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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTo err is the privilege of Members of Parliament—to forgive, the Merciful Prerogative of electors : but Members may need less in- dulgence than common this session, for ,they...
Sir Robert Peel's management rivals that of Mr. Lumley: seldom
The Spectatorhas the season before Easter been so short as this has been, seldom so well filled with work done. We speak not now of the merits of the several performances, but of the amount...
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The American mail brings over a puzzling state-paper. The first
The Spectatorstep in controversy is to settle the value of your terms ; a necessity which almost precludes profitable controversy with the Government of the United States. For example, what...
Debatts an prourbings In VarliEnntra.
The SpectatorNEW TABLET: AGRICULTURAL RELIEF. In the House of Commons, on Monday, when the order of the day was feed for going into Committee on the Customs Acts, Mr. Wasaass Mu-Es...
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Iftetropolis.
The SpectatorA Court of Common Council was held on Thursday; but the doors were cleetei throughout the sitting. It is understood that the discussion resulted in the ap, • .intruent of a...
ebe (court.
The SpectatorTnieCourt has lefe town for the Easter holydays. The Queen and Prince Albee4 with the Royal children, set out from Buckingham Palace at a quarter to three o'clock on Wednesday;...
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ebe Vrobinces.
The SpectatorA meeting was held at Newmarket on Tuesday, to enable Mr. Eliot Yorke to confer with his constituents on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's agricultural policy; which he had...
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iforeign antr FnAxcE.—The Chamber of Deputies began to discuss on
The SpectatorMonday, a new plan proposed by M. Duvergier de Hauranne, for abolishing the ballot in taking the votes. A Committee had reported in favour of a mixed system, which, while it did...
IftisctIlantotts.
The SpectatorThe Gazette notifies that the Queen will hold a drawingroom, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the 10th April next. A letter from Hanover states that the last malady in the...
IRELAND.
The SpectatorAt the usual meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. O'Connell presented the first report of the Committee on the Tenure of Land Commis- sioners' Report It consisted...
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F.AST INDIA SHIPPING.
The Spectator.Anaivan—At Gravesend, 15th inst. Thetis, Cass, from Calcutta. At PortsMouth, ditto, Minstrel, Barton, from ditto. At Scilly, 16th ditto, Cleopatra, Early, from qiiina. Atabia,...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY NIGHT. The Times this morning gives some good advice touching New &ahead. The accession of that powerful organ is significant as to the drift of influen- tial public...
The Miles within the House is truly but the representative
The Spectatorand shadow of the sturdy beggars without it—the Talbot of that clamorous =ay; and in Booth, "beggars are coming to town "—by petition. A general move- ment "amongst the English...
The case of the Reverend Mr. Oakeley is, we hear,
The Spectatorto be brought before the Arches Court, by letters of request, some time in the course of the next term. The Reverend gentleman has been during the week paying a visit to the...
A half-monthly overland mail brings intelligence from Calcutta to the
The Spectator8th of February. The most striking thing in it is a kind of rumour founded on known facts. The military men of the Bengal Presidency division remark the number of troops...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorEXETER HALL • FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE RASTER SEASON. EXETER HALL opened for the season on Tuesday last. The au- dience was not numerous; but the performers exerted themselves,...
The New Zurich Gazette, of the 18th instant, reports progress
The Spectatorin the proceed- ings of the Commission appointed by the Extraordinary Diet. The Commission decide unanimously to recommend an amnesty for all political offences committed " of...
PROSPECTS OF SLAVE-TRADE SUPPRESSION. THE Constitutiomiel reports that the Duc
The SpectatorDe Broglie has instruc- tions to propose, as a substitute for the Anti-Slavery right of search, a blockade of the African coast by combined squadrons. As this is precisely - our...
The Journal des Debats, of Thursday, quotes a letter from
The SpectatorAlgiers, of the 10th instant, which states that the body of an unknown Negro or Moor has been found in the ruins of the powder-magazine; and it is supposed that he may have de-...
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorST0118 RECHARGE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. As Good Friday is a close helyday in the City, our usual report must be made up this afternoon: and, as far as relates to the English...
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LORD STANLEY'S WHITEWASHING.
The SpectatorTo understand how far Lord Stanley's colleagues have been suc- cessful in making his face white before the world, it is necessary to understand the thing about which the charge...
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THE BLOOMSBURY COLLEGE.
The SpectatorTama is nothin g provoking more provokg than, after having put our- selves into a passion for a friend, to see him all at once shake hands with Ins opponent 2 leaving us without...
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A WAY TO BEGIN "SHORT TIME" AT ONCE.
The SpectatorTan Short-time agitators of Lancashire, hoping against hope, keep up their movement ; which has now dwmdled down to meeting in a public-house on Sunday, "resolving "various...
A DRESS TO BE HANGED IN.
The Spectatorl'ITE hanging-dress ef John Tawell seems to have been a subject , of more anxious discussion than the marriage-dress of the belle of the season. At first it was rumoured that...
THE JEWS.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Westminster, 19th March 1845. Sin—Your remarks on the Jews in last Saturday's paper appear to me to in- volve an extension of the principle of...
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SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.
The SpectatorDIPLOMACY, The Diplomatic Correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill, (LL.D., F.R.S., &c.) Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of St. James to the Duke of Savoy, in the Reign...
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RICHARD HOWITT'S IMPRESSIONS OF AIISTRALIA FELIX.
The SpectatorFROM his own incidental account it appears, that Richard Howitt, the brother of William, was born and brought up upon an English farm, and accustomed to "handle all sorts of...
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SABINE'S MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS AT TORONTO. THIS volume enables us to
The Spectatortrace the history of the great British magnetio survey now in progress, with more of accuracy of detail than was possible when we last had occasion to advert to the subject.* A...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorFrans March 140 W mareh 20th. BOOKS. Efitiory, of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon, Fmming a Sequel to "The His' tory of the Preach Revolution." By M....
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MUSIC.
The SpectatorPERGOLESE'S STABAT MATER. AtTILORRIATELY to a week in which all festive and secular music is silent, the. past one has been signalized by the revival of this early masterpiece...
FINE ARTS.
The SpectatorTIM NEW CONSERVATIVB CLUB. TEM published 'mounts , of the architectural arrangements and decorations of the lofty structure that has swallowed up the Old Thatched House. Tavern...
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COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The SpectatorTuesday, March 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Blackmore and Co. Dent, Yorkshire, marble-dealers--Eyre and Burge, Tornham Green, surgeons-Toft and Austin, Tinkersciough, Shelton...
MILITARY GAZETTE.
The SpectatorWAR-oancx, March 21.-let Drag. Guards-Lieut. R. A. Moore to be Adjt. vice Hollis, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 8th Light Drags.-The Hon. S. F. Carew to be Comet, by purchase,...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 19th February, at Argostati, Cephalonia, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Hay, Commanding the Nineteenth Regiment, of a daughter. On the 3d March, at Florence, the...
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PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. &had. (Closing Monday. Meet.) Twaday. Wearies I per Cent Consols .. to1 ssi 991 ooj Ditto for Account 100 1001 100 1001 3 per Cents Reduced abut — — — 31 per...