1 SEPTEMBER 1849

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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"Is Manning taken?" was the question of the week, until the fact was announced ; for the Bermondsey murder is still among tie foremost topics in a week of little news. And the...

Elihu Burritt's explanation of the objects and plans contem- plated

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by the Peace Congress at Paris came somewhat out of time on the closing day. Mr. Burritt is the true missionary of the movement. His force of character, his zeal, and his want...

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the Metropolis.

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A special Court of the Commissioners of Sewers was held on Wednesday morning. Mr. Leslie was about to bring forward a motion on the relative cost of operations under the old and...

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Zbe Vrobintes.

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The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has appointed Friday next to be set apart as a day of humiliation and prayer, in consequence of the national visitation with which this country has...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Royal Family enjoy a very strict retirement at Balmoral. On Fri- day last, the Queen and Prince Albert walked with Viscountess Jocelyn to the top of Lochnagar. The Prince...

IRELAND.

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Lord Clarendon has addressed the following communication to the Bishop of Down and Connor, as the Queen's almoner in Belfast. " Viceregal Lodge, August 25, 1849. " My Lord—I...

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ffortign anti ealontal.

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Faesscx.—The last sitting of the Peace Congress, on Friday, was even more crowded than those preceding. Nearly as soon as the chair was taken, M. Coquerel rose and said, he held...

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It is stated in circles likely to be acquainted with

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the Royal intention, that her Majesty has expressed a desire to have a royal marine pavilion erected for her residence at Killiney, within eight miles of Dublin. A more...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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_ATIBIDAY • Considerable sensation has been created in Paris by a speech from M. Leon Faucher, to his townsmen of Limoges. As he passed on his return from the Pyrenees to...

We are still without complete accounts of the actual surrender

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of Venice to the Austrian commander. All accounts are emphatic in their admi- ration of the Venetians, whose conduct had been excellent to the last— as firm and orderly in...

The Mayor of Liverpool gave a farewell dinner, on Thursday,

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to Mr * Bancroft, lately Minister of the United States to Gr. - 4 Britain, upon his return to his own country. The Lord Mee. , of — London was one of the guests. Mr. Bancroft...

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Mrs. Alfred Phillips, of the New Strand Theatre, is a

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clever comic actress, with a great deal of breadth, as she shows by her performance of a maid-servant in Hearts are Trumps; but she is not the person to sustain a piece...

THE THEATRES.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre was opened on Saturday last, for the season, with the revival of The Tempest, which was first produced at that house about two years ago. In point of...

THE AUTUMN MUSIC MEETINGS.

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The close of the London season has been followed, as usual, by the dispersion of the tuneful host who have been ministering to our gratifica- tion. But the last and present year...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOOK. Considerable sales of all descriptions of Government Securities for Money took place in the early part of the week, and operations of the same...

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THE UNIVERSITIES.

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Oxford, 20th August 1849. Sea—I agree so thoroughly with the general spirit of your remarks, both in your paper of last Saturday and on a fanner occasion, on the Oxford credit...

HOW TO DIMINISH POISONINGS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 28th August 1349. SIR—In your article on the apparent increase of poisoning in various parts of England, you seem to arrive at the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION. WHAT can we do 4" ask the Reformers installed in office, when called upon to proceed with reforms : " what is there to be done that is instant,...

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMUNISM..

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TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SPECTATOR. Dublin, 166h August 1849. Sm—A few of your readers in this city have been gratified by the judicious re- tie you made a week or two since to...

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NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

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" P UNICA fides !"—" British faith ! " is the modern equivalent. Our Government plays strange pranks abroad, and abroad it is " England" that gets the credit. Canada is bullied...

THE CONGRESS OF 1850.

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A CORRESPONDENT of the Times, who writes on "the common sense of the Hungarian question," throws out a hint that it may be desirable to have "a Congress of review or revisal of...

THE ANARCH TYRANNY.

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DISCIPLINE is so essential to military operations, that the breach of it is not to be excused on any plea short of impossibility; but, a fortiori, it follows that tyranny in...

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PRACTICAL " DISCUSSION " OF COMMUNISM.

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IN Paris and other towns of France, the working Communists have established associations of labour, as approximations towards the state of Communism. From the second number of...

DE MINIMIS.

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BY the remarks of Mr. Hardwick, the Magistrate at Marl- borough Street Police-office, on a case brought before him this week, a strange provision of the law is disclosed. Into...

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BOOKS.

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DIXON'S MPH or HOWARD. * NOTWITHSTANDING the vast amount of good really accomplished by Howard the philanthropist, and the claims (greater than the reality) put forward by a...

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HURSTHOUSE'S ACCOUNT OF NEW PLYMOUTH. * Ma. IIURSTHOUSE has visited the

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Canadas, the United States, South Africa, and New South Wales, and resided for five years in the lately- settled district of New Plymouth, near Cape Egmont, on the West side of...

SIMPSON'S LILY OF PARIS. * AN organized body rejects undigested what

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it cannot amalgamate to its own substance, and the mind would seem to do the same. In other words, it requires a genius, not only of a high but of an apt kind, to see the...

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BOYER'S MODERN HOUSEWIFE. * Trim artistic ambition of Alexis Soyer, of

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the Reform Club, shines out here in a twofold capacity. Not content with novelty of matter in his receipts, he has aimed at novelty of structure and style in his mode of...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Homo. Ernesto di Repalta; a Tale of the Italian Revolution. By the Author of "Notes of a Two Years' Residence in Italy." In three volumes. An Aczount of the Settlenzent of New...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 17th August, at Rosstrevor, the Hon. Mrs. Ross, of Bladensbary, of a sea. On the 23d, at Manorhouse, East Acton, Countess d'Avigdor, of a son. On the 23d, at St....

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Aug. 28.-4th Light Drags.--Lieut. H. D. made to be Capt. by purchase vice Foretop, who retires ; Cornet H. Mallet to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Slade. 2Ist...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Mang Prices.) Salford. Xonslay. Ihsoday. Trams !hum Friday. 3 per Ce at Consols 921 921 921 92k 921 Ditto for Account 921 821 921 92 92/ 921 3 per Cents...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, August 28. PARTNERSHIPS; DISSOLVED. F. and F. Milford, Deal, hosiers—Matthews and Ward, Wolverhampton, grocers— W. J. White, Huddersfield, silk-dealers—Jenkins and...