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It is to be hoped we are not going to

import from Ireland that favourite mode of dissolving contracts, or revenging their dissolu- tion, which is effected by the revolver. The Evening Standard of yesterday says that Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P. for East Surrey, was deliberately shot at by a secretary under notice to quit, with whom Mr. Buxton was finding fault—very fortunately without effect. The would-be murderer is said to have escaped for the moment.

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