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Not unearned, we have said, is the holvday ; for
The Spectatoralthough Easter falls early this year, something practicer has been done in Parlia- ment, and more has been ascertained. Of things done—the Budget has already been produced ;...
Wishes and aims take the place of policy among French
The Spectatorpublics men, more transparently even than with us ; and more culpably, considering the dangerous condition of France. The National As- sembly elected by universal suffrage is...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorP.intrAlrENT has gone, for its Easter holyday, not so ill-earned as usual. Even the curtailed sittings of the present week have not been unemployed. Lord Brougham signalized...
The most striking event " out of doors " is
The Spectatorthe bitter cold wea- ther. The wags do Say that this Easter is a North-Easter. Poli- tical movement, like every other vitality, is frozen up. Meetings are held, by dauntless...
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Vtlintrn guir rrirrrhings in Varlinnititt.
The SpectatorPRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF TILE WEER. Hoe= or Loans. Monday, March 25. Royal Assents—Master's Jurisdiction in ,Chancery Bill, brought in by Lord Brougham, and read a second...
The Erfurt Parliament of the Prusso-German party has met only
The Spectatorto adjourn ; having done nothing except to exasperate the divisions of the German Princes. The King of Prussia has re- taliated the King of Wurtemberg's attack on his project...
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Stanip-elatiee noir payabk in Great Britain and Ireland.
The SpectatorBond given as a security for the payment of any definite sum of money : Is lieu of such. Stanip-da- ties, it or poescd to con- stitute the f ol lowing. Bond given as a...
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10t Ortrufulio.
The SpectatorAt a Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, a deputation was appointed to wait on the Lords of the Treasury and confer with them on the subject of the expenses of prosecutions paid by...
(curt.
The SpectatorTHE Queen and Prince Albert left town for Windsor on Monday, and have maintained a comparative privacy during Passion week; the Dutchess of Kent being the only guest at the...
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The appointment of Lord Seymour to be Chief Commissioner of
The SpectatorWoods and Forests has created a vacancy in the representation of Totnes. Lord Seymour stands for reelection ; but a party in the borough is dissatisfied with his Lordship, and...
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IRELAND,
The SpectatorA deputation from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce has been received by Lord Clarendon at an audience respecting the injury to the trade of Dublin which may be apprehended in...
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seonAri
The SpectatorMr. John Watson Gordon, President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, he., is appointed the Queen's Limner in Scotland, in the room of the late Sir William Allan. Sir...
Surript auh Culnuid.
The SpectatorFitANCE. — In the Assembly on Wednesday, towards the end of the sit- ting, the President announced that he had received a proposition of an unconstitutional nature, and he was...
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31liortlIn1Irno.
The SpectatorThe Dutchess of Orleans has arrived at Ludwigslust (Schwerin). Her 'loyal Highness will remain a few days with her family, and then pro- ceed to England with the Count de Paris...
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POSTSCWPT
The Spectator• 81117110AY. The morning papers universally wear the stamp of the holydays upon them, in their barrenness of all political news; there is " nothing" in them. Now documents...
LARCENY SUMMARY JURISDICTION BILL.—Following an inaccurate report in a leadingjournal
The Spectatorlast week, we represented Mr. Law's amendment—for dividing the bill into two bills, and thus separating the provisions regarding the value of the thing stolen from those...
At the Liverpool Assizes, on Thursday, Dr. Nolan, minister of
The Spectatora congrega- tion of Independents at Manchester, appeared as plaintiff in an action of slander against one Pettigrew, for stating in the presence of ; ,Qtre Feld : that Dr....
forniVilY, but still enjeysel- vellenf.. weailiyanuans have left Madrid for
The SpectatorSantander, to .a robust and healtki Apple, nurse for the inflitimPatiently expec t ed by the Spaniah.nation; . I To, • , 1 - • •. - .- • The -King ofTrussie will go to...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSATURDAY TWELVI O'CLOCX. Both the English and Foreign Stock Markets are without material change in prices, or the occurrence of any business of importance. Consols opened at...
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Orntrzo.
The SpectatorHer Majesty's takes the lead next week at the reopening of the Opera- houses : on Tuesday, Lucia di Lammermoor will introduce Miss Catherine Hayes with Mr. Sims Reeves ; and on...
Drury Lane, the Lyceum, the Haymarket, all promise grand spectacles
The Spectatorfor Easter Monday. The Adelphi, which regards Church holydays no more than a Puritan, puts forth no special attraction.
GORHAM'S CASE.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 26th _March 1850. Sea.—You have not, in your able article of last week on the " Gorham Movement," done full justice to the observations of...
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
The SpectatorLincoln's Inn, 28th March 1850. Sui—Your courtesy tempts me to trespass again. Illustrations arc dan- gerous things I find fault with your parallel between the Church and the...
BIRTHS,
The SpectatorOn the 22d March, at Brighton, the Lady of Colonel Renews Tynte, M.P., of a son. On the 22d, at Addington Rectory, near Maidstone, the Wife of the Rev. George R. Paulson, of...
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STATE OF TEE PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AT F. A STM - T.
The SpectatorTHE - Loam. .3Iinisterial _Sills, and the Stage arrived at. Read a third time and t sent to Commons Ecclesiastical Commissioners Ditto Railway Abandonment, Ditto Convict...
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THE TRIBULATION OF THE CR ItCH.
The SpectatorTIME in its advance proves fertile in correspondence on the Gor- ham case, its incidents and consequences ; some of the said corre- spondence finding its way into bulky...
CHANCERY ITSELF " IN CHANCERY."
The Spectator-Tim Lord Chancellor has been confined to his home by illness for several weeks ' and it is not understood that the signs of his speedy restoration to full efficiency are at all...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorREST. Row various and innumerable are the uses of this little word! There is the rest of a traveller, and of the Sabbath, which Graham and Elliott have commemorated ; or of...
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WRONGS', WITHOUT. REDRESS.'
The SpectatorANNE Mmuurr is " respited." Bird and his wife, the master and mistress of Mary Anne Parsons, are acquitted. ! The reader might think that those results have been accidentally...
DUTCHIES OF CORNWALL AND LANCASTER.
The SpectatorSou before the adjournment, an episode in the Reform movement was attempted by an inroad into the Dutchies ; but the terms of Mr. Trelawny's motion were too complex clearly to...
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A WAR-SONG OF PEACE.
The SpectatorIT is the custom of the day to crown the victor with palm, not laurel. The affectation in vogue is to ring the praises of peace at the triumph of the conqueror, and to make his...
NATIONAL GALLERY AND ROYAL ACADEMY.
The SpectatorURGED by the aggressive demonstrations of Mr. Hume and others, Lord John Russell has announced the Ministerial intentions with regard to the future of the Royal Academy and the...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorNEKLE'S LIFE OF THE DUKE OF KENT. * IT would seem that royalty is fated to be unfortunate in do- mestic relations. A better "family man" than George the Third it would be...
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SPENCER'S TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND. * Ma. SPENCER
The Spectatoris an American Episcopal clergyman, who started for Europe in the spring of 1848, intending to visit England and the Continent of Europe. A friend, bound for the Holy Land and...
THE FOREST AND THE FORTRESS. *
The SpectatorIx some degree this fiction confirms the opinion we hazarded, from the nature of the subject, when we acknowl the receipt of the volumes. Miss Jewry has not been able t e o d...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBowls. The Life and Correspondence of Andrew Combe, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, &c. By George Combe. Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy,...
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When Mr. E. G. Wakefield was going to publish a
The Spectatorbook on Colonization, an instinctive sense that its out-speaking might be too robust for a Board, induced him to offer his resignation as Director of the New Zealand Com- pany....
NAVAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorAterntaurr, March 27.—The following promotions havethis day taken place, con- sequent on the death of Vice-Admiral the Hon. D. H. Mackay : Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir G. F....
THE ARTS.
The SpectatorFirst in order, of size at least, is the exhibition of the Society of British Aetists, at their spacious and handsome rooms in Suffolk Street. We have already mentioned the...
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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, March 26. PARTNEssinits DissoLvEn.-Williams and Co. Lower Wookey Mills, Somerset- shire, paper-manufacturers-Noakes and Goble, Three Crown Square, Borough, hop-...
PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Salurd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Mara. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 951 951 959 96 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 91 per Cents...