7 MAY 1864

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The most important of these rumours concerns the action of

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Great Britain, upon which point the facts appear to be these. The Conference is sitting, but the German representatives have received orders to interpose every kind of delay, at...

We regret deeply to perceive that in the present posture

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of affairs Prince Alfred has consented to receive the Order of the Black Eagle from the King of Prussia. Herr von Beust, also, re- presentative of all that is hostile to...

• Mr. Charles Buxton, in a letter to the Times

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of Thursday, takes occasion to find fault with our description of the Confiscation Act, as "An Act for the Confiscation of some of the Land of the Rebellious Maories," and...

M. Hall, late Premier of Denmark, is understood to be

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the author of the strong protest against the conduct of England which has appeared in the Dagbladet. He asserts that under "Lord Russell's characterless guidance of foreign...

An extraordinary telegram, dated Marseilles, was received in London on

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Thursday. It announces that on the 28th April General Kotzebue, in command of 60,000 Russians, had encamped "at the mouth of the Danube," and would be joined by 20,000 more. The...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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rp HE week has been full of wars and rumours of wars. There is the devastation of Jutland still going on, and the despatch of an Austrian squadron to the Elbe, a furious revolt...

It is affirmed both in Vienna and Berlin that the

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demands upon which the German Powers will ultimately insist are four in number. 1. Complete indemnification for the expenses of the war and for the captured vessels. 2. Total...

The controversy is very warm at Oxford on the desirability

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of accepting or declining the Government proposal to endow the chair of Greek. We have ourselves received a letter from a Master of Arts in favour of that proposal, on the...

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An Irish baronet has hit upon a clever idea for

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the : prevention of agrarian outrage. His bailiff was threatened, whereupon he in- formed the tenantry that in the event of the bailiff being killed he should raise their rents...

The French Government seems disposed to impoverish as well as

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control the Press. The Minister of the Interior has started an Evening Moniteur at a halfpenny, which it is supposed the public will buy, to the exclusion of other papers. We...

As regards the murder of settlers by Maories, Mr. Buxton

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has clearly got into difficulties. The nobler tribes themselves repu- diated as murder the act which caused the war, and which Mr. Buxton wishes to soften into "a shocking...

The death of Meyerbeer the great composer is announced this

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week. Like many great composers, he was a Jew, the son of a banker of Berlin, and very wealthy. fle has left one great opera, Africaine, "finished and ready for the stage,...

The electric telegraph is working well between Bussorah and Kurrachee.

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It only remains to complete the section through the valley of the Euphrates to make the chain from London to Calcutta complete.

The Bishop of Niger is to be a black man,

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the Rev. Samuel Crowther,—the first pure negro ever elevated to the episcopal see, though very -far from the first true African, witness the great St. Augustine. His life has...

Sir Charles Trevelyan has produced his budget, and it is

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unexpectedly satisfactory. There is a small surplus of 30,000/., and he has reduced the ad valorem duties on cotton goods from 10 to 7i per cent. There is, however, to be a...

Mr. Ewart moved for a committee on Tuesday to inquire

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into the expediency of maintaining the punishment of death, which he supported chiefly by showing that the chances of escape from the reluctance of the jury to convict were much...

The calamities of Lancashire would be coming to an end

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if the Surat cotton were at all like the American, or even the Dharwar cotton, which is quite as good. As it is, it is said that it comes to hand so dirty that it positively...

In a discussion on Thursday on the expenditure for small

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arms, Mr. Cobden made a promise which his friends will receive with pleasure. He believes, like everybody else, that there is excessive waste in all the manufacturing...

Mr. J. B. Smith moving on Monday night to limit

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the operation of the new sugar duties to a year, made a great speech in favour of a uniform.duty, in which he tried to make it appear that the refiners object to low sugar...

The prize proposed for the best design, for the new

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Museum of lalatirral History which is to be :erected in South Kensington has fallen to Captain Fowkes. The committee to which the task of selection was assigned included men...

Tunis is known to be in revolt, but the details

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are carefully con' cealed, though French and English ships have been sent to the Bay to protect Europeans. The Arabs of Algeria are also in open in- surrection, stimulated, it...

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The latest intelligence from China (March 8) is as full

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of horrors ns a sensation novel. It is affirmed that so great is the distress in the districts ravaged by the rebels that the "little flesh which can be cut from the emaciated...

Dr. Jeune is to be the new Bishop of Peterborough.

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He recently voted in the Hebdomadal Board against Mr. Jowett's salary, and though the vote was asserted by some of the sincerest Liberals to be given only in the interests of...

The Bank has raised its rate of discount to 9

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per cent.

At the Royal Academy dinner on Saturday last Mr. Gladstone

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happily broke through the traditions of flattery to the living which those annual solemnities have perpetuated, to speak with great beauty and pathos of an artist who has died...

The report of the Registrar-General for the first quarter of

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1864 contains some remarkable statements. The death- rate was one of the highest ever known, being 28 in the 1,000 instead of 25, and the total, 143,030, was 14,698 in excess of...

Mr. Farnall, so well known as the representative of the

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Poor- law Board in Lancashire during the cotton famine, is now inves- tigating the management of the union in Bethnal Green. Some of the evidence given is extraordinary. To save...

The New Club, with a capital of 150,000L, proposes to

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found a club in the vicinity of Pall Mall.

The lull in the American war has come at last

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to an end. General Banks has advanced from New Orleans to Shreveport on the Red River, but was there attacked by the Confederates and -compelled to retreat, with a loss of some...

The Pope has assumed a new character—that of the Protector

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of subjects massacred by the command of their sovereign. After a recent consistory he made a speech„ declaring that a "powerful Sovereign whose dominions extend to the Pole •'...

It is announced that the share lists of the Eastern

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Exchange Bank and of Bonelli's Telegraph Company will close today.

The Working Men's Club and Institute Union is to hold

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a I self taxati cl f di - on an o economy n expen diture which will best secure a good club and not exceed the means at the disposal of the working man. The Earl of Lichfield,...

A prospectus of the Scottish and Universal Finance Bank, with

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a capital of one million sterling, with power to increase to five millions, in shares of 50/. each, has appeared. The directors state that they have made arrangements for...

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Friday, April 29. Friday, May O. Greek •• 241 22 Do. Coupons 111 Mexican 441 42f Spanish Passive • • .. 351 341 Do. Certificates .. 121 1 11 Turkish 6 per...

On Saturday last Consols closed at 911 for money, and

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911 for the June account. Yesterday, the closing prices were —for money, 901 ; for time, 89i- I f ex. div. Mexican scrip has ruled as low as 21 to 11 ; but the quotation...

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THE NEW CLAIMS OF THE ENGLISH CLERGY.

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I T is impossible to watch any of the stirrings of life in the Churches of the present day without being struck by the increasing difficulty that is felt in adjusting the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE HORIZON. T HE horizon is darkening fast. Almost every incident recorded this week points to a rapidly approaching crisis, the outbreak of that European war which we have for...

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THE NEW DRIFT OF ENGLISH OPINION.

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I T is impossible to exaggerate, it is difficult even to realize fully, the changes which this Danish war is producing in English ideas on foreign politics. Besides the...

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THE NEW PARTNERSHIP LAW.

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W ILL nobody drive it into Mr. Brand's head that Par- liament meets for purposes other than faction fights ? He has for Ministerial purposes gradually become a good Whip— though...

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MR. BEWICKE'S CASE.

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C ONSTITUENCIES in these days love to be represented by rich men, and rich men love, above all things, to be members of Parliament. The result is that the principal feature of...

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BELLIGERENT COMPASSION.

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T HERE are few things more interesting in the economy of nature than to study how in different men the same nutri- ment will nourish exactly opposite constitutional...

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STRIKES IN LEEDS AND PARIS.

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Fr ' great French employers of labour and the ironmasters of Yorkshire seem at this moment to be engaged in a precisely similar effort. They both want to put down strikes, and...

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THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE.

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fA NE of those tragedies which every now and then break up the ki polished surface of polite society has come to light during the past week in Ireland. A baronet of one of the...

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THE PETTY-FITZMAURICES.—(THEIR PEDIGREE.)

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T HIS family, which had the late Lord Lansdowne survived another year would, probably have been ducal, despite its plebeian name, is of the very bluest blood, being a younger...

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lint arts.

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EXHIBITION OF THE WATER COLOUR SOCIETY. THE old Society's exhibition is this year very strong, stronger in some respects than it is likely for some time again to be, for not...

THE CHARACTER OF KING WILLIAM III. To THE EDITOR OF

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THE " SPECTATOR." SIH,—In your last number of the 23rd of April, in an article rela- tive to the Villiers family (second group), a passage occurs which might better have been...

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Dusk,

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FALSTAFF. AFTER several delays, Nicolai's Die Lustigen Welber von Windsor was produced at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday lost before a crowded audience, and received in a...

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BOOKS.

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" MANHATTAN " AS A NOVELIST4 " MANHATTAN " has had the credit of introducing, perhaps for the first time, into literature the true genius of the New York "loafer ;"—of rendering...

Sire ! to thy capital thou shalt come back, Without

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the battle's tocsin and wild stir, Beneath the arch drawn by eight steeds coal black, Dress'd like an emperor. Through this same portal, God accompanying, Sire I thou shalt...

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A BOOK FOR STUDENTS AND CLERGY.* NOTWITHSTANDING Oxford declarations and

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Lambeth pastorals we cannot but believe that the late decision of the Privy Council will greatly forward the interests of Biblical criticism among the English clergy. That...

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HARFORD'S RECOLLECTIONS OF WILBERFORCE.* THE life of William Wilberforce is

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so inseparably connected with the greatest philanthropic movement of modern days, and so interwoven with the political careers of some of our greatest of modern statesmen, that...

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MRS. KEMBLE'S PLAYS.*

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Ix the artist world of Rome there lived, some years ago, a gentle- man whose talent was rather that of a connoisseur than a professional sculptor, and who possessed an...

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The Coins of the Ancient Britons; arranged and described by

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John Evans, F.S.A., F.Q.S., and engraved by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. (J. Russell Smith.)—The original theory of British coins was that there were none, which Camden exploded by...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Religious and Social Position of Catholics in England. By His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. (J. Duffy.)—The Cardinal has translated his speech delivered to the Catholic...

The Insane in Private Dwellings. By Arthur Mitchell, A.M., M.D.

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Deputy Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland. (Edmonston and Douglas.)—This book is a little inconsequential. The author com- mences by giving a number of harrowing cases of the...

Western Woods and Waters. Poems and Illustrative Notes. By the

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Rev. John Hoskyns Abrabali, jun., M.A. (Longman and Co.)—A description in the metre of Hiawatha of the writer's tour through the American Lakes. The author's copious notes to...

The Battle of the Standards. By John Taylor. (Longman and

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Co.)— Mr. Taylor ingeniously deduces the antiquity of our length measures from the structure and proportions of the pyramids, a theory which has received the approbation of Sir...

Kihnahoe, a Highland Pastoral, with other Poems. By John Campbell

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Shairp. (Macmillan and Co.)—The world has, we think, never done jus- tice to theUniversity prize-poem system. If the author of "Kilmahoe" is, as the exact similarity of name...

The Second Notice of "Papal Legends" is unavoidably postponed.

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