15 SEPTEMBER 1849

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. The letter of President Bonaparte to Colonel Edgar Ney,

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which we copied last week, has produced a great sensation in Paris, and something like a Ministerial crisis. The discreet Journal des Debats confesses that it is "a little too...

The cholera scarcely abates, and the alarm increases. Not content

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with the special prayer ordered for tomorrow, many persons are calling out for a general fast., and in some places a local fast has been observed. Medical and lay writers...

Mr. Disraeli is coming out as an O'Connell; only combining

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with the capacity of agitator that of English country gentleman, statesman, novelist, epic poet, and Hebrew-Caucasian. At the meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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, DUBLIN giveeliaaewAkie to.the Prince of Wales; whose creation by patent to be--" - Earl of Dublin" was announced in Tuesday's Gazette. The title is conferred upon the boy...

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• 'Ube jftetropolis.

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The City Committee of Health was specially called together at the Mansionhonse, on Thursday; the Lord Mayor having received a verbal complaint from the Board of Health that the...

The Colonial Office is our true War department. The Cape

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of Good Hope grows angry enough to justify the Downing Street hopes of separation ; and the so-called dependency of Ionia is the scene of disturbances. The riot in Cephalonia...

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lEtt 13u:16611Es.

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At.the anniversary meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Association, held on Wednesday at Aylesbury, Mr. Disraeli expounded a plan of agita- tion for promoting the relief of...

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IRELAND.

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At a meeting of the Corporation of Dublin, on Monday last, Mr. Walker brought forward his motion_ for rescinding the resolutiens recorded last year in' favour of the address to...

SCOTLAND.

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The news from the Royal residence at Balmoral is Confined to an- nouncements of the arriiils and departures. Lord John Russell took his departure on Friday; and his place as...

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fforeign anti Colonial.

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FRANCE.—The President's letter to Colonel Edgar Ney has occasioned some fermentation in his Cabinet. It was at first alleged as certain that M. de Falloux had hastened to Paris...

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Alistellantous.

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The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed ander the Great Seal granting the dignity of an Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto his...

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The Freese insists that the difference between M. de Fallonx

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and the President has been very serious, and that the Minister has only consented to remain in the Cabinet on the urgent persuasion of M. Thiers. M. de Fitlloux has kept to his...

The Castlewellan Bench of Magistrates have refused, by 6 votes

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to 5, to take informations offered by the Crown lawyer against several of the Orangemen con- cerned in the Dolly's Brae affair of the 12th of July. The ship Minerva, Captain...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Board of Health is taking energetic steps against recusant local au- thorities who violate or neglect its orders: last night's Gazette contains in- structions...

A friend, residing in Ireland, on whose judgment and good

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faith we can rely, sends us a melancholy report. " —, near Dublin, 13th September 1849. "I am :sorry to say, the potato is showing very badly. In this neighbourhood I thought...

Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has granted to

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"Sir Albert Denison Conyngbam, commonly called Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order," leave to take the surname of Denison...

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THE THEATRES.

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Busybodies have long been recognized creators of mischief, and conse- quently of drollery on our stage. Hence, Mr. Carey Chick—so named, we suppose, from the bird whose presence...

THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL.

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A fortnight ago, we gave some account of the general plan and ar- rangements of this great music-meeting, which was held last week. We find, from the detailed reports given by...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. FRIDAY Arrsawoow. The English Funds have been heavy, without any transactions of importance. The eettlement of the Consol Account was on Tuesday ; when, from...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE FALL OF THE.LEAF. AUTUMN tinges the forest, and the deepening, pee. fadea into brown. The slanting sun sinks sooner to his bed v-aliarnti are steadier and less hopeful of a...

TO THE EDrrOR OF TILE SPECTATOR.

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Camberwell, 4th September 1849. Slit—I must confess my inability to discover, either in your remarks or in the letters of Mr. Jeffery and Mr. Cauvin, any reason that should...

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WATER.

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LosnoN pines and sickens for want of water ! The paragon of - modern cities, the unrivalled metropolis of-the mightiest nation of the earth, is grovelling like a Cahouek camp in...

POSITION OF ROME AND HER CHURCH. ECCLESIASTICAL affairs partake of

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the disorder which prevails in every branch of polity, and therefore extraordinary interest is felt in every step that may give a new turn to the stream of . events, or furnish...

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THE COMMON SENSE OF COMMUNISM.

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JUDGING by the many letters which we receivie, 'we oollect that the newly-revived subject of Communism ondiSions unabated in- terest among numbers who have hitherto...

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GRATUITIES TO RAILWAY PORTERS. '

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THHATJGH the Times, "A Passenger by the Eastern Counties Railway" draws attention "to the foolislicustom of giving fees to porters at railway stations "— ince we can eak. fro...

THE EXCURSION -TRAIN. MAN is commonly represented as a shortsighted

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animal ; and certainly, if he endeavour to foresee of any remarkable event the perfect form and pressure, he mostly proves widely wrong in his anticipations. The discovery of...

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BOOKS.

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LORD LINDSAY'S LIVES OF THR LINDSAY'S. * This work Was originally written between fifteen and twenty years ago, for the information of some junior members of the Lindsay family,...

PROPER NAMES NOT PROPER.

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ONE of the penny imitators of our weekly Pasquin warns people against assuming the name of Smith after it has been tarnished by Louis Philippe and Mrs. Manning : but what are...

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' THE COURSE OF A REVOLUTION. * THE subject of this

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historical hetion Is the revolutions and ceunter- revolutions, civil wars, massacres, and court corruptions, that distracted a The Course of a Revolution, or the Farthenopiests...

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REID'S APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF STORMS.* IT is nearly

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twenty years since Colonel Reid first gave his attention to the subject of Tropical hurricanes, and eleven since he published his book on the Law of Storms.t In that work he...

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EIBTA.S blETRICA. * THE inferiority of " sacred poetry " is

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generally admitted. Dr. Johnson has endeavoured to account for the failure of devotional verse, on the plea that an address to the Deity proceeds from a more exalted con- dition...

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On the 8th August, at Corfu, the Lady of -Aulstant-,Commissary-General

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Weir, -- daughter. , • On the 5th September, at Rowell& Hall,-Selby, Yorkshire, the Wife of Ralph Creyks, Esq., of a son and heir. ' On theStb - , at the Vicarage, Wickhatn...

COMMECIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, September 11. PARTBEEBBIPS DISSOLVED. J. and W. Clark, Russell Mews, Fitzroy Square, carmen-J. and W. Winter, 1t01 horn Hill, tatters -King eta Sheath, Regent...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Sept. 11.-7th Regt. of Drag. Guanla-Lient. A. P. Gore to be Cant. • by purchase, vice Petre, who retires ; Cornet T. G. Smith to be Lieut. by Purchas e, Tice Gore....

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PRICES CURRENT.

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Friday: 914 Sal 93/ 35 74 Monday. Tuesday. Melon Theirs. 921 921 521 921 921 921 521 921 921 921 931 shut 931 91 84 54 81 81 81 - — 199 shot — 251 — 38 39 36 25 76 pm. --...