19 JUNE 1847

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According to accounts from Spain, a new source of annoyance

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has been detected, in intrigues which the representative of France, the Duc de Glucksberg, has been carrying on with the adherents of King Francisco. It is not probable that the...

The French Chamber of Deputies has had, not a debate,

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but "interpellations " on the subject of the Portuguese interven- tion. The discussion was meagre, flat, and pointless. There is more interest in the further evidence of the...

The discussion leaves the main question of intervention much where

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it was before the debate began. The course taken by Mi- nisters was a pis aller. The actual state of Portugal—with its intestine war, its dearth, and its impotence to settle...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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WHILE it was impending as a threat for the future, the debate on Portugal caused apprehensions in official breasts ; but it was so managed by the assailants as to turn into a...

The intelligence from Portugal is as satisfactory as, under the

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circumstances, it could well be. Of course the object to be desired now is the consummation of the settlement under the new Quad- ruple Alliance : it is satisfactory, therefore,...

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Debit t es an prottebing% in Varliament.

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PORTUGAL. The adjourned debate on MI. Hume% motion respeeting des British la- tervention in Portugal, ises‘vesumed onitteaday. The motion of censure was supported by Mr....

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Ebt eourt.

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THE Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at Buckingham Palace, ea Thursday afternoon; at which Prince Albert and the principal Ministers attended. Sir George Arthur was sworn...

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'Oar ilirobintts.

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The nomination of candidates for the representation of Derby, vacant by the succession of Lord Duncannon to the Peerage, took place on Wednesday. The only candidates were...

Int .ftitetropolis.

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At a meeting of Mar) lebone electors, on Thursday evening, Mr. John Williams announced that Sir Charles Napier was not. going to Lisbon, and and had therefore determined again...

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IRELAND.

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Mr. John Robert Godley, author of a capital book of travels in North America, and more generally known by his plan of colonization for. the relief of Ireland, has addressed the...

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SCOTLAND.

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Mr. Welford and Sir David Baird continue an active canvass of East Lothian, in competition with each other, but not apparently in any spirit of hostility. Both object to the...

Infsttllantous.

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Alarming reports have reached London respecting the health of Leopold King of the Belgians: one story is, that he labours under a hopeless com- plaint of the liver; another,...

Ifortign an (Solonial.

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Pompoms—The civil war may be considered as virtually at an end. Advices from both Lisbon and Oporto mention, that on the 9th instant, it was known that the Junta had accepted...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT. The debates in Parliament last night were more miscellaneous than mo- mentous, though some of the results are important. In the House of Commons, Mr. GREENE,...

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The Augsburg Gazette contains a letter from Athens of the

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30th May, ac- cordin g to .which Turkish troops of all arms were movin g from Janina towards PreVesa ; While etheis Were movin g from Boto g lia towards Larissa. The En g lish...

THE THEATRES.

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On the occasion of the Q ueen's state visit to Her Ma j esty's Theatre, on Tuesday evenin g , Jenny. Lind appeared : for the first time in Noma. The announcement of this...

Lord Moment was indifferent to the oblo q uy which he had

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endured on account of the bill ; but complained that he was first attacked for includin g London, and now for exemptin g it. He went into descriptive ar gu ments to show the...

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the

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proposition to reduce the duty oil salt, has Manned in a defeat of the Ministry, on Wednesday. The hum- bees bein g 264 for the reduction, and 14 a g ainst it. On Thursday, the...

, The Grand Deice Conataidine left folen yesterday, for Wilton

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EOM*, near Salabliry, Oh a vita to the Cotinteas Pembroke. Mt. Daniell, the African &atelier, has reached this tountry, after escaping all: the vicissitudes of a comparatively...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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AmtivxnAt Gravesend, 12th June, Derwent, M`Phersoh, froth Stentatdoem; 16th Vixen, Douglas, from Port Philip ; ana Helen Mary, Whm, item Ceylon ; i dtb, air 0. SeYmour,...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The En g lish Fends evinced symptoms of weakness on Monday ; but they soon r e ified. The fluctuations of Consols for Account have ran g ed...

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Under the name of Hamm Lescaut, the managers of the

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Covent Garden house have at last produced something worthy of the name of ballet. The heroine of the piece seems to have rather easy notions of propriety, and she has also a...

Notwithstanding the excellence of several of the artists-who have suc-

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ceeded Frederic Leutaitre at.the St. James's Theatre, it cannot be denied that after his departure a certain leaver prevailed. The performances pleased and were praised, but...

Mr. Planche, when he goes to the exhaustless stook of

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French dramas for a subject, not only makes very discriminating dips, but displays a skill in working up the treasure-trove, which distinguishes him from all his contemporaries...

A little piece called Gee Femme qui se jette par

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la Feratre, which was played at the St. James's during the interregnum between Regnier and Bon*, and whiah turns on the punishment of a wife who has frightened her husband with...

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A REQUEST AND ITS ANSWER.

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T.xtu reply made to the House of Commons, in the name of the Queen, on the subject of colonization, is remarkable for something more than mere laxity of phrase. On the 1st of...

PRACTICAL OPINION ON RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Tun interest excited by the

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two great railway accidents that re- cently occurred, at the Dee Bridge and the Wolverton station, has drawn forth divers strictures and suggestions ; and among others, two...

WHAT TO DO WITH THE 4,000 A YEAR.

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Tens country produces yearly about four thousand convicts sen- tenced for offences of such gravity as to involve liability of trans- potation. Hitherto it has been the custom to...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PREPARING FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION. Cersimoreas appear to be coming into fashion with constituencies ; a edtural resort at a time when there is no paramount object to It...

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CAXTON, SHAKSPERE, AND MONUMENTS IN GENERAL.

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THE proposal to erect a monument to Caxton has at once called into existence two parties, of advocates and antagonists; and it is not improbable that the oppositicn is in great...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE, Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Caroline, ConSON Of George Ii.; including Letter, from the most celebrated Parsons of...

PARLIAMENT LATIN.

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" Qtrie," cried Mr. Borthwick to Lord Palmerston, pronouncing the word quay, " Qum te dementia ccepit ?" "Qum," interposed Sir James Graham, correctively, and pronouncing the...

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JACK ARIEL.

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THE King's service, says the author of this fiction, has been selected by many writers as a means of exhibiting nautical life "in glittering gold lace,' and amongst officers...

SKETCHES OF ASSAM AND THE HILL TRIBES.

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THE author of this volume is an officer in the Company's service, who in 1840 was filling the learned and business-like offices of Interpreter and Quartermaster to his regiment...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Story of the Battle of Waterloo. By the Reverend G. IL Gleig, MA. (Mur- ray's Home and Colonial Library.) [There is so much interest in very great and governing historical...

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THE "FREEMASONS OF THE CHURCH."'

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It is a cheering sign of the present age that it is not forgetful of antiquity. Gothic architecture, early Christian art, the illuminated missal, and the Psalter—nay, even the...

FINE ARTS.

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BEITISH INSTTFUTION. Tam Directors of the British Institution boast that they have this year made "en exhibition of pictures not inferior in merit to any of the pre- ceding...

ROYAL ACADEMY: LANDSCAPES.

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Collectors of verta set great store by tables of variegated marble, where the mottlings and the veins fall into a semblance of order and seem to re- present some kind of...

MR. C. S. HAR.DINGE'S SKETCHES FROM INDIA..

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Mr. M`Lean, of the Haymarket, is exhibiting a collection of sketches by a son of Lord Hardinge, taken on the spot in various parts of India. Mr. Harding° is a worthy pupil of...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 8th Tune, in Bulstrode Street, the Whis of Dr. Hoyle, Professor of Materia Medici% at King's College, of a eon. On the 8th, at Neseley Hall, Leicestershire, the Lady of...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Jane 15. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Brown and Co. Connaught Terrace, Edgware Road, surgeons ; as far as regardinG: Reece-Pool and 'Walton, Walbrook Buildings,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH 3 per Cent Consols Prices.) Tuesday. -- nines. Thurs. Friday. UN D S. &turd. shut (Closing Wacky. Ditto for Account Snead. 883 893 88 88 883 3 per Cents Reduced...