23 JULY 1859

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE only surprise occasioned by Mr. Gladstone's Budget has been excited by its simplicity and intrinsically unsurprising character. • He finds himself in possession of a...

The progress of foreign affairs has continued to be of

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the higheit importance, although the indications thereof are prin- cipally conveyed in formal speeches, official documents, and editorial writings. The Emperor Napoleon received...

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Another most important document. is It German version .,of Lord

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John Rusaegs letter to British Ininisiars at Gerona Com.* presented to our public) in, a cetranalation. It will be Mound to confirm what we have said as to the course adopted by...

Ethatto mar Vrnrrffingo in Vortinintut.

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FRINCIP.U. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. HOUSE OP LORDS. Monday, July 18. Lord John Russell's Despatch ; Question by Lord Malmesbury—Consolidation of the Statute Law ; Lord Cranworth's...

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THE CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION.

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The Conservative party, having decreed an oration to their leaders— Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli—the demonstration took place in the hall of the Merchant Taylors' Company, a site...

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SEQUEL TO THE WAR JN ITALY. Ever since the news

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of the peace letters have poured in from all parts of Northern and Central Italy showing how utterly .dissatisfied the Italians are with its terms. The return of the French...

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tkt court.

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THE QUEEN is still at Osborne; whence she takes short sea excursions in her yacht. The Prince Consort has been once to Portsmouth and once to Alverbank, and on both occasions...

Ytirtrupolio.

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At a meeting in Guildhall on Thursday, the Lord Mayor in the chair, it was resolved to form a volunteer rifle corps, to be called the London Rifle Brigade. Besides the Lord...

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o f THUM—The news of peace did not produce an agreeable feeling among the politicians and workmen, but it has given great satisfaction to the trading classes. The Emperor...

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Mr. Cobden's constituents have made arrangements to celebrate his re- turn on a large scale. Mr. Cobden has intimated that he can attend on the 27th; but the day is still left...

IRELAND.

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The Lord Lieutenant received on Wednesday addresses of welcome from Trinity College, the Royal Hibernian Society, and the Royal Dublin Society. In the course of his reply to the...

SCOTLAND.

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The Prince of Wales arrived at Holyrood on the 15th. He has gone to Edinburgh to pursue his studies in history ; and, during his stay, the , Scotsman informs us, he will be...

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311ioa11aunus.

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The Secretary for War has issued a new circular on Volunteer Corps. It embodies, in the main, those concessions which have from time to time been stated to Parliament—the grant...

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The lfoniteur of yesterday contained the following :—

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" The Emperor yesterday received the diplomatic corps. The Papal Nuncio, speaking in the name of the diplomatic corps, offered the Emperor his earnest and sincere...

.Paris, Thursday Evening.

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It is not likely that the French Recites will touch the high priors which prevailed before the 1st of last January since that day 500 millions have been added to the permanent...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY MonNniG. The House of Commons sat late again last night making proaress with the estimates in Committee of Supply and with the Budget in Corn.. mittee of Ways and...

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THE prolonged summer season that has been experienced by the dealers in textile fabrics is now fast drawing to a termination,—and arrange- ments for the autumn are engrossing...

The Bombay mail arrived yesterday with advices to the 23d

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June. There is little of interest in the intelligence beyond the fact that the spirit of disaffection displayed by the European regiments enlisted to serve the Company...

MONEY MARKET.

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On Monday the Copsol Market opened dull and heavy at the latest prices of Saturday, 9.51 95a, and business has throughout the week been of a very trifling character, the...

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PARTS FASHIONS.

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(From our own Correspondent.) Coquetry is in nowise disposed to sacrifice any of its rights during the great heats, which have reached a • climax almost unheard of in these...

ORNAMENTAL LEATHER-WORK.

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Every domestic economist has proved the truth many times of the old saying " Nothing like leather" ; its wearing qualities have made it important and useful for a great variety...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 19.

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Bankruptcy Annulled.—WILLLM DENNIS Siurri, High Street, Shoreditch, ironmonger. Bankrupts.—Wmturt WmonivoN, Bourne End, Great Marlow, Buckingham- shire, coal-merchant—Am/alum...

BIRTHS.

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On the 15th of July, at Cambridge, the Wife of Francis B. Newman, Esq., of a daughter. On the 16th. at 16, Green Street, Park Lane, the Wife of Geary. Petra, Esq., Secretary to...

How the botanical treasures at Kew serve our commercial needs

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occa- sionally, receivesjust now an apt illustration in the fine specimen of that most wonderful of all vegetable productions the lace or lattice leaf plant of Madagascar, which...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 22.

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Bankrupts.—BieoAsD Wzscorr, Reading, butcher.--INTRONY Heavn, Sheffield, provision-dealer—Hnon JONES, grocer, Liverpool—WI:m.1ex °wax TX/CHER, Lea Bridge Road, Essex,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE BUDGET AND THE NATIONAL MEANS. Mn. GLiDsToNE's Budget is the simplest on record ; and for that very reason it seems to have been at first generally misunderstood. People...

PROGRESS OF THE ITALIAN SETTLEMENT.

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LAST week we refused to endorse the opinion that the peace of Villafranca was fatal to the objects of the war, to Italian inde- pendence, or to the interests of England; and...

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THE CITY ABOLITION BILL. -

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IF the question at stake in the Bill to abolish the old corporation of Lonclon4ind establish another in its place were nothing but the counting of hobnails at the Court of...

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A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN MASQUERADE.

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TILE French, not without English sympathy, have been trying very hard, for the last thirty or forty years, to find the source of that mysterious African river, the Nile. The...

A GROWING TRADE IN STOLEN GOODS.

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WE are sorry to have occasion to point out a very serious evil that is growing up amongst the commercial community—an evil that all engaged in trade ought to unite in putting...

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BOOKS.

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TENNYSON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING. * " ARTHUR is come again: he cannot die !" The Laureate has x insured to him the immortality which prophecy had made his due. ' That noblest...

"IT IS NOT IN THE BILL."

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WHEN one of the deputation of Liverymen pointed out to Lord John Rus- sell that the City Abolition Bill proposed to extinguish the popular election of Sheriffs, Lord John, like...

AN OFFICIAL HISDE3IEANOUR EXPOSED.

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THE Chatham News has scarcely been established ere it proves its local value by exposing a systematic outrage officially inflicted upon the dis- trict in which the journal...

THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE STOCKS.

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London, July 20, 1859. SIR, — When narrating, in last Spectator, the fatalities that had happened during the week from sun-strokes, you give to the Commander-in- Chief more...

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BRITISH NOVELISTS. * PROFESSOR MASSON has ascertained, from the records of

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the British Museum and from other sources, that in the year 1820, when the Waverley Novels were at the height of their popularity, there were,published in these islands...

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TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN AMERICA. * Fox once we have

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lighted upon that literary rarity, a writer of a book of travels who tells us too little about himself. Most mo- dern travellers err in the opposite way, and in a degree pretty...

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LITERARY NEWS.

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Messrs. Chapman and Hall announce for immediate publication a " Secret History of the Austrian Government, and of its systematic prosecution of Protestants." The author of this...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Publishers, we presume, are reserving their new issues for the end of the month. Of the few which we have received this week, we need only specify the volume of SHELLEY...

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ffi it tt4tairts.

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Again a burlesque, and again from the pen of Mr. Byron, the scene of action being this time the Adelphi Theatre, and the subject the old story of the Babes in the Wood. To...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &bird. Mouslap. Puede,. Was... 9410: d. : 3 1 951 951 911 95 :V 9.4 95 14551 904 93/ 954 954 051 96 954 961 95 - - - 18 171 - 1 --- - ----...

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"The Season" is fast drawing to a close, and apparently will not be prolonged by the protracted session of Parliament-if, indeed, the session of Parliament be protracted ; for...