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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator-Dissourrrox—not resignation—is the alternative which Lord Palmerston has chosen as the sequel to a defeat in the House of Commons on the China question ; and by the end of the...
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The SpectatorPRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE Or Loans. Monday, March 2. Ionian Subjects Commissions bill read a second time. Tuesday, March 3. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ; the...
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cyt Caul Tire OMEN and thelloyal Family left Buckingham Palace
The Spectatorabout half. past four on Tuesday afternoon, and reached Windsor Castle about twenty minutes past five. Lord Palmerston arrived at the Castle on Wednesday afternoon—" on a visit...
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The SpectatorAt a meeting of the Court of Common Council on Thursday, Mr. Rathbone suggested that some steps should be taken to support her Majesty's Ministers in the course they have...
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The SpectatorThe East Seaeee election took place this week. Two candidates were nominated at Lewes on Monday. Mr. It. W. Blencovse proposed and General Davis seconded Mr. J. G. Dodson, the...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorCaptain °tiny R.N. was entertained at dinner on the 23d February-' by his tenantry in Tipperary, on his return from the Black Sea. The Protestant Rector. of Templederry took the...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe nomination for the seat vacated by Mr. John Macgregor took place on Monday, in front of the Glasgow Justiciary Court Hall. The Lord Provost proposed and Mr. Alexander Graham...
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The Spectator$raurt.—The treaty of peace between England and Persia was signed at Paris on Tuesday afternoon by Lord Cowley and Feruk Khan. Lord Cowley, it appears, was assisted by Mr....
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The SpectatorThe Mayor and principal inhabitants of Preston recently presented an address to Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, in the course of which they stated that they had not yet...
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POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY. The Rouse of Commons was engaged the greater part of the sitting last night in discussing the scale of duties on tea and sugar proposed by the Government. On the...
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ET/SINEW; IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SpectatorMonday, March 9. Second reading of the Income - tax Bill. Committee of Supply. Ways and Means Committee. The Arromorr-GiontnAL—Bill to make criminal Fraudulent Breaches of...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Funds opened on Monday at the closing prices of Saturday-93 1 f for Money, and 94k1 for the new Account on the 8th of April ; and...
RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.
The SpectatorThe Directors of the Great Northern Railway have issued their report. From increased receipts and slightly diminished expenses, there is an augmentation in the divisible profits...
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The SpectatorThe third version of Use Femme qui detests 3014 Kars has at length been produced at the Lyceum, where it bears the title Angel or .Devil. Three modes of treating one subject are...
PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
The SpectatorMM. Lambert Thiboust and Leon Beauvallet have favoured the Va, rietes with a new piece, entitled Les Princesses de la Rampe, framed for the purpose of vindicating the character...
MUSICAL GOSSIP.
The SpectatorIt is at length settled that Covent Garden Theatre is to rise out of Its ashes, greater and more magnificent than ever. The Duke of Bedford has leased to Mr. (lye an area...
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The SpectatorREPRESENTATION OF LANARKSHIRE. 26, Wilton Crescent, London, 3d March 18.57. Sin—In your paper of last Saturday I find an article headed "The Scotch Freehold Movement in...
LEGISLATIVE MACHINERY: PREPARATION OF BILLS.
The SpectatorBelfast, 3d March 1857. Sin—An idea appears to be proyalent that one of the functions of a Minister of Justice ought to be the prevention of incongruities and technical errors...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorPARLIAMENTARY FUNCTIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY. Ix may at first sight seem that the decision of the House of Commons on the Chinese quarrel refutes the observations we made a...
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AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.
The SpectatorIr there is a foreign country which at the present moment alight to engage the respect and sympathy of England, it 18 Sardinia, threatened by an exercise of Austrian power, upon...
THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON LIBEL LAW.
The SpectatorIT is scarcely possible that a select number of the Peers should apply themselves as a Committee to a subject so practical, so clearly within the province of law, as the law of...
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TELEGRAPH INTRIGUES IN THE EAST.
The SpectatorWHY is a telegraphic line of communication to be attempted along the Euphrates Valley route, when one was already arranged for the Red Sea route ? The 9 . nestion is raised by a...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorPEEL'S SECOND VOLUME OF POLITICAL MEMOIRS. * As we last week intimated after a cursory examination of this volume, those who expect many political revelations in its pages as...
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PROFESSOR WILSON'S ESSAYS. * Ir all the articles included under the
The Spectatorterm " critical" in this collection of Professor Wilson's Works had been suffered to remain undisturbed in the mausoleum of Blackwood's Magazine the edition would have been less...
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The SpectatorTHE PEACE CONFERENCE. A picture of last year's Peace Conference at Paris, on the great scale of 17 feet by 10 feet 6,—the property of the Emperor of the French, for , whom it...
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LECTURE BY MR, HENRY OTTLEY.
The SpectatorA lecture under the tide of " An Hour with the Old Masters" was delivered on Wednesday evening, by Mr. Henry Ottley, at the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution,...
BIRTHS, On the 16th January, at Mootcharee, Bengal, the 'Wife
The Spectatorof Henry Campbell Raikes, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, of a daughter. On the 25th February, at Waltham Abbey, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Askwith, Royal Artillery, of a...
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The SpectatorPROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 3. WAR OFFICE, March 3.-Carolry--61h Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Ensign W. H. Border, from the 88th Foot, to be Cornet, paying the difference,...
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The SpectatorFROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 3. Partnerships Dissolned. - Rawlins, Brothers, Crown Street, Finsbury, buildersDroullet and Alpe, Fenchurch Street and Havre, merchants-J. and...
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 6.
The SpectatorPartnerships Dissolced. - Sands and Emery. Cursitor Street, carpenters-Richardson and Co. Manchester, cotton-manufacturers-Horton and Sons. Bath, cabinet makers-Gunn and James,...