6 NOVEMBER 1847

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Ireland It is almost needless to write more than that

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one word, so readily will the reader anticipate what is to follow, of violences, conspiracies, turbulences, and all sorts of ills. But some traits of Irish politics are so...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT is now regularly summoned to meet for business on the 18th instant—Thursday week. It is meant to be under- stood that this extraordinary session will be short—limited...

No event of any marked or decisive character has occurred

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in foreign affairs. Switzerland, on which country attention is chiefly concentrated, is hastening to its lamentable civil war ; the last show of peaceful negotiation having come...

Our anticipation that the worst of the panic-breeding pressure had

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passed seems justified by the event, although no great ad- vantage has ostensibly been taken of the letter of licence issued last week from the Treasury. The fact is that most...

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Zbe eDourt.

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THE QUEEN held a Privy Council on Saturday last, at Windsor Castle; Prince Albert and most of the Ministers being present. The day fur the meeting of Parliament was fixed. Mr....

Sbt sItIttropolts.

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The ceremony of presenting the Lord Mayor Elect to the Lord Chan- cellor took place on Tuesday. Mr. Alderman Hooper was accompanied on the occasion by several of his brother...

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Zbe Vrobinces.

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Some indications of partial improvement in the condition of the manu- facturing districts appear. The trade circular of Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester, describes the...

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IRELAND.

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The Irish Council had their meeting at Dublin on Tuesday, under their new title of "National Council of Distress and Safety." The meeting was held in the Rotunda. Mr. Henry...

B C OT.LA.ND.

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As in England, the Municipal elections on the 1st instant passed off with very little interest. The Edinburgh Town-Council is unchanged in its political composition; in Glasgow...

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Arnisttllaneous.

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A Supplement to the Gazette, published on Saturday evening, contains a proclamation further proroguing Parliament from the 11th to the 18th of November, then to assemble for the...

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SWITZERLAND.—The JOU77341 des Baba& publishes, in an extraordinary edition, a report of the last effort made by the Deputies of the several Cantons to arrange their differences...

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The Florence Tatria of the 28th October mentions, that the

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inhabitants of Fivizzano, hearing of the advance of two hundred Modenese soldiers from Galilean° to take possession of their town, rang the tocsin, and turned out en masse to...

It is reported that the Board of Trade have decided

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on remodelling the management of the School of Design, in the mode suggested by the Com- mittee of the Council. Thus the management will be vested in a Committee of the Council,...

The accounts received this morning in private letters from Manchester

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are exceedingly unfavourable; the accounts received by the Indian mail having brought down several more of the houses in that town and neigh- bourhood. In addition to the firm...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTE1Noote. The market has assumed a much more healthy tone during the week ; and the feeling of confidence to which we alluded in our last notice has...

The Yorkshire Gazette of this morning announces the death of

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Dr. Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, in the ninety-first year of his age and the forty-first since his translation to the Archiepiscopal diocese- " The melancholy event took...

Answering "An Old Subscriber" from memory, we should say that

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admission to the reading-room at the British Museum is to be obtained on the recommendation of any person known to the authorities of the Mu- seum, or by a letter addressed to...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The long.talked-of assemblage of Peers, Members of Parliament, and landed proprietors of Ireland, called together by the "Irish Council," took place on...

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UNIVERSITY TESTS AND TRAINING.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Lincoln's Inn, 1st November 1847. Stu—Your correspondent "M." attributes to me a confusion between the religions system of our old Unieersities...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ECPECTATOR.

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Oxford, 2d November 1847. Slit—Residents in Oxford have not failed to notice either the address of Mr. F. Newman or the comments upon it in your paper. And the impartial...

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- TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. STEPHEN: THE COLONIAL OFFICE. Mn. STEPHEN has fulfilled a long expectation, by abdicating. He retires from the Under Secretaryship of the Colonial Office, and leaves behind...

THE CHOLERA.

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FaTaLisst is a feeling natural to the human breast, and many good Protestants are Mussulmans in sneering at any notion of preparing to meet the cholera, merely because they do...

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LAW AND NO LAW.

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Laws, like promises, says the universal practice of Ireland, are made to be broken. The fact begets a hopelessness in legislative remedies ; since there seems neither the...

ARCTIC DISCOVERY.

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a JOHN RAE" Mat be added to the catalogue of immortal names, as that of one who shared in the intrepid studies of practical geo- graphy under an Arctic climate, and helped to...

LEGISLATION BY JURIES.

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JOHN OVENSTONE, who shot his creditor Crawley, has been ac- quitted on the ground of insanity; and the verdict of the Jury is called in question as an outrage on sense and...

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PRACTICAL LETTERS ON IRELAND.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. LETTER IIL Sia — I am particularly anxious to avoid even the appearance of supposing that nothing else is wanted for Ireland than an improvement...

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THE THEATRES.

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SINCE the commencement of the theatrical season we have had two cases of dramatic backsliding. Mr. Marston's Heart and the World was a mani- fest decline from the Patrician's...

At Marylebone, The Bridal has been produced with new decorations;

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Mrs. Warner taking her original character of Eradne. Miss Parker, an un- pretending, and apparently an intelligent young actress, of a very pleasing person, has made a...

Box and Cox, a new farce produced at the Lyceum,

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is one of those absur- dities which are amusing because they are evidently meant to be absurd, and because a droll defiance of common sense is maintained throughout. Every...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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The Bushman; or Life in a New Country. By- E. W. Landor Bentley. Senostar, Oteervatforis on some of the Parts of &Weal Practice l's Which is prenzed an In- quiry into the Claims...

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VINCENT'S OBSERVATIONS ON SURGICAL PRACTICE.

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Irt this volume the late Senior Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital has propounded a view, in "a Preliminary Inquiry into the claims that Surgery may be supposed to have for...

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MiiLLER'S MANUAL OF ANCIENT ART.

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TEE volume before us is a true manual, in the highest sense of the word : it is as full of matter as an egg is full of meat, and for a cursory view of the whole subject—cursory,...

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JANE EYRE.

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ESSENTIALLY, Jane Eyre, an Autobiography, has some resemblance to those sculptures of the middle ages in which considerable ability both mechanical and mental was often...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. The Bushman; or Life in a New Country. By E. W. Landon Secret History of the Court and Government of Russia under the Em- perors Alexander and Nickolas. In two volumes....

MUSIC,

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SOCIETY OF BRITISH MUSICIANS. THIS society was established some fourteen or fifteen years ago, professedly on the model of the Royal Academy of Painting, and with a similar ob-...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuelolay, Nov. 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. S. and F. L. T. - Bowden, Aldennanbury, solicitors-Standly and Phillips, Birming- ham, linendrapers-WIlkinson and Co. Lincoln's...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAa-OFFICE, Nov. 5.-3d Drag. Guards-Lieut. H. H. Bacon to be Capt. by purchase, vice Warner, who retires ; Cornet F. A. Oakes to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Bacon ; A. W....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Aaaprzn - At Gravesend, 31st Oct. General Sir William Nett, Outerbridge, from Manilla. At Bombay, previous to 30th Sept. Moffatt, Smith ; Mary, Kemp ; and Sir H. Hardinge,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 28th October, at Calk° Abbey, the Lady of Sir John Harper Crewe, Bart., of a daughter. On the 29th, at Midshells. Roxburghshlre, the Lady of Captain George Elliot, R.N.,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing PAM-) Eislord. Monde,. 7144edey. Weiss*. 77mrs. 801 8 8 11 82 82 83 811 81 82 621 831 791 811 Si 811 81 PI 814 82 -- 8} 81 Si 6.4 183 185 185 1851...