13 APRIL 1850

Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Spectator

auccEssrorr of small rebuffs exposes the condition of extreme weakness which the Russell Ministry has at length attained. Their troubles began with the week. On going into...

The still continued spread of the agitation in the Church,

The Spectator

of which the Gorham dispute is the proximate cause, is attended by an enlargement also of the spirit which animates the several parties. The movement is far from being confined...

The OelAit . of the French Government betrays an increasing sense

The Spectator

of its own danger, and tends more and more to place the " Republican " rulers in a position identical with that of Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe. It is prosecuting...

Page 2

Lord Grey too has odkractecl fr his llTose Ferilousty

The Spectator

false position at the (lege of gaga , Hope: .4 s ,gaveu everything — the hireling of the convicts, 16 fattire Aransmis- sion of convicts, the immigration of military...

rtinato nut( rutnkiq fitVarliantrut.

The Spectator

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. HOUSE OP LORDS. Thursday, April 11. The - Lord Chancellor being absent from illness, Lord Campbell on the 'Woolsack as Speaker—The Convicts Bill...

Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS.

The Spectator

Fifteenth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons. II. Northern and Eastern Dis- trict. IV. Scotland. (Presented by command.) By a recent arrangement, Mr. Frederick nil 1 has been...

Page 5

iSruniurro.

The Spectator

Forty-six clergymen of Hull, Beverley, and other parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, have "embraced an opportunity, under the present painful not to say alarming crisis of...

THE Royal Family returned from Windsor to Buckingham Palace on

The Spectator

Saturday ; all enjoying good health. The Queen gave an audience on Tuesday to Lord Seymour ; who kissed hands on receiving the appointment of Chief Commissioner of Woods and...

Cht 0,rtruinitt5.

The Spectator

The East India Directors have chosen Mr. John Shepherd as their Chairman, and Sir James Weir Hogg as Deputy Chairman, for the en- suing year. The Oriental Club gave a banquet...

Page 6

ft furrign null efflouill.

The Spectator

FEANCE.—The Minister of Finance has presented to the Assembly his budget for 1851, in a speech unusually clear, and free from financial "effect." The leading features of his...

IRELAND.

The Spectator

The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided at a meeting- on Monday - to peti- tion Parliament against the abolition of the Viceroyalty. The meet- ing was numerously but not very...

SCOTLAND.

The Spectator

A large and earnest meeting was held at Edinburgh on Tuesday night, in flutherance of the principles promulgated in the manifesto issued fel= Edinburgh, some time since, on the...

Page 8

AliortIlaututto.

The Spectator

, The Marquis d'Azeglio has returned to London from Italy, to resume his official duties as Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires.—Court Circular. The Duke of Wellington, as...

Page 9

POSTSCRIPT.

The Spectator

In the House of Commons last night, Lord Josef litreaatz moved the resolution of which he had given notice as follows- " That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into...

Page 10

A large public meeting at Leeds has affirmed the excellency

The Spectator

of the educe - tional plans propounded by the Lancashire Public Schools Association, and the necessity for carrying them out by a national enactment. Mr. John O'Connell has...

The Lord Chancellor is pronounced "convalescent," but to remain a

The Spectator

few days in the country before resuming his duties. The Marquis of Granby, following the Belvoir hounds on Saturday, charged a river at full speed "where it was impossible any...

The Vanguard mail steam-ship arrived at Liverpool yesterday, from America,

The Spectator

with accounts two days later ; but they contain no important news.

Maria Reeder and Elias Lucas, who were found guilty at

The Spectator

the late Cam- bridge Assizes of murdering Susan Lucas, the wife of Miss, were executed this morning, before an enormous concourse of people.

An important meeting of French bionamtucal Representatives was held at

The Spectator

the Palace of the Conseil d'Etat in Paris, on Wednesday night. M. Thiers portrayed the existing situation in gloomy colours, and then stated that he was ready to take upon...

MONEY -MARKET.

The Spectator

SINCE EEC/LANGE, FR/DAT AFTERNOON. The English Funds were slightly depressed by the occurrence of settling- day, a large quantity of Stock being in the hands of weak holders :...

Two Divisions.

The Spectator

The House of Commons has concluded the tenth week of its actual sittings, and during that period Ministers have sustained four absolute defeats, and one so closely bordering on...

Page 11

A 'little elegant anecdote, laid in the time of 'Charles

The Spectator

the Second, and' exhibiting magnanimous disinterestedness on the part of a poor cousin in - favour of his wealthy relatives, and the generous love of a lady who re- wards him...

The .operatic season having terminated at the St. 1 - ernes's Theatre,

The Spectator

the comedy season has commenced; and Mademoiselle Denain and M. Samson,. the latter celebrated equally as an author and actor, are the present' "stars." The acting of these...

Many great men have been unfortunate in their age and

The Spectator

country, anal - something of the kind may be said with respect to Mr. Bernard's new piece of .774c Passing Cloud, at Drury Lane ; which is not half so bad as the severer critics...

As a specimen of dramatic skill, there is no doubt

The Spectator

that Mr. Stirling Coyne's version of The Vicar of Wakefield, just produced at the -Haymarket, is greatly superior to the one written by Mr. Tom Taylor and previously brought out...

We have had two.charming evenings at Her Majesty's Theatre this

The Spectator

week. On Tuesday there was llossini's masterpiece, Ii Barbiere di Siviglia the .finest specimen extant of the pure opera buffs; and on Thursday the superb Don Giovanni. They...

THE PFIILHARMONIC SOUtaTY.

The Spectator

The third Philharmonic concert, on Monday, was excellent as 'to the instrumental music; the vocal portion was worse than indifferent. In the irustrumentalrdepartment, indeed,...

PRINCIPAL HOUSE OF 'COMMONS BUSINESS FOR NEXT WEEK.

The Spectator

Monday, April 15. Stamp Duties Bill: -Committee. Security for Advances (Ireland) Bill: Second. reading. Registration of Deeds (Ireland) Bill: Committee. Other Bills to be...

Page 12

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Spectator

. LONDON AND TICE .E 1 :114NE•98 TH1jUO1. IT is the season in London the Parliament is in tie midst of ;bnsi nese, the Opera has attained its prime, and the Metry Ilia It is a...

THE CJITJECH IN . 1 1VAN1. OF .A MisSIoN.

The Spectator

THEE scandals among the clergy, the controversies, the divided. agitations7-wbat , sire they' init signs of - seine internal uneasiness, some conscious want, some -"aching...

LORD GREY'S FAREWAL TI ) TIIE

The Spectator

AmoNG the most creditable of iOra Grey's public satilmfin4tonte• time, is his retraetation freni . the false ••position tosikardlilthetiOaps• of Good Hope :...

Page 13

: RgNEWRD CONSPIRACY IN TRARA_LGAR SQUARE ALTHOUGH the suitable custody and

The Spectator

lodgement of the national pictures is a subject of great magnitude, a detail in that broad question presses 'with tnote immediate in*eney - than all the rest: We , notitte:semet...

Page 14

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

The Spectator

Sin—Agitation is so seldom successful unless based on prejudice and up. pealing to passions, that it is hopeless to expect any enthusiasm in so cora- mon-sense a cause as a...

Pflug ill fJjrteiritur.

The Spectator

THE NEW STAMP-DUTIF.S. . April 10, 1850. Sin—The grievance of which your correspondent "C. S.' from Idanches, ter complains, namely, the existence of a stamp-duty of 11. 15s....

RATIONALE OF INCENDIARISM.

The Spectator

" WitAr is the use of incendiary fires P" asks the rationalist: "why, because a poor man is made poorer, in the reduction of wages, should lie destroy the _property of others ;...

Burten-on-.Trei8t, .8th-April 1850.

The Spectator

Sur—The suggestion of your corm dent "C. S." relative to the "lease for a year" duty has been anticipated by:the new bill. Thatduty is thereby repealed. There is, however, : one...

Page 15

BOOKS.

The Spectator

CATHCA.HT ON THE RUSSIAN AND GERMAN CA.MPAIGNS 'OF 1812 AND 1813. 4 Ix 1812, Colonel Cathcart, then in his nineteenth year, and a Lieu- tenant of Dragoons, accompanied his...

Page 16

AT ON THE SOCIAL CONDITION AND EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE

The Spectator

IN ENGLAND AND EUROPE. * Anotrr the (era of the Reform Bill and for some time later, a class of doctrinaires in this country were rather unduly smitten with the charms of...

TEE CLIMATE AND METEOROLOGY OF MADEIRA. * THE late Dr. J.

The Spectator

A. Mason, the inventor of the hygrometer which bears his name, was ordered M Nice, by Sir James Clark, for a pulmonary affection. During the, journey, a relation was attacked 11...

Page 17

'S WAYS OF THE H017R. * peT ,, 9thibits the literary characteristic fhioli

The Spectator

mg? else efiiihis him to sustain theinferest Of his fic on,s, no ding a rapidity of production almost amounting t , ,o novlgrhiding : he has ch4 . en an extensive phase of...

Page 18

PUBLICA.TIONS RECEIVED.

The Spectator

The History of the Papal States, from their Origin to the Present Day. By the Reverend John. Miley, D.D., Author of Rome under Pagan- ism and the Popes." In three volumes....

Page 19

On the 23d March, at 13, Colley, Glasgow, Mrs. Hugh

The Spectator

Blackbnrn, of a son. On the 2d April, atEwell, the Wife of the Bev. Sir George L. Glyn, of a soa. On the 4th, at Eveiton, near Liverpool, the Lady of the Rev. J. idacnaught, of...

THE ART S.

The Spectator

• PORTRAIT OF LAYARD AFTER PHILLIPS. * .Mv. Henry W. Phillips has produced a striking and animated like- ness of a remarkable man. Mr. Layard will be ever memorable as the man...

MHATA EY GAZETTE.

The Spectator

Wan-ernes, April I2.-5th Regt. of Drag. Guards-G. S. Bundand, Gent. babe Cornet, by purchase, vies Bridge, appointed to the let Drag. Guards. 4th Light. Drags.-l'. W. Martin,...

Page 20

C.031.311tCIA1... ; ,QAZATZE. , Tuesday, April 9.

The Spectator

Psarzreasnies Dissotre.O.-W. and 'W.' H. Wood, liorncantle,..Lhicolnsbire, mercers-Edwards and Roghes. Ave Jiaria Lane, buolifellers*eleh ahd Co.Tipton , ironmasters; as far as...

PRICES CURRENT.

The Spectator

961 965 95 205 70 95/ 96 • 954 974 207 70 . 94 - per Cent CoMola Ditto for Amount '3 perCents Reduced 31-per Cents " 'Long Annuities Bank Stock, 8 per Cent India Sleek, 102...