10 SEPTEMBER 1859

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The intelligence which arrived from Germany last week has been

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confirmed and increased in its importance by the subsequent _discussions. Two meetings were held at Eisenach and at Hanover, to adept precisely the same set of resolutions. The...

The news from Paris is less clear and certain. While

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the Emperor Napoleon is invited to a consultation with the Austrian Emperor, the semi-official press of Paris still is engaged in cor- recting misstatements of the Belgian...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE events which have taken place during the last eight days have proved the solid growth of Italian nationality, and have not only given the most substantial testimony to the...

The dead season of politics has been enlivened in various

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quarters of the United Kingdom with some sectional efferves- cenoeof fanaticism, very partial in their character, although to a °Alin extent wide in their geographical range....

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Amid the oratory of the week, the speech of Mr.

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Bright at Huddersfield stands conspicuous for the power of its eloquence, although it does not carry us to any new point in political pro- gress, or throw any fresh light upon...

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The Great Eastern has moved from her station at Deptford, gone down the river, and steamed out to sea. Early on Wenesday morinng all hands were astir, making the necessary...

The strike of the builders has been brought to a

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partial close, but in a .manner that leaves us in doubt as to the sequel, and does not, we confess, appear calculated to renew the smooth pro- gress of industry. The masters...

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

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A Parliamentary Blue-book with the National Debt for its subject could net fail to be as full of interest as it is of figures. That just pub- lished consists of 104 pages, and...

THE STRIKE OF THE BUILDERS.

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The most novel incident in the current history of the strike in the building trades is the announcement of the master builders that they will on Monday open their shops to all...

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Vrnuinrial.

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The annual dinner at Sheffield, known as the Master Cutlers' Feast, is usually illustrated by the presence of some person eminent in public life. It was held this year on the 2d...

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IRELAND.

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Mr. Cardwell on Wednesday received in Dublin Castle a deputation from a body of teachers of the National Schools, who complain of the smallness of their present salaries, and...

SCOTLAND.

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The life of the Queen at Balmoral is characterized by vigorous out- door exercise. Her Majesty has walked out in the grounds, driven to the Woods of Abergeldie and rode out on...

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furtign anti &Initial.

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$ 11.11r,—The Emperor and Empress are still at St. Sauvenr. Prince Richard Metternich arrived at the end of August, and had an interview with the Emperor on the 30th. Count...

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Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, the newly appointed British Minister at the Court of the Shah of Persia, left London on Tuesday for his post, accompanied by Dr. Dickson. Mr....

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ITNIGATOR.

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Various modes have been adopted from time to time, to destroy the insects infesting hot-houses, and attacking delicate flowers of every de- scription. The latest mode, however,...

POSTSCRIPT • SATURDAY MORNING.

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A summary of an important article which appeared in the Mon iteur of yesterday has come to hand. It treats of the Italian question and may throw some light on the interviews at...

Wistful rto, trap. &r.

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A NEW PIECE OP ORDNANCR. Our attention has been called to a new piece of ordnance, together with sundry forms of destructive missiles, invented and patented by Mr. Hobbs, of...

We have received some interesting statements from an intelligent and

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well-informed resident in Germany to take an accurate and impartial view of passing events. Austria, he writes, has estranged herself from the people of the North of Germany on...

A telegram from Paris, dated yesterday, states that "the Conference

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on the Danubian Principalities will meet again in a few days, its work not being quite completed yet. The Ring of the Belgians will arrive at Biarritz about the leth instant,...

A large meeting of the workmen on strike was held

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yesterday in the Surrey Music Hall. The speakers were Mr. Noble, Mr. George Potter, Mr. Facey, and others. They were very enthusiastic and courageous, judging from their...

CANDLE SHADES.

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The inconveniences arising from the use of candles in open candle- sticks are too well known. Many attempts to remedy the evil have been made ; by introducing glass and other...

MONEY MARKET.

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Broca EXCILLITOII, FRIDAY Arnramoox. An advance in the value of the new Indian Loan has taken place of fully 11 per cent upon last week, the public being steady purchasers as...

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Itt1rr5 lii 1i ettitni.

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TILE STEINE. SePtcmber 7, 1869. Sm—With your kind permission I will try to correct a few more of the aisstatements so industriously circulated against the unfortunate society...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE STRIKE—ITS RATIONALE. IT is to be regretted that the masters in the building trade have not thrown open their establishments to the work-people, entirely casting away all...

COTTON IN at,IFFETVA AND TUE WEST INDIES. Brixton, September 8,

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1859. Sin—Your correspondent Mr. Strutt has been known to me us a magis- trate of great judgment and integrity for above seventeen years, and I sin delighted to find him now, on...

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NATIONAL RESOURCES AND NATIONAL BURDENS. "POST hoc. propter hoc"—the old

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mistake of empiricism—is a standing joke among men of sound medical science ; yet it re- mains to this day the standing blunder of the most sagacious doc- tors. And it is by no...

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THE MEANING OF THE SMETHURST REPRIEVE. DR. SMETHURST has not

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been pardoned, he has only been re- prieved. This distinction, and it is an important one, seems to have been overlooked in many quarters. The effect of Sir George Lewis's...

ENGLISH MISTAKES ON AMERICAN QUESTIONS. SCARCELY a week passes without

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some evidence of the very im- perfect knowledge upon which our contemporaries undertake to handle American affairs. Our readers will remember that within the present year we...

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GOVEILNMENT OF THE ARMY.

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A DISGUSTING scene at Woolwich has once more called attention to the mode of enforcing discipline amongst our soldiers. The autho- rities, who have apparently exhausted their...

THE CORK WORKHOUSE QUESTION.

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Ws adverted some time ago to an important statement entered on the Visitors' Book of the Cork Workhouse by the Mayor of that city , Mr. John Arnett, M.P., relative to the...

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WEST INDIAN COTTON GROWTH.

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Endeavours are made by gentlemen well acquainted with Jamaica to start a new branch of industry for the British West Indies, and already they have obtained some earnest of...

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BOOKS.

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TUSCANY IN 1849 AND IN 1859. To plead for Tuscany in the present crisis of her fate, is a task for which Mr. Thomas Adolphus Trollope is peculiarly qualified by the bent of his...

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PROVERBS OF ALL NATIONS. * POPULAR fallacies and popular wisdom form

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the bulk of the pro- verbial philosophy of all ages. This differs considerably from that preached. by Mr. 'Tupper to the evangelical ladies of our day, and which has no chance...

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ILAN AND HIS Dinia.1DM PLACE. * THERE is much which is

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incontrovertibly true in this well-written book. The author's great aim seems to be to establish these pro- positions, namely :—I. That nature is not as we feel and perceive it....

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A LITTLE TOUR IN IRELAND. * AFTER a more than usually

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severe disappointment in love—for he is a frequent sufferer by such accidents—our too susceptible Ox- onian lied to Ireland "to banish his regret." So at least he would have us...

LITERARY NEWS.

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A considerable number of new works and new editions are announced for the coming season by Messrs. Longman and Co. The former com- prise a "Seven Years' Residence iuthe Great...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Of the fourteen books on the subjoined list two only call for immediate remark. THROUGH NORWAY wren A KNAPSA.CE. is a book which will interest all readers, and which should be...

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it4t g4tatrrs.

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The Goose with the Golden Eggs, as Mr. Augustus Mayhew calls his very droll contribution to the repertory of the Strand Theatre, is a tale of plebeian roguery, which, although...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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M. Octave Feuillet, by his "Roman d'un Jenne Homme pauvre," and the drama, of the same name, which he built upon it, seems to have created a rage for young gentlemen with...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Priem) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Wanes. noes . Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 95I 951 951 931 951 951 Ditto for Account 951 951 954 531 951 3 per Cents...

BIRTHS.

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On the 17th of August, at Theodosia, Southern Russia, the Wife of Captain Clip- perton, her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Theodosia, of a daughter. On the 28th, the Wife...

FROM THE LONDON oAzErrn, SEPTEMBER 9. Bankrupts.—TnomAs Ma-Lannon WIGLEY, Birmingham,

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builder—GEORGE HAR- DENER SPENCER, Bow, Middlesex, builder—WiLmAx LA VEN and Wayyrat SPECK, Long Acre, tavern-keepers—Joann' Tex - Lon, Sunbury, Middlesex, builder—FRAN- CIS...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6. Bankrupts.—Houhno NELSON HORNET, Little

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Tower Street, esrrier—JAmEs WILLLuz GRAY, Shrewsbury Villas, Talbot Road, Paddington, builder—EnwAnn MA:Prams, Coventry, builder—SA.muEL Jost:mon, Burslem, draper—Wu-ma HWIL-...