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London, England, 1871-02-25

FRENCH AND GERMAN ARTILLERt.

It was the difference in skill, and not superiority
in material, which gave the Germans the advantage
in their various artillery operations during the war,
especially, at the siege of Paris. The facts which are-
revealed every day prove that the French had good
weapons, often better than those of their adversaries,
but they neither knew how to manoeuvre them, nor
to what purposes to employ them. During the born-
bardmenl of Paris, says the Times correspondent, there
were on the German side no guns such as are counted
powerful in England. On the Frpile4 side there
were, though their numbers
were net so great as has
been supposed. Fort Valeirien had three of them—
two being of 7lin. calibre, and one 92in.-8 tons and
14 tons weight breech-loading naval Ordnance, known
in French phraseology as 19-centimetre and 24-centi-
metre guns. Fort Valorien had in all 100 bronze,
and 15 iron pieces of ordnance, the smaller iron guns
being of 61in. calibre, naval muzzle-loaders. The

most powerful guns used by the Prussians were
so-called 24-pounders, which correspond nearly
with the English 64-pounders, though rather
im.re powerful. Some of the French heavy

gins would shatter a tree seven feet in cir-
cumference. In other respects the Germans shewed
no superiority in siege and engineering. operations.
" The German batteries are roughly built, and not
very strongly. Some- of the traverses are weak,
and it was with no surprise that I heard of the explo-
sion of two magazines. Hitherto Prussia has given
her chief attention to the word of armies in the field.
She has much to learn in all that relates to the ser-
vice of heavy guns."
London, England, 1871-02-22

TBE ALHAMBRA.—STRANGE'S MONSTRE
PROMENADE CONCERTS.—Grand Heroic Fantasia, by
the Chevalier A. de Kontski, entitled "LE 'REVEIL DU LION,"
with striking novel introductions, &c. ; and Gounod's celebrated
and ever-popular Opera, "FAUST," by the United Bands.—TO-
. NIGHT.

rrHE ALHAMBRA.-STRANGE'S AIONSTRE
PROMENADE CONCERTS.—The inspiriting WAR SONGS
OF THE DAY—" Die Wacht am Rhein, "La Marseillaise,"
" Garibaldi's Hymn," and "Rule Britannia," sung (in character)
amidst the greatest excitement, by Continental Artistes, every
evening. Doors open at 7.30 commence at 8. Prices—ls., 2s. ;
Gallery, ed. Private Boxes, 21s 31s. 6d., and 425. Box-office
open from 11 till 7.

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The extraordinary success whicdh has attended the production
of the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of
the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici-
pate in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance
Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes,
have had the gratifying effect of making the present one the
most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The
celebrated Orcherz% A, under the direction of its highly efficient
chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com-
positions of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are
assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses; Messrs.
W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr.
Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.O. -
Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. _

B. B. BEINELL, Proprietor.

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London, England, 1871-02-22

Loss OF A FRENCH TRANSPORT•

Some sad particulars have been received of the loss
of Le Cerf, a French Government transport, which
was wrecked off Cape la Hogue on the night of
Fcbrual37 0. The ship contained 1,080 French

wounded and convalescent, who had been
cared for by the members of the National
Society for the Relief of the Sick end Wounded.
They were sent from different parts of France,
to Calais as a port of embarcation for their various

homes. They arrived at that town in a state of the
greatest distress, and endured many privations.
They were billeted on people so poor that they could
not afford to keep them, and their only chance of
food lay in the assistance that was afforded
by the members of the National Society
end the Superior of a convent in the neighbourhood.
The men on board the Cerf were most eloquent in
their acknowledgment of the services which had been
Dmdered by England. After the capitulation of
Metz the first food they received was from the Eng-
lish, and its timely arrival was the means of saving
many lives. Some of the passengers on the Cerf
had r been wounded at Villers Bretonneux an]
Amiens, and the English had been their faithful pro-
tectors from the day of the battle until the period of
their departure. Previous to their departure dozens
of these soldiers came to thank their nurses, and at
the station several declared that England had saved
their lives, and that they would get the Mayors of
their villages to write their thanks when they arrived
at home.
London, England, 1871-02-22

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ARMY REFORM.

The Army Regulation Bill has been printed in
three parts. The first deals with the Abolition of
Purchase, and the compensation to be given to offi-
cers (among whom we are happy to see enumerated
officers of certain Indian regiments), holding saleable
commissions. Part 11. of the measure refers to the
new regulations for enrolment in the army, and part
111 to the reorganisation of the auxiliary forces. One
of the promoters of the Army Regulation Bill is
Sir Henry Storks, whose election as member for
Ripon is scarcely a week old.
London, England, 1871-02-22

SPORTING.

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London, England, 1871-02-22

THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VERSAILLES.

The Daily News remarks : Negotiations for peace have
probably by this time actually begun. M. Thiers and M.
Jules Favre are once more at Versailles, with M. Picard
as a colleague ; and the object of the new triumvirate
is to treat for peace. `• France has need of
peace," said K Thiers • and though nobody has
made the same confession for Germany, it
dwells unspoken in the hearts of the German people.
Both nations are thoroughly tired of the war, and the
whole world is weary of looking on at the revolting
spectacle. Unfortunately, this weariness of strife is rather
an argument for peace than a guarantee of it. The belli-
gerents have resolved that lookers-on shall not at present
take part in ending the struggle. While we can by no
means agree with those who maintain that because France
needs peace sbe must and will buy it any price, we think
it not superfluous to urge moderation on Count Bismarck,
and wise concession on M. Thiers. We believe the French
statesman to be quite ready to yield whatever can be
yielded with honour—ought the German statesman to
ask for more ? Perhaps the question which at the present
moment most agitates Paris is that of the march of the
German army through its streets. The sensitive and
lively Frenchman feels that to bring the national defeat
thus home to him by a great military spectacle is a
humiliation greater than he can bear ; the unsentimental
German, on the contrary, can hardly see that it makes
any difference to Paris whether he marches through its
streets, or simply holds the city at his mercy.
The German army wants to see Paris, and the King
wants to give his soldiers the pleasure of the spectacle ;
and they hardly seem to understand why it should not be
clone. If the war goes on, we must, of course, expect
that the capital will feel it in this tenderest point ; but if
peace is made, we hope it will include the return of the
Germans without marching through Paris. To the German
army amarch through Paris would be an altogether unsub-
stantial addition to their triumphs ; to the French it would be
one of the most substantial of their humiliations. What
Europe wants, what Germany needs, is a lasting peace.
The Germans cannot have a lasting peace on the humilia-
tion of their enemy. Such a peace must be one in which
France can rest, which leaves no needless burden on her,
inflicts no superfluous loss beyond the memory of military
defeat. That memory is one which a great and noble
nation can endure, when it can feel at the same time that
no unfair advantage was taken of it in its weakness. A
just peace is easy to make, and will be long to last ; an
unjust peace must be forced now, and will be broken
hereafter.
London, England, 1871-02-22

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moved from the City to the same building.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.

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London, England, 1871-02-22

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London, England, 1871-02-22

THE DESIGNS OF WAR SHIPS.

The committee appointed by the Admiralty,
which Mr. Reed had been invited to attend for the
purpose of being examined, an invitation, however,
which the previous correspondence forbade him to
accept, has received definite instructions on the
nature of its duties, especially in reference
to the following points : Papers referring
to the constructive designs of the Monarch, with
reference to her greater or less security, as compared
with the Captain, will be laid before the committee
for their report, not only in concurrence with previous
inquiry, but also in reference to their opinion of the
efficiency of the Monarch as a first-class sea-going,
ship of war ; and the committee are re-
quested to specify what turther improve-
ments may be made in the designs of the
Devastation, Cyclops, Glatton, and Inconstant classes.
Every facility will be afforded the Committee by the
presence of a draughtsman, and the preparation of
such designs as they may require, and they will be
at liberty to invite such persons as they may think
proper to give evidence before them. The Committee
consist of fifteen of the leading scientific and profes-
sional men of the day, under the chairmanship of
Lord Dufferin, withLieutenant-Colonel Pasley, R.E.,
as secretary.
London, England, 1871-02-22

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London, England, 1871-02-22

EMIGRATION TO BUENOS AYRES.

The Emigration Commissioners have published,
by desire of the Colonial Secretary, a formidable ac-
count of the perils to which settlers at Bahia Blanca,
in the province of Buenos Ayres, are exposed from
the Indians of the 'neighbouring plains., For
several years friendly relations have existed between
the local government and the Indian tribes, whose
chiefs received rations and supplies from the towns.
For some unexplained reason the Commandante, last
April, seized the Envoy who came in
for rations, and organised a raid, in
which many Indians were killed, others made
prisoners, and their cattle, horses, and pro-
perty, carried off. The Indians naturally enough
retaliated, and last October an attack was made on
Bahia Biafra by a body of 2,000 Indians, who fired
the farms and killed a number of settlers. At one
place five Englishmen kept the Indians at bay for a
considerable period, but were cibligel to
surrender their sheep when their ammunition
was exhausted. The commandant, who appears to
have behaved outrageously throughout, marched
against the Indians with 120 men, seven or eight of
whom were English. All but the English ran away
as soon as the enemy came in sight, and the leader
London, England, 1871-02-22

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known as the London Basin. Shewing also the localities where the
various strata come to the surface. The Diagram represents the
various Epochs, Systems, and Characters of Rocks, from the
Plutonic, through the whole Series, to the latest Alluvium, coloured
so as to represent real specimens, with the organic remains to be
found in each, and the localities in Great Britain where they
severally occupy the surface. Being the most concise and instructive
publication on the science that has ever been before the public. B
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London, England, 1871-02-22

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE POPE.

Mr. JOHNSTONE moved for copies of a letter from Mr.
Gladstone to the member for Queen's County, in which
Mr. Gladstone declared that her Majesty's Government
considered all that related to the adequate support of
the dignity of the Pope, and to his personal freedom and
independence in the discharge of his spiritual functions, to
be legitimate matter for their notice. Also, for corre-
spondence between Mr. Gladstone and the members for
Perth and Marylebone, despatches of the Foreign Secre-
tary to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar, and to the
diplomatic agents resident in Rome.

Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply, said that he was quite willing
to lay on the table the official communications with the
Governors of Malta and Gibraltar,and the other despatches
would be shortly ready. He must refuse the first proposi-
tion, on the ground that a communication from a Minister
to a member of the House was not an official document.

Mr. JOHNSTONE withdrew his motion with the excep•
ion of the letter to Mr. Dease, and on the House dividinE
;he following was the result :

Noes

Ayes ,

Majority against the motion 63
The House adjourned at twelve o'clock.

THE CONFERENCE.

The Berlin correspondent of the the Independance Beige
says that the statement that Russia is to be excluded
from the permission given to the Porte to open or refuse the
straits to the passage of foreign war vessels is erroneous.
This is what is supposed to have given rise to the mistake.
The first proposal was that as the neutralisation of the
Black Sea had ceased, Turkey resumed her full rights,
and might grant or refuse permission to enter the straits
to any war ships but those of Border States. It was
then perceived that this formula practically ex-
cluded Russia. The term States was, therefore, altered
into " States or friendly Powers." It is not known whether
this last phrase has been preserved, or has been set aside
as superfluous. In any case it is considered settled that
the Ottoman Porte has the same right to grant passage to
Russia as to any other Power.
London, England, 1871-02-22

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OUR ARMY ADMINISTRATION

The Times considers that it would 'nave been a just
subject of regret if anything. had prevented Mr. Tre-
velyan's motion on army administration from being brought
before the House of Commons. In our opinion, there is
enough in the present state of the army to justify not
only one, but many nights' discussion. For years the
army has ')een the subject of interminable debates,
which, as is admitted by everybody, have had very little
good effect. The cost has gradually increased until it
is a heavy burden even to the richest of nations. The
numbers are large, and yet it is alleged, and not denied,
that hardly fifty thousand men are ready to meet an
enemy. In short, the military forces of the Crown,
on which from twelve to fifteen millions a year are
spent, are pronounced to be inefficient Who is re-
' sponsible for this ? " Somebody must be responsible,"
is the public reply, for the world when it is
angry always demands an individual and a
victim. The Duke of Cambridge is the pe'rson whom
this kind of reasoning tends to call t) account, because an
exhaustive process eliminates every one but the Com-
mander-in-Chief, who has held the highest place in the
army for nearly fifteen years. The Commander-in-Chief,
therefore, has been for a long time the target of reforming
invective. Mr. Trevelyan himself has assumed that if
this obnoxious office could be abolished, or reduced to a
nullity, the path of improvement would be opened at
once. We know no reason to suppose that
the Duke of Cambridge is an opponent to reform in
the army, though, like most officers, he may be content
to work the system which Parliament and traditional
usage have established. He has often declared emphati-
cally that his office is subordinate to the Secretary for
War, and since the new regulations have been sanctioned
by the Crown, there can no longer be a doubt of it.
Such being the known state of the case, we cannot
wonder that Mr. Trevelyan was defeated by a very
large majority. His principles. may have in them
much that is sound, but the motive of his speech is ill-
judged, and many of his illustrations are entirely beside
the mark. Indeed, we cannot profess to understand the
purpose of the many details on which he entered. It
seems as if the real matter of his speech had been taken
away, first by the willing co-operation of the Commander-
in-Chief with all the proposed reforms of the Government,
and then by the largeness of these reforms as announced
in Mr. Cardwell's speech.,
London, England, 1871-02-22

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LUXEMBURG.

Those innocent persons (they seem to have included
a good many newspaper editors) who imagined that
Count Bismarck's complaints against Luxemburg were
solely motived by breacheS of neutrality on the part
of the little state, may have their doubts cleared up
by a little study of the Prussian press. There exists
no misapprehension among the acute German
editors as to Count Bismarck's intentions. Articles
urging the transfer of Luxemburg in some shape or
other are constantly appearing, and it is a moot ques-
tion whether the grand duchy should be taken as
part of the peace terms, or should be annexed purely
and simply. The Cologne Gazette puts the matter
very neatly. Luxemburg. cannot dispense with
its present affiliation to the German Zoll-
verein. Yet it cannot, or shall not, re-
main a member, unless it becomes altogether a
German state. It will therefore soon have to choose
between leaving the Zollverein or incorporation, and
it is clearly for its advantage to choose the latter.
Why not, asks the Cologne Gazette, settle the ques-
tion at once, and join Prussia ? This is very plain.
It is equally plain that if Luxemburg is to be annexed
at all, it had better be done whilst other transfers are
going on. The world might otherwise find that per-
petual nibblings at neighbouring territories would
become intolerable, even in Prussia.
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THE PARIS ELECTIONS.

The counting of the votes at the Paris elections was
a grand arithmetical exercise. As we explained before,
about half a million electors could vote, 326,000 ac-
tually did vote, and each of these had it in, his power to
select forty-three candidates. It took 3,000 clerks
several days to get through the counting, and yet it
appears that oven this number did the work very
badly. The returns presented some extraordinary
features. The first return gave the results of the
voting in all the districts but one, the
fourteenth, that of Mont Parnasse. When
the votes of the Mont-Parnassians were added
to those of their fellow-citizens in the second
return, remarkable differences were apparent. Thus,
M. Thiers, who got 61,000 votes in all the other
districts put together, received 41,000 in Mont Par-
nesse alone. This district gave M. Quinet 40,000
additional votes ; M. Rochefort, 15,000 ; M. Deles-
cluze, 12,000; Admiral Saisset, 13,000 M. Sclicel-
cher, 33,000. More remarkable still, divers unfor-
tunate candidates actually had their votag reduced by
'the polling in Mont 'Parnasse. Thus, M. Lookroy
found he had 18,000 votes less after this miraculous
district had been added than he bad in the first
return. M. G.ambon, the Man of the Cow, had
14,000 less, and M. Langlois had 6,000 less. It is
scarcely surprising to be told that the Paris election
is becoming a jest.
London, England, 1871-02-22

THE GROWTH OF LUXURY IN ENGLAND.

The charge which Archbishop Manning has just
laid against English society, namely, that the growth
of luxury is now the chief of its deformities, is one
which, though it cannot be altogether denied, is open
to wide exceptio, If Dr. Manning would com-
pare theluxury 6.t George IV., or his, predecessors,
with that of tle present age, he might not so
strongly urge upoii his flocks the fact "that they are
becoming softer," That English people now "shrink
from self-denial," id that they are 4' impatient of the
wholesome discipline of a hardy life." We have our
sins, but who will ?agree that we are as bad as the
Archbishop says we are ? Will he point to any
age in English, history in which manlier
men were to be found than in the present, or in
which a more honourable spirit of sympathy with
the weak and suffering wqs ever displayed? Indeed,
Dr. Manning himself admits this practically in ano-
ther part of his pastoral, when he says, "Manly
common sense, intellectual cultivation, vigour of
will, the ,spirit of enterprise, have braced up our
youth to nobler cares than stuffs, and silks, and
laces." We have little defence to make when the
Archbishop speaks of women's dress and the want
of self-denial in young men ; we are full
of sympathy with him as to the evils of drunkenness;
but we cannot admit that Dr. Manning has just
reason for making in its full sense so horrible a state-
ment the following: "As regards some social evilF, our
condition is more terrific than in any pelple, except
bbe in those who are descended from ourselves."
London, England, 1871-02-22

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THE SCOTCH EDUCATION Act.

The Bill to amend the law of EducatiiotintainciScctehte-
land is at last issued, and bears upon
names of the Lord Advocate, Mr. Bruce, and
Mr. Forster. The provisions of the new measure are
very similar to those of the Education Ant passed
last session for England. They order the institution
of n Scotch Education Department, some of the
officers serving under which may be employe I in the
country ; the election of School Boards ; and
the unity of burghs with parishes in certain cases.
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before Parliament. One of the clatisesintimates that
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by the imposition of a local rate., Free schools
may also be established under the permission of the
Education Department,. in parishes or in burghs,
where the poverty of the inhabitants will not allow
them to pay for the education of their children. The
rules for borrowing money to enlarge or build School
Houses, are much the same as were ordained for
England. Lastly, the power of compelling atten-
dance is to be placed in the hands of the School
, Boards to be used or not, at their cliquetion,
London, England, 1871-02-22

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CLOSE OF THE POLL.

4,662
3,396

Majority

Seventy or eighty Bradford tailors have gone
on strike through a dispute as to the use of sewing
machines.

Mr. Ralph Benson, the magistrate of Southwark
police-court, London, is lying dangerously ill at his house
in Beaufort-gardens, Brompton-road.
__ _

The Leeds papers report the death of a Baptist
minister of some celebrity in the North, the Rev.
Dr. Godwin. Dr. Godwin was 85 years of age.
An Honorary Canonry in Manchester Cathedral
has been conferred upon the Rev. Edward Pedder. M.A.,
of Brasenose College, Oxford, vicar of St. John's Lancas-
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LONDON V. DUBLIN STOUT.—The experiment
of using imperial measure in bottling beer has proved
eminently successful, the consumption of the article hav-
ing increased to an enormous extent. This result must be
highly satisfactory to the great brewers who have adopted
the system, because it shews that there is a determination
on the part of the public to patronise the London firms, es-
-pecially when the article and the measure are both unexcep-
tionable. A great and well-known Irish firm until lately
entirely monopolised the London market for bottled stout,
the reputed pints and quarts being accepted on account of
the goodness of the contents ; but since the system of
giving imperial measure has been pursued by the London
brewers, a competition has arisen which promises a result
greatly to their advantage. The draught stout of the
Messrs. Whitbread has for years been acknowledged to be
among the best in the metropolis ; there is no reason what-
ever why it should not be equally good when placed in
bottles, and it seems strange that it did not command a pre-
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lead in the market. A little more than twelve months ago
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knoyvn firm has obtained has necessitated a change, and
i theimmense building situated near the King's-cross end
of Gray's-inn-road and known as. St. George's Hall, will,
in_the course of a few weeks, become the head-quarters of
Mr. Baker.
London, England, 1871-02-22

RATING OF MINES.

Mr. PERCY WYNDRAISI asked the President of the Poor
Law Board whether mines would be made liable to the
poor or other local rates by the Government measure
dealing with rates.
Mr. GOSCHEN could not at present answer the question,
as it would be more advantageous that the general state '
went should not be anticipated.
London, England, 1871-02-22

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THE REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY.

The Galway nomination took place on Tuesday at
ten o'clock, Mr. Allen Pollock. High Sheriff, pre-
siding. Mr. Mitchell Henry was proposed by Mr.
Redington Roach, and was seconded by Mr 7 John Eyre
Conway. There was no opposition, and, according to
custom, he washed his hands in court in face of the
crowd, but said nothing. Mr. Mitehell Henry was then
declared elected. His politics are liberal.
London, England, 1871-02-22

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THE NORWICH ELECTION.

The poll for the City of Norwich began on Tuesday
morning at eight o'clock. At the nomination on the
previous day Mr. Colman, the Liberal candidate, had the
show of hands. The following returns were issued
throughout the day :

NINE O'CLOCK.
Mr. Colman (L.)
Sir C. Legard (C.)
TEN O'CLOCK
-

Colman
Legard

1,916
1,330

ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

Colman
Legard

2,808
1,929

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Colman .
Legard .

3,392
2,392

TWO O'CLOCK.

Colman .
Legard .

THREE O'CLOCK.

Colman
Legard

4,172
2,930

Colman .
Legard ..

4,501
3,201
London, England, 1871-02-22

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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT FOR INDIA.

The Bombay papers state that no definite arrange-
ments have been come to with respect to the pro-
posed formation of the Department of Revenue,
Agriculture, and Commerce. A. committee of the
secretaries to the Government has been
forming a scheme which, by a redistribution
of offices, could pay for the new service without
much outlay to the State. It appears, however, that

the members of the Government are not agreed with
respect to this design. Lord Mayo is greatly
in favour of it; and most sanguine as to its
beneficial results. Mr. Strachey coincides with this
opinion, but the other members are sail to oppose

the formation of the new department. The proposal
to cut down the salaries of the secretario3 of the
existing branches, hi order to carry out the pro-

posed scheme with as little expense as possible, has
naturally rendered it invidious in many quArters.
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the Indian Government with regard to this
subject, and requests them to submit a scheme
to him which shall embody some of his
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is to come from to further the project. The Duke
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IMPROVEMENT IN BEGGING.

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of material advantage to that pioneer of civilisation—
the beggar. It is now very common for a London
mendicant to run up to a nervous-looking lady or
gentleman and ask alms on the ground that he has
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