Several chats with the new Minister have convinced your cor-
A writing-table from Gad's Hill Place was also sold, photographs of the articles being inscribed, "Mrs. Hulkes, with best love' from Georgina Hogarth," and "Mrs. Hulkes, with Mamie Dickens' best love." "The articles sold for £110. A letter from Dickens to Mra Hulkes sending her the remainder lof the proofs of the "Tale of Two Cities," with a first issue copy of the first edition, was old for £28. "Not half a dozen of my oldest and most trusty literary friends have seen it," wrote the novelist. "It} a real pleasure to me to entrust you with the catastrophe, and to Jask you to keep a grim and inftexi-_ Jbte silence on the subject until it is published." still attracting much attention and there ig a strong agitation in Lancashire for a Commercial Mission to be sent to the Far East.
probable that will be given effect to ithin the near future. Moreover as the! Chinese Indemnity Application Bill is passing through the House th 'Textile Machinery Makers' Assi tain of Lancashire are preparing' their scheme in its final form for' the establishment of a Textile Technical School at Shanghui and fare submitting it to the Advisory Committee which will shortly be constituted. I can add that the House of Lorde may attempt, to restrict the purposes governing. the application of the money to! compelled him to protest against Hueber's communistic doctrines. It is to.be hoped that M. Hueber is mot an aggressive or obstinate per-ton, as there really does not seem to be anything to prevent him from saying the most appalling things from the tribune of the Chamber; and, if one dialect be allowed, why another?
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