16 APRIL 1853

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A. FEW supplemental discussions on finance in the House of Commons, this week, orameeted the great subject of last week, the conversion of the Publics Debt, with the great...

The foreign intelligence continues to present no salient points of

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change. Even in Constantinople, the Russian Ambassador is still holding back his "ultimatum"; and the only new point is his stipulation that the representatives of France and...

The Queen's cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, has presided at

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a meeting to celebrate the foundation of a model lodging-house near Golden Square for the working class ; and a dinner, much adorned by noble patrons, has raised a handsome...

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Valuta aut rnrrrbiug inVartumtut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. Hones OF LORDS. Monday, April 11. Canterbury Election; Address for Com- mission of Inquiry. Tuesday, April 12. Compulsory Vaccination BiU, in...

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aittrnialts.

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At a Court of Aldermen, on Saturday, Mr. Alderman Wilson moved the following resolution- " That it be referred to a special committee of the whole Court to consider the question...

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Orm Queen has been attended by her usual happy fortune : her health has been so good, that only two bulletins have been issued. On Monday, the very numerous series of ladies and...

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Vrintints.

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Lancaster has returned Mr. Thomas Greene, by 686 votes against 554 given to Mr. Armstrong. It is stated that bribery and treating have extensively prevailed. The carpenters of...

IRELAND.

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Four candidates for Carlow are mentioned : Mr. John Sadloir, Mr. Henry Bruen, son of Colonel Bruce, sharing his late father's politics ; and two Roman Catholic Liberals, Captain...

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Inttign Ruh Culatigl.

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FEANCE.—Political news of import now comes at rare intervals from France. More attention has been been paid lately to the dispute on ec- clesiastical matters than to anything...

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Lord John Russell has addressed a spirited letter to the Mayor of New- castle in reply to a memorial on the Turkish question adopted at the meeting held in Newcastle on 29th of...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Notwithstanding the importance of the principal subject which stood for debate in the House of Commons last night—the Jewish Disabilities Bill —a discussion of more...

BIRTHS.

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On the 30th March, at Corfu, the Wife of Deputy Commissary - General Weir, of a eon. . On the 5th April, at 'Toby Rectory, Leicestershire, the Wife of the Rev. Gilbert...

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All question as to the reopening of Her Majesty's Theatre

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is now under- stood to be at an end, and this splendid establishment will commence its sea- son early next month. It has been known for some time that a powerful company has...

Lord Palmerston gave notice, on Thursday, under the provisions of

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the 14th and 16th Victoria, entitled an act "for the Removal of Nuisances and Prevention of Epidemics," to the parochial authorities of St. Edmund the King, St. Nicholas Aeons,...

The deputation appointed at the Manchester meeting on Indian affairs,

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some weeks back, waited on Sir Charles Wood, at the Board of Control, yesterday, and laid before him accompanied by long statements, the peti- tion on the development of Indian...

MONEY MARKET. STOCK Excassos, FRIDAY AF11101210011.

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The transactions in Government Securities during the early part of the week were rather limited : the principal operations were in connexion with the settlement of the Account,...

Mr. Wurrstrunz revived an old line of argument, by suggesting

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that the Member they were seeking to admit might tomorrow be prosecuted for calling Christ an impostor. This strain was afterwards followed up, with a wild And broken eloquence,...

Whatever it may portend, letters from Jassy dated the 4th

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April state that the Hospodar of Moldavia, who resigned just before the arrival of Prince Menschikoff at Constantinople, entered Jassy on the 2d instant, saluted by the cheers...

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PARISIAN THEATRICALS.

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' At the melodramatic theatres of the French captital lunacy is now all the rage. The English have from time immemorial been regarded as the great patrons of insanity, but when...

Tamberlik has gathered fresh laurels by his performance of Arnold

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in Guillaume Tell. He appeared in this part, for the first time at Covent Garden, on Thursday, and made an impression never exceeded by either of the two great Arnolds of the...

Ctrtfrts unit 31ingir.

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At a period when every new piece seems like some old piece turned in- side out, the sparkling forth of an original idea may be hailed with a feel- ing of satisfaction. Hence '...

THE TWO LANDS OF GOLD.

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An entertainment belonging to the same class as Mr. Albert Smith's Mont Blanc has been commenced, under this title, at the Marionette Theatre. The subject, as the name implies,...

The second concert of the New Philharmonic Society, at Exeter

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Hall en Wednesday, was a considerable improvement on the first, and a great improvement on all the concerts of last year. Herr Lindpaintner, whose capacity as a disciplinarian...

SONNET

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TO THE LADY - ArTHOR OF "THE CHILDREN'S SUMMER." Because thou haat the gifts that bless the child,— The keen observance of revering love ; The microscopic glance of eyes that...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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ADVANCEMENT OF THE INCOME-TAX QUESTION. THE failure of Disraeli's Budget, and the accession of a new Go- vernment immediately before the commencement of the ordinary...

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INDEPENDENCE OF INDIAN JUDGES.

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As Governor of Bombay, Lord Falkland has suspended two Judges of the Sudder Adawlut, or chief court for the administration of native law ; and the ease has excited a very...

THREATENED INTERRUPTION OF THE IRISH NATIONAL SCHOOL SYSTEM.

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A_ milieus danger hangs over the National system of Education in Ireland. In spite of long-continued and vehement opposition, it had been bravely maintained, and there is little...

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ELEVEN O'CLOCK BY BOW BELL.

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THE London Corporation is in the attitude of a hopeful youth about to take a dose of physic, who excessively , desires to be in a safe state of health, and thoroughly perceives...

RELATION OF POLITICAL CHIEFS TO 0.B.h.LCIAL DP...PARTIN - TINTS.

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WIEEN a Governor arrives in a colony and takes the command, as he often does, of the military service, he goes prepared to carry out a particular policy according to his...

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POSTII1JMOUS SUPREMACY OF ROME.

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RoxE at present enjoys the most of such living existence as re- mains to her, not on the Seven Hills, but under the immediate shade of the French and Austrian Emperors ; and...

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BOOKS.

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%AY SHUTTLEWORTI1 ON PUBLIC EDUCATION. * No one had a better right than Sir James Kay Shuttleworth to constitute himself the historian of recent public education in Eng- land;...

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YON ROCHAU 9 S WANDERINGS THROUGH THE CITIES OF ITALY.* LIVELINESS and

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pleasantry, with independent common sense, are the characteristics of this tour in Italy. Von Rochau is more French or English than German. He has the vivacity and felici- tous...

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AINSLIE YOUNG'S FRANK X]IRRYWEATHER. * THERE is extensive observation of society,

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with apparently some experience of foreign countries, in Frank Merryweather. Nor is the writer devoid of a social if not a moral purpose. The novel fails from want of literary...

MARTHA BETH17NE BAL/OL'S DIARY. *

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Tun world of fiction is getting overrun with diaries imitative of the style of other times, as much as of their manners ; for the spirit, feeling, and knowledge of all this...

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LEBAHN'S "FAUST."

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THIS is a useful book, and a great deal of pains must have been expended on its compilation. Goethe's Faust, which is selected by Dr. Lebahn as a vehicle for conveying...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Books. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by the Bight Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P. 'Volume III. and IV. Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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Friday, 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 81 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cent Exchequer Bills, 11.1. per diem...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, April 12. PARTNERSHIPS DissoLvin.—Bonny and Elliston, Sudbury, plasterers — Herridg,e and Smith, Birmingham, publicans—Gould and Thurston, Kingsland Crescent, Hackney,...