13 DECEMBER 1845

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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How much do those words convey It is a cardinal point in the history of the country. The eventful and memorable Admi- ninistration of Sir Robert Peel is over ; a new Whig aera...

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SW' glOttrt.

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THE Royal retreat in the Isle of Wight has been invaded by the per- emptory business of the Ministerial crisis. Sir Robert Peel arrived at Osborne House on Saturday, and...

Zbe Itlietropolis.

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The Court of Common Council held an adjourned meeting on Tuesday; and the discussion on the subject of affixing the seal to some Hospital docquets was resumed. The opinion of...

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Zbe Probirtres.

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The deputation of the Anti-Corn-law League (Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright) have held meetings to promote the repeal of the Corn-laws, espe- cially by the qualification of freehold...

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_foreign anti erolonial.

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PRIIISSIA.—In a long paper on "The King of Prussia and the Constitu- tion," the Paris Siècle says that "the question of the constitution is still pending in Prussia, and that...

IRELAND.

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Dr. Kennedy, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, writing from the Irish College in Rome, on the 25th November, thus contradicts, in the Dublin Evening Packet, a report...

SC0TLAND.

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Glasgow has sustained a disappointment. Lord John Russell had agreed to receive the freedom of the corporation at a great gathering in the City Hall, on Friday; the ceremony to...

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JfirlistrIlantous.

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The Morning Poet has "great satisfaction in being enabled to announce that an event calculated to strengthen the affectionate attachment of the people to tha Throne, and at the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. Innumerable rumours concerning the Ministerial crisis circulate, but there is very little real information. Yesterday, the daily papers published lists...

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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We have received a number of letters on the now stirring subject of the Corn-laviii; but, curiously enough—for the Spectator has not concealed its own long-resolved con-...

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Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed the

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Earl of Liver- pool to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. A circular has just issued from the War Office to Colonels of Militia, directing the completion of the...

MONEY MAR KE T.

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T. STOCK E. F.,Toog NANO FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Money-market was recovering from the shocks to which it has recently been subjected; and upon shutting the books of Consols on...

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OREGON; BRITISH RIGHTS AND AMERICAN TRICK&

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THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 8th December 1845. Sin—Will you permit ale to make a few remarks on Mr. Webster's speech re- specting the Oregon question. He advocates...

EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENTS UNDER CORN-LAW REPEAL.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 10t1 December 1845. Mn. EDITOR—There can be no question that, if we are to consider the nation as divided into classes or interests,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE TASK OF THE DAY. " NEMO mortalium," as Partridge says, "omnibus hone sapit" : nobody among the Free-traders is at all times infallible, not even Mr. Cobden. In his Bristol...

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MORE COOKS FOR THE POOR.

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IE honour could allay the cravings of the stomach, the poor would suffer little from hunger this winter. College dignitaries and peers are rivals for the appointment of cooks in...

THE WEAVING DISTRICTS.

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THE state and prospects of our textile manufactures are not what could be wished at the commencement of winter. In Yorkshire —the woollen country—trade was dull and markets...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATION, A Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature. Edited by John Kitto, D.D., F.S.A. Editor of "The Pictorial Bible," &c. Illustrated by numerous Engravings. In two...

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EASTERN EUROPE AND THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.

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TO judge from The White Slave and the work before us, (The Revela- tions of Russia we have never seen,) the author is likely to be a diplomatist, too imaginative for his trade....

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COOPER'S CHAINBEARER.

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Tins fiction is the second novel of the series which is to paint the manners of the State of New York at three periods, and point a moral against Anti-Rentism. The form is still...

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SOUTHEY'S OLIVER NEWMAN.

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THIS posthumous poem of the late Robert Southey was first suggested to his mind by reviewing Holmes's American Annals; when he pointed out the war of Philip, the Red Indian...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Prom December 5th to December 11th. BOOKS. Eastern Europe arid the Emperor Nicholas. By the Author of" Revelations of Russia"; The White Slave." In two volumes. Oliver Newman,...

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FINE ARTS.

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MR. LUCAS'S MODELS OP THE PARTHENON. Or the multitudes who have visited the British Museum and gazed with wonder and admiration on the Elgin Marbles, but a small proportion are...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAH - OFFICL, Dec. 9.-10th Rest. of Foot-R. H. Travers, Gent to be Eneign, br purchase, vice Curry, who retires. 41st Foot -Ensign J. G. Egginton, from the 454k Foot, to be...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, December 9. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Percival] and Clark. Birmingham, accountants-Potter and Harrison, Leeds, share- brokers-Hickman and Croft, Tranmere, Cheshire,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 20th November, at Florence, the Lady of the Rev. George Robbins, M.A., British Chaplain, of a daughter. On the 29th, at Cove, the Lady of Commander De Courcey, of aeon....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Aaatvero-At Gravesend, 7th Dec. Brechin Castle, Barclay, from Calcutta ; 9th, Olinda, Taylor, from ditto; and 10th, Eleanor, Radio, from Mauritius. In the Downg. 9th, Meg...

NAVAL GAZETTE.

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ADMIRALTY, Dec. 8.-With reference to the Gazette of the 28th ult, the followted Naval promotions have taken place-Acting Capt. H. Lyster, her Majesty's ship Agin- court, to be...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Alabama (Sterling) Austrian Op. Ct. — Massachusetts (Sterling). –6 p. Ct. 9 — — Mexican .... ....