4 MAY 1850

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The electors of the Paris department have chosen Eugene Sue

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as their Deputy, precisely because his adhesion to Socialism is not , moderate—that it is, if recent and questionable in motive, empha- tic and unequivocal. Political prudes are...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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ECCLESIASTICAL affairs have occupied the most prominent place in the Parliamentary discussions of the week, but not in a way to confer much credit either on Ministers or the...

Although the public interest in the Church ferment has in

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great part subsided, the clergycannot make up their minds effectively to a quieseent course. They would, - and they would not. • In the correspondence with Mr. Beresford Hope,...

Queen Victoria has added a seventh to the guarantees of

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the direct succession ; and the courtly folks ' it would seem, are over- whelmed not only with delight, but also with astonishment The Gazette abandons the old official tone, to...

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Pthatto nu ti Vrarrthingo inVorlintatit.

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PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OP THE WEEK. Roues OF LORDS, Monday, April 29. No business of interest. Tuesday, April 30. Process and Practice Ireland Bill, read a second time—Pirates...

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gttropplio.

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At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the Recorder announced the receipt of a letter from Sir George Grey, communicating the news of the Queen's accouchement. The Council...

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Tim long-expeked accouchement of the Queen took place an Wednesday morning at twenty minutes past eight, when her Majesty was safely de- livered of a boy. Prince Albert, Dr....

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*X111i1r1211.

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An election of a Member of Parliament for the ;borough of Leaningttai took place on Tuesday last. The /result of the poll iwaa-- Edvrard Jdtm Hutchins ----..._. 121 Majority...

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The overlaid mail brings news from Bombay to April 3;

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from Calcutta, to March 251 from Canton, to March 7. The Affreeclies of Kohat have gained an important moral success: two thousand of them regularly , invested a hill-fort in...

MONEY MARKET.

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SATURDAY TWELVE O'CLOCK. The French Funds unproved rather more than 1 per cent yesterday, the Five per Cents having risen to 88-30 and the Three per Cents to 55.5. Con- sols...

PRINCIPAL 110178E OF COMMONS BO/JENNIE FOR NEXT WEEK.

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Monday, May 6. Australian Colonies Government Bill: To be considered as amended. Sir William Molesworth to move, "That the bill be recommitted, for the purpose of omitting all...

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M. Scribe's comedy of La Camaraderie was originally produced at

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the Commencement of 1837, when the literary and artistic world of Paris was - hi a state of more formidable clique-government than had been previously known. At the present...

The Beethoven Quartet Society holds its meetings this season in

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a new locale—the New Beethoven Rooms, in Queen Anne Street, Ctwendish Square. The rooms are spacious, elegant, commodious, and well adapted for musical sound. The Society, which...

The revival of Antigone at Drury Lane is judicious quoad

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Miss Van- &Imhoff ; but more attention should be paid to the musical department if the tragedy is offered as a permanent attraction.

The Italian version of 3feyerbeer's Huguenots was reproduced at Covent

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Garden on Thursday, with all the splendour of the previous seasons. The only change of any importance was the substitution of Formes for Marini in the character of Marcel. The...

I TOPICS OF THE DAY,

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- UNIVERSITY ILEFOB.M. TH:E announcement of a University Commission has taken all by surprise. The popular outcry against the present system, never very loud, has of late years...

Oratrts nut( 31154.

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"Phe young Neapolitan tenor, Baucardi, has afforded a further test of his qualities by appearing as Carlo in Donizetti's Linda di Cliamouni ; 'Which opera was performed on...

Miss Jane Bennett, a daughter of Mr. George Bennett, made

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a re- spectable debiit thia week, in her father's play of Retribution, at Sadler's Wells.

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PUBLIC SALARIES.

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&Teller. conclusive inferences are to be drawn from the debate on Mr. Henley's motion for the reduction of public salaries. In the first place, it confirms what we have said as...

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CAN THE LAW BE TAUGHT?

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Tim Law Amendment Society, which has done good service in Chancery reform and the OMplifying of land-sales, haS now under-, taken a more difficult ta*; in the proposal to...

STAMPS ON LAND-DEALINGS.

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THE Ministers deserve credit for their attempts to revise the law as to stamps on deeds, but they do not appear to have sufficiently studied the details. It was a subject which...

MINISTERS AND THE SAVINGS-BANKS.

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ALTHOUGH nice critics are dissatisfied with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plan of savings-bank reform, it is really a good mea- sure; it will place the system of...

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There are strange rumours afloat again as to the interference

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of Prince Al- bert with the education of the Prince of Wales, in whose education, as heir - apparent to the Throne, the nation must naturally , take a deep concern. . . . ,The...

SECULAR EDUCATION ALLIANCE • Camberwell, 301/s April 1850.

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Sin—Although a further debate and the division on the second reading of Mr. Fox's Education Bill have yet to be taken, neither is really necessary for the purpose of discussion...

Itttru tif fjr nitnr.

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WHAT IS TICE 'VALUE OF THE PROPOSED 5[EAS17RES FOR THE /INFORM OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY? . A series of " Orders " has been issued by Lord Cottenham, with the ap- proval of Lord...

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BOOKS..

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menivate's ROMANS IINDER THE EMPIRE. * Aie original historian ' who describes that which he has seen or has heard of from the actors, is the most secure from the sap of time....

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BLAJE ON THE YELLOW FRYE& OF DEXERA.314.. *

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Da. Emmn is a medical in of George Town, Britis/x Guiano, who has resided. n the colony for many years. lie had ample means of observing the yellow fever during its...

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RYAN'S ADVENTURES IN CALIFORNIA. * Mn. RYAN appears to be a

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British artist who has resided for some years in America. Whether his professional merits did not meet with their proper distinction, or, as he intimates, he had lived long...

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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BOOKS. An Arctic Voyap to Ben's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friez1ls with Sir John Franklin. By Robert Anstruther Goodsir, late President of the Royal Medical Society...

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THE ARTS.

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THE• ROYAL ACADEMY, THE RAI:aim of the Royal Academy, in the Eastern wing -of the We- - Send Gallery, was opened to private view yesterday. The display is not less numerous...

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WATER COLOUR SOCIETY.

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If the casket in Pall Mall East is as well - filled us usual, that fact aids, perhaps, a sense of sameness in the general -aspect -of the collection as oompared with the...

'AMMER'S "BETTE."

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A few years back, Edwin Landseer exhibited a picture of red-deer driven pant a party of sportsmen : that picture has been purchased by Prince Albert ; as recently been engraved...

CUMMING'S SOUTH AFRICAN Enuarrox.

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Mr. Cumming has been a traveller both in India and 'South Africa, es- pecially the latter ; he spent some time in the interior, collecting know- ledge and shooting beasts ; and...

MILITARY GAZETTE.

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WAR-OFFICE, May 3.-5th Regt. of Foot—Lieut. J. W. T. Dickson has been al- lowed to retire from -the service by the sale of his commission. 16th Poot--Snrg. C. Reade, from 76th...

BIRTHS

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I On the Eth March. at Raman Droog, Bellary District, E.L, Eliza, Wife of the Hon. David Arbuthnott, of a daughter. Oaths llth April, at West Oxford, Upper Canada, the Wife of...

COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.

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Tuesday, April 30. PARTNERSHIPS Diaservan. — Bennett and Co. Kingswinford, saddlers—Wardrop and Co. Brabant Court, Phllpot Lane, wine-merchants—Dobson and Allison, Liver- poul,...

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PRICES CURRENT.

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Proprietors' Capital £14,553,000 Rest 3,082,232 Public Deposits. 4,693,943 Other Deposits 10,907,429 Seven Day and other Bills 1,187,973 £34,424,077 £34,424,077 • Including...