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writings. We may add too that he was most liberal in com-
municating the notes he had brought together of the con-
tents of the collection to fellow-students who sought his
assistance, and that not a few or the least important of the
publication from these manuscripts by other editors were
undertaken at his suggestion.
We have thought it well to bring into one view all the
important results of Dr. Cureton's examination of the Syriac
manuscripts in the British Museum. But these do not em-
brace all his labours in the field of Oriental literature. He
was an active promoter, if not the founder, of the Society
for the Publication of Oriental Texts, of which he was the
honorary secretary until about the year 1850, and for which
he edited Al Sharastani's " Book of Religious and Philoso-
phical Sects," published in two parts in 1842 and 1846 ;
Rabbi Tanchum's " Commentary on the Book of Lamenta-
tions," published in 1843, and in the same year en-Nasafi's
" Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites." He was also an
active member of the committee of the Oriental Translation
Fund, of which he became deputy chairman in 1848, and
chairman in 1863, on the death of Mr. Beriah Botfield. In
1859 Dr. Cureton was appointed by the Queen the Crown
trustee of the British Museum. In 1855 Dr. Cureton was
elected a corresponding member of the Institute of France,
to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Dr, Gaisford,
and in 1860 he succeeded Professor Wilson as Foreign As-
sociate of the Institute. He was also a member of many
other learned societies of Europe, and a Fellow of the Royal
Society of London.

CONTENTS.
1. Maud Ruthyn. By J. S. 6. Shakespeare.
Le Fanu, 1t .—Chaps. I. 7. Yaxlcy and its Neighbour-
to XIII. hood.—Chapters XLII. to
2. Charles Townsend Wit XLVIII.
and Statesman.—Part I. 8. The Grand Tour.
3. Fragments of an Old Ro- 9. Edmond About and the
manza. Landes.
4. The History of a Hero. 10. Notes on the Condition of
5. Icelandic Legends. Ireland.
Dublin: George Herbert. London: Hurst and Blackett.

Had Dr. Cureton been able to indulge his inclinations,
they might, perhaps, have led him to confine his attention
to his favourite branch of Oriental learning; but the duties
of a minister of the Church of England were laid upon him,
and he did not neglect them. The first curacy which he
served was that of Oddington, in the county of Oxford. In
1840 he was nominated one of the select preachers of the
University of Oxford. In 1847 he was appointed chaplain
in ordinary to the Queen, and in the following year he was
selected by the Prince Consort, by whom he was held in
much esteem, to preach the anniversary sermon before the
corporation of Trinity House. To Earl Russell is due the
credit of recognising the claims of Dr. Cureton to substan-
tial preferment. In 1849 he became, through his lordship,
Canon of Westminster, Rural Dean, and Rector of St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster.

He felt a deep interest in all those committed to his
spiritual charge. Through his exertions the Church of St.
Andrew, in Ashley-place, Westminster, was built and con-
secrated. The parish is also indebted to him for convenient
school-rooms for boys, girls, and infants, in which, in addi-
tion to the instruction given to the children, a lecture,
founded by him, is delivered weekly to the adult working
classes. And it must be borne in mind that this was
accomplished under the disadvantage of an exodus of the
more wealthy part of the inhabitants which took place
between the years 1847 and 1850, and was caused by the
increase in the value of the houses in Great George-street
and Parliament-street, which were required for railway
offices. He exerted himself with much success to promote
habits of economy and saving among the poorer classes.
The following extract from his last report for the Provident
Fund and Schools, issued in March, 1863, will show with
what success his exertions were crowned :

" In the year 1853 the amount of the sums deposited in
the Provident Fund was £144, and in the year 1862 it has
reached £1,358, although during the same period the num-
ber of persons for whose benefit the Provident Fund was
established has been reduced to less than half of what it
was 10 years ago by the great demolition of houses in the
rectory district."
We have also reason to believe that in the appropriation of
the capitular funds he was always ready to contribute to all
schemes for the interests of the poor, either by the erection
of churches or schools. He was most anxious to bring to-
gether in occasional social intercourse the different classes as
parishioners, and thus identified himself more closely with
all. The kindly feeling engendered by this course manifested
itself on many occasions. The parishioners had his portrait
painted by subscription, and presented it to Mrs Cureton,
and on the day of his funeral showed their respect for his
memory by closing their houses. Dr Cureton's life was
one of labour well directed; the bread which he has
thrown upon the waters will be 'found after many days.—
Times,

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would have set forth Dr Cureton's reasons for believing
that the epistles ascribed to our Lord and Ring Abgar of
Edessa were not improbably genuine. Whether right or
wrong, he had certainly studied the question most care-
fully, and no man was more competent to form a correct
opinion upon the subject.
The eminence attained byDr Cureton was mainly founded
on his publications from those ancient Syriac manusczipts,
distinguished as they are by the intrinsic value of the
works selected, by the accuracy of his editions, and the
scholarship and honesty displayed in setting them forth and
illustrating them. In these qualities of judicious selection,
accuracy, scholarship, and freedom from prejudice Dr Cure-
ton standspre-eminentamong allEnglishmenand foreigners
who have followed him in the work of editing these Syriac

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Despatch of Baron Beust to Earl Russell,

[REUTER'S EXPRESS.]

DRESDEN, Jane 27.
The following despatch has been published here :
" London, June 1.
" Monsieur le Comte—ln endeavouring to explain
at our meeting of yesterday the existing situation,
and to demonstrate to the Plenipotentiaries of the
neutral Powers the point of view at which it is
requisite they should place themselves, to arrive at
a just and equitable appreciation of the concessions
which the Germanic Confederation would make in
the interests of peace, it appeared to me that I pro-
duced a feeling of surprise. For this reason I oc-
cupy myself to-day, pen in hand, in once more
explaining my idea, and in resuming tho thread of
my argument, so as to remove all misapprehension
from a discussion in which it is above all, necessary
that we should come to a good understanding.
"I believed it necessary to recall in principle the
fact that a different order of succession had been
considered, from all time and incontestibly, as
legally established in the Kingdom of Denmark
properly so called, and in the Duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein. I added that according to this same
order of succession the legitimate sovereign of Hol-
stein ought to be regarded as the legitimate sove-
reign of Schleswig after the extinction of the
Royal branch of which Frederick VII. was the
last representative.

"In proof that the fact alleged in no way rested
upon a German hallucination, but had equally been
regarded in this light elsewhere, I quoted the note
upon which Lord Palmerston addressed on the 23d
May, 1848, to M. de Bunsen—a document, the draft
of which will easily be found among the records of
the Foreign Office, and from which I have the
honour to annex an extract. So far as lam aware
it is the note in which Lord Palmerston has taken
the initiative of suggesting a partition of Schles wig,
an idea now revived pos tot diserimina rerum.
" I also called attention to the fact that the ques-
tion which now occupies us had already occupied
the Cabinet of Copenhagen in 1846, Christian VIII.
• having attempted to solve it by his well known
patent, without, nevertheless, succeeding in so
doing. It is evident, thus, that in the eyes of the
Germanic Confederation, which has never accepted
the Treaty of 1852 (equally intended to solve the
problem unsolved by the patent of 1846), the Dake
of Holstein, whoever he might be, is ipso jure et
ipso facto Duke of Schleswig. So long as this
duchy was in the possession of a foreign Power, the
question whether the Confederation ought or ought
not to take up arms to assist the Duke of Holstein
establishing his rights to Schleswig was reserved
for the decision of the Diet, Bat now that this
latter Duchy is in the power of German troops,
this question is set aside and determined by facts ;
and public opinion, convinced as it is of the con-
stitutional inseparability of the two Duchies, would
scarcely understand how it would be possible to
give up non-Federal territory, bat appertaining by
right to a member of the Confederation, in favour
of a foreign Sovereign. The plenipotentiary of the
Confederation must take public opinion, such as it
is, into account; his commission renders it impos-
sible that he should ignore it; and I should con-
sider myself deficient in good faith, and failing at the
same time in respect due to my colleagues, if I al-
lowed a doubt to exist as to the limits within which
my moderation and my desire to remove the exist-

ing difficulties find themselves necessarily conined.
"To arrive at a solid and lasting peace, the con-
cessions which I might be called upon to subscribe
ought to be presented in a form which the public
opinion of Germany can accept, in a form which is
not in direct opposition to the ideas which pervade
the Governments and the rwerued ; it not, every
concession on my part would only be illusory, and
might justly be made the subject of reproach as a
lure when the Diet refused to cover my responsibi-
lity by its ratification. The frankness which is
my habit is, therefore, upon this occasion, a duty
I shall not fail to fulfil. I desire above all that we
sL o ild not begoing in two different directions at, once.

If we take right for our basis, I cannot repeat suffi-
ciently often that in the eyes of Germany King
Christian IX. has not the shadow of a right to make
good to the Duchy of Schleswig, since the day when
the Confederation, as it has done, refused to recog-
nise him as Doke of Holstein. This Prince there-
fore would be unable to cede a portion of this Duchy
to the Confederation, or to any one whatever ; on
the contrary, it would be the Confederation, or one
of its members, which might be induced, in the in-
terest of European order, to give up to him a por-
tion of the territory at present occupied by the Ger.
man troops. For the better attainment of the end
we reciprocally desire—the arrival ultimately at a
solid and durable peace—Germany might consent
to give up the portion of Schleswig containing a
population the majority of whom are Danes. The
principle of nationalities is not among our tradi-
tions; it has not been put forward by us. But as
the Government of her Britannic Majesty, in concert
with the Imperial Government of France, has pro-
posed to consult the populations, I do tot think
important reasons exist upon this occasion for Ger-
many to offer opposition. The wishes of the Ger-
man populations in the two Duchies are gained in
advance for the solution which Austria, Prussia,
and the Confederation have proposed in the Con-
ference; and the principle of the popular wish once
adopted, it will be right—l will go further, it will
be indispensable—to apply it to the population
calling itself Danish, and to have the boundaries
which may be judged suitable sanctioned by a vote
freely and loyally obtained.
" An agreement would thus be arrived at upon a
frontier which would leave the Danish element out-
side the new State, to which the Duchy of Lauen-
burg would be united as equivalent. I hasten to
add that, in the opinion of the Diet, the succession
question in Lauenburg may be considered as doubt.
ful, but in no way as decided in favour of his Danish
Majesty. As for the engagement not to interfere
in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Denmark
when the line of demarcation is once fixed and
accepted, nothing prevents our subscribing this
agreement ; we shall do so with the more pleasure,
as we should consider such an engagement a gua-
rantee of peace and a means of cutting short all
future complications. But it is evident that an
engagement of this character would become either
impossible or illusory under an arrangement aban-
doning an entirely German population to Denmark.
"This is, M. le Comte, the order of ideas which I
endeavoured to set forth, and which must neces-
sarily guide me in the difficult negotiations with
" which I am charged.
limits,
Within these traced out for me by the
logic of facts and the force of circumstances, you
will always find me ready to concur with you in
everything
which might serve to remove the diffi-
culties of detail still opposing the work of pacifica.
tine upon the basis accepted in principle by the
German plenipotentiaries.
(Signed)

" BEUST."

The following is the extract alluded to in the
above despatch, of a note addressed by Lord Pal•
merston to Chevalier Bunsen, dated June 23,
1848:

"The future condition of the Duchy of Schleswig
shall be settled upon ono or other of the two follow-
ing plans, according to the choice of the King
Duke :

"First, the Duchy of Schleswig might be divided
into two parts, with reference to the German or.
Danish maionality of its inhabitants, the Southern
and German put being to be called the Southern
Duchy, the northern or Danish part being to be
called the Northern Duchy. The King would
then become a member of the German Confedera-
tion in his capacity of Duke of Southern Schleswig,
as well as in his capacity of Duke of Holstein, and
Southern Schleswig would, like Holstein, form part
of the territory of the German Confederation, and