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Rh M Thiers—Say what you like, but it is very imprudent of you to let the country suspect that it is a party resolution that you take to-day (Animated and numerous protestations)

I am ready to vote to the Government all the necessary means when the war shall be definitively declared, but I desire to know the despatches upon which is founded this declaration of war The Chamber shall do what it likes, I await to see what it is going to (10, but I decline, as to myself, the responsibility of a war so little justified (Animated approbation and applause from several benches of the left) T D

PSEUDOXIA EPIDEMICA

TRUTH

Call a spade a spade and the splendid edifice of Dr Sircar’s Social Science crumbles to dust! Like the Czarina’s palace of snow it is admirable in conception The very elite of the Hindu, Christian, Mahomedan, and nondescnpt Young-Bengal community, with beards differing not in kind, but slightly in length, breadth, and thickness, meeting under the same roof for the promotion of any cause whatever, were it even for that of a new Kanu-junction over and above the one completed, time out of memory, under the able agency of Messrs Martell Hennessy & Co, to convey consumptive souls to lukewarm regions, from which invalids, unlike the hypochondriacs who resort to icy sanatana, never return ,—I say such reunions (after-dinner of course) possess a peculiar charm The elaborate speeches, as published in the columns of newspapers, powerfully call back to one’s mind, the golden days when Faith, not yet honeycombed by countless schisms, sanctioned unreserved intercourse amongst the believers, and permitted Epicurus and Zeno, Goutama and Chaitanya, seated cheek-by-jowl, to solve knotty problems