5 NOVEMBER 1870, page 15

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THE HISTORY OF IRELAND.* MATERIALS are now so ordered and thrown open that a modern English historian commands a better view of a period than an inquirer perhaps centuries......

The Knights Of St. John.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the editorial note appended to my former letter you ask. if the Pope or King of Prussia has authorized the Duke of Man- chester to......