30 JUNE 1855

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As the session advances, and the business in Parliament be-

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comes more multifarious, the debates are less conspicuous ; the exceptions being principally where the question relates to the war. Thus, the most important speech made this...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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- WE have no further action to report since we received the im- . portant but imperfect announcement of last week respecting the Attack ppon the Redan battery and Malakoff tower...

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Ert1ntr5 nn i[ Troutilingo in Varlinnunt.

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PRINCIPAL B118/NE88 OF THR WEEK. Hovas OP Lonna. Monday, June 25. Stamp-Duties on Matriculation and De- grees (Oxford) Repeal Bill read a third time and passed—Charitable...

Taken alone, the returns of imports and exports would imply

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a declining state of trade. There is a decrease in the exports for the past month, of 372,9501.; and, curiously enough, some of the chief decline appears to be in hard-ware and...

The Clergy in Conroeafion have again shown their desire to

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do something toward reviving the influence of the Church, and the incapacity to say what that shall be. The head of the Chun* un- der the Crown objects to reviving the active...

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40 tout.

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THE QUEEN held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday : Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, and Lord Palmerston, had audience. On Wednesday her Majesty...

Iltbt 31/Amato.

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At a Common Hall held on Monday in the Guildhall, Alderman Ke- nedy and Alderman Rose were elected to serve as Sheriffs for the ensuing year. It is understood that Alderman Rose...

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Vroniurts.

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Brighton, in the presence of its Members of Parliament, and with VS Mayor presiding, declared for Administrative Reform on Monday. The resolution, expressing substantially the...

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FRANCE. —The Honileur of Sunday contained an elaborate reply to the comments of the Journal de St. Petersbourg on M. Walewski's circular. The reason for writing this paper is to...

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Yesterday morning, the Times startled the town by a statement

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that Lord Raglan's iron constitution had given way ; that he had applied to be relieved of his command, that he might return home ; and that Ge- neral Simpson had been appointed...

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In both Houses of Parliament last night, the report of

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Lord Raglan's resignation drew forth questions and answers from Lord Panmare and Lord Palmerston. In the House of Lords, the Earl of MALMESBURY in- quired as to the authenticity...

The telegraph from Varna viii Vienna reports, that besides Sir

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George Brown, General Codrington and General Pennefather are ill. General Searlett has arrived in the Crimea. It is stated in a telegraphic despatch from Dantzio, that Sweaborg...

SATURDAY AlITRRNOON.

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The hopes expressed in Parliament last night were vain : Go- vernment has received intelligence that Lord Raglan is no more ! DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN. War Department, Tune 30,...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. From the Globe we learn that the revenue returns will show an in- crease: on the quarter it will be 1,000,0001., on the year 7,500,0001. The doubled income-tax is...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOOK EXCHANGE, PHID•1" APT1ERNOON. The lose sustained by the Allied Army in the late attack on the Retlan and Malakoff tower is now known to be considerably less than was at...

This Paper, though unstamped, raid therefore not entitled to the

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privilege of a Stamped Newspaper, may as a printed paper be transmitted through the post any number of times, by affixing a penny postage-stamp on the over, at each separate...

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The School for Scandal, which is by no means such

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a familiar spectacle in the eyes of the London public as it was a few years ago, was revived at the Olympic to such good purpose on the occasion of Mr. Wigan's benefit, that it...

The obsolete custom of taking what is called an "author's

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night,"— that is to say, of taking the receipts of a certain evening in lieu of any other mode of remuneration,—is about to be revived in the case of Mr. John Saunders, the...

CO Quirt&

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The performance of Don Pasquale at Covent Garden on Thursday brought back a pleasant memory of the time, some dozen years back, when this opera was first brought before the...

The latter part of the London season will derive some

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éclat from the arrival of Mademoiselle Rachel, who is to perform a series of characters at the St. James's Theatre, on her way from Folkestone to Liverpool, where she is to...

3,44 uoir.

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The leading concerts of the week have been those of the Philharmonic Society, the Musical Union, and the Harmonic Union—each of them the last of the season. The Philharmonic...

PABISLLN THEANSICALS.

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The English company who commenced performances at the Theatre Italien a short time ago found themselves last week in a most destitute condition through a defalcation in the...

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THE RESCUE OF THE INNOCENTS.

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Is it not possible to discontinue the annual practice called "the massacre of the innocents "P We believe it would be not only possible, but easy ; the sole thing wanted for the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION FOR CENSURE ON LORD ABERDEEN'S CABINET. THE Chairman of the Sebastopol Committee proposes that the House of Commons shall by a formal vote confirm the...

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STRAIIAN, PAUL, BATES, AND OTHERS.

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IT is not the smallness of the sum "in the pound" that Strahan, Paul, and Co. will pay, which constitutes the startling fea- ture in their ease. Their liabilities are estimated...

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HYDE PARK ON THE SABBATH QUESTION.

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CONFUSION of tongues is nothing to the confusion of ideas. Dis- cord never becomes so intractable or so dangerous as when it is the ideas that are confounded in a community. The...

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THE YOUNGER SON.

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COULD the interests of particular classes be represented as different kinds of stock are, by quotations in the market, there is one at least that would be distinguished from all...

A GENTLEMAN'S CADET CORPS.

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NOTHING is more evident than the deterioration of the recruits in the Line as to the matter of height. The new Guards are of a mould quite novel, and men or boys wearing red...

A QUESTION FOR THE RECORD OFFICE.

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THE Sixteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Re- cords, presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty in this present rune and published within...

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THE CRIMEAN EXPEDITION VINDICATED.

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[BY A CORRESPONDENT.] TRP-RE IS a disposition always latent, sometimes active, to call in ques- tion the policy of the expedition to the Crimea. In the paragraph which Mr....

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RISE OF SEBAsTopoj,.—Mr. Oliphant contradicts Lord Lyndhurst's as- sertion that

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the Emperor Nioholas lied for twenty years expended enormous sums on the construction of Sebastopol. " Towards the latter end of October 1852, I entered Sebastopol from...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wan.orncE, June 26.-1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Limit. E. Bradbury to be Capt. without purchase. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Cornet W. C. Wingfield, vice Bradbury;...

THE DOOM OF CROWSTADT.

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[ram A acierrime CORRESPONDENT.] It bap more than once been pointed out in the columns of the Spectator that our present system of artillery is quite Lilliputian compared with...

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NAVAL GAZETTE.

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ADMIRALTY, June 20.-Corps of Royal Marines.-Bunver.-With reference to her Majesty's Order in Council of the 13th September 1854, the following GeneralOfficers who retired upon...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, June 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.-White and O'Mara. Salford, packing-case-makers- Angell and Sinuses, Alton, Hampshire, drapers -Prowse and Burnley, Gwennap, Cornwall,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednea — 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents. Long Annuities Annuities 1885....

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Leaden: Printed by Jossrn Curran, of 320, Strand, In the

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County of Middlesex. Printer, at the office of Jossru Marron, No. 10, Crane Court, In the Parish of St. Dun- stan's in the West, in the City of London; and Published by the...

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BOOKS.

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HOWITT'S TWO YEARS IN VICTORIA.' ALTHOUGH disfigured by blemishes of temper and by errors in Colonial political economy, as well as encumbered by too frequent repetitions of...

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JUNE 30, 1855.

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NEW NOVELS..

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Le Curi Manqué is a curious work, for its pictures of French peasant manners ; its account of village priests ; and its quiet but bitter satire on the selfishness of the...

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BEECHER'S STAR PAPERS. * Mr. BEECHER'S collection of papers descriptive of

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his impressions daring a month's visit to Europe, and of oldfashioned habits and natural features in remoter parts of the New England States, is a pleasanter volume than America...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boom. Locke's Writings and Philosophy Historically Considered, and Vindi- cated from the Charge of contributing to the Scepticism of Hume. By Edward Tagart, F.S.A., F.L.S....

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THE PUBLIC WORKS OF INDIA.

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1st June 1855. Sin—By the perusal of the Journal published by the Society of Arta, my attention has been called to the conditions under which public works are pursued in India;...

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SUNDAY TRADING. a Mark's Parsonage, Whitechapel, 27th June 1855. Sin—The language used in the Times, and by those who echo that jour- nal, with reference to the bill for the...

JOHNSTON AND HIND'S ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY.*

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The literature of astronomy has its attraction even for the unlearned. The truths which to the man of science are stupendous laws—to the learner wonders—are to the most cursory...

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OBJECT OF THE WAR.

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18th June 1855. Sin—In the report of the speech of the Right Honourable Sidney Herbert in the House of Commons in last Tuesday night's debate, I was surprised to see him...

GENERAL GUYON, 26th June 1866.

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Sta—It must be a matter of deep regret to every one interested in the success of the Turkish forces, to learn that the services of the brave General Guyon, through Turkish...

SEYMOUR'S RUSSIA ON THE BLACK SEA.

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23d June I56. Sta—In a quotation from Seymour's "Russia on the Black Sea," tkc., noe ticed in your number of this day, I find an inaccuracy which I should have little expected...

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EASTERN KING.

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London, 25th lune 1866. Son—In your notice of 'the book mentioned above, you state, "How far the 'Private Life of an Eastern King' is altogether authentic, we do not know. It...

BIRTHS.

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On the 19th June, Lady Edward Thynne, of a son, stillborn. On the 21st, in Sussex Square, Hyde Park, the Wife of Archibald Little, Lieu- tenant-Colonel Ninth Lancers, of a...