6 JUNE 1863

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Ati DE PERSIGNY has lost the game. The French .1/1. elections terminated on Monday in the return of all the mine Opposition candidates for Paris by a majority of two to one....

NOTICE.

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4, Tax SpaersTon" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHIRSIN. P ARIS has given the Moniteur its first warning; that seems ' in brief, the result of the French elections. Throughout the provincial districts,...

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THE NEW WHIGS UPON TURKEY.

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I F Musurus Bey understands English politics as well as some of his diplomatic colleague., he will regard the great debate of the 29th May as ominous to the Ottoman power. There...

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THE PROSPECTS OF LANCASHIRE. T HE statement made by Mr. Baker,

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the factory inspector, in his recently printed report to the Home Secretary on the state of the cotton districts, has excited a great deal of attention, and given rise to many...

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THE MEANING OF MR. VA LL ANDIGHAWS ARREST.

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T HE interest excited in England by the arrest of Mr. Vallan- digham is not greater than it deserves. Were the conditions of life in America like the conditions of life in any...

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THE REPRIEVE FOR CAKES AND ALE. T HERE is no retort

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like a division, and a majority of more than five to two in a full House against Mr. Somes's ridiculous Beer Bill might have been expected to bring the labours of its supporters...

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THE VOLUNTEERS' BILL. T HE whole Volunteer world--neither a small nor

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unim- portant one in our England of 1863, be it said—has been stirred to its depths by the Bill introduced by the Government, and now in committee, to amend the old Act of 44...

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THE PRINCESS MARY'S AMATEUR THEATRICALS.

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T HE true fascination of acting to cultivated minds is probably the fascination and refreshment of what we may call a change of mental dress. All classes know the intellectual...

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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

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T HERE is nothing more illustrative of the growth of the social life of England than the system of weights and measures now in use. It is a huge tree, which has developed itself...

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THE ENGLISH BURIAL SERVICE AND THE BISHOPS.

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THE English Burial Service is the record of an age, or ages, so immeasureably deeper and richer in theological insight than the present, that the generation of to-day cannot...

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THE MEANING OF THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

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June 3, 1863. THE following are the political results of the last electoral contest in France .— The defeat of the Government in Paris has been complete, over- whelming. The...

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GENERAL HOOKER AND THE WAR.

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 19, 1863. SINCE my last letter another campaign in Virginia has begun and ended. You may not, but I do, remember, and with some...

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THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S SPEECH IN CONVOCA- To THE

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EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR, —Observing that you have been misled, in common, probably, with many others, by an imperfect and inaccurate report of the expressions I used...

lute Arts.

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SCANDINAVIAN PICTURES AND GERMAN BRONZES. A FRESH eye is the greatest possible extraneous help to the artist. It is in the nature of things that by long looking at his own...

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Music a0 gram.

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NOTWITHSTANDING all predictions to the contrary, the supply of Italian opera this season seems to be no more than proportionate to the demand. Four nights every week at Covent...

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BOOKS.

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AUSTIN ELLIOT.* Ma. HENRY KINGSLEY'S novels have so much fulness of life in them, such a strong bounding pulse, that there are few books of the kind pleasanter to read. They...

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FOUR MONTHS IN A DAHABEEII.* Tuts is just one of

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those books which ought to exist, but in manuscript only. To all who know the authoress and her friends it has, we doubt not, a faint interest, like that of an old letter, and...

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DR, LATHAM'S NATIONALITIES OF EUROPE.* A " NATIONALITY," in the

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language of the present day, is gene- rally understood to mean a remnant or a germ of a "nation," an aggregate which, for want of geographical demarcations, or endurable...

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COMMODORE GRAVES' YACHTING CRUISE IN THE BALTIC.*

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THERE is a fine bouncing boyhood about many parts of this diary, which is very characteristic of the English schoolboy and the Northern tar. "What awfully hot soup !" the...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE" Chronicles of Carlingford" have recommenced in Blackwood, the hero this time being a High-Church curate, hampered by Low-Church relatives. It is scarcely probable that the...

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De Quincey's Works. Vol. XV. (A. and C. Black.) — The closing

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volume of the new edition of De Quincey's works appears to call for something more than a mere record of its reception, inasmuch as it is entirely made up of materials which...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Spirit of the Bible. By Edward Higginson. Two vols. Second Edition. (Whitfield.)—This is a second edition, little, if at all, altered, of a work which was...

The Elopement. A Tale of the Confederate States of America.

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By L. Fairfax. (W. Freeman.)—Mr. Fairfax—for, in our entire ignorance on the point, we give the author of this volume the credit of belonging to the worthier gender—appears to...

Grace of Glenhohne. Three vols. By William Platt, Author of

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"Betty Westminster," &c. (Newby.)—Grace of Glenholme is a young lady who was found, when an infant, in a basket in the river Wye, and. whose parentage is supposed to be...

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most minor books so published in these days, it is

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not worth much. " Akph" is a retailer of gossip concerning interesting parts of the City, and his papers were doubtless appropriate enough in the columns of the City journal...

Christianity and Common Sense. By Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart., MA.

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(Long,mans.)— This very handsomely printed volume contains a warm defence against the attacks which, in the opinion of its author have recently been made upon the Christian...

Joseph Anstey ; or, the Patron and the Protege. By

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D. S. Henry.. (Wilson.)—If, as there is but too much reason to suppose is the case, the author of "Joseph Anstoy "is labouring under the impression that he has written a novel,...

Pictures of German Life in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,

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Second Series. By Gustav Freytag. Translated by Mrs. Malcolm. Two vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—Gustav Freytag, who is principally known in this country as the author of the popular...

The Types of Genesis briefly considered as revealiny the Development

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of Human Nature. By Andrew Jukes. Second edition. (Longmans.)— Mr. Jukes appears to have arrived at the conclusion that the whole Bible has a mystic meaning, each portion of it...

thanks of the public for having had the self-denial to

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compress into one volume a story which, in the hands of a less scrupulous writer, might very easily have been diluted into three. The tale, the scene of which is laid in Paris,...

On Malaria and Miasmata. By T. H. Barker, M.D., &c.

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(Davies.) —The object of this treatise appears to be the re-affirmation of the old opinion respecting the infectiousness of certain diseases, which has of late years been to a...

The Book and the Life. By C. J. Vaughan, D.D.

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(Macmillan and Co.)— The principal interest of the four sermons which compose this volume lies in the fact that they contain an expression of Dr. Vaughan's opinion with regard...

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BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE FORTNIGHT.

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Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary, by George Fleming (Hurst an& Blackett).—Laureate Wreath, by J. E. Read (Longman).—Guillo Malatesta, by T. A. Trollope (Chapman and...