6 FEBRUARY 1858

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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PARLIAMENT met on Thursday, for the working session, amid great public expectation ; in both Houses it was supposed that Ministers would have Ottomeats to make, acts to...

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Vtkuk nub hntrthings Varlinnunt.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEER. noun OF LORDS. Thursday, Feb. 4. Law of Libel ; Lord Campbell's Bill read a first time—Lord Derby's Demand for Ministerial Explanations....

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Tne drawingroom held by the Queen at St. James's Palace on Satur- day, to receive congratulations on the marriage of the Princess Frederick William, was attended by a very large...

311ttruptiliz.

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The Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia received, on Saturday, deputations from the Corporation and the Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the City of London, from the...

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Vrouinrial.

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The Town-Council of Cambridge has refused to pass an address of con- gratulation to the Emperor of the French. A resolution to that effect, prophsed on Wednesday, was met by...

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IRELAND. At a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of

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Dublin on Thursday, Lord Carlisle made a direct allusion to the rumours in circulation respecting the abolition of the Viceroyalty— "As we have seen it announcedof late in...

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SCOTLAND.

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The graduates of the Scottish Universities hold a meeting in Edin- burgh on Saturday. They are desirous of being represented in Parlia- ment, like the English Universities. Very...

forrigu ant( Collluial.

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c fraarf.—The feverish excitement that followed the attempt at as- sassination has been rather inoreased by the repressive measures of the Government and the minatory addresses...

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31liortIlantuns.

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Two letters from Lord Panmure have appeared in the Dublin Gazette: one to Lord Carlisle, the other to the Duke of Cambridge. They state that the Government have resolved to...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SAT1TRDAY. The sittings of both Houses last night were short, but much was said and some business performed. In the House of Commons, Lord Ps.Lairatsrost moved an address of...

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61p altatrts.

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In the shape of a short "domestic tale," as he calls it, Mr. Westland Marston, the author of The Patrician's Daughter, has produced at the Lyceum a work of higher literary...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCN EECHANGE, FRIDAY Arereceoce. Up to yesterday the principal transactions in the English Market were confined to arrangements connected with the monthly settlement - in...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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" L'EMPIRE C'EBT LA P.AIX." Bur half of public business is done in the face of day, the other half is done in the recesses of bureaux ; and it is impossible to tell how far the...

THE IRISH EXECUTIVE.

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THE Irish papers, or at least the Dublin papers, are making some noise about an address delivered the other day by Mr. Horsman to his constituents at Stroud, in which he...

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MILITARY POLICY.

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MANY things that are passing under our eyes recall attention to the policy that sports with the management of the British Army. There is a great demand for recruits, and a short...

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LIMITED LIABILITY IN BANKING.

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IF the general public is torpid upon the late crisis in its relation to currency and banking, the letters we receive show that not a few individuals are active enough. Some of...

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SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS.

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ANOTHER participator in the correspondence on " frugal mar- riages," who signs herself " M. A. M.," explains one thing which young wives want more than the specified 300/. a...

THE BUNSEN PEERAGE.

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Tire ennobling of Bunsen is in many respects more remarkable than that of Macaulay. Christian Charles Bunsen, born in 1790, is, and has been for the last thirty years, one of...

BAYAB.WS ROYAL FORTUNES.

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[Ora account of the reigning families of Germany - , last week, had a leading object, and the narrative was constructed with a view to that object, necessarily passing by...

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THE EPICURE DT CHINA.

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" DE gnstibus non disputandam est,"—a dictum which means that tastes are not susceptible of the definition requisite for dis- cussion. Yet feasts may be described,—witness Bruce...

Irttrrou tlit attar.

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A PROPOSAL FOR AN ALTERATION OF THE CURRENCY ACT OF 1844. Ningweston, 26th January 1858. Sin—I would like to ask, whether we have not really for the last few years been...

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LIMITED LIABILITY OF BANK SHAREHOLDERS.

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2511s January 1858. SIR — I do not ghite agree with the reviewer of M'Culloch's book in last Spectator about limited liability. No doubt, as regards the same individuals, it is...

DECIMAL COINAGE.

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Sau—Considering the numerous publications which are "flying about" on the subject of decimal coinage, and some by persons of much note, it would be unreasonable to expect that...

DECIMAL MONEYS AND MEASURES,

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London, 26th January 1858. Sin—Notwithstanding all that has been written and said on the intro- duction of Decimal Moneys and Measures, so much misapprehension seems to be...

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DEATHS.

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On the 20th May, drowned, at sea, from on board the Cossepore, on her passage from New Zealand to Manilla, George Augustus, eldest surviving son of the late Captain George...

MARRIAGEs.

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On the 30th November, at Singapore, Charles Bell, Esq., of Bangkok, Siam, to Charlotte Erskine, riecond daughter of Mr. and the late Lady Frances Jemima Goodeve, of Clifton. On...

BIRTHS.

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On the 27th August, in the garrison of Lucknow, the Wife of the late J. Bentley Thornhill, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, prematurely, of a daughter, who died on the 3d September....

ight Jrniq.

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 2. WAIL OFFICE, Feb. 2.-Carolry-Royal Regiment of Horse Guards-Lieut. 8i s B. P. Henniker, Bart. to be Capt. by purchase, vice the Hon. G. W....

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Cala.

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PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEDUARY 2. Partnerships Dissoked.-Holt and Craig, Alston ' Cumberland, proprietors of the Gallygill Syke Lead Mine-Bennett and Hopkins,...

i1t4t 3ffutut.

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FROM THE LONDON GAZza - s.s, FEBRUARY 5. ADMIRALTY, Feb. 1.-Corps of Royal Marines-First Lieut. J. Taylor to be Capt. vice Farmar, to half-pay ; First Lieut. J. B. Butcher to be...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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Thurs. Friday. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Lung Annuities Annuities 1865 Bank Stock, 11 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent...

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London : Printed by JOMPH CLAYTON, of 265, Strand, in

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the County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office ofJOSIWO CLAYTON, 17, Bouverie Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London and Published by the aforesaid Roam...

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*a/btu sitiypitmott,

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FEBRUARY 6, 1858. BOOKS. BANNISTER'S LIFE OF PATERSON. * ALTHOUGH William Paterson was not quite so great a genius or so influential a person as his biographer supposes, still...

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TWO RUSSIAN PRINCESSES' CAPTIVITY IN SHA.MIL'S

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SERAGLIO. * Jr may be recollected that during the Russian war, the Emperor Nicholas was reported to have released a son of Shamil, who had been kept as a sort of prisoner, or...

HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY Pr HISTORY. * AMONG the numerous works ns the

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highest reputation in Ger- many which awaited process of translation to take their chance of popularity here, there are few that ought to be more • Lectures on the Philosophy of...

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NEW NOVELS. * ONE singular feature in The Three Chances is

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the tangible man- ner in which it will bring the exaggeration of novelists before the mind. A common reader may not fully appreciate inconsist- ency of character and motives or...

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THE SCOTCH PROFESSORIAT.

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The College, Glasgow, 26th January 1858. Sin—In the Spectator of date 23d January, page 91, in an article on the "Scotch Professoriat," the following sentence occurs—" What a s...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Emote the beginning of the publishing season in the early winter, the genuine bibliopolic new books have been few and fitful in number. The marriage of the Princess and the...

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THE GRESHA.M CHAIR OF MUSIC.

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Ma. Errwsitn TAYLOR, the Music Professor of Gresham College ' in two of his lectures just delivered, has given a retrospective review of his own labours during the twenty years...