17 APRIL 1858

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT on its first night of assembly presented parties in a position suddenly shifted.. It was fully anticipated, that on re- suming after the Easter recess, the Liberals -...

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Elchntr5 ant Vturtthingo in arliatunt.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER: Horan or Loans. Monday, April 12. Transfer of Estates ; Lord St. Leonatds's Bill reported and amended—Law of Property Amendment Bill withdrawn....

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THE Queen returned to Buckingham Palace on Monday afternoon ;

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and went, accompanied by the Prince Consort, to the Adclphi Theatre on the same evening. Her Majesty has also been twice this week to the Opera- house in the Haymarket. The...

.60 Mrtruidulio.

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The East India Company held a Special General Court on Tuesday Mr. Mangles in the chair. The principal subject of discussion a as the India bills. Colonel Wilkinson moved a...

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SCOTLAND.

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A deputation from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce waited upon the Lord-Advocate, at his chambers in Parliament Square, yesterday week, to present a memorial urging upon his...

Vrutaurial.

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Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff, landed at Dover on Thursday. He was received by General Maunsell, Commandant of the district, and the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of...

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Jump nub (fluidal.

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Ira 1111.—It is stated that the Paris Conference will meet on the 1st May, but the report has not assumed an authentic shape. The Times correspondent at Paris understands that...

IRELAND.

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The Prince of Wales, to the great gratification of the sons of Erin, landed on their shores at the close of last week. He selected Cork as his place of debarkation. Keeping a...

311inullautuun.

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An " Appendix to the Correspondence respecting the Cagliari " was issued yesterday in the form of a blue-book of 240 pages folio. It con- tains three documents : first, the Act...

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DEATHS.

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On the 28th December, in the Nepaul Jungles, Captain William J. Mountjoy Hastings, 47th Madras Native Infantry, and Assistant - Commissioner in Oude, youngest son of the late...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The business of the evening in the House of Commons, last night, was to take votes in Supply. But much time was occupied with questions and conversation on various...

BIRTHS.

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On the 27th February, at Batten, Bombay, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Her- bert Jacob, of a son. On the 9th April, at Busby Hall, Cleveland, Yorkshire, the Wife of George...

MARRIAGES.

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On the 6th April, at Monkton Manse, Edmund Lewis Hooper, Esq. second son of the late Rev. John Hooper, Rector of Albury, Surrey, to Mary L ouisa, eldest daughter of the Rev....

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Int ghtlitti.

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The play-going public is anticipating with great curiosity the produc- tion of King Lear at the Princess's Theatre this evening. The aged king will be represented by Mr. Charles...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Market opened on Monday at the dull prices of Saturday, but soon after experienced an advance of f per cent upon several large...

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311usir.

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Her Majesty's Theatre has opened—in other words, the London " sea- son" is begun. Mr. Lumley has at once played his great card—Made- moiselle Titions. the new Viennese prima...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD JOILN RUSSELL AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. THE disruption of the Liberal majority in Parliament, and the suppressed or latent hostilities of its leaders, constitute a complete...

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THE CAGLIARI PAPERS: SARDINIA AND NAPLES.

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THERE was one section of the Sardinian affair which we neces- sarily pretermitted in our notice last week. It was the portion which relates to the direct dispute between the...

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THE DEFENCE OF THE LAND.

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THE debate on Monday night is a sufficing recognition of the public anxiety on the subject of our defences. It amounted to a confession front 'both Governments, late and...

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SIR JOHN TRELAWNY'S RESOLUTION.

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Tin House of Commons is disinclined to proceed further with the Moorad-Butt case, although most people expected something fur- ther to be done. We told the story of it last...

THE SOLDIER.: HIS WIFE.

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Su out of every . hundred soldiers are permitted to marry, and their wives receive accommodation and half rations, in barrack, on board ship, or abroad; but a much larger number...

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BOOKS.

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JENYNS'S OBSERVATIONS IN METEOROLOGY. * THE results of meteorological observations reduced to tabular forms are not only dry, but scarcely intelligible save to the techni- cally...

Ittitr to tlir

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THE BARRACK AND THE HOSPITAL. Six.--I am a weekly reader of the Spectator, and as such your article of last week, " The Soldier—His Hospital," came under my notice. I will not...

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BEES AND OTHERS ON THE SIEGE OP LBO-KNOW.

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WITHOUT any reference to the strictly military questions connected with the defence of Lucknow, its siege will ever be memorable as another example of the superiority of the...

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NEW NOVELS. * WHO can say that the 'English are a

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critically impatient people, requiring rapid and exciting action in story, and soon wearying of what is called the " longwinded " in discourse, when the tales of the author of "...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boors. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Thomas Jefferson Hogg. In four volumes. Vole. 1. II. Cathedra Petri. A Political History of the Great Latin Patriarchate. Books...

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Put Iris.

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LEGGATT'S CITY EXHIBITION. A couple of hundred pictures or thereabouts—chiefly French—have constituted for the last few weeks an exhibition of very considerable in- terest at...

PANORAMA OF LTJCINOW.

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Every British heart will confess that Lucknow was the right subject for the new picture at Burford's Panorama ; and the artistic eye will recognize that its value for pictorial...

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PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 13. W AA OFFICE, Pall Mall, April 13.—Cavalry-4th Regt. of Light Drags.—Cornet F. Simpson to be Limit. without purchase, vice Hunt, promoted ;...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH F UN DS &turd. (Closing Monday. Prices.) Fwerday. (Closing Monday. Prices.) Fwerday. Incises. 274ars. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 961 965 961 96 1 961 961 Ditto for...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 13. Bankrupts.-Geonox BROWN PELHAM, Albert Street, Camden Town, builder- CuAnx.ss MILNER, Cannon Street, tobacconist-THOMAS BtAxtorD, Maidstone,...