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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorWHITSUNTIDE finds the Corn Bill further on its anxious way through the Lords than might have been expected a little while ago; the House having passed the second reading by 211...
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'The United States and Mexico are fairly at war. Mexico
The Spectatorstrikes the first blow ; crossing the Texan frontier, and inflicting on the American General something very like defeat. General Scott and reinforcements of men and treasure are...
Debates anti tlrocetbings inVarliament.
The SpectatorTHE CORN BILL. Monday being the day appointed for the second reading of the Corn Im- portation Bill by the Lords, great anxiety was displayed by the public on that day to gain...
Prince Louis Napoleon has escaped from the French prison at
The SpectatorHam ; and is now, it is said, in London, seeking a passport for Italy. The French seem in general to rejoice at his escape ; and it is even surmised that King Louis Philippe is...
The authorities of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields have registered the birth of
The SpectatorQueen Victoria's fifth child—a daughter. The guns fired ; Parliament have passed addresses to the Queen ; but the fourth Priocess's entry on the scene created no sensation equal...
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gbe Inetrop olio.
The SpectatorA meeting of Liberal Peers took place on Saturday, at Lansdowne House. The result of their deliberation was in every respect what the country would most wish. About seventy...
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The SpectatorTHE Queen's accouchement took place, at Buckingham Palace, on Mon- day. Shortly after two o'clock her Majesty became ill, and at five minutes before three o'clock a princess was...
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gbe girobinres.
The SpectatorThe talk here is, that Mr. Bramley Moore and other gentlemen from Liver- pool, have been in London as a deputation, the object of whose going; had refer- ence to the admission...
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SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe General Assembly of the Church of Scotland commenced its annual session, at Edinburgh, on Thursday last week. In the forenoon, the Marquis of Bute, the Lord High...
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§or-tign ant eolonfal.
The SpectatorFivarcE.—Prince Louis Napoleon, after a captivity of six years, made his escape from the fortress of. Ham on Monday last. The Morning Post supplies the following details—amusing...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorAt the weekly meeting of Repealers at Conciliation Hall, on Monday, a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, announcing his confident hope that at five o'clock of that day, "the...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. In the House of Commons, last night, the Cliatreurzort of the EraUX- QUER made his financial statement- " The House has already been informed by my right...
liftisttllantous.
The SpectatorWe have what we think authority for announcing that their Majesties the Xing and Queen of the French, attended by some of the junior branches of the Royal Family, contemplate...
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The morning papers report the proceedings of a very interesting
The Spectatormeeting which took place in the City yesterday. The Directors of the New Zea- land Company met the Proprietors, to consider the expediency of "wind- ing up." After a long...
Sir Robert Peel left town this morning, for Drayton Manor.
The SpectatorThe Gazette of yesterday notifies the following appointments—The Honour- able Charles Augustus Murray, to be her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt; Lord Napier, to be...
The insurrectionatyspirit in Portugal has again broken out. The downfall
The Spectatorof the Costra Cabral Ministry appears to have been the signal. The Count Villa Real was intrusted with the formation of a Cabinet; and on his failure the Queen oent for the Duke...
MONEYI MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK ETIELLE0754PRIDAT APTERNOOK. The Stock Market has been in an elastic state during the whole week; the certainty of the successful passage of the Corn Bill through the...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorARRIVED -At Gravesend, 234 May, Abbotsford, Buckland, than Bombay ; 27th. Ma. dura, Smith, from Manilla; 28th, Bangalore, Cuttings, from Calcutta; and Tory, Row% from Madras. At...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorPECULIAR BURDENS ON LAND. TER Committee of the Lords have tacitly given up peculiar burdens on land as a plea against Corn-law repeal. They say in their Report*—" The Committee...
LORD STANLEY AND THE COLONIES.
The SpectatorIt is nothing new to see politicians all of a sudden affect to take a deep interest in persons or classes for whom they had before evinced the most perfect indifference. Lord...
. ENGLISH INTERESTS IN THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.
The SpectatorIN the complaints raised, and the jealousies sought to be inspired, regarding the policy pursued by the Dutch Government in re- spect of English interests in the Eastern...
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THE WELLINGTON STATUE.
The SpectatorYou can scarcely do an unkinder thing than iuggeat a plan for the improvement of the Metropolis ; for it not only result! jn opening the door to disfigurement, but provokes a...
HINT TO RAILWAY SPECULATORS.
The SpectatorTun railway traffic of the country is in such a state, growing so rapidly, and shaping itself so differently from every calculation, as to baffle guessing. A witness before one...
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THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IN further prosecution of
The Spectatorour desire to remove, by calling public attention to, the defects in the management of the Library, we . shall now notice the regulations by which Readers obtain printed books....
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorBIOGRAPHY, The Lite and Letters of Thomas A' Becket, now first gathered from the Contemporary Historians. By the Rev. J. A. Giles, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi Col-...
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DR. BURROWS ON CEREBRAL CIRCULATION.
The SpectatorSINCE the experiments of Dr. Kellie, and Dr. Monro's observations upon them, in 1783, it has been a theory generally held by most British and some foreign physicians, that the...
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THE POEMS OF THOMAS DAVIS.
The SpectatorTins volume of Duffy's Library of Ireland contains the fugitive verses of Thomas Davis, with elaborate notes illustrating the historical allusions, and a preface of many...
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MU SIC.
The SpectatorSACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. WE were on Friday last week transported ill some degree to the anni- versary festival of Haydn's Creation, celebrated in the Riding-school it Vienna,...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorFrom May 22d to May 28141. Books. On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; and on the Connexion be- tween Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. By George...
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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The Spectator. Tuesday, May 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISMILVED. Simpson and Co. North Andley Street, cheesemong'ers-S. and•E. Ebrall, Shrews- bury, gunmakers-Hewes and Jones, Bath Place, New Road,...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 30th April, at Naples, the Lady of Alfred Hamilton, Esq., of Gidea Hall, Essex, of a daughter. On the 19th May, at Liscard, Cheshire, the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, of a son. On...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-orrice, May 22.-let Drag. Guards-Major J. S. Smith, from 5th Foot, to be Major, vice Schonswar, who exchanges. 2d Drag. Guards-Staff Surg. of the Second Clam, .A.. 0. Home,...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Closin g Prices.) Soho-d. Monday. Made" Wass* a. — 5 per Cent Consols set 961 964 Se Ditto for Account . 961 9 3 per Cents Reduced 95 951 93 33 per Cents 973...
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Loudon Printed by Joszpu CLSTTen, of 320, Strand, in the
The SpectatorCaunty of Middlesex; Printer, at the Mike of ROBERT Pstuea and Josira CL•iT024, NO.10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, In the City of Leedom ; and...
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CONTINUATION OF THE LORDS' DEBATE ON THE CORN BILL.
The SpectatorThe debate having been resumed on Tuesday, the speakers were— the Earl of WILTON, against the bill; the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, against; the Earl of GRANVILLE, for ; the Marquis of...
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The SpectatorTOR THE WEEK ENDING No- 935..1 SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1846. IGRATIS WITII MS WEEK'S SPECTATOIL
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REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE BURDENS AFFECTING REAL
The SpectatorPROPERTY. By the Lords Committees, appointed a Select Committee to inquire into Burdens on Real Property, and the impediments to agricultural transac- tions, caused by the...
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TWENTIETH REPORT OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE NEW
The SpectatorZEALAND COMPANY. You will have seen, from the correspondence of which a copy has been transmitted to every proprietor, that we lost no time, after Mr. Secretary Gladstone...
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SHORT DEEDS.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Edinburgh, 1911s May 1846. Sin—My attention has been particularly called to the inconclusiveness of the arguments used by your correspondent "A...