25 AUGUST 1849

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Hungary succumbs to Russia. The war is at an end

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i and, for the moment, a thorough frustration appears to have finished the revolutionary movement of 1848. Reaction, more or less pro- nounced, is everywhere in the ascendant—in...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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CHOLERA, Hungary, and the Bermondsey murder, are the subjects of the week. At home, cholera is left in almost uninterrupted pos- session of the field, not because its increase...

The advices from the British dependencies are not hopeful for

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the permanence of tranquillity and concord. In Canada, t he British League has completed its session, and has sent home a manifesto, the sum of which is, that the "British"...

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gbe iliftetropotis.

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The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress entertained the Count and Countess de Neuilly at a dejeuner a la fourchette in the Mansionhouse, on Thursday afternoon. The Dutchess of Orleans...

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IRELAND.

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The Freeman's Journal contradicts the statement that Mr. W. H. Fagan, one of the Members for Westmeath County, is about to accept the Chiltern Hundreds. A Tralee paper gives...

iprobinces.

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Several groups of public meetings have been held in the provinces on various subjects. At Sydenham, and in several places in North Durham, for the establish- ment of societies...

SCOTLAND.

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The Queen and her family arrived at Balmoral on Wednesday the 15th; having journeyed rapidly through the Highland country North of Blair- gowrie. At Castletown there was a "...

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_foreign anb Oolonfal.

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FBAItCE.—The Congress of Friends of Universal Peace opened its sittings in Paris, at the Salle de St. Cecille in the Rue Chaussee d'Antin, on Wed- nesday morning. The hall will...

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Itlissullarttous.

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It is said to be the Queen's intention to confer the honour of a Marquisate on Lord Clarendon, in recognition of his able, judicious, and impartial dis- charge of the Viceregal...

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In Ireland, says the Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle,

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"the beneficial effects of a good harvest are daily becoming more apparent, in a revival of confidence, to some degree, amongst all classes engaged in trade, as well as amongst...

Maria Manning was brought to London yesterday morning, and was

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first taken to the Southwark Police station at Stone-end. Here the charge was recorded; and she drank a cup of coffee during the process. When asked if she knew of what crime...

Sir George Grey took his departure from Balmoral on Wednesday

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morning, and Lord John Russell was expected to arrive there that after- noon. Three officers attached to the staff of General Sir Charles Napier have returned to England, the...

In the list of deaths this week by cholera, there

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are three names not unknown to the public i —the eminent professor Mr. Aston Key, Surgeon-in-ordinary to Prince Albert; Mr. Henry Hetherington, the Chartist publisher; and Mr....

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The peace Congress held its second meeting on Thursday, in the Salle St. Cecille. The hall was still more crowded than on Wednesday. An an nouncement made by the...

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR-

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Miteside, Cumberland, lfl'A August 1849. Sin—I have waited, hoping to see your able pen employed in urging the spe- cial attention of Englishmen to that meanest act of the...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK ExcRANGE, FRIDAY Awioiwnw. The intelligence of the surrender of the Hungarians is the only event of im- portance connected with the Money-market, and its effect has been...

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THEATRES AND MUSIC.

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Her Majesty's Theatre, after three " farewell nights " added to the regu- lar season, closed its doors last Saturday; and the Royal Italian Opera, after three " extra nights,"...

Dramatic pieces, the whole humour of which turns on the

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courtship of young ladies by exceedingly old gentlemen, are not in the very best taste; and we do not find much to our liking a farce produced at the New Strand Theatre, in...

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COLONIAL POLICY.

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TRADITION says that Queas,Mary died of grief for the loss of. Calais : bow would Queen Victoria take the loss of her Colonies? Such a result is not impossible. On the first...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MODEL DEPARTMENT. “MURDER will out" more quickly than ever, and murderers es- cape less often. The Police, guided by the light of science, watch for crime at every spot...

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SCHOOL FOR CRIMINALS.

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THREE murderesses of the order now so common in this country have been settling their last accounts with the world : let us see what the world has done for them. Mary Ann...

FRIENDSHIP'S PILLORY.

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Is it prudent in the Examiner to insist on holding its clients the Whig Ministers up to public scrutiny week after week ? Why break the silence which it bespoke, and by its...

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OFFICIAL JOURNALISM.

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TRADES are sometimes mingled, without grievous disadvantage— "A brewer may Protector be, Which nobody can deny"; but sometimes two trades agree as little in one person as two...

A new invention is about being brought forward [in New

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York] for railways in the streets of cities, which will here very nearly do away with the present style of omnibus; and while it will be applicable to all usual purposes as a...

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BOOKS.

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DR. TAYLOR'S HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF ORLEANS. * Tux historical prominence, not to say predominance, of particular families in modern Europe, deserves more consideration than it...

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REVERE'S CALIFORNIA. * LIEUTENANT REVERE seems to have been employed for

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twenty years in the United States Navy, or some other public capacity ; and lie has visited various lands. " I have travelled," he says, " in all sorts of ways in all sorts of...

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MRS. 1i0FLAND. * Assam:Ton the reputation of Mrs. Hofland is rather

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traditional than pre-- B ent, and as new fashions succeed in juvenile literature it may drop still more out of the public mind, yet as the head of a class Barbara Hofland is...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. John Howard, and the Prism-World of Europe. From Original and Authentic Documents. By Hepworth Dixon. The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. Volume IL...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAH - OsTICE, Aug. 21.—Royal Beet. of Horse Guards—George P.C. A. Lord Stanhope to be Cornet by pur. vice Gambier promoted ; Thomas Lord Ribblesdale to be Cornet, by pur. vice...

BIRTHS.

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On the 12th August, at the Stand House, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Wife of Captai a Gilbert, Royal Horse Artillery, prematurely, of a son and heir. On the 14th, at Wentworth,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH I , IINDS. (Mated Priem.) &lord. Yonder. Ilenday. Warless. Vows. 3 per Cent Consols 921 NI 93 113 911 Ditto for Account 93 921 838 93 V i ezf i e :, Lts u Reduced...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, August 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Hughes and Roberts, Abbey Tinter Wireworks, Tintern, Monmouthshire-Tootal and Co. Leeds, stock.brokers-Lindberg and Co....