26 FEBRUARY 1848

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Absorbing as the hourly receipt of momentous intelligence from Patios

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has become, our own soberer vicissitudes will not be forgotten. The Ministry still struggle through that anomalous financial crisis which is no crisis to them—at least it has no...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Paws has . undergone a storm of bloody revolution, and the French Government is dissolved. M. Guizot had pushed his cold policy of didactic control to the utmost point of...

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An agitation is already rising out of doors against the

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Income-tax. It is spontaneous and genuine, and needs none of that machinery which has been so extensively used to "get up" popular agitations in support of special objects. But...

ebates anti Vrotetbings in Warliament.

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Tan Bunenev--Ts$ FINANCES. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Sir Caem.Fs WOOD, Chancellor of the Exchequer, moved the order of the day that the House resolve it- self into a...

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IRELAND_

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Waterford election is to commence on Tuesday next. Mr. Meagher of the Sword, Sir Henry W. Barron, Mr. Costelloe, and Mr. M`Carthy, late M.P. for Cork City, are candidates. Mr....

Ste Probintts.

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Meetings in opposition to the increased Income-tax are becoming general. They have been already held at Liverpool—a very large and influential one, opposing increase, and...

gbe liftettopoits.

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A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, but no business of interest was done. At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, a report was received of the successful opposition...

VLbe etourt.

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THE Royal Family, with the Duke and Dutchess of Saxe-Coburg, re- turned from Claremont to Buckingham Palace on Monday afternoon. Her Majesty held a Court on Tuesday. The Bishop...

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gorrign anb

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Faawoz.—Important events have occurred in Paris. Down to the close of Monday, it was believed that Government would not interfere with the Reform banquet of the twelfth...

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ffifstellantous.

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Cabinet Councils, fully attended, were held at the Foreign Office on Saturday and Monday. A veteran of the Liberal Conservative school has departed from the scene: Lord...

• POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The revolution which is running its rapid course in Paris supersedes every other topic in London. We have this morning fuller and later ac- counts, though still...

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At the outports some activity exists in clearing cargoes from

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vessels grain- laden, to avoid the operation of the duty whichem and after the 1st of March will again be levied under the existing Corn-lawse the order in Council for the...

Even the actual revolution in France cannot obscure the importance

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of the latest news from Italy. The King of Naples has satisfied the General Committee at Palermo. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has given a consti t ution to his people, of a very...

The business of our own Parliament, yesterday, must be very

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summarily dismissed. There was another financial debate in the House of Commons. Sir CHARLES Woo]) moved that the House resolve into a Committee of Supply, for the purpose of...

The West India mail brings adviees from Mexico, of the

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21st January; but there is really no news. Negotiations for peace are said to be in progress, with favourable prospects. The yellow fever has made sad havoc in the...

MONEY MARKET.

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&coca Exciimar, FRIDAY Arrzawooe. The English Funds were heavy at the commencement of the week, owing to the aspect of political affairs in France. Consols, which on Monday...

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There is much cleverness about a farce produced at the

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Lyceum, and called Done on Both Sides; but there is also a great amount of mistake. The notion of a family aiming at an appearance beyond their means, be- coming "snobs" in the...

THE THEATRES.

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Her Majesty's Theatre was crowded on Saturday, in honour of the open- ing of Mr. Lumley's Opera season; and few opening nights have been equally successful. In the performance...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIAN& The attendance at the hundred-and-tenth anniversary

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festival 4ef 'this Society, held on Tuesday in Freemasons Hall, was numerous. The chair was filled by Mr. Palmer, M.P. for Berkshire, in the room of the Duke of Cambridge, the...

At the St. James's Theatre, there has been a new

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piece, called Le Che- valier d'Essonne. A lady who is the very image of her brother assumes his dress, relieves him from embarrassments, and gets into difficulties herself,...

Mr. Macready's reappearance at the Princess's, in the character of

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Mac- beth, seems to have dispelled some prevailing heresies, and to have revived the truth that he is really the " first living tragedian." After a pause, somewhat strangely...

WILSON'S NIGHT WITH SCOTT.

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Mr. Wilson has this week added to the elegant evening entertain- ments of the Metropolis, one that he calls " A Night with Sir Walter Scott." Though this resembles some of his...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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ATLEIVED — At Gravesend, 20th Feb. Harpooner. Papps, from Sydney ; and ;Lord Petre, Middleton, from Mauritius. In the Downs, 24th, Narbudda, Crawford, from China ; Cannata,...

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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Camberwell, 22d February 1848. Sin—The Budget of Lord John Russell is now before us; and, happily, it is some time since a public document of such importance as this has...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

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London, Monday, 21st February 1848. Sta—In your paper of Saturday, under the head of "Important News from Canada," I have read your comments thereon. Although unaccustomed and...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE FINANCES, THE MINISTER, AND THE COUNTRY. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S financial statement exhibits a sorry com- bination—a falling revenue, a rising expenditure, and a Ministry...

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THE INCOME-TAX.

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Tan proposed increase of the Income-tax, the certainty of its continuance in some shape as all but admitted by the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, and his faint denial as to the...

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AIDS TO CORRECT LAWMAKING.

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WE are reminded of this topic by the following announcement, which appeared in the Times of Thursday last— " Mr. Coulson, of Lincoln's Inn, has been appointed by Sir George Grey...

STAMPS ON DEEDS.

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THERE is one branch of our revenue which is somewhat myste- rious—the Stamps—not stamps generally, but stamps on deeds : the lawyers are not a little puzzled by them, and the...

SURGEONS FOR EMIGRANT SHIPS.

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ONE of the most extraordinary phtenomena of society in our time and country is the slowness with which the official mind con- ceives the idea of possibility. Some day, every...

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A most argumentative fact must have convinced Mr. Hudson that

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acci- dents do happen on his own railways, and that they are not pleasant. As the_story runs, "Mr. Hudson and his friends had on of one of four carriages forming an...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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TRAVELS, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. By George F. Buxton, Esq., m em , ber of the Royal Geographical Society, the Ethnological Society, &c.&c dfurra i ....

LAUGHTER—ITS TRAGEDY.

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WE continually encounter some new sample of the varying and .discordant motives which move men to laughter, often the most jarring emanation of feeling. Nothing is more Zappy...

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THE PEASANT AND III8 LANDLORD.

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Tata subject of The Peasant and his Landlord seems an odd one for a lady to select for original treatment, and the book still stranger for an Englishwoman to choose for...

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WARBURTON'S ROLLO AND HIS RACE.

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THE influence upon modern civilization of the Northern invaders who overthrew the Roman empire, and continued for the next six hundred years to establish temporary or permanent...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boors. The Life of the Most Reverend James Ussher, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland; with an Account of his Writings. By Charles Richard Elrington,...

BIRTHS.

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On the 15th February, at Bolney Lodge, Sussex, the Lady of James Henry stater Jun., Esq., of a son. On the 16th, In Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, the Lady of Captain...

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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, Feb. 22.

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PARTNERAHIPS DISSOLVED. Taylor and Tingey, Hardenham, Norfolk, merchants-Hall and Co. Hull, com- mistdon-agents-Blackstone and Part, Cambridge Terrace, Camden Town, surgeons-...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Feb. 21.-Corps of Royal Engineers-First Lieut. C. S. Miller to be Sec. Capt. vice Webb, placedon the Seconded List ; Second Lieut. E. N. Heygate to be First...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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B B. I T I SR FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &Nei. Nosegay. TBasetuy. Wednes Paws. PAW. __ r _ 891 891 89 sit set 871 3 per Cent Consols 89 691 89 S81 89 68 Ditto for Account 81....