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We wonder if it ever occurs to diplomatists to read

M. Reuters telegrams. If they do disturb their judgments and spoil their information by committing that folly, they have, at least, one reward—the enjoyment of a full and perfect travesty of their own peculiar dialect. Imagine a sane being paying for his kind of rubbish flashed all the way from Madrid on Tuesday last :—" The President of the Council has declared, in' the Cortes, that the

Government belongs to the doctrinal and historic party in Spain.'' Better telegrams could be manufactured in England.

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