28 JANUARY 1865

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On Tuesday the President of the Poor-Law Board opened a

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literary institute at Willenhall without succeeding in giving utterance to very much beyond the conventional congratulations. Within thirty years, said Mr. Villiers, the place...

Mr. Frederick Peel addressed his constituents at Bury on Wed-

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nesday, probably without leaving his mark on their minds. He explained that 10,000,0001. of taxes had been removed since 1860 without loss to the revenue, and illustrated the...

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The Prussian Chamber is taking a singular, and it may

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be a wise course. In the sitting of the 24th of July it resolved on the motion of Herr von Twesten to reject an address proposed by the Tories, which simply endorsed the King's...

We have had but one driblet of news from America

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this week, which arrived on Monday. It contained the tidings that General Butler was superseded in his command at City Point by General Ord,—so the last of the volunteer...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HEQueen has addressed a remarkable letter to the directors of most of the great railways centred in London, calling on them to take further precautions against accidents. Her...

Mr. Leatham made an able speech to his constituents at

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Hud- dersfield on Tuesday, moulded, however, a little too carefully after the style of his leader and brother-in-law Mr. Bright. When he prayed at the end, on behalf of the...

Mr. Emerson has recently delivered a lecture on education, advocating

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the right of students to elect their professors. Why not be logical, and declare at once for the right of children to elect their fathers ?

We have spoken in another column of Captain Osborn's admirable

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speech on the proposed expedition to the North Pole. Ifb not only anticipated the exaggerated fears of the Times, but slowed how easily with two good ships a really safe...

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London was visited this day week by one of the

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densest fogs seen for years. It was impossible at 11 p.m. even to see the side lamps, the roads were as slippery as glass, and locomotion almost ceased. The accidents were...

Mr. Milner Gibson addressed his constituents at Ashton on Tuesday,

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in a long and clever but rather indefinite speech. After describing the desire of the Foreign Secretary and himself to pro- mote English commercial interest's abroad, and...

It is stated on good authority that the Calcutta cyclone

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cost sixty thousand lives. It is known, for example, that before the storm wave struck Saugor Island there were 8,200 persons on it. When it had passed only 1,200 remained, and...

It is stated that there are 156 petitions to be

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heard in the Divorce Court during this term. It is impossible that the Judge could get through them and the probate cases also, and the terrible injustice arises that a...

Telegraphic communication between England and India was completed on the

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17th lust , and on the same day Lieutenant- Colonel Patrick Stewart, director-general of the undertaking, died at Constantinople. The achievement was not worth that price. There...

Colonel Charras, the famous French exile, died last Monday, and

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it must be admitted that the Republicans have never experienced a more irretrievable loss since the sudden death of Cavaignac. They looked upon Charras as their military leader...

Prince Couza, the virtual Dictator of the Principalities, has de-

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clared the National Church independent of Constantinople. It will be governed nominally by a synod, practically'by himself.

The Russian Government has published what it calls a budget.

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A decent English accountant would call it an estimate of the certain expenditure and possible receipts of Russia for 1885, but in St. Petersburg people take what is given them...

The Reds of France are unlucky this week. Colonel Charms'

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death was followed almost immediately by that of M. Proudhon, so well known as the author of La Propriete c'est le Vol and other revolutionary works. He was regarded by many...

The guardians of St. Pancras seem to have hit on

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a funny mare's nest. A pauper named Smart, in the workhouse of that parish, said he was a relative of Lord Bathurst and heir to 1,000 acres in the town of Leicester, and other...

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• The department of the Charente Inferietire, which has usually

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been Bonapartist, has this week returned M. de Bethmont, an Opposi- tion candidate, by 13,326 votes to 9,318. The event is considered in France somewhat significant, as the...

A statement was telegraphed to London on Friday week that

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the Masters' Association of the Midland Counties had agreed after a sharp debate to withdraw the " discharge note," and submit all differences with their workmen to arbitration....

The leading Foreign Securities left off yesterday and on Friday

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week at the following prices :— The following were the closing prices of the leading British Railways yesterday and on Friday week :- Caledonian .. Friday, Jan. 20. 181}...

Consols, which closed on Saturday last at 891 for money,

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and 891 for account, left off yesterday at the same quotations both for money and time.

A somewhat extraordinary charge was brought before the Mayor of

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Nottingham the other day. At a recent dinner Sir R. Clifton had charged Mr. Pilbeam Cox with offering to secure his (Sir It. Clifton's) election for 500/. Sir Robert said he...

The Directors of the Bank of England have this week

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reduced their minimum rate of discount to 5 per cent. The stock of bul- lion held by that establishment is now 14,317,2151., whilst the supply in the Bank of France has...

A meeting of the Board of Management of the Bishop

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of Lon- don's Fund was held on Tuesday to hear the first report. Of the 1,000,000/. sterling which the Bishop proposed to raise within ten Sears, rather more than one-tenth,...

It is reported by two distinct authorities that the Vatican

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be- lieves the Encyclical a mistake, and that a letter is about to be -addressed by Cardinal Antonelli to all Nuncios directing them to explain that it was only intended to have...

Mr. O'Hagan, the Attorney-General for Ireland, has accepted the judgeship

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vacant by the death of Mr. Ball, and Mr. Lawson is to be his successor as Irish Attorney-General. In Mr. O'Hagan Parliament has lost one of a very diminutive class,—really...

The intelligence from the far East this week is all

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bad. The Taeping rebels appear by the latest accounts from China to be suddenly extending their ravages over the southern provinces, but the accounts are as yet too indefinite...

The Bishop of Rochester and Lard Ebury have had a

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funny correspondence. The Bishop wrote to Lord Ebury with an appeal for aid for some of the poorest livings in his diocese. Lord Ebury, who is a little given to sermons, and...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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" KID-GLOVE " LIBERALS. T FIERE is a school of politicians in England, who, Liberal in name and in some of the objects which they have close at heart, bear to true Liberals the...

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THE MALT TAX.

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L IBERALS are apt to be a little unfair in their arguments for the malt tax. They will not always reason the matter oat as a question of national policy, but treat it too...

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THE NORTH POLE.

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I T is sufficiently odd that in the eager controversy which divides the British public on the subject of Arctic enter- prise opinions are apparently wholly unconnected with...

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THE LAW OF SPIRITUAL TRIBUNALS.

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T HE great contest is now close at hand. A few more weeks, and that mysterious scheme for the reform of the Final Court of Appeal in ecclesiastical causes will be unmasked. As...

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"SEVEN PER CENT."

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T HE Edinburgh Review which appeared this week, contains an article with this title, which will, we think, attract some attention among men careless as a rule of " City" ques-...

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THE INDIAN JACQUES BONHOMME.

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T HE Times of Tuesday contained a letter giving a striking picture of the social revolution in Bombay. A new trade of fifty millions a year yielding unheard-of profits has been...

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MR. FECHTER IN MELODRAMA..

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A RE those the greater actors who have the least personality of their own and the greatest power of merging them- selves temporarily in any form of character vividly presented...

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THE SCOTTS OF BUCCLEUCH. --(CONCLUDED.)

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T " little Countess Mary being the greatest heiress in Scotland, was coveted as a bride by most of the noble families of that coun- try. The clan of Scott especially vied with...

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To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."

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SIR,—Your review of Mr. de Bunsen's work on The Hidden Wisdom of Christ raises some important questions, on which I venture to make a few remarks. Of the author's assertion...

Abbey Lodge, Regents Park, January 17, 1865.

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Sra,--Allow me to make a few observations with regard to the principal questions to which your valued review of my work refers. It is sufficient to point to the Gospels for the...

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BOOKS.

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MICHAEL ANGELO.* HERNIAS GRIMM has executed his task as a labour of love, ran- sacking all the museums of Europe for evidence on the life of his hero, but using his vast...

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MISS CRAIG'S POEMS..

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• Aldan dynes, ikc. By la& Craig. London: Bira`lan,1864. THERE is grace in almost all the poems in this little volume, and true poetical feeling in many of them, though but...

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CUMWORTH . HOUSE.*

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IT is said tat the weight of paper written upon at the Mathe- matical Tripos Examination at Cambridge, in the eight days, is about eight stone—say the weight of an average...

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NURSERY MAGIC.*

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JEAN JAceuEs RoussEAu held that the best way of instructing children was to teach them the simplest things in the simplest words. Mr. Septimus Piesse, Ph.D., F.C.S., thinks the...

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On Certain Theories of Education as Illustrated by the Report

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of the Public Schools' Commission. A Lecture. By J. G. Greenwood, B.A., Princi- pal of Rogers' College, Manchester. (Sowler and Sons.)—The dispute between the votaries of the...

Functional Diseases of the Stomach. Part I. Sea - sickness ; its

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nature and treatment. By John Chapman, M.D. (Trubner.) —We noticed a year or more ago the success which Dr. Chapman's method of treating the circulating through the nervous,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Tale of Danish Heroism. By J. E. H. Skinner, special corres- pondent of the Daily News during the late war. (Bickers and Son.)— If the interest of Mr. Skinner's narrative...

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£schylus Translated into English Prose. By F. A. Paley, M.A.

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(Bell and Daldy.)—Mr. Paley is well known to students as the editor of the edition of 20schylus in the Bibliotheca Classica, and he has now put forth this translation as a...

Martin Tobin. A novel. By Lady Campbell. Three volumes. (John

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Maxwell and Co.)—An average novel, the object of which is rather to give a picture of Now Zealand in the early days of the settle- ment than to present life from its ideal...

Errors of Modern Science and Theology. By James Alexander Smith.

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(Murray and Co.)—This gentleman commences by recommending non- scientific readers to peruse his book on the skipping principle. We heartily concur in this recommendation, of...

vincial students. We will also say at once that she

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appears to us to be influenced by a sincere desire for truth. Having said that much, we must also add that if this book were not supremely ridiculous it would be supremely...

Harmonic Maxims of Science and Religion. By the Rev. W.

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Baker, Vicar of Cramby, near York. (Longman and Co.)—The author's design is to prove that certain given maxima must be observed in order to obtain accurate knowledge of nature...

The Witness of the Eucharist; or, the Institution and Early

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Celebration of the Lord's Supper considered as an evidence of the historical truth of the Gospel narrative and of the Christian doctrine of the atonement, is unmistakeably the...

The Astronomical Observer. A Handbook to the Observatory and the

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Common Telescope. By W. A. Darby, M.A., F.R.A.S., Rector of St. Luke's, Manchester. (Robert Hardwicke.)—This is "a catalogue of teles- copic objects " for amateur observers,...

two, but ten of his false antagonists. Tho hero is

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the Count St. Michael Donetz, leader of the Cossacks of the Don, or his white horse, for we are not certain ; but as the white horse is a mare, perhaps she may be regarded as...

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Some Thoughts on the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. By

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the Rev. Robert Eden, MA., late Fellow of C.C.C., Oxon, Honorary Canon of Norwich, and Vicar of Wymondham. (B. M. Pickering.)—We wel- come this contribution to the great...

Crescent? and Other Lyrics. By H. Cholmondeley Pennell. (Edward Meson

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and Co.)—The first of these poems seems to be an answer to the question whether poetry is "crescent" or on the wane. Like all the author's writing, it has thought in it, and...

Belts English Poets. Songs of the Dramatists. Samuel Butler's Poems.

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Vol L (Griffin and Co.)—Two more volumes of this excellent series have reached us, of which the first seems to deserve something more than a merely formal notice. The songs to...

The Public Schools' Calendar, 1865. Edited by a Graduate of

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Oxford. (Rivington.)—This fat little volume will be welcome to anxious parents and guardians. It tells them allabout the chief public schools and what are the rewards they...

The Cruise of the B. Y. S. Eva. By Arthur

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Kavanagh. (Hodges, Smith, and 0°0—The author tells us that he was moved to write an account of his shooting cruise along the shores of Albania by a remark in the Field...

Outline Sketches in the High Alps of Dauphin4 By T.

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G. Bonney, M.A., F.G.S., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Longman and Co.) Mr. Bonney has limited himself to the composition of a guide- book for travellers in a...

Mr. Christopher Katydid of Casconia. A Tale. Edited by Mark

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Heywood. Two volumes. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)—Unable to make much of the novel, the reader will perhaps in his despair turn to the preface, and we shall be much surprised...

of singular fulness, and there is even a concise account

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of our col /ILO possessions and of all foreign countries ; the latter, however, is not quite as accurate as it might be, the editor not having yet heard of the death of King...

The Sunday Magazine. January, 1865. Besides papers of a directly

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religious character, Gotthelf 's excellent tale of "Kate the Grandmother" is continued, and there is an interesting notice of the late Joseph Sturge, written, however, with that...

Sketches of Christian Life in England in the Olden Time.

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By the Author of Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—Very inferior to the writer's previous work, and probably merely the result of the success of...

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Lilliput Levee. (Alexander Strahan.)—Daddy's Makings. (Dean and Son.)—The first of

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these volumes is of considerable pretensions, the verses having often serious merit, and the illustrations being by pencils no less skilful than those of Messrs. Pinfold and...

Three Notelets on Shakespeare. By William J. Thome, F.S.A. (John

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Russell Smith.)—The most important of these essays is tho second, which consists of a series of papers from the Atheneum on Shakes- peare's knowledge of what Mr. Thorns has...

The History of a Voyage to the Moon. (Lockwood and

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Go.) — If the writer had been lucky enough to live before Edgar Poe he might have got credit, but as his idea is unfortunately the same as that writer's people will say he...

Barry O'Byrne. By Annie Thomas. Three vole. (John Maxwell and

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Co.)—If Miss Thomas means to keep the laurels she won by Denis Dense, she must not publish many such novels as this. The incidents are extravagait to a degree, and...