4 MAY 1867

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It appears certain that, should Conference meet, Prussia will demand

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a European guarantee for Luxemburg, and that Lora Stanley will concede it. We have endeavoured in another place to show the danger of that course, and need only observe here...

NEWS OF Tim WEEK.

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T HE Luxemburg affair looks for the moment a little less dan- gerous. On Monday the Times startled its readers by pub- lishing a telegram with a grand sensational heading, "...

Sir Roundel Palmer replied very ably to Sir John Pakington,

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insisting on the folly of abolishing one " hard and fast line," and refusing to substitute any other as to the figure of the rental, only to set up a new " hard and fast line"...

On the announcement of the majority, Mr. Disraeli, after a

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word or two with Mr. Hardy; stated, to the great surprise of everybody, that after the impor .:nt decision arrived at by the Committee, it was not in his pow, r, " without...

The reports of armaments are fewer .s week, but the

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Moniteur sikatei that the French Army has been raised to its full strength, that the fortresses have been replenished, and that sufficient horses have been purchased to fill up...

But the most important event of Thursday night was, after

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all, Mr. Disraeli's answer to Mr. W. E. Forster, in which he reiterated that the Government had " no wish to connect the new franchises with those which at present exist ;" and...

The Committee on the Reform Bill was not resumed till

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Thurs- day, when Earl Grosvenor withdrew his amendment imposing a 5/. rating franchise, in a few words unintentionally indicating both by tone and manner, the high importance he...

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Mr. Walpole has prohibited by proclamation the proposed meeting in

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Hyde Park next Monday, on the ground that the use of the Park for the purpose of holding such meeting is not per- mitted, and " interferes with the object for which Her Majesty...

The King of Prussia opened his Parliament on the 29th

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April in a speech the main point of which is, that under the Constitu- tion the Federal Parliament gains all that the State Parliaments lose. " No right," says the King, " is...

Sir Stafford Northeote is quite in a pet with the

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public for accusing him of confiscating gas dividends. The opposition, however, has induced him to come to a compromise with the Companies, and the Bill as amended will...

Mr. Trevelyan's speech of Tuesday on the purchase system, though

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not a maiden speech, was the first in which he has pro- duced an impression on the House. Sir John PakingtOn told him a little unkindly that his father had furnished his argu-...

" General " Burke and Patrick Doran, two leading Fenians,

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were on Thursday found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death, a sentence which, as they were no more guilty than their comrades, will, we trust, be commuted. They are...

When all the Railways in England are insolvent the Board

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of Trade will probably offer a plan for putting them on a sound_ footing. The shareholders of the London and Brighton Company have been inquiring into the position of their...

Mr. Hodgson Pratt has done a very clever and a

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very kindly thing. He has made arrangements with the English and French Railways, with the Imperial Commission, and with certain pro- visioners, under which 200 workmen per week...

The meeting of the Hyde Park conspirators on Wednesday, in

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Sussex Hall, Bouverie Street, was somewhat unpleasantly inter- rupted during an oration of Mr. Bradlaugh's by the appearance of Chief Superintendent Walker, Superintendent...

A lodger franchise of course surrenders the no-rate no-vote "principle,"

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which according to Tories is so vital in the case of the poor, so meaningless in the case of the rich. Accordingly a correspondent of the Times writes to suggest that the lodger...

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The Bible Society held its annual meeting at Exeter Hall

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on Wednesday, under the presidency of Lord Shaftesbury, who was elate at having succeeded in gaining permission to exhibit Bibles in a hundred different languages to the eyes of...

The advioes from the Continent in reference to the Luxemburg

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question being considered favourable, the Consol Market was very firm in the early part of the week, and Consols for money touched 911, 1, and for the account, 91f, 1. Since...

The heart of Mr. Baines, the Member for Leeds, has

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indited a -good (but rather lengthy) matter to Mr. Crawford, the Member for the City of London, on the subject of Mr. Gladstone's leader- ship. Undoubtedly his pen is the pen of...

Mr. Walpole has remitted the remainder of the sentence passed

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on Toomer, the man unjustly convicted of rape and sentenced by Justice Shee to fifteen years' penal servitude. In his letter to Toomer's father announcing the fact, Mr. Walpole,...

The Osicestry Advertizer asserts that a lady of considerable property,

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Miss Lloyd, of Laques, has served notices of eject- ment on all her tenants in two counties, because their wives and daughters will wear crinolines, which Miss Lloyd...

Yesterday and on Friday week the leading British Railways left

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off at the annexed quotations :— Great Eastern.. .. G re at Northern .. Friday, April 28. 281 .. 112 Ftittiw, Kay 8 271 110 Great Western.. 41 x.d... 391 Lancashire and...

A still larger deputation of Conservatives, working men and -others,

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was introduced the same day to Lord Derby, and addressed both by him and by Mr. Disraeli. Lord Derby began by a well deserved compliment to Mr. Disraeli's management and tact,...

A white bear got loose from a menagerie the other

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day at Nottingham, and strayed into a field where some labourers were at work. They looked at the strange animal, thought it looked dangerous, and went off to call the police,...

Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli received two deputations on Tues-

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-day in support of their Reform Bill. Mr. Disraeli described his measure to some working men from Norwich as really a restoration of the " scot-and-lot franchise" existing...

The closing prices of the leading Foreign Securities yesterday and

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on Friday week are subjoined:— Friday, April 26. Friday, May 8. Mexican .. 15 .. 1.51 Spanish Passives .. 10 .. 20 Do. Certificates .. 12} .. 13 Turkish 0 per Cents.,...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE HITCH IN THE GOVERNMENT. I T was obvious in the Committee on the Reform Bill, on Thursday night, not only from the division on the Residence question and Mr. Disraeli's...

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THE PARTY RESULT OF MR. DISRAELI'S REFORM BILL. T HINGS very

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rarely go precisely as they are expected to go. The Tories just now are very elated, under the idea that this Reform Bill will pass, and the Liberals are very de- spondent, and...

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THE PROPOSED DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK.

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T HE Reform League seem bent on a betise. Are these men or children who want to go into the Park just because somebody says they shan't, and that somebody a Secretary of State,...

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THE CONFERENCE ON LUXEMBURG. A FFAIRS look a little more peaceful,

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but not much. Lord Stanley has succeeded in gaining time for further nego- tiation, and the British public, which is openly anxious for peace, and covertly anxious to see...

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THE MAIN DEFECTS OF A NA'T'IVE STATE.

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T HERE are two evils in the constitution of every Indian State, as now organized, upon which we were unable to touch last week, but which must be described to make its poli-...

MR. G. TREVELYAN ON PURCHASE. T HE only defect in Mr.

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Trevelyan's speech in favour of abolishing the Purchase System is that it is premature. The country is not awake as yet to the need of Army Reform, still less to the need of...

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THE POSSIBLE IMMORALITY OF SELF-DENIAL.

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S OME of the advocates of Trades' Unions seem disposed to go. very far, so far that they will, before long, produce a reac- tion. That deep pity for human suffering which is the...

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THE FEMININE ELEMENT IN "THE MODERN SPIRIT."

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N an admirable article in the May number of Fraser's Magazine I on " The Modern Spirit," the writer points out the double current of thought which has been undermining the old...

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1. I admit that the " he who knoweth" and

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the " he who bare witness" is the same person, but I say the change of tense is most natu- rally explained by supposing that the writer of the Gospel, having first indicated, by...

THE LIBERAL PRESS AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE' ARMY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A correspondent to whom you have granted all the honours: of large and leaded type, in a letter published in your last impres- sion on...

THE LAND LAWS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—in your notice (Spectator, April 27) of the recently published volume, Questions for a Reformed Parliament, you observe, with reference...

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A - R T.

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THE WATER-COLOUR SOCIETIES. THESE Societies, which have simultaneously opened their Exhibi- tions, have each their special attractions. In the way of novelty the Inatitute...

"A TALE OF LUDLOW CASTLE."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts,—May I correct a slight error, not of opinion, but of fact, in last week's Spectator? In a kindly notice of my Tale of Ludlow Castle,...

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BOOKS.

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THE CLAVERINGS.* Ma. TROLLOPE has treated, in both Can You Forgive Her? and The Belton Estate, the subject of a girl who does not fully know her own mind as to which of two...

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THE KEYS OF ST. PETER.*

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Tins heavy volume is really, though not nominally, a continua- tion of Mr. de Bunsen's previous work upon the Hidden Wisdom. In that work Mr. de Bunsen employed great learning...

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COAL AND COAL-ALINING.*

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Mn. WARINGTON Su= has very aptly supplied a distinct want that has been felt in the literature of the practical arts. He fur- nishes us with a clear and interesting account of...

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ON THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY.*

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THE new issue of Mr. Buckle's work gives a good occasion for reconsidering his estimate of the value of early history. Holding strongly and justly to the results of modern...

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EGGS AND POULTRY AS A SOURCE OF WEALTH ! !*

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THEsE notes of admiration are not ours, but if they had not been wed, we should have felt inclined to remedy the omission, for aselltess * Eggs and Poullr y as a Source of...

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Ada Moore's Story. (Tinsley.)--Rubbish of the Minerva Press kind,

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wicked nabobs with dried-up livers, gloomy lovers who have nearly killed previous wives, and ghostly figures which talk demi-blank verse, and give medicines of mysterious...

Sir Hubert Marston. By Sir F. Vincent. (Chapman and Hall.)—Read-

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able, and simply written by a man who has probably seen many men, but that, we fear, is all we can say. Sir Hubert is the regular novel hero, Susan the regular novel heroine,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Church Embroidery. Embroidery. By Anastasia Dolby. (Chapman and Hall.)— For those interested in the subject this gorgeous volume will probably, be found a perfect guide. Its...

Descriptive Handbook of America. By G. W. Bacon and W.

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G. Larkins. (Bacon and Co.)—We have submitted this work to native judgment, and have heard it praised for accuracy. To a stranger it seems marvellously full of information, and...

moter, as he ought to be called, is a failure,

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a mere outside sketch, but there is a Dr. Kealwin, a selfish but intellectual voluptuary, who is described with some power as a man who enjoys every pleasant thing go- fer as it...

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Au alia as It Is. By a Clergyman. (Longmans.)—Some interest-

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details and anecdotes are given in this book, but the author does not seem to have sifted the gossip he picked up, or to have viewed it without prejudice. We allude especially...

Pocket French Dictionary. By Ferdinand E. A. Gaso. (Bell and

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Daldy.) Paris: a Handbook, or French at Sight. (R. Washbourne.) — The visitor to Paris during the Exhibition will do well to put the first of these two books in his pocket. We...

Don Carlos, Infant of Spain. Translated from the German of

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Schiller. By Thomas Selby Egan, M.A. (Williams and Norgate.)—Mr. Egan has "endeavoured to combine an order of words sufficiently close to the text to be useful to the learner of...

The Book of Knots, being a Complete Treatise on the

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Art of Cordage. Illustrated by 172 diagrams. By "Tom Bowling." (Hardwicke.)— The idea of this little work struck us as excellent, but after reading it and examining the plates...

The Instructive Picture Book. By Adam White. (Edinburgh, Edmonston and

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Douglas.)—This is a seventh edition, but we do not like to dismiss it without a word of commendation. The plates it contains . are exceedingly good, and bring nearly the whole...

Shakespeare Some Notes on his Character and Writings. By a

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Student. (Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas.)—We do not find much for approval or for dissent in this little volume. The author has read Shakespeare with attention, and has...

Emmanuel; or, the Incarnation of the Son of God the

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Foundation of Immutable Truth. By the Rev. M. F. Sadler. (Bell and Daldy.)—We can fully believe that this work is an expansion of a series of parochial lectures delivered to a...

Geschichte der &sawn des britischen Reichs. Von W. Vocke (Triibner.)—This

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is a truly German work in the highest sense of the ;term. Herr Vocke gives us the history and statistics of the taxation of the British Empire, beginning with Magna Charts, and...

The Student's Chart of English Literature. Arranged by J. W.

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Morris, F.L.S. (Longmans.)—Mr. Morris says that the plan of this chart is but partly original. We should pay him a higher compliment. It seems to us very original, though not...

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Thoughtful Moments and Scriptural Studies is not always very clear

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or very definite. But he is careful and moderate, and when he does make a suggestion it is evidently the fruit of much reflection. The longest essay in his present work is...

Domestic Medicine: Plain and Brief Directions for the Treatment Requisite

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before Advice can be Obtained. By Offiey Bohan Shore. (W. P. Nimmo.)—Dr. Shore does not want to deprive his colleagues of any patients, and therefore his directions are...

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