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would preserve their individuality and their
traditions as far as possible.

implement as still pursued on the borders
ofBosnia, though their contradictions are
confirmed by Consul Holmes.-the Consul
whose reports to our Foreign Office have
always earned him 80 much favour at
Constantinople,-have been very sufh'
GENTLY criticised this week, first by Mr.
MacColl, and then by DR.. Liddon himself.
Count Andrassy's conjecture that no afro
cities could be committed on the borders
of Bosnia without Austria knowing OF
them, is pretty we'll met by the fact that
nothing was known by Austria OF the end
of June OF the atrocities which had oc-
Cured in Bulgaria In the early part OF
NAV, Consul Holiness remark that net-
tber the Consuls, the Turkish authoritiee,
nor the people at B%osnia-Serai knew
ANYTHING of these matters is not surprlelng'
considering that no one asserted that they
had taken place at Bosnia-Serai, and shas
the friends Of the Turks do MOB take pains
10 find out what happens at o distance
when it is of o nature not CTedlEable to
Turkey. In fact, the sceptical ignorance
OF Count Andrassy, Of Consul Holmes, and
OF Mr.. Stuart 'Glennie cannos be regarded
as weighing d feather against the positive
statements Of Witnesses, the deliberate
assertion of Bishop Strossmayer, who said
that he had recently known even q
woman near her confinement Impaled, q
the optical phenomenon of human body
on q stake observed through o good field
glass within q distanos Of 200 yards, by
DR.. Liddon and Mr.. MacColl. Negative
evidence applying to one frontier is about
as germane to the refutation Of possitiVe evil
dence applying to another, as the evidence
that there was not O cloud in the sky at
liverpool would be to disproyo the asser'
ton that there was @ thunderstorm In
London,
The Ladies' College at Cambridge, Cir
ton College, has come in for o handsome
contribution to its building fund in q some
what sad way, but yet one which we wish
the living would remember when they
strive, in their too often iuartlculate
fashion, to show their love for the dead.
IIr. Thomas Taylor, Of Aston Rowant,
Oxfordshire, has sent the College $1,000
for ito b%uilding-fund, in memory Of his
daughter Edith, who, had her life been
spared, was 30 have entered the College
lg q student in the present term, and
whose earnest wish for its prosperity, as
one Of The most efficient means of promot-
ing tho tEus interest of women by creat-
ing q class Of bighly-edueated women, is
thus efTeotually recorded. To promote
The best cause for which the dead hoped
or laboured, 10 certainly the nobless way
in which we can honour their memory.
The Slade prosecution has dragged
through another week. but from Mr..
Flowers remarks as 20 the only kind of
evidence which he would admit for the
defence, we should hope that it is near
an end. He declared that he could admit
no evidence which did not bear upon the
specific charges, but only tended to prove
that wonderful things which could not be
accounted for had been done in Mr.. SHADES
presence on other occasions than that to
which these charges referred. This is
quite as it should be, and Us we urged last
week, but it is perhaps q litGle hard that
Che rights principle should be applied
TO the defence, When evidence dixie Mr..
Maskelyne'sl was admitted for the prose
cution which has absolutely no bearing
either on tho particular charge of fraud or
on the offence Under the Vaerans ACE,
The evidences taken last Friday and Sa.
turdey was of no great Importance, except
proving that one witness (Mr. R. +.
HutkoDA who had aDnlied tba r;cht 4o.A