18 FEBRUARY 1865

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Mr. Cardwell will rejoice in the decision of the New

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Zealand Ministry, and had better recall Sir George Grey if he wishes it to be successfully carried out. Mr. Cardwell himself evidently feels that the policy of the war is...

The danger of the Ministry is the Governor. No one

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trusts him, and before Mr. Weld could even hope to form a ministry he was compelled to obtain a written promise from Sir George Grey to support his programme. Even the natives...

Mr. Blair's mission to Richmond did produce—a certainty that peace

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is as yet impossible. He persuaded Mr. Davis, or Mr. Davis convinced himself, that it would be better to let the peace party try what they could do by way of negotiation, and...

NEWS OF TIIE WEEK.

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T HE Emperor of the French opened the Session. on Tuesday in a long and exhaustive speech, the general object of which was peaceful. He announced that Italy had become a great...

Monsignore Chigi, Nuncio in Paris, has been ordered to eat

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humble pie. He had written a letter to the Bishop of Poitiers, Monsignore Pie, commending his disobedience to the law in the matter of the Encyclical, and the worthy Bishop...

Mr. Roebuck put his promised query to Mr. Gladstone on

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Tuesday night. He asked whether the Government intended to institute any inquiry into our Railway system with a view to legis- lation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied...

New Zealand is going to make a bold and most

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laudable attempt to rid itself of our blind interference by dispensing with our military assistance, at least in internal wars. The old Ministry has at last succeeded in...

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From 1st March the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway will

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run trains for working-men between Victoria and Ludgate Hill, but the experiment has been commenced in a half-hearted way. The tickets will cost a shilling a week, and be...

Sir George Grey is gradually attaining sounder views of prison.

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discipline. The Prison Bill introduced on Monday night is all in theright direction. It consolidates the previous Acts, does something towards defining hard labour, lays down a...

Sir Charles Wood announced on Tuesday that he intended to

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send the regiments ordered to India in relief by the overland route. How is he going to send them? We trust in extra steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, otherwise...

Colonel Fraser, Commissioner of the City Police, has forwarded a

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defence of himself and force to the Court of Aldermen in answer to the attacks based upon the jewel robbery on Coruhill. His de- fence is in brief that all the recent robberies...

Gregorio Mogai, the man who, weeds that he killed Malaga

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Harrington at the Crown and Anchor, Saffron Hill, has been com- mitted for trial. Pelizzioni, the man now under sentence, will therefore of course be respited until the result...

The Crown and Parliament in Prussia have as yet arrived

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at no agreement. The Government, it appears, in order to sever the -working classes from the Liberals, has promised to introduce measures for establishing co-operative societies...

Colonel Anderson's application for a re-hearing of the Codring- ton

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case was dismissed on Tuesday.

The builders in the Midland Counties, both masters and men,

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seem to have learned wisdom. On Friday night, the 10th inst., a great meeting was held in the Birmingham Town Hall, which decided that disputes ought to be settled by...

Half batta has been abolished throughout India. In other words,

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an officer will no longer be taxed for the privilege of being ordered to the most expensive stations in the empire, via., the stations within 200 miles of a Presidency town.

General Butler, since his enforced retirement at Lowell, has made

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a very malicious and discreditable speech against his superior officer, General Grant. and his naval colleague, Admiral Porter. He wishes his epitaph to be, " Here lies the...

The ironmasters of Staffordshire, tired, it would seem, of the

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end-. less demands of the " puddlers," who are always striking because without them the work of hands ten times as numerous as them- selves cannot go on, have given notice of a...

The Government did not get the seat for Truro vacated

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by the elevation of Mr. Montague Smith to the Bench, the Liberal, Cap- tain Vivian, being beaten by the l'au, ALA; Williams, by 249 to 229.

Convocation is not happy in its mind about the Divorce

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Act. The Lower House has complained that it irritates the consciences of the clergy, and the Bishop of Oxford, besides admitting that fact, deprecated strongly the publication...

The Bill for providing a Palace of Justice was read

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a second time on Thursday. The site finally selected is that known as the . Carey-Street one. Some 400 houses, occupying seven acres between the Strand and Lincoln's Inn Fields,...

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In the open market there has been a good demand

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for accommo- dation at 4 to 5 per cent. for the best short-dated paper. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now 14,553,8711., whilst the supply in the Bank of France...

The Commission for revising the subscriptions of the clergy leave

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presented their report. What they propose is certainly an improvement so far as it goes, the more so that it was expressly meant by the Commissioners to solve small scruples in...

Dr. Gray, the Bishop of Capetown, has denied the charge

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brought against him by the Bishop of Natal of having asked the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel not to honour the drafts of clergymen in the Natal diocese without being...

Yesterday and on Friday week the leading Foreign Securities left

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off at the following prices:— Greek •• •• Do. Coupons Mexican Spanish Passive •• Do. Certificates •• •• s• Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. .• 1882.. 1". „ s. Friday, Feb. 10....

Last Sunday George Victor Townley, condemned to death for the

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murder of Miss Goodwin, and reprieved on the ground of temporary insanity, but afterwards committed to the Model Prison at Pentonville, committed suicide. It seems that he...

The leading British Railways closed officially at the following prices

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yesterday and on Friday week :- Friday, Feb. Caledonian ............14 10. Friday, Feb. 17. .. 1313 Great Eastern .. — .. — .. 1 4 31f .. 46 Great Northern .. . • .. .....

The criticisms hitherto passed on Earl Spencer's " Wimbledon Park

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Bill" (read a first time in the Commons) are fully justified by the alterations which, as appears by a " second series " of " Further papers relating to the improvement of...

The British Consul at Newchang reports to the Shanghai Chamber

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of Commerce the existence of a silkworm which feeds upon oak leaves. The silk is a little coarse, but the Chinese mix it with cotton, and so make silk of a rough texture, which...

Consols, which left off on Saturday last at 891 1

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for delivery, and 89i 1 for time, closed yesterday at 891 1 for money and 891 I for account.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. n Emperor's speech differs curiously from the Queen's. ong, argumentative, and well written, full of those oracular and almost mystic sentences in which...

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THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

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11 . 1 intelligence which arrived is London on Wednesday of the despatch of Confederate peace agents to confer with Mr. Lincoln at Fortress Monroe,—the first time any step has...

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MR.GLADSTONE ON RAILWAY REFORM. T HERE are only two modes of

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carrying a great innovation in a constitutional country. One is to bring forward with great eclat a measure so large and as it were so dramatic that it touches the popular...

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THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.

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H OW many among the readers of this journal have read " Tancred," the wild novel in which Mr. Disraeli poured out his thoughts about the Hebrew race, and the Asian mys- tery,...

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MR. WOODGATE AND THE MORNING POST.

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A NEW era is dawning for an ill-used race of men, and there is joy in the chambers of Gray's Inn and the marble halls of the Law Institution. An attorney has got 1,0001. by a...

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CARDINAL WISEMAN'S ROMAN CATHOLICISM. rpHE late Cardinal Wiseman is reported

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to have professed _1 before the last administration of extreme unction that he had never entertained a single doubt on any point in any article of the Catholic creed in his...

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THE DUKE AND THE BUTLERS.

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TI1HE Duke of Sutherland being a Duke, and one of the richest 1 personages in the kingdom, is perhaps the best man to lead an attack upon butlers' perquisites. Any person of...

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FRANCE IN AMERICA.

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, January 28, 1865. Mimic° and the French Emperor loom largely upon our horizon this week, ambiguously threatening war and promising...

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THE FEDERAL PRISONS.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Liverpool, February 12, 1865. Sra,—Will you allow me to call your attention to an error in the application of the figures in your impression...

Manchester, February 15, 1865. SIR,—I have reason to think that

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some of your readers have regarded the strike of the Manchester bricksetters against myself with interest, and that they will be glad to know that the difficulty has now come to...

arts,

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GENERAL EXHIBITION OF WATER-COLOUR DRAW- INGS AT THE DUDLEY GALL'ERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. [FIRST NoricE.] A WANT long felt has at last been supplied. It is only one...

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BOOKS.

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THE BRAZIL CONTROVERSY.* THEREis a rumour—to which Lord Derby's sharp parenthetic cen - sure on our Brazil policy on the opening night of the session may probably have given...

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TUSCAN SCULPTORS.*

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MR. PERKINS prefaces his book with a complaint that Italian sculpture has in comparison with Italian painting found but few admirers or illustrators, and he suggests that the...

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KATE KENNEDY.*

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WE recommend this book to that large class of novel-readers which demands from fiction innocent pleasure, and innocent pleasure simply. Hardened critics as we are, we have read...

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A GERMAN CATHOLIC ON ROME.*

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THE writer of this little volume of letters was a kindly genial Tyrolese priest, the native freshness of whose pleasant mind remained to the last unwarped by any infection of...

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Lilian Gray. A Poem. By Cecil Home. (Smith, Elder, and

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Co.).— A poem which bears the same relation to Tennyson's English idylls that the "Bridal of Triermain " boars to the "Lay of the Last Minstrel." It is what " Trierrnain " was...

The City at.Night, and Other Poems. By B. Williams - (a_working - tuaa).

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(Murray and Co.)—This is a 'bOok which it is'very difficult to criticize, for the author in a very modest and well-written preface insists on NA earnestness with which he has...

Evenings on the Thames. By Kenelm Henry Digby. 2 vols.

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Second edition. (Longman and Co).—Serene hours and what they require are the theme Mr. Digby undertakes to treat, and if all the conditions he enumerates are really requisite,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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A Latin - English Dictionary. Abridged from the larger work of White and Riddle.. By the Bev. John White, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. (Longman and Co.)--Though...

Ephemera. By Lord Lyttelton, (John Marray.)—A. miscellaneous volume of speeches,

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pamphlets, lectures, and letters, many of which have been published before. Such volumes do not seem to deserve much favour, but Lord Lyttelton has at least the courage to...

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Goody Platts. By Thomas Miller. (Sampson Low, Son, and Mara-

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ton.)—.A. tour de force of seventy-eight pages in words of one and two syllables, with a frontispiece depicting an old woman in a scarlet cloak, a blue gown, and yellow...

Stories about St. Phut By Emily G. Nesbitt. (Hat,chard and

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Co.)— Very nicely written accounts of the facts of St. Paul's We for very young children. But it would be better if those: who write this class of work would be more careful to...

Dunmara. By Ruth Murray. 3 vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—

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The offset of this romance. is produced. by the exaggeration of feeling which - is eo common in the writings of clever women. When anything uncommon happens to her hero or...