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Ziortilautous.

Lord Napier, formerly engaged in various diplomatic capacities, at Vienna, Teheran' Constantinople, Naples, and St. Petersburg, has been appointed British Minister at Washington. He has thus had an extensive training in the diplomatic craft, and he enjoys "a high reputation for capacity."

There is no foundation whatever for the rumour that Mr. Sidney Herbert has inherited any part of the property of the late Prince Woronzoff. —Times.