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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorRUSSIA is holding back from the fulfilment of the treaty of Paris, in a manner that occasions open uneasiness even in the unexoittble quarter. of Downing Street. It seems that...
From Spain the intelligence is almost entirely negative. The efforts
The Spectatorof the Constitutional party have been, for the time at least, without success. Saragossa is pacified ; Catalonia, like Barcelona, has given all eases after a very considerable...
A little incident in Marseilles may be taken as an
The Spectatorindex of French feeling in the South. A dinner was given to General Pelissier on his return from the Crimea; there were many toasts, but among the list was no toast to the...
In Italy too the news is negative ; but there
The Spectatorare fresh signs of the strong feelings which pertinaciously animate the two most powerful parties. The King of Naples continues to rely upon Del Carreto and Campana ; and if the...
Amid the confident vaticinations of the chief election parties in
The Spectatorthe American Union, more interest is excited by fresh documentary evidence on the subject of slavery and the slave-trade. It is nothing new for us to be told that the...
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While doubts agitate the outer political world, our English public
The Spectatoris represented in the Scientific Congress at Cheltenham, where Dr. Daubeny is facile princeps for the season, and makes his statement as Prime Minister of Science to the...
Whether the Comet has come or not,—and they seem to
The Spectatorhave a private conviction, in Ireland at least, that he has visited that favoured island,—there is no doubt as to the glowing character of the summer, or the general effect...
• thr Court.
The SpectatorCnersrxo and driving are the out-door occupations of the British Queen. On Monday, Prince Albert went in the Victoria and Albert to Portland, and the Queen with the Duchess of...
31irtrofo1io.
The SpectatorThe London Corporation have been making their septennial trip to the boundaries of their Jurisdiction in respect to the Thames and the Medway. On Wednesday they were entertained...
The election of the Reverend Charles Baring, Bishop of Gloucester
The Spectatorand Bristol, • was confirmed du Wednesday, according to ancient usage, is Bow Church, before Dr. Travers Twiss, the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In united...
Some twelve years ago, an institution for children whose fathers
The Spectatorhave died was established at Denmark Hill. It has been so prosperous that the Governors have just been enabled to commence anew building near Stoat's Nest, two miles from...
A Mr. Gay applied to the Court of Chancery, on
The SpectatorMonday;for an injunction to restrain Piece, the blind Sardinian minstrel, from performing without his consent. It appeared that Gay had taken an assignment of the services of...
A Mr. Teale, living in Eversholt Street, Camden Town, applied
The Spectatorat the Mansionhouse on Monday, under these circumstances. He was accompanied by six Indians—Walpole Islanders, from Canada. He stated that these Indians, with four squaws, had...
Mr. Bennett, the oilman of James Street, has died from the effects-of the burns he recently suffered.
The SpectatorAt length the new Victoria Street from Farringdon Street to Bagnigge Wells has been opened for vehicles throughout its entire length.
-Troutorial.
The SpectatorThe British Association opened its twenty-sixth annual meeting on Wednesday, at Cheltenham. `This town is in many respect well fitted for the gathering. There are many public...
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Major-General Windham was welcomed home to his native county,. on
The SpectatorSaturday last, with a truly British greeting, and one of the most characteristic receptions since the peace. On his arrival at the Norwich railway station, he was met by a body...
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The Manchester Town-Council, after a long debate, has passed a
The Spectatorresolution recommending the gentlemen constituting the committee for providing Sunday music to desist from their enterprise. This of course is only a declaration of opinion...
Some months since, a few gentlemen in Hampshire established a
The SpectatorReformatory for boys. The first report of the Committee was read at a meeting in Winchester on Wednesday, held for the purpose of adopting the institution as the recognized...
The Bishop of Exeter and the Torrington Burial Board are
The Spectatorat odds about the Torrington burial-ground. The Bishop at first declined to consecrate the cemetery unless the portion allotted to the Dissenters were fenced off from that...
The Birmingham gun-makers gave a feast yesterday week in honour
The Spectatorof Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Iluntz, to commemorate the services they have rendered to the trade in Parliament. The two Members listened to flattering speeches, and received...
At Bodmin Assizes, William Nevan was tried for the murder
The Spectatorof Benjamin Robinson. He pleaded "Not guilty—accident." Nevan was a corporal in the Marines, Robinson his Sergeant-Major ; there was a difference between them ; one day, on...
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Criminal romance will find it difficult to parallel the story
The Spectatorof a double murder which has . just occurred near Dover. At daybreak on Sunday morning, Dedea Redames,. one of the Swiss Legionaries, but a Servian by birth, prevailed upon two...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorSpace and the late period of the week at which the reports arrived did not permit us to give more than a brief mention of the trial at Edinburgh, M`Laren. versus Ritchie and...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorLast week, three gentlemen from Manchester, Mr. Fairbaim acting as spokesman waited on the Earl of Carlisle to lay before him an account of the Exhibition of Art Treasures to be...
Master Murphy has placed on the file of the proceedings
The Spectatorin the Tipperary Bank ease a minute to relieve himself from two charges—an improper private examination of James Sadleir, and an acquittal of him in regard to fraud. He shows...
Ireland, not usually prolific in railway "accidents," has contributed its
The Spectatorquota to the crop of the week. Near Newry, on the Belfast Junction Railway—a single line—a luggage-train ran into a truck propelled by a ballast-engine ; in the truck were four...
The Cork Examiner reports, that while the potato crop in
The Spectatorgeneral is very fine, there are indications here and there of disease.
s fortigu anii Colonial. ,fraurt.—The Emperor did not leave Plombieres on
The SpectatorSaturday, as had been announced ; but the Moniteur now states that he will return to Paris today. A ludicrous incident which occurred at Plombieres has afforded much amusement....
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31liorttlantutto.
The SpectatorTHE Qnsmi ro xns ARMT.—The new General Commanding-in-chief bas, in the name of the Queen, issued the following general order. "Horse Guards, August 5. "The Queen, having...
An international Free-trade Congress is to assemble in the Belgian
The Spectatorcapital on the 22d September, and sit for three days. The local Freetrade Association will take the lead in the business. The British. Chambers of Commerce have been invited and...
The Piedmontese are raising a subscription for the purchase of
The Spectatorlarge guns to form part of the armament of the new defensive fortifications on the Po. Each gun is to be named after an Italian town. The Turin correspondent of the Daily Hews...
There has been a general scattering of Ministers since the prorogation of Parliament.
The SpectatorMr. Robert Lowe has left England for a tour in the United States. Lord Palmerston will visit Manchester, for the first time, on the 9th of next month, to inaugurate with an...
A stupid and unfeeling hoax was perpetrated on some of
The Spectatorthe morning papers of Wednesday, who received and inserted a false announcement of the death of Lord Drumlamig. It is expected that the scoundrel who concocted the hoax will be...
Avording to the Dublin Nation, Mr. Duffy has soon alienated
The Spectatormany . friends at Sydney : he would not permit the toast of "Governor Denison. ' at the Duffy banquet, and at the same dinner he declared himself "still a rebel to the...
It has been recently stated in a New York journal,
The Spectatorthat people in the city are largely engaged in the slave-trade between Africa and Cuba. A vessel is selected, not too valuable ; a crew is got together by false pretences, and...
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"W. A. Hunt," writing to the Morning Post, suggests that
The Spectatorone cause of the disproportion between the price of wheat and bread is "the immense amount of bad debts which bakers are subjected to." Nor, he adds, "do I believe that any...
Some of the Representatives in the American Congress have been
The Spectatordriven by the great heat of the weather to use fans during their legislative labours ! The heat has been so intense in Paris that several accidents have occurred front workmen...
Dowell, a soldier of the Thirty-second Regiment, has been tried
The Spectatorat Chatham for blowing oft' his right hand, by firing two bullets through it : his object was to get discharged from the Army ; in all probability his sentence will not ratify...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 23d June, at Bombay, the Wife of Sir William Yardley, of a daughter. On the 26th July, Mrs. Mark Lemon, of a daughter. On the 1st August, in Eaton Square Lady Troubridge,...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY, The report that the British fleet would renter the Black Sea, in order to promote the fulfilment of the treaty of Paris, is corroborated this morning by the following...
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THE AMERICAN "SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS."
The SpectatorThe Philadelphians have attained to a bad eminence in railway accidents. Prima facie, the monster accident is a result of a single track ; but the worst part of the accident is...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The slightly improved tone in the English Funds at the close of last week has been succeeded by an unfavourable reaction ; which the purchases...
RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.
The SpectatorIn the report of the London and North-Western Company, the joint stock capital account shows the total amount of share capital to be 25,521,881/. The net proceeds of...
A meeting of the proprietors of the London and County
The SpectatorBank, on Thursday, was looked forward to with great interest for several reasons, especially in regard to John Sadleir's connexion with it. The statements made to the meeting...
The first company formed under the Limited Liability Act—the London, Manchester, and Foreign Warehouse Company—will be enabled to pay a
The Spectatordividend at rate of 5 per cent per annum for the past half-year, with a good balance carried forward. The International Coasting Company—Union du Commerce Maritime-is a French...
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4t Wtrts.
The SpectatorThe regular season of both Operahouses closed on Saturday, with the 'usual solemnities. Au unwonted ceremony marked the formal close of Her Majesty's. Piccolomini, as...
Mr. W. Cooke's horses begin to tread on classic ground.
The SpectatorIn other words, the ordinary acting version of Richard the Third has been produced in a compressed form at Astley's Amphitheatre. Bosworth field grows more animated from the...
Penisrart TKEATRICALS.
The SpectatorThe dramatic doings in the French metropolis have been utterly insignificant for several weeks past; and the aggregate receipts of all the places of public amusement during the...
THE OPERA , SEASON.
The SpectatorThe struggle between our two great Italian Theatresemposed by many to have been ended, but really only suspended for a. time—. -has been renewed this season. The lessee of the...
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THE THREE COMING CONGRESSES.
The SpectatorCowan . will be more at home in Brussels than Palmerston. in Manchester ; but what strange association of ideas will surround De Morny assisting at the coronation of the Czar !...
EXECUTIVE ENCROACHMENT.
The SpectatorTim present Cabinet is not a "Reform" Ministry.; it has drawn a distinction between "improvements," which it has endeavoured to promote, and political reforms, which in practice...
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LORD RAGLAN: A RETROSPECT.
The SpectatorTHE best thing, perhaps, in General Airey's address to the officers sitting at Chelsea was his eloquent and touching allusions to Lord Raglan—the noble chief whom no risk could...
TIlE BRIDGES OF LONDON.
The SpectatorHow is it, asks every one who is acquainted with the state of the Westminster Bridge affair, that the practical judgment and skill of Rendell and Simpson are called in to report...
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EDINBURGH POLITICS: 'rah LAW OF LIBEL. 'Tim last Parliamentary election.
The Spectatorin:Edinburgh, it appears, infficted upon that town a storm of bad feeling, which exploded in the recent libel.casa and still continues murmuring. When Mr. Macaulay retired irom...
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SELF-EXTINCTION OF THE $TA VE -TRADE.
The SpectatorNo humane society can prevent people from drowning themselves if they are so inclined ; • no slave-trade prevention can prevent slave-trading if Whites will buy slaves and...
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MRS. KINZIE'S WAIT-MIN. *.
The SpectatorTHE author of Wau-bun or Early Day in the North-West, was married upwards of a quarter of a century ago to an Indian agent. His duties very shortly took him to the Western side...
PROFESSOR ATTOUN'S BOTHWELL. * FROM the generally received historical point of
The Spectatorview the subject of Bothwell is unfavourable to poetiy, owing to the character of the man, and the questionable aspect of Queen Mary in all her relations with him. This...
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HAY'S SCIENCE OF BEAUTY. * Ma. HAY professes in this work
The Spectatorto give a summary of those. theories on the principles of beauty of form and colour which he has developed at length and with laborious detail in numerous publications, which we...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorBooKs. The Mosaic Dispensation considered as Introductory to Christianity. Eight: Sermons, preached before the University of Oxford at the Bampton Lecture for the year 1856. By...
The Infistenee of Christianity , on Civilisation. Br Thomas Cradock. —
The SpectatorIt is not a difficult thing to make a case by taking.the good attertain Re-. Hods of history and ascribing it to some creed or institution, orto trace the • evil of some other...
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The titles of the following explain themselves. M. De Chatelain's
The Spectatortranslation of Longfellow is not a new edition, though it may possibly be a reprint from a Jersey periodical. The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. The Text carefully...
Dramatic Songs, for Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, and Bass Voices. By Edward Francis Fitzwilliam.
The SpectatorMr. Fitzwilliam does not publish his songs in flying leaves, according to the fashion of the day, but in goodly volumes, as our composers used to do in olden times. The...
/int arts.
The SpectatorTHE GLASGOW ART UNION IN LONDON. The ArtUnion of Glasgow is exhibiting the pictures which have gained its prizes; the place of exhibition being the well-known rooms of the...
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The SpectatorFROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 8. WAR DF.PAIITSIMST, Pall Mall, Aug. 8.—Cavalry—lst Regiment of Life Guards— The second Christian name of Cornet and Sub-Lieut. Duncombe is...
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trahr.
The SpectatorFROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 5. Partnerships Disso leed.-Bourne and Pardon, Honey Lane, commission-agents--j. and It. Turner, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted-spinners-Wigley...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUG. 8.
The SpectatorPartsbips Dissolred.-11. J. and H. Syred, Liverpool, pawnbrokers-Murray and Froom, WlsItehiali Place, attorneys-Cuerdale junior and Spencer, Elton, Bury, Lancashire,...