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Our Letters From India Inform Us That The Policy Of

the Indian Government in Afghanistan is to be modified. The hill tribes will be subsidized, on condition that they keep the passes free for trade, and act as a kind of Highland......

Dr. Vaughan On Sunday Delivered A Remarkable Sermon In...

upon the English Establishment. He doubted if the Establishment would last, and told his hearers that Dr. Jeune was accustomed to say, "If I live ten years I shall be the last......

As We Expected, The Story Of The Capture Of Humaita

by the Brazilians was invented at Rio. The Brazilians are in the fortress, but they did not take it, and are worse off than ever they were. A General Osorio, second in command,......

We Often Forget, In Considering Belgian Affairs, The...

bigotry by which part of the population is distinguished. *even colliers have recently been tried at Antwerp for torturing two comrades to death to make them do homage to the......

A Recent Trial Has Caused The Publication Of A Part

of Meyerbeer's will, in which he directs that his notebooks containing unfinished scores and other musical fragments shall be carefully sealed up, and not opened unless one of......

A Report Is Current In Paris That Queen Isabella Of

Spain has offered Napoleon an alliance. If he goes to war with Prussia, the Italians will have Rome, consequently Her Majesty offers him 40,000 Spaniards to garrison the Papal......

The Russian Government Has Published An Account Of Recent...

in Samarcand which we noticed some weeks since. It appears that the small garrison left in the citadel was attacked on 15th June by the Tartars and inha- bitants of the town.......

Mr. Hughes Made A Speech At From On Monday, In

support of Sir II. Rawlinson, which was remarkable for a courageous denun- ciation of the Ballot. If the electors had not the courage to com- bine to resist intimidation, he......

Mr. Grant Duff, As Usual, Makes The Condition Of Foreign

affairs a leading topic in his address to his constituents. Europe, he says, far better governed than she was, "is groaning under the weight of her own armour," and "it is......

Sir Thomas Henry, The Chief Magistrate, Has Stated In The

Bow- Street Court that "Government has determined to put down prize- fighting." Accordingly, Joseph Goss, who had arranged to fight for the championship, and Henry Allen, his......