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prevent a repetition, but the Expedition failed, the cause was ruined, and thousands of Christians were 

 put to death. 



" 1867, Sept. 3d " (Bost. Advert, for Sept.), at Carmathen, opening of " the Eisteddfod or national 

 festival of Wales ; a procession marching to a field where a Druidical circle is formed, a huge stone 

 in the centre. A proclamation in Welsh is then made," announcing to the assembled bards that 

 "judgment will be pronounced upon all works of genius submitted for adjudication." 



" 1S69, Nov. 16th" (letter from Port Said in Bost. Adv.), opening of the Suez canal. For the 

 passage of large ships. 



1870, Sept. 20th (Atlant. telegr. to Boston gazettes), the Prussian army having arrived before 

 Paris, the Italian forces of king Victor Emmanuel enter Rome and the political or temporal power of 

 the Papacy brought to an end. 



f " 1872, Nov. 27th " (Bost. Journ. for Feb. 1st, 1873), Capt. O. Owen of the British barque Samuel, 

 in Lat. 20 57' 5" Long. i° 14' W., remarked "innumerable meteors of various magnitude and brilliancy 

 shooting with great rapidity to the South-East and South-Sou'-West ; three or four would start nearly 

 together from the same spot, making their first appearance generally in the zenith and after leaving a 

 tail of about 15 or 20 in length would disappear. Their motion was so swift that the exact point or 

 constellation in the heavens where they first appeared and where they disappeared could not be ascer- 

 tained with precision. An attempt was made to count them, but as they appeared in different quarters 

 at the same moment, this was found impossible, but by a rough estimate there were from seventy to 

 eighty per minute : continued from a little after 8 p.m. until midnight. Few were seen after that 

 hour." 



