9 NOVEMBER 1850

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tire Foreign news has most political weight; though perhaps home events most loudly strike the ear. The political aspect of Northern Europe has greatly changed : the....

The prevailing Home topics are the presumption of the Pope,

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and the Rlack of our Premier. Lord Tohn Russell has issued his bull, in the shape of a letter addressed to the Bishop of Durham, and meant to be forwarded to the people of...

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Or Caul.

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THE Queen and the Royal Family have enjoyed excellent health since their return to Windsor Castle ; the Queen taking her wonted early morning walk and driving out daily, and...

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The Bishop of London delivered his quadrennial charge to the clergy of his diocese on Saturday morning ; and the natural expeotation that he would refer to the recent "Papal...

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Simultaneously, on Thursday, the Times and Daily Hews published the

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following letter by Iiord John Russell to the Bishop of Durham. It appears to be a reply to some letter or other expression of the Bishop's opinion which has not been made...

At a Court of Common Council, held on Thursday, Mr.

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J. Wood gave notice of a motion for an address to the Queen in reference to the proceedings of the Pope of Rome, and expressing the undiminished attachment of the Corporation to...

The President and Fellows of Sion College assembled on Thursday,

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to receive the answer of the Bishop of London to their memorial of hut week, and to memorialize the Queen. One passage in the Bishop's letter accused . the Bishop of Rome of...

The proclamation of a new Roman Catholic hierarchy in England

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gave an impetus andcharacter to the proceedings on "Guy Fawkes Day "—the 5th of November—that they have lacked for many years. TheGuys " bonfires, and fireworks, were not...

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In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, a rule

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was granted in the ease of Bainbrigge versus Bainbrigge, tried at the last Staffordshire Assizes, calling on the plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should not be had, on...

At Marylebone Police Office, on Monday, Mitchell, Dyson, Mahon, and

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Robinson, the men accused of the burglary at Mr. Holford's, were brought up for reexamination. Mitchell, the man who was so badly wounded, appeared to be very ill, and still had...

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It is stated that Mr. Harris, the Post-office Inspector who

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disappeared so strangely last week, is alive and well in Scotland : but no explanation of the affair is given. A young man named Hennessey, apparently a plasterer, attempted...

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Mr. Beilby Richard Lawley, son of Lord Wenlock, has been introduced to the borough cf Pontefract as a candidate for the seat vacant by the promotion of Mr. Samuel Martin to the...

The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has resolved to do for

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itself what the Government last session refused to do for it, and at its own cost send a commiasioner to India to inquire into the obstacles which prevent an increased growth of...

The Reverend R. A. Johnstone, Rector of a parish adjoining

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Brentwood, was charged with ravishing his servant-girl, of fteen • and the preliminary depositions of the girl and her mother made the affair 'look very disgraceful. On the...

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IRELAND.

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The meeting of the Tenant League in the industrious agricultural county of Westmeath is said to have differed from most of the League's recent meetings in presenting a "much...

A MSC in the Insolvent Debtor's Court at Clonmel shows

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the peculiar development of opinion which the indoctrinations of the Tenant League sometimes cause in the mind of the Irish tenant. A would-he-thought victim of selfish...

Lady Carden was unfortunately killed by an accident on Wednesday.

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The Dublin Emmen gives these particulars—" We regret to have to announce the occurrence of a most melancholy accident, which terminated in the almost instantaneous death of...

SCbTLAND.

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The Eclintiurgh nem learns with regret "'front the friends of the Lord Advocate; that his health eontinues in a most precarious state; that little if any prospect exists of his...

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GERMANY.—The Conference at Warsaw has dispersed, and the resolutions approved by the Imperial arbitrator have already been. partly executed in Central Germany. We compile from...

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Tuesda 's Gazette notified that the Queen has granted unto Sir Robert. Mousey ltolfe 4 late Baron of the Exchequer, the office of a. Vice-Chemcolor of the Court of Charicpry in...

The world' of letters will_ sympathize with Mr. Hallam, the

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historian of the Middle Ages, on_ the loss of his only surviving son, very recently, at. Sienna, after tt. short visit paid by the family to Rome. The 7Vmes, Liz announcing the...

Results of the Registrar-Generals return of mortality in the Metropolis

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for the weekending on Saturday last: the first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous Ten Week. Weak. of...

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hratrts unit Visit.

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When a dramatic work comes forward with all the pretension of belonging to the highest class of production, one has a right to be fastidious. With a piece simply intended to...

Mr. Macready goes on prosperously at the Haymarket: he has

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appeared in Lear, his best Shaksperian character, and in Richehett and Werner, two of his own peculiar creations. Highly interesting has been the progress at this theatre of Mr....

The choir of the Berlin Chapel Royal continues to be

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the chief attraction at the National Concerts. Their performances have made a marked improvement on the attendake during the week, in every part of the house. They have agreeabl...

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.

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TEE Bishop of London is not a man from whom we had reason to look for any new light to be thrown on the speculative per plexities of religions thinkers. Able and indefatigable...

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a LAND IN IRELAND.

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IRRLAND is passing through a regenerative process. She is becoming Young Ireland indeed : she is dipped in the caldron, and the Encumbered Estates Commissioners, in passing her...

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CONFUSION OF TONGUES IN THE BABEL OF 185l.

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THE Crystal Palace in Hyde Park is suggestive of many old memories. Its rapid progress sets one to think of Aladdin's palace. Its material reminds us of the palace of...

IfiE QUESTION OF PRICES.

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SOME of the German fabricants object to send articles to the Great Industrial Exhibition unless with the prices affixed; considering that from the lower wages paid in Germany...

VACANT PEDESTALS OF LONDON.

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" NATURE abhors a vacuum," according to the Aristotelians. It may not be easy to define what was meant by this postulate, or what may be the precise sensation of Nature from...

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TREATMENT OF THE POPISH AGGRESSION. 5th November 1850. Sin—Let me begin my letter by fairly stating that I differ with much that you have written upon the recent Papal...

THE TWO DMURCHES — "LOOK AT HOME."

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Sin—The Papal mind, if it is subject in things secular to the same failings as fallible mortals, must surely derive satisfaction from the state of confusion and alarm into...

COLONIAL LAND.

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Sni—The officer retiring from the Army may receive, if he pleases, the value of his commission in land in certain of our Colonies. There seems to be no reason why the same...

THE EGYPTIAN CANAL.

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Stoke Newington, 7th November 1850. Srn—The important intelligence which has lately been communicated to the public that arrangements are likely to be made for opening a...

CHEAP BRANCH LINES FOR RAILWAYS.

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1 Adam Street, tidelphi, 4th November 1850. Sut—Now that it has come to be understood that the value of landed property is materially enhanced by railway communication,...

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SIR FRANCIS HEAD'S DEFENCELESS STATE or a REAT BRITAIN. * THIS

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volume is not only altogether below its very important subject, but its exaggerated views and inflated style are more calculated to injure than to advance the cause which the...

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MICHELE AMAMI'S WAN Or THE SICILIAN VESPERS. * As usually received,

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the story of the Sicilian Vespers forms one of the strangest romances of history:. A conspiracy extending from Constantinople to Aragon, embracing all classes of people, yet...

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11E11E1 - WEATHER'S LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLDEN TIME. * Tins volume

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has the fault of an untrained or an ill-trained author —a little too much of writing, a little too finely done ; and on. some points the matter, if sufficient for the object,...

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KERR ON THE SUGAR-CANE AND SUGAR-MANUFACTURE. * THE number of works

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that have lately been published, and some of them by eminent men, on the staple production of the West Indies, shows the struggle which is going on among the British planters,...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses connected with the .&gal Succession of Great Britain. By Agnes Strickland, Author of "Lives of the Queens of...

The week has been rather fertile in translations, continuations, or

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new editions. Mr. Sewell's "Odes and Epodes of Horace" is an attempt to combine literal accuracy with metre and rhy-me, without of course any aim at the felicity or spirit of...

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MUSIC.

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LUCREZIA BORGIA IN THE STANDARD LYRIC DRAMA.° 'Marry persons will object to the introduction of Lucrezia Borgia into this aeries; denying its claim to be placed among the...

FINE ARTS.

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THE ELECTIONS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE election to the Presidency of the Royal Academy, vacant by the death of Sir Martin Archer Shea, took place on Monday ; when the voice of...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 19th September, at Bombay, Lady Yardley, of a daughter. On the 1st November, at Boconnoc, Cornwall, Lady Louisa Fortescue, of a son. On the 1st, in Russell Square, the...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 5.-Scots Fusilier Guards-Lieut. and Capt. Lord J. J. C. P. Murray to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col. by purchase, vice Robinson, who retires; Ensign and Lieut. G. T....

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, November 5. PARTNERSHIPS DissoLvEn.—Parnall and Co. Liverpool, ship-brokers—Powell and Co. Liverpool, ship-chandlers—De la Court and De Leon, Bell Yard, Doctors'...

Friday, November 8. PARTNERSHIPS D/SSOLVED.—Ashburne and Boon, New Milman Street,

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dress-makers—Harris and Co. Bersham Paper Mills, Denbighshire, paper-manufacturersCouper and Co. Billingham, Durham, glass-manufacturers—Moses, Brothers, Leadenhall Street,...