3 MAY 1862

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE International Exhibition was opened on Thursday, With as much of pomp as a nation unused to spectacles could contrive to display. It did not, however, even as a pageant,...

NOTICE.

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"THE SPECTATOR" s published every Saturday Horning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in any...

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THE WEEK AT HOME.

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Potrricar,.—The political life of the nation is for a time smothered by the Great Show. The only event of any interest is the retire- ment of Mr. W. J. Fox, the last of the...

THE WEEK ABROAD.

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rits.xcz.—The contest between M. de Lavalette and General Goyon, 'who have for some weeks represented Intramontanism and the Revo- lution at the Imperial Court, seems to have...

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

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Houtz or Conn.:ma, Monday, April 28.—Reserved Fund : General Peel's gins- tion.—Local Indian Armies : Colonel Sykes's Question.—Committee of Supply : Civil Service...

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HIGHWAYS.

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Mr. SLANEY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he would introduce a clause in the Highway bill to enforce the repairs of footpaths, being highways, across...

NOTICE.

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subscriptions to the "Fares, or INDIA," and OVERLAND FRIEND 6. rarci,"will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per Annum,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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By telegram through Mr. Reuter's office. Paris, May 2. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter from Mexico com- menting upon the intolerable conduct of the Mexican...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE EXHIBITION. T HE age is an age of physical progress, and there is little gained by criticising the men who only display a truth a little too ostentatiously, or the temples...

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THR LANCASTITRA CRISIS AND ENGLAND'S DUTY.

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T HE civil war in America has tested both the political creed and the political principles of our manufacturers by a test of no common severity. We believe it is destinedl to...

A NEW CONTINGENCY IN TURKEY popular opinion in England is

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that Turkey is looking up. The report on her financial condition, signed by Lord Hobart and Mr. Foster, is exceedingly favourable.— more favourable;.iiadeed, than any similar...

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THE PROGRESS OF REFORM IN OXFORD.

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T HE many friends of liberal education in England, whose hopes had been excited by a University Commission, were thoroughly disheartened as they watched the steps taken and the...

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THE NAPOLEONIC IDEA IN MEXICO.

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TT has lately become the fashion to say that the present 1 ruler of France has no guiding line of conduct in his foreign policy, but gives himself entirely up to the chance of...

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THE AFG1T A N DEMAND T HERE is always something unpleasant

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occurring in India. Now, it is a regiment which had mutinied, and then a conspiracy which has been discovered in a dependent state, now the peasantry combine to refuse their...

HORSFALL v. COCHRANE.

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?TIRE chaotic state of public opinion on questions of retrench- I merit was curiously illustrated on Tuesday by two motions made in the House of Commons. Mr. Horsfall, in a very...

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COURTS-MARTIAL. T HE finding of the Court-martial in the case of

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Captain Robertson, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, has at length been published, and the result has at once signally disap- pointed and signally fulfilled public expectation. He has...

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WOMEN'S "PLATFORMS."

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I F a proof were wanted of the need of some better standard of education for women than is usually set before the sex, the curiously suicidal logic of Miss Matilda /d. Hays,...

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THE FRENCH TENDENCIES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY.

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A RECENT essayist, Mr. F. Marshall, in a book not otherwise of mach value, gives a very clear explanation of the special fea- tures of French society. It is, he says, "a people...

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THE PECUNIARY WORKING OF THE NEW EDUCATION CODE.

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T HE following careful calculation of the practical difference be- tween the Revised Code, the Re-revised Code, and the pre- sent system to the managers of schools, which has...

THE POLITICAL FUTURE.

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[FROM OITR SPECIAL CORP.ESPONDENT1 Washington, 12th April, 1862. THE outlook for the future of America occupies, I think, far more attention amongst foreign observers than it...

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M. MIRES' ACQUITTAL

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[FROM OUR SPECLAL CORRESPONDENT.] THE acquittal of M. Mires is the capital event of the week. It has created an immense sensation on all sides; nor is the public sense of the...

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HRH MAJESTY'S THELTRE opened in due course on Saturday with

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Verdi's last, and best, opera, (In Balk in Mosel:era. Notwithstand- ing the rival attractions of Le Prophete at Covent Garden, the house was very fairly attended, though the...

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liar

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THE OLD AND NEW WATER-COLOUR SOCIETIES. So rapidly does the opening of one picture exhibition follow another at this season, that it becomes a somewhat difficult task for the...

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KR. MA1JRICE'S HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY.* personal individuality of those

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who express them. And these wants Maurice's meditative genius, and is of a kind to exercise a deep if region of thought. not directly a very wide influence on the history of...

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THE COTTON LORD.* Tins is the novel of a very

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clever man, but yet it is not a very excellent novel. All the best novelists of the day, from George Eliot and Mr. Thackeray downwards, seem to have wholly lost the art of...

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THE DIVINE FOOTSTEPS IN HUMAN HISTORY.*

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THE anonymous writer of this handsome volume belongs to a class which, as publishing becomes more and more a habit to all who believe they can think, will, we suspect, increase....

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PARAGUAY.* THE history of Paraguay is one of the most

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striking chapters in the modern annals of the world. The political and social experiments made in that portion of the South American continent surpass, in originality of...

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ANGLO-SAXON AND MODERN ENGLISH.*

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HORNE TOOKE, in the "Diversions of Parley," impresses upon his readers the importance of carefully searching out the true significa- tion of words, for, as he says, " the...

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• THE MAGAZINES.

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WE are requested to state that the "Chronicles of Carlingford" are not by George Eliot, but by Mrs. Oliphant, a very different writer, who has displayed in "Salem Chapel" a kind...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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PROFESSOR Tyndall* belongs to the Excelsior school, though we trust he will never be found by faithful hound half-buried in the snow, lying "in the twilight cold and gray,...