30 SEPTEMBER 1854

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Canada is enlivened by a second Ministerial crisis ; which

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Ms thus with its fellow crisis at a rather earlier date, Made a devilled sandwich of the general election. As Prime Minister M‘Nab suc- ceeds Prime Minister Hincks, without...

While Russia is waiting the attack upon her great Southern

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stronghold, the principal interest in the North turns upon the po- sition of the Baltic and German Governments. Something is still going forward, upon the whole probably without...

At home, the national life shows itself in many of

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its accustomed forms ; and upon the whole the display of the week is creditable, notwithstanding a tarnish here and there. Sheffield, for example, shuffles. Its most active men...

England ought to feel highly flattered at the recent attentions

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of France; since that country, which has so long set the fashion for us in many thing?, is now accepting our models. Absolute in dress, supreme in wines, despotic in...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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MORE circumstantial accounts from the Crimea correct the first anticipations of the telegraph, but are far from being less satisfac- tory. The Allied forces did not land at...

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Li IHrU3IUUL

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The cholera continues to abate in the Metropolis; but the ratio of de- crease last week was not so great as had been anticipated. The Registrar- General's return, however, is of...

.(6t rintiutti.

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fise : proceedings of the British Association at Liverpool have not been Littesasxkable far, scientific novelty. There have been soirees in Bt. George's Hall, a dinner in the...

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SCOTLAND.

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The Queen continues in the Highlands, enjoying pleasant exercise out- of-doors, on foot, on horseback, or in carriage. Prince Albert follows the deer ; the Queen sometimes going...

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TUB.KEY.—The intelligence from the Crimea has 'not yet got beyond the form of the telegraphic despatch, of varying authenticity. The week opened, on Monday, with an official...

IRELAND.

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Certain Liberal electors and ratepayers of Dublin held a meeting on Monday, to "concert measures for sustaining the franchises of the Liberal ratepayers at the Parliamentary and...

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nimilautang.

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THE GENERAL THANKSGIVING. A Prayer of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the present abundant Harvest. To be used at Morning and Evening Service, after the General Thanksgiving,...

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E ' ?" Some accounts of the Russian prisoners' in 'France,

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their conversations and amusements, find a place-in the papers. A Paris letter in the Saint Public of Lyons gives a glimpse of General BOdifICO- • " In a trip which I...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. "Paris, Friday, September 29.—A despatch has been received from Mar. shal St. Arnaud, dated Old Fort, Sept. 18. Everything was prepared for a, movement ; but the...

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A telegraphic despatch has been received at the Admiralty, from

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Rear- Admiral Sir William Carrol, at Cork, announcing the arrival of her Ma- jesty's ship Phcenix at that port, with Captain M'Clure of the Investiga- - tor on board. The...

Our attention has been requested to a paper in the

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forthcoming number of the Westminster _Review , which has this extraneous interest, that while the article was passing through the press, the writer died, leaving his work...

Qr Quarto.

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The dramatic chronicle still retains more of the prophetic than the historical form. Mr. Wigan has called his company together at the Olympic; whence we may conjecture that his...

Lieutenant Knight and Lieutenant Seymour, officers of the Royal Marines,

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attacker:I:M*1e Dauntless and the Colossus, were yesterday brought before the Mayor of, Portsatouth, on a charge of having feloniously killed Matilda Jane Lodge. The evidence...

MONEY MARKET,

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STOCK EXCHANOR, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. So much importance is attached to further intelligence from the Crimea respecting the movements of the Allied forces, that its absence has...

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ARE SAVINGS AN ECONOMICAL MISTAKE?

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IT has been remarked that a large proportion of the capital in- vested in railway undertakings consists of borrowed money. The total amount, up to the end of last year, was...

In this view, we are inclined to doubt whether the

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caveat corn- prized in a recent Order in Council is really for the interest of this country as she is to be represented in the Paris Exhibition. The Committee of Council decline...

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BURYING ALIVE IN RAILWAY TUNNELS.

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[COMMUNICATED BY AN ENGLNEKR.] A RAILWAY tunnel on the Leeds Northern Railway has fallen in, im- peding a train and then partially burying it. The consequent injuries were not...

NOTES AND_QITERIES.

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A MASS of evidence offers itself to show the real progress of Ire- land. Under the operation of the Encumbered Estates Court, which has disposed of 3320 petitions, and realized...

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BOOKS.

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JAY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CORRESPONDENCE. * WITJ.Tkir YAY of Math belonged to a race of Dissenting ministers that was perhaps extinguished on his death. They were not of the...

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ALTARS, HEARTHS, AND GRAVES—ALPINE LYRICS. * THE two great characteristics of

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modern poetry are diffusion and smallness. Mr. Moultrie, in his Altars, Hearths, and Graves, fails principally by diffusiveness. The title of his book may not strictly...

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BRUNO BAUER ON 'Russia.'

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NECESSITY, says the old proverb, makes us acquainted with strange—juxtapositions. Strange indeed must have been the necessity which has put the on-Destructive, Bruno Bauer, in...

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Oltratings friun tt 931nt 93unko.

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THE DOUBLE EXODUS. Those who,felt alarmed lest Ireland should be drained of her labour- ing population under the attraction of free passages, a hearty welcome and the promise...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Booxs. Sketches of the Lircs and Judicial Services of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. By George Van t3antford. Ltfe' 8 Lesson ; a Tale. Vie...

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BLETHS.

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On the 10th September, at 3, Camden Terrace West, Mrs. Joseph Tottllurora„ so n . On the 15th, at Wickham Place, Essex, Lady Champion de Crespi g nyJof a drau g ff- ter. On the...

RAILWAY STATISTICS,

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Mr. Cardwell's return comprises details respecting railwaysperations at the close of last year in so far as the construction of lines is soneerned. Little was doing in the way...

ASSAULTS •0/4 WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

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MI% the-Membenfor Rath, maintains that Mr. Fitzroy's . Act of 1853, by which. the Metropolitan' Police Magistrates are- authorized to extend the punishment for assaults upon...

MILITARY GAZETTE. Was-onace, Sept. 26.-47th Foot—Lieut.-Gem 3.8. Kennedy ) , C.B. to

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Col.. vice Lieut.-Gen. T. Delmer, er, C.B. dec. UT Foot--Lieut.-Gen. Sir T. 11. Browne to be Col. vice Lieut.-Gen. L. Ar g uinthan, C.B. dec. 3d Poot—Lient. L. Sidebottom....

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PRICES CITRRENT.

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BULLION. Per oz. METALS. Per ton. Foreign Gold in Bars, Standard ....t3.17 9 Copper, British CakesE126 0 0 .., 0 0 Foreign Gold in Ooin,PortagalPleces 0 0 0 Iron, Welsh Bars 0...

NAVAL GAZETTE.

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Anstrasyrr, Sept. 25.-Corps of Royal Marines-Gent. Cadets to be Second Lieuts. --J. D. Hope, R. B. Gardner, L. G. Rodney,. D. Connor, W. H. Wroot, C. D. H. Robilliard, F. S....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, September 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. -Revell and Son, Wrackington. Durham, quarrymen- Button andlirass, Islington, upholsterers-Hall and Son, North.Shields, grocers-...

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1 , GAME (LIST, LONDON, MIDDLESEX, AND WESTMINSTER. (FIRST PUBLICATION FOR

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1854.) List of Persons ' who hive taken out -GENERAL :GAsiu CERTLFIcATFs at V. Os. 10d. each, including the additional duty of 10/. per cent under the Act of 3 Yid. cap. 17. ,...