21 NOVEMBER 1874

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But a letter in many respects much more weighty than

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that of any of the more eminent persons is that of Mr. Martin Archer Shee in Friday's Times. He apparently maintains that the Church has no power to declare a new dogma, which...

Lepine, a French Canadian, who was Riel's "adjutant-general," and who,

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as head of a mock court-martial, sentenced Thomas Scott to death for opposing the rising in Manitoba, has been seized, tried, and sentenced to death. The Government of the...

Marshal MacMahon has decided, it is said, to meet the

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Assembly with his present Cabinet, and waft a vote of no-confidence before he attempts to change its composition. As it is certain to be attacked, and almost certain to be...

NEWS OF THE WEEK • T HE- country has been a

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little amused, a little interested, and a good deal annoyed by a paragraph which was, at Mr. Disraeli's Tequest, inserted in the Times of Monday. The Premier in his speech at...

The old Roman Catholic families have, on the whole, betrayed

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but little hesitation as to their position. Lord Camoys, indeed, in a letter to last Saturday's Times, much franker in manner, but not so deadly in meaning as Lord Acton's,...

A strange story has been circulated about the Tichborne cant

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It is stated in a letter from Honolulu, dated October 8, published in the New York World, that an old English sailor, named George Claridge, recognised a portrait of Sir Roger...

The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any case.

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• Mr. Disraeli has written to Sir Henry Rawlinson to

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say that after weighing the reasons given for another Arctic expedition, the Government think so highly of the "scientific advantages to be derived from it," and "the importance...

The attack of Russia on the inmate of Khiva has,

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as nasal in the East, destroyed the Khan's power. The Turcomans will not. obey him, refuse to pay taxes, and make attacks on Persian and Russian subjects. It is believed that a...

The Directors of the Al iclland Railway met their shareholders

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at.Derby on Tuesday, to explain their policy in abolishing the second class. They gave as their single motive that the measure would reduce expenses, refused absolutely to...

The Republican victory at Irun has not been followed up,

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General Loma having received orders to re-embark all his troops and proceed to Santander. The troops are said to be enraged, and murmurs are heard that Serrano's Government is...

The " Colston " anniversaries at Bristol yesterday week were

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not very interesting, except so far as regards a speech from Mr. Richard (M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil) at the Liberal meeting, which seems to prove that the loyalty of the Orthodox...

Stories of some grand conspiracy in Russia have been rife

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all the week. It was reported at first that the life of the Czar had been again attempted, and then that a huge conspiracy had been discovered, extending everywhere, and through...

The regular conflict in Central Middlesex between the medical and

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legal professions as to their claims to be considered the fittest coroners ended on Thursday in the usual way, the freeholders deciding for the medical candidate. Four persons...

The Government, and Recruiting officers also, appear to be greatly

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troubled about desertions. Recruiting goes on very well, the establishment is complete, the recruits are fairly good, and if they are young, the effect of the "Queen's salt,"...

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Mr. Fawcett addressed his constituents on Wednesday evening in a

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vigorous speech, the chief points of which were his plea for the extension of household suffrage to the counties, with a com- plete redistribution measure ; his advocacy of some...

The New York Times has been discoursing pleasantly enough on

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American idioms, in the production or conservation of which New Hampshire seems to ciccupy an honourable place. The writer re- marks on the oddity of the adjective handy,' as...

Mr. William Milton sent a letter to Saturday's rues which

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seems to demonstrate that Parliament in 1661 did really an- ticipate the Ritualistic difficulty as to the position of the celebrant, and did also overrule the view of...

Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen made a very good speech at Deal on

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'Thursday, the only fault of which was that he seemed to think the fact that the Conservatives are continuing to do all they blamed the Liberals so unjustly and so severely for...

According to a letter in the Times, signed by Mr.

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J. H. James, the Religious Tract Society needs the instruction to be gathered from some of its own tiresome publications. In 1852, Miss Anne Maury, an American lady, published a...

The Scotch Universities are true to the spirit of the

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day. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow have defeated the Liberal candidate for the Rectorship, and elected a Tory Minister to that not very im- portant or onerous post. The University...

Consohi were on Friday 93i-93f.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DISRAELI-ARNIM AFFAIR. M R. DISRAELI has committed what, in any other man but himself, would be considered an act either of unexpected weakness or remarkable imprudence....

'nib ROMAN CATHOLIC INSURGENTS.

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I T is instructive, and to some extent perhaps consolatory, to a Protestant to observe that the principle of private judgment is so deeply rooted in the human heart and con-...

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THE MIDLAND RAILWAY PLEBISCITIIM.

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WE can understand the action of the Shareholders in the Midland Railway at their great meeting on Tuesday, but we confess we cannot understand the arguments which convinced...

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THE POSSIBLE RES1TRRECTION OF POLAND.

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T O the regular, fairly informed English politician, nothing in foreign politics appears so unlikely as the resurrec- tion of Poland. It is more unlikely than the resurrection...

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CHURCH REFORM OR DISESTABLLSHMENT.

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E VERY speech which comes from a representative man shows that the question which now agitates politicians most is that of the relation of the Church to the State. This week,...

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TITLES IN DENMARK. -

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T HE Radicals of Denmark, the only Radicals in Europe now in possession of a majority in one legislative Chamber, seem to be very badly led. They waste their force in silly...

THE AUTOMATON SUPERSTITION.

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M R. SPALDLNG, in a letter, very able of its kind, which we publish in another column, lends his authority to Professor Huxley's view of the automaton-like character of human...

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THE MA_HARANA OF OODEYPORE.

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A ' Englishmen interested in the government of India should read a private letter from Lieutenant E. C. Yate which has been communicated to the Times, and was published in its...

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A NIGHT-SCENE IN TLIE CRYSTAL PALACE.

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A N individual desirous of forming some notion of the immense labour which it costs to amuse the public on a large scale, could hardly find a scene more suitable for his purpose...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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CONSCIOUS AUTOMATONS. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—You very fairly take advantage of Professor Huxley's anxiety about what the theologians will think and say. You...

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POETRY.

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EVA TUOHILL. Wuo's not heard of Eva Tuohill, Munster's purest, proudest jewel,— Queen of Limerick's lovely maidens, Cork colleens, and Galway girls— With her slender shape...

THE FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH.

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[TO TIER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Will you permit a somewhat close observer of the struggle - which has for some years past been agitating the French Protestant Church...

IRISH CHURCH FINANCE.

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[TO THR EDITOR OF TIER SFRCTA TOR."] Sfa,—I have been travelling about, or I might sooner have notice& Mr. Murphy's allusion in your publication of the 7th inst. to a...

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ART.

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PICTURE EXHIBITIONS IN NOVEMBER. Tars present month of November, with its short days, would doubtless be considered by all good sightseers and country cousins, who come to town...

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BOOKS.

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BANCROFT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.* THE present volume of Mr. Bancroft's work is understood to be the last. It extends over the four years 1778-82, and concludes with the...

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SIR EDWARD STRACHEY ON JEWISH 1TISTORY AND

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roLrncs.* [SECOND NOTICE.] AVE have said that Sir Edward Strachey's conception of the prophetic character seems to us unsatisfactory, and especially so in his partial...

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THE GERMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.*

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lr was at Bremen, on the 24th of October, .1868, on the occasion of a festival to celebrate the safe return of the first German Arctic Expedition, that the question of the...

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FLINTS PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.*

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PROFESSOR FLorr's book is at once very able and unsatisfactory. It is so thorough and laborious, that it might have been written at a German instead of a Scotch University. We...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Dublin Review for October. (Burns and Oates.)—This is the best number of the Dublin we have read for some time. We have already drawn attention to the article which shows...

A Strange Friendship; a Story of New Zealand. By C.

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Evans. (Sampson Low and Co.)—A very strange friendship indeed ! It is a little too much to be told that a man, to screen some worthless relative who has got into a terrible...

Tara : a Mahratta Tale. By Colonel Meadows Taylor. (Henry

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S. Bing and Co.)—This is a very welcome reprint, in one volume, of a most interesting story. As it was reviewed by us when it first appeared, we need do no more now than...

The Bavarian Highlands and the Saldcammergut. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is

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one of those works which generally make their ap- pearance shortly before Christmas. It relies upon its illustrations to please, and the letterpress is a secondary...