25 DECEMBER 1847

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The most interesting bits in the Foreign news of the

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week are certain rumours. In Paris, there have been rumours that King Louis Philippe was to abdicate in favour of his grandson, in order that, before lily demise, he might give...

Bit standard. With St. Gregory he says, that the "modes

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and topics of address suited to one may not be applicable to another," but admit of a "judicious and seasonable variety " ; and, denying that " denunciations fig name are the...

dims anti tiroutaings in Varliainent.

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TUE ADJOURNMENT. 111 the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising do adjourn till Thursday the 3d of February next,— about the time at...

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'be Iflettopolis.

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The election of Common Councilmen and other Ward officers for the ensuing year took place on Tuesday, St. Thomas's Day, according to an- nual custom. The proceedings were...

gbt eaurt.

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THE Court has returned to Windsor. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the family, left Osborne on Tuesday morning, and reached Windsor Castle shortly before three o'clock. The new...

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Zbt lirobintes.

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The election of a new Member for the Southern division of South Lan- cashire, in the room of Mr. Charles Villiers, took place on Monday, at New- ton-in-the-Willows. There was no...

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IRELAND.

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The annual presentation of premiums by the Lord-Lieutenant to the pupils of the Royal Dublin Society took place on the 17th. In addressing the assembly, Lord Clarendon...

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_foreign anb QCo Ionial.

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Fussrce.—Two rumours have alarmed Paris this week : on Monday, it was reported that Louis Philippe talked of abdicating in favour of the Comte de Paris as King and the Due de...

Iftistellaneons.

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Dr. Hampden has at length come forward to defend himself against his various assailants, in a pamphlet letter addressed to Lord John Russell.; It is a painful trial, he says,...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland held a Privy Council on Thursday af- ternoon, at which a proclamation was adopted declaring the Act for the Prevention of Crime and...

BIRTHS.

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On the 11th December, at Blackadder, Berwickshire, the Wife of Sir George Hotta- toun Boswell, Bart., of a son. On the 16th, the Wife of the Bev. James Edwardea, of Abdale...

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The division of last week on the Jewish disabilities gave

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a larger mi- nority than any that mustered against relief in the session of 1833. Mr. - Robert Grant's resolution, on the 17th April 1833, was carried without a division; the...

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The Paris papers of Thursday report the death of the

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Archdutchess Marie Louisa, widow of the late Emperor Napoleon, and Dutchess of Parma and Piacenza. This event occurred at Parma Wile A7th. Her zdedady, which commenced on the...

Lord Ellesmere has come forth with a strong appeal in

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favour of strengthening the national defences. The Times publishes a letter from him, more than two columns in length, full of animated and close reasoning. The writer excuses...

Last night's Gazette announces the issue of fresh letters patent

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on the appointment of the Earl of Shelburne to be a Lord of the Treasury. The Lords Commissioners now are—the Right Honourable John Russell, com- monly called Lord John Russell,...

Some fresh commercial difficulties are reported from Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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Letters from Glasgow mention that the National Exchange Company is about to wind up its affairs. Its capital was 200,0001., and its depwits 119,0001. The Ayrshire Iron...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING. AsztvirD — At Gravesend, 18th Dec., Lord Hsddo, Rennie,

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from Singapore ; Sarah Charlotte, Dunnett, from Batavia ; Lady Clarke, M'I.ean ; Windsor, Gregson ; and Maid of Julpha, Gardner, from Calcutta ; Providence, Hicks, from Madras ;...

MONEY MARKET.

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&roc' ETSRANGS, FRIDAY arnauroos. The English Stock Market has been firm, and the tendency upwards. The Government Broker has sold Stock daily, in amounts varying from 10,0001....

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CHURCH AND STATE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Hampshire, 20th December 1847. Six—The dispute among Churchmen respecting the appointment of tte Reverent Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford...

The theatres generally are in their usual state of activity

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to furnish holyday entertainment for Christmas. At Drury Lane, we are to have a pantomime by Messrs. Alfred Crowquill and Albert Smith, called Friar Rush. The Lyceum has removed...

Mademoiselle Lagier, a very young actress, who came out at

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the The- atre des Varietes last year as a performer of juvenile comedy, has made a very successful debilt at the St. James's. In a little piece called Une Filk Terrible, she...

In no case does the proverb " fine feathers make

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fine birds " hold with such force as in that of dramatic spectacles, when not burlesques. Trust- ing to his scenery, or his moving diorama, or his dissolving views, or his...

THE THEATRES.

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Balfe's new opera, The Maid of Honour, produced with great success on Monday at Drury Lane, is calculated by its own merits to raise the re- putation of its composer, while the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW THEOLOGICAL AGITATIONS. THE " i friends of the Church" are ascertaining that the Establish- ment s proof against disruption, as cannon-founders try the sta- bility of...

WHAT HAS THE LAW DONE FOE IRELAND? La-rrnit IL

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TO THE F.DLTOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Dublin, 14th December 1847. SIR —It would not be difficult to draw from the stores of my own memory many more illustrations of the failure of...

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SEMI-OFFICIAL MANIFESTO AGAINST IRISH EMIGRATION.

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WHILE the Irish Members and writers are howling out com- plaints that Government have neither thought nor deed for Ire- land, an historical paper on " the Irish Crisis," in the...

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MR. COBDEN ASTRAY.

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WE hope that Mr. Cobden is not going to throw himself away, either on Quixotic enterprises, or on that canting appeal to opi- nions in vogue which is fit only for puffing...

NATIONAL DEFENCE AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE. As the subject of peace

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and war has again been brought into dis- cussion in such a manner as to confound just distinctions, we desire once for all to put ourselves right with our readers by ex-...

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NOTE ON THE LAST PROCEEDING AT THE BANK. Tun Bank

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of England has further reduced its rate of interest, to 5 per cent. The step has by no means caused such unmingled satisfaction as it would have done, in some quarters, even a...

A FAMILY COMPACT.

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A case is proceeding in the Court of Arches which is extraor- dinary not only for the depravity involved in the facts, but for the_pasition in which Justice is placed by the...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope ; with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History and the Native Tribes. By Charles J. F. Bun-...

NOW AND THEN.

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Ma. Weimar{ has acquired fame as a novelist by two works which ori- ginally appeared in Blackwood's Magazine—The Diary of a /ate Physician, and Ten Thousand a Year. Both of them...

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CHRISTMAS GIFT-BOOKS—MR. LEIGH HUNT'S JAR. OF HONEY: MRS. S. C

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HALL'S MIDSUMMER EVE. ALTHOUGH the Annuals are few in number and of deteriorated charac- ter, old Christmas is not unaccompanied by tokens of his kindly spirit— by things that,...

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MR. LANMAN'S A.DFENTERES OF Are ANGLER.

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Ma. Lanman is a New York editor, with a passion for angling ; and in May last he determined to suspend his editorial labours for a while and indulge himself in a piscatorial...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booze. Now and Then. By Samuel Warren, F.R.S., Author of " Ten Thousand a Year," &c. The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke; with Selections from his Corre- spoodence, Diaries,...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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VAR-OFFICE, Dec. 24.-5th Drag. Guards-Lieut. W. S. W. Sandford, from the 384 Foot, to be Lieut. vice Crawfhrd, who exchanges. 6th Drag. Guards-Veterinary Surg. A. H. Cherry,...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Dec. 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Young and Co. Great Garden Street, Whitechapel, blacking-manufacturers-Norton and Whitrow, Winchester, ironmongers-Froes and Co,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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GRAIN, Mark Lane, December 24. Rye 42 to 45 Barley 25 —26 Malting— 32 —33 Malt, Ord 54 —56 line 56-60 Peas, Hog 37 —89 Maple 41 to 43 White.— 0— 0 Boilers 44 —46 Beans,Ticks...