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INDE _x.-1854,
The Spectatorkr, a 1 the Alma. 1040, 1046, 1072, sliding, 1011 ; death of St. 576; march to Balaklava, 7e of Sebastopol, 1095,1119, 1173, 1194, 1280, 1309,1316, Ur at Balaktava, 1147, 1191,...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorEXCEPT in the Baltic, the Russian question ostensibly remains nearly unaltered. The latest telegraphic advices received from EXCEPT in the Baltic, the Russian question...
The survey of revenue, trade, and industry, is upon the
The Spectatorwhole most satisfactory. The revenue-returns for the year and quarter exhibit a remarkable firmness in the taxpaying power of the country. On the twelve months there is a total...
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OP &Uri.
The SpectatorTar . @erg and the Royal Family have partaken of the pleasures of the season as well as her Majesty's subjects. They witnessed the distri- bution of the New-Year's gifts on...
So stern a winter has not been known for a
The Spectatorperiod which sta- tistical writers somewhat arbitrarily account two generations. Not since 1809 has the thermometer been BO low as it was on Tuesday last, when it stood ten...
311rtropulio.
The SpectatorSome time ago, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, forwarded through the British Ambassador at Paris an address to the Municipality of that city,...
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Vrotiturrys.
The SpectatorThe Members for Oxford City—Mr. Edward Cardwell and Mr. James Langston—dined with some of their constituents, -members of the "An- gent Druids," on Monday. There were about one...
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SCOTLA.ND.
The Spectator- The authorities of Glasgow, -headed by the Lord Tbovost; formally - opened the Victoria Bridge on Monday. • Highteen 'years ego, on New- Year's Day, the GlasgortfBridgetavas...
.•IRELAN]).
The SpectatorThe obituary contains a :record - of the death of - William Conyngham Plunket, Baron Plunket, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Lord Plunket played re , varied and...
AuTtigt.,, ItAblopVIIIIIIIII4 1 ,, Pasoccs.-1"aris has beedgerwitliothal . festivitiee rit r the New Year. The
The SpectatorEmperor and Empresi held a levee:at - the Tuileries on Sunday. , Standing 'nnder a rtoir riarropy,Llhey: received the Mialeties; the 'great military, naval, civil, and judicial...
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.9,01,1tkitle '
The SpectatorThe weather has been worthy of the season For iaurnber of years 'th e festivities of Christmas and the ICreW Yeal"hav'ernot been-kept to the exhil a ratin g accompaniment of...
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The Times understands that "it is the intention of the
The SpectatorGovernment to raise the number of seamen and marines for the current year to 53,500 - year, ands fintherMtdition to-'the 6000 men raised - Imam the orders of raised for *...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. The Ilfoniteur of yesterday contained a circular from M. Dtonyn de'' Lhuys to the diplomatic agents of France, on the Eastern question. "Tire affairs of the East,"...
4.1r Qrntrtg.
The SpectatorWhen the,question "What are the Pantomimes i" has been duly projmsed and answered, the next question wilfBe,‘,‘•,What are they doing at the Lyceum ?" Nay, in many cases...
We are informed that Lord Harris,-whose period of service as
The SpectatorGoverner of Trinidad will shortly - expire, has been offered the Governorship Of Madras. Lord Muria will, in all probability, be succeeded in Trinidad by Captain Charles Elliot,...
Telegraphic despatches from Vienna, dated yesterday, state that har- mony
The Spectator4ad been restored in the Turkish GOvernment ; and about eighty of the rebellious Softas had _been shipped off for Candle. "On. the oeeasion of the late disturbances the Suitrur...
MONEY MARKET,
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. ,This week has been one of renewed uneasiness regarding the Turkish• question. The public, who had latterly been large buyers of the Englis...
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A 'melodrama at Drury Lane, called The Begging Letter, has
The Spectatorall the distidvant ag es of a play:founded upon - a book, without any of the Com- pontating LadvantageS, 1 which have been felt on many occasions. 'Every play that has a novel...
311.11 g it.
The SpectatorThere are few concerts in London durin g the Christmas holidays ; it bein g usual for our principal performers to spend this period in profes- sional visits to the provinces....
At the Adelphi, even the appearance of burlesque has been
The Spectatorshunned: The story,- whieh . the ratifilfillS would cell- Lei Amour s chi :Diable, and which has • alreadY furnieherl' themes for an opera and a 'b a llet, has been modified...
A' new dramatic - composer has appeared in Italy,,who promises to
The Spectatorde- prive Verdi Of the preeminence he has so long and-to our thinking-so unworthily held: ; The Carnival season at Milan has been, opened with a new opera, IT (Yonr.ito di...
THE REVENUE.
The SpectatorAbstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, iy le Yeats and Qiuirters ended 5th January 1858 and 1854, showing thy acrease or Cluatoms Excise Twice Property...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorPARLIAMENTARY STATISTICS. Tan Statistics published in our Supplement this week, interesting as they are for the light thrown by them on the broader cha- racteristics of our...
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THE MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
The SpectatorNor for many:years has the meeting of Parliament been awaited with so much interest as it is now. The public is anxious to know what Ministers have been doing and are about to...
MASTER AND MAN.
The SpectatorTire true spirit of treating the strike in the North appears to us still to be missed by both sides ; and if we desired a proof that the masters do not perceive certain obvious...
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COMPARATIVE FINANCES OF EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS: Manual's in order to appreciate
The Spectatorthe full force of the comparative survey of the finances of the empires of Europe, it ought to be extended beyond France and Russia; for the difficulties of France, are...
WHERE IS THE AU$'l'RAL1c EXPEDITION?
The SpectatorJal - Ir.:: 6 .. 1 TAFT begin to be made when ie xpedition for the explo- ration o Northern Austral; to depart?' It is new di months since the expedition was proposed, and, as...
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FRANCIS PLACE.
The Spectator[FROM A CORRFSrowoRsr.] Another man of mark has passed from amongst us. Francis Place has de- parted from the world in which he was so long a stirring mover. Few men have done...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorA. SICETCTIER'S TOUR ROUND THE WORLD. * Tars volume is an agreeable and informing book in itself, and somewhat singular in its circumstances. Without any apparent pursuit...
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COLONEL COTTON ON PUBLIC WORKS IN INDIA.* IN point of
The Spectatorliterary character, there is much minuteness and some unnecessary repetition in this volume. The views of the author as regards his propositions or suggestions occasionally...
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mutt haie•been tired bt• the subjedtbad there been:more in' it
The Spectatorthan - crew; and I remain herd iiithilf - r.', nd It voluniesgeetAtrytorleitablIsh • against Sir James Brooke a - very a e n k ratlkitee rtineh tepay•forit.-' • ' ' : ' -...
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: coBILExic PoiICY.* MOSE whose memo carries them - back some twenty
The Spectatoryears will rehienbir illenit i mp'ofiAlekender ;Somerville, as a "Scotch Grey," wOitali'lliWed,Tar iltritifigil§tpra'". tolhe editor." Notwithstan 4 7 inthe,glieNaiii i ;111441...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBooms. Scandinavian Adventures, during a Residence of upwards of Twenty Years. Representing Sporting Incidents, and Subjects of Natural History, and Devices for entrapping Wild...
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int farts.
The SpectatorTHB PALACE AT SPDENMAM. The visitor to the Crystal Palace can now begin to form an idea of what the place will be when, complete in its construction and adornment— the last...
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PHOTOciu.APICIC Pit:ITT:11Es.
The SpectatorThe Photographic Dxliihitien in NO' Bond Street is one of those sights, rare in number ' affording a pleasure which may fairlybe called intense and unmixed. „Ilit5bairaphy - ha...
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The SpectatorAVAi ` "IL .••::Sr.jrs s4 ?- • 90 363 .• . 1 '• • • • • e 211 ,... Ind 45 153 o lading unspecillail causes) . • 11.055. , A. V.1.7r771 7/ 1,,Frailixwip..,,,,,idimrotafia4 ,,...
On the 29th O c cember i jit Omit Hou*,-Crintrin g ton, Somersetshire,-the Clifford, of a
The Spectatorditi g hter:^- • ` On the 29114._at-Iiirliby_Na.11oiy. .theillon...ussell, of a dau g hter. On the 30t1an,a te V a r ag on, Blackbeath, the Wif e of Macgregor a dau g hter. , On...
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MILITAR 1. Y. ..'a,UtZT,g,
The Spectator, C"I' s ° ' 40 0.444. 44i4V- the Boil. N\ - zri p c , * n 349,-..R109 4fiFijI0b . PEW . io5 - --Y , Nsisrk r teci.uo , / 1 1111 1- rm, It•.17.0 .o%.) at she 0--. ! ,..oloss14...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prier/ ) , Sallied. Monday. Tuesday. "ahem Thurs. Priddy. a per Mat Consols shut •-- -- -,-- - 21 ex d. Ditto for Account 93 (end. L t li 951 93 51 par...
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London: Printed by JOSZFH Ccarrox, of 320, Strand, in the
The SpectatorCounty of Middlesex. Printer, at the office of Josarn CLAYTON, NO. 10, Crane Court, in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of Lon4on; and Published by the...
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o‘tippiritticut to tbc apertator,
The SpectatorJANUARY 7, 1 ,S3 1. STATISTICS OF REPRESENTATIOA. Among Ow numerous sources from which these Tables have been compiled, the following mity,44;speeffied Thomas Birch and Sir...
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, , AS IT STOOD ON TUE
The Spectator31ST ‘ DEOgMBXM - 1853. With the number of Electors in each Constituency and the Population in each District. Bewdley 1 390 7,318 . Sir T. E. Winiungton, country gentleman....
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THE MEMBERS CLASSIFIED.
The SpectatorE PEERAGE: ITS RELATIONS. IN ENGLAND. e subjoined analysis does not extend be- the Suns and Brothers of living Peerki eon (1 seat), Lord Norreys. S 05 5 Earl of Abingdon. alc2...
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THE REPRESENTATION GROUPED IN COUNTIES.
The SpectatorTHE FRANCHISE. The Returns moved for by Sir Thomas Birch and Sir Benjamin Hall, and issued in the ses- sion of 1852, specify the more important quali- fications under which the...
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THE SIX REFORMED PARLIAMENTS PROBED BY ELECTION COMMITTEES,
The SpectatorSEATS PETITIONED AGAINST AND THE RESULTS. FIRST GENERAL ELECTION, 1833. [77w Reform Bill received the Royal Assent June 7, 1832; and Parliament was dissolved December 3. The...
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MINISTERIAL PLEDGES ON REFORM.
The SpectatorThe Earl of ABERDEEN, announcing the formation of his Ministry—" My Lords, whether by the extension of Education, or by the progress of Law Reform, I trust the social condition...