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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator.Alzgo . upit . settled last week as to its fate, the Income-tax was npt. abandoned...as a matter of talk; for it has had another week's discussion in the Commons , and will yet...
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abates anti iproaebings in IarIiament.
The SpectatorINCOME-TAX. In the House of Commons, on Monday, on the motion that the amend- ments to the Income-tax Bill be read a second time, Mr. CRAW Es Buttra made the following motion...
The French Conservatives and Liberals are playing the stran- gest
The Spectatorantics. The Secret-service-money Bill came before the Peers, and the new Conservative Opposition could not let it pass without, some sparring. Accordingly, Count Mole delivered...
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The SpectatorThe Queen and Prince Albert visited Christ's Hospital on Sunday evening, to see the scholars' eat' their supper. They were , received by Alderman Thompson, the President, and...
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The SpectatorTHE Queen held a levee, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday. Her Majesty and Prihce Albert arrived in state from Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cam- bridge was present. In the...
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gbt 1Probintes.
The SpectatorA meeting of the workpeople employed by Mr. Robert Gardner, an extensive cotton-manufacturer, was held at Preston, on Friday week, to ascertain the results of the regulation,...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorA special meeting of the Belfast Protestant Operative Association was held on Wednesday week, to petition againat the increased grant to Maynooth College. The meeting was only...
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,dtstellanfous.
The SpectatorA report prevails that an attempt was made to shoot at Prince Albert, while riding up Constitution Hill, on Tuesday last. Two gentlemen, Colonel Knight and Mr. Arnold, saw a...
,ffortign anb Grolonial.
The SpectatorFitexce..—The debate on the Secret-service-money Bill, in the Chamber of Reers, lasted for three days, closing on Friday. Count Mold opened it, with a lecture to M. Guizot for...
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POSTSCRIPT. tf
The SpectatorIn the course of the discussion in Committee, Mr. Hope let a cat out of the bag. Lord JOIE.: RUSSELL called for information respecting loans in aid of immigration, passed by the...
EAST INDIA SHIPPING: Aaatvst--At Gravesend, 14th inst: Eleanor, Haalip, from
The SpectatorMauritius. ON Portland, 7th, Minstrel, Burton, from Calcutta, At Dartmouth, 10th, Token, Cheyne,-from Cal- cutta. At Liverpool, 7th, Heroine, Dodd, from Singapore....
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CHARACTER OF THE REVEREND SYDNEY SMITH.
The SpectatorBY A PERSONAL FRIEND. TILE comment on the Reverend Sydney Smith's character and writings which appeared in the Spectator of 1st March struck me as being at once accurate and...
Letters from Zurich, of , the 9th instant, express a confident
The Spectatorhope that the din pates will now be amicably settled, thanks to diplomatic advice. This is confirmed by letters from Rome; stating that the Pope has recalled his Nuncio from...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCH EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. As regards the English Fluids, the p ri ncipal feature in the week's business has been aconsidem i ble improvement in Bank Stock, which rose...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorOUR COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, PAINTED BY ITSELF AND ITS FRIENDS. THE debate on New Zealand makes a valuable display of official and Parliamentary notions about governing...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 3d March, at Gormaustown Castle, the Lady of the lion. Edward Preston, of a son. On the 5th, In Lowndea Street, the Countess of Rective, of a son. On the 6th, at...
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THE QUEEN AMONG THE BLUE-COAT BOYS. ROYAL visits have of
The Spectatorlate made many persons proud and happy. The Duke of Buckingham stalks with more complacency through the stately apartments of Stowe, which a Queen hath graced with her presence....
PUNISHMENT AND CORRECTIVE DISCIPLINE.
The SpectatorTHE necessity of dealing with convicts en masse is a great obstacle to their reformation. Man is a social animal—if company is within his reach he will keep it : man is a...
THE JEWS.
The SpectatorTHE decrepitude of persecution is pitiful. There is something inconsequent in an expiring intolerance, that deprives it of all claim to that equivocal respect inspired by a...
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OPENING OF THE ITALIAN OPERA.
The SpectatorELTELERT0 it has seldom been the policy in the management of this house to open it with any great attraction either of singers or compositions, but to take some well-worn opera,...
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorAUTOBIOGRAPHY, The Dispatches and Letters or Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. With Notes, by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G. The Second Volume-1795 to 1797. FICTION,...
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ANDERSEN ' S IMPROVISATORE.
The SpectatorHANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN is a Danish celebrity, who seems to us to be rather characterized by poetical temperament than by poetical power, and to possess the superficial...
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A HOT-WATER CIIBE.
The SpectatorTHE.author of this lively book appears to be a middle-aged naval or irallitary man, who for want of a change had got out of sorts. He tried .)several medical advisers : they all...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Froni March 7th to March 113th.
The Spectator'BOOKS. Revelations of Spain in 1845. By an English Resident. 'In two volumes. Impressions of Australia Fella, during four years' residence in that Colony; Notes of a Voyage...
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MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-OFFICE, March 14.-5th Dragoon Guards-Brevet-Lient.-Col. H. D. Campbell, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice F. Westenra, who exchanges ; Capt. J. W. King to be...
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, March 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Hutchinson and Binney, Bradford, Yorkshire, sharebrokers-Woollright and Co. Liverpool, silk-mercers-Hilless and Co. Bourn,...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account ........ ..... 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 Exchequer Bills,...