29 JANUARY 1853

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The Ministerial reelections having surceased their mild excite- ment, political

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movement has subsided to the hum of the ordinary machinery ; and public action at home, this week, has fallen to the perennial agitators, whose proceedings, under the given...

The chief interest of the journals for the week lies

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in the Conti- nental news ; and, yet that is not different in its substantial cha- racter from the news for the current month. The chief vicissitude seems to be developed in the...

With far less political importance, the turn of affairs on

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the Rangoon, as communicated by the last mail from India, is likely to affect us more sensibly at the moment. It is disastrous and disgraceful. We remember how General Godwin...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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IMMENSE exertions have been made in Paris, not without success, to strengthen the position of the Emperor matrimonially and finan- cially. Events confirm an impression suggested...

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.3ttru3filis.

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There was an enormous meeting at Exeter Hall on Tuesday, called by the Protestant Alliance, to rouse the British public against the doings of the Grand Duke of Tuscany....

Or Curt.

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TEE QuEEN remains at Windsor, and continues that quiet home-keeping life which has been remarked of late.; and again the Court Circular re- cords neither walk nor drive. Prince...

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tt Idruniurro.

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Conference of the Peace Society commenced its session at Manchester on Thursday, in the Corn F.iseleinge. Mr. George Wilson was in the chair ; supported by Mr. Cobden, Mr....

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IRELAND.

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In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. Attorney-General Brewster applied to have the depositions against the traversers in the case of " the Queen versus Delmege...

fortign nub Caudal.

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FRawcii.—Louis Napoleon has officially authenticated what was only a public rumour respecting his marriage. On Saturday last, in the palace of the Tuileries, he met the...

SCOTLAND.

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Colonel Lauderdale Mauls, the newly-appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, has issued an address to his constituents of the county of Forfar, announcing his appointment,...

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311irt tiounto.

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The following correspondence between Major Beresford 1k”) and Lord Dramlannig was published by the Morning Herald on y- " Jan. 15, 1S53. My Lord—I have this morning read your...

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POSTSCRIPT,

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funraita. The Peace Conference at Manchester renewed its sittings on Thursday evening. Letters were read from Athanase Coquerel, the celebrated Pane testant -preacher at Paris,...

Major Thomas A. Larcom, of the Royal Engineers, and Depatj-

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Chairman of the Board of Works, has accepted the post of Under- Secretary for Ireland. Viscount Melbourne, long -known as Sir Frederick Lamb, died this morning, at Broekett...

MONEY MARKET. -era. -Exar....m. FILIVAN ndnm mw.

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The Muglitila 'Stock ?dulcet has exhibited increased 'firmness this evecilt; which has been attributed chiefly to the favourable reaction-on the Paris Bourse. A. demand for...

'Magazines are ordered to be constructed on the Gosport lines,

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as also on the Mises lines, and .a strong gateway forming on the latter, on one of .the old sites. Some earth-works will be speedily thrown up at Gomer Pond, Browndown,...

The Meniteur of yesterday announced, that on the 15th the

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MareLt/40 de Castelbajac, the French _Minister at St. Petersburg, presented Wit letters to the Emperor of Russia ; who expressed in warm terms his satis- faction at the...

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ttrtirto.

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An early portion of Mr. Douglas Jerrold's dramatic career was cast in a very dark age,of theatricals—darker in some senses even than the pre- sent, and that is saying a great...

FRENCH THEATRICALS.

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The promise that a second dramatic version of Uncle Tom's Cabin should be produced at the Gate on Saturday last was duly kept. The authors, MM. Wailly and Texier, so far differ...

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FINANCIAL FERMENT IN ABSOLUTIST EUROPE. Mosr of the Absolutist Governments

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in Europe, just at present, are illustrating the truth that national tyranny does not " pay "; but it can borrow, and when it does, lenders may find as well as national...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LOUIS NAPOLEON'S DECLARATION. TfiE manifesto of Louis Napoleon on announcing his marriage, is not only important as a political fact, but also as an elucidation of cha- racter;...

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THE GREAT UN-ENGLISHMAN.

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Mu. COBDEN' has been a manufacturer who knows how to send his wares to the right market at the right time;. and if he has made mistakes in speculations of the kind, he has also...

SLOW AND SURE.

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Pr would be great presumption to restrict the freeborn. English- man from his privilege of being-smashed by railway if he pleases. After the example of the wife in the Malade...

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Trttrro to tjr ettitur.

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POLITICS. Dublin, 25th January 1853: rwas very. glad to see that you inculcate caution as to Irish matters in your last-Spectator, and I assure you it is very necessary. I...

OXFORD AND ITS- REPRESENTATIVES.

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24th January 1863. Sra — I trust that in the exercise of that liberty of speech which you have so often allowed me in your columns on other occasions, you will not refuse me an...

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[After the preceding letter and explanatory note were prepared for

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press, we received other two: communications on the same subject and the same side. They follow, in the order of their arrival.] Sm—As a member of the majority at the last three...

26th January 1853. Snt—I have read, only this morning, an

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article in the Spectator on what is very justly termed the " Oxford nuisance." Nothing could be more gra- tifying to the constituency as a body, we may be sure, than the...

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BOOKS.

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LIMARTINE'S RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FRANCE—VOLUME FOURTH. * THIS volume commences with the Ministry of Villdle, and closes with the close of its subject—the forcible end of...

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STANBOVL AND THE SEA.. OF GEMS...

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Tim writer's previous book, "The Bridal and the Bridle," carried the newly-married pair from Fiume to Constantinople by the land Stamboul and the Sea °Memo. By the Author of"...

AUTOBIOGRAPHT OF A N ENGLISH SOLDIER IN- THE UNITED STATES. MIXT. *

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THE author of these reminiscences.of American military service is a Sent& weavers who went to New York in search of employment. He did not expect to " pick up money in the...

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A.GNES SO EL..

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Lc any pursuit of an artistical kind, nature of course has mu& to.. do with the remits, but the best guard against self-repetition is variety of subject, and the best mode of...

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SCHLESINGER'S RAMBLES THROUGH LONDON.. THEM volumes bespeak an author accomplished

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and experienced in the art of literary composition. The style is light and playful, 1B5a • Wanderangen durch London. Von Max Schlesinger. Berlin: Franz Dunker. without the...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Treatises and Essays on subjects connected with Economical Policy; with Biographical Sketches of Quesnay, Adam Smith, and Ricardo. . By S. R. M'Culloch, Esq., Member of...

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FINE ARTS.

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E. V. B.'S CHILDREN'S SUMMER.* THE chief characteristic of E. V. B.'s genius is an enjoying fancy. She enters into the beauties of nature with the heart more than the eyo ;...

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MIIITARY GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, Jan. 28.-46th Foot—Major-Gen. B. Egerton, 'C.B.tobetoL vice

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Gen. John, Earl of Stair, K.T. dec. 5th Begt. of Drag. -Guards—Lieut. -G. X. &deb - atom to-be Capt.-by purchase, vine Hamilton, who retires ; -Cornet G. X. Bur- nand -to be...

BIRTHS.

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On the 19th January,.at St. Leonard's-ma-Sea,-the Lady.a Colonel the Ifon.E. B. Wilbraham, of a son. 'On the .20th, at Nice, the lady a:Sir - William Mfrs, Bart., of Glenlee,...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, January 25. IB6RTXHB51111115 DissoLvEn.—Colyer and Co. Isle of Thanet, farmers—F. and J. Cooper, , Castle Eiromwich, Warwickshire,.builders—Myerseough and Co. Manches-...

mire Niog..LIJMOOT 011 Yuwazier...

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Asmall picture of 'the -ceremony in 'St. Paul's, at 'the -moment-when the lowering of the caffintsommenced, -has been painted in water-colours by Mr. Parris, and is now at Mr....

X.A,FF.S. Fa:LB' -cualisr.'s

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In this print the divine infant reclines, beariag the symbolic cross, at the edge of a lonely-looking tract-of ground, beyond whichare indications 'of background-country, dim...

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