16 SEPTEMBER 1848

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At the very opening of its new history, "united" Germany

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is labouring under two Ministerial crises, at Frankfort and Berlin, At the very opening of its new history, "united" Germany is labouring under two Ministerial crises, at...

The political dinners of the Parliamentary recess have begun at

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Sheffield, with a very miscellaneous gathering to honour the Master Cutler's inauguration. The company was of all sorts, from the Duke of Newcastle to Mr. Ward. Two great "prin-...

*NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Tun Metropolis was scarcely startled, in the middle of the week, by the rumour of a new rebellion in Ireland. The first thought was, that probably it was a fabrication, like the...

Queen Victoria has for a time laid aside her sovereign

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state and retired into private life ; so strict is the seclusion at Balmoral Castle. The district is wild, and its native animals, sparse and shy, will task Prince Albert's...

The state of .public discussion in France is remarkable :

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the subject immediately before the National Assembly, the Constitu- tion, is undergoing a tedious process of debate, with but little in- terest out of doors ; collateral matters...

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While the negotiations of Austria respecting the Anglo-Galli- c= mediation

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are almost as much in the dark as ever, untoward events have happened to the South of Lombardy. Messina, its garrison reinforced by a large body of King Ferdinand's soldiers,...

gbe jirtetropolis.

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A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the despatch of business. On the Sheriffs making their usual return relating to the prisoners of the City, Alderman Sidney took the...

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gbe Vrobinrts.

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Bolton election took place on Tuesday. Two candidates were nomi- nated; Mr. Stephen Blair, a Peel Conservative, and Mr. Joseph Barker, a Chartist Dissenting minister: but...

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IRELAND.

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Reports of a" recommencement of the Irish rebellion " abounded in Lon- don on Thursday. The accounts of late editions of the Kilkenny and Clonmeljournals were reproduced,...

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SCOTLAND.

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The landing of the Queen at Aberdeen, on the morning of Friday the 8th, was a fine sight to the assembled inhabitants of that handsome city, and to many thousands besides, who...

Afottign anti eotonfat.

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FRANCE.—The Paris papers are now chiefly occupied with the approach- ing elections for three vacant seats in the metropolitan representation; to the exclusion of the foreign...

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The Prince and Princess of Parma, who arrived in London

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last week from Leghorn, have taken a residence near Kingston in Surrey, and pur- pose remaining there some months. Prince Gustavus, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, died on the 8th...

NOTE6-ANNALES, OR CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE LIFE OF LOWS PHILIPPE;

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As found at the Tuileries, in the Ex-King's Handwriting, and published in the Revue Retrospective. Residence. Rennie. Born at Paris, 6th October. The Chevalier Bonnard as...

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The news of the fall of Messina is confirmed: the

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place was taken after five days' bombardment. The English Admiral and French Minister have interfered to prevent further hostilities. The occupation of the Neapolitans will be...

BIRTHS.

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On the 7th September, at Liverpool, the Lady of Adam Steuart Gladstone, Esq , of a daughter. On the 7th, at Grey Abbey. Down, the Lady Charlotte Montgomery, of a son. On the...

A great sensation was created in Paris yesterday, by the

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news that the friends of General Cavaignac and a large body of the Republicains de la Veille have resolved to bring forward in the Assembly a proposition that the President of...

Isaac Jefferson, the "Wat Tyler" of the Bradford Chartists, was

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arrested on Wednesday, in a lone public-house, and expressed himself "glad of it"; as he was tired of hiding. He is now in York Gaol, charged with seditious conspiracy. We have...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Irish news gives less and less cause for apprehension: the papers uni- formly speak of the movement at Aheny, which at first they so grossly exaggerated, as being now...

The Madrid Gazette of the 10th contains Seiler Mon's expected

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measure for reconstructing the Bank of San Fernando. The establishment is re- modelled somewhat on the form of the Bank of England; with a separate department of issue, endowed...

Bekerath had arrived in Berlin, and with Venike been in

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close confer- ence with the King at Sans Souci. The Berlin letters of the Morning Chronicle say, 'It is well known to the authorities that the emissaries of the Democratic party...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Funds continued steady, at the closing prices of last week, up to the close of business on Wednesday, and a slight indication of...

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WOODS AND FORESTS COMMITTEE. Lirrrza I.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sin—I propose in this and some following letters to describe the system of administering the public lands under the control of the...

THE THEATRE& The stagnation of things theatrical has lasted this

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year for a period un- usually long. We have only to record that the Haymarket (with the Adelphi company), the Olympic, and the Marylebone (with Mr. and Mrs. Keeley), are all...

THE CROWN LANDS AND REVENUES IN FOREIGN POSSESSIONS. LETTER IL

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In continuing my remarks, I must emphatically express my regret that many great constitutional principles which regulate the government of these realms, seem, notwithstanding...

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WANT OF GOVERNMENT, WANT OF PEACE. JUDGED by the Schleswig-Holstein

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affair, the assembled wisdom of Germany seems unable to construct either a government, or a plan of action, or a national policy. The central machinery of government fails at...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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WHIG AND TORY. ALL mortality is touching. For transitory beings, it is a melan- choly sight to view the gradual disappearance of anything, man or custom, work or institution....

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THE NEW FAITH.

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TRADE, we have said, cannot do everything ; and among the novelties of the day, we notice a dawning conviction of the fact that the spirit of trade is not omnipotent. There are...

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RAILWAY SAFETY.

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STATISTICS to prove the actual safety of railway travelling as compared with other modes of transit, will not avail against the terrible characteristics of any great railway...

DANGER AND SAFETY.

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AN amateur waterman having been drowned through the un- skilful management of a wager-boat in which he was sculling with a companion, a Coroner's Jury have appended to their...

RESULTS OF LORD JOHN'S IRISH 'MIT.

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LORD JOHN RUSSELL has been to Ireland, and has left it again : what has he carried away with him? What secret spoils of knowledge he may bear from its shores no oracle has yet...

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- SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, " Presbytery Examined": an Essay, Critical and Historical, on the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, since the Reformation. By the Duke of Argyll...

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

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Paris, September 13. The Constitution debate still drags its slow length along. We are as yet only at the preamble, and God knows when we shall see the end of it. Every new...

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ROFTSLEISTER'S TRAVELS IN CEYLON AND INDIA.

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HOFFMEISTER was the physician who, at the recommendation of Humboldt and other sevens, accompanied Prince Waldemar of Prussia in his - travels in the East, and was killed by his...

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POLSON'S FORTUNE-TELLERS' INTRIGUE. HITHERTO Irish fictions have generally been devoted

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to depicting the virtues and wrongs of the peasantry with the tyranny and vices of their oppressors. The feelings that prompted this view of Irish society have latterly taken a...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. BOOKS.

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Monopoly the Cause of all Evil. By Arthur Condorcet O'Connor, General of Division. In three volumes. Holland and the Dutch Colonies. By John Macgregor, M.P. [For upwards of a...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Sept. 12.-1st Regt. Life Guards—Assist.-Sure. J. Cockburn, from the Royal Rest. of Horse Guards, to be Stug. vice Campbell, dec. 7th Drag. Guards- Lieut. C. E....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, September 12. PARTNEESHIPS DISSOLVED. Dobson and Co. Salford, grocers—Johnson and Brandwood, Eccleshill, Lancashire, coal-merchants—Cheyne and Shutt, Harrogate,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. &aunt. (Closing Monday. Prices.) Teseley. iredses Spec Cent Consols 861 868 86 86 Ditto for Ace011111 3 per cents Reduced Mt 861 88 66 :6 6 1 861 shut 31...