15 OCTOBER 1859

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.NEWB - OF THE WEEL

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THE Emperor Napoleon's Bordeaux manifesto stand as one of the mile-stones of history. It had been preceded by an anxious and eager expectation, but it certainly transcends all...

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SOCIAL SCIENCE AT BRADFORD.

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The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science has held its third annual meeting at Bradford this week. The proceedings were opened on Monday by a religions...

The outrage committed by the Count Bernard de Reehberg on

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the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha proves, as the witty statesman said, to be " worse than a crime—it is a blunder." It has drawn forth something far more injurious to the position...

The external relations of our Government have attracted notice in

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various directions, and more or less of explanation has been given. Lord Clarendon is not going out as a Governor-General of India, to replace Lord Canning; the _report having...

We have mentioned the pastoral letter of Archbishop Callen to

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his flock of the Dublin diocese ; it will be found almost to caricature the wildest presumption of old-fashioned Papal edicts. It goes upon the plan of eulogizing the one side...

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ELECTORAL CORRUPTION. GLOUCESTER AND WAKEFIELD.

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The two inquiries now proceeding at Gloucester and Wakefield pro- mise to be of an immense duration ; and the commissioners seem to be probing the case thoroughly. We can only...

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SUGGESTIONS TOUCHING THE FUTURE OF THE INDIAN ARMY.

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Colonel Vincent Eyre, an officer who has seen much service in India, from the Affghan war to the late mutiny, has drawn up some well-con- sidered suggestions for . the future...

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Vtuutuctal.

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The Great Eastern has performed her trial trip with an average amount of success. She started from Portland on Saturday. Small mis- fortunes attended her. At the outset the...

Ilittrupolio.

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The troubles in St. George's-in-the-East are still sub judice. At a meeting of the Vestry, on Thursday, a letter was read from the Bishop of London, stating that the rector, Mr....

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SCOTLAND.

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The Queen has left Balmoral. She arrived at Edinburgh a little after six on Thursday, accompanied by the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary of State, and proceeded to Holyrood...

IRELAND.

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The manoeuvres of the extreme parties in Ireland against National education have been met in the north by the publication of a declaration from Members of the Established...

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forma nut Colnutal.

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iraurt.—After all that has been said an imperial speech has been made at Bordeaux. The Emperor and Empress arrived there on Mon- day. The town was filled with country people who...

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itiortlinutoup.

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The telegram from India comprises a statement that "the corre- spondent of the Madras Athenaeum at Calcutta had telegraphed to Madras that Lord Canning had been relieved, and...

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A NEW JOINT IN JOINERY.

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The following letter, received on Saturday last week, speaks very ably for itself and its writers Scotch Fancy- Wood Works, Mareckline, Ayrshire, 5111 October, 1859. Se—In the...

From Parma we hear that the National Guard and all

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classes of the townspeople are signing an address of thanks and adhesion to the Dictator Farini, for the energetic measures he has recently taken. The conscription has ended...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY MORNING. Our readers are already aware of what has been done in the way of promoting an European Congress. We lind the following conspicuously printed in the Morning...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, Fame: APTEENOOH. The chief feature of the present week in the English Market has been the preparation for and settlement of the Coved Account on Tuesday and...

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AUSTRIA AND GERMANY.

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'Dile conduct of the Austrian Government -seems to exhibit that kind of insanity which is proverbially supposed to precede the downfall of empires. By the treaties of 181-3,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MB EUROPEAN ARMY FOR INDIA. is we interpret aright the rumours that reach us from quarters usually well-informed on military subjects, the question—shall we hare a local...

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THE GUARDS AND THE LINE.

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THE sad lament of Lord Ernest Vane Tempest, and the appear- ance of several Parliamentary Returns relating to the same sub- ject, recall our attention to the question of the...

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CANNING'S ROLL OF HONOUR.

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IN a Minute, "regarding the services of civil officers and others during the Mutiny and Rebellion," the Governor-General of India has recorded "the names of those earnest...

ROUTINE REWARDS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

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On of the worst points in the present organization of the Civil Service is the way in which nearly all the rewards and promotion of the Service are so laid down that the young...

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LABOUR'S GOOD TIME COMING. '

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TILE WAY TO IT. A CORRESPONDENT puts to us some questions which challenge answer ; for no greater service is performed for the working classes than in bringing any doubts which...

STEPHENSON AND BRUNEL.

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Tire coincidenee of their deaths is the trivial circumstance which induces us to consider the lives of Stephenson and Brunel in their relations to each other as well as to the...

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Min ta tbr Ellin.

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THE IiintrEE. 11th Ockher, 1859. Sin—The paper on "The Rationale of the Strike," which appeared in the Spectator of September 10th, and the one of the current week on ""...

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BOOKS.

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TEE SICK NAN OF THE BOSPHOBITS.. WHAT are the present condition and prospects of the Turkish ern- , pire ? May the Sick Man rally yet? or Millis malady beyond cure or palliation...

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TWO EXPOSITORS OF SHAKESPEARE. * EVERYTHING can be made to prove

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anything by one who is bent on going the right way to work. Fanaticism is not to be con- quered by the plainest facts or the clearest inferences ; it stalks impassive over them...

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0237A.RTEB.LFES FOR OCTOBER.

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AZONG ten articles in Bentley's Quarterly .Revieto, all good and some of them very good, two are especially deserving of attention at the present moment. These are the opening...

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LITERARY NEWS.

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Among new works promised by Messrs. Chapman and Hall are a new serial, entitled " One of Them," by Charles Lever, with illustrations hi " Phis," to be completed in twelve...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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We have passed the dead season of the publisher's year, and the first- lings of the new spring are coming forth. This week's produce, with one conspicuous exception, consists...

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t#r t#rairrs.

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Love's Telegraph, one of the many pieces brought out at the Princess's Theatre before the days of Mr. Charles Kean, has been revived at the same house this week. Considered from...

PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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The aggregate receipts of the places of public amusement during the month of September amounted to 945,767f. 95c., being an increase of more than 600,000f. on the receipts of...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER II. Bankruptcies Annulled.- NATELANIEL TAYLOR, Kingston-upon-Hull, linen- draper-OwEw EVANS, Liverpool, inn-keeper. Bankrupts.-CHARLES BoLrow,...

PRICES CURRENT.

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nue,. Friday BRITISH FUNDS- (Closing Prices.) Seined. Monday. Thesday. Wanes. $ per Cent Consols Ditto for Account I per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities...

3Nusir.

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The Drury Lane Italian company breaks up this evening, after a per- formance in which Mademoiselle Piccolomini is to appear for the first time in the Trovatore. On Thursday, and...