11 SEPTEMBER 1858

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TEE simplest recital of the week's doings at Leeds might, if pro- perly read, form the most cogent lesson which unconstitutional monarchs could read. The British Association is...

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rniutint.

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The visit of Queen Victoria to Leeds ranks among the most successful of her visits to the great towns. Great preparation had long been made' the event was looked for throughout...

thr Airtrnpalio.

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The Council of India has been divided into three grand departments, namely—First, Finance, Home, and Public Works ; second, Political and Military; and third, Revenue, Judicial,...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Queen arrived at Edinburgh on Tuesday evening, where she was received with due state and ceremony, and took up her abode in Holy- rood Palace for the night. It was here that...

IRELAND.

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Lord Eglinton conferred, on Saturday, the honour of knighthood upon Mr. Charles Bright, the engineer of the Atlantic telegraph. Sir Charles dined at the Viceregal Lodge. A...

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lartigu Ruh Colonial.

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inuur.—The Emperor and Empreis have been joined at Biar- ritz by the Imperial prince. This step was not taken without precau- tion. The Mayor and the principal physicians of...

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Ziottllautons.

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A t e legraphic despatch from Jersey, dated Tuesday announced the in- a uguration of the Channel Islands telegraph. The wire works emcees- fay. A congratulatory address was sent...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. A few items of intelligence from India and China have come to hand this morning. The advices from Bombay are to the 19th, from Calcutta to the 8th August. They tell...

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Muir.

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We have a few words to add to our last week's notice of the Birming- ham Festival. It ended on Friday week with a morning performance, which consisted of Leslie's new oratorio...

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The period of inaction is now passing away, and the commencement of the winter season is proclaimed by the reopening of the Haymarket. Mr. Buckstone has painted and furbished up...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock Market has again shown increased buoyancy, and an improvement of / per cent has been established on last week's prices. The...

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THE MIGRATIONS OF LABOUR.

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Is the late Sir George Cayley's visions of ballooning had been realized, and we could survey the globe at pleasure from on high, one of the strangest spectacles now witnessed by...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TURKEY. IF it be possible for this country to do otherwise than " drift " in its foreign policy, it would seem high time that the most thought- ful attention should be given to...

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"SETTLED QUESTIONS."

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As things are in England, it requires but little foresight to discern the too great probability of some form of national disaster. For if ever the country was in that dangerous...

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BEGINNING OF THE THAMES IMPROVEMENT.

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Ir the English people is the practical people which it professes to be, and if the House of Commons represents it, the first step will soon be made in improving the banks of the...

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DECLINE OF RAILWAY PROPERTY.

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TILE state of railway property is exciting great interest on ac- count of its exceedingly depreciated aspect; and the interest is felt not only by the unlucky victims, the...

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THE WILL OF THE LATE DUCHESS D'ORLEANS, proved in England,

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is published in the journals. The greater part is taken up with testa- mentary dispositions of property; but in the opening sentences, there is much that shows strong family...

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BOOKS.

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SANFORD'S STUDIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GREAT REBELLION. rrijzz are sense historical epochs about which the studious world seems never tired of reading. One of these is the...

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DUNLOP'S KHAKEE RESSALA H—TATLEIt'S THREE MONTHS AT PATNA. * MAY 1857

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found Mr. Dunlop a Magistrate and Collector, or Deputy-Commissioner in the Province of Meerut, but taking holiday in the Himalayas on sick leave, with a 'companion, Lieu- tenant...

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COLBURN AND HOLLEY'S COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN RAILWAYS. * THE

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authors of this elaborately "got up" folio were originally deputed by a few American railway companies to examine the European lines in order to compare their working...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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The late torpor in the publishing world, as regards new books of pro- mise, has been stirred a little, mainly by Mr. Bentley. That bibliopole has seat forth a novel, and three...

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DEATHS.

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On the 28th July, at Bellary, Richard Cotton Lewin, of the Madras Civil Service, eldest son of Malcolm Lewin, Esq., of Gloucester Gardens. On the 29th August, at Ringwood....

KSRBIAGES.

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On the 4th September, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Miltou-next-Graves- end, George, third son of Samuel Parkinson, late of the Aceountant-Geamars Office, to Frances Anne,...

On the 29th August, at Macerate., th B eNir i r . Wife of Chevalier

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D. Pantale0 00f ni al ,:x hm.t,aer: Rome, of a son. On the 30th, at Landford, Salisbury, the Wife of the Rev. E. Simms, On the 5th September, at Appleton Hall, Warrington,...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 7. WAR-OFFICE, Pall Mall, Sept. 7.—Cavalry-2d Regt. of Drag. Guards—Comet F. Greatorex, from the 15th Light Drags. to be Cornet, vice Thomas...

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Crnitt.

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PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 7. .Bankrupts.-Ssmrst, 8IDDE21, Millbank Street, contractor for public works- M 'WAX Lacasom, Worcester, fishmonger-JAmm Bnowx, Alcester,...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Pricea) Saturd. Monday. rucaday. Waxes. Thurs. Friday. 100r Cent Consols 96f 9511 sr; 971 979 961 Ditto for Account Stil 961 - 971 971 97.1 aper...