1 MARCH 1851

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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teal) JOHN - ItussErs, has failed to work the political machine to good purpose but he has shown that he can brin g it to a dead atop : he has brokenup his own Cabinet,...

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A. Romanist agitation is fairly on foot in Ireland. The

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Roman Catholic Prelates have met in Dublin under the presidency of Pri- mate Cullen ; twenty-one of the twenty-eight Bishops being present. Their proceedings were harmonious ;...

Erbitr nuli VrorraingsinVarlinnirut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEER. noun or LORDS. Monday, Feb. 24. The Ministerial Crisis; Explanations by the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Stanley—Vice-Chancellor's Bill, read a...

The Foreign incidents of the week are of little moment.

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A wide circulation has been given in France to a letter addressed by the Duke of Bordeaux to M. Berryer. The short meaning of this long epistle is, that if France will recognize...

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Or (fund.

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Tim Queen held her first levee in the present season, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. In attendance on her Majesty at the entrée were the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of...

JE Ytirtrninlig.

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Hearty demonstrations against the Window-tax and the Income-tax have been made by some very numerous parish meetings in the Metro- polis,—in St: Pancras, St. Luke, and St....

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Ihniurts.

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Mr. Smith Child was elected on Saturday, without opposition, to the seat for North Staffordshire vacant by the resignation of Lord Brackley. The new Member was proposed by the...

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,hrtigu Inch &toga'.

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FRANCE. —The third anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the 24th of February, was marked by demonstrations suitable to the various poli- tical parties; of respect by the...

IRELAND.

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Twenty-one out of the twenty-eight of the Irish Roman Catholic Pre- lates assembled in Dublin on Tuesday, to consider the course they shall take in reference to the...

SCOTLAND.

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A letter has been addressed by the Scottish Roman Catholic Bishop Gillis to the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, which embodies the protest and arguments of the "Catholic Bishops...

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ViErrIlantnin.

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The successive phases of the Ministerial crisis have been noted daily by chronological jottings" from some semi-official quarter which has made its resources common to all the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATITRDAY. The Ministerial explanations occupied both Houses last night. In the House of Lords, the Marquis of LA.NSDOWNE made a brief statement, the most important point of...

THE OLD IRISH FOR -SHILLINGERS.

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Limerick, 2604 Fetruary 1851. Sra—Lord John Russell's answer to Mr. Locke Xing, speaking of the forty- shilling freeholders disfranchised in Ireland in 1829, speaks of them, as...

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Alderman Sir John Pine died, at his residence, yesterday morning.

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Sir John was a native of Berwick-on-Tweed. He was made a Baronet by virtue of the accident of his entrance into office on the day when the Prince of "Wales was born. There are...

The Dublin Freeman's Journal of yesterday publishes the address of

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the Irish Roman Catholic Prelates "to their beloved flocks," on the penal enactments with which the Catholics of England and Ireland are threat- ened. It is addressed to their...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Ministerial interregnum has almost suspended business in the Money Market. A slight improvement was observable when it was probable that...

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311u s t r.

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Mr. Charles Edward Henley's Oratorio, David, performed at Fxrtkr Hall on Monday last, is a work highly honourable to the talents of this young and rising mmician. It is as the...

Pratrrs.

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The week which terminates today has been marked by a "great fact" —the farewell benefit of Mr. Macready at Drury Lane Theatre. The anticipatory taking of places, the conversion...

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LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

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Wnv has Lord John Russell wasted such noble opportunities, and sunk his political career in a failure so contrasted with his earlier successes ; why, in spite of all that people...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE POLITICAL BREAK-UP: NEVER was a political crisis precipitated for reasons so inadequate as those assigned by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons on Monday for the...

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A POINTLESS ILLUSTRATION.

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QUAKERS are hard put to it sometimes to carry out their impracti- cable plan of peace at all price. We all remember the Quaker who never struck, but allowed rash men to run...

THE ROARING OF THE LION.

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IT is shaking its mane—its voice is swelling like the distant storm —the British Lion smells taxes, and is rousing from its lair ! It has fixed the greedy eye of indignant...

"DAMAGES AS COMPENSATION.

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IT is a ground of serious satisfaction that judges and juries are steadily acquiring the habik of a more equitable and common- sense view of " damages " than they have done in...

EVIL SPEAKING.

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IT occasionally happens that in certain states of the atmosphere the dwellers of towns are invaded by hideous exhalations, and the reluctant mind is forced to think of things...

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BOOKS.

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BORROW'S LAVENGRO. * WASRTICGTON IRVING ; in one of his pleasant essays, writes—"I have seen a fine lady, remarkable for beauty, weary a philosopher with flimsy metaphysics ;...

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ROTES - GS IN THE PSCIFIC. * THE author of these volumes left

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England in 1837 as an adven- turer to seek his fortune. He says that "blighted hopes and ruined affections," but the context would rather imply the impossi- bility of finding...

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MRS. GREEN'S LIVES OF THE PRINCESSES OF

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ENGLAND. * Tim first two volumes of this work were published some years ago : a main reason for the delay that has attended the appearance of the third volume has been, the...

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MRS. OGILVY'S TRADITIONS OF TUSCANY. *

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Tins agreeable volume contains a series of poetical stories upon striking events that have occurred or that might have occurred in Tuscany. The germs of some of them are to be...

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FINE ARTS.

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SCOTT'S PILGRIM'S PRI/GRESS.* PAINTVL memories are connected with the name of David Scott. To the general public it is of course a blank. Almost equally =suggestive to the...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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Boots. Dahomey and the Dahomans ; being the Journals of Two Missions to the Kin.. of Dahomey, and Resideece at his Capital, in the years 1849 and la. By Frederick Forbes,...

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SHIPLEY'S SKETCHES IN THE PACIFIC.*

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Lieutenant Shipley's sketches have a good deal to recommend them. They - present us with many picturesque combinations ; and even where the view possesses little intrinsic...

BIRTHS.

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On the 17th February, at Papplewick Hall, Notts, Mrs. Aihton Case, of a son. On the 20th, at Swanton House, Norfolk, the Honourable Mrs, Delasal Astley, of a son. On the 21st,...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Orrice OF ORDNANCE, Feb. 24.—Royal Regt. of Artillery—Major-Gen. N. W. Oli- ver to be Col-Commandment, vice Kajor-Gen. J. Power, dec.; Brevet-Major C. B. Symons tube Lieut.-Col....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, February 25. PARTNERS/KIPS Duitamvan.—Itossetter and Gates, Boston Street, Heaney Road, millers—Chaplin and Coates, Birmingham, drapers—Richards and Co. Itatedilke....

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PRICES CURRENT.

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.111t ITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices ) Saturd. Monday. Tuesday. Wedges, Timm Friday. per Cent Consols 961 961 Ditto for Account 961 961 3 per Cents Reduced 961 962 32 per Cents...