21 OCTOBER 1848

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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CLONMEL is still enlivened by the State trials, but the proceed- ings have lost their interest from their sameness. The charge is still the same; the defence rings the changes...

The actual position of the Austrian empire, as it is

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represented in the news of the week, is unprecedented in the history of states: such a complication of internal conflict, such rapidity in the pro- cess of decay, are without...

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Itte ilftetropolis.

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The City Commissioners of Sewers held a meeting in the Council-cham- ber at the Guildhall on Monday; the Lord Mayor in the chair, and several Aldermen present. The chief...

General Cavaignac has changed his Ministry, and taken up a

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new position. M. Dufaure replaces M. Senard in the Ministry of the Interior, and two other Ministers are new. The causes of the change do not appear very explicitly ; but...

Busied in editing the new constitution of Prussia, the Diet

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at Berlin has marked an sera in the history of its country, in striking out of the Royal iityle and title the words "by the grace of God ' : it is no longer ' Frederick William,...

ebe wart.

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Tam Queen and Prince Albert remain at Windsor, diversifying their leisure by the entertainment of distinguished vaiters. The Prince and Princess of Parma arrived at the Castle...

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be glrobinzes.

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A portion of the Great Northern Railway, one side of the "loop" ex- tending from Peterborough to Lincoln by way of Boston, sixty-four miles in length, was opened for public...

IRELAND.

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Mr. Smith O'Brien's counsel have given notice of their determination to apply for a writ of error, on the ground that copies of the bill of indictment and lists of witnesses...

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ifortign an eolontal.

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Fitawcu.—General Cavaignma yielding to the Parliamentary pressure, has modified his Cebinet. The Moniteur of Saturday announced the re- tirement of Messiesirs Senard, Recur% and...

SCOTLAND.

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Mr. IIastie, M.P. for Paisley, according to yearly custom convened his electors by circular on the 13th instant, and gave them exp lanations of his Parliamentary conduct during...

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linistEtlanzous.

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Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in London on Monday night; having visited Howick Hall, in Northumberland, on their way Southwards from Mint() House. The Scotsman describes...

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POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY.

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When the advices of the 15th instant left Vienna, the position of the several parties seemed to be not much changed relatively to each other, but to be growing hourly more...

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The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, with the Countess of Clarendon and

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their four children, left Dublin yesterday morning at seven o'clock, :on a short visit to The Grove, their seat near Watford, in Hertfordshire. Meagher's trial, at Clonmel,...

" There were yesterday three cases of cholera notified from

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Clapham, one from a vessel off Billingsgate ' and one in the Millbank Penitentiary. It was also notified yesterday th at one decided case of cholera had occurred at York, one...

The Queen has ordained a special statute of the Order

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of the Bath, for appointing Lieutenant Herbert Benjamin Edwardes of the East India Company's service, to be an extra member of the third class of Military Knights Companions....

THE THEATRES.

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The great interest excited this week by the appearance of two young English singers, who, though not quite new to the public, may yet be re- garded as debutante on the stage, is...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The events in Germany have operated prejudicially upon the Stock Market. The price of Consols, which had declined upon the intelligence of the...

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The manager of the Olympic is proceeding with a great

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deal of care, now be has lost the advantage which he enjoyed during the long closing of the Adelphi and the Lyceum. Mrs. Stirling and Mr. Leigh Murray play very well together in...

LORD DENMAN AND THE SLAVE-TRADE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—When two men hold opinions from which the rest of the world differs, it not unftequently happens that, after fruitless efforts to prove the...

The Haymarket, which opened this day week, is to be

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added to the list of redecorated theatres. Mr. Sang, who renovated the Adelphi, has done the same kind office for the Haymarket; adhering to the same style. There is not, to be...

WOODS AND FORESTS COMMITTEE.

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LETTER V. I proceed to relate the condition and management of the New Forest, the last of the forests yet brought under the notice of the Committee. Mr. Commissioner Milne is...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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GOOD IN EVERYTHING. ALTHOUGH the gale which has blown throughout Europe for the last eight months has been distinguished among revolutions by the comparative scantiness of the...

SECULAR INSTRUCTION AND RELIGIOUS TEACHING.

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NEWSPAPER controversy is too often an idle waste of space and time, in which the opposite parties, speaking in opposite senses, never come to common terms; and therefore we are...

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SABBATH IMPIETIES.

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THR officers at the Perth station of the Scottish Central Railway, which seems to be conducted on strictly Sabbatarian principles, are vehemently blamed for an enforcement of...

REDEMPTION OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM.

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CATCHING a hint from the humour of the day in the City, and from Mr. Spackman, "the great commercial organ" proposes to re- fer" all the railways of the country to a...

CRIMINAL INTENTION.

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IT is reported in Dublin that the chief evidence used against Mr. Duffy at the approaching trial will be his intercepted letter to Mr. Smith O'Brien ; and that some words...

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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM FRANCE. Paris, October 19. So, then, we

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have a new Ministry; and that Ministry has a majority,- very strong one, as you have seen—perhaps too ranch so. The Moderate party might well exclaim, as Lord Brougham did in...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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BIOGRAPHY, Memoirs and OorreSpondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of London- derry. Edited by his Brother, Charles Vane Marquess of Londondery, G.C.B., &c. Volumes...

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LETTERS FROM THE DANUBE

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Do not equal the expectations that a perusal of the author's Gisella might naturally have raised. In his novel he painted manners and sce- nery with vivacity and truth : his...

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WARREN ON THE DUTIES OF ATTORNIES AND SOLICITORS.

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IT has been the aim of all great teachers to elevate the real by means of the ideal. The pupil is bidden to strive after a state of perfection not mundane, in order to attain an...

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*PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boons. Lady Granard's Nieces; a Novel. In three volumes. The Moral, Social, and Professional Duties of Aitornies and Solicitors. By Samuel Warren, Esq., F.R.S., of the Inner...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 11th October, at South Kllworth Rectory, Leicestershire, the Wife of the Rev. Assheton Pownall, of a son. On the 13th, the Countess of Arran, of a daughter. On the...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFF10E, Oct. 20.-5th Dragoon Guards-Brevet Lieut.-Col. W. M. Balder., from 3d Light Drage, to be Major, vice Archer, appointed to 16th Light Drags. 3d Light Draga-Major L....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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• Tuesday, October 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. and J. Voile, Rugby, drapers-W. and C. Lee, Bristol, builders-Skinner and Kemp, Wolverhampton, wine-merchants-Faster and...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) Austrian 5 D. Ct. — I Massachusetta (Sterling)...6 p Ct Belgian 41 — 71 Mexican 5 Ditto 21 38...