1 OCTOBER 1859

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- In the progress of the German question Austria has

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come out undisguised. We now have the text of the despatch written by Count Bernard de Rechberg to the Austrian Ministers at Dresden and Coburg. It is a declaration against the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. .

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T/11: mystery which hangs over " the Italian question "—the very use of the phrase indicates a chronic state of affairs—has begun to clear away ; and although no marked change...

The advices received from China officially must have a tenor

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somewhat different from those which have reached the . public, since they are evidently regarded as being more favourable. The published reports simply give us the details of...

Hawick in a manner which amounts to a declaration of

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the Go- vernment policy—not on. finance,. but on religion in India.. The announcement is not the lets important for being in perfent har- mony with the deliberate elieen, of the...

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The many agricultural meetings that have been held of late

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have established two facts : first, that the rural mind is now firmly convinced of the beneficence of a free trade policy and of its conspicuous consequences,—greater enterprise...

f4r 3)Ittrufglis.

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The Livery met on Thursday in the Guildhall to elect a Lord Mayor. The interest of the meeting lay in sympathy shown for Alderman Carter, manifested by the voters of Conthill...

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The annual meetings of the Agricultural Societies are now coming

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off almost daily. There is little remarkable, however, in their proceedings, unless it be the absence of any talk about agricultural distress. Whether it be in Oxfordshire or...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Queen held a Privy Council at Balmoral Castle yesterday week. It was attended by the Prince Consort, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Elgin, and Lord John Russell. On the...

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fnrPIglI nub Culnttial.

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fratirr.—The Patrie has stated that the Emperor is to return to Paris on the 8th of October. In consequence of the rumours in circulation respecting the intention of the...

IRELAND.

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Lord Derby's proceedings on the estates of Doon have aroused the worst spirit in the Young Ireland newspapers and some of the Whig journals. Notices have been served on all the...

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atiortIlaututto.

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Touching the San Juan difficulty the Times publishes the following paragraph, which, it will be seen, confirms the statements which we made last week. " We have reason to...

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The Paris correspondent of the Times reports, in a similar

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tone, on the state of affairs. He' says- " The latest and moat accredited report respecting the settlement of the affairs of Italy is that the Grand Duke Ferdinand: will regain...

POSITS-0311 1 7.

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SAMSBDAY MOENING. Our 'Paris correspondent, it will be seen, repeats, with some slight modifications, his statements of last week on the future of Italy. There its very little,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PARLIAMENTARY KEY TO ADMINISTRATIVE' REFORM. THE most important measure of the next session must be the Reform BM, and: we would' have our raiders prepare to consider...

While Austria is in open hostility to the German reformers,

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the minor courts are trying to. cut the ground from under their feet. It is said that in the recent Conference at Munich between the Ministers of Bavaria, Saxony, and...

The Revenue returns for the quarter, which will be published

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today, will exhibit an increase in customs of 150,000/. in Excise of 456,000/:, in Stamps of 105,0001., in Taxes of 50001., in the Post-office of 35,0001. ; and a decrease of...

MONEY MARKET.

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Perocz EXCHANGE, Fiunsy AFTERNOON.. The Money Market has been. characterized dulling the week by quiet and steadiness. On Thursday the decline of a quarter per cent on the...

Oa the other hand the Duchies seem to be negleoting

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no means to strengthen themselves. According to.a letter from Florence- " A. scheme of union between. Piedmon4 Parma.. Modena, Romagna, and Tuaeauy has been effected, givingin...

An apparatus has been shown to us, by Mr. Taylor,

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of Southampton, which is as ingenious as it is simple, and.exceedingIy valuable. Essen- tially it consists of a metal cylinder, closed at one end, the other end being also...

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THE CAPTURE OF SCHAMYL.

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THE dynamic forces, active in the movement of races, seem to follow chiefly two directions, a westerly and an easterly one. The first, the westerly current of history, indicates...

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POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.

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IT seems probable that a great administrative improvement will place an important advantage at the service of the working classes. It is a plan for extending the benefits of...

INDIAN FINANCE AND " THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW."

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EVERY mail brings us fresh news of fresh difficulties in the way of Indian finance. A new Finance Minister is about to be ex- ported, but the circumstances connected with the...

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" INTELLIGENCE " VERSUS " DISCIPLINE."

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Tse progress of the Volunteer movement is very gratifying to those who laboured to promote it, in season and. out of season,. at, a time when the idea. found little favour. We...

MODERN CHIVALRY RETIRED FROM BUSINESS. READER, we bespeak your sympathy

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for the grievous injuries in- flicted on one who until lately was a gallant officer in her Ma- jesty's Brigade of Guards. We ask you to listen for a moment to the sad story of...

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THE Iltlf311 REVIVAL FEVER.

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IT seems that the age of wonders and of signs has not yet passed. If we may believe the accounts of the Revivalists the. North of Ireland is in process of rapid and visible...

TRADING FRAUDS.

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TICE _Draper and Clothier, a new- periodical published by Messrs. Holliston and Wright, publishes a letter disclosing a remarkable class of frauds. The editor vouches for the...

The lovers of our national' antiquities will rejoice to learn

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that the Duke of Clevelandhae let to the Committee of Excavations four acres of ground at Wroxeter, the-two on which- the excavations have hitherto been carried on, and two...

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BOOKS.

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HEleHTLEY'S MILTON. * Twig new edition of Milton's Life, and especially of his English poems, is welcome : it is handsomely " got up," sufficiently com- pact, and abundantly...

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BA.YARD TAYLOR IN GREECE AND CRETE. * TEMR,E are more things

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to be seen and thought of in Greece than the relics and reminiscences of her past glories. These have been elaborately explored by enthusiastic scholars, and too many a hash of...

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THE ZDTWA.171)N OF THE BLIND. * TECE little hook on blindness

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written by the late Dr. Bull after the loss of his sight is, we believe, the only one which dwells distinctively on the condition of the -most numerous class of the...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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M. Darque, the author of a little treatise on the Pncequarciteriox OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE, shares our conviction that " very little French is learned in English by many who:have...

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LITERARY NEWS.

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Ova influential contemporary, the Athenceum, makes rather a serious charge against Sir John Romilly, on the score that he has appointed Mr. W. B. Turnbull to be Calendcrer of...

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PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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At the Varietes there is a new drama of " powerful dramatic interest," written by MM. Clairville and T. Coignard, and entitled Les Compagnons de la Truelle. Madeleine, a...

tot thratrts.

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On Saturday last the Princess's Theatre was opened under the rule of Mr. Augustus Harris, and the impression made by the performance was most favourable with respect to the...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 27th of August, at Claremont, near Cape Town, the Wife of the Hon. Rowson W. Rowson, Esq., C.B., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, of a eon. On...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Priem) 8aturd. Monday. Tuesday. *rodeos. Thum. hider, I per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 5 per Cents Long Annuities...

PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 27.

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Bankrupts. - Joan Barr, Star Corner, Bermondsey, currier-Cam...Es HENRY BAKER and JOSEPH ArlinutR, Water Lane, Great Tower Street, soap-manufacturers -Josupu YARDLEY VERNON,...