1 DECEMBER 1860

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• The intelligence from Italy requires little notice. Although .he

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diplomatic body and the Qneen have quitted Gaeta, Francis II. 'still holds his Court there, and prodigally dispenses the order zilf St. Januarius. The Italian army is busy in...

Constitutional and Ministerial changes have taken place in France. Like

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all the other acts of the Imperial Government, they come upon us by surprise. Long meditated, no doubt, they have not been preceded by any discussion, report, or ru- mour. '...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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ACCORDING to the latest adviees, the Allied expedition in China appears to have been getting into deep water. The outposts of the army on the 23d of September were within a few...

Cries of " secession " came across the Atlantic. The

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Senators of South Carolina have resigned, the Senators of Georgia promise to resign. The Federal officers in the " Palmetto State" have given up their offices. There is a talk...

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Tun QtrEmi has walked, ridden, and driven out this week, calling thrice upon the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore. The Duchess called on her Majesty on Thursday. The Prince Consort...

Home politics are at a standstill. It is the dead

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season for demonstrations. Lord Derby, we are happy to say, has again recovered, and it is solemnly announced he will be in his place to lead his party when Parliament meets ;...

311ttropulio.

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The Bishop of London, when attending a meeting at the Amwell Street Parochial School, Clerkenwell, on the occasion of granting a site for a new church by the Charterhouse,...

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Mr. Frederick Peel addressed his constituents at Bury on Thursday.

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His speech mainly related to the past. It was an "account of my stewardship" speech ; but some passages are worth extracting— Speaking of the financial measures of the past...

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IRELAND.

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The rumour of a vacancy for Tralee is revived. It is said that Cap- tain O'Connell is to be provided for, and Mr. O'Ilagan, tho Solicitor- General, is mentioned as a candidate....

furrigu aut trolnuial.

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f r alit!. —The Noniteur on Sunday published the following important decree, modifying the Constitution of 1852— " Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national will Emperor...

SCOTLAND.

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The friends of the "Original Ragged School" held a meeting on Mon- day, at Edinburgh, to obtain the recall of the Treasury minute, reducing the grants to Ragged Schools. Mr....

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311tortlinntoug.

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The Empress of the French has returned from Scotland. She arrived in Manchester on Thursday, cheered, as the reporters state ' by exactly "1500 people." At Bolton, the Volunteer...

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Cabinet Councils have been unusually numerous ; there have been

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three within the week—the first on Saturday, the second on Tuesday, and the last yesterday. They were all fully attended.

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The Atlantic arrived at Southampton yesterday. Her advices state that the crisis in the Southern States continues. At Charleston prepa- rations were...

A telegram from Naples, November 27, states that "a state

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of siege has been proclaimed in the Abruzzi. A proclamation of General Pinelli orders that all persons found bearing arms without permission, or ex- citing the peasantry, or...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOON. The market for English Stocks has been rather sensitive all the week, although the fluctuations have never exceeded per cent. On Monday...

In the Common Pleas, yesterday, Emma Kemp sued Mr Latimer,

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Vice- Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, for false imprisonment. The case arises out of the proctorial system at Cambridge, and the exercise of a power to imprison women...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE " ACTE ADDITIONNEL" OF NAPOLEON III. NAPOLEON III., like Napoleon I., has superimposed an " Ade Ad- ditionnel " upon his imperial constitution. Liberty has not "crowned the...

REPUTED SIGNS OF DISRUPTION IN THE AMERICAN UNION.

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AT the first glance, serious dangers to the American Union may - appear to be involved in the burst of turbulence with which the States of South Carolina and Georgia have...

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THE ROMANCE OF THE SHEDDENS.

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Is 1764, when Robert Burns was still a "small boy," another native of Ayrshire left the land of his sires to seek his fortunes in commerce, in that part of the land of the West,...

A TORY VIEW OF THE ITALIAN QUESTION.

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Tin Jacobites do not appear to have died out any more than the Jacobins. Both flourish. The latest Jacobite revelation has come from the pen of Lord Robert Montagu. He has...

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RAILWAY " CIDENTS."

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THE verdict of the Coroner's Juf at Atherstone, upon what is arbitrarily called "The Trent Valley Accident," hits the two blots in our railway system : one of omission, the...

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BOOKS.

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DR. ALEXANDER CARLYLE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. * IT is told in Lockhart's Life of Scott that, talking one day of the countenances of poets, "Well," said Sir Waiter," the grandest...

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MIND AND BRAIN. *

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THE intellectual fermentation of the present age is incessant. New systems of philosophy appear in rapid succession. To comprehend existence is the grand aim of the "most...

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THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE. * Ma. FARRAR'S Essay has the great

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merit of being exactly what it professes to be, and we cannot better indicate its general charac- ter in a few lines than by quoting the first two sentences of his preface. "I...

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NEW NOVELS. *

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The House on the Moor differs in many respects from the au- thoress's previous novels, which also, differ much from each other; so that any one who has read them all will...

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FAMILY PIM ciii8."

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We haTe much to say in favour of this volume of remi- niscences and fragments. For the first time (as we believe) Miss Manning has signed her name on one of her works. It is...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Ten Years' Imprisonment in the Dungeons of Naples. By Antonio Nicolo.—This book is a true piece of autobiography. The author was a young medical man who excited the suspicion of...

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LITERARY NEWS.

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A new work of Arctic travels, from the pen of Sir John Richardson, is about to be published by Messrs. A. and C. Black, of Edinburgh, under the title " The Polar Regions." Judge...

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At length we have had something new at the Covent Garden English Opera, but of so trifling a kind that the slightest mention of it is suffi- cient. It is an " operetta " in one...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 16th of November, at Corfu, the Wife of II. Drummond Wolff, Esq C. M .G., of a daughter. On the 223, at Chesterfield House, the Countess of Durham, of a son. On the...

PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. Satursi. (Closing Monday. Prices.) Tuesday. • Weds... Thurs. Friday , S pec Cent Consols 931 93f 931 931 1.31 Ditto for Account 931 931 931 931 93 931...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 27 Bankrupts.-JA3ms TOMEY, Queen's Road,

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Chelsea, grocer-Mount) GEORGE Peeps, Barbican, builder-ANous JENNINGS and WILLIAM Txvi.on JENNINGS, Little Tower Street, ship-stores-merchant-Jonas HENRY MITCHELL, Park Street,...