Apart from the elections, the domestic news looks not unlike
a canto from the English journals of many years past. Within the view of the same week, we have Lord John Russell discoursing on education at the meeting of the British and Foreign School Association, as if we were still in the days of " useful know- ledge" ; while Sir William Armstrong is explaining the niceties of his new gun in the netoest " spirit of the age." As Chancel- lor of the University of London, Lord Granville, is felicitating the Metropolitan learned corporation on the progress that it has made ; while he hints that a Tory Government is lending to the Liberal Arts too stinted an aid—an aid far more stinted than if once more the British people had in power the Liberal Govern- ment such as that of which Lord Granville would be a colleague. Learned persons are eagerly debating whether or not the German was murdered by himself or by strangers at Ramsgate ; and be- fore they can determine, scientifically, the precise nature of the evidence, we have a horrid story of poisoning at Richmond, which carries us back to the days of Palmer's trial. The tale may be the wildest calumny ; it implies that men of education are not even yet convinced that arsenic is a dangerous means for nuking short cuts at property.
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