5 JUNE 1869

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Times asserts that the leading Conservative Peers, assembled in conclave on the Queen's birthday, agreed to propose to a larger meeting to be held to-day (Saturday) a...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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■■•1110.....■ THE LORDS AND '11111 BILL. I T this rumour be true,—which we do not believe,—that the Conservative Lords have made up their minds to the exercise of the liberum...

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LORD DERBY ON THE TURF. LORD DERBY ON THE TURF.

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L ORD DERBY'S letter to Sir Joseph Hawley, which was read at the meeting of the Jockey Club last Saturday, and was printed in the Times of Monday, may be looked at in two...

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THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE PATENT LAWS.

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T HOSE who doubt whether there are subjects upon which no conclusion is possible, which baffie the ablest and most judicial minds possessing the best attainable information,...

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THE MIDDLE-CLASS SUPPLY ASSOCIATIONS.

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T HESE Societies constitute a very remarkable phenomenon, one which it is not easy to account for on commonlyreceived principles of Trade. They are, in fact, gigantic shops, so...

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THE INVOCATION OF ANGELS AND SAINTS.

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ATR. ORBY SHIPLEY, who is indefatigable in restoring to in the Church of England that vast apparatus of minute religious procedure and tawdry ornament of which the Reformation...

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PUNDITS IN THE NURSERY.

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gOME months ago, in noticing a child's book, or set of child's 4 ,7 books, we said that, as reviewers, we had sometimes felt as if, in praising or blaming particular volumes, we...

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CIV.—THE WELSH MARCH :—MONMOUTHSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE.—EARLY HISTORY.—(Continued.) A BOUT three

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miles to the east from Ross, in Herefordshire, and A. nearly one mile to the south of the road leading from Gloucester, in the parish of Weston-sub-Penyard, is Rose or Bury Ha...

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THE MEANING OF MR. SUMNER'S SPEECH.

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[Fees OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 21, 1869. PERHAPS the importance of Mr. Sumner's speech on the Alabama question has not been overrated in England, but its...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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OXFORD GREEK AND LATIN VERSE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, —Tbe position of Verse composition in University examinations is at the present moment so jealously...

DR. ROLLESTON AND THE PERMISSIVE BILL.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—It appears to ute that there is a fallacy running through Dr. Rolleston's letter which vitiates all his analogies. lie has treated the...

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MR. LOWE'S BUDGET.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. :] SIR,—I am rather surprised that you take the common, but I think clearly erroneous, view that the proposed change in collecting income-tax...

BOOKS.

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SKETCHES FROM CUMBERLAND.* WE are informed in the preface that this work " rests its claims to favourable consideration entirelyonits value as a faithfully-rendered...

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THE LIFE OF ROSSINI.*

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THOSE who know Mr. Edwards' works will not need to be told that he has written a very agreeable book, but we think that this time something more might have been expected of him....

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MISS KEARY'S OLDBURY.* IT is much too soon for the

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authoress of Janet's Home and Clemency Franklin to be failing ; but it is impossible to regard Oldbury as a success, and this vexes us sincerely, for we think very highly of the...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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" CORNELIUS O ' Down, " to whom we naturally look for entertainment in Blackwood, fails us this month. He writes about Ireland, prophecies confiscation of the land, "a bill that...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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• „• With reference to our review of Waverney Court in the " Current Literature" of our last issue, the present editor of the St. James's Mogazine, the accomplished lady...