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Mr. Gladstone has declared, with evident reference to Mr. Lowe's

speech at Retford, that no communications ever passed between him and the Queen with reference to the assumption of a new title in relation to the rule of British India. If Mr. Lowe's statement be accurate, it most probably applies to the Administra- tions of Lord Palmerston and the late Lord Derby between 1858 and 1860, when the Mutiny was first put down, and the reign of the Company came to an end. Mr. Gladstone neither confirms nor calls in question Mr. Lowe's Statement, but only asserts that it was not true of his own Administration.

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