23 MAY 1857

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NEWS OF THE WEEL

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Tim proposed marriage of our Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of Prussia was communicated to both Houses of Parliament on Monday, in a message from the Crown,...

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!Dada auk rnrnhiug iii parlialitrut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSIN.ESS OF THE WEEK. nom OF Loans. Monday, May 18. Marriage of the Princess Royal ; Message from the Queen—Testamentary Jurisdiction ; Lord Chancellor's Bill read a...

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CO Court.

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THE Quimr held a Privy Council at Osborne on Saturday ; when she declared her consent to the marriage of the Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and caused...

t4t 3littropolio.

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The Convocation of the Province of Canterbury seems to have come to an end sooner than was expected. It was formally prorogued on Wednesday, until the 10th July. At a meeting...

Vrodurint.

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The two Conservative Members for the County of Buckingham make a practice of dining onco every year at the farmers' ordinary, Newport l?agnell, and there delivering speeches....

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IRELAND.

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A large mootizig of the old friends of the Tenant-Right cause was held at Belfast on Wednesday. Mr. Sharman Crawford reappeared in the agitation, and took the chair; and the...

SCOTLAND

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The movement in behalf of Italy makes progress in Scotland. On 'Thursday sennight, a large meeting was held at Paisley, under the chairmanship of the Provost. Professor Nichol...

Intrigu aut

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,fraurr.—The Grand Duke Constantine quitted Paris on Saturday evening. On Monday the King of Bavaria made his appearance at Fontainebleau. Ho was received outside the palace...

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Zurtilautung.

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It is understood that the christening of the infant Princess will take place in the middle of next month the sponsors being the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, and Prince...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Last night having been fixed for the consideration of the Queen's Message respecting the marriage of the Princess Royal, the House of Commons was crowded with...

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MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FLGHAT ATIEBNOON. On Monday the English Funds opened at a decline of 4 on Saturday's closing prices—Consols 931 4 for Money, and 9411 for the Account ; and they...

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4ratrts vat 31n5ir.

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Last year, when the prolonged absence of the Queen from the theatre called "Her Majesty's," while she was profuse in her attendance at the rival operahouse and other theatres...

CONCERTS.

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The Philharmonic Society's concert of Monday last was distinguished by the first appearance in this country of Herr Rubinstein, a young pianist front tonna, with whose fame that...

tattr In Iljt Ebitsr, THAMES PARKS, BUILDINGS, AND BRIDGES.

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1 Adam Street, Adelphi, 1811; May 1887. Sea—Westminster Hall is converted into a cellular structure, in order to afford wall-space for acres of designs illustrative of possible...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PRUSSIAN MARRIAGE. FEw would care to be so ungracious as to meet with any serious objections the proposals for endowing the Princess Royal on her marriage in a manner...

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OUR NAVY.

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Six CHARLES WOOD received from both sides of the House, on Monday, congratulations for the ability and clearness of his statement on the Navy Estimates : it would appear,...

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THE TEMPTATION RESISTED.

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TICE farmers of Buckinghamshire are charmed with their Member —the Member for Bucks. Faithful to them, he is not uneourted elsewhere. Invited to share the councils of the very...

THE MISSINGMILITARY REPORT.

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SOMETHING mysterious has befallen the Report of the Commissioners on Foreign Military Education. We are not quite sure that even the Cabinet Ministers themselves, except perhaps...

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DISCUSSIONS ON CONVICT TREATMENT.

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THE best that can be said of the Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill is, that it removes inconvenient distinctions between two classes of sentence substantially alike, and...

PARISH RIGHTS.

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THE Marylebone Guardians are determined that their parish shall not be omitted in the trial which our representative institutions are said to be undergoing. They have waited...

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BOOKS.

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I.OILD CAMPBELL'S LIVES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICES. * THE third and concluding volume of the Lives of the Chief Justices of England contains the biographies of Kenyon, Ellenborough,...

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CIIANDLESS'S VISIT TO THE MORMONS.°

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TEE subjects of Mr. Chandless's book are a waggon-train journey across the Prairies and Rocky Mountains from Atchison near Fort Leavenworth to Utah the head-quar ters of the...

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HILL ON THE REPRESSION OF CRIME, * Mn. M. D. HILL

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held his first session as Recorder of Birmingham in July 1839. For about ten days before that date, there had been those large Chartist meetings in the Bull Ring—meetings held...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boors. Tins week, considerable activity is visible among the publishers, after an almost unexampled season of literary flatness. We fear, however, that the number is greater...

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/in Arts.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. FOIIRTIL NOTICE. Two works uncommonly complete in their differing excellence distinguish the West Room in Trafalgar Square—the "Montaigne" of Mr....

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BIRTHS.

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On the 10th Mar. in Adelaide Crescent, Brighton, the Wife of Captain Farquhar, R.N., H.M.S. Malacca, of a daughter. On the 12th, at Lyndhurst, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 22.

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Was Orrice, Pall Mall, May 22.—Cavatry—Roya1 Regiment of Horse Guards— R. G. B. Bolton, Gent, to be Cornet, by pur. vice the Hon. G. It. C. Hill, prom. 4th Light Dragoons—Lieut....

Cljt Nastr,

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FROM THE LONDON GAzErnt, MAY 19. Aniarnaurv, May 18.—The following promotions, dated the 12th instant, conse Le d n . t w o c iLtIglea o th . t tf e Nac t zt a d s mirs t il...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 22.

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AneetaaLrt, May 19.—The following promotions, detest the 14th instant, cense.. quent on the death, on the 13th instant, of Admiral of the White the Right Honourable Lord William...

'Pah.

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FROM THE LONDON GAzETTE, MAY 19. Partnerships Dissolved.—Eyre and Bradley, Hull, seed-crushers—Wilson, Brothers, Leeds, screw-manufacturers—Nicholson and Innes,...

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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 22. Partnerships Dissoleed.-8tockdill and Inman,

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Leeds, iron-founders—Cutler and Druce, Bell Yard, Doctors' Commone, attorneys—Morgan and Sons, Tottenham Court Road, tallow-melters--Holman and Pardew, Plymouth, mercers—Colley...