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PAGE BUCHER, COBDEN, AND THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL--BÜLOW AND THE COMTE DE JOLIVAR--THE HOLY DRUJINA--KEUDELL IN THE PROGRESSIST PRESS--FOUR SECRETARIES OF STATE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE--KEUDELL AND HIS ARREARS OF WORK--THE CHIEF AND THE PROGRESSIST ELECTIONEERING AGITATION--LIES IN LAUENBURG--INSTRUCTIONS RESPECTING UNRUH’S ARTICLE IN THE “DEUTSCHE REVUE”--WHY BENNIGSEN WAS NOT MADE MINISTER--THE CHANCELLOR ON THILE AND THE DIEST LIBEL--BUCHER ON HOLSTEIN--BUNSEN’S FRIENDS AND TRUTH--A MONUMENT FOR MY SON, WHO DIED AT SEA--THILE’S OPINION OF THE CHIEF--THE CHANCELLOR ON THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION, THE OPPOSITION TO THE TOBACCO MONOPOLY--THE EMPEROR, THE CROWN PRINCE, AND PRINCE WILLIAM--PHILOPATER AND ANTIPATER AT POTSDAM--BUCHER TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION--THE CROWN PRINCE AND THE PROGRESSISTS--THE VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP--ARTICLES AGAINST THE EMPRESS 1