27 NOVEMBER 1847

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"The murders " form the staple of the Irish news.

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A Dublin Repeal paper admits that the usual question is, " What murders are there today ?" Nor do they change in character, except that as an engine of terror their application...

The civil war in Switzerland goes forward, with much clatter,

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and many discordant statements of progress, but without any new event of importance since the capture of Friburg. Meanwhile, it has become certain that the Great Powers—one if...

The " turn-out" at Ashton has been brought to a

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close. This, we conjecture, is in part owing to the fact that the workpeople have grown tired of a protracted manoeuvre which is a continual loss to them, for the profit only of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE extraordinary session is in full career : the old familiar voices, the old familiar arguments and figures of speech, nightly awake the echoes in the Senate; but the most...

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In the mean time, the Duke of Modena, as demented

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as if his perdition were decreed, has issued a proclamation forbidding everything to enter his dominions, or to exist there, that partakes of the " pestilential " principles by...

Debates ant' 1proceebings fn flarliantent.

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THE SPEECH AND Aptness. The business of the session commenced at noon on Tuesday, with the delivery of the Queen's Speech, by Commission. The personal absence of the Queen...

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'be .ffletropolis. The Convocation of the Clergy of the Province

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of Cauterbury was held in St. Paul's Chapterhouse on Friday, and by adjournment at the Jerusa- lem Chamber on Wednesday. The attendance was very numerous. An address to the...

Zbe eourt.

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THE Queen held a Court and Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Monday. At the Court, her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of Normandy, who was presented by Viscount...

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IRELAND.

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The catalogue of murders is rapidly increasing. One post brings ac- counts of no fewer than seven; and the trade in blood seems establishing itself in the North. The...

sbt ljrobinces.

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The protracted turn-out at Ashton has at length terminated. On Mon- day several of the factories reopened, and the hands went to work at the reduced wages offered by the...

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_foreign anb SWITZERLAND.—The accounts from the seat of war are

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very imperfect, and somewhat confused. The Federal Commissioners appointed by the Diet arrived in Friburg on the 15th, and had a conference with all the leading men of both...

SC OTLAND.

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There has been a meeting of unemployed operatives at Pai , dt the speakers indulged in rather inflammatory language. Resolu passed condemning the Relief Committee and the...

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Artisttllantous.

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A deputation of Irish Members waited upon Lord John Russell on Thursday, to present the resolutions passed at the meeting in Dublin and printed in our last number. The...

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POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY NIGHT."' In the House of Commons, last night, Sir CHARLES Woon moved for leave to bring in a bill to extend the time for the purchase of land and the completion of...

The Queen has conferred upon Lord Normanby the Grand Cross

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of the Bath vacant by the death of Sir Robert Gordon. Three Arctic expeditions are.in preparation to go in search of Sir Jobn Frank- lin and his party. One will be despatched...

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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Asarvios-At Gravesend, 22d Nov. Isis, Graham, from Singapore ; 23d, Amelia, Towle.. from Calcutta; 24th, Sonbandar, Umfreville ; and Ferozepore, Maaterton, from Calcutta ; Mary...

BIRTHS.

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On the 20th November, at Quernuiore Park, near Lancaster, the Wife of Mr. Sergeant Ballasts, of a daughter. On the 21st, at Torquay, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Pringle, of...

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In the Central Criminal Court, today, George Phipps, aged forty-seven,

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and de- scribed as a harness-maker, was tried on a charge of feloniously forging a war- rant for the payment of 421. 9s. 11d., with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of...

MONEY MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. On Monday, the Directors of the Bank of England, without the formality of a notice, reduced their rate of discount to 7 per rent. It was...

The Swiss Diet published a bulletin, on the 22d instant,

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notifying the imme- diate occupation of Zug, and the terms of its capitulation. They are to the effect that Zug retires from the Sonderbund ; that the Federal troops shall...

THE THEATRES.

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Our readers have long been acquainted with Mr. Henry Taylor's Philip van Artevelde, as a published poem. It is the production of a man who has read much, and thought much, on...

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SIR CHARLES GREY'S DREAM.

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SIR CHARLES GREY, the amiable Governor of Jamaica, is in that state which is popularly called " a fool's paradise" : while all the colonists are filled with gloomy forebodings...

TOPICS' OF THE DAY.

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THE RECONQUEST OF IRELAND. THE Ministerial measures for the pacification of Ireland may be decreed in Westminster, but it is on the other side of St. George's Channel that they...

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MR. SMITH O'BRIEN.

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"THE bath a marvellous fertility of wit; insomuch that he shall, as it were, bring within one passage of his life a counterpart of all manner of burlesques, and excel them all....

MR. NEWDEGATE AND THE SPECTATOR.

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IN the debate on the report of the Address, on Wednesday, Mr. Newdegate appears to have read a passage from the political sum- mary in last week's Spectator, respecting the...

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WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE?

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now capricious are the judgments.of Morality ! " One man may steal a horse while another must not look over the hedge." One may violate every set law, and still be exalted; and...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY.

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Eccumurricm. Hurroity, The Reformation In Europe. By Cesare Cantu. Translated by Fortunato Pratull. In two volumes. Vol. I Sewdy • NAron.u. SCIENCE, Lectures on the Physical...

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF YORK, THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE CHURCH.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. entirely agree with all your observations in favour of the Bishop of Hereford on his elevation to the Archiepiscopal see of York. I have never...

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IAATTEUCCI'S LECTURES ON THE PHYSICAL PH2ENOMENA OP LIVING BEINGS.

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Du. PEREIRA, the English editor of this translation, informs his readers, that "in 1844 Professor Matteucci was appointed by the Government of Tuscany to deliver in the...

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MR. HENEAGE JESSE'S LONDON.

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THE vices of men drawn together in a crowded city excited the attention of Juvenal, and drew from him the Third Satire, in which he depicts the corruptions of the Roman capital....

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HAWBUCK GRANGE

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Is a series of sporting sketches strung together by the thread of a character, " Thomas Scott, Esquire." Scott is a gentleman farmer of the old school, though not an old man,...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. Sawbuck Grange; or the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. By the Author of "Handley Cross, or the Spa Hunt," &c. With eight illus- trations by Phiz. The Life and...

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FINE ARTS.

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MANAGEMENT OF THE BRITISH newrrrttnoN. Although the subjoined letter recounts a personal matter, its true bearing is more extensive: it ought to receive immediate attention...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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Wax-oeince„, Nov. 26.-3d Drag. Guards-Lieut.-Gen. C. Murray, Earl Cathcart, K.C.B. from the I lth Light Drags. to be Col. vice Lieue-Gen. F. Newbery, dec. 11th Light...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, Nov. 23. 'PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Cottam and Co. Birkenhead, Iron-founders-Wyatt and Pow', Bloomfield Street, tea- dealers-Nutting and Co. Great Titchtield Street,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Widnes 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account . 3 per Cents Reduced 31 per Cents Long Annuities Bank Stock, 9 per Cent...