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The News From Denmark Itself Arrives Slowly, And In A

very imperfect way. It appears, however, that the King issued on the 6th February an address to the army, in which he confesses that the retreat from the Dannewerke has "thrown......

Mr. Hennessy Asked The Government A Very Embarrassing...

yesterday week about the "miming despatch" to St. Peters- burg. He affirmed that Lord Russell had sent to St. Petersburg a despatch embodying his declaration at Blairgowrie that......

News Of The Week,

THERE has been throughout the week a lull in the Schleswig- - 1 - Holstein war, and the present position of affairs would appear to be as follows ;—The Danes occupy the Island......

Mr. Newdegate Last Night Asked Lord Palmerston In His Place

if, supposing the Germans to enter Jutland, Her Majesty's Govern- ment would adopt a more decisive line of action. Lord Palmer- ston characterized that entrance as "an......

The Pays Calls England The Pontius Pilate Of Politics,...

our only vocation is now to wash our hands of others' guilt while acquiescing in its results. There is something in the taunt. Pontius Pilate was well-meaning, but weak, and had......

Since The Election There Has Been A Regular Cross Fire

of letters and explanations, most of them very ill-tempered. Everybody asserts that everybody else pledged himself to resign on certain conditions, which the offender urges were......

The Liberals Have Lost The Seat For Brighton In The

most im- becile way. They actually allowed four candidates to start, not one of whom had any particular business there—Mr. Fawcett, a man who, being respectable, could never be......

On Monday Night, Lord Campbell Asked Lord Russell Whether...

treaty by which England guaranteed Schleswig to Denmark in 1720 did not bind us to resist any violent separation of that Duchy as a consequence of the present war. The words of......