14 OCTOBER 1848

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Wrra two important exceptions, the Revenue-accounts for the year and quarter may be considered stationary. On most of the items, in both tables, there is a slight decrease,...

The provinces of Austria, severally, are too much for the

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em- pire once united under the iron grasp of its absolute rule. A Monarch of imperfect mind, a Camarilla, and a semi-popular Ministry, with diverse interests and conflicting...

The verdict on Smith O'Brien is already known to most

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of our readers—" Guilty," with a strong recommendation to mercy ; the Jury thinking that, for "many reasons," the prisoner's life should be spared. The evidence rendered the...

A paper on the subject of Sicily in "the Leading

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Journal" is a mystification. The whole seems to be but a preface and prepara- tion for the announcement conveyed in the last line. The body of the paper is a criticism on that...

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TILte ltlettopolis.

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A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday. The most interesting business was a report by the Sheriffs on the state of the City prisons; which, considering the time, is very...

bt eLourt.

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Tan Queen and Prince Albert, with their household, left Osborne on Monday, for Windsor. • A painful and fatal accident occurred on the route. The Grampus frigate had just...

Great events have happened in Parisi The National Assembly of

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France has at last resolved, after much contestation, that the election of President shall be made by universal suffrage. No Small fear had been felt at the prospect of...

Ebe Vrobintes.

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At the iron-masters' quarterly meeting, at Birmingham, on Thursday, the price of bar-iron was named about 61. 10s. and of pigs from 31. 5s. to 31. 15s. There is some improvement...

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IRELAND.

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The trial of Mr. Smith O'Brien proceeded on Friday, and was concluded on Saturday. On Friday, Mr. Fitzgerald summed op the evidence for the defence, in a speech which, though...

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gortian anb trolonial.

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AtrannA. AND Hussealer.—The quarrel between Austria and Hungary is further complicated by the revolt in Vienna. However, we give the military news first, as the two armies were...

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liaisttllantotts.

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The Earl of Carlisle, whose illness at Castle Howard we mentioned last week, died at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning; in the presence of the aged Countess and Lord Morpeth....

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An authentic elucidation of the momentous events now passing in

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Hun- gary, will be found in the following letter, written by an English gentleman residing in Transylvania. "20th August 1848. "The present situation of Austria with regard to...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Paris advices of yesterday evening, report the definitive termination of the Ministerial crisis: M. Senard, Minister of the Interior, M. Recut, Public Works, and M....

Vienna was comparatively calm on the 8th instant. The military

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had wholly evacuated the town, and were encamped near the Belvidere, which commands the immense open plain or glacis surrounding the inner city or citadel of Vienna. The number...

Reports were current in Paris, yesterday morning, that Vienna had

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been bombarded by the Imperial troops; but they were wholly devoid of au- thenticity: the Emperor had gone nobody knew whither, with very few troops.

At a Convocation holden at Oxford, on Saturday, the Duke

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of Welling- ton, by letter, nominated the Reverend Frederick Charles Plumptre, D.IY., Master of University, to succeed the Reverend Dr. Symons, Warden of Wadham, in the office...

Letters from Turin, of the 7th instant, announce that the

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Polish General Chrzanowiski had been appointed Chief of the Staff of the Piedmontese army by King Charles Albert. He had proceeded to make a general in- spection of the army.

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The "great sea-serpent "seems to beat last authenticated. This morning's

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papers publish a formal report addressed to the Admiralty by Captain Peter M'Qabie, of the Royal frigate Daedalus, describing a sea-serpent beheld by him and other officers of...

Our attention has been called to statements opposed to views

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set forth in out last paper under the head " Obstruction of the Transit to India." It is represented, that there were not two but four mails in each month, two by way of...

THE THEATRES.

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Covent Garden is now open as an English Operahouse, under the management of Mr. Bunn; whose season terminates, of course, with the reopening of the Royal Italian Opera, in March...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A decline of about 1 per cent has occurred in the prices of the English Funds, without any large sales or business of importance. The downward...

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Of the many theatres that have recently opened, Sadler's Wells

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is the only one at which an attempt at novelty has been made; the term novelty being, of course, extended so as to include revivals with a totally new raise en scene. got-Solar=...

A wretched play founded on the Bride of Lammermuir, and

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performed at the Marylebone Theatre, is well worth seeing, on account of the acting of the American lady Mrs. Mowatt. In her delineation of the tragic posi- tion in which the...

WOODS AND FORESTS COMMITTEE.

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LEITER IV. In my last letter the ancient and modern system of administering the Forest Laws was illustrated, and the powers and duties of the judges and officers of the Forest...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW BOARD OF HEALTH. THE direct intervention of an official department for the conve- nience of the public is an innovation in England, carried to its greatest point of...

EUROPE AGAIN IN DANGER.

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Tait new revolution at Vienna will be felt in every part of Eu- rope. It gravely modifies the whole view of Continental politics; and although we regard it on the whole with...

THE REVENUE.

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Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 10th October 1847 and 1848, showing the Increase or De- crease thereof. YEARS...

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A GO-CART FOR A REPUBLIC.

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WE all bear in mind the condition of the Sovereign in Japan, who is exalted only to be slighted and snubbed ; who is too sa- cred to eat twice off the same plate, and is...

THE VERDICT ON SMITH O'BRIEN.

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THE verdict of the Cloninel Jury is a godsend to the Whigs in office. All merciful acts have a strong chance of being good policy, and the verdict is so ; for while it enables...

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THE TWO WITNESSES.

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IF evidence is wanted in Ireland for any purpose, it can always be procured : there is nothing which counsel think desirable to prove in court but what they can find the needful...

THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

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WE have not yet paid due tribute to that movement in Lanca- shire which is calculated, by the spirit of its conception and the energy of its conduct, to settle the question of...

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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM FRANCE. Paris, October 12th. As you see,

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the nomination of the President by universal suffrage has been carried by an overwhelming majority. It could not be otherwise. Any other determination of the House would have...

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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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THEOLOGY, The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Theodore Parker, Minister of the Second Church in Roxbury, Mass Chapman • POLITICS, Letter to the Marquess of Lansdowne,...

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BROUGHAM ON THE LATE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

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Tnis " Letter to the Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G., Lord President of the Council, by Lord Brougham, F.R.S., Member of the National Institute," originates in the fact that the two...

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LADY GRANARD'S PIECES.

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THERE are elements in the story of lady Granard's Nieces which in more skilful literary hands might have been wrought into an effective tale, or with a mind of greater power and...

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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P WAlt-ovneg, Oct. 13.-lot Drags.-Lieut. H. Gough to be Capt. by purchase, vice 3forffs, who retires ; Cornet G. H. Littledale to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Gough; J. Ainslie....

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, October 10. }ASTMS:AMEN DISSOLVED. Wadbrook and Tearle, Kingston-upon-Thames, brewers-F. Coleman, High Street, Borough, and W. Coleman, Chiswell Street,...

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.

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Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last- e 14 • • 2 4 3 16 23 20 19 42 64 8 12 16 32 Total (including...

BIRTHS.

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On the 5th October. in Royal Crescent Terrace, Cheltenham, the Lady of Lieutenant- Colonel William Wyllie, CB., of a son. On the 5th, at Straloch, Aberdeenshire, the Lady of...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) &Mad. Monday. Tuesday. Trainee Mae. 861 Sal 85* 861 85 set asf 85f of UI shut — 533 Cad. Si shut — — Bl5ead as shut — Send. el shut...