11 DECEMBER 1869

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M. Emile 011ivier has contrived to consolidate his party. He

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has issued his programme, which includes peace abroad, the abro- gation of the law of public safety, municipal self-government, reform as to the electoral circumscriptions, some...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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THE first Council of the Vatican, which is said by moderate critics to have been convoked in order that it may be not only the last as well as the first of the Vatican but the...

There are several 'rumours' about the great Infallibility question. The

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Roman correspondent of the 7 bites makes Cardinal Bonnechose represent to the Pope the wish of the French Bishops that this question should not be raised, and the Pope reply in...

The President's Message was delivered on Monday, and a very

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exhaustive summary of about 3,600 words flashed over by cable was published in the Times of Tuesday morning exclusively. The President thanks God for a good harvest,...

The very dangerous quarrel between the Viceroy of Egypt and

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his Sovereign has been postponed. Ismail, it ia hinted, found that his own subjects might approve a decree of deposition and obey it, pleading the religious authority of the...

*„* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

The portion of the Message referring to the Alabama claims

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has been carefully analyzed in another place, and the text given almost in full ; but we may state here that the President, in our opinion, abandons the old ground, the...

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Mr. Odger's canvas for Southwark promises well. Several meetings have

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been held during the week, at which Mr. Odger explained his political creed, pledged himself to go to the poll and not to accept a ballot, and asserted his confident hope that...

John Presnell, aged sixty-three, was on November 22 in the

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Shoreditch Pauper Infirmary, delirious, and shouting for tobacco. Mrs. Hart, the paid nurse, angry at the noise, held a handkerchief over his mouth for two minutes, and on its...

The chief Liberals at Oxford have followed the lead of

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the chief Liberals at Cambridge, and in a meeting held at Corpus Christi College this day week, the Dean of Christ Church (Dr. Liddell) in the chair, they put, and carried...

Does anybody know, with anything like exactness, what the Irish

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labourers are really asking? Their petition is coining to the front, but nobody yet seems willing to define it. The Cork Farmers' Club, for example, have resolved " unanimously...

The new case against Mr. Mackonochie was decided by the

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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on this day week, judgment being delivered by Lord Hatherley. The judge decided that Mr. Mackonochie had not obeyed the original monition...

Lord C. Hamilton has been elected for Lynn, being the

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fourth member of the Duke of Abercorn's family now in Parliament. He was returned by a majority of 1,051 to 1,032, a result very credit- able to the energy of the Liberals....

A battle-royal is expected in Londonderry on 18th December, the

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Catholics having, it is believed, armed themselves to resist the insults showered on them by the Protestants on that day. The county of Londonderry has, accordingly, been...

Some agreement has clearly been made between M. 011ivier and

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the Arcadians. He has defended some very bad elections indeed, elections illegal on the theory that Government is entitled to interfere, and has in one case almost defied the...

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S. Lanza has failed to form a Ministry in Italy.

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He wanted reductions in the Army, to which the King would not consent, and General Cialdini was applied to. He could not induce the politicians to work with him, and as a last...

The Wesleyans, on the other hand, seem preparing to go

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in the other direction, and preparing to go in the other direction for what seems to us the worst and narrowest of all reasons, not because they wish to put an end to the...

Senor Mattes has informed the Spanish Cortes that Spain will

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not obey any decree of the Council which may conflict with the authority of the Government. This is a sharp protest to come from Spain, but we are told by a shrewd observer that...

One important meeting has been held at Birmingham, on 'Thursday,

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on primary education, the platform adopted being somewhat different from that of the Manchester Union ; but without, as it seems to us, any sufficient guarantee for what we...

Impertinence to a Magistrate in Court is, no doubt, an

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offence, but to make it a crime heavier than larceny is surely an oppres- sion. On Thursday, John Kelly, a young thief, was brought before Mr. Ingham, the sitting magistrate at...

Mr. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, has issued

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his report, which is in the main anticipated by the Pre- sident's message. He believes that a 4i per eent, loan, with interest payable in gold in London, Paris, and Frankfort,...

About a dozen correspondents are quite angry with us for

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an unintentional mistake in our account of the scene in the recent Diocesan meeting in Dublin. It appears that Lord James Butler's motion for adjournment, intended to enable the...

Sir John Lubbock has been lecturing at Edinburgh on Savages,

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—the subject of which we described his treatment last week in the review of his " Prehistoric Times,"—and at the end of his second lecture he took occasion to administer a...

Consols were on Friday evening 921 to 92.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. T HE Times, for the first time in many years, has justified its claim to a primacy among English journals, by pub- lishing important intelligence,...

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THE COUNCIL OF THE VATICAN.

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T HE Pope has lived to fulfil the desire of his heart. The great Council met on Wednesday, and was attended by about 800 qualified members, and it immediately proceeded to...

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THE SECRET OF SADOWA.

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T HE North German Correspondent of December 4 publishea a statement which has somehow escaped attention in this country, but which seems to us, if it be correct, to involve a...

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THE WORKMEN'S REVOLT IN MASSACHUSETTS.

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A SORT of revolution has just occurred in Massachusetts which is well worthy the consideration of all British politicians. For the first time, we believe, in the history of...

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THE RECIPROCITARIANS.

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I T is a pity not only that so many people will talk of what they do not understand, but that so few will take the trouble to understand what is so completely within the...

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DR. TROWER BEARING TESTIMONY.

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C ANNOT we find some form or invent some rule under which ecclesiastical persons can make their protest against anything which they are quite powerless to prevent, known to the...

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THE SPIRITUAL RACK.

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A CURIOUS case was decided . on Tuesday by Lord Penzance in the Court for Matrimonial Causes. A clergyman of Liverpool, Kelly by name, who has lived with his wife for twenty-...

STRANGE NEWS FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SKIES. TORE than a year

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ago a discovery was announced by an LYE astronomer in the Southern hemisphere which seemed so strange and so perplexing, that Sir John Herschel, commenting on it, remarked "that...

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THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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CXXV.—LANCASHIRE :—THE TOWNS (Continued). ITANCHESTER, like other towns in England, profited _AL largely from the persecutions of Alva in the Netherlands, which drove so many...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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PROFESSOR MA.URICE ON TESTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SFECTATOR."J Sin,—As you have noticed two or three remarks which I made at the Cambridge meeting respecting tests, you will...

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"JAN US."

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Strt,—I am requested by the authors of Janus to state that in the passage of that work, p. 52, English translation (p. 55 of the-...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

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you allow me to say a very few words in answer to the letters of my two antagonists in your last number. Both of them draw off attention from the one simple purpose of my...

ORDER IN IRELAND.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—Allow me, as an Englishman, agent to large properties in the south of Ireland, living in a most disturbed county, and in daily...

"THE MORALITY OF COURSING."

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —It is really very painful to men who, like myself, attach great importance to the opinions of the Spectator, to find you condemning...

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BOOKS.

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HEINE'S REMAINS.* 111.asE, in one of the more valuable of these crumbs of table-talk or literary jottings which Herr Strodtmann has so carefully swept • Letzte Gedichie vnd...

MR. MARKS' "RIDICULOUS RHYMES."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to correct an error—a very natural one, by the way—into which your reviewer has fallen in his notice of...

DEEP-SEA DREDGING AND GEOLOGICAL AGE.

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To TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPROTITOR:1 SIR,—Allow me to point out what appears to me to be an error in the otherwise excellent article on "Deep-Sea Dredging" which appeared in your...

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MR. FR OUDE'S QUEEN ELIZABETH..

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THE real test by which the merit of these two volumes must ulti- mately be decided is the accuracy of the view they suggest of Queen Elizabeth's character. If that is admitted,...

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DR. BELL'S "NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA."* DR. BELL'S work

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is full of interesting matter, and yet it can hardly be pronounced an interesting book. The main reason of this is apparently, that being a medical man, he was not able to...

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THE OLD MASTERS IN ITALY AND GERMANY.*

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M. LOUIS VIARDOT is a veteran in Art literature. Thirty years ago he published his notices of the principal Spanish painters to serve as a text for engravings of the Aguado...

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FLORA MACDONALD.* WIZEN an advertisement of this

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book appeared which described it as " 7'he Autobiography of Flora Macdonald, the preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, edited by her granddaughter," with the alluring...

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MR. CAMPBELL ON IRISH TENURE.*

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WHEN we say that every Member of Parliament who intends to take part in the discussion on Irish land tenure should study this masterly pamphlet, we offer to such member counsel...

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PLACES AND PEOPLE.* WE cannot conceive what is the value

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of papers on every imagin- able topic of social gossip about humble life in London, of which five-sevenths of the book before us consists ; papers not aimed at exposing or...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Sacred Allegories. By the Rev. W. Adams. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Adams' beautiful allegories are worthy of all the honour which can be done to them by illustration...