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NEWS. OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTHE masterly epistle from the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Saidinia, which seems materially to alter the position of affairs in the Peninsula and on the Centinent, has...
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Apart from the great Conservative gathering, there have been three
The Spectatorsocial and one political meeting. Mr. Gladstone has ap- peared in the Cambridge Senate House as the St. Bernard of the Oxford and Cambridge Mission, eloquently exhorting the...
We have, significantly enough, the foetal announcement in the Moniteur,ibit
The SpectatorPettgee is not assistineePaim,; though Aims happen that Frazee isacliastising aggressive Moors nponiter own African border ; uwhilelpain is proceeding, with.xvhatsppeobsise may,...
FRENCH POLICY -IN ITALY.
The SpectatorThe Times has published the following letter, which it derived from its Paris correspondent, into whose hands it -came from " a friend in Italy." The correspondent "has no...
Tho happily ended in a riot at'llarper's Ferry was
The Spectatorintended for an insurrection, though the origin and character of it are very different from what might have been expected on this side. It will be observed that the Negroes took...
The India and China news may be summed np in
The Spectatorfour or five sentences. The accounts of the Indian revenue are favourable in every department ; good news, it is said, for Mr. Wilson's mission, in reforming and reorganizing...
THE CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION.
The SpectatorThe great banquet to Lord Derby and his late colleagues, projected hy the Liverpool Conservatives, took place on Saturday, in the Philhar- monic Hall. Some six hundred gentlemen...
The season before Christmas has been employed by the Con-
The Spectatorservative party, at present released from the cares and hindrances of office, to revise its position in -the country, and to reorganize its 'forces in preparation for the...
It is reported from Paris, that the publisher of the
The SpectatorCount de Montalembert's pamphlet is to be prosecuted, having already been warned without preventing people in France or England from reading the brochure. Indeed, the warning...
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THE AMERICANS IN PEKIN.
The SpectatorThe North China Mail brings us an account of Mr. Ward's visit to Pekin, evidently from the pen of Mr. Ward himself, or that of one of his assistants. It is a full, able, and...
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airtrnpnlio.
The SpectatorThe Lord Mayor Elect, Alderman Carter, was duly " presented " to the Lord Chancellor at Stratheden House, on Wednesday, the first day of term ; and according to custom was...
,Jr tuurt.
The SpectatorTHE QUEEN is now at Windsor Castle. She has driven out, walked in the Home Park, and visited the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore accom- panied by the Prince Consort. The Duchess has...
ANOTHER GALE.
The SpectatorA severe gale of wind from west by south prevailed through the southern districts of England on Tuesday. In London some lives were lost and much damage was done. A labourer was...
THE CHANNEL FLEET.
The SpectatorThe gale which proved so fatal to many merchant ships, afforded an occasion for showing what our Channel fleet could do under such cir- cumstances. The scene in the Channel is...
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Vruniurial.
The SpectatorA large meeting was held on Tuesday in the Senate-house of Cam- bridge, to promote the Oxford and Cambridge Mission to Central Africa. The name of the mission does not imply...
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IRELAND.
The SpectatorAt the close of the Liverpool banquet on Saturday, Lord Derby, in proposing a complimentary toast, interpolated a manly vindication of his policy as an Irish landlord. " A...
SCOTLAND.
The SpectatorThe new constituency , of the University of Edinburgh met yesterday week to elect a Chancellor. Upwards of 1000 alumni of the University were assembled, and it is truly said...
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fortigu nut 6ulunial.
The SpectatorFr En 11.—The Emperor and Empress have gone to Compiegne. They drove along the Boulevards of Paris in an open carriage on Tuesday, and arrived at Compiegne the same evening. The...
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31liortlImuntts.
The SpectatorA deputation, consisting of the popular and distinguished friends of civil and religious liberty, says the Daily News, was to have waited, by appointment, upon Lord John...
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The Great Eastern made the Isle of Wight yesterday morning,
The Spectatorpassed through Spithead, and steamed to her anchorage in the river, welcomed by many craft, and a salute of seventeen guns from the Platform Bat- tery.
MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EEO:MAME, FRIDAY AFrsTMooN. The demand for money has been very active the whole week ; it has arisen partly from the natural extension of our home and foreign trade,...
Advices from Algiers to the 1st of November, state that
The SpectatorBem Snassen, terrified, had submitted to the French, accepting conditions of peace of a most severe character. The French expedition is pursuing the other tribes. A telegram...
Among the guests invited to Compiegne are the Princesses Mathilda
The Spectatorand Clotilda, the Duke and Duchess of Alba, Duke and Duchess Malakoff; Ditto Magenta MacMahon, Metternich, Czartoryski, Murat, Lords Stafford, Dufferin, and Lady Craven, with a...
POSTSCRIPT.
The SpectatorSATURDAY MORNING. Intelligence reaches us from Paris by the ordinary channels that "the French and English Governments have completely agreed on the bases of the Congress which...
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ittitt in flit Eifitnr.
The SpectatorLORDS STANLEY AND CHANDOS AT MANCHESTER. North Brixton, _November 4, 1859. Sin—Lord Stanley once hastily travelled through Jamaica. Ho knows how many thousands of acres of the...
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorPROBABLE IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. THE redemption of India must be effected by India. Whatever abstract arguments may be carried on, about the legal force...
BIRTHS.
The SpectatorOn the 19th of September, at Madras, the Wife of Sir Adam Bittleston, of a daughter. On the 25th of October, at Blacklands, Cavendish, Suffolk, the Wife of Sir Wil- liam...
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THE NET RESULT OF DERBYISM.
The SpectatorTHE gathering of the leaders of the Conservative party round the hospitable table of the Conservatives of Liverpool is certainly one of the most extraordinary incidents in...
GENERAL WARD'S PEKIN EXPERIMENT.
The SpectatorWE might refer to the authority of General Ward for proof that anything like a genuine state of international relations with the Chinese is simply an impossibility; the Chinese...
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THE HORSE GUARDS CIRCULAR ; SUGGESTED REMEDIES.
The SpectatorWHILE we are fully disposed to give the Duke of Cambridge ample credit for the display of moral courage which we noticed last week, in the rebuke he administered to those...
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THE MISTRESS OF THE STORM.
The SpectatorMAT man is said to win who leaves nothing to accident ; in other words, he will conquer in the battle of life who concentrates his attention upon the natural laws of the work...
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THE CASE OF SIR PETER LAURIE.
The SpectatorIN another part of our paper the reader will see an account of a City police case which must raise in every mind an important question. One Richard Child, giving what turned out...
PREVENTION OF TRADE FRAUDS.
The SpectatorAx outory has been raised in Manchester against the newly de- nounced practice of mixing sand in the packing of cotton bales. If any persons have really adopted that practice,...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE LANDING OF JIILITIS ersi.n.• Mn. LEwm has produced an interesting little volume entitled The Invasion of Britain by Julius Cesar. Projected as a lecture to be read before a...
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ECCLESIASTICAL GEOGB.APHY. * THERE is a growing conviction abroad that the
The Spectatorhistory of the Christian Church is not a mere narrative of the changes of sec- tarian opinion, or the developments of a pompous priesteraft, but the exposition of the rise and...
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THE BIOLOW PAPERS. * THE Biglow Papers were originally a series
The Spectatorof nine political sa- tires in the New England dialect, and in verse, which appeared from time to time in the Boston Courier during the war in which the United States were...
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
The SpectatorMr. Anthony Trollope serves his country doubly, and to her hearrer content, as a writer and as a Post Office inspector ; and our readers know with what happy economy he makes...
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tit tOratril.
The SpectatorMr. Augustus Harris, the lessee of the Princess's Theatre, has again shown his proficiency as a stage-manager by the production of a melo- drama called the Master Passion, or...
LITERARY NEWS.
The SpectatorMessrs. Longman and Co. announce a work in four volumes quarto, with maps and plans, published "By Authority," and entitled "The Siege of Sebastopol : Journal of the Operations...
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Ensir.
The SpectatorJenny Lind is again devoting her powers-which, it is said, remain unimpaired-to purposes of benevolence. On Friday last week, at Jenny Lind is again devoting her powers-which,...
PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
The SpectatorAt the Odeon, there is a new drama in four acts, written by MM. La- font and Bechard, and adorned with the formidable title Le Passe d'une _Femme. A romantic lady, the daughter...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. NOVEMBER 1.
The SpectatorBankruptcy Annulled.-JOHN BATSTONE, Tooley Street, builder. Bankrupts.-Thourrr BAnherr, Burlington Gardens, Bond Street, picture- dealer-Wu-Liam LArron, Landport, Portsea,...
PRICES CURRENT.
The SpectatorBRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) Saiurd. Monday.. Pmesday. Warm. 3 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1883 Bank...