16 OCTOBER 1852

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NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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• Tile Empire" in France is on the point of establishment ; and we must be ready to call it Empire, with all due respect for so august an institution : such seems to be the...

Reports as to the meeting of Parliament again defer the

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date to the 4th of November ; and the reports of Ministerial pro- ceedings render the probable intentions only more obscure. Late ha week, it was announced in some of the London...

If straws can show which way the wind blows, the

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expressions of the French licensed journals may show which way peace in- clines. Commenting on the Belgian news, the Pays says that there is one condition on which Belgium may...

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Ch Court.

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QUZEN Vie-rotas is now again at Windsor Castle, ready to receive her Ministers and settle public matters waiting for her sanction. Her Majesty and the Court left Balmoral at...

Cbt 331itrogolio.

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Alderman Farebrother and others being of opinion that the annual dinner given by the Lord Mayor on the 9th of November should this year be post- poned in consequence of the...

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fat Vruniurm

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• Convocation assembled on Tuesday at Oxford, according to appointment, to elect the Earl of Derby to the vacant office of Chancellor of the University. Although it -was well...

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IRELAND.

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There will be a batch of petitions presented against various Irish Mem- bers as soon as Parliament opens. Colonel Chatterton opposes the return of Mr. William Fagan for Cork, on...

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SCOTLAND.

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K . The Le . r d Provost of Edinburgh presided over a meeting held on Tues- day in the Music Hall, to consider the case of the persecuted Madiai. A similar meeting took place in...

innign ant Colonial.

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PRANCE. —When President Bonaparte arrived at Toulouse, on the 4th instant, he was no doubt strongly reminded of the great change in his position ; for among the first to greet...

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alizallnurous.

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Summonses were issued on Thursday to the Ministers and Officers of State to attend a Privy Council to be held today at Windsor Castle. The Lords of the Admiralty visited...

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The Brussels journals of Wednesday contain nothing to-account for the

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delay in publishing the decrees for the reconstruction of the Belgian Ca- binet. Acccrrding to the Augsburg Gazette, Austria has invited the Coalition States to send...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. We are enabled to state on undoubted authority that the day fixed for the meeting of Parliament, for the despatch of business, is Thursday the 4th of...

By the South American mail which arrived yesterday in the

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Tay steam-ship at Southampton, with papers from Buenos Ayres to Septem- tember 1, we learn that 1Trquiza had repealed the decree confiscating the property of Roses ; and had...

• News came up to town from Plymouth this afternoon,

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by telegraph, that the Bosphorus had arrived in the morning from the Cape of Good Hope, which she left on the 6th September. The telegriphic abstract of the intelligence states,...

MONEY MARKET, STOCK Excsaisas, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

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In the English Stock Market there has been more activity, and great buoyancy was exhibited in the early part of the week ; caused chiefly by the publication of the Revenue...

Louis Napoleon is to enter Paris today, on his return

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from the South. A triumphal arch at the Pont d'Austerlitz will be the portal to a grand pageant, the exact nature of which is not distinctly known ; but expecta- tion is raised...

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The revival of Rowley's old comedy of A Woman Never

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Text, in the form to which Mr. Manche brought it some seven-and-twenty years ago, has given new attraction to the "off nights" at Saffier's Wells—that is, the nights onwhich Mr....

The Lyeeum.m.11, according to announcement, be opened on Monday, with

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two new pieces, and the revived burlesque of Medea and Jason.

'Of tAtatrro.

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A short dramatic tale, in which some new adventures of the celebrated Messrs. Box and Cox are set forth, is the successful novelty at the Hay- market Box and Cox are, as the...

THE WELLINGTON DIORAMA.

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The diorama of the Wellington Campaigns, which opened at the Gal- lery of Illustration some months ago, has received an addition of two views—the exterior of Widmer Castle by...

The last file of NiiwYork papers put us in possession

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of a correspond- ence between Mr. Bateman, father of the "children," and Mr. Buchanan, who, it may be remembered, played "leading business" during one of the abortive...

Irtttro tu thr fititur.

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THE OXFORD CHANCELLORSHIP. 11th October 1852. Sm—Before this letter can reach the hands of your printer, possibly before it can reach your own, the disgrace of Oxford will...

MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL ART.

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A new section of the catalogue at Marlborough House has been issued. It is calculated to serve a very useful purpose. It is felt that the present arrangement of the objects is...

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ST. DAVID'S CHURCH, BRECON.

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12th October 1852. The editor of the Spectator is respectfully informed, that an account - which appeared in his last number of the falling down of the parish-church of St....

Sin—I am surprised at a Resident M.A.'s broad assertion, that

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the ad- vice given by the Bishop of Oxford to his friends to support Lord Derby "was in no way grounded on the expediency of supporting the Protectionist leader." I heard at...

MR. G. H. HARRISON'S EXPLANATION.

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Queen's Prison, 81h October 1852. Sni—It was by mere accident that the last week's number of your news- paper chanced to fall into my bands, in which I find you have thought...

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TOPICS OF THE DA " THE EMPIRE" AND ITS CONTINGENCIES. Louis NAPOLEON is rapidly casting his Presidential skin, and be- fore many weeks he will soar into the heaven of his...

THE REVENUE.

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Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October 1851 and 1852, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. YEARS ENDED...

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LORD DERBY'S BEST SPEECH.

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THE Town-hall of Liverpool has been the scene of the best speech which Lord Derby ever delivered. The oration in all its essentials comes up to the high repute which the Prime...

THE LORD MAYOR'S. DISCOVERY. RESPECTING IRISH TAILORS.

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trarnEn the opportunities afforded by the prospects of rising storms in Europe the Irish journals are reviving their chivalrous tone towards this country. Dr. M'Hale,. " drum...

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PROGRESS OF TILE ARCTIC SEARCH.

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THE despatches brought by the Prince Albert from the Arctic sees place us in possession of a considerable extent of knowledge which comprises nothing to point to a fatal...

THE ANARCHY IN BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL Noranto more pointedly illustrates the

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fact which we lately no- ticed, that an idea lies_ negative and passive in the English mind long before it takes a positive and active shape, than the conduct of the public and...

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A POLICE IN B SHARP.

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AN example furnished by the authorities at Leipzic might be fol- lowed in our own metropolis. Much indignation is levelled at barrel-organs, bands, and other *esthetic and...

BOOKS.

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MEMOIRS OF THE BARONESS D'OBERRIRCH. * TICE reader of these Memoirs is carried into a world almost ante- diluvian as regards customs, habits, and ideas. The Baroness D'Oberkirch...

THE COMMISSION THAT CAN'T HELP IT.

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THE arrangements for the drainage of the Metropolis appear to be complete. Sewers-rates are levied. Surveys have been taken, - and plans suggested. A Special Commission is...

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BT. JOHN'S VILLAGE LIFE IN EGYPT..

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IT is a law in material production that you can only get one first- rate article out of one subject-matter. The second pressure of the grape is poor compared with the first...

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HISS SINCLAIR'S BEATRICE..

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THE Bible versus the Breviary, or rather versus the alleged peso - tines and principles of Romainsm, is the subject of Miss Sind • s novel; as its object is to raise a warning...

BURKE'S ROMANCE OF THE FORUM. * THE interest attached to remarkable

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trials is universally admitted, and as universally ascribed to the exhibition of human nature nu- der violent passion the mystery which often envelops crime, the i curious...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booze. The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth. By William Stir- ling, Author of "Annals of the Artists of Spain." The Goldbeater ; a Novel. By the Author of "The...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wan - ormca, Oct. 12.-13th Regt. of Drags.-Major C. E. Doherty to be Lieut. Col. by purchase, vice Knox, who retires; Capt. W. R. 0. Gore to be Major, by pur- chase, vice...

BIRTHS.

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On the 3d October, the Countess of Macclesfield, of a son. On the 7th,:at Haughton Hall, Cheshire, the Lady of Thomas Gifford Forsyth, Esq., of a son. On the 7th, at Butterley...

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NAVAL GAZETTE.

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Ansatimuse, Oet. 8.-The following promotions have this day taken place. conse- quent on the decease, on the 7th inst. of Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir E. T. Trou-...

PRICES CURRENT,

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices ) Seibert Monday. Tuesday., irednu. flues, Friday , per Cent Consols Ditto for Account. 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, October 12. PARTREasuirs DissoLvEn.-Walker and Co. New Melton, Yorkshire, brewers- Seale and Crossley, Bishopsgate Street Within, chemists-Moore and Norman, Langdale...