3 JUNE 1854

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Warrsurrrno follows, as usual, at no great distance after Easter; but the interral has sufficed to reverse the aspect of affairs in Par- liament. If we congratulated ourselves...

Many persons hoped, as we did, that we had done

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with New Zealand in Parliament, and that we were not for the present to hear of that far distant colony again, save in the accounts of its growth and of its increasing...

The one fact disclosed by the additional diplomatic papers from

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Germany—the memorandum which Austria and Prussia have ad- dressed to the Germanic Diet, and the new protocol of the Confer- ence at Vienna—is, that the Germanic Powers are...

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The news from the seat of war, in addition to

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what we knew last week, may be summed up in a dozen lines. The Russian suc- cesses at Silistria prove to be as fabulous as the Russian successes against Sir Charles Napier in...

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. 110061 OP LORDS. Monday, May 29. No sitting. Tuesday, May 30. Railway Regulation ; Mr. Cardvrell's Bill reported with amend- ments—Manning the...

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'i aittruf The annual gathering of the National Society, on

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Wednesday—unlike some recent meetings of that body—passed off with the utmost quiet ; so that the Archbishop of Canterbury admiringly described it as 4 ‘ dull " ; and the Bishop...

CO Cart.

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THE Quemt and the Royal Family returned to town, from Osborne, on Tuesday afternoon. Next day, her Majesty held a Court ; when the Chevalier Bunsen had an audience and presented...

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IRELAND.

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it is remarked that there are symptoms of a recurrence of the potato disease in some quarters ; but the unhealthy appearance of the aulm is by the sanguine referred to blight....

(64r Vronium.

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The ceremony of inducting the new Bishop of Salisbury was performed on Wednesday, with the usual formalities. The Bishop first went in pro- cession to a field near the city of...

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intrign null Cullluial.

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FRANCE.—The Moniteur has published a long report on the budget of 1855, drawn up by Baron Paul de Richemont. In a preface of great length he describes the return of prosperity,...

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EPSOM RACES.

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The great horse-racing festival at Epsom has been celebrated this week. At the first meeting, on Tuesday, there was a comparatively th;n attend- ance, in consequence of the...

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aligullautoug.

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The Gazette of last night announces that the Queen has granted the usuarsonge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of Bath and Wells empower- ing them to elect a Bishop in the room...

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Besides the action at Ekenass there has been a partial

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attack upon Gus- tafinarn, chiefly to try the range of the guns of the ships. It is obvious from the reports that the British have the longer range. In this attack, the Ilecla,...

A letter from "A London Clergyman," in a subsequent page,

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calla our attention to an important series of lectures, which the Reverend Mr. Maurice is about to deliver to a West-end audience. There are schools for children about the...

Some telegraphic reports have been received purporting to give intel-

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ligence from the seat of war. " Vienna, Friday Morning. "The Vienna Post states, that after conferring with the French and Eng- lish commanders, Omar Pasha on the 26th...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. From despatches in last night's Gazette letters in the journals, and the statements of the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House ofCom- mons, we obtain authentic...

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The Trade and Navigation Accounts for the month ending May

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5, state the declared value of the exports at 7,765,285/. ; being an increase of 186,3751. over the same month of last year. For four months the amount is 32,003,4931.; showing...

SKETCH OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AT WITITSITNTIDE. HOUSE OF C031MONS.

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Ministerial Bills Introduced 59 Received the Royal Assent 16 Rejected 2 (Oaths Bill and Scotch Education Bill); withdrawn 8 (Parliamentary Reform Bill ; Vacating of Seats...

Grisi is now about to leave us in good earnest.

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Last year, towards, the end of the season, it was the general impression that we were hear- ing her for the last time. The agents who managed her series of au.- tumnal concerts...

Ot Quarto.

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The little compact season of French comedy and vaudeville, of which M. Lafont has been the meritorious chief, terminates tcrnight, and will be immediately succeeded by a series...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arrzamoos• The fluctuations this week in Government Securities have been extensive. The closing of accounts by the Bear party or late operators for a fall...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WAR, REFORM, AND THE MINISTRY. IT was not " Thersites " of the Opposition, but Lord John Rus- sell himself, who raised the most important question as to the position of the...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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A new ballet by M. Theophile Gautier was brought out on Wednesday last at the Academic, with Mademoiselle Cerito (now called Cerrito, with two rrs) in the principal part. The...

It is just twenty years since Grisi first appeared among

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us; and never surely, as Burke said of Marie - Antoinette, was there a more delightful vision. Her debitt in the Puritani — how it turned everybody's head— how young and old...

MUSIC OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

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Music occupies a prominent place in the arrangements for the in- auguration of the Palace at Sydenham on this day week. There is to be a tuneful host, no less than a thousand...

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THE OATHS BILL.

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NOTWITHSTANDING the late division, it will be well for zealous Protestants not to make too sure that the bulwarks of the consti- tution are out of danger ! When a political...

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ILL-PREPARED BILLS.

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SOME Member of Parliament should ask who it is that is respon- sible for the blunders which occurred in the bills brought in to disfranchise voters in Canterbury, Cambridge, and...

COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.

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"Tim unanswered objection" to the arrangement which adds the office of War Minister to that of the Colonial Minister has received a striking illustration within a week after our...

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MINOR MILITARY REFORMS.

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IT is rather remarkable that the question of War Ministry is dis- cussed Principally on negative or on minor grounds ; the argu- ments of a military nature being principally the...

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CRIMINAL INSURANCES.

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A copnvAPONDENT challenges a closer attention to the mischief which may arise from an abuse of insurance in the hands of per- sons using it for criminal purposes ; and the...

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EDUCATION FOR THOSE EMPLOYED IN DAILY LABOUR: 3111. MA.URICE'S LECTURES. _London, 31et .3fay 1854, Sin—In the discussions respecting the education of the poorer classes, with...

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TILE EVICTION OF THE BARBARIANS FROM EUROPE. 1 Adam Street,

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.didelphi, Hay 29, 1854. Sin—After long years of strife England and France have ceased to be "natural enemies." One cause of this may be that the Bourbon race has finally ceased...

SA.BBIT If OBSERVANCE: GLASGOW DRUNKENNESS. Glasgow, 27th May 1854. Sin—Your

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prolific and versatile correspondent Mr. Bridges Adams has fallen into the mistake so common with many Englishmen, and indeed with pseudo-Scotsmen nearer home, of attributing to...

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MILITARY RUFFIANISM.

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35, Harland Bead, Notting Hill, May 25, 1854. Sin-In the Times of Monday we are told that a gallant English gen- tleman," having got an acquaintance to write down for him in...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, May 30. -Royal Regt. of Artillery-Capt. A. J. Taylor to be Lieut.-Col. vice Tylden, retired on full-pay ; Sec. Capt. S. H. Calder to be Capt. vice Taylor ;...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, May 30. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-A1 artin and Wood, Market Wharf, Regent's Park Bar sin ' • as far aa regards E. Martin-Thompson and Co. Cornball. ship-brokers-Gould...

BIRTHS.

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On the 18th May, at Moy Hall, Mrs. Mackintosh, of Mackintosh, of a son. On the 25th, at Nantes, the Wife of Robert Kirkpatrick Howat, younger of liable, Kirkcudbrightshire, of a...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian Op. Ct. — Mexican 3 p. Ct. Belgian 41 - — Mississippi 8 - Ditto 24- — New York 6 -...

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London Printed by Joasre Overton, of 920, Strand, in the

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County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Rearm Cxxx- SOX, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St Dunstaa's in the West, in the City of London ; and Published by the...

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SPRING NOVELS CONTINUED. * MR. TALBOT GwysaiE has made a considerable

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advance beyond his former novels in .2Vanette and her Lovers. A native want of • Nanette and her Lovers. By Talbot Gwynne, Author of " The School for Fathers," &c. Published by...

BOOKS.

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CHOLMONDELEY'S ULTIMA THULE. * Trirs volume exhibits ability, vigour, and original thought, per- Imps to some degree excited by a society so fermenting as that of .New Zealand,...

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JUNE 3, 1854.

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LECTURES ON GERMAN PHILOSOPHY. *

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Wito Herr or Dr. G. Weigelt is we have not the pleasure of know- ing. His name appears on the titlepage without any addition, and this is of itself a rarity in the case of...

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KNIGHT'S OLD PRINTER AND MODERN PRESS. * ONE half of this

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volume is the result of half a life's research, re- flection, experience, and struggle. The "Old Printer" is the re- vised biography of Caxton, originally published in the...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Transcaucasia. Sketches of the Nations and Races between the Black Sea and the Caspian By Baron von liaxthausen, Author of "Stn- dien iiber die Inneni Zustande...

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ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION: PORTRAITS ANTI LANDSCAPES. The chief portrait for interest combined with artistic deservings is MY: - Grant's ef " Lord John Russell,"-full-length,...

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Ten Weeks of 1844.'53.

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Eymotic Diseases . 2024 .... Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat • 448 . .• • Week 0(1864. 282 SI Tubercular Diseases 1,847 .... 211 Diseases of...