9 JANUARY 1869

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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C ONFERENCE, it is said, meets to-day in Paris to discuss the Turkish ultimatum, and possibly other things, though these are strictly forbidden, and Aemil Pasha threatens to...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW MOVEMENT IN IRELAND. A GREAT and entirely unexpected change appears to be passing over politics in Ireland. When Mr. Gladstone's proposals were first brought forward,...

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THE RFD:MUSTS AND THE LIBERALS.

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1VI ANY Ritualists, and many who are not Ritualists, who are genuine Liberals, seem to feel that there is something thoroughly inconsistent with Liberal views in either...

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THE PARAGUAYAN WAR. THE PARAGUAYAN WAR. T HE star of Lopez

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and Paraguay seems at last to brighten. When the heroic Dictator, compelled to abandon his position on the Tebiquari, retreated behind the fortifications of his last artificial...

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THE CAMBRIDGE AND THE LONDON SYSTEM FOR WOMEN.

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A N able correspondent in another column answers very completely a rather foolish and ignorant article in the Saturday Review of a fortnight ago on the London University's...

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AMERICAN FINANCE IN 1868.

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T HE Annual Budget of the United States has for Europe not only a financial, but an intellectual interest. The Bourses want, of course, to know, and to know from official...

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We say nothing of Mr. M'Culloch's advice about reductions, and

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new taxes, and all manner of measures not yet passed, and simply ask whether, judged by European standards, that is or is not a good Treasury Budget. Those are the bare facts of...

THE MAN WITH TWO MEMORIES.

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T HE curious, though by no means unexampled case of George Nickern, a German, of New .Orleans, who, after being all but killed by a fall from a platform some months ago, and for...

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THE EMPIRE OF NOVELS

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A N essayist, in the number of the Westminster Review published this week, asks a question which, though purely speculative, has an interest for the students of English...

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A N inquiry into the condition andneeds of Agriculture throughout the

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French Empire may well be described as "a vast and laborious operation." It is a task which was imposed upon a Special Commission appointed by the Imperial Government, in a...

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THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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LXXXVL—CENTRAL ENGLAND: RUTLAND, LEICESTERSHIRE, AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE :—(Concluded.) N EWARK, or as it is called by way of distinction, Newarknpon-Trent, is situated twenty miles...

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THE SATURDAY RETT1EW ON WOMEN'S EXAMINATIONS.

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[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE `. SPECTATOH.1 SIR,—Considering the marked and rapid success which the University of London has attained I venture to think that any well considered plan...

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PALLIATIVES OF DEAFNESS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —It is a fact, though perhaps a paradoxical one, that only confirmed sufferers can perceive the bright side of their afflictions. The...

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THE ST. ALBAN'S JUDGMENT.

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Ef0 TIIE EDITOR OF TI1E "SPECTATOR...) much question the propriety of discussing theology in a newspaper, but as your article last Saturday, "The Double Bearing of the St....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Stmt,—In your article on the Privy Council judgment you assert that " the latter [i.e., the Evangelicals] must even turn their backs to the people during the consecration." Is...

TWO SONNETS.

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'DIE child from rest of heart shouts out its song, And smiles the grateful smile of summer flowers ; Our rest is marred by toil, our right by wrong, Our hearts are joyless in...

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BOOKS.

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MISS COBBE'S TELEOLOGY.* THE difficulty we feel in reviewing Miss Cobbe's survey of the theological tendencies of the day consists chiefly in this, —that while we fully...

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LORD LIVERPOOL.*

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To the generation born since the first Reform Bill Lord Liverpool has ever been a mogul nominis umbra. With these three ponderous volumes tied round his neck, he will not be...

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THE ANILINE COLOURS.*

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IN the year 1856 a young English chemist, experimenting with some of the products derived from coal tar, discovered a new dye of unexampled brilliancy and beauty. Though the...

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SOME MAGAZINES.

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AVE noticed last week the best paper in the Fortnightly, and the remainder of the number is a trifle dull. We notice, however, that the editor either by accident or design, is...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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EvERLASTINO PUNDMIdIetT.—The Kingdom of God; or, What is the Gospel. By Henry Dann. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) The Word! or, Universal Redemption and Salvation. By George Mann...