3 JULY 1852

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The dissolution of Parliament was announced by proclamation in the

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Gazette on the same day that the prorogation took place. Whatever may have been in other respects its merits or demerits, the Parliament of 1847-1852 must be admitted to have...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE Speech from the Throne, with which the business of the session of Parliament was formally wound up on Thursday, was of the approved stereotyped form. There was a touch of...

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France, like England, has this week had a Parliamentary proro-

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gation, though not as preparatory to a general election. The parting 'address of the President to his legislators is bland and conciliatory ; but M. Bonaparte is never so...

The election struggle will be short, and there is little

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appear- ance of its being sharp. In a fourth part of the constituencies there is no contest, and in few of the rest do any earnest pre- parations appear to be made. The truth...

In the Stockport riots the country is beginning. to reap

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the fruits of the Durham Letter. By that characteristically cunning but rash stroke of policy, Lord John Russell " sowed the wind to reap the whirlwind." His successors in...

Ethatto and rurraings in Varliamtut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. Horn or Leans. Balurday, June 28. Bills forwarded a stage. Monday, June 28. Petition against the removal of Smithfield Market to Copen- hagen...

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Tarn Queen stood sponsor to the Princess Gauromma, on her reception into the Christian Church by baptism from the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the private chapel of...

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The Metropolitan constituencies are in full activity of preparation for electing Members to the new Parliament which the Q ueen has called. In London, it now seems that the...

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Vronium

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A very large meeting of the freeholders and electors of South Northumberland was convened by the High Sheriff; and held on " the Seal," outside the town of Hexham, on Tuesday,...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Edinburgh journals publish a correspondence between the Scottish Reformation Society and Mr. Macaulay. The Society requested to be in- formed whether Mr. Macaulay would vote...

IRELAND.

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Dr. Cullen was enthroned as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, at the beginning of the week, with great pomp. A procession of digni- taries in full canonicals bore over the...

PREPARATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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The prorogation and dissolution of Parliament has not immediately thickened the plot of reelection. There is abundance of canvassing and of meeting-holding going on, but not...

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A Royal proclamation " for dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another" appeared in a Gazette Extraordinary on Thursday evening. The late Parliament...

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FRANCE.—Last week, M. Kervegnen applied, under the lettec, of "the Constitution," for the authorization of the Legislative Corps to publish at his own expense a speech made by...

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A notice from the Lord Chamberlain's Office orders a Court

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mourning for the late Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, the Queen's uncle : the mourning to commence on Sunday the 4th instant, (tomorrow,) to change on Sunday the 11th, and to end on...

An undertaking of national importance to the state of Holland,

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in which English enterprise plays a leading part, was inaugurated on Thurs- day. An English, Dutch, and Belgian company, has been formed to re- claim the land covered by the...

The Magistrates of Stockport are going through a formal investigation

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of the causes as well as the facts of the riot on Tuesday. The investiga- tion is attended by barristers, who appear for the prisoners on the one hand, and for the owners of the...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The chief contents of the morning journals are reports of meetings, and other preceedings in commencement or anlicipation of the elections. The chief contents of the...

The Paris correspondence of yesterday states that fourteen men had

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been arrested in a house in the Batignolles, manufacturing an "infernal machine " of fourteen musket-barrels. Ten other men had been arrested. "Rumours of a conflicting...

BIRTHS.

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On the 16th June, at Paris, the Lady of Colonel B. S. Botch, (daughter of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence,) of a daughter. On the 25th, at Hinchley Wood, Ashbourn, the Hon. Mrs....

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Signor De Rimini, a baritone who has for several years

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been reputed the first singer of his class in Italy, appeared on Thursday at Her Majesty's Theatre as Figaro in the Barbiere di Siviglia. His success was not com- mensurate to...

, 4tatrtg ituif Musit.

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The German company have at length brought their labours to a close;. and, on the whole, their career has been most honourable. We are not among those who have gone into...

It is a matter of surprise that Mrs. Stirling, who

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has now been engaged for a considerable time at the Haymarket Theatre, should be so little brought forward. In working out the details of those clever fine ladies who are the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FELDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds have been heavy during the whole week ; the pressure of Stock upon the market having been greater than ordinary. Among the...

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY STATUTES. Sin—" Z." says in his rejoinder to my letter—" He complains that I have not read page 2 of the Report, in which he says there is a statement that...

The proceeding before the Vice-Chancellor in the case of Lumley

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versus Wagner, which we mentioned last week, disposed solely of the matter of the injunction, and had no bearing whatever upon Mr. Lumley's - claim of compensation for the lose...

THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS.

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London, 23d June 1852. Sin—I have had, within the last few days, a circular placed in my hands, asking for subscriptions in aid of a cheap publication, named " The True Briton."...

The Philharmonic Society concluded its season on Monday. The eighth

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concert presented only one novelty—a symphony by Ferdinand Hiller, a composer of considerable reputation in Germany, who has been in London for some months, and conducted the...

THE COMING ELECTIONS.

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29th June 1852. Sin—At the passing of the Reform Bill, the Spectator distinguished itself by urging the necessity of attention being given by the electors to the special...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHAT IS BEFORE THE NEXT PARLIAMENT. THE comparison which naturally suggests itself between the chiefs of two great states dismissing their national councils almost at the same...

THE STEREOSCOPE: A SIMPLE TEST.

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let June 1852. Sra—I have just read an able though acrimonious article (in the North British Review for April) on the subject of Binocular Vision, in which the writer maintains...

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CHURCH SCHOOLS.

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" TRE comprehensive and beautiful prayers of the Church, and the calm and pure exposition of the gospel by her ministers, have no attraction for him," the labouring countryman...

NOW'S YOUR TIME, GENTLEMEN OF METTLE ! FOR an Alderman

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to see a poor relation wasting a " blessed ap- petite" on mutton, for a schoolboy to see a led horse go by with an empty saddle, for a hunting squire" to see a Southerly wind...

WHO PASSED TITF, MEASURES?

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Loan linThillaST, who has been to the Derby something like what Peel was to the Russell Cabinet, proclaimed his approbation of the excellent use made by Lord Derby of his four...

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PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS OF THE ALLULLI TRIAL. THE logical applicability of

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the verdict to the evidence in the Achilli case has been contested ; but certain conclusions are definite and pertinent, rough-hewn as they may be by the public. It is...

THE OBSTRUCTIVES OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

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AoaiAL from fifty members of Convocation has been pre- sented to the Hebdomadal Board of Oxford, praying for the ap- pointment of a Delegacy to inquire and report " as to the...

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BOOKS.

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STILES'S AUSTRIA IN 184 8-4 9.* THIS narrative is a well-digested amount of the different revolts that in 1848 and 1849 brought the Austrian empire to the verre of dissolution ;...

THE PRICE OF JILTING.

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IT is with satisfaction that we note the continued accumulation of precedents establishing bona fide compensation as the rule in cases of breach of promise of marriage, where...

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THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE. * NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE is an American writer of

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considerable repute in his own country, and of high though limited estimation here. Extensive popularity he is not perhaps likely to achieve, because his great merit lies rather...

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CA.RLETON'S SQUANDERS OF CASTLE SQUANDER. *

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This is a socio-didactic novel, where a particular family is chosen as the type of a class, and their characters, conduct, and fortunes are exhibited, less perhaps to adorn a...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Memoirs of the Bight Honourable Henry Lord Langdale. By Thomas Duffus Hardy. In two volumes. Magnetieal Investigations. By the Reverend William Scoresby, D.D., Fellow...

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CONSTITUTION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS: REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE. Committee ordered 10th February 1852 ; nominated 12th February 1852. Mr. Mitchell, Mr....

FINE ARTS.

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THE ARUNDEL SOCIETY. Two new prints have been published by the Arundel Society,—" St. Lawrence before the Emperor Decius," from one of Fra Angelico's fresco series in the...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, June 29. PARTNERSHIPS DissoLvED.-Matthews and Co. Lower Seymour Street, surgeons- Taylor and Williams, Manchester,joiners-Simpson and Gilbert, Walsall, booksellers -A....

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing MOIL) Sarerd. Meadow. ressulay. rams. 27sere MANN shut — — — — 1003 exd I 1001 1003 1043 10 101 6 1 101 1013 101 101 4J 104 1011 101 1044 6 — 2243...