14 JUNE 1856

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NEW - S OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT has done more this week to work off unsettled dis- cussion than to advance practical measures, and the activity has principally been found in the House of Commons....

An entirely new turn has been given to the state

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of our rela- tions with America, by the transmission of despatches from the other side ; and statements were made by Ministers in Parliament last night. The American Government...

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The inundations in France have far exceeded in extent what

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was at first supposed. The Centre and the West have suffered equally with the South. " Nul torrent revolutionnaire que le Loire," exclaimed Barre're sarcastically at the time of...

Vtlauttn nub 48nurthings in Vorliauflut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. BOWIE or Leaps. Monday, June 9. The Foreign Legion ; Lord Panmnre's Re- ply to Lord Donoughmore—Mercantile Law Amendment Bill reported—Reforma-...

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311ttropulio.

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The Administrative Reform Association has reorganized its " consti- tution " under the chairmanship of Mr. Roebuck, and has adopted a new line of action. In a circular addressed...

Of Court.

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Tins being the race-week at Ascot, the Queen moved from Buelcingham Palace to Windsor Castle on Tuesday. Besides attending the races on the " Cup day," accompanied by Prince...

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Vrattinrial.

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The " citizens of Manchester" arc signing an address to " the People of America" with the view of preventing war. The address refers the perilous condition of the relations...

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IRELAND.

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Dr. Cullen has published another of those enormous pastorals for which he has become famous. It is, as usual, a denunciation of the proselytizing tendency of the Protestants....

lartigu. gull Coluttiat.

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fram.—The inundations still absorb the public interest in France. The rise of the Loire followed that of the rivers of the South ; and the Central and Western departments were...

SCOTLAND.

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At a special meeting of the Edinburgh ToWn-Council on Saturday, the Lord Provost presented Dr. Merle D'Aubigne with the freedom of the city. In acknowledging the compliment, the...

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Zigultuutans.

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A very considerable number of war-ships are now under orders to pre- pare for "foreign service." They comprise every class of vessel from the 91 screw line-of-battle to the tiny...

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ASCOT HEATH RACES.

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The annual races at Ascot have been celebrated this week. It is re- marked that the concourse was unprecedented, especially on Thursday, the " Cup day," when the Queen honoured...

The Times and the Morning Pose, the two daily journals

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supposed to be most in communication with the Government, comment on the actual position of the American difficulty, and suggest the next move. Both journals seem to regard the...

The Lord Mayor presided yesterday over a meeting in the

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Mansion- house, which he had convened for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the French people suffering from the late inundations. He had pre- viously communicated this...

POSTSCRIPT.

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" " SATHRDAY. . Questions were put by the leaders of the Opposition in both Houses of ' Parliament last night on the. subjeet of our relations with the United states. In the...

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The Fulton arrived at Southampton early this morning, bringing advises

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from New York to June 1. On the 29th May, the President sent a message to the Senate, notifying the dismissal of Mr. Crampton and the three Consuls. The American journals also...

i rstrts ant( Ilusir.

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If a decision as to the respective merits of Mademoiselle Rachel and Madame Ristori in representing Mary Stuart could be given by the un- fortunate Queen herself, we have no...

William Palmer was executed, pursuant to his sentence, about half-past

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eight o'clock this morning. The people of Stafford had treated the hanging as a spectacle. The space in front of the County Gaol, where a moveable scaf- fold was set up, was...

CRYSTAL PALACE.—We are requested to state that the first display

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of the .great fountains of the Crystal Palace in the presence of her Majesty on Wed- nesday next will not take place earlier than five o'clock. It is desirable that the fact...

In speaking of " the Derby," two weeks ago, we

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said that " the winning horse, we believed, was in the Protestant interest ; and perhaps that might be a cheering omen for the opponents of Sunday music and the Maynooth t.' The...

The Moniteur authoritatively contradicts a rumour that the French .Government

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is about to bring before the Legislative Body a bill fora loan.

The power of Mr. Robson in representing mental anguish under

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ludi- crous circumstances is once more shown in a farce produced at the Olymr plc, with the title A .Fascinating Individual. It is too slight, and ,too destitute of a leairmg...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCILANOE, FRIDAY A/YERNOON. The overland advices from Australia on Monday, announcing a consi- derable increase in the gold-productions, (now yielding at the rate of...

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PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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The .dmphitryon of Moliere has been revived at the Theatre Francais, with a cast comprising MM. Regnier and Samson, and Mesdemoiselles Judith and Augustine Brohan. At the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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TINE IDEE NAPOLEONIENNE. FRENCH inundations, like French revolutions, are on a gigantic scale. They present similar physical and moral aspects to the observant eye. They are...

Madame Albertini , whose debut at Her Maj Theatre, in the

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part of Leonora in the Trovatore, we recorded last w appeared on Monday as Lucretia Borgia. In this second character she had to contend with the ineffaceable impression left on...

The concerts of the week—not to speak of a multitude

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of small ones— have been the Philharmonic on Monday, and Madame Goldschmidt's on Wednesday. The Philharmonic concert had two features of special interest. The first was...

We have now got a third Italian Opera, located at

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the Surrey. It is an enterprise of Messrs. Cramer and Beale the music-publishers, and has certainly begun with spirit. The theatre opened on Monday, with Norma, exceedingly well...

The Royal Italian Opera has not exhibited any novelty except

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Mario's assumption of the part of Manrico in the Trovatore , vacant by the de- parture of Tamberlik. His performance, on Thursday, might have been described beforehand by any...

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THE . CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS.

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WHILE the attention of the British public has been engrossed by two Anglo-American questions—the Crampton-Marcy ,controversy and the Central American imbroglio—a purely domestic...

THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM ASSOCIATION REORGANIZED.

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'Inn Administrative Reform Association has a great accession in its new Chairman Mr. Roebuck, without losing any of its previous leaders : it retains its old object, with a new...

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M. DE METZ AT THE REFORMATORY UNION.

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Tire examination of M. De Metz before the special ineeting of the National Reformatory Union is calculated to advance the pro- gress of juvenile reformation, by correcting may...

THE PURE RESULT OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. IF there is any

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defect in the treatment of Palmer's case, it lies, certainly, not in the conduct of judge, counsel, or jury, but in the actual state of the law. That the treatment of the case...

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HOW TO GOVERN.

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CERTAIN questions, we sometimes tell ourselves, are " settled," and we speak as if we were all the world. Are we ? Lord Pal- merston hesitates, and justly, to appoint a Board of...

ARE LIFE PEERS REMOVEABLE BY THE CROWN ? THE Times

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represents "the Peers" as saying, in the matter of Lord Wensleydale—" The Crown shall not create Peers for life, but the Crown shall, by virtue of an act of Parliament which...

BOOKS.

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H,c3ITHAITSEN'S RIISSIAN EMPIRE.* THE "specialite" of the Baron Von Haxthausen is, the "differ- ent relations of the peasant elan to the cultivation of the land, their...

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BACON'S RESSATS, EDITED BY ARCHBISHOP WIT A T LT. * IT

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is an unfortunate but undeniable fact, that bishops and arch- bishops, in spite of the apostolic blood which, as my Lord of fia- lisblny recently remarked, runs in their veins,...

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NEW NOVELS.*

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SCANDINAVIA seems alive with the same question that is moving England and. America—the rights of women. Fredrika Bremer in Sweden 'stands forth as the - champion of her sex ;...

CALIFOItNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS.* THE author of this book appears

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to be the agent of a London quartz-crushing gold-mining company, whe was sent to Cali- fornia with some heavy machinery, but little money or credit, to move the implements and...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boons. THE publications of the week are more numerous, and some of them of greater promise, than we have lately had to chronicle. re At last there comes an English full-length...

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THE BRITISH INSTITUTION: OLD MASTERS. The exhibition of the works of ancient masters and deceased British artists, at the British Institution, opened this week, maintains the...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 10. Partnerships Dissolred.—Ship Building Company ' Douglas, Isle of Man, rope- makers ; as far as regards M. Winram—Co ll is and Warren, Strand,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 30th May, at Northchurch Rectory, Herts, the Wife of the Rev. Sir John H. Culme Seymour, Bart., of a daughter. On the 5th June, at Pynes, Devon, Lady Northcote, of a...

Ten Weeks of 1846-'56. Week of 1856.

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gymotie Diseases 222.5 249 Dropsy, Cancer, and other Diseases of uncertain or variable seat 42.9 54 Tubercular Diseases 191.0 200 Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves,...

3rtuti. • PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, TUNE 13.

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WAR DEPARTM=T, June 13.—Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. F. Smith, K.C.B. to be Col. Commandant, vice Gen. G. Wright, dec. WAR. Dsesarium, Pall Mall, June...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BR ITISH FUN 2 per Cent Consols D flaunt . (Closing Monday. Prices-) Msesday. Wanes. Thurs. Friday. shut . Ditto for Account st 911 911 941 9.11 - 3 per Cents Reduced...