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The event of the week in foreign - politics is the

death of the Sultan. He has been succeeded by his brother, said to be a strict Turk, but known to be a man of vigorous health, and not addicted to the vices which destroyed the unhappy Abdul Medjid. The new sovereign is the thirty-second of his- House in the direct male line, an instance of -tenacity wholly without a parallel in the Asiatic dynasties.- .Many of the princes of India trace back much farther, one in particular having an 'historic 'pedigree of more than three thousand years,-but-it is .a pedigree. supplied by adoptions, and not successions by blood. The new Sultan ascended without an imeute- a fact unusual in the histaq of the State.

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