30 DECEMBER 1848

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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IN 1848 closes one of the most wonderful years in the annals of the world—to be followed by no ordinary year in 1849: 1848 was not a year of conclusions ; everything has been...

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The City Commissioners of Sewers held a meeting on Saturday, under the chairmanship of Mr. Deputy Peacock. Mr. Deputy Harrison moved an amendment to the New Gas Bill, calculated...

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THE guests at Windsor Castle have been numerous this week. The Dutchess of Kent, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl of Liverpool, and Viscount...

'Jbe 41robintes.

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Mr. Thomas Ridgway Bridson has come forward in opposition to Sir Joshua Walmsley as a candidate for Bolton. He is a native of the town, and has filled its municipal offices: in...

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IRELAND.

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The Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin went in state to the Castle on Saturday, and presented the Lord-Lieutenant with an address thanking him for the " temperate, able, and...

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ffortign anb

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Fusel e, first military spectacle in honour of the President of the Republic enalerphice on . Sunday, with a grand review of the garrison of Paris andethe.,National Guards of...

SCOTLAND.

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A public meeting on financial reform, promoted by the Financial Reform Association, was held at Edinburgh on Wednesday, ,evening. The meet- ing, composed of persons of all...

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Among the deaths announced this week is that of Sir

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Augustus Frede- rick d'Este, son of the late Duke of Sussex by Lady Augusta Murray. "Upon the death of the Duke, in 1893, Sir Augustus preferred his claim to succeed to the...

BIRTHS.

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On the 21st December, in Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, the Lady of Sir G. Graham Montgomery, Bart., of Stanhope, of a daughter. On the 22d, at Helensbnrgh, Dumbartonshire, the Wife...

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The arguments in the case of Mr. Duffy were resumed

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in the Dublin Commission Court on Thursday, by Mr. Baldwin for the Crown. Mr. Baldwin contended, that " if the offences of the Treason-Felony Act were now created for the first...

The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing on Tuesday

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last, says that the accounts from Munster of Prince Waldemar are much More fitvourable, and that his physicians consider the danger to be removed. Last night's Gazette...

In the Roman Chamber of Deputies, on the 18th, the

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Ministers tendered their resignations, and requested that they should be accepted by the Cham- bers; but stated they would not absolutely resign till a superior Commission Of...

An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. Carter on the

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bodies of the two boys killed by the crowd at. the Victoria Theatre on Boxing-night. The evidence showed that the boys died from suffocation simply; and the story ascribed to...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The French National Assembly resumed the discussion of the bill rela- tive to the Salt-tax on Thursday. M. Bourzat moved an amendment, to the effect that the duty...

In the Austrian National Assembly, on the 20th December, Strobach

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was elected President in place of Smolka, who acted as President of the Assembly during the period of the Vienna insurrection. This was deemed a Ministerial triumph. The...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK ETCH/MIT, FRIDAY .AZIKKNOON. The English Stock Market was very firm at the commencement of the week; Consols for Account having reached 89. Several large quantities of...

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IRELAND.

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County of Roscommon, 23d December. In my last letter I mentioned in detail certain circumstances belonging to an extensive district of this county, which I have made the...

We should not dismiss the holyday entertainments without some notice

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of the theatrical " gambols " at Windsor Castle. Last Thursday was the day from which future Shaksperes and Kembles are, we are told, to date their existence. Queen Victoria...

At Drury Lane, the corps of French equestrian artists who

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reaped laurels at the beginning of the year are again in full activity, and the praises of Mademoiselle Caroline and of Auricle the Clown are again current. They seem to have...

THE CYCLORAMA.

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This is the name given to a novel and strikinglrbeintiful exhibition at the Colosseum, representing in ' continuous succession of views, with a combination of pictorial and...

Even at the theatres where pantomime is the Christmas attraction,

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we find burlesque making great encroachments upon harlequinade; that is to say, the introduction is made the most important part of the work. That of Bluff King Hal has been...

THE THEATRES.

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Last year the Christmas - pieces of Messrs. Planche and n Beckett drew from us a comparison of the two different schools of burlesque. Similar points of contrast are again...

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TAXATION.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 26th December. ;.%.k ake—Our code-of taxation has past doubt been constructed haphazard, and is anomalous and unjust in its operation...

RATIONALE OF PUNISHMENT. TO TICE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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London, 27th December. SIR—In last week's Spectator, (23d December,) you published a hasty letter from me in reference to your comparison of a gaol to a hospital. Will you now...

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THE TEN-HOURS ACT—ITS OPPRESSIVENESS. THE denizens of the factories are

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discovering practically that the Ten-hours Act does not accomplish their happiness. Over-work has its evils, but no-work is worse. The workpeople found that the system of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE GREAT TASK FOR NEXT SESSION. FINANCIAL REFORM must not share the fate which awaits Mr. Cobden's ill-constructed budget ; nor need the supporters of the actual system hope...

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THE BUTLER DIVORCE CASE.

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ILL-ASSORTED marriage, domestic dissension hardening into in- difference if not hatred, bondage without hope of release,—such fate is too common for proceedings like those in...

THE CHRISTMAS-BOX.

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THE baths and lavatories in Orange Street, Leicester Square, have been opened by Sir Henry Dukenlield,—a great Christmas- box to the poor elasses of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields....

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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE 111031 FRANCE. ,

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Paris, December 28. As I told you some Weeks ago, in France, When we merely want to change a Ministry, we change a Government; instead of setting right the coach, we upset it....

PIRACY AND POLICE AT HONGKONG.

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Oust colony of Hon g kon g was founded for the encoura g ement of trade : our Government of Hon g kon g has the oddest way ima- g inable of performin g that function. Chinese...

ABD-EL-KADER.

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Louts -NAPOLHOlt cultivates the g reat, the di g nified, the chival- rots: he has ati opportunity. Iii Algeria' the power of France was resisted for years by one fYtati , w'ho...

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SPECTATOWS-LIIIMA.

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TRAVIL.% Ijarrative.of an Expedition into. Central Australia, performed under the Authority.of 'Tabs Ilajesty'8GovernmeUt, deringthe years 1844, '5, and '6. Together with a No-...

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AINSWORTH'S LANCASHIRE WITCHES.

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MR...krwswortnis genius would seem to be theatrical. His characters, his dialogues, and theactions of his persons, mostly possess a capacity for - visible presentment, if they...

AYTOUN'S LAYS OP THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS.

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IT may be doubted whether past subjects can be properly revived in a past form, especially in a form so limited and local as the narrative or dramatic ballad. This objection...

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E. Y. Z.

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IT may appear somewhat late to notice a literary squib composed for the special amusement of the now expiring year 1848, especially when a series of revolutions has much changed...

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lA cia PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. "':;Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. By William Edmond- 'nn stone Aytearn, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Leases in the University oti of-Edinburgh .'...

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FINE ARTS.

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L'ALLEGRO, ILLUSTRATED BY THE ETCHING CLUB. Is' a proof were needed of the service that such exercitations as these might do to English art, it is furnished by the present...

courts D'ORSA.Y'S PICTURE Or OUR SAVIOUR.

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A picture of Christ by Count d'Orsay f And truly, as pictures go, the gay - Count has produced a work that might take its place among sous of the least discreditable to our...

MUSIC.

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Sortgein the Ballad Opera "Robin Goodfellow." Composed by E. J. Loder. The pretty music of this little opera has obtained for it a long run, which still' continues, at the...

A inictical Treatise on Musical Composition. By G. W. Rohner.

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Treatises on musical composition, German, French, and English, are " plenty as blackberries," and there ought to be some special and sufficing reason for adding to their number....

MR. CUKDALL'S ANCIENT AND MODERN noosmarnis0. 5 In its mechanical branches,

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the art of bookbinding has made immense pro- gress of late years in England; but there has been no corresponding pro. gress in the ornamental part, which should help the book as...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, December 26. PASTNEssimps DinsOLYISD. Pritchard and Aldersey, Liverpool, wine-merchants—Horner and Ryles, Luton, straw. hat-manufaeturers—Westrop and Grover, Sudbury,...

MI[ITARY GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, Dec.21.-10th Regt. of Foot—Ensign C. R. B.

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Calcott to be Lient. with- out purchase, vice Baumgartner. appointed to the 83d Foot ; Gent. Cadet A. B. White, from the Royal Mil. Coll. to be Ensign, vice Calcott. 17th...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Bawd. Monday. Tuesday. Tredusa. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 3) per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent...