3 JANUARY 1857

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Conference has met, and is still sitting, although the main object for which it was specially convened is understood to have been settled. On the reassembling of the...

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Tax QUEEN held a Court and Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Monday. Lord Vivian was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Cornwall, and took the usual oaths. At the...

f4t • 31Ittro31ulio.

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The festive season of Christmas and the opening of the New Year is hardly ever remarkable for stirring incidents in the Metropolis ; and the present is no exception. There is an...

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Troduriul.

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The Christmas Quarter-Sessions at Birmingham opened on Monday ; when Mr. Recorder Hill delivered a charge to the Grand Jury on the question that now engages so much of the...

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SCOTLAND.

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Forfarshire having resolved to entertain its distinguished son who now holds the office of Secretary of State for War, mustered in the Market Hall of Arbroath, on Tuesday, a...

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IRELAND.

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The Earl of Carlisle returned to Dublin Castle on Tuesday, to resume his duties as Lord-Lieutenant. This return, it is sagely remarked, "puts an end for the present to all the...

fortigu aut[ Zutuntal.

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c f TRIM. —The long-delayed Conference to settle "the disputed points of the treaty of peace" met at noon on Wednesday, at the hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The...

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3litsrtitautoito.

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Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart has been appointed Commander-inchief on the North American and West India station. As the Prince of Wales and his tutor were travelling lately...

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EMTHS.

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On the 24th September 1856, at Birksgate, near Adelaide, South Australia, the Wife of Arthur Hardy, Esq. ' of a son. On the 24th December, at Grant Lodge, Elgin, N.B., Louisa,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Conference at Paris, which did not sit on New Year's Day or yesterday, is to meet again today. " It is hoped that this will be the last sitting,.and that a...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NOLWithatalldiq the continued extraordinary activity in the discountmarket, the intelligence of the bombardment of Canton and the still...

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ti 64tairts.

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Forty years ago, if any one asked which was the best pantomime in London, he intended to inquire in which piece of the class the effects of Harlequin's bat were most surprising,...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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M. J. Bouchardy, well known in Paris as the author of several pieces in the " dmme " line produced years ago, has provided the AmbiguComique with a new work of the old class,...

MR. THACKERAY.

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This inimitable humourist commenced his aeries of lectures on "The Four Georges," at the Marylebone Institution, on Tuesday. To the character of these lectures we adverted when...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW YEAR. nu familiar salutation with which we greet our friends and acquaintances on New Year's Day will to a reflecting person suggest the cheering thought that our lives...

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SURRENDER OF GIBRALTAR.

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"IN the multitude of councils there is safety." Our Government has been favoured with many proposals for its guidance, abroad and at home; but the last piece of advice given to...

WHY WE PAY THE INCOME-TAX.

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SELDOM has any public movement been at once more reasonable and more unreasoning than the present agitation against the Income-tax. It appears to be gradually acquiring...

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HUGH MILLER.

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SOCEETY is addicted to intoxication : it does not become corporately the prey of George Cruikshank's bugbear "the bottle," but it lends itself to intemperance of a far more...

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WHERE SHALL WE PUT OUR FELONS?

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Iv the prevalence of violent and predacious crimes excites that hysterical alarm which breaks out in the cry of "gallows," what will be the state of feeling when the prisoners...

NEW DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY.

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A SMMIT controversy on Grammar has arisen in the newspapers ; but the disputants have been pecking at small points—opening a great question without coming to an answer. Mr. John...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 23.

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ADMIRAI.TV, Dec. 19.-Corps of Royal ..ifarines-First Lieut. and Adjt. if . Adair to he Capt. vice Ireland, dec. ; Second Lieut. C. P. Heaslop to be First Limit. vice Adair,...

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PROM THB LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 30. Partnerships Dissolved.-Willtamson and Co. Bradford, worsted-spinners; as far as regards W. B. Williamson-M'Calmont and Co. Pernambuco;...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 2.

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Partnerships Dissolved. — Eveling and Co. Woolwich, linen-drapers—Dawes and Edwards, Southampton Row, drapers—Shell and Co. Liverpool, merchants: as far as regards IL Shen and...

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BOOKS.

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20SWELL'S LETTENs TO TEMPLE. * TuE discovery of these lifelong letters of James Boswell to his very intimate friend the Reverend J. W. Temple, is one of the strangest stories...

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JANUARY MAGAZINES.*

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Fraser opens the New Year with a collection of papers unusually varied, fresh, and vivacious. Dip in anywhere and you are almost sure to find either amusement or instruction or...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. TNE publishers are beginning the year oddly enough. Except Dr. Doran's account of the Monarchs who have, willingly or unwillingly, retired into private life,—and a...

Put Iris.

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MEMOIRS OF REYNOLDS.* It is somewhat late in the day for a Life of Reynolds written from the literary point of view, with elaborate disquisitions on his art and works, his...

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REYNARD THE FOX.*

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Kaulbach has left for others little chance of being better than secondbest in the illustration of Reynard the Fox. The subject, however, will always be a tempting one to artists...

SHADOWS AN THEY MIGHT BE.*

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This little book of coloured lithographs is based on an amusing idea, and one which we do not remember to have seen before embodied in any systematic shape, although suggestions...