27 AUGUST 1864

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T " latest story from Germany informs us that Austria and Prussia have arranged their differences, that Prussia still de- mands compensations, and that the chances of the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PALMERSTON OUT OF PARLIAMENT. I T was not without an intention that Lord Palmerston inserted into the Queen's Speech the unusual words which succeeded the accustomed formula of...

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THE PREMIER ON HIS OWN BISHOPS. L ORD PALMERSTON has for

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a long time ceased to talk theology, but at Tiverton, where he probably feels more at home than at Bradford or in the House, he has broken out into a curious heresy. He had been...

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induce the few electors who come to the poll to

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throw State The truth is English observers persistently blunder as to votes for Mr. Lincoln, and the extreme Republicans who fear the place in which, in America, ultimate...

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Silt Jon . TREL1WNY IS CASSANDRA. D IFFIDENCE is a great misfortune.

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How many men fail in life not from any want of ability or industry, but because they never—not even in the moment of action— can quite throw off the dread that they may possibly...

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OCCUPATION FOR SOLDIERS.

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T HERE is another reason besides economy for the extension of the recent reform in the army in India to the army in England. Sir Hugh Rose with some faults has throughout his...

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ISOLATION WITHOUT SOLITUDE.

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T HE strange accident which has just happened to a rival of M. Blondin's at the falls of Niagara suggests a curious train of speculation. The man in question, who calls himself...

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IS MARRIAGE A CONTRACT?

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M R. JUSTICE BLACKBURN has we suspect made an end of the law upon breach of promise of marriage. Indeed he ' says there is no law, only a popular sentiment, and whenever the...

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THE HOWARDS.—(TEURD PERIOD.) 111HE third Duke was succeeded by his

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grandson, Thomas, eldest son of the beheaded Earl of Surrey. Surrey had also another son, Henry, who was restored in blood in the 1st year of Elizabeth, adhered to the Cecils,...

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THE PETERSBURG DISASTER.

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[Faost OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, Avast 6, 1884. Aw attempt was made on Saturday last, July 30, to carry the works before Petersburg by assault, and the result was...

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THE LIBERAL CATHOLIC MOVEMENT DT GERMANY. To THE EDITOR OF

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THE "SPECTATOR." of narrowminded and stifling censorship in every field of human action in accordance with the latest effusions of the Roman Court, and they ground their surmise...

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THE BISHOP OF OXFORD ON INSPIRATION. To THE EDITOR OF

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THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—A very curious and significant dispute has been raging at intervals for the last fortnight in the pages of the Record about the Inspiration of Scripture...

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BOOKS.

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TENNYSON'S "NORTHERN FARMER.' 5 IN noticing the principal poem in Mr. Tennyson's new volume last week we had room to say but a passing word of one which, though its inferior no...

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TEN DAYS IN A FRENCH PARSONAGE.*

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IF Mr. George Musgrave had cancelled two-thirds of the first of these two volumes we should have pronounced his book one of the best and the most original of a very poor season....

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DR. RE1CHEL ON M. RENAN.*

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TIM Irish branch of the United Church is at least as well entitled as the University in which the greater number of its ministers are edgeated to the name of the " silent...

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A LOVE STORY BY A STUDENT OF SCIENCE.* -.1 Tuts

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tale is written by the editor of a scientific journal, who tells us in his preface that he has never before tried his hand at a work of fiction, and that it was dashed off in a...

SON AND HEIR.*

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Son and Heir is a decidedly clever novel of what may be termed the strongly emotional school of fiction, but also possessing con- siderable merits of a less ambitious and...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Church and Fortress of Dow ,. Castle. By the Ref. John Puckle. (John Henry and James Parker.)--The position of Dover has probably made its castle known to a larger number of...

Old Stories of Switzerland By a Lady. Franz Thimm. A

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collection of translations from various German and Swiss poets, we think, with- out exception narrative. Some embody a historical or quasi-historical incident—as Itutreim's song...

Look to the End. By H. F. M. (Judd and

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Glass.)—A vigorous statement of the case of those politicians who wished to leave Denmark to fight her own battles unaided. It is not the fair statement of a judicial mind, but...

The Doom of Sin and the Inspiration of the Bible.

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Two Sermons preached in Ely Cathedral. By Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely. (Bell and Daldy.)--" I am convinced," says the Dean, "that as a gene- ral rule there is no sermon...

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The First Twelve Chapters of the Gospel according to St.

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Matthew. In the received Greek text, with various readings and notes. By the late Rev. J. Forshall. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Forshall was formerly keeper of manuscripts in the...

Eclogues and .Monodrcunas. By William Lancaster. (Macmillan and (Jo.)—Mr. Lancaster

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is very much annoyed because a weekly contem- porary called his last volume "a collection of great pretension," and he declares that these are not poems, but "merely rhythmical...

The Salt If the Earth. God Sitting as a Refiner.

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Two Sermons preached at Ordinations of the Bishop of Oxford. By the Archbishop of Dublin. (John H. and J. Parker.)—In those two discourses the ordinary topics of warning and...

_Reflections on the Psalms of David as Inspired Compositions. By

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Jacobus. (Samuel Solomon.)—Jacobus thinks that David "deprecates. irascibility" because it induces "a tendency to derange the biliary secretions, inducing stomach and liver...

The New Gospel of Peace. Book Second. (Sinclair Tousey, of

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New York.)—A clever squib on the Kopur-hodds of the North and the Phiretahs of tho South after the manner of Wilson and Lockhart's famous jeu d'esprit in Blackwood. The history...

Remarks on Horses' Teeth. By William Miles, Esq. (Longman and

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Co.)—A very clear and simple treatise, which will give every one who chooses to give the requisite time to the study of horses' mouths the power of deciding their age up to...

The Temple Anecdotes. By Ralph and Chandos Temple. Nos. 1,

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2, 3, "On Invention and Discovery." (Groombridge.)—This is rather a novel kind of periodical, and seems to us very well conceived and very well executed. It is a sort of...

- The Principles of Spiritualists Exposed. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.) —

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This pamphlet contains the substance of two lectures delivered in the United States. The author attributes a great deal more truth to mesmerism than we are disposed to do. But...