24 JANUARY 1852

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The great questions which affect the constitution of the Esta-

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blished Church, its connexion with the State, and its relation to other communions, though for the moment less clamorously agi- tated, continue to engross the interest and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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TEE hit weeks of the long vacation are marked by a slight flutter among tile Parliamentary Reformers; a "moving among the dry bones. „ It Manchester there has been a meeting of...

France certainly is the land of change if not of

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progress. Bight weeks have scarcely elapsed since the Usurpation of the 2d of De- cember, and already one Cabinet of not remarkably scrupulous Ministers give in unable or afraid...

As the day for opening the session draws on, questions

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which Ministers fondly believed had received their quietus rise like the ghost of Banque, "with twenty mortal murders on their heads," to appal with their spectral presence...

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t h C ou r t.

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THE Queen gave an audience to Count Walewski, the French Ambas- sador, on Saturday , afternoon. Visitors at the Castle have again been numerous. The Duchess of Kent resumed her...

The latest arrivals from America go far to establish the

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entire failure of Kossuth in the main object of his mission to that country. The ci-devant Governor of Hungary flattered himself that he could obtain from the United States a...

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The Westminster Reform Society, which has been in abeyance for two or three yearn, was resuscitated by a meeting of its members in Exeter Hall on Tuesday; Mr. Geeson in the...

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ant Vrfininrtg.

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Mr. Gisborne, the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Notting- ham, has issued an address to his late constituents, telling them that inti- mate friends who move more...

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IRELAND.

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It has been decided by many of the leading Guardians of the different Unions of Ireland, that a meeting of the Guardians be convened for Fri- day the 30th instant, at the...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Glasgow Citizen mentions a rumour in a somewhat influential quarter that Lord Palmerston has lien spoken of as a willing and probable candidate for that city. The Paisley...

Jump gull tulnuiftl.

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Fnawcz.—Nearly the whole of the late members of the National As- sembly, banished from France by the decree of the 10th instant, have now left the country. The Brussels journals...

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3}1iortIlaurnuo.

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Cabinet Councils were held at the Foreign Office on Saturday, Tues- day, and Thursday. It is noticed that the Marquis of Lansdowne is no longer a punctual attendant at the...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The French Usurpation makes no halt. The Ministry of the coup of the 2d of December has been put aside ; and a Ministry suitable for the next steps, whatever they are...

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The inquiry by Mr. Barlow the Lunacy Commissioner respecting the

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sanity of Mrs. Catherine Cumming is not yet completed. The speeches of the counsel—each of them a day long—were finished yesterday ; the Commission- er sums up today; and the...

Last night's Gazette annoutices the following appointments— James Hudson, Esq.,

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now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- ter Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to be her Majesty's En- voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the...

A correspondent suggests, that "Lord Palmerston should be invited, on

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the first night of the session, to tell what he knows of the proposal made to the Despotic Powers by Louis Napoleon, two years before his coup d'etat, for new arrangements of...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOGIE EXCIIANOE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The English Stock market has been heavy during the whole week, and a decline of more than per cent has occurred. This has been mainly pro-...

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DEFENSIVE EFFICIENCY: CITIZEN SOLDIERS. London, 20th January 1852. Bra—Thanks to the public press, there is now some prospect of an im- provement being made in the equipment...

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

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The lecture at the Society of Arts on Wednesday evening by Professor Solly, "On the nature of vegetable substances used in manufactures," was scarcely less interesting than any...

The "Thursday Concert" of this week was very similar to

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the pre- vious one which we have already noticed. There were some fine old madrigals, admirably sung by the numerous and well-trained choir; several Italian and English songs,...

The Christmas pieces are still the main attraction at most

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of the houses, and the desire to produce novelty seems by no means pressing. A revival of London Assurance at the Haymarket, and a little piece called The Juve- nile Party, in...

Mr. Hullah has resumed the "Monthly Concerts" which he set

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on foot last season at St. Martin's Hall. He has announced a series of only four, in place of eight, the number given last year ; a limitation doubtless occasioned by the...

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Mr. Bunn began his operatic performances at Drury Lane last night, with _Robert The Devil. The performers were almost all of them new to the public. The interesting part of...

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THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.

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"BEWARE of shams," would be no inappropriate standing motto for a public instructor of honest John Bull ; but there are certain seasons when it becomes especially necessary to...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MAKLNG THE BEST OF IT. AN' elaborate paper in the January number of the Edinburgh Re- view, the accredited organ of the literary and aristocratic 'Whigs, supplies the crowning...

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NEW ASSAULT ON THE QUARANTINE SYSTEM.

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THE Autocrat of all the French, it is said . , has decreed that the Lazaretto of Marseilles be sold, and docks substituted in its place ; and it is not a very extravagant...

FIRST AND SECOND THOUGHTS IN LOM]IARD STREET ABOUT LOUIS NAPOLEON.

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Loris NAPOLEON is generally well liked in the City, a favourite in the Money-market especially, and in Lombard Street—that is, with the great capitalists—an absolute pet. The...

CONSTITUTIONAL HOUSEWIFERY.

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LOAD DERBY, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Disraeli—such is the last "combination" suggested by rumour! How impossible it seems for the choice of her Majesty the Queen to escape from...

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• STICK TO THE QUESTION.

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AT the first view it might seem that the public could have no in- terest in the dispute between the Amalgamated Engineers and their employers, no power, and no right even of...

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

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DIOGENES in his tub ! Well, it was his own choice. The Cynic's habitat was the analogue of the cynic's soul. But put a tiger in a tub, press it down on him, by artful manceuvre...

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BOOKS.

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THE GRENVILLE PAPERS. * Tam interest of these papers is chiefly biographical and historical: biographical as regards the elder Pitt and the Grenville family; historical in...

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MRS. DUNLOP'S EMILIE HOWARD.*

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THE principal novelty of this fiction is owing to its scenery and manners. The greater part of the story takes place in Portugal; with which country Mrs. Dunlop appears to be...

MASON'S PICTURES OF LIFE IN MEXICO.*

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THESE volumes are not travels in Mexico, but a series of 4' sketches " intended to exhibit the scenery, the society, and the various classes of Mexicans, in a half-fictitious...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Bonita. The week has not been so fruitful of publications of mark or promise as its predecessors have been for some time past. One exception is Lady The- resa Lewis's "Lives of...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, January 20. PAnTsratainrs DISSOLTEM—J. and J. Taylor, Rochdale, iron-founders-Parker and Page, Great Bacon Street, Bethnal Green, cane-dealers-Biggs and Sons,...

HILALTIL OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK ENDING IANUARY 17.

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[From the Official Return.] of Ten Weeks 1841-50. Week of 1861. Zymotic Diseases. 2,284 .... 207 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat.. 825 .......

BIRTHS.

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On the 25th November, at Point de Galls, Ceylon, the Wife of the Rev. Norman Garstin, D.D., of a daughter. On the 8th December, at Agra, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Brind, of...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR- OFFICE, Jan. 23.-Royal Regt. of Horse Guards-Cornet C. 8. D. Mills has been allowed to retire from the service by the sale of his commission ; Cornet A. Massingberd has...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS Sahel. (Closing Prices. Monks. Tondos,. per Cent Consols 964 as 961 Ditto for Account 961 96 96I 3 per Cents Reduced 971 97 971 $1 per Cents 981 98 981 Long...