3 JULY 1858

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NEWS OF THE WEEL

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THE House of Commons has just been engaged at its night and morning sittings in tinkering the India Bill in Committee. Members have bent the whole force of their great...

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Boris OF MBAs. Monday, June 28. The State Services of the Church ; Lord Stanhope's Motion—Royal Assent to the Property Qualification, Chancery...

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"The Thames" has been as prominent a subject of discussion in all quarters as ever. On Tuesday the Metropolitan Board of Works took it uR in the way of business. They began by...

PE Court.

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THE records of the Court newsman include a varied list of royal move- ments. The Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, King Leopold, and his children, have inspected the...

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roututial.

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The seat for East Norfolk, vacant by the death of Sir Edward Buxton, is now filled by Major Coke. There were two candidates, Sir Henry Stracey, put forward by the Derbyites, and...

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SCOTLAND.

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The election of a Representative Peer for Scotland in the room of Lord Morton took place, with all due form and ceremony, on Tuesday, in the Picture Gallery of Holyrood Palace....

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,Name.—Me Emperor set out on Tuesday from St. Cloud on his annual migration to Plombieres. Thence, it is supposed, he will pro- ceed on his tour to Brest and Cherbourg. There is...

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Biontluntato.

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The House of Commons Committee on the state of the Thames has been busy receiving the evidence of scientific gentlemen as to the cause of the present dangerous exhalations from...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. The chief proceeding in Parliament last night was the discussion and rejection of Sir John Trelawny's Church-rate Abolition Bill in the House of Peers. The Duke of...

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The tragedy, Ottavia, as yet the only novelty with which Madame Ristori has favoured the London public during her present engagement, most palpably shows the impossibility of...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK Excesses, FRIDAY APTF-ENOON. The market for English Securities has shown increased heaviness this week, and a decline of per cent has been established upon last week's...

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Muir.

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Flotow's Martha, performed at Covent Garden on Thursday, is a light pleasant piece, very French in the style both of the drama and the music. The subject (as we mentioned last...

THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL.

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The arrangements for the approaching Birmingham Festival, the greatest of all our provincial music-meetings, are now in so forward a state that a brief notice of them may...

THE REVENUE.

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I. The following is an Abstract of the gross Produce of the Revenue of the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods, ended June 30, 1858, compared with the corresponding...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MORE WORDS ON INDIAN LEGISLATION. ARE we or are we not mistaken in believing that the first thing for the welfare of dependencies, and the cohesion of great em- pires, is the...

CARTING AWAY THE RUBBISH.

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Du Lords have signalized the week by two important steps. On Monday evening they agreed, without a division, to an address to the Crown, which will be the death-blow to the...

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IMPALPABLE CORRUPTION.

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IF a man must be his own physician at forty, under pain of being thought a fool, the liability is still more incumbent upon nations, for the soundest of all reasons. Although...

THE CAGLIARI. Ix can scarcely be that the last word

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in this business of the Cag- liari has been spoken. The two Englishmen, Park and Watt, have received their indemnity of 30001.: the vessel is once again in the hands of its...

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THE REORGANIZATION OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF INDIA.

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PHILANTHROPY in the abstract is much to be admired ; and sen- timent is natural in affairs of the heart. But to admit sentiment into matters of business were imprudent ; while...

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THE ORANGE QUESTION.

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IT is a singular fact that while the principles of those who supported William of Orange have, in England, nourished what in our day has become the Liberal party, the...

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LYNCH-LAW AT NEW ORLEANS.

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Die sudden rise and subsidence of what is called the Revolu- tionary movement in New Orleans may well cause surprise in Europe. By one mail we hear of a state of affairs in one...

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COMMERCIAL DEPRESSION.

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Afaceles.field, 29th June 1858. Sue—Subscribing to all that you say on the degradation of the mercan- tile and commercial character by the proceedings of the large joint-stock...

THE MUNICIPALITY OF LONDON.

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Belfast = 28th June 1868. Sin—It is not to be denied that the Thames needs purifying, and that the Metropolitan Board of Works wants efficiency ; and it appears equally evident...

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COUNCIL FOR THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. 25th June 1858. Sin—All parties in Parliament appear to be undecided as to the best course to pursue in regard to the government of India by...

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POPULAR EDUCATION.

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[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Considerable progress has been quietly made of late years in the education of the working classes by the plans of the Committee of Privy Council on...

DEATHS.

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On the 10th June, at North Cove Hall, Suffolk, the residence of her father, William Everitt, Esq., Georgiana Mary, widow of the late Alfred Impey, Esq., M.D., of Great Yarmouth...

BIRTHS.

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On the 25th June, at Wensley Rectory, the Hon. Mrs. T. Orde Powlett, of a daughter. On the 25th, in Stanhope Street, Hyde Park Gardens, the Wife of Colonel Ed- ward Warde, Royal...

MARRIAGES.

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On the 19th June, at St. George's, Hanover Square, the Lord Nigel Kennedy, brother of the Marquis of Ailsa, to Catherine Anne, daughter of the late Major James Frere May. On...

tht ,ring.

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 29. WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, June 29.—Cavalry-6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards- Major-Gen. A. K. C. Kennedy, C.B. to be Col. vice Gen. Sir T. Hawker,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) 3 per Cent console Ditto for Account 3 . per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1883 Bank Stock, II per Cent India...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 29. Bankrupts.-CHARLES CHURCHMAN, Hertford, agricultural-implement-factor- Wn.t.tAm TsoaNE, Cripplegate Buildings, artificial-flower-maker-GEoRoE...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, JUNE 25.

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Annratury, June 23.-In consideration of the services performed by the Officers of the Naval Brigade in India, under the command of the late Capt. Sir W. Peel, K.C.B., the...

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London: Printed by Tome CLAYTON, of 265, Strand, is the

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County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of Josern von, 17, Bouverie Street, in the Precinct of Whittfrars , in the City of London ; and Published by the sforema Jones CLA...

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pedator

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JULY 3, 1858. BOOKS. BBIALMONT AND GLEIG'S LIFE OF WELLINGTON. * GOOD deal of attention has been drawn to Captain Brialmont's life of the Duke of Wellington in its original...

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DE QUINCEY'S STUDIES AND ESSAYS. * WE are glad to see

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the republication of Mr. De Quincey's works roceeding with tolerable regularity, though the collection has hardl y reached that point which would justify us in attempting a...

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CLARE'S PELOPONNESES. * ESSENTIALLY Mr. Clark's "Notes of Study and Travel"

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in Polo- ponnesus is a topographical tour. With - Pausanias and Leake in hand, and other classics or classical illustrations, as an Irishman would say " convenient," he wanders...

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MEMOIRS OF RACHEL. * A MYSTERY hangs over the authoress of

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this work, thotatthecet allegations she makes, respecting the conduct of the cele actress, are precisely of the kind that require something. like a personal guarantee for their...

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NEW POETRY..

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WE have frequently expressed an opinion as to the unfitness of the sonnet for the Enghsh language. Er Oriente, or " Sonnets on the Indian Rebellion," is one of the most...

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THE CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST. * THESE Confessions profess to

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be the autobiography of a Hun- garian Romanist priest, and to narrate a series of actual adven- tures, and real sufferings, the latter being caused, as he says, by his priestly...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boors. History of Wesleyan Methodism. Volume II. The Middle Age. By George Smith, LL.D., F.A.S., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. The British Army in India ; its...

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ART SCHEFFER.

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The death of such an artist as Ary Scheffer claims a few words of comment beyond the mere obituary memorandum. Scheffer holds a kind of mid position between the sacred art of...

THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT.

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The announcement made recently by Lord John Manners as to the intentions of Government regarding the national Wellington Monument in St. Paul's puts a period to long and anxious...

lint arts.

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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The fifth annual exhibition of the Photographic Society has been open fur some few weeks at their new and advantageous premises, No. 1, New Coventry...