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The " Pall Mall Gazette," which has become the organ of the party in Eng. land, who are prepared to go to war for the preservation of the treaty of 1856, objects to the presence of Mr. Bright in the Cabinet, as likely to create a false impression abroad as to the policy of the Government on the Eastern question. The writer asserts that Mr. Bright is known in Bussia and Germany as the leader of the Manchester school which condemned the Crimean war, and the exponent of the peace at-any-price doctrine, and that if he remains in the Cabinet at the present juncture, it will be taken in St. Petersburg and Berlin as a sign that England will not incur the risk of war to fulfil her engagements to Turkey, and Prince Gortschakoff may be led into the same error as the Emperor Nicholas committed in 1554, through an over-estimate of the influence of the Manchester school. The article concludes—We trust we shall not be suspected of trying to hound an eminent politician out of office. If the policy of the Government is firm and bold, Mr. Bright's relations to it are of little consequence to anybody but |himself. If Mr. Bright can bring himself not only to acquiesce in but publicly to applaud a firm and bold policy, he would assuredly contribute to its success ; but a timid, hesitating, or over-dexterous diplomacy will inevitably miscarry if Mr. Bright remains in the Cabinet and says nothing —simply because he is there. A gushing editor remarks that it is pleasant for lovers to sit on the porch these evenings, and be happy in the thought that their blood is commingling in the same mosquito. An American paper gives the following recipe for going mad :—Be an editor; let the printer's devil be waiting for copy; sit down to write an article, and get a few sentences done ; then let an acquaintance drop in, and begin to tell you gossips and stories of the town : and and let him sit, and sit, and sit. Very speedily you will go raving mad. Mistress : " Are not these lovely flowers nurse 1 Nurse : " They be indeed ma'am ! Equal to the best artificials." Too True : The man who is awfully urbane to his wife before strangers is generally also " her bane " behind their backs.

" You can do anything if you have patience,"' said an old uncle, who had made a fortune, to his nephew, who had nearly spent one; " water may be carried in a sieve if you only wait." "How long !" asked the petulant spendthrift, who was impatient for the old man's death. " Till it freezes," was the cold reply.

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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 801, 13 April 1871, Page 3

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Untitled Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 801, 13 April 1871, Page 3

Untitled Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 801, 13 April 1871, Page 3

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