28 MARCH 1863

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NEWS OF TIIE WEEK.

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T HE first riot caused by the Cotton famine broke out at Staleybridge on the 20th inst. The Relief Committee bad, it appears, resolved to diminish the allowance to the...

NOTICE.

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44 Tim Spaerkroa " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

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guished by his arrest. The tendency to personify a cause

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in a man is irresistible, and Poland, which once was Kosciusko, is now, forsooth! Langiewicz. The Central Committee, which for five years has controlled the underground...

type of democracy. organization of England, because it brings, on

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the whole, If Victor Hugo were trying to explain the temper of the breadth of view, culture of imagination, and prudence of meeting on Thursday night, he would say, as he says...

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THE LANCASHIRE RIOTS. T HE fears we expressed last week have

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been realized only too soon. The ink was scarcely dry which predicted the use of soldiers in Lancashire, when intelligence arrived of the riots at Staleybridge, the attack on...

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STATE RIGHTS IN UTAH. T HE chief difficulty which European observers

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find in forming correct judgments of American affairs is a material one. The magnitude of the country is a fact almost impossible of realization by persons whose whole...

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THE PARTNERSHIP LAW AMENDMENT BILL.

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W HEN first the Legislature was induced to relax the severity of the law which makes every one who shares the profits of a business liable for its debts to the extent of his -...

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THE DETROIT PERSECUTION AND ITS MORAL.

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'THE jealous attitude of the popular mind of the North to- wards people of colour is one of the favourii e topics of the political friends of the Confederates. And certainly...

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PENNY NOVELS.

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VOVEL writing has long been a profitable occupation, but it /.1 is only in quite recent times that it has been found to offer a. respectable fortune to persons of very ordinary...

COLONEL YOLLAND ON LONDON RAILWAYS.

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C OLONEL YOLLAND'S Report on the coming railway inva- sion of London has been presented to Parliament, and reveals a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. The principal...

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THE DOGS AT CREMORNE.

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T HE Estates-General of English dogs, which were summoned for a short summer session just before the last dog-days, and met in the unfinished, and then, at least, roofless...

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POLAND IN FRANCE.

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(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) March 261k, 1863. M. BILLAULT, in the Polish question, having made himself more than usually conspicuous, is entitled to claim more than his...

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gke granta.

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THE attempt to force Aurora Floyd into a celebrity on the stage equal to that attained by the novel has not yet been abandoned. The version at the Princess's still attracts...

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BOOKS.

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MAY'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.* MODERN sentiment offers slight encouragement to the production of works of the class to which Mr. May's history belongs. By a curious change in...

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THE RIVAL RACES.*

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READERS who can enjoy penny novels, or wade through the "Mysteries of London," or feel interested in the combination of grotesque horrors with impossible scenery, with which...

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THE POLISH CAP TIVITY.*

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THERE are marks of baste in this book, and the information is upon points disjointed, but it is incomparably the best which has yet appeared upon the present condition of...

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DR. V/HALLEY'S JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE.* THE contents of these two

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portly octavos are somewhat various. Forty-two pages are devoted to a short memoir of Dr. Whalley, the events of whose life were not so marked, by the editor's own confession,...

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THE LAST FEAT OF THE SENSATION SCHOOL OF NOVELISTS.*

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THE sensation novel is becoming a nuisance, and a nuisance which will, doubtless, rectify itself. It may be thrilling for the first time to see the witches' cauldron simmering,...

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Poems. By Thomas Wilson. (Glasgow : Murray.)—Mr. Wilson is a

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gentleman whose poetical gifts appear to be of a somewhat versatile kind. Within the narrow compass of one small volume be gives us a sensation drama called "Sir Ralph Meredith...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Poems, from the Dawn of British Literature to the Year 1669. (Edin- burgh : Maclaron.)--This pretty little volume consists of a collection of short poems, all of which are of a...

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A Short Tractate on the Longevity ascribed to the Patriarchs

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in the Book of Genesis, &c. From the Danish of the late Professor Rask. (Tritliner and Co.)—This is a translation of a small work by a Biblical critic of some celebrity, which...

The Closer Walk. By Henry Darling, D.D.—Christian Faith and Practice.

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By J. W. Alexander, D.D. — Our Companions in Glory. By Rev. J. M. Killen, M.A., author of" Our Friends in Heaven." (Edin- burgh: Elliot.)—Mr. Elliot, of Edinburgh, appears to...

Miscellaneous Essays, Critical and Theological. By Rev. William Kirkus, LLB.

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(Longmans.)—That the Rev. W. Kirkus is a man of some boldness and originality of mind may he inferred from the fact that, though a Dissenting minister, he speaks in the highest...

Dreams and Realities. A Volume of Poems. By Walter Cook

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Spens. (Edmondston and Douglas).—Mr. Spans is evidently a young man who is by no means devoid of poetical feeling, and possesses a -certain command over well-sounding words. At...

The Religion of School Life. By D. Cornish. (Freeman.)—This small

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volume contains a number of addresses to school-boys, which, Mr. Cornish tells us, are not exactly sermons, though they bear a close resemblance to that class of compositions....

BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK.

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Spirit of the Bible, by Edward Higginson (Whitfield).—A Glimpse of the World, by Amy Herbert (Longmans) —Tales from the German (Emily Faithfull).— Utilitarian- ism, by John...