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In editorial coive Mr Ivison's communication a prominent place It is not our intention to "strike" any one, but merely to record each day's events as they come to us With the best intentions mistakes are so Haldane well--we do wish hi a better future than his past actions have led us to expect The city would be o to work

Here at least was so to work, had been plainly stated, and this fact is an essential foundation-stone in the building up of a reputation which the world will respect

Although the discharge of the leading persecutor, and Mr Ivison's letter, did not add to Haldane's popularity at theseverely let alone at first, and an increasingly frank and affable ained in patience and serenity, gradually disarmed those ere not vindictive and blind from prejudice

Poor Mrs Haldane seeenius to the end When people take a false view of life there seems a fatality in all their actions The very fact that they are not in accord hat is right and true causes the most important steps of their lives to appear ill-ti and sincere does not helpMrs Haldane belonged to the class that are sure that everything is right which seeious prejudices and conventional notions that combined to produce her conclusions; but when once they were reached, no matter how absurd or defective they appeared to others, she had no more doubt of thes had -place in Europe; but since that could not be, and perhaps was not best, she had thoroughly settled it in her mind that he should accept of her offer and live at her expense the undemonstrative life of an oyster in the social and moral ooze of the obscurest ht be led to eventually leave off talking and thinking of the Haldane family--a consummation that appeared to her worth any sacrifice When the ht another vile story (copied fros, her adverse view of his plans and character was confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt She felt that there was a fatality about the place and its associations for hiet him away