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Tion To Support Herat Against The Persian Invasion Would Not

take the shape of war against Persia, but would be simply a de- fensive act, leaving the responsibility of consequences to the aggressors on the spot. There would have been some......

News Of The Week.

EXPECTATION now concentrates upon Paris, where the members of the Conference are gradually receiving their authority to sit for the several Powers. While we write, the authority......

President Pierce's Message To The American Congress,...

is rose-coloured in its view of the internal condition and circumstances of the Union; but in various passages there are signs of considers.ble irritation and of an uneasy......

Queen Victoria Went Down To Cowes The Other Day, On

purpose to receive from the hands of a special messenger an unusual gift. This was no less than the returned Resolute of Sir Edward Bel- cher's squadron ; which, abandoned by......