15 APRIL 1865

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The inarticulate telegram from New Zealand, which neither we nor

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Sir Charles Wood were able to explain last week, about war having broken out in the Whainyaroa district, should have said in the TVanyanui district, that is, the native country...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE French Government has taken the unusual but certainly not ill-advised course of addressing to the English Government a despatch of condolence on the loss of Mr. Cobden,—a...

The Lancet sums up the evidence about the Russian pestilence

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as pointing to a new and malignant form of typhus, mixed with relapsing fever, produced by hunger and overcrowding. Typhus is sometimes complicated by carbuncles, 150 such cases...

Mr. T. B. Potter got the show of hands at

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the Rochdale hust- on Thursday, and the poll between himself and Mr. Brett be taken to-day. Mr. Bright went down to speak on behalf of Mr. Potter, who has long been a frien I...

Mr. Villiers has instituted an inquiry into the death of

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Richard Gibson in the infirmary of the St. Giles's Workhouse. It has not yet ended, but the facts grow clearer every day, Mr. Farnall leaving had the sense to make John Felix...

The dispute in the iron trade still continues. At a

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meeting of puddlers held at Wolverhampton, it was resolved unanimously that the ironworkers of Wolverhampton do not return to work until masters and men agree to courts of...

The Prussian Government has laid its naval programme before the

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Chamber. It wants a fleet which shall impose respect on all second-class maritime Powers —say Sweden, or is there a side glance at Russia ?—and considers that ten iron-clad...

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On the 25th March General Lee made a great attack

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on the right of the Federal lines before Petersburg, hoping to master the railroad which connects the Federal supplies at City Point with the army on the Appomattox. General...

Sir Charles Wood yesterday week denied positively most of the

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" newspaper statements " about the Bootan war. He said we had not lost a third of our force, but only five men ; that the 43rd Native Infantry were not driven out of Dewangiri,...

General Hood has published his report on his operations in

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Georgia and 'Tenness e e, to which he has prefixed a sharp criticism on General Johnston's retreat from Dalton to Atlanta. It is at least evident that General Johnston got no...

The Hon. John Colborne, captain in the army, having apparently

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some acquaintance with the inner life of the War Office, or other deeply indebted department, thinks usurers bloodsuckers. He published a pamphlet saying so, and unluckily put...

A meeting of the Social Science Association was held in

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London on Monday, to hear Mr. T. Hare read a plan for remodelling metropolitan elections. We have described the plan else- where, but we may here mention that Mr. Mill supported...

From America we learn that Sherman had united with General

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Schofield and General Terry at Goldsborough, N9rth Carolina, on the 22nd March, the very day on which he had a week before told Schofield to expect him there, so that the...

There are few firms in England which can compete either

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in age or reputation with Messrs. Tattersall, four generations of the name having carried ou the same business as auctioneers in the same place. The lease of " The Corner,"...

On the 29th and 30th General Grant advanced his whole

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left beyond Hatcher's Run in the direction of Weldon, where on the latter day he met with a very determined resistance, and was for a time driven back to the Boydton plank road,...

Dewangiri was retaken by Brigadier-General Tombs on the 2nd April,

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with a loss of some thirty to the enemy, who fought bravely. When Parliament re-assembles this fact will be quoted as full proof that everything is well in Bootan, the fact...

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The Chapter has proposed as successor to Cardinal Wiseman in

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the Archbishopric - three names—Bishop Grant, of Southwark ; Bishop Clifford, and Bishop Errington the coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman, with whom he quarrelled. The Pope was...

The burglars who broke into Mr. Walker's shop in Cornhill

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received sentence on Thursday for that and similar offences. Brown and Jeffrey, the ringleaders, were condemned to twenty :years' penal servitude, Caseley and Brewerton to...

The President of the United States attracts all the good

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American stories afloat in America, much as Rowland Hill and Spurgeon have attracted to themselves all the traditional witticism of the pulpit. It is stated that Bishop Simpson,...

The second ordinary general meeting of the proprietors of the

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Discount Corporation was held on Tuesday last. The directors announced that the profits for the half-year ending March 31 amounted to 31,2241. ls. 10d., out of which they...

At a meeting of the Free-Church Synod of Glasgow and

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Ayr, the Rev. Dr. Gibson expressed his indignation at the terrorism of the press in publishing godly ministers' opinions on the wicked- ness of composing type on Sunday. He...

On Saturday last Consols left off at 90i- both for

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money and time. On Thursday the closing prices were as follows :—For delivery, 91 to 91i ; for account, 911. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now 14,937,379/.

Count Arrivabene has written a letter to Lord Stratford de

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Redcliffe to re-assure him on the prospects of Italian finance. He shows that the deficit has been reduced from near 13,000,0001. in 1864 to little more than 8,000,0001. in...

The Czar finds that his press law is not severe

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enough ; he has therefore copied Napoleon's. Newspapers may henceforward be suppressed after three warnings, which of course may be administered on three successive days. Any...

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Friday, April 7. Thum lay, April 13. Greek '• 21 . . • 201 Do.. Coupons .. . 81 Mexican 27 271 Spanish Passive • • .. 3l3 321 Do. Certificates ••...

The Russian (Vyksonnsky) Ironworks Company has been started, for the

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purpose of purchasing the well-known ironworks of that name at Viucksa, in Russia. The estate covers an area of 405,000 acres, and possesses an inexhaustible supply of iron ore...

On Thursday last and on Friday week the leading Briti,;:i

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Railways left off at the following prices :- Friday, April 7. Thursday, April 1 Caledonian .. .. .. Great Eastern .. Great Northern .. .. .. .. Great Western.......... Do....

Poor little Miss Flight, the eccentric little lady (pensioned by

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the Middle and Inner Temple) whom tradition asserts to have lost her wits in consequence of losing a law-suit, is dead. She constantly frequented the Chancery Courts,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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CANADIAN CLOUDS. T HERE must be something underneath all this Canadian business not yet fully understood in this country. The programme is breaking down in every direction. The...

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THE ROCHDALE ELECTION.

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THERE are three classes of Reformers,—Reformers after the fact, or Tories ; Reformers before the fact, or Liberals ; Reformers beside the fact, that is, who do not trouble them-...

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NAPOLEONIC DIFFICULTIES IN MEXICO.

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" FRANCE," said M. Rouher, the other day, "will go all lengths to uphold the throne of the Emperor Maxi- milian," and if one-half that we hear is true the lengths re- quired are...

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METROPOLITAN ELECTIONS.

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T HE true charge against the London constituencies is not exactly that of electing inferior representatives. Some of them are bad enough no doubt, but the majority would, if...

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THE FRENCH DEBATE ON FREEDOM OF BEQUEST.

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IF any one were desirous of illustrating the wide difference of feeling on matters of family and domestic life, he could scarcely have a better opportunity than is given by a...

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THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

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E IGHT years ago not even a paragraph heralded or related the process and progress of the University Eights during the Put- ney week, and a twenty-line account in The Times and...

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CARDINAL WISEMAN'S LAST HOURS.

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T HE Roman Catholic Canon Morris has published a record of the death-bed of Cardinal Wiseman which is in many respects one of singular interest. For a month the Cardinal lay...

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THE ATTACK ON FORT STEADMAN.—GENERAL SHERMAN.

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, March 31, 1865. THE great battle which I spoke of in my letter before the last as impending, and probably to take place within a few...

THE GREAT GOVERNING FAMILIES OF SCOTLAND.

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THE continuation of the " Gam: Lams OF MoarraosE " is un- avoidably postponed.

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REFORMS IN THE CONVICT SYSTEM.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—It is now nine months since the new penal servitude Act —the third within eleven years—became law. This Act left little, as far as...

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BOOKS.

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ATALANTA IN CALYDON.* THAT this is full of true poetry, even if it be not, as a whole, a true poem, there can be no manner of doubt,—but how near it ap- proaches to a true...

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CARL MARIA VON WEBER.*

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THE English reading world is greatly indebted to Mr. Palgrave Simpson for this translation. Carl Maria von Weber was well worthy of a memoir, and it would be difficult for a...

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THE HISTORICAL ENGRAVER ROYAL ON THE HUMAN FACE.* TILE moment

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it becomes known there is such a man as the Historical Engraver Royal, and that he has opened his mouth, all physiognomists must run and sit at his feet. There is such a man,...

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THE COLONIAL-OFFICE LIST.* ,

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MR. SHIRLEY Bnooxs tells somewhere an amusing story of an aristocratic legislator who for the firsle time in his life turned his attention to the British Colonies, in...

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Edgily and Elgiva. A Tragedy. By Thomas Tilston, B.A. (E.

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Moion and Co.)—A five-act tragedy is a thing of terror, but this is pre- luded by so sensible and modest a preface that we heartily wish we could think it worthy of more praise...

Booth's Shakespeare. Reprint of the Edition of 1623. (Booth.)—The third

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and concluding part of this beautiful reprint from the " first folio " has now appeared, containing the tragedies, and appears to have-been as carefully edited as the preceding...

Ballads. By the Author of Barbara's History. (Tinsley Brothers.)— These

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poems were, the author tells us, nearly all written for music, and the smoothness of the verses admirably adapts them for that pur- pose. They often ponrtray a mood happily, but...

Debrett's Illustrated Buronetage and Knightage, 1865. (Dean and Son.) —There

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are several improvements this year. The Irish and Scotch baronets have been added, as well as the lists of knights; also the Church patronage of the baronets. There is room,...

Anthologia Latina. Edidit Franciscus St. John Thackeray, A.M. (Bell and

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Daldy.)—Of the getting up of this volume we say all that can be said when we say that it is precisely similar to that of the same publishers' Elzevir series. It has often seemed...

The Church of the First Days. Lectures on the Acts

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of the Apostles. By Dr. C. J. Vaughan. Vol. I. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume in- cludes the first eight chapters, and is entitled "The Church at Jerusalem." It is to be...

Shakzpeariana from 1564 to 1864. By Franz Thimm. (Franz. Thimm.)—A

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most useful book. It contains a short sketch of the pro- gress of Shakespearian criticism, a list of the chief complete editions of Shakespeare, and a list of "commentaries,...

Stories of Banks and Bunkers. By Frederick Martin. (Macmillan and

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Co.)—Whatever else may be said of this work, there is no denying that it has the first great merit of being readable. The author has a quick eye for the picturesque, and each of...

CURRENT LITE RAT URE.

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Sermons. By Henry Ward Beecher. Vol. I. (J. Heaton and Son.) —These addresses will, we fear, disappoint the friends of the South, or rather the haters of the North. They are not...

The Songs of Robert Burns. Tales of a Traveller. By

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Washington Irving. (Bell and Daldy.)—We feel bound to call attention to these specimens of what the publishers call their Elzevir series. It is of a rather larger size than the...