4 MARCH 1865

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Mr. Cardwell on Friday introduced a most important measure. He

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proposes to permit any colony which desires it to create and man a fleet, or even if necessary to combine with other colonies for that purpose. The plan adopted is to allow each...

"An Englishman" has shown in the Times that Ireland is

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still very thickly populated as compared with moat of the Continental States. Ireland still supports 184 souls to every square mile, France only 178. Spain supports only 80...

The Metropolitan Police have caught the City burglars, a gang

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certainly of six men and women, presumably of more persons, led by a man named Miller, an ex-convict of great daring and some cleverness. They had much of the property upon them...

The Irish debate commenced by Mr. Hennessy on Friday, too

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late for our last impression, terminated on Monday. Mr. Hennessy had moved that "This House observes with regret the decline of the population of Ireland, and will readily...

The English translation of the Emperor's Life of Ciesar has

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appeared, but the French edition is delayed, apparently for want of some maps which the Emperor wishes to accompany his work. There has been no time to read it, but it looks a...

General Scholefield and Admiral Porter captured Fort Anderson, near Wilmington,

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on the 18th February. This will in all proba- bility lead to the fall of Wilmington, and will provide Sherman with a base on the sea from which to operate against Richmond.

NEWS OF TIIE WEEK.

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ri emcees of Sherman is amazingly rapid. The Confederacy, tTaid home one, is a nut with a very hard shell but no kernel. And it seems likely. In one week we have heard of the...

Saville House in Leicester Square, known now as the Eldorado

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Music Hall, was on Tuesday destroyed by fire. The building -was completely gutted, but fortunately there was no wind, and the blocks behind were saved. It is becoming a fashion...

Mr. Benjamin made a great speech at Richmond on the

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9th February, in which, while confessing destitution of men, food, stores for the army of all kinds, he demanded that all true Southerners should give up everything — cotton,...

The Prussian Government has transmitted its ultimatum about the Duchies

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to Vienna. The King demands the right to levy sailors in the Duchies by conscription, the cession of the territory necessary for the Elbe Canal in full sovereignty, the control...

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The local taxes collected throughout Great Britain, including harbour dues,

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which of course are paid ultimately by the consumers of imported articles, amount to 16,617,000/. Taking the imperial taxation at 68,000,0001., we have a burden in round numbers...

Mr. Guinness, the porter brewer of Dublin, has done a

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princely thing. St. Patrick's Cathedral, the great Protestant Church of Ireland, has been for many yearsin a ruinous, and indeed dangerous condition. The very floor had risen,...

On Tuesday Sir John Pakington's motion for a committee to

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consider the advisability of putting the Board of Education under a single responsible Minister in the Commons, and of extending the benefits of the Board so reorganized to the...

A. curious history has been published by the Star of

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the pro- ceedings as to the clerkships held by Mr. Leonard Edmunds in the Patent Office and the House of Lords. He has been seventeen years Reading Clerk and Clerk of Private...

Mr. Justice Montague Smith on Thursday lost a chance at

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Leicester of remedying a great abuse. Fanny Milnes, servant to the postmistress of M thou Mowbray, was charged with stealing four letters. She had not stolen them, but had...

A private telegram was received in London on Tuesday from

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Kurrachee bringing news only eight hours old. The commu- nication between London and Calcutta is therefore complete, and as soon as the Turkish ereploya can be a little better...

Spain is in a fit of loyalty because the Queen

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has offered to sur- render the Royal property, valued at six millions sterling, to the nation. The gift at first sight looks a regal one, but Queen Isabella is Bourbon, and a...

The London Committee for conducting the Local Examinations for the

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University of Cambridge have expressed their hearty approval of the plan for testing by its means the education of girls as well as boys. They have resolved "That this Committee...

It is affirmed in Calcutta correspondence of the 23rd of

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January that the local Government intend to propose to Sir Charles Wood a loan of 10,000,000/. sterling. Debts have been paid off, it is said, too rapidly, and the "balances"...

The Austrian Government seems unable to treat its Reichsrath in

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the Prussian fashion. The Lower Chamber demands reductions, and the Government, after a great many attempts to obtain better terms, has at last consente I to a reduction of two...

The quarrel between Spain and Peru has been settled by

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the Republic agreeing to pay the kingdom 4,000,000/. sterling, which amount will be raised by a further mortgage upon the Guano Islands. It is said that the event, which, though...

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Consols, which left off on Saturday last at 89k k

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for money, and 891 I for the present account, closed yesterday at 89 to 89k for money, 89 to 89k for the present account, and 89i I for April. The stock of bullion both in the...

A very sad boat accident occurred on the Thames at

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Erith on • Tuesday. The training ship Worcester, moored off Erith, has more than 100 cadets on board. On Tuesday the ship's barge and two boats went out to exercise the boys in...

Mr. Highland Garnett, a negro preacher, delivered a sermon by

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request in the House of Representatives at Washington, on Sunday, the 12th February. With negro barristers practising in the Supreme Court, and negro preachers invited to...

In consequence of representations having been made to the Directors

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of the Varna Railway Company that the time for re- ceiving applications for shares was too limited, the last day is extended to March 7th for London and to March 8th for the...

The Sand i diamond, which once belonged to Charles the

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Bold, has been purchased by Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Parsee baronet and millionaire, for 20,000/. The jewel is not a lucky one,'and had he read its history, the fortunate son...

At the approaching meeting of the North British and Mercantile

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Insurance Company, which will be held on Monday next, the Directors will recommend the usual dividend of 10 per cent. The fare premiums received last year were 219,235/„ being...

*Yesterday and on Friday week the leading Foreign Securities left

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off at the following prices :— 72/ .. 70,1 704 .. 72 Consoglds.. .. .. .. .. 521 « as The leading British Railways closed officially at the following prices yesterday and on...

Mr. Bernie on Thursday molied for a committee to inquire

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into the armaments of British ironclads, which he said were inefficient. He argued that the 110-pounder Armstrong was a failure, and that we had no guns which would pierce...

We deeply regret to note the departure of Lord Lyons

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from Washington on the ground of ill-health, and the regret is not lessened by Earl Russell's selection of a successor. Washington is not the place for a second-rate man, and...

Captain Osborn and the Geographical Society have not, we are

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happy to see, been cowed by the papers which affect to attach so much more value to life than the objects of life, into abandoning the Polar expedition. On Monday night Mr....

The trial of Gregorio Mogni, the man who came forward

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to charge himself with the murder of Michael Harrington at the Golden Anchor, ended on Thursday in a verdict of manslaughter. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude as...

The Liberal party ought to win Wallingford at the next

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election, if they do not wreck themselves by dividing their forces. Mr. Melina, Q.C., the present Tory representative of that little - borough, can scarcely be said to be a very...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE IRISH DEBATE. • T HE first Irish debate of the Session, which occupied all Friday and Monday night, was creditable to the House of Commons. The Irish members adhered to...

SALUT PUBLIQUE IN THE SOUTH.

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this extreme test. When her resources in money were absolutely exhausted, when formidable armies threatened her territory, when terror reigned in Paris, the people still sup-...

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SIR COLMAN O'LOGHLEN'S LITTLE BILL.

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O NE of the most striking features of the present Session is the number of "little Bills" which the lawyers have been presenting to the House. Mr. Denman and Sir Fitzroy Kelly...

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MR. GLADSTONE'S FIRST BLOW AT PAUPERISM.

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T HE public scarcely yet understand the immense range of Mr. Gladstone's measure extending the right of pur- chasing State annuities to persons with small means. His object has...

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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CYCLONE.

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M OST people, we imagine, wondered a little at the mention of the Bengal Cyclone in the Queen's Speech, and fancied it a pardonable but bizarre freak of Sir Charles Wood, whose...

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NAPOLEON ON HERO-WORSHIP.

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T IIE Emperor of the French is perhaps the very best writer of State papers in Europe, but the preface to his Life of Cesar, though a State paper, and as such properly published...

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MISS BAKER A/sTD HER DOG "BOBBY."

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THERE is nothing more touching, but also nothing more en- croaching, than the sentiment which unites a true woman with a true dog. " Hev a pup, Miss I it's better nor any...

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D 4.—THE ALBANY.

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T HE heading of this article will convey no idea whatever to 99 out of 100 of our readers. Let us then explain at once that it indicates simply certain chambers in the Albany...

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THE NEW LAW COURTS.

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To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." • 8 .Prince's Buildings, Clifton, February 26, 1865. Snt,—I have read with much pleasure your observations on the proposed new Courts of...

Art.

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GENERAL EXHIBITION OF WATER-COLOURS [SECOND NOTICE.] DRAWING for wood-cuts tends to give a touch ill suited to water , - colour painting. What one has adopted another is...

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BOOKS.

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MISS MACKENZIE.* MR. TROLLOPE is a novelist who requires space to bring out his conceptions to their full perfection ; his longest novels are as a rule his best, and the...

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THE NILE BASIN.*

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THE meeting that was to have taken place at Bath in September last between Captains Speke and Burton would probably have done little towards clearing up the question of how far...

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LALLY TOLLEND.AL.*

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Tama Anglo-Indians always waste their power. Here are two productions received by this mail, in which it would be difficult to say whether power or the waste of power were more...

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PRDETIVE MARRIAGE.*

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MR. MMENNAN brings great learning, much thought, and some quaintness to the consideration of a question which a hundred years ago was much more discussed than it is now, the...

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The Coining Day, and Other Poems. By Henry John Doogood.

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(Cas- sell, Potter, and Galpin.)—These poems are marked by a cheerful piety, which is more than ordinarily pleasing from one who labours under the affliction of blindness. The...

The St. Germain Legends. "For a Pin," "Mignon," "The Nightlight.'

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From the French of J. T. Do Saint Germain. (Chapman and Hall.)— These stories are exceedingly well translated, and really give a tolerably adequate notion of that airy grace...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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We have received from Captain Trotter, whose Studies in Biography we noticed last week, a letter, in which he says "that the names of the authors specially reviewed by him are...

The Philosophy of Health. By Southwood Smith, M.D. (Longman and

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Co.)—This is a revised edition of a book which in 1854 had been already ten times reprinted. The task of preparing it occupied the later years of the author's life, but his...

Misses and Matrimony. By Captain Knollys, of the 93rd Highlanders.

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(John Maxwell and Co.)—A novel in the form of a diary written by a young lady starting for India. It records her life till marriage, and thence till she comes to England. It...

Day Dreams. By John Andrew; B.A. (Longman and Co.)—Some of

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these poems have previously appeared in Once a Week. They are always polished in expression and tender in sentiment, always quite sensible, but we see little power in them, or...

The Old City. By "Aleph." (W. H. Collingridge.)—A series of

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papers contributed to the columns of the City Press, which are, however, by no means confined to the local antiquities of London. The young ROBCIIIS, the Princess Charlotte,...

Last Gleanings. By Frank Fowler, with a preface by a

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friend. (Samp- son Low, Son, and Marston.)—Pleasant, humorous papers, which per- haps rather indicate what the author might have done than represent the man. His whole life...

Cecil Forrester. By Frederick Sheridan. Two vols. (T. Cantley Newby.)—The

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principal character in this worthless novel is the wicked lord who marries a dressmaker under a false name, and deserts her, and attempts to murder her child, and suborns people...

The Victoria Cross. (D. Byrne, Brothers.)—An "official chronicle" of the

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deeds of personal valour for which the Cross was conferred, with • a nominal and alphabetical list of the members of the Order, the Royal Warrant creating it, and a short...

On Long, Short, and Weak Sig& By J. Soellierg Wells.

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Second Edition. (Churchill and Sons.)—This is an enlarged form of Mr. Wells's essay on the modern theories of the accommodation and refrac- tion of the eye founded on the...

Arno's Waters, and Other Poems. By Frances Jane;Forsayth. (Saun- ders,

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Otley, and Co.)—These are very instructive poem; from which the inquiring mind may learn a great deal. The information is often puzzling, but generally novel. For instance, we...

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The British Arms in North China and Japan. By D.

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F. Rennie, M.D. (John Murray.)-Dr. Rennie was senior surgeon of the force which operated in the north of China under Sir Hope Grant, and remained for some time at Pekin as...

Notices Illustrative of the Drama. By W.eKelly. (John Russell Smith.)--The

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author undertook in 1847 to arrange the MSS. in the mnniment-room of the borough of Leicester, and in the course of his labour of love he collected all the entries relating to...