in strictness there is but on ,e the...
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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, February 26. PARTNElisHres DISSOLVEIL—Fawcus and Co. Seaham, and Stephenson and Co. Hartlepool, ship-brokers—Boughey and Allkins, Newport, Shropshire bendware-...
PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Cloaing Prices.) Saturd. Moschy. Nesday. Wednes. 3 per Cent Consols 951 Ditto for Account 951 3 per Cents Reduced esi 31 per Cents 98 Long Annuities 8i Bank...