3 FEBRUARY 1855

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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fusion. Mr. Gladstonef 11 d th ex lanator de- was in con r. o owe up e p fence of Mr. Sidney Herbert, by a further argument to show that our disasters in the Crimea must be...

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Vrhatru nut( Vriardirgo iu Ihriiroutut.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP Ton WEER. Holm OF Loans. Monday, Jan. 29. Trials for Petty Offences; Lord Brough- am's Statement—Order of Military Merit; Duke of Newcastle's...

The self-exposed attempt of Lord John Russell to get the

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Duke of Newcastle, and perhaps "the Peelite section" of the late Ca- binet, out of his way, has received a further elucidation from the explanation of the Duke in the House of...

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9nt Court.

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THE movements of the Court this week have been intimately connected with the Ministerial crisis caused by the hostile vote• of the House of Commons. On Tuesday afternoon, the...

(Of Rittrnpuli5.

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The deputation of Westminster electors appointed to present an address to Sir De Lacy Evans, waited upon him at his residence in Bryanstone Square on Thursday. Sir John Shelley...

Z4t Vrouturro.

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The languid state of the manufacturing districts was increased at the end of last week by the unsettled state of the Government; and though nothing very serious is reported,...

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THE Ciustris.—The intelligence from the camp reaches by:letter to the 20th, and via St. Petersburg to the 22d January. At the latter date; no- thing had occurred beyond those...

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AiorrlInumo.

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The Duke of Cambridge landed at Dover on Tuesday : he was received by the civil and military authorities, and an address was presented to him. The same evening he arrived in...

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The House of Commons met yesterday, for the special purpose

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of con. veying the vote of thanks to Sir De Lacy Evans, in person, by the Speaker. General Evans, who entered the House wearing his uniform. and decorations, was received by all...

POSTSCRIPT.

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SATURDAY. Great difficulties have been encountered in the attempt to form a Administration ; and the amount of activity among conspicuous men to achieve that desirable object...

HAIM OF ENGLAND.

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.C25,671,665 £26,871,666 BANKING D CASSMENT. Proprietors' Capital £14,653,600 Government Securities (Inds. Rest 3 ,268,916 ding Dead Weight Annuity). £11,625,652 Public...

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Talk of "the weather and the Parke" !—what are we

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to say about this morning ? We can hardly say whether we have a right to designate it "weather " or not, it was so totally out of ordinary role. About five or six- o'clock there...

Strange to say, the literary and the playgoing world have

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for once an interest in common. It is said that an original piece from the pen of Mr. Thackeray will shortly be produced at the Olympic ; and such a name is sufficient to create...

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Miss Cushman has reappeared at the Haymarket, in the character of Romeo ; and once more surprises her audience by the manliness of her assumption. Miss Susan Cushman, who was...

In a powerful and argumentative circular despatch to the German

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Courts, dated January 26, M. Drown de Lhuys, in exposing the illogi- cal and dangerous course taken by Prussia, implies some statements of fact. One is that the French...

MONEY MARKET.

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Brous Excisemen, FRIDAT ATTERE0021. The protracted suspense regarding the Ministry has occasioned an almost total cessation of business in the several departments of the Stock...

DIVISION ON MB. ROEBUCK'S MOTION. JANUARY 29.

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For the motion 305 Against it 148 Majority against Ministers 157 The divisions on the Foreign Enlistment Bill assumed a good deal of the complexion of votes of " oonlidence " in...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PICTURE OF THE INTERIOR. THE Russell scandal having torn open the door of the Cabinet, Lord Derby, who is loitering wistfully outside without the cou- rage to make good his...

THE MAP OF EUROPE.

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SELDOM has a Ministerial crisis in England been of such Euro- pean importance as it is at the present moment. It involves much more than a simple change of men, whether for...

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" THE WHIG PARTY."

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AT the close of his explanation last week, Lord john Russell made a boast that it would ever be his pride to belong to the Whig part, who " supported the just principles of...

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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"'ALL flesh is grass." Modern physiology points to the vegetative functions of man ; but we could least have expected to find the military profession treated most especially on...

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BOOKS.

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MUSGRAVE'S RA.MBEE THROUGH NORIIA.NDT.. MB. MusexavE is favourably known by The Parson, the Pen, and the Pencil, a book which gave a lively and informing though somewhat...

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GILCHRIST'S LIFE OF ETTY..

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Ewes was an extremely uneventful life, yet not without interest, even apart from the man's eminence as an artist, owing to the sin- gleness of his aim, and his unalterable...

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HERBERT LAKE. * Teas fiction is not strictly a novel of

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manners and society, though its elements are drawn from modern life. The story wants vraisemblance; but all that constitute the story—characters, incidents, ideas, and the_...

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CURNINGHA.31I'S EDITION OP JOHNSON'S

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WHEN the first volume of this edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets appeared, we pointed out at considerable length indications that Mr. Cunningham had discharged his...

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BIRTHS.

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On the 25th January, at Westover, Isle of Wight, the Lady of the Hon. Wm. I Court Holmes, of a daughter. On the 26th, at Margate, the Wife of the Rev. Charles T. Astley, Vicar,...

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Boma. Mountains and ifokhals ; or Recollections of a burnt Journal. By Frank M.arryat, Author of " Borneo and the Eastern Archipelago." With Illustrations by the Author....

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MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, Jan.30. EMMET. In consequence of the deaths of the following General Officers, the undermentioned promotion to take place, in accordance with the provisions of her...

NAVAL GAZETTE.

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Aninaeurv, Jan. 29.-In consideration of the services performed by the officers vs, the Navy, in codperation with the Army, in the trenches before Sebastopol, the fol- lowing...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, January 30. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLTED. - Skinuer and Walker, cattle-salesmen-Freeman and Botharnley, Coleman Street, attornies-Scragg and Thursby, Monks Coppenhall,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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Rxraways- Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 95 111 ex n. B•was- Australasian British North American 811 621 Edinburgh and Glasgow 56 Colonial Eastern Counties 114 Commercial...