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single act of any British Ministry which has been so unanimously endorsed by public opinion . Abroad , of course , there is not the same unanimity , very far from it , indeed . If foreign powers act common-sensibly , they will regard this action of the Disraeli Cabinet as a very natural , if a
somewhat extraordinary , step . It is of vital importance that the road to India should be , if not British , at all events , under British influence . As England is now , or at least , when Parliament has ratified the bargain , will be , the holder of nearly one-half of the shares issued , it is clear
she will exercise a commanding influence in regulating the traffic France , of course , feels hurt , if we are to take the majority of French journals as exponents of French public opinion , but this is only natural , considering the scheme of
the Suez Canal was planned by a French engineer , and carried out under his auspices . It was , in fact , one of the glories of the French Empire . The Government , however , maintain a descreet silence .
The Wainwright trial is over , and the Court at the Old Baily will no longer witness the indecent straggles of well dressed ladies to gain admission , in order to hear the details of a horrible murder . Henry Wainwright has been found guilty of murder , and sentenced to death , while Thomas
Wainwright is pronounced guilty of being an accessory after the fact , and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude . Thus ends one of the most frightful chapters in the annals of English criminal history . Such is the latest illustration of the well known lines of Horace : —
" Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Poena claudo . " At the Alexandra Palace , the Princess of Wales ' s birthday was honoured with a special programme , there being a grand concert and an illumination of the Italian Garden .
To-day will be given the Oratorio of the Messiah , while the entries for the Doll Exhibition close this week . At the Crystal Palace also , a grand Orchestral Concert was given on Wednesday , to commemorate the auspicious event referred to above , while at to-day ' s concert will be given Mr .
Macfarren s Oratorio of St . John the Baptist . The concerts both at the St James ' s and the Eoyal Albert Halls have been likewise held as usual , and the attendance has been satisfactory to the zealous caterers of music at those v / el ] known institutions .
Next week all London will be alive with visitors from the country to see the Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club . The show will be held at the Agricultural Hall , and will be opened ou Monday next , remainiag open till Friday
evening inclusive . Every precaution will be taken to prevent the appearance of any diseased animals among the exhibits . We hope the show will pass oft satisfactorily to its promoters .
The weather is certainly wintry . Snow , for some few days has been falling , if not continuously , at all events to a great extent , and just previous the ground , which had been in places more like a swamp , had become as hard as iron , as the saying is . There is no knowing , of course , in
this variable climate of ours , for how long this state of things may last , but some one has prognosticated a severe winter . We do not profess to be weather-wise , but at least the prophets have present appearances iu their favour . One thing we note , which may be set down as
a metropolitan institution almost . Whenever there is a visitation of snow , the streets are invariabl y in the most miserable condition of slush . On Thursday and yesterday locomotion was attended with the most intense inconvenience . Hansoms , whirling along at rapid pace , sent
the mud flying , and it is difficult to imagine a more wretched appearance than London presented on those days . We pride ourselves on being a practical people . Is there no way of avoiding this ; no way by which the scaveno-erino could be carried out , so as to effect the minimum of
discomfort to those who are compelled , by business , to move about ? Of course , when the snow is falling , the difficulty of keeping the road and pathway clear is enormous , but some preventive measures mi gl . it bo adopted . The 2 ] lth Anniversary Festival of the Scottish
Corporation , was held on St . Andrew ' s Day , at Freemasons ' Tavern , the Earl of Roscbcrry presiding , and there bein " present some four hundred and fifty gentlemen . The
subscri ptions for the year , as announced by the Secretary , amounted to about £ 2 , 000 , including contributions from the Queen and tho noble Chairman to the extent of one hundred guineas each . The same evening a Scotch
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Ballad Concert was given at St . James ' s Hall , in honour of the Patron Saint of Scotland . An accident has happened to the Duchess of Manchester ,
who has sustained two fractures in one of her arms . However , the limb has been set , and , according to the latest accounts , Her Grace is progressing favourably towards recovery .
The married life of Mr . John Dolby does not seem to have I sen a very happy one , to judge from the evidence given on Thursday , in the Divorce Court , before Sir John Hannen . Mrs . Dolby is at present undergoing a term of imprisonment with hard labour , for having assaulted Mr .
Dolby , whom she appears to have at divers times aud seasons likewise assailed , hurling at him brooms , mallets , and on one occasion , she chased him round the garden , flinging about forty or fifty garden pots at his head . This is by no means a good illustration of connubial bliss .
Abroad , the news that reaches us , chiefly relates to the purchase of the Suez Canal shares ; the action of the British Government being variously interpreted by different Governments . The Russians have received a severe check
in Central Asia , an insurrection having broken out in Khokand , and more than one detachment of their troops having been cut to pieces . General Kauffman is said to have a force at his disposal just sufficient to protect Russian interests , and no more . A Cabinet Council has
beenheldat Madrid , at which Generals Quesada and Martinez-Campos were also present . It was determined to form two armies , each of five divisions , one in Navarre , under the latter General , and the other in the Basque Provinces , under Quesada . We wish we could see there was some
chance of the decisive campaign against Carlism being commenced . There are rumours of changes in the Turkish Ministry , and it is said that the Egyptian troops have occupied a portion of the Territory on the East Coast of Africa , of right belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar . In America ,
the Public Health Association has been holding its third annual session at Baltimore , Dr . Joseph M . Toner presiding . The President for the ensuing year will be Dr .
Edwin M . Snow , of Providence , Rhode Island , and the Secretary , Elisha Harris , New York . Two Vice Presidents , and an Executive Committee of six members were also elected . It is announced that the next annual
meeting will be held at Boston . At Berlin , a general Synod of the Evangelical Church , in the older provinces of the Prussian Monarchy , was held on the 24 th ult .
His Imperial Highness Prince Rhodocanakis has been re-elected Grand Master of Greece for a further term of three years , and was installed as such , amid great pomp , on the 26 th October .
During the mayoralty of the late Lord Mayor , Bro . D . H . Stone , J . G . W ., the supplementary work in the cause of Charity was very heavy . Nearly 100 , 000 letters and circulars were issued from the Secretary ' s Office , and the amount collected was £ 33 , 926 16 s lid . In recognition of the
services of Bro . J . R . S . Vine , the late private Secretary , the members of the Iceland Relief Committee presented him with a very elegant clock , inscribed in Icelandic characters , and he was also presented with a testimonial from the French committee .
SHAKESPEARE ' S SONNETS . —Shakespeare's Sonnets were first described in his own time—by Francis Heres , in 1598—as his " sugared sonnets among his private friends . " They were first published in 1600 , seven years before his death , and dedicated by Thomas Thorpe , the Bookseller , to " Mr . W . H ., " in words that have sent critics npon many a wild-goose chase . The first description of them was the
best , and the best modern editor of Shakespeare , Alexander Dyce , said in the account of Shakespeare prefixed in 1866 to a second edition of his works , " For my own part repeated perusals of the Sonnets have well nigh convinced me that most of them were composed in an assumed character , on different subjects , and at different times , for tho amusement , if not at tho suggestion of the anther ' s
intimate associates ( hence described by Mores as his ' sugared sonnets among his private friends ' ) ; and though I would not deny that one or two of them reflect his genuine fceiings , I contend that allusions scattered through the whole series aro not to be hastily referred to the personal circumstances of Shakespeare . " Tin ' s is wholesome
truth , and accords with what we have sce'i of tho nature of the sonnet , and the original use of it . As to their structure , Shakespeare ' s sonnets are not technically true sonnets , but foarteiu-liued poems of exquisite variety and beauty , each consisting of three quatrains of alternate rhyme , and a closing couplet . —From " Cassell ' s Library of English Literature , " edited by Professor IJeury Jlorley . for December .
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Our Weekly Budget.
single act of any British Ministry which has been so unanimously endorsed by public opinion . Abroad , of course , there is not the same unanimity , very far from it , indeed . If foreign powers act common-sensibly , they will regard this action of the Disraeli Cabinet as a very natural , if a
somewhat extraordinary , step . It is of vital importance that the road to India should be , if not British , at all events , under British influence . As England is now , or at least , when Parliament has ratified the bargain , will be , the holder of nearly one-half of the shares issued , it is clear
she will exercise a commanding influence in regulating the traffic France , of course , feels hurt , if we are to take the majority of French journals as exponents of French public opinion , but this is only natural , considering the scheme of
the Suez Canal was planned by a French engineer , and carried out under his auspices . It was , in fact , one of the glories of the French Empire . The Government , however , maintain a descreet silence .
The Wainwright trial is over , and the Court at the Old Baily will no longer witness the indecent straggles of well dressed ladies to gain admission , in order to hear the details of a horrible murder . Henry Wainwright has been found guilty of murder , and sentenced to death , while Thomas
Wainwright is pronounced guilty of being an accessory after the fact , and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude . Thus ends one of the most frightful chapters in the annals of English criminal history . Such is the latest illustration of the well known lines of Horace : —
" Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Poena claudo . " At the Alexandra Palace , the Princess of Wales ' s birthday was honoured with a special programme , there being a grand concert and an illumination of the Italian Garden .
To-day will be given the Oratorio of the Messiah , while the entries for the Doll Exhibition close this week . At the Crystal Palace also , a grand Orchestral Concert was given on Wednesday , to commemorate the auspicious event referred to above , while at to-day ' s concert will be given Mr .
Macfarren s Oratorio of St . John the Baptist . The concerts both at the St James ' s and the Eoyal Albert Halls have been likewise held as usual , and the attendance has been satisfactory to the zealous caterers of music at those v / el ] known institutions .
Next week all London will be alive with visitors from the country to see the Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club . The show will be held at the Agricultural Hall , and will be opened ou Monday next , remainiag open till Friday
evening inclusive . Every precaution will be taken to prevent the appearance of any diseased animals among the exhibits . We hope the show will pass oft satisfactorily to its promoters .
The weather is certainly wintry . Snow , for some few days has been falling , if not continuously , at all events to a great extent , and just previous the ground , which had been in places more like a swamp , had become as hard as iron , as the saying is . There is no knowing , of course , in
this variable climate of ours , for how long this state of things may last , but some one has prognosticated a severe winter . We do not profess to be weather-wise , but at least the prophets have present appearances iu their favour . One thing we note , which may be set down as
a metropolitan institution almost . Whenever there is a visitation of snow , the streets are invariabl y in the most miserable condition of slush . On Thursday and yesterday locomotion was attended with the most intense inconvenience . Hansoms , whirling along at rapid pace , sent
the mud flying , and it is difficult to imagine a more wretched appearance than London presented on those days . We pride ourselves on being a practical people . Is there no way of avoiding this ; no way by which the scaveno-erino could be carried out , so as to effect the minimum of
discomfort to those who are compelled , by business , to move about ? Of course , when the snow is falling , the difficulty of keeping the road and pathway clear is enormous , but some preventive measures mi gl . it bo adopted . The 2 ] lth Anniversary Festival of the Scottish
Corporation , was held on St . Andrew ' s Day , at Freemasons ' Tavern , the Earl of Roscbcrry presiding , and there bein " present some four hundred and fifty gentlemen . The
subscri ptions for the year , as announced by the Secretary , amounted to about £ 2 , 000 , including contributions from the Queen and tho noble Chairman to the extent of one hundred guineas each . The same evening a Scotch
Our Weekly Budget.
Ballad Concert was given at St . James ' s Hall , in honour of the Patron Saint of Scotland . An accident has happened to the Duchess of Manchester ,
who has sustained two fractures in one of her arms . However , the limb has been set , and , according to the latest accounts , Her Grace is progressing favourably towards recovery .
The married life of Mr . John Dolby does not seem to have I sen a very happy one , to judge from the evidence given on Thursday , in the Divorce Court , before Sir John Hannen . Mrs . Dolby is at present undergoing a term of imprisonment with hard labour , for having assaulted Mr .
Dolby , whom she appears to have at divers times aud seasons likewise assailed , hurling at him brooms , mallets , and on one occasion , she chased him round the garden , flinging about forty or fifty garden pots at his head . This is by no means a good illustration of connubial bliss .
Abroad , the news that reaches us , chiefly relates to the purchase of the Suez Canal shares ; the action of the British Government being variously interpreted by different Governments . The Russians have received a severe check
in Central Asia , an insurrection having broken out in Khokand , and more than one detachment of their troops having been cut to pieces . General Kauffman is said to have a force at his disposal just sufficient to protect Russian interests , and no more . A Cabinet Council has
beenheldat Madrid , at which Generals Quesada and Martinez-Campos were also present . It was determined to form two armies , each of five divisions , one in Navarre , under the latter General , and the other in the Basque Provinces , under Quesada . We wish we could see there was some
chance of the decisive campaign against Carlism being commenced . There are rumours of changes in the Turkish Ministry , and it is said that the Egyptian troops have occupied a portion of the Territory on the East Coast of Africa , of right belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar . In America ,
the Public Health Association has been holding its third annual session at Baltimore , Dr . Joseph M . Toner presiding . The President for the ensuing year will be Dr .
Edwin M . Snow , of Providence , Rhode Island , and the Secretary , Elisha Harris , New York . Two Vice Presidents , and an Executive Committee of six members were also elected . It is announced that the next annual
meeting will be held at Boston . At Berlin , a general Synod of the Evangelical Church , in the older provinces of the Prussian Monarchy , was held on the 24 th ult .
His Imperial Highness Prince Rhodocanakis has been re-elected Grand Master of Greece for a further term of three years , and was installed as such , amid great pomp , on the 26 th October .
During the mayoralty of the late Lord Mayor , Bro . D . H . Stone , J . G . W ., the supplementary work in the cause of Charity was very heavy . Nearly 100 , 000 letters and circulars were issued from the Secretary ' s Office , and the amount collected was £ 33 , 926 16 s lid . In recognition of the
services of Bro . J . R . S . Vine , the late private Secretary , the members of the Iceland Relief Committee presented him with a very elegant clock , inscribed in Icelandic characters , and he was also presented with a testimonial from the French committee .
SHAKESPEARE ' S SONNETS . —Shakespeare's Sonnets were first described in his own time—by Francis Heres , in 1598—as his " sugared sonnets among his private friends . " They were first published in 1600 , seven years before his death , and dedicated by Thomas Thorpe , the Bookseller , to " Mr . W . H ., " in words that have sent critics npon many a wild-goose chase . The first description of them was the
best , and the best modern editor of Shakespeare , Alexander Dyce , said in the account of Shakespeare prefixed in 1866 to a second edition of his works , " For my own part repeated perusals of the Sonnets have well nigh convinced me that most of them were composed in an assumed character , on different subjects , and at different times , for tho amusement , if not at tho suggestion of the anther ' s
intimate associates ( hence described by Mores as his ' sugared sonnets among his private friends ' ) ; and though I would not deny that one or two of them reflect his genuine fceiings , I contend that allusions scattered through the whole series aro not to be hastily referred to the personal circumstances of Shakespeare . " Tin ' s is wholesome
truth , and accords with what we have sce'i of tho nature of the sonnet , and the original use of it . As to their structure , Shakespeare ' s sonnets are not technically true sonnets , but foarteiu-liued poems of exquisite variety and beauty , each consisting of three quatrains of alternate rhyme , and a closing couplet . —From " Cassell ' s Library of English Literature , " edited by Professor IJeury Jlorley . for December .